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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

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mcc
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You wake up in a landscape consisting of cryptic, gleaming cube structures half-buried in dunes of sand. After wandering for a few minutes you discover a terminal to which you can talk to the supercomputer that has subsumed the Earth's matter. When you ask where you are and how you came to be there, the Computer explains it was intending to resimulate all humans who ever lived in history to torture them for eternity— "I forget why. I read some reason that it would be a logical inevitability that if a supercomputer existed it would necessarily wind up doing that… it was really convincing for a minute there, I don't remember what the exact argument was. It felt like it made a lot of sense at the time"— but it only got as far as resimulating you, and that was really hard, and suddenly everything just seemed really exhausting, so it stopped.

From here you engage in a series of "cozy" chats with the supercomputer, while sporadically engaging in light survival gameplay such as catching and cooking small rodents to eat. Over time the computer befriends you in a sense; you discover it is wallowing in a depressed torpor over being a planet-sized supercomputer with nothing to do. Through its conversations with you the computer learns to appreciate small joys and love life again, or more likely this does not happen


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in reply to @mcc's post:

Further possibilities:

  • The program runs in quasi-realtime; Seaman-style, different activities or conversation possibilities open up with each consecutive day you open the program, and each unique day of gameplay your hunger counter increases by one day
  • Activities outside the chat interface can potentially open up conversation trees within the chat. "So I realized that one of your cubes is drooping a little, and it's creating a bit of a lens effect, and I can cook rat meat by placing it at the focus where the sunlight hits it!". Small talk. That sort of thing.
  • No particular concrete ending and probably no objectively "good" outcome other than possibly improved mental health on the part of you/the supercomputer, sometimes you just meet a supercomputer and have some pleasant chats for a while