What does a full system restore mean? There was really a lot of great discussion on that thread that sucks we're going to lose. As this story continues to play itself out, it would be extremely beneficial to have a record of how things went down on that thread.
Fuuhhh...
I think my last post right before I went to sleep at about 1245, went something like this:
There are two possible scenarios:
Scenario A: He was mind-numbingliy gullible and duped for no apparent reason other than for someones sick entertainment
Scenario B: He was in on the hoax, created for publicity and used HIS OWN GRANDMOTHER'S death as a spring board.
Scenario A is just more plausible. Either way there is (at least) one sick fuck out there...
ETA: There is an inbetween scenario as well I suppose. The hoax was created by either friends or family members (as deaspin alleges), but with Te'o in the dark. The motive would possibly be to make him in to as big a star as possible, leading them to, in theory, benefit financially. Although that scenario really brings up many more questions than it answers. How exactly would they benefit financially or was it just assumed? How can Te'o ever prove that he knew nothing?
Either way, as i said in the old thread, I really get stuck on the suggestion that Te'o would personally choose to take the hoax in this direction at that exact time to capitalize on his own grandmothers death, who I believe he loved and was close to. I really can't see that and that's what makes me think he is telling the truth. As completely bizarre as it all is.