We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.
I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.