The simulation we live in is abandonware.
@g Abandonware downloaded from a site that filled it full of ads and crypto miners.
@emacsomancer @g There's a genuine "simulated reality" thesis that considers the possibility that we're an accidental, emergent phenomenon in basically a galactic/cosmic scale weather model or something, and that it's unlikely the system can even highlight our existence to the operators before they get their answers and cut the program. 

@seachaint @g

There was also an argument I read that went essentially: "eventually in a universe with any sentient beings complex simulations will be developed; the nature of simulations is such that there will be many more simulations than there actual universes, and so the odds are that we're in a simulation" (the argument was a bit more sophisticated than this).