Jen has taken me, Richard Dawkins and Hemant Mehta and used The Sims to put our simulacra together into a house. I'd say it's some kind of pilot for a new sitcom on Fox, except I've seen enough Sims to know it will not end well. One of us will catch on fire, someone else will drown in the pool, and the last will die an agonizing death when he can't find a path to the bathroom.
I do want that shirt in real life, though.
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