So are we all agreed that sawing....

[the dark side]

TheChineseRoom are English, yes, based out of Portsmouth University. they are funded by the "Arts and Humanities Council" part of the government that grants Lottery money to art projects and Humanitatian Statements and Experiments.

they are named after a computer experiment conducted by John Searle, wich was started in the United States at the University of Berkely, California, and is still ongoing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Room

Despite that, i think that torture would be a good addition, after all AMFP is set in the victorian ages, when the torture was still in practice, there is no saying that the game can't have a Chinese Sub-villain at some point who uses that torture as a way to extract industrial secrets so his "master" can improve the design and effeciency of his "pig machine", such as say, a new type of boiler for the "Watt" Beam Type Steam Engines that power it, or a faster operating ratchet wheel to speed up the machines ability to "process" a victim into a "Pig-beast" (Quesswork here) by moving its conveyers faster without loosing accuracy.