Let's Talk About I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

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Out of Halloween Town and in the center of the Earth, Noah Campbell, whose had enough of rampant AI's meddling, comes face to face with one of the originators of the self-actualizing evil computer: AM. While the original I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream short story became a bedrock of American literature, does the game of the same name hold up to that standard? Or are you better off suffering the tortures of the damned for 109 years.

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Chapters:



0:00:00 - Opening Remarks



0:01:12 - History: The Man Behind the Machine



0:21:19 - Story Recap: An Introduction by AM



0:27:18 - Story Recap: A Game of Lice and Black Death



1:03:45 - Story Analysis: Cogito, Ergo Sum



1:20:40 - Presentation: Born to Destroy, Not Create



1:39:56 - Gameplay: Point N' Click Terror



1:46:19 - Good: The Tragedy of Darth AM the Pitiable



1:55:13 - Bad: Moon Logic of the Lunar Colony



2:00:18 - Overall and Afterword



Links:



https://store.steampowered.com/app/24...



https://www.mobygames.com/game/617/ha...



https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/?ge...

(Download Link for the Short Story in PDF format)



https://www.sfsite.com/07a/he107.htm

(A Conversation With Harlan Ellison)



https://www.tcj.com/the-harlan-elliso...

(The Comics Journal Interview with Ellison)



https://theworld.org/stories/2018-10-...

(Ellison Interview for Studio 360)



https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/ellis...

(Encyclopedia of Cleveland on Harlan Ellison)



https://web.archive.org/web/201802091...

(A Collection of Ellison’s Listed Works)



   / @harlanellison  

(Ellison’s YouTube Page)



   • Harlan Ellison "I Have No Mouth And I...  

(Harlan Ellison "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" interview for IE CD-ROM magazine circa 1995)



   • The Bleakest Depiction in Sci-Fi  

(Ryan Hollinger’s video on I Have No Mouth)



   • A Hopeful Hell: I Have No Mouth and I...  

(Wendigoon’s Video on I Have No Mouth)



https://web.archive.org/web/201304202...

(Game Informer’s Article on I Have No Mouth’s development)



https://archive.org/details/DARK_SEED...

(Dark Seed Manual)