Male characters in The Sims 2 could be abducted by aliens through a telescope and return mysteriously pregnant, eventually giving birth to a green alien baby.

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Male characters in The Sims 2 could be abducted by aliens through a telescope and return mysteriously pregnant, eventually giving birth to a green alien baby. This feature was slipped in by developers who clearly understood that simulating mundane suburban life would get incredibly boring without the occasional horrific extraterrestrial violation. Players spent hours forcing their digital husbands to stare at the stars just to subject them to intergalactic single fatherhood, completely upending traditional gender roles via bizarre sci-fi tragedy. It proves that if you give people a god-like sandbox simulation of real life, they will immediately abandon paying simulated taxes in favor of orchestrating the most unhinged soap opera imaginable just to feel something