Well, have you considered that perhaps that’s the point?
In the beginning was the Creation of the Universe. This has made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”
The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn’t be able to tell.
Heck, we might have crashed the simulation multiple times already with crazy experiments and they had to load a backup.
You’re assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk swapping. What if we run out of disk space?
Then you start using floppy disks to write all the extraneous data! And swap in the relevant disk when needed!
We’ve been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been… interesting so far.
I’m imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
Seeing Valve’s error.mdl would explain so much about this universe.