Aspies For Freedom

I was looking at a post about the sims on another board. Maybe i've already talked about this obsessions i have with computergames, but the post made me wonder about it again.

This is what i posted:

Sims-addictions can really take a lot of my energy  

I always put 8 guys in a house and i play them one by one. I put up very strict rules for myself: i can only play one sim at the time, the ones i'm not playing are set on free will and i can not interfere (i just love watching which ones get along and which ones don't), i can only switch sims if the selected sim makes promotion or takes a new job, i switch jobs if i can't make it till promotion within the next day,....)

I make rules like this for all the games i play, so i'll spare you the rules for simcity  

Does anyone else plays games like this?

Does anyone recognise this feeling? I do this with every game i play, if i can't make up some rules in the first few days, i'll never play the game again.
As a child i would always invent my own games or write my own books too, also with very strict rules.

I've never played sims but it looks interesting. I think they even had "Sim Ants" at one stage. I have lots of stories in my head but haven't written them down as I don't know if anybody would really be all that interested.

Before I always set five gatherers in Age of Mythology for each resource, now I've figured that it is way too little and have increased it to at least 15 to gather wood, 10 for gold and 20+ for food.

I had recently blown a lot of my job money on games, buying many, many of them with the new console. I've sort of lost the rabid interest I had and so there now sits a stack, literally a stack of about 15 I have to beat that were paid for. That feels like a job, especially when coupled with no time off because of work. There are so many to play (especially with my rule of play and finish one at a time and then move on) that it feels like a job or something. I don't eve know how to have fun anymore since its like, "Halo 3, okay, than Bioshock, okay, than Super Mario Sunshine". Its crazy.

Have you thought of selling some of the games?