Pray it Never Happens to You.
August 20, 2010
Okay so this comic may need a little explanation, and this time I mean for more than just my Mother. The Sims, Will Wright's opus, the pinnacle of the life simulator. Of course along with simulating the lives of you little sims, it also simulates their deaths, and one of the most amusing ways your sims to bite the big one is the swimming pool.
The original version of The Sims is very rudamentary compared to the latest version available today. The way the game was programmed the only way to get in and out of the pool was the use the ladder, and once your sim was swimming you could pause the game and delete the ladder. Doing this made it so there was no wayy for the sim to get out of the pool, and they just kept swimming, that is they kept swimming until they got tired, fell asleep then drowned. Poor little sims. Then again you can't feel too bad for them, they really wear stupid in the original game. They crap on the floor if the toilet was clogged.
Thankfully they made the sims a bit smarter in The Sims 2, not only do they have the common sense to unclog the toilets themselves, they smart enough to climb out the sides of the pool in the absence of a ladder... However, if you built a border, or a hedge wall around the partimeter of the pool the sims again are too stupid to know how to climb over them, and again they drown. Dumbasses.