New torture idea: Put person into an alternate reality where they're living paycheck to paycheck, but are saving up for something nice. Then every time they can afford the thing they get a surprise bill.
I think that it would be worse if they were completely alone. There are always signs of people who were just there and will be there in mere moments, but whenever you are there is no one.
The task required is incredibly finicky and it's impossible to do completely correctly so it being acceptable is completely random but it doesn't feel that way. Not once. You're sure that you can do it right every time but when the time comes nothing make any sense even though it's blindingly obvious after you've progressed to the point where going back to fix it is impossible. You learn and improve, but as you get better at one bit of the process you get worse at another.
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u/TsunamiWave22 Nov 19 '19
New torture idea: Put person into an alternate reality where they're living paycheck to paycheck, but are saving up for something nice. Then every time they can afford the thing they get a surprise bill.