Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

ICJ: Is that one guy on a unicycle? The guy feeding his own appendix into the machine gun, I mean.
FABIO: yup
FABIO: the unicycle powers the machinegun
ICJ: ...
ICJ: ... Does that work?

Shawn Elliott wrote:

“Early on during BioShock’s development, we went through a phase that placed much more emphasis on biotechnology,” says designer Alexx Kay. “Audio logs, instead of being tape recorders, would be squishy, organic things, with lips and ears. Machines that seemed mechanical on the surface would actually have mutated humans operating them behind the scenes — something that players would only come to realize partway through the game. There is a small remnant of this notion in the hacking mini-game; originally, the fiction behind it was that you were increasing the flow of Adam to this addicted, mutated slave, and he was giving you extra benefits in gratitude.