Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-31536324-20180712194333

"And what is the game's world, do you think? If it's not "real", if it's not a "simulation" either, then what is it? What are you even trying to do here? xD"

Exactly what I've been saying it is FOUR TIMES NOW! A universe of it's own with it's own rules, principles, and laws. That's it!

"You've got the HUD, to which you happily assign the code's rules, because it's otherwise inexplicable, but happily put everything else under this universe's logic. And then I'm the mad one."

We don't assign the HUD anything, we look at it the way it's presented to us in the game. We don't give it any extra meanings or abilities, we take it as is in the game and how it's shown to work. That's what we do, we take what's in the game, how it's explained and presented in the game, and try to piece it with everything else. What's shown IS the universes logic, not what we dissect the game for to datamine.

"All I see is a universe that's acting like a game. Not because of that fact that it's a game, but because of this being the canon."

How? Tell me, how it's canon that the world itself is a game IN-UNIVERSE with the information we have in the game. Without resorting to any meta explanations, or using Toby in any capacity.

Again, just because the world ACTS like a game, doesn't mean that it IS in and of itself a game. We went over this, and you failed to provide anything that actually helps your case.