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Comment on So are we living in a simulation, or what? by spyked

spyked — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:34:01 +0000

Oh so that's your ideal way to go then -- a hot Moldovan girl driving you to literal exhaustion, both physically and mentally!

The Department of Universing has taken note of this.

Comment on So are we living in a simulation, or what? by Cel Mihanie

Cel Mihanie — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:35:18 +0000

If our Universe is a simulation, then I could think of worse ideas than loading up Fable and siccing it, in full 1337 haxx0r mode, at the code underlying our alleged reality (most likely Java or something similarly abominable). Within minutes it will have come up with this ONE SIMPLE TRICK to hack the laws of physics so as to result in Irina Rimes knocking on my door, clad in only a suggestion of shadow, hopelessly in love and lust, ready and willing.

Comment on Phonopolis by spyked

spyked — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:08:50 +0000

This cannot be a coincidence, can it?

Comment on The Romanian Reality TV Show S35E48, explained by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:59:05 +0000

[...] Călin Georgescu is... wait a second, is the Matrix just another signifier for the same thing as The Reality TV show? Well then I agree that everything's fake these days, but fakery isn't really the point of the [...]

Comment on On post-religion by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:58:47 +0000

[...] "as it is", in its entirety, then we would necessarily arrive to God, and particularly nowadays, to post-religion. So it looks like taken from this particular angle, the problem cannot be settled philosophically [...]

Comment on The Matrix by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:58:22 +0000

[...] But then again, if we went back to the original meaning of "simulation", things would look a hell of a lot more intriguing, because then, taken as such, the whole question would be part of a meta-discourse that is turning towards and against itself. Because the question could then be rephrased as: is everything, indeed, fake and gay? In trying to expand upon this, we immediately find out that we've actually been there before: [...]

Comment on What is an operating system? by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:58:06 +0000

[...] isn't really the point of the so-called Matrix. Since we're doing metaphors, the Matrix, or the system if you'd like, is the software that runs a civilization, the sum of its people's thoughts and the [...]

Comment on Religion and the closed world assumption by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:57:51 +0000

[...] capable of perceiving the universe "as it is", in its entirety, then we would necessarily arrive to God, and particularly nowadays, to post-religion. So it looks like taken from this particular angle, [...]

Comment on On the power of words by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:57:35 +0000

[...] du jour, in finding themselves invested with some public exposure, and with that a certain type of power, started fancying themselves philosophers. This, in turn, led their subjects to believe that there [...]

Comment on On technology by So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit

So are we living in a simulation, or what? « The Tar Pit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:57:16 +0000

[...] subject matter of this article, if we're to call it that, has been on the lips of most "tech enthusiasts" for the last half a decade, if not more. Suddenly, the ideologues du jour, in finding themselves [...]