The story doesn't make any sense.

You didn't find all of the scrabble pieces, did you?

The story isn't that detailed (if it were, there would be no need for theories) and you don't need to think too much about it either. The extra information you get from finding and unscrambling the scrabble pieces tells you in a pretty clear way what caused all of this, which is nearly all of the information available and explains most of the story pretty well, fitting in perfectly with the newspaper clippings in Mask-Bro's room. The individual motivations of the characters are mostly vague, and Mask-Bro's story is vague itself because of the comma. But anything you come up with to explain things is nothing but speculation and is no more valid than someone taking it all at face value and deciding that there's nothing else to it, since that's also a valid approach to storytelling and one that Cactus has used before in his games. So I don't see the need to look down on someone making concrete questions. And looking at the levels of pretentiousness in the topic discussing the ending, I can understand why someone would want to avoid it.

So on topic, the information you get from completing the scrabble puzzle answers the questions of why the janitors were doing it and why the people they were leaving messages to were cooperating with them. So that should be enough for the TC if those are the only problems.

I respectfully disagree on the grounds that there's absolutely no consequence to all the violence. You could argue that the consequence is more violence, but you solve that other violence towards you with even more violence that goes unpunished. Plus, Cactus would be the Emperor of Hypocrisy if this was the theme of the game, considering the other games he's done. And he doesn't give enough of a **** to be a hypocrite.

To be honest, I'm not surprised that Cactus said that. I don't know how many theories there are, but the ones in the "let's talk about the ending..." topic that I saw were either ignoring the scrabble puzzle ending completely, or just jumping to conclusions based on wild assumptions or overthinking of elements that were probably not even important to begin with. Meanwhile, I didn't see anyone even try to think about obvious things that might actually have a connection to reality, like the relationship that could be made between an extremist US Nationalist group, the Russians, and the year 1989, or how any of that could be related to events in modern history that may have still been important in the year this game came out. And that's even assuming that there's anything at all to interpret.

Reading that topic is like watching a detective try to solve a crime not by examining the fingerprints left clearly marked on blood on the murder weapon and matching them with the blood-stained suspect that was arrested near the scene of the crime and who frigging confessed to it already, but by counting the number of eyelashes on the victim's right eye and trying to match it with the channel that his TV was tuned to and then deciding that it was aliens. And then that same detective calls a policeman stupid for wondering what the hell he's attempting to do. I am really REALLY not surprised that Cactus said that. At all.