I really shouldn't respond any further to this. But here it goes.
Maize "So... am I right in thinking that spec thread posts have gotten MUCH longer lately Or is it just that senile imbecility has destroyed my attention span?"
OK. I was not directing that at you specifically. There were other posters who had contributed to the increase in the average post length. In particular, there had been a flame war between board MVP Fulminato and another newish poster that I couldn't get myself to read through a few weeks prior. Not everything is about you. You're also ignoring the insult I directed at myself. I also made a brief statement throwing ice water on the speculation that Hester or some other known character was Ginasta's other hidden antagonist much earlier, and to be perfectly honest, I have no recollection of whether that discussion included you or not.
Maize "You might not be human being at all, but rather 10 raccoons in a large coat conspiring to post silly speculation on this forum" (insulting my posts without proof and using a strawman argument to attack me)
Again, you're selectively ignoring my making fun of myself in the previous statement. I'm not sure you quite grasp what my point was here. Your statement was...
Maize but the possibility is there so until I get concreate evidence... it will continue to be a possibility.
That's not how the burden of proof works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)
You're the one making the claim that Elleani is the Incubus King's daughter, in spite of the game explicitly saying this was not the case. You're the one who needs to furnish proof. I've seen none. Instead you've asserted that since I can't completely disprove your assertion, it remains a possibility. So I gave a reductio ad absurdum demonstrating the consequences of using that standard for justifying a belief. If we only admit things that are absolutely certain to be false as false, and admit the improbable as potentially true, then we don't have knowledge, just opinion. It only looks like a strawman to you because you haven't thought through the consequences of your proposed standard of knowledge.
Maize "I don't think it's likely you know what epistemology is."
Not a lot of people have the grounding in philosophy that I do, so bringing technical terms on the theory of knowledge into the discussion would have been pretentious on my part. (Although TLS does draw a more cerebral crowd than most porno games.)
Maize I'm getting upset because you barely add anything
In the words of the late great Christopher Hitchens (who was far nastier than me), "That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
Maize and snub me at every opportunity
You'll note that I never mentioned you directly prior to this discussion, despite you having made several very long posts over the course of a few weeks.
Maize DukeLeto7 You specifically asked why people were not commenting on your Elleani theory.
no I wanted to know what people thought about it
If there's any functional difference between the two statements, it eludes me.
Maize you acting like I came here with no evidence or anything
You did come here with no evidence.
Maize you completely ignore my other examples of oddities like Elleani mother being unnecessarily vague
I didn't address it because Decanter explicitly refuted it by quoting the actual dialogue.
Maize and me being sus of her story
"I'm suspicious of their story" is not evidence. In my limited experience with "Among Us", it's usually the prelude to airlocking a crewmate.
Quick side question, because I honestly tuned out most of your writing. Are you the one who was convinced that Elleani must be a Tower walker because there are no more spaces on the harem list for non-combat and leader members? And is all this about her being Incubus-spawn in service of that theory? Because I was reasonably sure that SierraLee had messed up the script code for the harem list (as was Fulminato), and I asked her about it, and she basically confirmed that she had made that mistake. Elleani isn't a secret Tower walker.
Maize But honestly we both could be completely wrong and the more veteran members on this thread may just completely destroy our theories.
I THINK I can justifiably lay claim to the title of "one of the more veteran members". Take a look at the Timeline wiki page and the various section guides that are based on my code cracking.
There's a quibble on the purpose of spec going on, and that's a matter of outlook. You seem to think that the quality of spec isn't related to the likelihood of its being right. (I think.) I take the view that the quality of spec is determined by how likely it is to be right. Neither is wrong per se, but I'm unclear as to what objective metric you can think people will judge your theories on if it isn't their plausibility.
Maize You need to sop twisting the narrative I'm getting upset not because you disagree with me
Here's the problem with that statement. My version of "the narrative" is fundamentally different from yours.
From your perspective, you've been writing some lengthy posts over the last three weeks and not really been getting engaged by most of the forum regulars.
My experience of you has been a bunch of forum notification emails I've skimmed but not engaged with directly. And do you know why? Because the content in those posts was just not very convincing. I don't think you're stupid, I think you're over-imaginative and badly lacking in critical thinking. (That's a skill that can be corrected, and I've pointed you at some resources to help learn it.) So then, eventually, this afternoon you try to redirect the conversation back to a theory I found particularly silly, and I gave you a critical answer.
So from your perspective, I'm a non-contributor who's only being critical, and insulting at that. From my perspective, you've been getting ignored by most veteran posters due to lack of quality content, and have thoroughly failed to read the room. And now that I have weighed in and told you a particular theory is wholly implausible (and no one has come to your defense on that point), you've interpreted my acerbic tone as an insult, and utterly ignored the content of that criticism.
Now, I'm not going to pretend that my tone can't be grating. I go into every conversation with the presumption that I'm the smartest guy in the room, and it's condescending. The reason I do that is because it has almost always proven to be true. I'm also having a lousy day. It was Thanksgiving in the USA, and all of us who live alone (and are not morons) aren't spending the day with our families, which would have been the case without COVID. I've got some stressful work I should be doing, and poking my head in here is stress relief. Has that made me nastier than usual? Probably. It might have been more tactful for me not engage with you, but you also might learn something from the experience.
In any case, I apologize to the extent you felt insulted, as that was not my intention. Obviously, I don't retract any of my criticism.