Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-38339538-20190614013352

In order to come to the conclusion that Mr. Hippo is saying that you shouldn't look into meaningless details, you would have to look into what Mr. Hippo is saying, which is a seemingly meaningless detail. And yet, when you look into what Mr. Hippo is saying, you come to the conclusion that he's saying that you shouldn't look into meaningless details. By looking into Mr. Hippo's seemingly meaningless story, you found meaning. Which would make Mr. Hippo wrong.

People who actually legitimately analyze the lore and try to figure out the story mostly died out after the whole 83/87 debate initially sparked. After that, people deteriorated to "Scott is an incompetent storyteller who litters his games with meaningless details, inconsistencies, and retcons for no reason and has absolutely no idea what he's doing", despite everything we know about the man seeming to point in the polar opposite direction to that statement.

It's unlikely Scott would make a joke about a group long after that group became largely extinct. It seems more likely to me that Mr. Hippo's monologues are satirizing people who think you SHOULDN'T analyze the story, rather than agreeing with them.