"The Sims"
Is an essential component of
Wikiality.com's Internets Tube for Nerds

The Sims is a game where bored Internets-Americans living in their parents' basements create virtual characters who spend day and night posting truthiness on the internets.^[1]

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¹ Please note: You are actually not reading this. You are merely a figment of some kid's jolted-up imagination virtually reading this virtual posting of virtual truthiness on an internets tube.^[1]

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¹The internets tube itself, however, is real.^[1]

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¹Reality is a commodity.^[1]

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¹What's a commodity? Something which can be bought and sold. Something produced for consumption.^[1]

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¹Karl Marx, who was an insane, ungodly communist, described the way that capitalism produces "commodities" as "fetishes."^[1]

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¹A fetish is an object in which "magical" - one might even say "virtual" - powers are thought to reside. In Marx's view, we invest "stuff" with power, meaning - almost as though we're living through our relations to things.^[1]

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¹I'm gonna play some Sims and listen to my iPod and pretend that you never told me any of this fucked up shit now, okay?^[1]

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¹By "I", I mean your computer. You don't exist, remember? Neither do "I," really. We're both the figment of some kid's jolted-up imagination virtually reading this virtual posting of virtual truthiness on a real internets tube.