In The Sims that effect sometimes happens because time in that game is so much faster. It's like "The ride for work will arrive in one hour." -> Well I'll just make my Sim eat breakfasts. Suddenly, The Sim arrives at the kitchen after crossing the house to get there and two hours passe.
"I also found out that you could change your topcolor and immediately set it to #000000 so people would stop pestering me when they saw I was reading a hacker website."