The slowly WAU'ifying people throughout the game look like they're heavily suffering. Their skin's all scabby, they're covered in WAU tentacles, but they all look like they are still conscious and breathing (though in a raspy way). This does not include people like Amy who are clearly mostly human.
Are these people actually being kept conscious by the WAU's attempts to recreate them? And if so, do you think any of them are capable of thinking a coherent thought, like "kill me now", or do they just exist in constant turmoil?
And, assuming that the underwater factories still persist for several thousands of years, are all of them just going to sit there and suffer for thousands of years until the whole place shuts down (if ever)?
They're not suffering. If you listen to some of their telepathic-whatever sayings whenever you're near them, they're in quite happy virtual situations with no awareness to their real physical situation. We're given a glimpse of this virtual world the WAU makes when you get stuck in the stuff yourself.
One thing I was wondering about is, what actually IS the fleshy stuff growing on the walls? It's not regular WAU growth. It looks more like the "cell mutations" on the examination bed in the labs. Are they proxies who merged with the walls?
EDIT: To answer the other question... assuming Simon-3 kills himself at some point, and you've also chosen to destroy the WAU, the WAU should "disconnect" them. Although I'm not sure I'd want to be woken up in the physical condition they're in...
EDIT2: Discount part of this. Misread the OP as people who are stuck in the WAU's virtual reality.
Maybe not all of them are suffering, but some others definitely are.
(10-09-2015, 11:13 PM)PathOS Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe not all of them are suffering, but some others definitely are.
What would be your example for that?
(10-10-2015, 02:22 AM)Dundle Wrote: [ -> ] (10-09-2015, 11:13 PM)PathOS Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe not all of them are suffering, but some others definitely are.
What would be your example for that?
Amy and probably the humanoid enemies (fleshers, proxies, robotheads). If you include robots, then the crawlers and most certainly the DUNBAT.
EDIT: But if you only mean the "dreamers" in Theta, then I agree. There's no evidence that they're suffering.
The Screaming Woman sure sounded like she was suffering. If she's not, then she's clearly deranged or in some kind of psychosis.
(10-10-2015, 02:52 AM)GhylTarvoke Wrote: [ -> ]EDIT: But if you only mean the "dreamers" in Theta, then I agree. There's no evidence that they're suffering.
Ah, yes. My mistake. Sorry thread. The infected robots give off the impression that they're suffering, and so does the robot girl. I just misinterpreted OP as people who are "hooked up" to the WAU.
The growth in the walls is from structure gel, it's shown at omicron
(10-10-2015, 08:46 AM)Damascus Rose Wrote: [ -> ]The growth in the walls is from structure gel, it's shown at omicron
Yes, the black-robotic growth is structure gel, but what is the fleshy growth shown in the later part of Theta?
(10-10-2015, 10:11 PM)Dundle Wrote: [ -> ] (10-10-2015, 08:46 AM)Damascus Rose Wrote: [ -> ]The growth in the walls is from structure gel, it's shown at omicron
Yes, the black-robotic growth is structure gel, but what is the fleshy growth shown in the later part of Theta?
Oh, my bad. I believe those fleshy growths are what happens when humans consume structure gel, it's like the cancerous wall growths but with organic tissue