I accidently deleted your "Any Linearists" thread, but since this was is essentially the same, I'm copying my post from that one over here.
This is getting absolutely nowhere. We are using different interpretations of the exact same evidence.
We aren't using different interpretations at all. I've seen time and time again different theorists, including myself, present to you the same facts, the same quotes, and the same reasonings of what those quotes explain. It is apparent to me now that you just aren't going to accept the fact that a linear timeline is impossible. It cannot happen and you have not gave anyone a solid argument to support it being possible. All you keep saying is that it is possible without giving any supporting evidence and using the "multiple Links" theory that you have absolutely no proof or backbone for. So you have not been successful so far.
And for the record, Anouma didn't technically confirm the split timeline. All he said was that WW takes place 100 years after the adult ending of OOT.
See this is another problem you have. You are speaking about things before you know for sure if you are right about them or not. So I'm gonna do you a favor here and post you some good ol' developer quotes to show you where you went wrong with that statement:
~When Wind Waker was released~
Eiji Aonuma: In terms of the storyline, we've decided that this takes place 100 years after the events in The Ocarina of Time. We think that as you play through the game, you'll notice that in the beginning the storyline explains some of the events in The Ocarina of Time. You'll also find hints of things from The Ocarina of Time that exist in The Wind Waker.
There's also a more complicated explanation. If you think back to the end of The Ocarina of Time, there were two endings to that game in different time periods. First Link defeated Ganon as an adult, and then he actually went back to being a child. You could say that The Wind Waker takes place 100 years after the ending in which Link was an adult.
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Then, later, after TP was released, this interview came. I'm copying it from Zeruda who posted it in another thread a long time ago, but its proven so useful that I have to use it again here.
"About when is the Twilight Princess timeline set?
Aonuma: 'In a world some hundred years after 'Ocarina of Time.'
"And 'Wind Waker"
Aonuma: 'Wind Waker' is parallel. In 'Ocarina of Time,' Link jumps to
a world seven years ahead, defeats Ganon, and returns to the time of
his childhood, right? 'Twilight Princess' is a world a hundred some
years after that pacified childhood time.'
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The terms "adult and child timelines" are used to specify which side of the timeline split one is talking about. "Child Timeline" is applied to anything that happened after OoT!Link was sent back to his own time and lived his life as a child should. He went on to his adventure in Termina (MM), and so on and so forth. TP takes place centuries later on this side.
"Adult Timeline" refers to events that happened after the sealing of Ganon/dorf. Link was sent back to his own time, and Zelda was alone as an adult to rebuild Hyrule and whatnot. On this side, Hyrule was flooded because OoT!Link was no longer there, he was back in the Child Timeline. TWW takes place centuries later on this side.
Split timeline is no longer a theory, it is canon. Hope that cleared some things up.
And there's links and everything there to click and view the actual interview and such. The Split Timeline has been confirmed.
And WW was NOT made with the split timeline in mind.
Considering the above quote by Mr. Aonuma, who spells it out word for word that Wind Waker is based off one of the TWO ENDINGS that OoT had, and considering they had already made one continuation of the opposite ending in Majora's Mask, I think its pretty safe to say that the Split Timeline was very much in mind when Wind Waker was made.
And you are twisting developer quotes and saying they are in-game evidence. You have not disproven anything I have said.
That's a rediculous accusation to make. Why would I, with 24 hours in the day and 7 days in the week, go as far as to spend my time making up or twisting quotes to get you to believe something? I don't know how anyone else feels but I could really care less if you want to believe me or not, and I surely ain't gonna make crap up to try and get you to believe something. All I've done is point you in the right direction, but you don't seem to want to pay attention to anything.
You've been backed into a corner and can't figure out how to fight your way back out, so you are lashing out about it. That's cool. But word of advice: Do some research before you make accusations about anything.
Everybody who says the linear timeline is impossible is comparable to a religious fanatic to me.
And everyone who says a linear timeline is possible has no proof and theories that can be crushed by one or two developer quotes (like the ones I pasted above). If you wanna go on believing that the world is flat then by all means, you do just that. Don't listen to the few reasonable quotes and evidence that it has taken hardcore theorists years to get. Treat them like garbage.
It's cool, just know that you have not, And I'll say that one more time, NOT given anything solid to prove a linear timeline. Everything you have said has been "I think" and theories that you have no proof for. I can set here and say that the timeline is in the order of release and would have more solid proof of that possibility than you would with your evidence so far.
Why do you even care if I believe in a linear timeline. The possibility of a linear timeline is indisputable fact, so you can keep trying to prove that it is impossible, but it won't do much good.
You are right. If I keep trying to disprove a linear timeline, it wouldn't do any good cause I've already disproven it multiple times. Actually I disproved the linear timeline possibility in this very post. I've disproven it with two little developer quotes that clearly explain two of the major plot aspects of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess that PROVE the Split Timeline.
Bradley, I don't care if you want to believe in a linear timeline. I don't care if you want to believe that the sky is green. What I care about is that you come into a Theory Section and post a linear timeline argument and have absolutely no argument towards it. You've made two threads at this point roughly concerning this same subject, and neither one have you proven your point. Your points have only been disproven by other theorists, yet time and time again you come back, saying that you have evidence and that your theories haven't been disproven, and that Aonuma said this when he actually said that because your really have no clue what he said exactly....
Its just a viscous cycle that keeps going for one simple reason. One undeniable reason that many like yourself have never been able to overcome.... To admit that you are wrong. To admit that you cannot successfully make a linear timeline work considering all the evidence we have (dev. quotes, in-game, and manual). All you do is disregard the evidence that other theorists use to prove a split timeline, make up some story about multiple Link's impossibly not running into each other, and not even taking into consideration that they certainly would have if that were the case in MM, and then set there and say that a linear timeline is possible... over and over again.
Edit: It's not indispuatble, butI have yet to see an argument that completely debunks the possibility.
Just go back and read the posts. Read my posts. Heck read this post right here and you will get an argument that completely debunks the possibility.