The Mind Gone Mad

People insist on still commenting on that Zelda post and all the while with things that, to me, just don’t make sense. Everyone wants to keep saying split timeline, and I’ve been willing to let it go, but it’s been almost a year now. So OK.

This for me is more of an argument for theories on time travel and less on Zelda. But first I must add the disclaimer that time travel is only a theory. Because it has not yet happened, it therefore must be considered not possible. I know this may really upset some people, but if you really want to start barking that time travel is possible, you must first show me physical evidence. Send Einstien one minute into the future or something like that. Otherwise don’t even bother.

Let’s break down this split time line.

As adults, Zelda sends Link back into the past before the two of them met as children. Link, as a child, warns Zelda of Ganondorf’s plans. The two of them are able to warn the King and this is how Ganondorf is brought to justice and stopped from taking over Hyrule as he did in Ocarina of Time. This is what leads people to see as two separate time lines.

The first time line being the Hyrule that adult Link was sent away from. Where Ganondorf has been banished to the Dark Realm and Link no longer exists because he was sent back in time.
The second being the Hyrule where child Link has helped stopped Ganondorf before he can do anything.

The first Hyrule is what leads into games such as Twilight Princess, A Link to the Past, and The original Legend of Zelda.
The second Hyrule leads into Wind Waker (which is why the opening legend speaks of a hero who did not return because that was Link after he was sent away).

I get all that. I really do. But just because Nintendo wants to say this is how they envisioned it, doesn’t mean I am going to sit here and buy it. Like I said, this is an argument for time travel theory. Not the game itself.

Even though I said time travel is not possible, there is still common sense to be had.

Adult Zelda sends Link back in time before the two of them met as children. Well wouldn’t this mean that there are now TWO child Links? The one was was sent back and now the one who has yet to even embark on his journey? Where did the second one go? How come he has vanished? Shouldn’t he be showing up to the castle soon with the Kokiri Emerald?

Plus, sending adult Link back in time does not split the time stream. It destroys one. Think about it. Link goes back in time, warns child Zelda of Ganondorf, he gets imprisioned, which means that adult Link doesn’t need to stop him in the future, so they don’t fight, so Zelda doesn’t send him back in time, which means child Link doesn’t warn Zelda so…..what? You know what that is called? A time paradox. A contradiction in the series of events that have led us to where we are.

One person commented using Back to the Future as a reference. Well that reference was a foolish one. When Biff gives himsels the Sports Almanac he then changes his entire future. Remember when old Biff returns from the past? He is in a lot of pain and stumbles away from teh time machine. Well it was a deleted scene, but that part continues on and we see old Biff get erased from existence. He changed his past, which altered the futured, thus destroying his ability to live. When Marty and Doc go back to 1985, Doc explains that if they go to the future, they would go to an alternate 2015. Why can’t they go back to the 2015 they went to the first time? Because it not longer exists.

Of course there is a paradox there all over again. Old Biff gives himself the book. But then he stops existing. So he doesn’t live to be old. So he can’t give himself the book. So he doesn’t get the book. So he grows old anyway….do he can give himself the book. WHAT?! It’s an endless loop.

My favorite movie on time travel is the 2002 version of The Time Machine. Why? Because it deals with those problems head on and answers them. Alexander wants to save his girlfriend from dying so he builds a time machine to stop it from happening, but she dies anyway. No matter what he does, she keeps on dying. He wants to know why he can’t change the past. He eventually finds out that her death is the only reason he built the time machine. If she doesn’t die, he never builds the machine, thus he never saves her.

It is exactly the same with Zelda. If child Link warns child Zelda of Ganondorf, they never grow up to stop him as adults which means Link doesn’t get sent back in time with the necessary information about Ganondorf in the first place. It’s the same endless loop. It doesn’t make sense.

Nintendo is a video game company. Their number one priority is making a profit. Yes, they have some very creative people and passionate story tellers, but just because they say it, doesn’t automatically make it true. Doesn’t make what I am saying true either, but it is how I choose to view it. It’s my opinion and I am entitled to it.

If you don’t agree, good for you. That’s diveristy for you and it’s a great thing.

I’m out!

Yeah it’s been everywhere. My initial reaction was “bullshit!” and then I said nothing for a good 24 hours about it. But now here is how I view all this.

First, this never should have come out. I’m not defending Alex nor anyone else who used a “performance enhancing drug” but the fact remains that this was a test conducted and the players involved were told it would be completely anonymous. That it was meant to be a test only so MLB could understand how many players were in fact using PEDs as a means to justify more strict rules. The tests were conducted, the results were in, and 5 days later, the results were seized during the Balco case. That’s 5 days that MLB just held onto these results and for what? Just to stare at them?

I was listening to the Max Kellerman Show yesterday (because the man is brilliant) and he summed it up perfectly.

Imagine that your local police department is conducting a test on people who speed when they drive. They show up at your door and say they would like to know, just for the purpose of a survey, where it is your normally speed, how fast you go, and how many times a day. You answer their questions, they thank you then leave. Now imagine they show up 6 years later and say you now have tickets for each time you said you were speeding. It’s the same fucking thing!!! You can’t change the rules on these guys like that. In simplest terms: it isn’t fair. I understand, it’s not MLB that is changing the rules, but they had a responsibility to destroy the test results as well as the urine samples, but they didn’t.

Oh yeah, that’s right. Didn’t you hear? The urine samples are supposed to still exist too. Not just the printed results. The actual samples of urine are supposedly still out there and seized just as well. And you want to hear the real kicker? Rumor has it, that there will be additional testing done to every sample (not just the 104 who failed, but to all those who originally passed) as a means to check for anything that could not be tested for at the time. So even if a guy was considered clean back then, maybe he was on something that wasn’t possible to detect. Now that guy could be caught by today’s testing.

While I understand the pursuit of truth, there is a fucking limit. And here is why:

THIS WAS THE NORM!

Again, I’m not excusing it, but I do understand. Guys didn’t look at it in terms of legal and illegal. It was what you were doing. Again, back to the speeding comparison. If you get pulled over speeding, you know you were breaking the law. But how many times do you speed? Do you really say to yourself, “Oh, I’m breaking the law right now.” Or are you just saying, “I’m going faster than I should, but that’s normal.” It’s the same thing. Exactly the same. It’s just a different action. Anyone who wants to argue otherwise, go ahead, but my mind isn’t changing.

And for people like Bud Selig and his stupid office, they can go to hell. Because everyone knew this was going on. And it wasn’t ignored, it was fucking encouraged.

I think I wrote about this once before. When the strike happened in 1994, it hurt baseball. A lot. Fans were pissed and weren’t attending the games. Three things brought them back. In order of least to greatest:

-The reemergence of the Yankee Dynasty
-Cal Ripken Jr. breaking the games played streak
-Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa and the home run race

That last one was the biggest. People ate it up and it saved baseball from who knows what kind of fate. People flooded back to see these guys and along the way they started watching other things. Like the Yankees, and Cal, and everything else they loved about it. Without those two going deep every night, the game wouldn’t be the same right now. They were important. Their actions were important. And steroids is what allowed them to do it. And others were doing it too. Not as a means to cheat, but as a means to get an edge. To do better. To improve. The more people who did it, the more normal it became. They all knew about it. Players, managers, owners, and the fucking Commissioner and his office

Yes, I understand that taking such things is illegal not just in baseball, but as an actual law. Yes, I do get that. And again, I’m not excusing it, but I do understand it. I don’t excuse the asshole who goes 85 mph on the highway when its only 65 then gets pulled over by the cops. He isn’t excused either, but we all know why he did it. He wanted to get to his destination faster. Just like these ball players want to be more successful. That’s what it was about. They wanted to be as good as they possibly could.

So this isn’t just about A-Rod. It’s about all those players. Not one of them should have to apologize. Not for past actions. If a player fails a modern test then he is at fault because we have entered the era where it is no longer allowed. They all did their thing with these drugs and it became too much. Even though everyone knew about it, we all acted shocked when it was finally talked about. Fucking pathetic, but fine, here we are. Steps being taken to clean up the sport and I don’t disagree with that. You fail a test now then you are a moron, but if you failed anything pre-2004 then I honestly hold no fault to you. That includes A-Rod, Bonds, Clemens, McGuire, Sosa, and all the rest.

Those I do find fault with are Bud Seilg (for doing this all the wrong way), Jose Canseco (for opening this can of worms and naming players rather than just speaking of the culture), George Mitchell (for his bullshit, biased as all hell, goddamn report), and whoever the fuck is involved with the Congress investigation (you have far more important things in this country to worry about, you stupid fucking morons).

I’m out!

Pretty much since I posted my whole time line theory back in April of last year, it has always gotten consitent traffic. Some people making comments as long, if not longer, than the post itself. And that sucker is pretty damn long. And the other night I noticed some random person decided to make about 8 comments all back to back basically cursing me out for the post. I’ve since deleted them.

So allow me to understand this. I create a blog, have the right to express myself, and get slammed by people simply for not agreeing with them? I understand though. I used to be a lot like all of those people. Felt that I had to make people see things my way. Especially when it came to the whole Zelda thing. I went from forum to forum posting my own opinion and when someone disagreed it was like the bell rang and I was all set to go for 12 rounds. I don’t do that anymore for a bunch of reasons. For one, I’ve grown up. For another, I just don’t gve a shit what others think. Which is why I keep all those comments up except for the guy spamming his because I don’t have to stand here and have someone say “fuck you” over and over just because he can.

This is my little corner of the internet. I don’t come bother anyone for having their own opinion. I believe in varying opinions in fact. But if you really feel the need to yell at some person you never met over a video game story line, then I guess you fall under the line I came up with a few months ago:

Everyone on the internet is an expert, no matter how 13 years old they are.

ADIOS!