Sole Hunter - if you find this thread so entertaining - why would seek to bring it to a premature close? I'm not understanding your motives...
There is a general sense of humour here that, I think, is reasonably safe for all.
There are some here (including me) who chuck out wild, entertaining theories because it's fun to join those particular dots, and the rest of us enjoy watching those dots being joined, even if they lead nowhere. This thread has become as much about the community (growing all the time) taking part in it as much as it is about the quest itself.
I've not even taken part in a single test, gone looking for a single UA, nor contributed anything actually material to this hunt other than ideas, support for other people's ideas, or pointing out the flaws in other people's ideas.
Not once has anybody called me out and said 'who do you think you are?' When in other online groups that would almost certainly have happened.
Yes I will scoff at listening to it underwater, for example, because it makes no sense when you actually analyse it deeper. Does it mean that the person who comes up with that idea becomes a pariah? No (although that particular person disagrees)! Yes there have been disagreements, but by and large they get sorted reasonably quickly.
Are you genuinely struggling to understand why your comments are not being welcomed? Your involvement amounts to no more than 'I know and you lot don't' - whilst complimenting some of us on our 'intelligence' whilst at the same time knowing that, because you've told us you know the answer, that must make you more intelligent - it's no more than patting yourself on the back because you've not got any other recognition from solving it.
So you figured it out for yourself - well done; I genuinely mean that.
I, for one, will be slightly sad when eventually the mystery is over because there's almost certainly nothing else in the game yet that even comes close, and this disparate group of players will have less reason to wing-up here when they're not playing, to exchange ideas and fun comments, in an effort to bring some extra life to a galaxy that struggles for real organic human interaction outside of PowerPlay, which can hardly be said to be organic.
You see - knowing the 'answer' for most of us is only part of the thing. There's a puzzle/riddle (or whatever it is there) to be solved, and we want to solve it. But the getting there is where the bulk of the entertainment lays.
I love it when an idea I have is proven wrong, or at least not proven - it means there's more. I also love it if someone challenges my idea, because it means I have to think more, possibly changing my mind.
I don't like it when somebody knows the answer, doesn't really do anything constructive with that knowledge, and just sits there and tells us how smart they are, and therefore, by extension how dumb everyone else is. You don't need to say it explicitly - it's implicit in what you say. It's not at all helpful, and is not at all in the spirit of what this thread is about. There were other ways to have an influence here that would have been more helpful.
You just chose the wrong one, for me - and that's a shame.
And of course, the rest of the many great people contributing here may well disagree with me - and I'm fine with that - because it's not about one person, but everyone.
