A Hopeful Hell: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 

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You may have no mouth, and can no longer scream, but do you know what you *do* still have? That's right, you have ears, and can still hear! And with Raycons...

@@jahrfuhlnehm lmfaoo

My mans doin' the sponsor even before the video's out, that some gangsta shit right there

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This might come up with the topic of immortality, uploading your mind to a computer, and transhumanism.

Exactly that's the most terrifying point to me. A big philosophy in humanity is there will be an end to the suffering eventually. Knowing there is no end and more than likely never will be is absolutely horrifying.

Taking away what makes us human, our body, our soul, and yes our ability to die

I mean eventuly they will die, in billions of years when the planet explodes or when the universe finally closes in on itself so even if in millions or billions of years the universe will end and AM will eventually lose wither it likes it or not it will lose and snail ted or will and AM will vanish

@@kittykittybangbang9367 there's a game with that idea about a teenage girl who performs a ritual to do just that and is alone for years until you find her abandoned computer

Sigma blobset

Based and Jelly-pilled

"Hey, AM, how do you like *this* giant bird?"

“Hoes mad”

" Cope harder "

I think he loves her and he's jealous that she was having sex with the other men.

That's such an interesting take; it feels like it could absolutely be true. Nothing is worse, when you're depressed, than an optimist who doesn't let you wallow and constantly tries to build you up. They're just trying to help the only way they know how, but it ends up making you feel weak because "why can't I just be like them???"

It's like helping a friend climb up the edge of a cliff but "the wind" pushes him every time he gets up and falls back down again.

Ah, the Pandora's Box, in which hope can be seen both curse and blessing.

Cliff Hanger, hanging from a cliff And that’s why he’s called Cliff Hanger!

And despite it seeming like he can’t die and join them I kinda think he can Despite am being prolly so angry and focused on Ted now it’ll slip up it did in 109 years what’s to say it won’t happen again perhaps an outside force will provide a chance to Ted to pass on

@@Gooberwares I mean if he's just a blob it's not like he'd really be able to act on any oppertunity...

thank you for your analysis gigachad9016 👍

@Crouch_Gob not himself no maybe he'll get lucky

@@GooberwaresTechnically yes Only humans would be able to properly build on Am, and they are all gone, except one who cannot do anything, so he cannot advance further without making mistakes, and those mistakes he wouldn’t even be able to tell they aren’t correct as it requires prior knowledge It would take a long time, but space is still space Wether a meteor comes and destroys the earth or the sun will eventually grow so big it will suck up the earth, or it will explode first

it's Christian allegory...like most things...

Chad ted vs virgin AM

Virgin machine brain Vs Chad Human Spirit

This truly is the unscreaming mouthless sigma jellymale grindset

sigma grindset

Truth is... The game was rigged from the start.

@@GhostLink92 Ave, True to Caesar.

@@Masaki-1334 it's pronounced Caesar

This is why I drink

mood

Otherwise known as a cross between a honey badger and a honey badger

Why did you say honey badger twice?

@cloverfiled12 because what is worse than 1 honey badger, than 2?

@@stephenflint3640 three honey badgers

bagerd

Nope, you're wrong. Ted doesn't mirror AM at the end. No matter how much AM tortues Ted, he will always be the one suffering the most. Ted says at the end that he still has his brain attached. That he can think, dream, and remember each one of them. Ted can still wonder and have his own free mind while AM will forever be trapped in his programming without the ability to hope and dream. Both are suffering, but AM is in a much worse situation.

Ironically, AM at the end took everything away from Ted except the thing he envied the most about humans. Free human mind.

Except in Ted's case, he lives with the comfort of knowing that he died for a cause. He can still dream, wonder, imagine things that AM wouldn't ever in a million billion years. AM will never be able to leave his iron cage but a human mind is so much more powerful than he can even comprehend.

not really, AM wishes he could have a physical body, no matter how deformed!

​@@am5ters504Ted didnt die tho

I mean tbf its not cold, its infernal hate.

Sisyphus moment:

@@frost6916 Sisyphus was a bastard ngl

Ted showed her that human spirit is capable of selfless acts. its a moral victory and probably makes the AI suffer 😎

The indifferent cruelty of the universe when the indomitable human spirit walks in

You really think a slug is going to kill a giant supercomputer? Maybe if AM gets bored to death it might show its kill switch but otherwise, it would be like a ant trying to fight a 1000ft giant.

@@AllStarKingD whoosh

@@AllStarKingD he lacks critical snail information

@@AllStarKingD Given enough time man a miracle can happen. Thats how most this story progresses, they had years and years in AM and only when we see them does anything happen.

@@AllStarKingD That's how the official adventure game ended.

MaximilianMus pfp is wild

I like the part where Ted said "You pass butter."

I’m refusing to read or like your comment solely because of the pfp.

@@keith.gabrielson Isn't the pic the guy from Deus Ex?

@@Generic_Phantom maybe but it’s also the pfp that shows your part of the MaximilianMus fanbase, who is a terrible fucking person as well as everyone who likes him.

My favorite part of his character was when the universe got reset and he was the only other person that remembered what happened, just because

That episode is strange. Che Guevara also shows up iirc

I watched the whole episode guarding Scooby Snacks in The Mystery Machine. Remembering the story, I ate them all, and felt no shame.

And the funniest part of that scenario is that the story they decide to write together is a more Lovecraftian version of Twilight.

Love wins

4 actually

@@martyrobbins3543 ellen killed nimdoc

@@jaqf yeah you're right

We stan growth

@@martyrobbins3543 Nah Ellen killed 1 of the others

i love this interpretation, and i wish harlans revision of his own story in the video game had made this more clear. you get a bit of AM suffering but its not clear if hes actually devastated he cant die or if hes just boring himself to death

They say eventually, he simply stopped thinking...

@@Judgement_Kazzy I get it.

@@Judgement_Kazzy ah yes a man of culture I see

“that time I got reincarnated as a slime” intensifies

That is actually a perfect description

This is too damn funny

Caring for others is a basic part of what makes us human, it’s such a fundamental and basic part of morality that the concept that people can have absolutely no care at all seems so alien that you treat them as if they were some monster that we have to deal with. Or at least for me when people have no sympathy, respect or remorse for who they just hurt then I see them as less than human and undeserving of compassion but I also believe that we don’t know for absolute certain they did do that if we never treated them like a person in the first place.

@@calcium_skeletonWell, morality is an abstract social construct that depends on cultural values and which may include the consideration of "humanity" (which is also abstract). Caring for each other is a natural behavior of our species, but that "each other" naturally only includes those, human or other animals, you coexist with, and can manifest in a big variety of ways. Ofc there is other conditions that may affect individually if someone "cares", but more usually its just repressed or different caring

@@calcium_skeleton There's a reason sociopaths are so unnerving.

@@miser2570 Did you not read the part we’re I specifically stated that they didn’t care, the reason for them to do anything bad would be the sake of doing something bad. Those people aren’t seen in a positive way, people generally despise them for not caring about what they did if it was something like a murder. There are people like that and it has nothing to do with culture or them being misunderstood, they just genuinely don’t care for others at all.

The ultimate sacrifice that Ted did to free his fellow prisoners with death from Am.

OH MY GOD I REMEMBER!!!!!!!

What r u talking about?

@@usel7226 Scooby doo mystery incorporated. It’s…. Like a whole thing. Scooby goes hard core

@@theotherghostgirl337 will check it out

@@theotherghostgirl337 I loved Mystery, Inc.. It was so good.

I believe in the video game (written by the original author and therefore cannon) AM expresses that his hatred for Ellen does include the fact that despite all he has done to her she still shows compassion to the others. My memory might be hazy, bc that game is like 20 hours long and 90% dialog. I know for sure though that in the book the narrator Ted has a paragraph expressing the same thing (while talking about Ellen claiming to be a virgin, “twice removed”) convinced that it’s all a show she puts on to make herself “better” than the other captors. It’s implied Tom was made to feel this way because of AM, and Ellen simply existing as an empathetic and moral person was used as another indirect way to mentally torture the men around her.

Based on the game and morphogenic fields I believe AM made Ellen the only one with compassion specifically so that he could abuse a kind person. Benny turned into a stupid ape after killing for a living and to hide secrets Gorristor falsely believes they are responsible for their wife going insane and hates himself Nimdok does not know what is happening Ted has a massive ego and believed he's above everything around him But that's my take w/e

I think if I remember, he hated Nimdok the most. But Nimdok was also his favourite. In the video game, AM tells all of them privately that they are his favourite except Nimdok, who in said video game, is a massive POS. AM is simultaneously disgusted by and can relate to Nimdok and his sadism.

@@kiera6326 You're correct; AM mockingly calls him "my good brother".

From the times I read and listen to the short story, I recall each character was made a twisted corruption of what they were before am came to being. For Ellen specifically she was a chased woman that was respected for her mind so AM specifically made her the groups plaything and hypersensitive to said interactions. I definitely agree the narrator is a unreliable narrator and messed up but I don't think he is wrong about Ellen's torture. His disgust and hatred for her is more a statement on him but I feel it's reasonable to assume that everyone hates each other it's exactly what AM wanted.

rip harlan ellison, you would have loved euphoria by kendrick lamar

@@spinkboingFr, Ellison and Kendrick would’ve been besties

you come to realise that not having a mouth would be a blessing to you, as you would be able to spite AM as much as humanly possible, as he took away from himself the one thing that gave him enjoyment: Hearing screams.

i feel like this can apply to both ted and am. dont ask why because i dont know im running off coffee and vibes rn

Dang, nice comment

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@@Kaslidaughterofchaos dang nice reply

I see you in a few spots, Hax. Nice.

Right in my heart 🥺🥺

yep teds torture was all about paranoia even the game showed this by having a level were there was no threat to him in a spooky castle but tempted him to fall back into his vices

Hey fancy seeing you here

Where ber serk

Almost like Chidi on “the good place”

Omg it’s the berserk guy

can anyone recommend me books or films etc with this concept

In the mouth of madness by John carpenter in a way counts

​@tm-hx1gn heaven sent from doctor who has a story that involves this idea, the selfless thing is to keep living

This is great but what do you think happened to AM if he isn’t being tortured or do you think he’s just so numb to it he doesn’t care

​@@jonharrison3114 Probably he sees ted as a type of "broken toy" and just stopped torture him because it's not fun to play with something broken.

this is a really good interpretation!

damn

So basically edging.

@@hisholiness4537 change this story title to "I need to hire and have no balls"

Yeah, as we see when Benny starts to eat Gorester, He screams loudly and AM starts to laugh. He loves the scream, knowing he’s in pain. Now that Ted doesn’t have a mouth, he can no longer scream. AM can no longer inflict pain to Ted. As AM will never know what Ted would ever say. It’s a victory, AM’s goal of torturing the last of humanity comes to an end.

he’s the darker version of david lynch

Harlan Ellison is the Sci-Fi writer equivalent of a Twitter user lmao

I think the reason why he would hate it is because the interpretation is better than what he thinks, and it pisses him off that he never thought of that in the first place 😂

Good riddance tbh he sounds like he was an awful person.

@@oxitape1563 that would imply the average Twitter user has a measurable IQ…

I don’t know how much of it is true, given the whole "unreliable narrator" thing, but it’s said that Benny is the only one giving her actual pleasure because of his mutilated genitalia, I guess also in a way being ironic due to him being a gay man.

@@wietomeiborg1934 She does technically have sex with them it mentions it briefly but it wasn't until I reread it that I realized oh yeah Ted is probably just mad that Ellen is riding everyone.

@@wietomeiborg1934 I like to think that Ted only says that because he’s salty that she “never comes” with him, and also to give a reason somehow as to why Ellen would have sympathy for Benny despite his current state. Because, in his warped twisted mind, just being concerned for one of the only other beings in this hellscape has to be for some kind of _reason_ , so of course it’s his dongle.

​@Wieto Meiborg AM devolved Benny to a primitive state.

Ellen is a woman. She literally exists to give pleasure. What's so deep about it? We treat them like objects in real life, too, because it's what they are.

It's also impossible to tell where they are, there's ice, deck plates, monsters and forests

I highly recommend the book Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. In it the character gets blown to bits by a shell in WWI and no longer has eyes, ears, a mouth, or even limbs but is still left alive with only his thoughts. The lose of time and ability to express any emotion is such a terrifying thing to be doomed to.

@@autumnalburn that is seriously one of the most terrifying books I have ever read. To exist as a prisoner in your own body like that would be hell

This remind me of a narrative game mobile that I played, it was about these creatures that live under the sea, that live for so long that they forget who they are on beginning. Maybe if truly exist life after death this seems more plausible, for soul not remember, like even after years we change so much and not relate for our old version, it can be true for anything else, even on fictional after life. Time it's a human concept

@@autumnalburn I heard about that from Metallica, I saw the movie afterwards and it really got me into psychological horror. If you could consider it that. I heard House of Leaves is a good book, I might read that sometime soon. Could you give any other recommendations? I’m not a big fan of reading but sci-fi and psychological horror (or whatever you call stuff like this and Johnny Got His Gun).

That was kinda my thought as well. I envisioned Ted and AM sort of staring each other down in the end, both speechless, but both thinking the same thing. The only difference is that Ted gets to live knowing that he accomplished something, and AM has to live knowing he failed.

Not even. Because AM never had the option of choosing anything. AM could never do what Ted did. They might be in the same physical predicament, but they're at completely opposite extremes mentally. Ted will always have that happiness inside of him at being able to deprive AM of what it wants the most, while AM will always have the Fury and frustration of it denying itself the one thing that brought it any purpose. It led them to the icicle caves, it laughed while Ted was plotting, and it turned Ted into a thing that could not give AM what it wanted: screams of pain. Ted forced AM to screw itself

​@@NovusIgnis totally agree with your comment

when i described the book to my brother i said "And Ted basically beat AM, he took the one thing AM cared about away, his revenge. And Ted will live forever in pain knowing that he defeated AM, and AM knows this. And Ted will wish he hadn't."

Damn

He did!

lmao, that's great

sounds like him

Well, props there, AM really sounded as a magnificent bastard.

Yeah considering how angry and spiteful Ellison was I don't think anyone could've done it better

That’s probably the closest he’s ever gotten to therapy lmfao

sounds like you're just talking about me

@@0TheJigsawKiller0 I too torture a few humans for centuries

@The Blue Wayfarer and the fact that the people who suffer and are killed are not the ones who are responsible. Innocent people pay the price for the actions of few.

I mean his original purpose was to wage war

Kinda reminds me of a quote from Pluto, “Nothing comes from hatred”

The planet will eventually be s probably destroyed just by the passage of time

yeah that was a mistake. I feel like the one thing that takes away from the game is AM's voice.

very good quote

One of the very few understandable phrases from Gramsci. His writing is so dense and complicated Ik why (it was supposed to be hard to understand in case the guards caught a hold of them) but still

That's a really fantastic quote. It reminds me of Nietzsche (although Nietzsche is unlikely to have explained himself so unambiguously).

No this a stupid quote negativity has nothing to do with smartness

for a pessimist I'm pretty optimistic - Paramore

Ok, that is brilliant.

Bro I think you just cracked the code

Holy shit

Infinite IQ Move.

Infinite intelligence

🥵

Specifically a dead gopher

and he had to pay for it

Sounds like something only a f*cking legend would do

Harlan Ellison lived for pettiness!

Ted is literally the human equivalent of Kratos lmao

At that point, he was God. He controls the entire planet and has kept them trapped in a machine hellscape for years and years. To defy this power, to spit in the face of this omnipresent computer God, is the ultimate act of desperation and fury and the culmination of 109 years of torment.

This is very much in keeping with Ellison's favorite literary theme, which is best summarized as "Fuck you, god"

So, Satan?

@@astralblue64 This is your brain on Vidya. Come on. It's a clear allusion to Lucifer, if not directly in the story at least in the comment.

I mean he's not an unknown and clearly influenced media. But one of the most remembered? Come on.

This is way funnier than it should be

Rounding out the trilogy: "I have no toilet and I must defecate."

fuck dude your videos give me nightmares. Love your work.

Your work is genuinely scary, which is something that many other horror works nowadays don't accomplish. Can't wait for Season 2! EDIT: The wait was worth it! The first half of Vol. 2 is a little cheesy, but it gave me Marble Hornets vibes. Also, the second half made me want to sleep with the lights on.

It is the creator of the Scrimblo Catalogue.

Exactly lol, also I love your work, truly a thing is horror that even the walten files didn’t really achieve

@@connerc6721 I just wanted to reply "Agreed" then I saw your reply so I thought "Oh another RU-vidr let me check the na-"

Bruh

Even so even that is not a win for am because we can think and with that we can think about good thing and by removing that we are not human thus either way in a sense Ted wins not really but in a sense he gets am to rage quit he got god to quit because god cannot win

*B R U H* I SO DIDN'T CATCH THAT, FUCK.

Ted can Die to The sun.

@@ScumbagPerson yeah I thought of that too, chad sun would eventually wipe it all out

@@whitedom2041Bro

@@whitedom2041 ?

@@whitedom2041 what does that have to do with anything?

@@whitedom2041 bro 💀 that's funny

@@whitedom2041 Shhh...literally no one cares.

So... Ted is the anti-christ.

i love you mister voidout

i love you mister voidout

i love you mister voidout

agreed

Colonials my beloved

ted got the colonial treatment

Eyyy,. Nice.

I mean…. the writer of all tomorrows has confirmed he’s been inspired by the grittiness and world building IHNM

I want to find a story where humanity cannot succeed

Saw no replies and felt like typing "ok"

@@Isus273 its so weird how often that happens.

A machine that replicates its creator. It's ironic considering how much AM hates mankind

O Lol

It's brilliant, I really enjoyed this story

Yeah, it was surprise that Ted turned himself into a martyr after seeming like a selfish asshole for a century. Sadness that he would be left alone in hell. At least before they had each other.

to quote the original text, "I could not read meaning into her expression, the pain had been too great, had contorted her face; but it might have been thank you. It's possible. Please."

why couldnt they have stabbed themselves/ each other at the same time? was that not an option or just plot has to plot?

@@clumpofdirt1193 considering ellen is the most humane, i doubt she has enough mental fortitude to off herself

@@clumpofdirt1193 I think it's because AM knows everything, if they planned he would know. It only worked because it was spur of the moment.

He also placed his hand on the presenter's breast during an embrace. Ellison subsequently complained that she refused to acknowledge his apology.

@@corvus4350he’s such a pile of garbage ugh

@@corvus4350 Heh, Ellison is an over rated hack that peaked in the 1970's. Remember that time he predicted that the internet was a nothing burger and that it will have absolutely no impact on human society? Or what about the time where he said video games were stupid and will never be rival tv and movies? A real visionary, that guy.

agreed

​@John L the internet unironically ruined society

Imagine stumbling upon it like 20 years ago and having had this in your mind the entirety of your adult life. Watching technology expand and advance at an unprecedented and inexplicable rate… Somewhere in the back of your mind thinking that the best you can hope for is to be the one who ends up the immortal jelly blob 🤭 Just saying…

@@xxslendermomxx3026 “that time I got reincarnated as a slime”

He would be popular with Japanese girls.

This concept is terrifying, and depressing as hell. It reminds me a lot of SCP-001: When day breaks.

@@demontiming3234 LMAOOOO

And there it is! Thanks for this, as I wasn't brave enough to ever finish the game. Game!Ellen's story was too much.

I think that’s what truly makes it good, though you might try to avoid becoming diner, you cannot call a shark or a crocodile evil for following its own nature, and while there are acts of malice and acts of kindness, I feel like our baseline human nature inclines us to be selfish dickheads, and the fact that we can strive above or below ourselves, by doing things that are not just selfish, but evil, or do things that are not just selfless, but good, is the ultimate sign of not only our free will, but our equal capacity to commit good and evil acts

@@potatoboy6094frankly, I just love this comment. Thanks for writing it

(: obey me

as squishy slug things? yes. that seems like ellisons wish for humanity

Ok

@@kuya8329 Lmfao people are going to be so confused

@@josephfox9221 you ever read Dune

Saaaaaaaaame!

I feel like I've watched all RU-vid videos dissecting this story and so far honestly this is my favorite. I feel like most people all have the same thoughts about it and Wendigoon's take is super refreshing

yeee i got so hyped when i saw that Wendi made a vid on it

This is my third time watching, I know what u mean lol

.....so Lucifer?

@@MyHentaiGirlNeko I think Lucifer' role, in Medieval demonology, was more about everlasting torture than freedom from eternal life

@@MyHentaiGirlNeko Lucifer doesn’t really “save” in most interpretations, just takes in and breaks those god didn’t want to save

@@MyHentaiGirlNeko reverse Jesus is more of the anti-Christ isn’t it?

@@cornfield3034 God *wants* to save everyone. But He isn't going to force His presence in those that don't want to live with Him. That's why He built a separate house on the other side of the street. If you're locked in there with all the other horrible people that want to do you harm and whom you want to harm in return you can't blame God for that. You made the choice to live there.

Absolutely despise this. I will now torture my friends with this brb

@@worm.7767 Rancid. Using this to torment my friends now.

Wait but you don’t pee from balls. It should be I have no balls, and I must nut lol

@@TaraSmallss but piss is stored in the balls

Beautiful. Repeating this to myself every night for the rest of my life.

AM could most likely affect large areas at once. It could probably do something like heating up the ground over the whole planet until it's unbearably painful. AM would be capable of this because it's a large task, but it's only one action. Also, if they split up, they'd be even more miserable. Being tortured is one thing, but being tortured and alone is worse.

the fear of being alone probably overpowered almost all other feelings. they’re in hell but at least they have each other

I thought the same too

you met him?? that’s so cool omg

This comment is a good read, thanks for posting it

So which is Ellison, Ted, AM, or both?

@@nickelakon5369 assuming it’s AM, AM was the creator of the environment in which the characters are in and the architect of all their terrors, which is Ellison as he is the creator of the stories and he is directly responsible to whatever happens to the characters

I love this response. I've always felt that deep down, part of the reason I love this story so much is that I had such a tortured childhood myself. It's not obvious in reading the story, but knowing now that the author felt the same way I have when he wrote it makes me feel a lot better. That's the beauty in art, how it can connect you to other people through shared experiences of trauma. I feel less alone today.

Same, but i was 16

What are the others?

A two day fugue? Damn you're probably Bach at that point

I honestly couldn't imagine that. I read this story and I come out like Wendigoon does: invigorated in my faith and strengthened in my will. It reminds me that I cannot break unless I want to break. That I will always have a streak of rebellion in me, and that I will only ever bow when I choose to bow. I would assume that the reason Wendigoon and I come out of this story with the same view is because of our Christian faith. It is a powerful thing to bolster one's self.

@@NovusIgnis this was a great thing to read until I got to the last line and I puked in my fxcking mouth.

I have no title and i must read

I have no phone and I must tiktok

Your talking about Grail, Harlen has a preface I listened to on his audiobook for the stories and he tells this exact story about writing IHNMAIMS in one night

Isn’t that how all creative endeavors end up? Put a ton of work into something and you get a meh reception but slap something together asap, it’s absolutely amazing according to the public.

@@katla_phc I read a post once about a class having to write something with no effort and those stories turning out better than stories they put a lot of time into. Not sure what that says about writing.

It's the most shocking resurgence.

That was one of my first thoughts :3

Bruh

​@@giniwelle?

Still billions of year for a normal person. Plus teds mind was altered so that 1 minutes would feel like years, a billions of years might as well be eternity at that point

what if AM just moves to another solar system

also its not real so he should be fine

@@milktestingwoman Does the concept of stories and fiction not comprehend in your mind?

@@luffysmoukou7866 trying to create future-redemption arcs for characters in a story about eternal suffering seems much more detrimental to the story than acknowledging that it isnt real

Where can I find it?

@@BIGGOOB soundcloud

Its happy but still bitter sweet Humanity is so significantly diminished and 755ish people is gonna be really hard to reticulated with. But atleast the earth has been restored and AM and the other AIs are gone and humans can choose their own fate. I do think the original ending is also a happy ending, even if it is much darker.

He didn’t want the happy ending, though

@@mitzo4526 That is only true in the sense that he didn't want it to have any actual win state; he was convinced otherwise and the only change that was made was that the noble path concludes in an actual victory... which he then wrote and approved.

@@willryan6523 ah, my bad

He also voice acted AM afaik.

Hmmm maybe Pomni is Ted. If so who's Jax?

@@mason7067 an npc maybe? i can send you to a link compiling all the evidence he might be. im not sure about kinger and zooble, might look into them another time

@@typhoonboom Please do, I'm curious now. Let's see, off the top of my head. There's how little he seems to be losing his mind. He understands the world they're in better than the other characters. He's got keys to everywhere. He claims to remember Ragatha struggling when she entered the Circus, dispite the creator stating he entered after her. Maybe he remembers from an adventure he was an NPC for before he entered the circus. At times it seems like he's the one in control, telling Caine how they should greet Pomni, stating they'll have to redoo the theme song. He suggests going to get something to eat when we later see that food is a reward for completing an adventure, suggesting he has access to the cafe where we've only seen Caine and Bubble. He's terrible and does awful things, and Caine mentioned bad things happen when he loses track of who's an NPC, suggesting it has happened. He's the youngest, young enough that maybe he was "born" in the program. His name is too short to be from the randomizer, though no other characters name is the same length as Pomni. He often poses for the camera, and occasionally breaks the fourth wall. Yeah I could see it. Question is is Bubble an NPC?

@@mason7067 im pretty sure bubble is an ai and i think you have a lot of the points covered. also, it worth mentioning that on the pins there are backgrounds depicting each characters rooms, aside from jax (and debatably kinger, but he's another can of worms). also technically i think only pomni's name is seemingly randomized. also every characters name makes quite a lot of sense in one way, aside from jax. also, fun fact, jax was the one to come up with gangles name. also, in gummigoo's words (rest in piece my guy), npc's are meant to be obstactles to be defeated. which character is the most of an obstacle? jax. also this is not a full proof argument, considering for example princess loolilalu is an npc and not a bad person, but still. also evryone talks about the "submissive and agreeable" part, but before that jax states that gangle is supposed to be that. npc's are kinda mant to fufil a role you know. also also, despite humans not being able to be killed by abstracted creatures, jax still ran away. abstracted kaufmo i think did kill a barrel monkey, so npc's might be able to be killed by them. of course jax might've just wanted to avoid getting hurt, but still. also, small note: kinger was the one who said that ragatha struggled at the beginning, not jax.

@@typhoonboom My bad, you're right that was Kinger. So you think Gangle is an NPC too? Same age as Jax.

The ultimate 'Fuck you' to AM.

That's the thing: it didn't take any force of will at all. He didn't hesitate, didn't even think. He saw the icicles and immediately knew what to do.

@@tippa7328 it is ok to be wrong.

@@egorsdeimos3523 is that what you tell your mom when she said she thought you would be something special?

@@tippa7328 It is ok to be wrong AND petty.

Ironically, the demographic these days will actually lap up that sort of content. To gamers these days, good endings and bad endings are just boring. People want more than 2 endings and the more varied the better.

@@YasaiTsume I was just thinking that it sounded like a lot of modern day video game ends

That game was weirdly ahead of it's time in some aspects. It has that awful 90s pixel scrounging for clickables, but the depth of some of the endings and the fact you can fck yourself out of the good ending within 5 minutes of play is very funny.

Prey (2017) had a better loss ending since your shuttle may have a mimic stowaway. Maybe as an apple, some pistol ammo. You might end up dooming earth. But you survived, and you save 2-5 people including you. But it ends up being a simulation. How many people you saved, how many humans you didn’t kill. How empathetic you were. You decide your ending based on if you’re a diehard gamer who cares nothing for pixels on a screen.

My man Ellison had a indie dev soul.

Ts corny asl

humble king 👑

Lmao

@Solus Christus how is it garbage

@Solus Christus you can dislike it bro it's okay, let us enjoy things

boa lucas

Ted is made to be extremely paranoid and self centered

Ted has always been a narcissist, AM just fucking with him and having Ted blaim AM for hi own shortcommings was always so funny to me when I played through the game

@@reservoirfrogs2177 ted was like that himself, AM just exposed his weaknesses to him

The Title is what got everyone to read it. It's an amazing title.

@Suksy or for him to be here

What in the actual fuck are you doing here, it should be illegal for someone as wholesome as you to wander these places

@Suksy */s*

I have no mouth and i must scream Is very scary Made the book and story look like a hopeless landscape

And jewish.

what an easy joke to make

@@flaco3462 The problem isn't people telling easy jokes, its that short men are still allowed to be openly and explicitely discriminated against and ridiculed. Men are treated (and many treat themselves) as second class citizens, no one cares, and we get attacked if we aren't fine with the situation. Free blackpill, you're welcome.

@@justinkennedy3004 man you did a great job explaining this to me, it makes so much more sense than the joke made it seem. the joke made it seem like it was just "huhuhuh, he's short so that means he's angry for being short" and all that shit, such is with jokes about guys being angry at everything cuz they have small dicks or some bullshit like that such as one of the shittiest south park episodes. but enough about that you made a real good explanation man, it's a real fact about society and stuff (which harlan ellison had openly stated many a time that he hated society as much as AM hates humanity) and again i can see why

@@justinkennedy3004 me when i have short man syndrome