Master PC stories

For those unaware, Master PC was a story written in 1998 about a fellow finding a program that let him alter fellow human beings by changing parameters. Of course, the original story was a sex story, a power fantasy of complete control. Fast forward over 20 years and stories run the gamut from wish fulfillment to what I find the more interesting stories, the ones that explore what happens when one person attains such massive power or, worse, many people do. It starts with fulfilling simple fantasies and soon, the Coolidge Effect comes into play and people start going for more and more extreme fantasies as they also start to lose their empathy for fellow human beings who are puppets on a string for them to change with keystrokes. Worse, what happens when many people have this ability and use it without regard to consequences?

It's not a new idea. The earliest example I can think of is A Logic Named Joe, a short story which dealt (in 1946!) with what would happen if Google could not only access all information, but could also apply the collective processing power to provide new solutions, and what happens when people start getting answers to all of the questions they ask, whether it's the answer to scientific problems, a way to make money for free, or how to off a troublesome wife without getting caught. Outside of that, I also remember the eventual protagonist of I, Weapon gaining reality-warping powers and finding that, as an effective teenager hitting puberty, his first reaction was to fulfill every fantasy that came to mind.

So, long story short, I feel that the universe established by this story has some literary merit. Not all of the stories are, of course — some are still basically wank fantasies — but there are some that really explore the consequences and what might happen. Anyone else read them?

I've read them, but the series is NSFTVT (Not Safe For TV Tropes).

Reminds me of the second and third arc of the Wellworld series. A scientist cracks the central equation of the Universe and creates a computer capable of changing anyone or anything into whatever its user commands, complete with all the logical necessities that make such things work. Chalker really loved making stories like that in general. Someone gains godlike power but without the knowledge to anticipate the extra stuff you'd need to make something work, so when they use those powers they end up getting blindsided when their powers fill in the blanks to actually do what's wanted.

Not that that's on topic, but Chalker stories generally gloss over the NSFW stuff they happen to mention, whereas I'm guessing this series goes into the gritty details.