We shall overcome...

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WELCOME TO THE ACADEMY OF SIMINALISM

Our wedding was one of the happiest days of our lives. We've created this photo album to commemorate the occasion and help us remember the good times. Whether or not you were able to share the day with us, we hope this album conveys some of the joy we felt.

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We accept for review and display all works from The Sims Family Albums which meet the rigorous criteria and standards of the academicians' peer review at the Academy. We also provide our own Sims stories and slideshows in order to promote excellence in Sims narration, sorely needed in the morass of over 20,000 families on the official Family Exchange at www.thesims.ea.com

The Academy is devoted to telling the maximum Sims story with the minimum user-designed walls, skins, and objects, and telling the story in a way that is, well...Siminalist!

We can't say too much about the rules now...indeed, we're making them up as we go along! So help us out here! Some people find that they don't even know what Siminalism is until they've received an announcement that they are accepted into the Academy. Some people find out they want to have a club that has them in it and show their works, and become Siminalists that way. Go figure!

Well, who's "We?" Or as they say down here, "What do you mean, we, white man?!"

We are the Siminalists. That should do it for you! Like we said, we believe in telling the maximum Sims story with the minimum distractions in the form of either user-designed or Livin' Large/House Party outfits, furniture or NPCs, or agents. Such embellishments are all fine, but we believe that user-designed items can detract from the underlying Human Story embedded within every Sims game. 'Say don't tell' is our motto; sometimes the most piercing stories are told only by a frame of a wilting cactus by a blurry low-resolution pool, with only "No description" in the Family Album text box -- like the seminal (siminal?) "Single Mom from Hell" by cafitz1.

PLATE QUERY: How many plates can your Sim load up at a time? Three? Ten? Seventeen? Do you really know? Have you ever tried? Get all your neighbors teleported over, have your most talented high-cook point Sim make and serve dinner or order the House Party caterer, sit 'em down at your BIGGEST table, wait for them to chow down. And then see just how many plates you can get them to pick up!

Hint: It may require temporarily locking up other high neat-point Sims in the bathroom with furniture blocking the door. When you reach your maximum, write to us at siminalist@yahoo.com

PLATE ANSWER: 16--at least that many! But we could probably put more on if these two Sims would stop being so grumpy and uncooperative! How many can YOUR Sims stack?