Isn't the key take away here that the .tar.gz format is still going strong in 2025.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 or give it the plague via poorly-cared-for-prairie dogs.
So I see this as basically right on target.
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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I have no scream and i must mouth
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