The Great Gonzales
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I want to isolate this part of the argument, because it's come up a lot in the past day or two:
When stuff like Yoshi's position on the CSS is used as an objection to the leak, the response is often, "if this leak is fake, then the faker put a ton of effort and skill into it; and someone who put that much effort into it wouldn't make such silly mistakes."
That, I think, is not at all true. I've made the following counterargument a couple times before, but I haven't seen anyone respond to it, so I'll make it again:
If this leak is a fake, then yes, it is a very well-made fake, but that does not mean the faker is immune to little mistakes. On the contrary. It often happens that when one is doing a complex task, one is so focused on getting the main parts right that one overlooks the little details. For example, how many times have you been doing a complex math problem, and you get the basic procedure right but end up making a simple arithmetic error? It happens to the best of us: when you put all of your energy into the big things, you tend to miss the little things.
That's what I suspect happened in this leak with Yoshi's position on the CSS. The leaker was concentrating on getting the renders to look convincing (and a fine job he did of that) that he overlooked this small matter. Perhaps he forgot that Yoshi was his own franchise; perhaps he forgot that Rosalina was part of the franchise and didn't have her own "Galaxy franchise" or something; perhaps he simply made a thoughtless error and put Yoshi in the wrong place.
Now, you can say, "just because it's weird doesn't mean it's fake. Sakurai does weird stuff like this all the time, how do you know he didn't rearrange the CSS?" That is true, but without any independent reason to believe that the CSS has been rearranged in this way, then it's merely an ad hoc objection. In all previous Smash games, the CSS has grouped franchises together. Unless I'm overlooking something, there has never been a case of one franchise splitting another; characters from the same franchise are always adjacent. In the face of that precedent, it's rational to assume that this game will work the same way. Yes, it could be different this time, but thus far there's no real reason to believe that it is different. Given the information we have, I think it's more likely the leaker made a mistake.
It's an amateur mistake on something that is very non-amateur, it's even such a high quality in the image itself that you would have to believe it was intentionally put there. Meaning it was not overlooked, it was intentional.
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That is not simply throwing away inconsistencies. I am asking if you really think that is the thing they would mess up on because, among all the things it gets so right, that is a really bizarre and amateur thing to mess up.
When stuff like Yoshi's position on the CSS is used as an objection to the leak, the response is often, "if this leak is fake, then the faker put a ton of effort and skill into it; and someone who put that much effort into it wouldn't make such silly mistakes."
That, I think, is not at all true. I've made the following counterargument a couple times before, but I haven't seen anyone respond to it, so I'll make it again:
If this leak is a fake, then yes, it is a very well-made fake, but that does not mean the faker is immune to little mistakes. On the contrary. It often happens that when one is doing a complex task, one is so focused on getting the main parts right that one overlooks the little details. For example, how many times have you been doing a complex math problem, and you get the basic procedure right but end up making a simple arithmetic error? It happens to the best of us: when you put all of your energy into the big things, you tend to miss the little things.
That's what I suspect happened in this leak with Yoshi's position on the CSS. The leaker was concentrating on getting the renders to look convincing (and a fine job he did of that) that he overlooked this small matter. Perhaps he forgot that Yoshi was his own franchise; perhaps he forgot that Rosalina was part of the franchise and didn't have her own "Galaxy franchise" or something; perhaps he simply made a thoughtless error and put Yoshi in the wrong place.
Now, you can say, "just because it's weird doesn't mean it's fake. Sakurai does weird stuff like this all the time, how do you know he didn't rearrange the CSS?" That is true, but without any independent reason to believe that the CSS has been rearranged in this way, then it's merely an ad hoc objection. In all previous Smash games, the CSS has grouped franchises together. Unless I'm overlooking something, there has never been a case of one franchise splitting another; characters from the same franchise are always adjacent. In the face of that precedent, it's rational to assume that this game will work the same way. Yes, it could be different this time, but thus far there's no real reason to believe that it is different. Given the information we have, I think it's more likely the leaker made a mistake.