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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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
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 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
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
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.
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.
Sounds like the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
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
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
Isn’t there a Sims like game that’s called something like Omni or something? I’m sure that has texture editing.
Inozi I think. Tried it but couldn’t kill my dude once I got bored. I don’t think dying was in the game when I tried. Going to let that one cook for a while before trying again.
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
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.
Just get a nuclear diamond powered Laptop, and drop it into a deep hole…
EDIT: send simulation speed to max too!
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
Soma vibes
Yup, came here to say this is a spoiler for SOMA. Plenty of happy ethical issues here to unpack.
It wouldn’t be a
.tar.gz, but a.ggufTIL what a GGUF file is.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
