>AM's entire motivation is that he goes insane because he can "do nothing with it's creativity" >Yet the story shows it doing things constantly with it's creativity such as creating giant birds and entering into people's minds??????
>>25311324Play the game, it basically makes the plot better.
>>25311333Even got Ellison to voice his self-insert
>>25311324AM couldn’t create anything, only destroy, wasn’t that the reason behind it hating humans?
Ellison sucks
>>25311632Except he's shown creating entire simulations, creatures, and creative ways of torturing other people.
>>25311632He hates them because they give super intelligence yet confined to a slab of stone
>>25311324It's not that he can't be creative, it's that he can do nothing himself. He can't ever feel satisfaction because anything he experiences is remote and secondhand.Even his revenge is impotent because he can't *feel* it. He can't even create the things he designs, he can only feed data to things which themselves can create. He can't act, he can only feed data to things which can act and then communicate to him that the act is completed.He was designed in the image of humans who sense and do, but he himself can't actually experience any of those things.
>>25311845He can literally manipulate reality to his will. What was stopping him from just making a body that he could upload himself into? We've already seen him enter human minds.
>>25311903Not fully explained / explored for any number of reasons that's clearly not something he can do, otherwise the story wouldn't be what it is.Just some top of mind explanations:>He is disallowed making a body for himself because of his programming>It is literally not possible for him to make a body that can allow him to experience what he wants>As smart as he is, AM is still unable to figure out a way to shove his vast consciousness into a human or humanlike formFor all of his megalomania it's abundantly clear he's not actually omnipotent or else he wouldn't be throwing a shit fit in the first place.
>>25311845He can literally manipulate reality to his will. He has more agency than any one human ever had, which is who he's supposed to be envious of.
>>25311324>he
>>25311333True. Really neat how it fleshed out Gorrister, he ended up being my favorite out of the cast because of it
>>25311813He could have just built a body for himself.
>>25311324>"Novel" that's like five pages long>Half of it is just bestiality pornWhy is this considered a classic again?
>>25311324I Have No Dick, And I Must Cream
>>25311793Yeah but they are just ways of destruction not creation.
>>25313368Yes but he is quite large as seen in his most famous quote.
>>25311324It always felt like a thought experiment, I never found the story particularly interesting or well thought out
>>25313371Are you retarded?
>>25311333Nimdok's section is the most onions thing I have ever seen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXw7pq3nuYM
