Agreed, but this has merit. The irony in sims (humans) themselves creating a game that replicates human life actually being sims themselves is not lost on me. There is another paper which I am trying to find which talks about mathematical coincidences in the Universe that could only happen inside a computer simulation. I am not for one second saying I am a staunch believer, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that it has some merit in being real. If it is, it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. It just means the end of the Universe is someone's hard drive finally borking