Pixel Scoop

This pixel pregnancy thing doesn’t half confuse me, you know. From my reading around it seems, in essence, that a woman pays “Virtual Pregnancy Clinic” a ridiculous amount of Lindens for her pregnancy (see and I thought getting pregnant was free). They then give her a package, say six weeks (wow is it just me or are pregnancies getting quicker…my Mum gave me a load of bull about me being stuck in there for nine months or something). They provide her with appointments, some shapes to make her look progressively more pregnant as time goes on and some random unborn foetus pictures from google images (which she will then coo over in her picks for all to see). Then comes the prim baby and, well….the less said about that the better.

But, I decided to look further into it to see if there was something I was missing. Of course, upon spotting a pregnancy test on SLX I couldn’t resist. The funny thing is, I wasn’t aware men could get pregnant either, so imagine my surprise when…

Now, this wasn’t the only pregnancy test I could have used. They even have pregnancy tests that let you choose whether you’re pregnant or not…. hmm, imagine all those panicking teenagers in toilet cubicles with their best friends who would have paid anything for a real life version of one of those. Now, doesn’t being able to choose whether you’re pregnant or not sort of defeat the object of a test? Anyway… once I’d got over the hysterics of being told by a little prim test that I was pregnant (what I mean of course is once I had broken the news to my bewildered parents) I looked towards DNA testing to establish the maternity of my unborn child. Unfortunately, and much to my shock, nobody has come up with DNA testing in game yet. And so my pregnancy progressed.

I found myself some foetal pictures that looked vaguely like spaghetti hoops to stick in my profile and finally I gave birth to a two headed prim baby called Bob who weighed seveteen hundred pounds. Well… of course I didn’t… but that really is about how bizarre this whole in game pregnancy thing is.

I don’t get why someone would want to pretend to be pregnant in game and wear those daft attachments that shout out to everyone along the lines of ‘My imaginary baby is moving inside. I’m pregnant everyone. LOOK AT ME!! LOOK AT ME!!’ It’s all a bit, well….. desperate. Can you imagine if in real life, as soon as you had your first scan, they attached a huge speaker to your ass that screamed out to the world the development of your pregnancy. “Hey world, today I threw up like fifteen times and now I’m craving charcoal with tomato ketchup?” Why pay some clinic to play ‘let’s pretend to be Mummies and Daddies’ with you? I just do not see an appeal. I thought people stopped playing let’s pretend games once they reached like eight? Hmm, maybe that’s just sane people.