"Listen! I have a powerful need to destroy some lives. If you can't make that happen for me, I'll just have to destroy YOU instead."
-Leila (Ctrl+Alt+Delete), on her pre-ordered TS3 copy's arrival

Huh. I just noticed that my birthday coincides with the (Dutch) release date of TS3: World Adventures. What a convenient coincidence. Anyway, I am a Dutch MSc student of Biology and Neurobiology, and a hardcore gamer. So hardcore, in fact, that I actually wanted to buy my TS3 copy incognito. "The Sims isn't even an actual game," I told myself, "I'm not a cliché girl gamer! All the guys will snigger behind my back when they catch me with a Sims game!" Fortunately, pleasant childhood memories of TS1 and recent positive reviews of TS3 got the better of me. I snatched a copy, paid for it without daring to look at the guy behind the till, rushed home, swept The Witcher from my desk and settled down for some serious simming.