Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31066439-20170116175126/@comment-27701762-20170118052600

That's better. Something concrete is much nicer to have than mere speculation.

I have no qualms with the attempt to make connections, but it is a troublesome endeavor to wade into without care. If one has enough time and enough diligence, and enough knowledge about a variety of subjects, one can find all sorts of connections, the vast majority of which are going to be mere coincidences. The thing I care about most strongly is developing a careful method for looking through things and trying to use them to explain whatever is being investigated. So making an attempt to explain parts of the game through a new discovery is perfectly fine in and of itself. But it (just like any other attempt to explain a part of the game) needs to be put under a microscope and subjected to the same rigors.

It is testing gold by putting it to the fire.