This is how he describes the blog and what it was trying to do

This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It’s based on the old ‘poverty challenge’ idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3’s living neighborhood features.

I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over.

In creating a hopeless father and a loser daughter Robin has actually set the scene for a compelling story. I was hooked after just a couple of posts. It is interesting that blogs don’t lent themselves to stories though, Robin has had to create an upfront link to his first post so people can get to the beginning of the story, otherwise the danger is you read the end before the beginning!!

Brilliant idea and it also shows how far The Sims has come since it first hit the scene.

Don’t you love it when people go out of their way to be nice? Like when someone waits to hold the door for you. Or when a stranger waves you into a line a traffic. Or even when a coworker shoots you a friendly smile along with a “have a nice day.” If everyone was a little bit nicer to the folks they encountered each day, perhaps the world would be a more pleasant place. Operation NICE was initiated to remind you that a little NICE goes a long way.

And this is the writers own profile

Hi, I’m Melissa! Welcome to my blog! I believe that kindness can change the world, so it’s my mission to spread the concept of being nice, as simple as that may sound. I hope you’ll have a look around!

Again this would normally all turn me right off but the stories and the motive are hones and wrapped up in very little schmaltz and the blog is very well designed and written. I really lie it and will add it to my own rss reader right now! Also note yet another top blog from a woman. I will make it my mission to find a male authored blog that isn’t about gadgets!