at one point we’re gonna have the computing capacity to simulate the world, and if it is possible, then the chance that our reality is the base reality is much smaller than being one of the simulations
This isn’t a simulation game, it’s a scientific physics simulation. You can tell because gameplay mechanics suck. You move too slow, can hardly jump, and get one-shot by basically any gun. Accurate physics is all that matters to them.
You don’t notice the fram drops in local space, but the universe is rushing away from us the further out we look and scientists speculate that light may have been faster in the early universe, ergo noticeable frame dropping.
Tangentially related but I remember it being discussed that if we were in a simulated reality it wouldn’t be discernable since our observations would have internally consistent logic or something like that. Essentially we would have to have been programmed to notice that our world was simulated. I always thought that was neat way of squaring away any existential dread around whether or not we exist in a simulation.
Given I just (basically) finished a game that was super-heavy on the cognition and “what is reality, even” side of things, this hits that much harder.
The thought of it all just being a simulation, which is really just an extension of what your brain makes you think is reality anyways, has always been kinda fascinating. Far-fetched, impossible to prove/disprove, but certainly interesting.
I always loved the Rick and Morty episode about the scam aliens and their virtual realities. He breaks out by forming a rock concert and telling the crowd to do things that would really tax a computer to calculate.
I think I see some reused assets in that pile. Maybe this is a video game!
Hi I’m Danby, thanks for reading my comic.
I love video games that make an effort and actually leave the bodies of fallen enemies where they were killed instead of making them disappear
The frame drops in games come from the fact we’re in a simulation and the double simulation is harder.
You’re a character *inside* the simulation, you wouldn’t see if the simulation frame takes longer to compute.
Just take him to a swingers club, easier than finding bodies
But what if the simulation is just being run on a really really good engine and computer O.o
Maybe we are in a videogame made by a company very good at optimization.
Also, they aren’t emitting any miasma
at one point we’re gonna have the computing capacity to simulate the world, and if it is possible, then the chance that our reality is the base reality is much smaller than being one of the simulations
Even the endless reflection in two parallel mirrors drives some people to hallucinating. There are many ways to crash the system – just keep trying
The smell makes you avert your gaze. Obvious optimization.
Unless the simulation is running on [Source 2](https://youtu.be/VqekPzzCZGk?si=CISLSm_oOnZSTB8w).
Idk they seem to be at 2fps judging by the fact that there moving via comic panel
It always surprises me how many philosophical questions you can answer by collecting dead bodies in your basement.
Would an npc actually notice issues though?
I don’t think we have smart enough npcs to answer that.
This isn’t a simulation game, it’s a scientific physics simulation. You can tell because gameplay mechanics suck. You move too slow, can hardly jump, and get one-shot by basically any gun. Accurate physics is all that matters to them.
*Extreme overheating intensifies*
Yeah NPCs wouldn’t see frame drops since they don’t process the frames in real-time.
You don’t notice the fram drops in local space, but the universe is rushing away from us the further out we look and scientists speculate that light may have been faster in the early universe, ergo noticeable frame dropping.
in 10 years this comic will have aged like milk
Tangentially related but I remember it being discussed that if we were in a simulated reality it wouldn’t be discernable since our observations would have internally consistent logic or something like that. Essentially we would have to have been programmed to notice that our world was simulated. I always thought that was neat way of squaring away any existential dread around whether or not we exist in a simulation.
Why does this read like a RTGame video?
Given I just (basically) finished a game that was super-heavy on the cognition and “what is reality, even” side of things, this hits that much harder.
The thought of it all just being a simulation, which is really just an extension of what your brain makes you think is reality anyways, has always been kinda fascinating. Far-fetched, impossible to prove/disprove, but certainly interesting.
Jokes on him, that is a scripted cutscene so the bodies are fixed geometry with prerendered lighting.
_Quantum tunneling and time dilation have entered the chat_
That doesn’t mean anything. Back in the old days people dropped left and right from plagues, wars, religious purges, etc.
Whole place was practically a ‘pile of bodies’ simulator made to show off how many they could have without problems.
I always loved the Rick and Morty episode about the scam aliens and their virtual realities. He breaks out by forming a rock concert and telling the crowd to do things that would really tax a computer to calculate.