• grahamja@reddthat.com
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      1 day ago

      This whole thread is full of great references. I haven’t read that horror story in forever.

    • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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.

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        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

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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          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.