Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
The people in Ultima Thule are entirely physical beings, who are shown able to grow and change with outside stimuli, even just during the MSQ spent there. The people in Living Memory are projections of stored memories from a computer, which also edits their memories to keep them "happy", or can freely switch them off to conserve power. They're about as alive as a boss's summoned adds.
For an expansion where memory is such a big theme, it's absolutely INSANE to me how little people even consider the topic. "Projections of stored memories"? They're not video clips playing over and over, they're sentient, they can feel, they can listen, think create new memories.

"BRO THEY'RE JUST MEMORIES"
Do you even consider what your memories are? They're one of the biggest parts of what make you YOU. They're all your experiences, they're everyone you know, they're everything you've learned. The last zone made be go absolutely insane at how quickly sentient beings perfectly simulated from the memories original people are not even worthy of being considered to be in any way shape or form preserved. IMMEDIATELY you are told that bunny mom wants to die so it's ok.

I revisited the MSQ of the last area to try and figure out if I was missing something, but as far as I can tell this is what I gathered:
- The only way to get to Sphene is by entering the terminal during the last moments, when defenses are down.
- Shutting down the endless is only being done because Sphene would maybe lose motivation
- Bunny mom even says they don't have to shut them down now, but she REALLY REALLY WANTS TO DIE HOLY SHIT ERENVILLE CAN'T YOU BE HAPPY FOR HER THAT SHE WANTS TO DIE, WHAT A WHINER

And, please correct me if I'm wrong, Sphene never even for one line acknowledges at any point that you shut down the endless, meaning that you could've very well just have saved that for patch content and actually explored these themes and characters in depth (even if the conclusion was the same, and we had to shut it down).

It felt RUSHED, cool interesting themes were completely under-explored, and it left a really sour taste for this expansion for me.