The Sims needs an “I have no mouth and I must scream” expansion.
That’s just Roller Coaster Tycoon.
“I just made hotdogs $.25. Let the killing begin.”
toilets are $50 a poop? i’ll just go in line
I imagine it as a mod for RimWorld.
There are so many more options there and it’s already a war crime simulator. I have whole prisons of captured raiders that couldn’t be described accurately if Harlan Ellison and Upton Sinclair collaborated with Lovecraft to invent the most terrible grinder of misery while they freebased paranoia from the hollowed out skull of Caligula.
The creator (Tynan) already inserts his own character among many Kickstarter donors to face the barely imaginable horrors I cook up in my misery science research facility, I can probably be more creative for people that actually deserve it.
I need to get this game
I built a maximum security prison in the Sims, I tried making a graveyard but it kinda messed up the neighbourhood.
I’ve also got your standard painting trolls and basement creatures.
People keep reconnecting rimworld to me though
It’s 2050 and they’re still only on The Sims 4… actually yeah that tracks
At least we got another teaser for TES VI in 2043!
Because SIms 5 onwards is cloud gaming only and therefore cannot be modded, also the servers shut off so literally no one can play it anymore.
Wow, The Sims 4 came out in 2014? I would have guessed another 5 or even 10 years earlier. Skyrim is older. Hell, even GTA V is older than The Sims 4.
Isn’t the key take away here that the .tar.gz format is still going strong in 2025.
Tarball is love. Tarball is life.
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What a delightful alternative to Roko’s Basilisk.
ooo, i like this version where the basilisk feasts on the digital consciousnesses of techbros and is content to leave the rest of us alone
Put them all in a mansion with 1 chair, 1 bed, no doors to the outside, no windows, no entertainment and force them to pay a mortgage with not enough income… and live stream it on the internet.
Or better still, take the drives from the servers their consciousness is stored on and put it into a grinder.
I think I would just put Musk into a 1x1 tile basement and use cheats to keep the needs bars that keep him from dying filled.
No, let him die and then bring him back over and over again. Like what Anubis did to Jack in Star Gate SG1
Put them all in a mansion with 1 chair, 1 bed, no doors to the outside, no windows, no entertainment
This is why I think these apocalypse bunkers for rich people are so funny. I saw some designs for one, and it was like 10 floors of luxury apartments with a giant armory underneath for protection.
Sure, let’s take a couple of hundred sociopaths, narcissists and entitled dickheads and seal them in a bunker with limited food and entertainment options, on top of a huge pile of weapons. I genuinely think you’d last longer on the outside with whatever’s happening lol.
Yeah every time they do it it just feels like “wow, this feels very much like one of the vaults that was expected to fail in fallout” like bro, your apocalypse bunker shouldn’t have employees, it should be you and everyone you’d want to be in an anarchist commune or small settlement of equals with, because anything else is one firm argument away from murder.
Sure, let’s take a couple of hundred sociopaths, narcissists and entitled dickheads and seal them in a bunker with limited food and entertainment options, on top of a huge pile of weapons. I genuinely think you’d last longer on the outside with whatever’s happening lol.
I just finished SOMA, great game. Highly recommend getting it for the storyline as well as the big questions it presents.
Mandalore Gaming just did his review of it as well. Its fresh in a lot of peoples brain space.
I’ve had this in my library for eons and still haven’t played it… is it in the same canon as the Outlast series? I don’t want to get 90% in and feel obliged to play another game before I finish it like I did with Control.
Why would it be in the Outlast series? It’s a completely different developer. SOMA is completely stand alone as far as I am aware. I didn’t feel the need to play anything to understand the game. I certainly was invested in the story and world and would have liked to see more of it however.
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“Elon, go back in the pool”
“Go in the pool”
furiously clicks pool
“Elon, it’s pool time hehe”
Goddamnit, Elon! You have fifteen kids, you have to go to work!
Elon pisses on the floor and scrolls social media before going back to bed.
Put him in and take away the ladder
I don’t believe that a copy of someone’s consciousness, even if a perfect copy, would ever “be” that person. That is, unless you could perform some kind of live-transfer where the live person’s sentient persona could intentionally traverse the gap between their original body into the new destination. Otherwise, the original person is just dead and you made a copy.
Edit: The same thing goes for teleportation. If they disassemble the molecules and reassemble the person at the destination, that’s probably a copy and the original person died.
I sometimes wonder about that with doing a sort of Ship of Theseus thing with the human brain. By that I mean, say you could just replace the part of the brain that does something minor like processes taste or controls balance with a chip, you’d presumably still be the same person at the core, just with a chip doing some parts for you. But then if you kept going, at what point would it stop being the original person? Are we the sort of lizard-core part of the brain? What if you replaced that but kept the original part that governs intellect? Are we our intellect? Or some combination of the two? Which parts would end the ‘original’ person’s existence if removed? Could we even tell?
My personal best guess based on philosophy, spirituality, and recent scientific discoveries is that consciousness occurs in some kind of quantum field that is connected to the human brain using quantum effects inside microtubules in neurons. (See this article for some info https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8393322/ )
There may even be a quantum collective consciousness (like Jung’s collective unconscious) that our brains have a quantum link integration with.
So it might just depend on whether or not your personal quantum consciousness field could interface with the new stuff or not.
It’s just nice knowing that there are some like-minded people thinking about the same things going on here. Some years ago that kind of connection seemed impossible to me. It’s about an ever-developing consciousness and maybe some day it will lead to fundamental breakthroughs. The more we learn, the more we make sense of it for having harmony and a great life in general. Maybe our brains are just projections of everything going on in this universe, let it be micro- and macro- cosmos.
It still blows my mind this predates ChatGPT
I think about this one a lot, it is exactly what would happen.
It wouldn’t be a
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On a related note, check out the Netflix show Pantheon.
Even if conscious, they’d be different consciousnesses. They’d think they were the same person but weren’t.
So you’d just bring conscious being into existence who have the same set personality because you decided to make them that way and then pointlessly torture them.
Sounds like what god would be if they/it existed to me.
I get the argument, but you can’t even necessarily prove the original person was conscious, how would you demonstrate this?
We can’t even prove that when we go to sleep and wake up the next day that it’s the same entity going about our day instead of a new one that inherited all of the memories and everything else encoded in the brain.
Correct, and yet as far as I am aware, I keep existing consciously. I wouldn’t mind that hypothesis being correct some days lol
I mean the cells in your body die and get replaced all the time are you even the same version of consciousness that you were last week?
Its impossible to know obviously. Generally I read that continuity is considered key to establishing that its the “same” but for all we know each time we go under anesthesia or sleep and wake up if we’re a new person. Or hell every planck second we’re a new person for all we know.
I have surgeries I want to get, and this is actually a major anxiety for me. Only real solace i have is i blinked in bed once and teleported 5 hours, which is similar to the feeling that those woken from anesthesia report
Sounds like the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
So who’s drowning them by deleting the pool steps.
Although to be honest that always bothered me as a kid, why don’t they just get out of the pool, I don’t need the steps to get out of the pool why do they need the steps. Also why does deleting doors suddenly fill the wall in.
You should read the Cask of Amontillado to answer your question about doors
This is what mind uploading will be in practice.
Robin Hanson famously predicts a subjectively “long” period of history where we have uploaded laborers and still no AGI. The “Age of Em”.
I’m already tortured enough by existence. Why would I want to make an AI version of me so that someone can copy and paste 50,000 copies of a tortured soul?
Depressed people have babies all the time bro. Don’t let it stop you, follow your dreams.
