Bobby Roberts
Banned
Nobody knows a damn thing about the plot. Not one single bit. Everything you say in the face of that is irrelevant.
This essentially disqualifies anyone from speculating on any aspect of the plot of the game, though.
It should be taken as read that nobody actually knows very much about the plot aside from the aspects regarding Charlie's return to the game, which we also don't know very much about aside from "He was dead, now he's alive, and the Illuminati has something to do with it." That doesn't mean "because nobody knows anything, nobody can talk about it at all." What it means is that people who choose to play the guessing game based on the very limited amount of information we do have, need to not be very eager to immediately disqualify ideas out of hand that they might not like, especially not if they're ultimately going to try disqualifying those ideas by employing the same "fan-fiction" tactics they're trying to decry.
what you're essentially arguing is an either/or. Either everything is fair game to throw into the ring and kick around a little, or there's literally no reason to discuss any of it until actual announcements are made. It's not like dude was making his case based on inside info or something. Same with me earlier - I wasn't throwing spec out there with the unspoken "and by the way, this is of course 100% correct and if you've got a problem with it you suck." I don't think it's necessarily fair to assume everyone's throwing their speculation out there in that manner, either, and even if some people are, it's pretty obvious to tell one kind of post from the other.
And especially when it comes to this thread, which is very much focused on speculation, guessing games, and what-if scenarios, it seems weird to essentially argue for eliminating plot/story speculation simply because we don't have any more info than what's currently available.
It kinda feels like this thread is so used to being really contentious over every possible guess that even when people are arguing for a bunch of possibilities, it's being taken as a gauntlet being thrown down.