This Sims 2 ad from 2002

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JOIN

Back when you could actually have funny ads and not worry about people whinging about it online

Society peaked.

Absolute foresight from the matrix to say 1999 was as good as it gets.

Send me back.

Ehh not really. Social awareness like for example the LGBTQ+ movement gained a lot of support in past decade.

TIL Brazzers has been in gaming advertising since at least 2002.

Video game ads used to be wild.

"John Romero's about to make you his bitch. Suck it down."

Oh, totally. I’m a child of the 80s and remember them fondly. I just thought it would be a funny comment.

Man, some of those ads were the epitome of sex sells!

All those bottom ads are crazy, too.

β€œAge 23: (sleep?) your way through the phone book. Twice.”

β€œAge 40: have a midlife crises for your 40 year old with two 20’s (in a hot tub)”

Age 100 something about spending your time reading books. Like the Kama Sutra

Are you some sort of pixel oracle? I could not read that, even if my life depended on it.

You merely adopted the pixels. I was born in it, molded by it.

Given the year, this probably came from one of those β€œPlayboy lite” men’s magazines that were popular at the time, like Maxim or FHM.

"Date" instead of sleep. Slightly tamer.

Age 17: Get lucky on the dancefloor and maybe in the bedroom.

Age 100: Spend your golden years reading books. Like the Kama Sutra.

Betting they didn't even code any of the buttons except join.

Ironically, that is the only option you cannot do in the Sims 2.

Screaming and Punching are both under the fight submenu, with Divorce being under its own.

Crying is fully autonomous, and they will do it for potentially the rest of their life.--

The Sims used to be so edgy back then, I miss it.

It also used to be good. Man what I would give for a non-mtxn riddled modern Sims

Join, punch, divorce
In that order, in quick succession

Join, scream, punch, "finish" , cry. Dated that. Fun but never again.

I dated a girl in college that would have selected "all of the above" except Divorce. Why not Divorce? Because one should never marry crazy.