We’ve turned into a Hive, things are getting serious.

Mages are unnecessary; it's a tedious grind with no real benefit. You launch a small attack every half hour, and the rest of the time you just click to shoot with a sling.

And now what? Why did I even play through this? It turns out that programmers have been deceiving us all our lives, or something?

But you're a programmer yourself. What exactly are you talking about?