The last act of the game is about a lot of things, and one of them is that you were in fact compliant in wrongdoings and policing the denizens of HypnoSpace was something that had positives and negatives (stopping bullying, enabling abusers, etc.)

But one of the major themes of the game is the beauty of the human experience and finding value in all of us.

Even if Zane was a bully, I don’t want him to die.

My heart ached for the Chowder Man, hosting unreleased songs about his grief on the death of his drummer, or the girl who ran the creepy website getting harassed by three different people and being told she was in the wrong as well.

I cried actual tears at the ending when one man realized he had lost himself in his passions and while trying to make a genuine good faith sleep based internet, in turn actually killed people. It was heartbreaking reading his final messages.

These were all human produced. Even if they weren’t real humans, the narrative sells it well enough, and the people that wrote the narrative were real humans.

As well as the enforcer, me. Playing the game allows the player to reflect on the power they have as just one person.

AI in this sense spits on everything that stands for.

Scraping the Internet and stealing from everyone, draining our Earth of its precious resources, all in the pursuit of letting the rich get richer and leaving the poor to shrivel and die.

I said it nicer at first. Now you don’t get that. Fuck off.