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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Its themes are incredibly nuanced, and without a solid grasp of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, most of the ideas will go over a typical gamer's head. There's also Ellison's commentary on humanity's technological hubris and moral failings, which are deftly woven into the narrative - his exploration of the collective guilt and suffering of our species is heavily influenced by Cold War anxieties and a pessimistic view of human nature, for instance.
The intellectuals who engage with this story understand these layers; they have the mental capacity to truly appreciate the depths of the work, to realize that it's not just a game - it's a commentary on LIFE itself. As a consequence, people who dislike I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream truly ARE philistines - of course they wouldn't appreciate, for example, the symbolic significance of the Cartesian and Biblical allusions in AM's name, or the way the narrative confronts the nature of suffering and the human condition through Freudian complexes.
I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those intellectually limited simpletons staring blankly as Ellison's genius unfolds itself in front of them. What fools... how I pity them. And yes, by the way, I DO have a HATE Pillar tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the discerning few - only those who can demonstrate that their grasp of speculative fiction is within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
