okay, so I beat the game a few days ago, and this has been niggling at me ever since. But first before I share my idea I'd like to get a little personal and explain part of why the ending had such impact on me. I have Hypermobility syndrome and Fibromyalgia, and three days ago one of the vertebra of my spine in my neck dislocated and twisted to the left, and it was causing me a LOT of pain. That pain was just radiating out into the rest of me, like the echo of a lie, and I was starting to feel disparaged, I was fearing a downward spiral, my greatest fear of all is becoming bedridden.

I played through the game, and when it turned out the eye of adam was totally physically disabled, it REALLY struck home for me hard. so far I have only seen the one ending, gave the mask to mitzi, blew out the left candle, talked her out of it, so I don't know how much what susan says at the ending changes, but for me she spoke of having a bad day, where you feel like your back in the past and all of the good things never even happened, and I got really choked up because of my dislocation, and then when she said I'll just have to go on living with this "invisible illness" I just lost it and started bawling, because fibromyalgia patients often refer to it as the invisible illness because people think we look unbroken therefor we should just get over it. I thought about it for a long time but I felt I needed to share this with anyone who would take the time to read my thoughts.

Onto the point of this, the entire time during the eye of adam segment, every time the options would come up I would think "But I want to talk her into gouging out his eyes!". I mean really I think mitzi would find that preferable to both leaving him unharmed and to blowing all three of them up in one of his suicide pacts. Not only does it take away his control and his communication method, but he can never regain it, he will become a mind trapped in a stone shell, praying for death knowing it will never come. If it were me, I'd take great pleasure sitting down on his lap and leaning in to whisper in his ear just how he was going to spend the rest of eternity alive, trapped, by himself, worthless, useless, helpless. Then I'd put my thumbs into his sockets and slowly press till they popped, seems a far more befitting punishment to me, and I think it would be just freaking awesome and really match the visuals/horror of the game. Anyway, now that I have finally said my piece I'm off to play it again for another ending.

Well, that's sort-of what happens if you talk Mitzi out of it - the game only alludes to it vaguely, but when the cops arrive and find his computer setup and his gassed dad, he's never going to be allowed anywhere near a computer again, which for him would be like having his one functional limb amputated.

yeah, I've actually known people who were "Never allowed anywhere near a computer again" by police for legal reasons and while they were not fully paraplegic they were still physically disabled and it was that very underestimation of him that most people had that let him keep breaking the system time and time again. all it takes is for one nurse to feel bad for him, give him an eye hookup, and next thing you know he has convinced this nurse to kill everyone there. I really don't believe just taking away his "freedom" would stop him, especially being someone with no freedoms in the first place. Yes, he was dependent upon his father, but there are people out there who's ego is formed around other peoples dependence upon them, and that is exactly what he could take advantage of. Next thing you know someone has stolen him from the nursing home and is caring for him while he starts up a cult where people amputate there functioning limbs to become more like him, Geek Love style. I just felt the "he won't be any harm without his father" line was weak and that Mitzi never should have agreed to it as it is no punishment, which is what she so desired.

This may brighten your day:

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/if-physical-diseases-were-treated-like-mental-illness.jpg

:) I did enjoy it very much thank you especially the diabetic and the person in a coma lol XD

I think Mitzi taking ANY sort of violent revenge against Adam would have had the same effect as shooting him. As in it would have just brought her down to his shitty level.

I actually expected it to be The Cat Lady herself who was the Eye of Adam and she had just forgotten it the same way she was imagining all the other crazy stuff that was happening.

That or that's what we were SUPPOSED to think and Mitzi made the whole Eye of Adam story up so that she and Susan could bond over it as she was completely alone and was afraid of never having another friend before she died.

But it ended up being guy in a wheelchair whose father apparently was totally cool with setting up a toxic gas bomb so that his son could murder anybody who came near him.