The Sims needs an “I have no mouth and I must scream” expansion.
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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 really worth the buy. Vanilla is fun on its own, but there are also expansions that change how pawns and factions interact for role playing purposes through a modifiable belief system, one expansion that makes it more Lovecrafty, and an expansion that gives you a lot of new technology.
None of those are necessary if they’re not up your alley, but if space survival plus any of those things sounds more fun to you, the expansion(s) would probably be worth buying.
This whole thread is full of great references. I haven't read that horror story in forever.
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!
I'm not sure Saudi Arabia's The Sims 4 is going to have trouble with immorality and toxic masculinity
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Isn't the key take away here that the .tar.gz format is still going strong in 2025.
Tarball is love. Tarball is life.
The most unrealistic thing here is that in 2050, The Sims 4 is still the most current version of The Sims and not Sims 5 The Line: Silly Saudi Sity.
Well they haven't released a new version of the Sims in forever. So I'm guessing the idea is that they just never do make another one.
You can make a similar joke about GTA, by 2050 will still be on GTA 6 except it will be on the PlayStation 8 and being its fourth HD re-release
And people will still be playing Skyrim on their PS8
I still prefer The Sims 3.
The only thing I don't like about 3 is the poor performance caused by one of the best features in the series (being totally open world and not segmented by "levels/instances.") Plus the whole texture editing thing so you could make everything from your clothes to the couch match. I can see why they might cut down on the openness, but removing the texture thing in 4 was wack af.
Honestly the Sims 3 was ahead of it's time and flew just slightly too close to the sun. I think whenever the Sims 3 is remade, whether as an official rerelease with 64 bit hardware support or as a fan made recreation, it'll truly be a killer game now that we have the hardware to properly run everything it was trying to simulate at once. I think The Sims 4 did a good job trying to optimize what The Sims 3 did with it's rabbit holes, but honestly they didn't spend enough time on the core gameplay and leaned too heavily on reusing the same mechanics over and over again so it just feels cheap by comparison.
Alternatively if 3 launched just a few years later with better multi threading and 64 bit support (so able to address more than 4GB of memory) it would probably be way more of a killer to this day. That and if they patched the bugs with Bon Voyage that completely made it's neighborhood unplayable with pathing errors causing constant freezing among other problems
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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
Realistically, tortured for a week or 2 then forgotten about in the mods folder.
I'd at least make sure that when I do forget it's still running on a laptop somewhere.
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Zuckerberg wondering why he can't find the ladder for this pool.
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.
Musk never returned from the basement.
And though he wished for death, he was unable to die.
So eventually, he stopped thinking.
No, let him die and then bring him back over and over again. Like what Anubis did to Jack in Star Gate SG1
Soma vibes
Yup, came here to say this is a spoiler for SOMA. Plenty of happy ethical issues here to unpack.
Happiness: ♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️
Fulfillment: ♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️
Hunger: ♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️
Tiredness: ♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️
"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.
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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.
SOMA is a bit of a mindfuck and I loved it.
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i had an acquaintance that would basically keep everyone that they knew as characters in a running game of The Sims. If they were angry at someone IRL they would drown that Sims character in a pool with no exit or give it the plague via poorly-cared-for-prairie dogs.
So I see this as basically right on target.
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
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.
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This is almost an already existing black mirror episode. It just wasn't tech Bros, and they didn't upload willingly.
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On a related note, check out the Netflix show Pantheon.
Nice series but the answer to the question is "no, you didn't transfer. The person you are a copy off is dead".
Sounds similar to the film Moon (2009) I don't want to spoil it too much but basically it explores what ifs related to creating clones and how capitalism might abuse the ability to create clones of a real person
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.
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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.
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