There's a lot of random shitposting over there. This one isn't even noteworthy.
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Side note.
I am not convinced the rumors are debunked. I'm sure people are sick of hearing about this either way, but I promise you I wouldn't bring it up if I didn't have a relatively unique angle on it.
I've see L Spiro on gfaqs many times before. I am in absolutely no way calling him a liar. And I am in no way trying to say that the leaks are 100% accurate. I think the leaks are some employee's little shit brother or something like that. I think it's the "truth" as interpreted by a dumb 13-year-old mentality brain (real age not necessarily important).
Spiro says he does not appear to have inside information, but we know this is patently false. He got the name and subject of the E3 demo head-on, and the rest of his description could be accurate if it was described by someone who definitely isn't in the industry. I know this is going to bring up some John Edward-esque mind trick I'm playing on myself to find a way to interpret them as true, but I've definitely considered this angle. This is different. That kid, and I'm nearly positive it's a kid, absolutely had inside information on the E3 stuff at least. We need to proceed with that concession. If you are unconvinced, ask me to clarify before commenting on the rest. I could be much more convincing, but I am trying to avoid repeating the spoilers.
I can picture an intelligent guy like Spiro reading his description of the Titan fight and concluding that the kid was off his rocker and dismissing the rest. This, for a moment, downgrades it from "disproven" to still open. Some more of his details were confirmed with the Ask Tabata segment just a few moments ago. There have been several opportunities now where the leaker could have been categorically debunked and he has yet to factually miss a single thing.
Now, to be fair, I, myself have been arguing that there was no chance we could fully explore Insomnia. And it has always been an assumption of mine that Insomnia would be this game's Zanarkand anyway, so it doesn't prove anything in the leaker's favor, either. These are easy guesses. The number of summons predicted would not surprise anyone who has been keeping up. Easily predicted. But, with any prediction, there's a chance of failure and the hits keep on a'coming.
But here's the thing. These are only obvious points to people who are following this very closely. To have actually planned this out as an actual hoax would be a legitimate feat. To gain THIS kind of traction and still be getting all the guesses right fir this length of time would be a pretty legitimate feat for a pretty legitimately intelligent person. Nothing about anything he wrote suggests he is especially intelligent at all.
Occam's Razor, as I'm sure you're all familiar with, states that the explanation requiring the fewest assumptions tends to be the correct one. I subscribe to this. It's remarkably reliable. And I know it sounds like it would take fewer assumptions to take Spiro's word for it, but the scales have tipped, IMO. Too many failed chances to fail. I played FFT 1.3 for about 2500 hours, give or take a thousand. Even when you have an 87% chance to hit, you're not surprised to see a miss here and there. It's intuitively gotten to the point that instinctively, he should have had a miss by now. It only takes one and a half assumptions to make it plausible. That this whole thing was written by some Square employees dumb shitty kid brother and he was too dumb to convince someone who would have known he was right if the kid didn't word it like a moron.
I have a spectacular bullshit sense. I've read everything on snopes from cover to cover and I'm almost never surprised by the outcomes. I have seen every episode of mythbusters like 6 times. This is all I do all day instead of working, lol. I am not ready to call this leak debunked yet. It has smelled true to me since before I even read 'em.
