History Headscratchers / IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream

* Why didn't the five survivors use a sharp rock to open the cans?

** Her scenario is pretty explicit she was raped in the elevator. AM's monologue to her is already slightly longer than the others so maybe they just removed it for pacing issues? You're right, though, I definitely think something was cut.

* Something I noticed but I haven’t seen a lot of people talk about, is how when AM screams Ellen’s name, instead of taunting her like he does with the other characters, it cuts to her cage and AM begins his sentence with “So...,” meaning that he definitely said something to her prior to that. I did check if this wasn’t the player who uploaded the walkthrough accidentally skipping it but it seems that’s just how the game normally plays. Did they remove that bit of AM’s dialogue because it probably mentioned rape and it was considered too much even for this game?

* Why can't Ellen reach the water in the pyramid without the cup? She says that it's just barely out of reach, but it looks like she should easily be able to scoop up the water with her hands or step into the pool.

** Because they can't. They lied.

*** Of course its not "important"-important, but its still understandable that people wonder about this, as I myself has done quite a bit. The purpose of the story isn't to speculate about how AM got his powers, but it can still bug you how a supercomputer is able to accomplish all this, hence why we have it on the "It Just Bugs Me" page.

* The Chinese and Russian computers tell you to disable only AM's Ego, threatening to kill you if you disobey. Well you can disobey, at which point they will do...nothing. Why?

** Because he can't. We see him make people for the psychodramas in the computer game, but they're not real, they're just sophisticated virtual dolls. It would be the same for any physical body he created to inhabit, because he's still a machine that can't create true human life from nothing. If he could, he wouldn't need to keep his victims alive for so long (or to preserve Ted once the others are out of their misery). Uploading himself to a human brain wouldn't do him any good either, because he'd either be uploading a copy of his programming (which wouldn't change his situation, because the copy would lead a human life and the original would still be trapped, or he'd attempting to move his entire being into a human brain, which would almost certainly not be able to withstand the scope of what AM is, and if it did, he'd lose the godlike power that made him want to do it in the first place.

*** Exactly! If you were to spend eternity getting brutally tortured by a sadistic monstrosity, wouldn't it stand to reason that you would eventually adapt to it's tortures? The brief respites of hope and rest and pleasure that AM offers them are to soften them up in order to make the next torture seem just as painful and terrifying as it was before. It's basic torture 101 stuff, kid. You have to let them have some semblance of hope, even if it's just the hope of slightly less pain than before, or else they start to adapt and you're left with somebody who just shrugs and goes "meh" or becomes TooKinkyToTorture, thus ruining the fun you can get out of their fearful, broken bodies writhing in erotic agony! ....[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not that I would know, or anything.... Cause I don't!]]

* Why doesn't AM create a body for himself if he wants to experience no being trapped so much? He can create bodies, and he can load himself into brains like he did to Ted.