The Sims needs an “I have no mouth and I must scream” expansion.
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
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
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.
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
Isn’t the key take away here that the .tar.gz format is still going strong in 2025.
Tarball is love. Tarball is life.
H4sIAAAAAAAAA8tMU8gsUSjPL8ou1lFIyc9TL1FIy6wAinEBAO1h1KMaAAAA
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.
Put him in and take away the ladder
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
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
Soma vibes
Yup, came here to say this is a spoiler for SOMA. Plenty of happy ethical issues here to unpack.
Zuckerberg wondering why he can’t find the ladder for this pool.
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
Sounds like the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
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
It wouldn’t be a
.tar.gz, but a.ggufTIL what a GGUF file is.
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.
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.
This is almost an already existing black mirror episode. It just wasn’t tech Bros, and they didn’t upload willingly.
Are you talking about white Christmas? One of the OG black mirror episodes.
No the star trek parody one.
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.
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.
I think sometimes in an implant that gives support to the brain and replicates the neurons as a backup. When a neuron dies the implant gives the brain the equivalent synthetic neuron.
Them MAYBE the person would live on. Otherwise, the original dies and the CPU goes on.
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
