Why Everybody Here Is Wasting Their Time

I'm suprised nobody here has caught onto this yet. (Actually, I'm not suprised. Everybody here is too busy filling their egos with getting people to listen to their useless theories to realize this.) All of you are wasting your time.

Face it, folks: Nintendo doesn't have some grand master plan behind all the Zelda games. They may have at one point, but things have obviously spiralled so far out of control that things are going to require some severe retconning to fix. Of course, they aren't going to admit "well, we ****ed up with it, you guys can stop talking about all our games now" because that's just bad press.

You know you're pushing things when to connect the games, you have to invent parallel timelines just to plausably fit everything together. Newsflash: You can take obscure plot details from ****ing Wolfenstein, throw it in a series of parallel timelines and suddenly it fits right in place with Zelda and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Discuss.

Uh... I still like Zelda and the idea of them all fitting together, but you are correct.

Zelda timeline theorists can afford to waste their time because it's worthless.

omg i cant beleve u just sad tat. tah gamez fits togatha purfektly!!11 ur just jelouse u cudnt cum up wit somthin betta.

Originally Posted by krazykittys

omg i cant beleve u just sad tat. tah gamez fits togatha purfektly!!11 ur just jelouse u cudnt cum up wit somthin betta.

Can you please use proper grammar next time you post? I could barely read what you posted here.

I'll clean up the grammar

Oh my god I can't believe you just said that. The games fits together perfectly! Your just jealous you couldn't come up with something better.

Originally Posted by krazykittys

omg i cant beleve u just sad tat. tah gamez fits togatha purfektly!!11 ur just jelouse u cudnt cum up wit somthin betta.

.. Are you.. Serious?

Anyways, there is a split timeline, it's official, and Nintendo DID screw up the timeline in some places, but they do have a certain idea of what goes where.

The reaction to krazykittys' post makes me sad. They were clearly exaggerating a lack of typing ability.

I like to think that there is going to be a master plan, but I think deep down I know there isn't going to be one. I mean, if they did come up with a master plan the games would have to end right? And I'm sure Nintendo wouldn't want one of there biggest games to stop being made.

Life is far too important to take seriously.

This is pretty much the entire theme of my "The Day the Community Stood Still" thread. Like, this pretty much sums it up completely.

Anyway, if you honestly didn't catch that krazykitty was being sarcastic, you're a ****ing dumbass.

And frankly, even when the timeline did fit together, theorization was still just as pointless as it is now. It never had a real point, it doesn't have one now, and it never will. This doesn't mean I'm criticizing you all for posting here, in truth, me debating about marijuana and capital punishment in the I:SB board isn't really going to make a damn difference to this world either, but hey, at least I'm broadening my knowledge of relevant issues. I think it's fine and all that you theorize, it's just something you do for fun in your spare time, but just take it with a grain of salt and don't complain about it being the end of the world when "Nintendo Betrays You." (ie LOZ historian. Although he was a funny guy, he really did devote enough of his life to Timeline writing that it came to an unhealthy level in my mind, and he really did react to the announcement with a lot of pointless drivel and melodrama.)

Reasons why people are here;

(1) "Theorizing" is a communal hobby. It allows one to spend one's free time in a creative way which can be appreciated by one's peers, and creates oppertunites allowing such appreciation to be returned. Respect and acceptance, given and received, along with general enjoyment, regardless of their source, are desirable elements in daily human life. I do not beleive their persual to be a waste of time.

(2) "Theorizing" is a creative process. Much like oother section of the board, local members are here offered a costructive, albeit trivial, mannor of self expression. Developing a unique theory has about as much world relevance as drawing a picture of a bowl of fruit, but both provide a sence of achivement and pride. I do not beleive such expression to be a waste of time.

(3) "Theorizing" encourages a number of applicable skills to develop. To function on this board, one must learn to expressive oneself coherently, read (/listen) carefully the argument of their ooponents, practice decorum in conflict, understand unique semantics and jargon, and attempt to familiarize oneself, as completely as possible, with a unique subject. I do not beleive the attempterd advancement in these areas is a waste of time.

The point I'm trying to make is that the actual content of discussion that powers this forum is not the defining point of the the discussion's general "usefullness". In atleast some part, everyone here agrees with your analysis of the subject matter, but the simple fact is that there is more at work here than you suggest.

(And yes, of course I realize I'm poring on the melodrama and blowing the whole concept entirely out of proportion... another lovely theorist forum standbye which I have some respect for...)

Originally Posted by Taledin

like we would expect anything less from our resident a-hole capn dumb idiot cornhead

Also, this coming from someone who has been posting on this forum for 4 years. Stupid hypocrite. We waste our time? What have you been doing that is so much more productive?

You know, I would say "starting a website and making it a popular one" is in that category of things that Captain has done that is more productive.

What have you done that could beat that?

Throw 'runs a successful construction/painting' business in there too, James.


ANYWAYS

Leinator has things pretty spot-on too. It isn't so much the casual discussion, because casual discussion on just about anything is pointless by default. But, like he said: The LOZ Historian incident with the drama and whatnot. It seems like an abnormally large amount of effort to put into something you really aren't going to get much (if any) results out of. Spending ages trying to link games together in timelines that are tenuous at best is really just a fruitless effort. It seems to me like one would have better luck trying to chronilogically order the ages of all the spiders living in your basement.

And like I said before, the Split Timeline only reinforces my thoughts that they messed things up so bad there was no other way to explain it. Parallel universes is a perfect example of deus ex machina, where there was no other way to explain inconsistencies that the only way to patch some of the holes was to say "Well, uh... some of the games are in an alternate timeline! Yeah!" It's a last-ditch effort plot device, as you can solve just about anything with a parallel universe or two.

Captain, hardly anyone is here to "fill their egos". Most people are here just to have fun, as something to do in their spare time, like a hobby of sorts. You may think that we're wasting our time, and that's fine, I don't have a problem with that because you're more than entitled to your own opinion. But why make a thread about it? We all know that there are people like you who disagree with theorizing, and that's cool, but when you do something like this it's basically the sort of thing a troll would do. You're obviously going to get flamed in some way by some people about this, so why bother doing this?

Although it may be true that Nintendo doesn't have a clue about the timeline, is there any harm in people having a crack at making their own timeline? No. The timeline is one of the series best points, as it adds a lot of mystery and depth to the storyline of each game that would otherwise be non-existant. Theorizing is a fun thing to do, and get's you talking with other people, and that surely isn't a bad thing.

You shouldn't have such a biased opinion about theorizing and theorists. Look around and get to know a few people before you label them as attention-seeking ego maniacs, and you'll find that there are some really nice people on this board, and they aren't at all interested in "filling their egos".

That's right! Some of them are surely here to fill their Id.

You know how much time Historian spent on this forum talking about the timeline? Maybe 7 at best. He spent 23% of the time talking about talking about the timeline and 70% of the time talking about LOZ Historian talking about the timeline.
This forum wasn't the route of that boy's problems, and he would have eventually exploded no matter where he had settled.

I stand by what I said before; although the discussions on this board do not often produce the results they intend there are other benifits to the interaction. Further, progress is made more often than you think; I'm personally immesnely proud of the result of two (1,2) of the four major endevours I've been involved with through this board...

Originally Posted by James

You know, I would say "starting a website and making it a popular one" is in that category of things that Captain has done that is more productive.

What have you done that could beat that?

Come on man, you have to admit that writing a theory that semantically proves Malon had bigger boobs than Zelda is extremely important and contributes greatly to internet society. Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously doesn't know how much reason and logical application goes into playing a series of games enough times to memorize every single piece of text, just so you can prove someone on the internet is less of a fan than you are because they didn't know that towns-person #4 in grid square A/6 says ganon was the prince of darkness rather than the king of darkness, which is extremely important and relevant to our daily lives.