User blog comment:4. 1. 22. 5. M97/Rivalries: Dave and Madman97 on C0DA./@comment-3524435-20140220210307

Overall, I don't care for most of Kirkbride's work, but I can tolerate it. MOST of it. I could handle CHIM, the Godhead and KINMUNE once someone translated them from Kirkbridish to English. However, I will never accept a world in which the Tribunal is still alive and god-like beings are traumatized by the commercials present in sales foam. Many people love C0DA, which is great. If people want to change their Elder Scrolls experience by accepting it, I couldn't care less!

Just don't expect me to buy into it.

I'll admit that Kirkbride has a talent for thinking outside the box. But just because an idea hasn't been done before doesn't make it good. I can't imagine that Bethesda would be foolish enough to openly endorse C0DA, which is a radical departure from officially accepted lore. I can tell you right now that this techno-babble would hurt sales if it popped up in The Elder Scrolls VI. Half of this stuff sounds like it was made up by some wannabe philosopher. I can just picture a stoned hippie coming up with this:

"Duuuude! By combining fantasy and technology in a world you could only experience in a drug trip, I can, like, totally open people's minds, and, like, make the lion and the lamb lay next to eachother. And they wouldn't fight 'cuz they'd both have televisions for heads. Every once in a while, I'd slam the reader's head against the fourth wall by mentioning real world stuff. Then I'd break their immersion by reminding them that it's a VIDEO GAME. Whoa, that's some deep thinking man, I mean right?! Can you pass the joint?"

Can you really expect Bethesda to use any of this? Yes, they mentioned CHIM and the Godhead in passing. That doesn't mean that it's a real part of the universe, nor does it imply that everything by Kirkbride is accepted by the devs. I apologize if I came across as a total Kirkbide hater. I respect the man and what he does, I just don't like all of his work. But hey! If "canon" no longer exists, then I can just assume that everything Kirkbride's written outside of the games is nothing more than the fevered dreams of Septimus Signus.