Is this a plothole? Question about the Endless

[OMGJesuis66]

While I agree they tried to write a story about legacy, what we got was a bunch of trash parents dumping their baggage onto kids they failed to properly raise.

So... An accurate Real Life worthy story? LOL

[Lady_Silvermoon]

So... An accurate Real Life worthy story? LOL

True. Though I'm usually not charged $40 bucks to watch and I'm definitely not told this is a good thing actually. "Sure you spent the first 22 years of your life in tears begging your mom not to leave as she dumped you off on some random lady to have a good time with the boys. But now she's dead so dedicate the next 275 years of your life trying to fulfill her dreams."

She's one of the most popular characters in the expansion and I wanted to a way to bring her back just so I could delete her again.

The entire point of Alexandria is not just preserving their memories but also keep them living their best lives without ever knowing loss. They even show that the system conspires to reunite loved ones and even keep your image similar to what you looked like when you're at your happiest. It was never about immortality for immortality's sake.
*snip*

They had entire armies of machines. And did they say the robots are made of electrope? Even if they are they have tons of them. And if they have holograms and your thinking, feeling, loved one could remain by your side after death in a robot, wouldn't that be a world without loss? It'd even make more sense towards their goals than deleting swaths of people's memories (which should have changed their personality) and creating a system that was obviously doomed to fail from lack of resources.

And robo-Otis seemed to have a pretty meaningful life. He raised a kid. Are you saying the only way to having a meaningful life is to be a sundered biological being? And even if they came to the conclusion the only meaningful life was that in a physical body, then they could have worked on cloning, that coupled with the regulators again solves the issue and gets them what they want in the long-term unlike their method which ends the universe. If she's a program, shouldn't she have glitched out knowing her primary function was impossible? It reminds me of War Games where at the end the AI realizes that there is no win scenario available and decides to play chess instead.

There is no "they", and the Endless is not "living". They're simulated data with their soul been tripped and become a commodity long times ago. *snip*

Yes, that is one of two interpretations and I don't blame you for holding it as it is stated and supported with evidence as is the alternative read. After all, why am I dressing up like a bunny to give child exhibits 'happy memories'?

[Steelpapercranes]

Yes, that is one of two interpretations and I don't blame you for holding it as it is stated and supported with evidence as is the alternative read. After all, why am I dressing up like a bunny to give child exhibits 'happy memories'?

I don't know if the endless are people or not- but what bothered me is that the game doesn't seem interested in even asking that question. I guess they couldn't? They needed:

1. The endless to NOT seem fake/uncanny/ingenuine, because that would ruin the touching moments they wanted to have with dead loved ones in each and every section (3 dead moms...yeesh)
2. The endless TO seem fake and not genuine, because after the touching moment telling mom you love her, you delete her from existence, lol.

It's a real catch-22 they wrote themselves into, and that makes me pretty darn certain they'll never answer it- and hell, forget answering it. They'll probably try hard to keep anyone from thinking about it if they can. And I dislikey.