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MAXIS PICK IS ACADEMY PAN...ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS ONE OF OUR OWN WHO HAS SUCCUMBED TO THE BLANDISHMENTS OF MAXISALISM!

We vow to root out this pernicious tendency in our fellow member and we are mandating daily self-criticism sessions, work detail picking potatoes on the collective farm this weekend, and a voluntary contribution of a week's salary to the Peace Fund. See our brutally frank review.

Frankly already quite derivative, Wizard of Sims shows far too many tendencies toward lax use of grotesque action-advancing objects from Livin' Large. We see everything from the dreaded clown picture to the crystal ball to the voodoo doll box to the awful gnome bench. Cafitz1, how could you depart from our purity in this way! Such Maxisalism embraces the quick 'n EZ way to slap up a story without plotting out character development and making ingenous use of existing legal objects. Maxisalism is a deviant tendency toward awed acceptance of magical-looking properties and routines which we must utterly rout from our Academy ranks!

Look at this big-ass two-storey house! Contrast and compare to the actual text of L. Frank Baum's story (1856-1919): "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry...and Aunt Em. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty-looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner."

Didn't your mother ever tell you that when you go out every day, you should make sure you have a clean pair of underwear on because you never know when you might get in a car accident, and Dr. Doug on E.R. could see your underpants. OK? So WHY do you think, cafitz1, that you can post a story up on the Exchange any old way and have your thumbnails messed up?! You never know when Will Wright could come along and make you a star! And here you have "What about us, we're stuck in a cellar in Kansas" as the caption for what clearly should be "Follow the yellow brick uh I mean medieval gray brick road!". Inexcusable!

The wrong thumbnail covers up this frame whose caption should be "What about us! We're stuck in a cellar in Kansas!"

"I'm only afraid of one thing," says this Clown/Scarecrow. We're afraid of keeping you in our midst, now that you have betrayed us, cafitz1! How could you?! After everything we've gone through together. WHY did you have to reach for the Clown as Scarecrow? WHY couldn't you have just used Dyerbrook in his messy green t-shirt and jeans?!