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friend inside me

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jake english loves his trans daughter june egbert and the evidence is that he’ll be the lab rat to the nightmare that is learning makeup tips even when goes on for 4+ hours

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They’re hanging out~

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🚨IF YOU IGNORE THIS, YOU ARE DOOMING MY FAMILY TO DEATH

I will not explain at length I just want to tell you that I lost a number of my family members after the bombing of our house in Gaza. The pain that filled my heart after seeing them under the rubble is unbearable for anyone. I cannot bear to lose more of my family. All I have left is Lolo, the only survivor. I do not know what her future will be like without her father and her life as an orphan. Please, any amount will save the rest of my family

@appsa @sayruq @buttercuparry @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @megalo-station @malcriada @blacksailsgf @blackpearlblast

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thinkin abt off:hh

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the whole backstory on how megalovania (and its add-ons) plays is CRAZY

the first time it plays is strange in itself-- an old self-hating gay scientist who blames himself for the disappearance of earth's hero, and takes his unbridled rage on someone who attacked him is strange on itself but THEN you get to its second iteration, which plays when some weird horned, grey skinned alien teenagers face off with the literal cancer of their universe-- also intermixed with infighting and being killed in their dreams is ALSO crazy (not to mention that weird shitpost/tribute with brodyquest that toby made) and then (the one that everyone knows but is still really weird) a skeleton who masks his crushing depression by being a goof-off, and generally lazy, having to vent out his frustrations mid-fight with a child who's already killed most of his friends and family and he has to fight them as a last resort is insane... then said funnyman skeleton but in a fighting tournament as a costume, mixed in with a bunch of other famous characters from different series is absolutely insane. and these are ALL related through a single song

toby fox, everyone, 10/10 banger would listen to again

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SNOWGRAVE

Time for some snowgrave analysis. Kinda embarrassed it took my dumb ass almost a year to realize this but nevertheless today I will examine a few lines of Spamton Neo's dialogue.

So these lines seem to directly imply that Spamton believes the end result of whatever the weird route leads to will be Kris' freedom from us, rather than us breaking things because we can or us attempting to gain further control over their world.

The thing is Spamton doesn't just believe that the path of LOVE and murder will break Kris' chains, he seems absolutely certain of it.

Spamton, with his practically eldritch knowledge can, in my opinion, sometimes be taken as a reliable source of information, if you can peel past the layers of his cryptic vernacular. It may be the case that any players who, by the end of Deltarune's story, desperately want Kris to be free to live their own life, may have to venture down a dark path in order to achieve it.

There is a debate to be had as to whether Kris can even survive without the players intervention, I suspect this dialogue from Spamton may be serving as particularly heinous foreshadowing. If I may propose a hypothetical, Kris may require the players soul to live, the only way they can escape that is by growing sufficiently strong in the traditional UT/DR manner, Kris, more likely preferring death for themselves, would have to be forced down such a path presumably by ourselves.

And while I made all of that up, call it speculation, I may not be far off...

Cause for one reason or another, Spamton also seems to believe that in the event that Kris wins their own freedom, they will, for one reason or another, become suicidal.

Crying in a broken home being an obvious reference to Kris' divorced parents and and "WISHING YOU LET YOUR OLD PAL SPAMTON [Kill You]" being a polite and antagonist centric way of saying "Wishing you were dead one way or the other."

There are probably many other ways you could read any of this text but in my opinion, if Spamton is to be taken as an even remotely reliable source of information, this dialogue has severely foreboding implications on the future of Deltarune's morality, and on our own moral integrity as we continue to play it, with the paths before us seemingly being, one, use Kris as a meat puppet to "save" their world and possibly discard them at the end of our adventure or, two, fight for Kris' freedom, ruining their life and destroying their sanity in the process.

But hey, we've only got two chapters so I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.

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Lights and Shadows of Cyber City.

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Justice for Duster! Justice for Duster!

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when the kid who kept breaking your stuff somehow obtained a whole toddler the next time you see him

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You know, I usually hear people say "Toby said Frisk's gender is up to interpretation" while trying to defend hc-ing them as binary, but I cannot for the life of me ever recall him saying that ever. What started all that?

back in september, toby fox did an interview with outermode. one of the rules of the interview was that he could skip any question if he didn’t want to answer it.

here’s the question people are referring to:

TEG: The protagonist in UNDERTALE is of ambiguous gender. This is also true of many of the monsters he/she encounters along the way. Was this a design choice, and what role does androgyny play in your vision of the world?

TF: Skip

to my knowledge, there’s no other time gender and undertale are even in the same sentence near him.

im honestly baffled as to why people assume this means toby “proved” he said it’s up to interpretation? literally no part of the entire exchange supports this.

what the interviewer says doesn’t have any bearing on canon. it’s toby’s words that are important; this person has never worked on the game.

and what does toby say? “Skip.”

in what world does refusing to answer a question before your game is released (this interview was published 09/10/16, 5 days before launch), a question that tbh doesn’t even seem to be asking if you can interpret frisk’s gender, mean that “Hey, go ahead and erase nonbinary characters!”

spoiler: it does not.

when people were scrabbling to find any excuse to erase frisk being nonbinary - though it’s not like they stopped - for some bizarre reason, people started fixating on this particular question, even though toby says nothing of substance here. the interviewer asks if frisk is meant to be androgynous, and toby easily could’ve said, “They’re supposed to be what the player wants them to be.” there is no reason not to.

there’s even precedent in this interview for him just outright saying it when someone is supposed to be up to interpretation:

TEG: A book in the Snowdine library reads: “Love, hope, compassion … humans have proven that their souls don’t need these things to exist.” Do you perceive the morality play in UNDERTALE as beyond the duality of “good vs evil”, or are these terms still useful to us as human beings in the 21st century?

TF: Regarding UNDERTALE‘s morality, my opinion is kind of irrelevant. I’d be interested in what you think about it, though.

so here’s a question about undertale’s morality, and toby’s answer is quite clear - it’s up to the player. all he says is that his own opinion doesn’t matter, and that he’d be interesting in the interviewer’s more than his own.

if he had the same sentiment about the gender issue, why wouldn’t he answer the gender question in the same way?

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You know, I usually hear people say "Toby said Frisk's gender is up to interpretation" while trying to defend hc-ing them as binary, but I cannot for the life of me ever recall him saying that ever. What started all that?

back in september, toby fox did an interview with outermode. one of the rules of the interview was that he could skip any question if he didn’t want to answer it.

here’s the question people are referring to:

TEG: The protagonist in UNDERTALE is of ambiguous gender. This is also true of many of the monsters he/she encounters along the way. Was this a design choice, and what role does androgyny play in your vision of the world?

TF: Skip

to my knowledge, there’s no other time gender and undertale are even in the same sentence near him.

im honestly baffled as to why people assume this means toby “proved” he said it’s up to interpretation? literally no part of the entire exchange supports this.

what the interviewer says doesn’t have any bearing on canon. it’s toby’s words that are important; this person has never worked on the game.

and what does toby say? “Skip.”

in what world does refusing to answer a question before your game is released (this interview was published 09/10/16, 5 days before launch), a question that tbh doesn’t even seem to be asking if you can interpret frisk’s gender, mean that “Hey, go ahead and erase nonbinary characters!”

spoiler: it does not.

when people were scrabbling to find any excuse to erase frisk being nonbinary - though it’s not like they stopped - for some bizarre reason, people started fixating on this particular question, even though toby says nothing of substance here. the interviewer asks if frisk is meant to be androgynous, and toby easily could’ve said, “They’re supposed to be what the player wants them to be.” there is no reason not to.

there’s even precedent in this interview for him just outright saying it when someone is supposed to be up to interpretation:

TEG: A book in the Snowdine library reads: “Love, hope, compassion … humans have proven that their souls don’t need these things to exist.” Do you perceive the morality play in UNDERTALE as beyond the duality of “good vs evil”, or are these terms still useful to us as human beings in the 21st century?

TF: Regarding UNDERTALE‘s morality, my opinion is kind of irrelevant. I’d be interested in what you think about it, though.

so here’s a question about undertale’s morality, and toby’s answer is quite clear - it’s up to the player. all he says is that his own opinion doesn’t matter, and that he’d be interesting in the interviewer’s more than his own.

if he had the same sentiment about the gender issue, why wouldn’t he answer the gender question in the same way?