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It’s basically like an ellipsis. The punchline has been delivered, that this “game” is just imprisonment, but to actually describe imprisonment, you’d need a lot more sentences.

It is interesting, that it doesn’t use “…”.
I guess, you’d write “…” when a thought is somewhat complete, whereas here, it’s specifically a run-on sentence that’s being cut off.

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The punchline goes a bit further than just imprisonment, see the Stanford Prison Experiment

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I think this is called aposiopesis

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