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Explaining Your Sports Sim Habit to Strangers: A Review

Various, including ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004), MLB The Show 24 (2024), and NBA 2K24 (2023)

It's just setting up CPU vs CPU franchises and managing the minutia and letting it run 24/7/365

It's not a big deal!

There are tens of us!

Really! We get together on weird forums and compare the best sliders for getting the most realistic results!

It's like meticulously crafting your own pocket universes!

It's normal!

You will absolutely feel like a pervert

Especially when someone walks up to your desk and sees your Switch playing game 74 of season 5 of the NBA 2K franchise you’re running and they go “oh wow is there a game on right now” and then you have to say “oh haha…uh so yeah no that’s not a live game that’s…that’s a simulated game…where I’m just running the sim and watching it. Actually it’s pretty rare that I sit to watch it it’s like…I set it and forget it. Unless I do want to watch it! Because I also think that’s fun! What? Oh yeah I was able to trade Kyrie in year three for a couple of draft picks and Jalen Williams…nice complement to Luka. OKC had the picks so…anyway yeah I can get that report to you later today!”

6.4 / 10

Ultimately it's a net positive to explain your niche interests to people who allow this vulnerability, but there's always this part of you that feels completely insane when you are observed. Anyway thanks see you next time!

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