What I really don't get is how people treated this as some kind of Valve ARG, drawing clues and pointing fingers for their own amusement.
I said this before way back when the PS4 was revealed, it annoys me when people on internet forums smugly declare "it's (insert baseless opinion here), and you're stupid and will eat crow soon enough if you don't agree". It's one thing to think something, it's another to declare it as an objective fact. I said it in reference to people proclaiming with 100% certainty that the PS4 can't possibly have more than 3-4 gigs of RAM. Like, duh, you're a complete dumbass if you think it'll have more. What kind of stupid, stupid person would think otherwise?
The worst part is that this is much, much worse. We're not talking about fucking video games here, we're talking about the internet pointing its collective finger as a suspect of a major terrorist attack without so much as a hunch, and people on both GAF and Reddit (and I'm sure a bunch of other corners of the internet) doubled down and stubbornly declare their hunches as irrefutable fact with the same smugness as their wild video game predictions.
What is it about "being right" that compels people to do this shit? If you do that on gaming side I'd just shake my head and sigh, but to do that in an occasion like this is deplorable. It's like people treat everything the same when they're on an internet forum.
