Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-27136653-20171027141923

You're forgetting, this came from the creator himself, and he hasn't stated that it's ALL a joke. He said so only about his posts on Twitter, and in general only, not anything specific. But the Annoying Dog isn't exclusive to his Twitter posts. He's just really active on Twitter, that's all.

And perhaps you're confusing "canon" with "canon". If it's in the game, sure, it's canon. But that doesn't mean it must make sense. And if you want to create a consistent universe out of the canon information, sometimes, you cannot include everything the canon contains. And so while you decided to change the canon information, I've decided to omit it, which achieves the same result (gets rid of the logical inconsistencies) and preserves ALL information. Just because I omited something doesn't mean I didn't preserve it. It is still canon, but consistent only with itself (so I put it in a "separate folder", so to speak). But when you CHANGE something, you make it consistent with everything, but you destroy the canon information. You can't do that, that's prohibited. Because if it wasn't, we could just make Glitchtale canon and be happy with ourselves.

And the game cannot be the halloween hack, because the hack is a hack, not a whole game. Whatever Toby programmed for Earthbound, it wasn't a full game.