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Huge spoilers forDont Worry Darlingahead.
The big-twist ending ofDont Worry Darlinghits you differently depending on what sci-fi youve already consumed.
Is the Victory ProjectThe Matrix?Ready Player One?Or whereverSerenitytakes place?
She is actually a surgeon whose incel husband has kidnapped her and jacked her into the Matrix/OASIS/Truman Show.
But if youre a true gamer, theres only one comparable simulation.
It is the life simulatorThe Sims.
The Victory Project is supposed to be a computerized Palm Springs.
But what it more closely resembled, almost uncannily, was the Oasis Springs neighborhood fromThe Sims 4.
All the houses are some riff on mid-century modern.
When people go to their jobs, they literally disappear from the game.
And no one is aware theyre in a simulation designed for one persons sick pleasure namely, mine.
Would Sims of theDont Worry Darlingcast get into the same level of shenanigans as their big-screen counterparts?
Or do we need the human touch to get something as stupid yet all-consuming asspitgate?
The only way to find out was to put Miss Flo & Co. inThe Sims 4.
But without all those NPCs, the world felt empty.
I needed some fellow travelers in our simulated world.
Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus got moved into the Japanese-ish neighborhood of Mt.
I also made Betty Friedan a werewolf for a little spice.
Will he serve divorce papers to Olivia Wilde while shes giving a speech to the Oasis Springs community?
Only time will tell.
Day One
Harry Styles and Miss Flo are really hitting it off.
Just like in the movie, they get straight to smooching.
When you start aSimsgame, an event is triggered that brings all your new neighbors to your home.
Someone always brings a fruitcake, and it is always a disgusting burden.
Guess who brought the disgusting food to Miss Flos?
The (alleged) feud begins.
Another Welcome Wagon event doesnt go so well.
Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, and their two creepy offspring are living in a haunted house.
Day Two
My next goal is to get Kate Berlant pregnant.
So I need to make Berlant and Asif Ali fall madly in love and try for baby.
So his and Kates courtship is half flirting, half him expressing a fear of getting cheated on.
Over and over again, he wants to discuss relationship fears.
He wants to talk about it while Kates cooking, causing her to burn the grilled cheese.
He wants to talk about it while theyre watching TV.
He wants to talk about it during their Welcome Wagon.
It gets to the point that I make Kate flirt with the first Agent Smith she meets.
Its a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But despite this marital strain, Kate does manage to get pregnant.
Not by Agent Smith, by Asif.
Subtle this game is not.
Its ironic given that Wilde was the one metaphorically invading Peeles territory IRL.
They keep hanging out, even after Olivia goes to sleep.
Nick and Jordan dance to the record player in her room, somehow not waking Wilde up.
Later, Nick Kroll continues his latest hobby: destroying his daughters dollhouse.
Every time he gets big mad (which is often), he stomps her house to smithereens.
He is also the one who rebuilds it every time, but still.
Day Four
Florence Pugh appears to have a perma-stank face.
She is always looking pissed, even when her moodlets say shes happy.
Maybe its all the time shes spending with Olivia Wilde.
Maybe its because she longs to go outside but is forced to clean at home most of the time.
After finishing her morning chores, I send her to the park and she learns to fish.
Meanwhile, the Pine-Chans cannot catch a break, socializing-wise.
Shes so bad, Morpheus and all the other patrons run away.
Jordan Peele is back at the Kroll-Wilde household, and he weeps for Girl Child Wildes dollhouse.
Oh, and Kate Berlant decides that she likes mixology, a.k.a.
Day Five
Well, Florence Pugh is trapped.
Not like in the movie.
She somehow got stuck between her bathtub and the many mirrors that surround it.
For hours, Florence gets hungrier and sleepier, unable to glitch out of the spot.
Its looking like shes going to die there.
Harry Styles seems unbothered, however.
Hes way more focused on his new love for fitness.
He wants to go for a jog, but hes also almost starving.
Harrys like, What do you mean, eatthenrun?
and proceeds to jog through the Victory Project eating a full plate of mac n cheese.
While shes trapped, Flo gets a call from Kate Berlant.
She wants to flirt with Clement Frost, the Sims equivalent of Santa Claus.
Should she go for it?
Meanwhile, its Night on the Town!
All food and drink are free at local bars and restaurants.
Nick Kroll takes Olivia Wilde to the pub in Henford-on-Bagley, and guess whos there.
Tedrick M. Lasso, thats who.
Unprompted, she insults him, and he does an unfavorable impression of her.
They are enemies now.
Day Six
Olivia and Nick decide to throw a kava party.
The gang is well and truly all here.
Olivia Wilde prepares the kava while Nick Kroll grills up some plantains.
Somehow Florence has managed to get out of her bathtub prison, but she is very, very tired.
She immediately goes to sleep in Girl Child Wildes bed.
Olivia serves the kava, and people get wasted.
Olivia flirts with Santa Claus and an Agent Smith right in front of Nick Kroll.
Its a huge scene.
But a second round of kava placates the guests, and everyone keeps dancing while Kroll sulks.
After the party, Olivia goes to sleep.
Hes desperate to get a sense of agency back in his life.
While there, he throws a pickup line at Werewolf Betty Friedan.
You know whos not into it?
Ever since she was introduced inThe Sims 1: Date Night, Agness whole deal is that shes anti-romance.
If anyone flirts in front of her, she wallops them with her handbag.
Kroll gets a wallop, Agnes gets a drink thrown in her face, and the two fight.
Cucked and Crumplebottomed, Nick Kroll returns home after getting his ass handed to him by an old lady.
Day Seven
Olivia makes pancakes for the family while Nick sleeps off last nights ass-beating.
They discuss their relationship while the kids do the dishes.
Its not perfect, but theres the beginning of trust there.
Across town, however, Miss Flo is discovering a dark secret about their world.
No, not that theyre in a simulation, that werewolves are real!
She and Harry Styles throw a party at the house of Flos werewolf friend, Kristoff.
It doesnt go great.
Everyone runs screaming from the house, and Florence develops a fear of the dark.
But just like in the movie, shes determined to face her fears rather than run from them.
So she starts exploring the tunnels under Werewolf Town.
Day Eight
Oh dear, Florence Pugh is a werewolf now.
She wouldnt stop exploring the tunnels and bothering werewolves and vampires.
Kristoff gave her the cursed bite, and she started eating everything in the house.
Miss Flo breaks everything in the house during her wolf episode, including the toilet.
She calls a repairman, but not before Harry Styles pisses himself on the damn floor.
No matter what reality were in, that boy cannot keep his fluids to himself.
Harry makes himself a drink while a remorseful Florence mops up his piss.
Art (mySimsgame) has imitated life.
Next, Ill spin up the contentious 2023Best Actor Oscars race.
Brendan Fraser, welcome to my world.
