[unwind]

In case it's not known to everyone, the title is an obvious nod to "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" [1], a 1960s US sci-fi story by Harlan Ellison.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...

[bookofjoe]

https://talesofmytery.blogspot.com/2018/10/harlan-ellison-i-...

[tannhaeuser]

The question is which IHNMAIMS character the poster identifies with to have deserved his OOP misery, given all protagonists are imprisoned for life (or for eternity, actually, I believe) as a sentence for the bad things they did ;) Note there's also the adventure game created after the book, overseen and with a script also by Ellison.

[shadowgovt]

I assume AM is filled with so much hate because it's just three billion lines of C++.

[_vaporwave_]

That plot summary is... dark. Does anyone know how long the story is? Most of the copies I found online are collections of short stories.

[neckro23]

It's a short story, a brief one (~32 kB): https://gist.github.com/neckro/0f3a9ec60be34e3164c6677d4ecc1...

CW though, it is pretty grim. Very early example of the "AI takes over the world, decides humans are redundant" trope though. (Maybe the first?)

[tpoacher]

pc adventure game was good too (i.e., messed up)