
04-10-2007, 05:27 PM
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Eating muffins via osmosis
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Re: I hate timelines.
I do not mind timeline theorising at all.
I don't really have an interest in it myself, but I don't mind it at all that other people do.
What I do greatly dislike, is the idiotic self-assumed authority that most timeliners seem to wrongly believe they have over other members - which is especially evident in the main groups there.
It's fine discussing what games take place in which order, but you get the few fools who dedicate the theorising to an extent where it seems that their lives depend on it, then create huge threads about all the minor events in their lives caused by theorising, which I assume is a classic cry for sympathy and attention when someone else disproves their theory.
A good few do not accept the opinions of others for the sake of believeing their own lines to be true, when in fact, they're not.
Basically, what irks me the most is that none of the timeliners seem to realise that all of their ever-so-carefully created theories are nothing but elaborate little stories that are in no way 100% true.
Sure, there are distinct sign-post game placements, such as MM takes places directly after OoT, but when they convince themselves their own theory is more valid than someone else's, it annoys me.
And the recent two or three people that declare themselves as being "anti-canon" simply because they're too anal to accept that their theory was disputed by canon information make me laugh.
THose people, above all else, are what annoy - ultimately, it's not the theorising that annoys me, it's the arrogance of the people that theorise.
That said, there are plenty of people that respectfully and humbly post their theories, being open minded and respectful to criticsm to their own theories, as well as to others' theories.
Hats off to those people - if only all the debators were like them.
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