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Tarball is love. Tarball is life.
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.
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.
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
This is almost an already existing black mirror episode. It just wasn’t tech Bros, and they didn’t upload willingly.
Soma vibes
What a delightful alternative to Roko’s Basilisk.
It’s 2050 and they’re still only on The Sims 4… actually yeah that tracks
I’m not sure Saudi Arabia’s The Sims 4 is going to have trouble with immorality and toxic masculinity
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.
At least we got another teaser for TES VI in 2043!
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.”
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.
Zuckerberg wondering why he can’t find the ladder for this pool.
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 or give it the plague via poorly-cared-for-prairie dogs.
So I see this as basically right on target.
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.
Also have it in my library but didn’t play it for at all. All I know is that it’s similar to amnesia and that’s why I got it I think. Perhaps I should play it. Let me know how you like the game when you play it.
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.
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.
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
Musk never returned from the basement.
And though he wished for death, he was unable to die.
So eventually, he stopped thinking.
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.
