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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Necropolitan" data-source="post: 9364565" data-attributes="member: 6669245">The AI being self-aware and malicious wasn't necessary and in fact detracted from the message because it made there be an actual villain. It's like having a story where the message is against drunk-driving by having there be an AI that seizes control of your car and crashes it if you drive while drunk. Just have the actual thing the message is against be the problem!And the slugs killing people by name was a pointless mystery. It never even reveals why the AI is doing it in alphabetical order for crying out loud! It's a red herring rendered meaningless by the rest of the reveals.The slugs could be omnivorous scavengers who mostly feed on vegetation and dead animals but now have an easier food source that literally walks into their mouths. Easy as that. And they got in because the Finetimers didn't bother maintaining whatever it was that kept them out of the city because it was boring/hard. Heck, that would add to the allegory.</blockquote>