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hyperhello • today at 3:17 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

What’s the word for trying to do cluster analysis on what is actually randomly distributed data? The games do have obvious similarities and sometimes refer to each other, but they’re independent events.


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xnx • today at 3:49 PM

Nintendo now maintains/updates an official timeline: https://zelda.nintendo.com/about/

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InsideOutSanta • today at 3:24 PM

I'm pretty sure Nintendo itself said at one point that they don't have a clear chronological order and may not tie into each other properly, even though they later retconned an order.

Still, it's fun to try to figure out how the puzzle pieces might fit together even though they came out of different boxes.

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gchamonlive • today at 3:40 PM

If they have obvious similarities, they aren't randomly distributed data

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