10 Games To Celebrate Being A Capitalist

4. The Sims (Main Series)

The Sims While I harbor a very personal disdain for The Sims, I have to give credit where credit is due. The game reinforces the power of the all mighty simolian (If that is spelled wrong, might I suggest looking back at word 7 of this paragraph), the currency in the world. Despite the fact that most of the time I€™m struggling to keep my Sim (my stupid, stupid Sim) from alternately starving to death, crying or pissing itself, there is a dedicated subtext of rising through the social ranks and attaining €˜baller€™ status (a term missing from the game, but that needs to be there). Managing and generating money and spending it wisely are all vital tools to success in the game. Or, you can get sick of the Sims inability to entertain itself for ONE DAMN MINUTE (my god is it crying?) and trap it in a tiny room and watch it die while I (I mean you?) eat a sandwich.
 
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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)