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People think it's Weird/bad to have arranged marriages in a life-sim game

User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman December 9th

I support a Canadian Work-in-Progress life sim game called Paralives    Life-sims are suppose to represent life in some cultures in the world today that these cultures include arranged marriages. 


Now and then someone (me of others) brings  up the topic of Arranged marriages as a possiblity in the game.   But people think it's a "forced marriage" "child marriage"., etc.   In other words it's bad or icky or weird.    Just like in those cultures they think that love marriage is weird   


I mean when people bring it up, we only talking about families arranging the match and the people suggesting it also allow the option  for the betrothed parities to not have to go through with the arranged marriage if they don't wish it.  Since in some cultures, brides and grooms get to say "no" to suitors/marriage 


But the people who hate the idea are still fine with the options of blind dates and dating apps which to be honest is one step away from your family arranging your a match to marry.   How is one fine and the other isn't?


It's not like we're  saying the marriage has to happen.  There's an arranged marriage mod for the Sims 4 game.   With that mod  that adults in one house hold can arrange marriages for child or teen sims to someone in the other house old.     Children sims can only be betrothed to children sims,  but Teens can be betrothed to Teen and up.  But in both cases the child or teen sim can NOT get married until the children or teen turn into Young Adult sims.    Also with the Teen sim they have the option of "Refusing to Marry (name of other sim)." 


There's people who think in life-sims games  we already "arranged marriage" the sims because we, the player,  put Character C with Caracter F let's say.  But in a game like Sims 4 you have to cheat the levels up to full for Character C to Propose to Character F  and then you get them married and then you have to then cheat the romantic level and put it down to 0% to make it look like their no love.   It's a pain having to do it. 


The point is that it would  be an option the people who don't want it wouldn't have to play with it.  Its like why there's going to be breastfeeding and bottle feeding in Paralives.  Or at some point down the road, there a 70% of disabilities being an option-but people who don't want to play with those options wouldn't be forced too. 






But when the topic gets heated the mods ask us to change the topic.  But yet they allow other topics like breastfeeding, which some people think is "weird", "icky" or bad,  or even disabilities as "bad",   so if we can talk about breastfeeding and disabilities as options   we  should be allowed to talk about the option of arranged marriage in Paralives as an option as I said before they will allow for dating apps, and blind dates which in my opinion is just one step away from  an arranged marriage. 






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User Profile: Heather225
Heather225 1 day ago

@Disneywoman

hi just swinging by to give your post a bump :)