u/Raettchen_39

1. I think the game's timeline is intentionally vague, so some events feel more like the 1990s, some like the 2000s, and some like the present day. It's an indefinite era, a kind of timelessness (much like the film "It Follows," which the developers cited as one of their sources of inspiration). Could even go further and suggest that all the events take place in a dream or fantasy of the Protagonist, who has different years of his life mixed up in his head, but that's a stretch.
2. Regarding the origin of the Visitors: tbh it feels more like an apocalyptic phantasmagoria, playing on biblical motifs, in which the returning dead are just one of many catastrophes about to destroy humanity. Therefore, you don't have to choose any specific version or interpretation, but rather lean toward the one that you like best or find most interesting at the moment. But on a plot level, I like to think that corpses burned by the Sun (and perhaps some living people) are then transformed into Visitors by some force. Perhaps it's the Body Eater, or Death itself, or something else, it doesn't matter. It's also possible that the Visitors aren't copies of specific dead people, but rather rough casts of them, a revived memory, an idea, something like what the Gravedigger is talking about. It's even possible that several different people with similar traits and destinies are fused into a single composite image in the process, which is kinda creepy. On a symbolic level, I also like the idea that the visitor versions of characters are like their twisted dark counterparts, like what they become when something goes particularly wrong for them, when something within them that held their original personality together is destroyed. While this doesn't work for all characters, it does for many.
3. Speaking of It: sometimes it seems to me that It is the reason for the visitors' existence and something like their leader. I have a theory (or maybe more of a hc) that It creates new visitors when It devours and digests burnt corpses. Well... or at least that's how It creates regular visitors. And as for people who haven't yet died, It can turn them into super-visitors. That's exactly what happened to the Pale visitor (the Huntsman said he was terrified of something when he ran to his hut and begged to be let in). And perhaps It tried to do the same to the Blinded man, so the guy just did his best to prevent it. (I don't even know whether I like this hc or not, because for me, the Blinded man's story is, first and foremost, a story of deep psychological trauma and PTSD, where "It" could be anything. But still a curious idea).
4. And finally, I have a theory that the Death and It are two different forms of the same entity. It's similar to how cultists talked about Death being able to protect them from death itself (from nonexistence? from dying?). In short, that death isn't a single, indivisible thing. Maybe it's somehow both at once, at different times or from different perspectives. Like two sides of the same coin.

For me it was "Rise up and Walk" (actually, I got it yesterday, specifically with this goal in mind). And before the update, it was "Martyr," that took a really long time too, unlike the other achievements.

They don’t necessarily have to be nice people who did nothing wrong. Quite the opposite: they might be real jerks, yet still not deserve the level of hate that they receive in the fandom.

I would pick:

Deadbeat mom. Yes, she’s far from a perfect mother, but I also don't think she's that monster she's sometimes made out to be. I feel like, before the cataclysm, she really tried to do her best for her children, even if she wasn't very good at it. And the fact that she’s completely exhausted, wich heavily impacts her behavior, makes me feel a bit sorry for her (and for her kids ofc).

Wheelchair guy. I totally get why so many people were disappointed in him after the update and hate him now, though to me, he’s more of a trickster, amusing in his randomness, than a caricature of scammers. The thing is, a) there’s no real evidence he ever used his wheelchair to scam anyone, and b) there’s still a chance he genuinely needs it, even though he has legs and can stand up for a while.

Armchair lawyer. Sure, he’s annoying and petty, and he irritates me just as much as anyone else, but... hey, the guy just wanted to play by the rules, it was just the absolutely wrong time and place. By threatening to report the Protag to FEMA he certainly leaves us no choice, but compared to some of the other guests, he seems more ridiculous than disgusting.

What about you?

Feel free to ask.