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To Maxis and the Sims Community: A Clarification of Position
🕑 Added 2025-06-08 07:59:07 +0000 UTC[ EDIT 23/07/2025 ]
Since certain people in the Sims community clearly dislike me yet can’t seem to disengage, occasionally resurfacing just to offer irrelevant opinions, I’m going to simplify things for everyone. From now on, all posts will be locked behind a free membership tier as the first step in cutting ties.
Any user who shows up solely to leave ideological comments, moral accusations, or demand that I change my positions will be blocked—instantly, regardless of how much they’ve pledged. It’s a matter of logic: you have two choices.
Use the mods and say nothing.
Don’t use the mods and say nothing.
Anything outside this binary—complaints, tantrums, virtue signalling, or accusations of bigotry—has no logical place here. I’m not seeking approval, I don’t belong to your moral order, and I have no interest in your universalist values.
If you have complaints, my mods aren’t for you.
I will apply this rule with binary logic—no room for nuance, emotional appeals, or moralistic rhetoric. Terms like “homophobia” or “transphobia” used as tools of narrative coercion will result in an immediate block, no discussion. I have zero tolerance for manipulative framing.
I operate on tribal logic: I care only about those I choose to include.
This space is not a democracy. These are the new terms.
I’m writing this to clarify my stance, not to invite discussion. This is a boundary statement, not a plea for understanding. I do not see my
I’m writing this to clarify my stance, not to invite discussion. This is a boundary statement, not a plea for understanding.
I do not see myself as part of the “Sims community.” I am not interested in being liked, accepted, or included. The people in the "Sims community" are strangers. They have no more impact on my life than strangers I pass on the street. Their moral outrage is irrelevant. Their approval is unnecessary. This is a transaction, not a social contract.
I use The Sims as a platform for modding and writing: nothing more. I have no emotional attachment to the game. It isn’t even mine. I engage with it as a creative tool, and I share some of my output because it brings in money. That’s it. I create. People download, or don’t. I get paid, or not. The rest is noise.
What I do find insulting is the growing reliance on emotional appeals and ideological signalling in a game that is, objectively, technically poor. This is a high-cost product that delivers substandard value:
The moon texture is low resolution.
Features are frequently underdeveloped.
Longstanding bugs persist across updates.
The interface is bloated with disruptive pop-ups.
Rather than address any of this, Maxis has leaned into symbolic inclusion features, like pronoun options and identity prompts, as if gestures can compensate for a lack of competence. From my perspective, that’s not representation. That’s a deflection tactic.
People say, “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.” I don’t, the one who owns the game does. I haven’t purchased recent expansions. I use what she owns. But let’s be honest: these ideological features are not released as optional content. They’re patched in after the fact, funded by everyone, and imposed on users who never asked for them. They didn’t pay for your ideology. They paid for a game engine. So I remove what I don’t want and share it. Not for political protest: simply because it degrades the product.
I am not participating in your moral performance. I’m not here to express values or take sides. I’ve already tried engaging ideologically in the past. I saw what that leads to: noise, bad-faith argument, and circular outrage. So now I work in silence. I strip what I find unnecessary, release what I want, and ignore the rest.
You are free to dislike my mods. You are free not to download them. You are free to be offended. What you are not entitled to is my compliance, my approval, or my participation in your narratives.
FAQ: “If all you care about is money, why won’t you make mods that align with our values to make more of it?”
Short answer:
Because I don’t like your community, and I have the right to choose my customer base.
Long answer:
It’s an ironic question coming from a space that routinely moralises about “grifting” when someone profits off values they don’t genuinely share. What you’re really asking is:
“Why won’t you fake alignment with us to extract our money?”
The answer remains the same: because I don’t like you. I’d rather earn less and avoid performative conformity than deal with:
People demanding I alter my content to match ideological preferences
Public outrage over language, tone, or opinions
Constant moral policing and fake acceptance
The cost outweighs the benefit. Stress, scrutiny, and self-censorship aren’t worth a higher income. I prefer a smaller, more compatible audience where I can work on my terms without theatrical apology tours.
Same reason I don’t lock my mods behind paywalls. That means what I do is voluntary. Donations are optional, not transactional. You pay what you want, if you want. That keeps expectations minimal and freedom maximal.
That’s the model. That’s the logic. Take it or leave it.
I NEVER belonged to the LGBT community, or to any community. Not politically, not socially, not ideologically. I’ve never aligned with activist movements, identity collectives, or mainstream society at large.
And for the record:
Stop including me in your “communities.”
I didn’t join anything, and I never asked to be categorised. I don’t need your boxes, your labels, or your solidarity. Calling me part of something I never agreed to is ideological annexation—a rhetorical land grab. I’m not a file in your cabinet. I’m not a demographic. I’m not your ally, your enemy, or your story.
Keep your frameworks. I don’t need them. I’m not here to be sorted.
I renounced voting and civil participation years ago. I don’t believe in governments, political narratives, or cultural consensus. I don’t ask for inclusion, recognition, or affiliation. I live by the code I was raised with in an old hippie commune: mind your own business, do your own thing, don’t impose your worldview on others.
I don’t want politics imposed on me: left wing, right wing, up wing, down wing—any wing. It doesn’t matter. It’s that simple.
I mod what I want, how I want, on my terms. I’m not trying to pivot to anything, I’ve never been “in” to begin with.
You're projecting political drama onto someone who has nothing to do with your system, your tribes, or your expectations. I simply opted out.
Comments
Jordan
You're absolutely right to notice the disconnect between the original LGB rights movement and what it has become. What you’re seeing now isn’t a natural progression: it’s a hijacking. Since the early '90s, the entire civil rights discourse (including LGB) has been co-opted by academic frameworks like critical theory, queer theory, and intersectionality. It isn’t grassroots anymore, it’s institutional, top-down. They use the same vocabulary: “rights,” “authenticity,” “freedom of expression”, but they don’t believe in those things in the classical sense. In fact, if you trace their intellectual roots back to postmodernism, you’ll find they explicitly reject objective truth and universal values. For them, truth is just a tool of power, and rights are narrative weapons to impose subjective will. Take the term “transphobic.” It follows the same formula as “homophobic,” which was originally coined to describe irrational hatred. But here, it’s weaponised rhetorically: 1) coin a term, 2) associate it with evil, 3) use it to delegitimise dissent. The average activist or “ally” might be sincere, but the architects of these theories know exactly what they’re doing. It isn’t about inclusion; it’s about control through narrative manipulation. Dialogue with these ideologies is structurally impossible. Since they believe everything is just narrative, anything you say is pre-dismissed as a power play. That’s the trap: once you engage on their terms, you’ve already lost.
Alexander Ray
I’m a gay guy who’s been hooked on The Sims for like 20+ years, and I just want to say thanks for being you and standing strong! Your work makes the game so much more fun for all of us, and I’m right there with you. We all have our own beliefs and playstyles, and that’s what makes The Sims awesome everyone gets to play their way. I love that you keep pushing to make gameplay better, no matter what anyone says. I gotta be real, the new LGBTQIALMNOP+ isn't the same as the old LGB community I grew up with. Pride was about self-acceptance, fighting for equal rights, showing the world being gay isn’t a choice. It was about fitting into society as equals. Now? It's like a warped ideology focused on gender identity, telling people they’re not good enough as they are and pushing a delusional reality. We need to be setting up Trans people up for success. I’m sorry, but there's only two genders. Affirming you're something you are not, isn't healthy. Yeah, gender dysphoria is real, it's mental disorder much like anorexia. Affirming a lie isn't healthy for anyone. People need to understand that at the end of the day, we are all the gender we we're born. That's called objective reality, where society lives together. That's how we all understand the difference between a cat and a dog. Sure, dress up and look the way you'd like if it makes you feel more like yourself. You just can't live in subjective reality when it comes to complex wants in society. Men shouldn't play in women's sports. This new agenda is rooted in victim culture. Pride now days is trying to normalize sex and fetishes in public spaces. Which belongs in the bedroom, not our community's! Worst of all, some push to sterilize our youth, and that’s just wrong. It’s tied to bigger shady agenda, coming from the deep state. It’s not “transphobic” to want The Sims to match how you like to play or to share mods for others who feel the same. No one’s has to download them! Your mods and creations let players like me enjoy the game our way, and I’m very grateful for that. Their triggers are their responsibility. If they think you’re being "disrespectful", they can block you and move on. That victim mentality drives deep these days. You definitely don't need my or anyone's approval. I just hope they haven't soured you on all LGB people, there are plenty of us “normal” gays who feel the same and have your back. Thanks again for making The Sims a blast for everyone. Keep doing you, and sorry for writing a whole book here!
Jordan
InZoi devs fix problems pretty fast from what I've seen.
Mendota Kelly
I am with you 100%. I know that you don't need my approval, but I respect your views. My own opinion is that I don't think that they purposely ignore bugs, I accept that the game is extremely complicated. The recent issues that others have run into with trying to create a life sim, InZoi, Life by You, Paralives speaks to this. But for all the rest, I agree with you.
