Yeah, that's the idea. If you're simulating a universe on a computer, presumably you'd have near-perfect control over it. Perhaps our creators are sadistic or something, though?

I was using "Hell" in a literal sense. Not some petty everyday concern, but rather some sadistic/vindictive guy running the universe on a laptop & torturing us (potentially manipulating the laws of physics to make it worse in the process).

Yeah. Perhaps our simulators might avoid torturing us out of fear that someone above them would punish them for it. But I'm not too sure - it doesn't seem as though our own simulators (if we're in a simulation) seem to care much for preventing torture. (I guess there's the possibility that the intense suffering doesn't actually occur, and torture victims' minds are modified such that they *think* they just got tortured. But it doesn't seem massively likely.)

Fortunately, genuine intent to do bad stuff isn't overwhelmingly common amongst humans. Even if humans can be nasty, I think most wouldn't torture the sentient inhabitants of a simulation - but a non-negligible proportion might think it interesting to do something evil like this (hence why I made this post). I'm imagining more "bored simulator presses a button to torture us all" more than any current-day issue.