Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-32182236-20200110115028

Well, I would treat each seemingly working solution as a story path to research, seeing how well each holds up as time goes on and more clues and insight into them are revealed.

So far, though, the Classical Model doesn't seem to conflict with any evidence. This DOES mean we should do what we can to debunk it, though...

I wouldn't discount an idea until there was a compelling case against it.

Which is the case you're seeing get created.

I would follow each branching idea until the branch broke, backtrack, then see if progress could be made trying a different set of assumptions.

If that's what you're looking for, you'll LOVE the simulation(s?) I plan to finish things off with!

9 times out of 10, the branch breaks when you test it.

Exactly. So presenting it as an actual theory, as if you actually found the solution, before even putting it through that testing phase would be quite premature. (That's like publishing a science paper without even getting it peer-reviewed, and then calling it a legit science paper!)

Don't worry, though. Once I finish Chapter 11, and then gather as much detail as I possibly can about your hypothesis, I'll do that test for you. We'll see just when it breaks...

Failure follows failure, until finally one possibility does stand out from the rest as being much more plausible. Then you try to move forward using that assumption, and see if the story continues, or if it dead ends without a satisfying resolution.

Wait, WHAT? If it dead ends, well, there haven't been any contradictions, and the evidence is still explained, as it's already a working theory. So I don't see a problem with the story dead-ending at the, well.. End. (Though if the story requires that Frisk take a particular route, then we've got other problems..)

Every day at work I'd try running the FNAF 1-3 pattern through my head. How Phone Guy was corrupt, but that there must have been another antagonist because somebody took out Phone Guy before FNAF 1.

That's the first problem-Assuming the guy who took out the BAD guy was an antagonist. (That is, if "Phone Guy was corrupt" wasn't also an assumption.)

And even though Phone Guy is in charge of security, and knew the animatronic killed people after overseeing three generations of them, he doesn't seem phased, and actually seems to egg them on, even if people are dying on his watch. What sort of story makes sense with all of this?

Perhaps a corporation that couldn't afford better security, and is going bankrupt by the end of the year anyway, when it's already November? So they had to plaster all these disclaimers around, and pay their guards exactly minimum wage? No, that doesn't make sense, because FNAF2 also has similar night guards. But they have a mask, though bizarrely no doors.

And why, out of all the easy Stage Fatalties you find in a Pizzaria, was the method of death always Stuffing People Into Animatrioncs, something that should technically be impossible?

You're not stuffed into the animatronic. You're stuffed into the SUIT. With no endoskeleton. (Though it does have other things that would kill you )

How often do you hear about someone dying from being forcibly squeezed through a chain-link fense? If you throw someone at a metal robot that isn't designed to open, it's like bashing them against a rock, unless your The Hulk, you're out of luck.

It's not a metal robot, it's the outer costume, that can fit a metal robot/endoskeleton inside of it! (Meet Endo-01)

I tried all the simple solutions. None of them worked.

Well there's a simple solution right there. I guess you just missed it.

And so, out of desperation more than anything else, one day shortly after entering the twilight shift building I tried a crazy idea: What if a mad scientist is trying to figure out how to put a human soul into a robot?

See now what I mean by misinterpreting a few small pieces of evidence leading to alternative explanations for the bigger pieces?

Of course you can't stuff a person into a suit that wasn't designed to admit them.. that's why the springsuits are designed so that people can fit inside them.

And we found out that ALL suits are springsuits, right? (Never mind the difference between SPRINGBonnie and Bonnie)

Fazbear Entertainment keeps testing this process on stolen children and clueless night guards.. because if they can perfect the process they can make themselves immortal! It's an insane payoff worth the insane risk! Why else would they design something as twisted as the springsuits?

I believe something about immortality was actually the plot of the Fourth Closet. Haven't looked at it in a long time, though.

Suddenly, FNAF's seemingly random lore began to make sense. Chapter 8 of The Autoboiograph of a Yogi, hinted in the FNAF 1 Night 5 phone call talks about The Theory of living metal, where metal has properites similar to living flesh. A metal robot could house a soul, just like a fleshy human body. All you need is a way to connect the two.. which the springlocks do.

It is rather strange how a KID is reciting an entire PASSAGE from that specific book. Was that book even meant for children?

It was only the start, but the idea that the springsuits were designed from the ground up to absorb human souls became one of the centerpieces of my theories going forwards, and only got more plausible over time as more material came to light.

As I said, I really believe AFH is the best that can be done.

It's all about finding a pattern that fits the evidence, and then refining that pattern as much as possible.

Correct. Actually refining it, though. And throwing out parts that DON'T fit the evidence at all.

And, if you find someone else who has pattern in the works, study it and see what you can learn from them.

Let's see, I've learned that the statue can't be of Asriel or Chara.. And I learned more about the first Mother game in the process of preparing to debunk Chapter 10?