The Sims

Nothing like some throwback glitches from the ever wacky and cursed world of The Sims to make you want to fire the game back up again. Many of us have devoted ungodly amounts of time to crafting all kinds of luxury palaces, cursed abominations, etc. in The Sims. Sometimes as you're playing the game though, things just don't quite add up, and the glitches end up churning out straight up waking nightmares. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the most messed up things they've ever done to their Sims. People take their Sims on all kinds of messed up journeys. It's as if Sims plays host to people's darkest ideas. Some very messed up sh*t. 

These life hacks will probably never have to be used again in all of human history, but the nostalgia is fun. If these had you pining for a simpler time of dial-up internet and bigger pants, then check these nostalgic images out.

The Sims does everything it can to try and "simulate" real life. In this case, a recent glitch has resulted in spawning what looks like a social services worker. This social services worker proceeds to take the kids away if you're not doing a good job at looking after them in your game. The Sims Wiki says that the social worker "will take away a baby, toddler, child, or pet if their needs drop too low, or in later games, if there are no more older Sims remaining in the household (i.e. due to death). They also will come to deliver adopted kids to their new family."

Numerous players are encountering this new glitch when their toddlers go to pick up a tablet, and then won't put it down, which results in them eventually disappearing into nothingness. 

Please dear God we hope these people don't have families of their own. The weirdly creative torture and absolutely psychopathic behavior people display when they're in control of simulated families only means that we are troubled, dark gods. The Sims has given birth to many creepy, strange and hilarious moments.

Some of these are so twisted we almost feel bad for laughing at them. Is The Sims video game merely shedding a disturbing spotlight on how wildly depraved, immoral, and genuinely creative people can get, when the sky is pretty much the limit? 

Is it bad that this just makes me want to play The Sims even more now? 

The most hilariously tolerant video game of all time. 

Something about The Sims compels people to embrace their vaguely wicked, entirely hilarious sides to create some literal nightmares. We're not sure if we want to cry or cheer for humanity when it comes to these. 

We can ALWAYS count on The Sims players to leave us utterly bewildered, if not traumatized, when it comes to creating hellish scenarios in an otherwise 'innocent' video game. These morbid geniuses took dark humor to new and alarming heights. 

Those hilarious times when game design doesn't line up reality.

'The Sims', famous both for its (kinda) realistic life simulation and for it's hilarious glitches that result in some supreme nightmare fuel. 

I need more of these Sims 'dumps' in my life, dude. If only I could've better document/been aware of how outright perverse and seven kinds of crazy this game was, while playing it as a kid. Because I absolutely don't play it as a current self-proclaimed manchild. *laughs in sims*

Sims is without a doubt the OG of strange and twisted game glitches, and I'll never get tired of ANY of these.