Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-27136653-20171028150608

None of the evidence has been discredited so far. As I said, there's no counter proof for this argument, meaning the opposite is true, even though the only proof we have for it is indirect and incomplete.

The proof within the game that the Annoying Dog is Toby are the numerous similarities, that haven't been debunked yet. And also the fact that this connection between Toby and the Annoying Dog exists outside the game itself too.

And what I'm saying is, that Toby programmed a whole game. Meaning, he WORKED on what WILL BE a full game, which was HIS original idea. He of course did not work on the entirety of it, but that's why the word "the" wasn't used.

The Earthbound hack was however done all by himself - he made THE whole hack, he made A whole hack, but he did not make A whole game, and he did not make THE whole game. So your analogy with Earthbound isn't really that good, since it's about something a tad bit different. While Toby made the hack all by himself, he did have help with Undertale. And unlike this, he made a whole, fully-playable extension to a different game (the hack), and he made a whole, fully-playable standalone game.

That's my point. Nothing more. Using the "the" article, we refer to the "percentage" of work done by someone towards something, and using the "a" article, in combination with the word "whole", we are stating that whatever someone worked on, it was whole. And yes, even a hack can be whole, when we're talking solely about the hack and nothing else.