Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20190827232105

Ambassador.

The monsters once lived on the surface, and likely starting having the same calendar as humans.

And you can see sunlight filter down from above Asgore' garden, so it would be possible, this second time the monsters have been trapped underground, to keep track of the passage of days. Which is also possible to verify with the garbage stream.

As for claiming the monsters don't recognize Christmas? Why is there a Christmas Tree smack in the middle of Snowdin? And why do the monsters have an actual church in Deltarune? Can you really claim the monsters don't have their own culturally distinct version of the same holidays? (ie, Halloween/Day of the Dead)?

Chara fell around Christmas, 2019. Who says Frisk isn't visiting Snowdin around the same time of year?

It's difficult for a purely blank screen to experience video corruption, which all of the tapes are. However, the timing of VHS tapes also wavers, which should distort the audio noticably. And other than the omition of Chara's own voice, for game world reasons, the audio of the tapes is pristine, and not corrupted at all.

Why is Chara's hometown being smaller in population than the number of monsters in the Underground a problem? The monster population might be somewhat small, if Sans says you clear out a lot of room if you kill 20 of them, but it also grows rather quickly, since we keep hearing about how the Capital is starting to become overcrowded. A village is a small town. And Deltarune's town isn't very large.