Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-26006155-20190430155444

So you're saying that all attempts at theorizing are doomed, because anyone could literally make any argument?

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The statement seemed pretty clear to me.

In a ROM where introducing original music was a painstaking process, Tobyfox reserved the legendary song Megalovania for the Doctor Andonuts fight, the same one he used for Sans, the most epic battle in Undertale.

The story of the Halloween Hack was centered entirely on Doctor Andonuts.

And Deltarune did a callback to a Halloween picture from 8 years ago.. the exact time the Halloween Hack came out.

So there are many links between Undertale/Deltarune and The Halloween Hack.

A single detail like "Sans sleeps but Papyrus doesn't" might not be enough on its own to sell the idea that Sans is a human.

But when you combo it with: "Sans is more powerful than The King of All Monsters" "Sans can remember resets" "Sans bleeds when no other monsters do." "Sans thinks a government stance that not all humans are good or evil should be a high priority" "Sans has pre-knowledge of Frisk's journey" "Sans eats many things while Papyrus only drinks milk" "Sans has a personal reason he doesn't want to be King" "Gaster was a human and he and Sans traveled together from the same Other World"... that's when it starts getting hard to dismiss.

Each bit of lore that you can find that points to a certain thesis geometrically increases the odds that that thesis might be correct. Especially if you can't find solid evidence against the idea.

Speaking of Quantum Mechanics, are you familar with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_microscopy

It's impossible to view atoms just by shining light on them, so the STM slowly trails a metal needle across the area an atom or molescule resides in, and takes a reading of how many electrons zapped the needle at various points in space.

A reading at a single point is space is useless, it could mean anything.

But the more points of data you have, blanketing an area, the more patterns start to emege as some positions are much more likely to pick up electrons than others. Indicating that the needle is closer to the atom here than elsewhere.

Increasing the number of points is like increasing the resolution of a TV, until finally you're able to simply look at the map of the points and the intensity of charge they experienced.. and view the shape of the atom or molecule with great clarity, and very little room for error.

This is what I do when I compile a pile of lore evidence about ideas like "Sans is a human" or "The Springsuits must have been designed to absorb human souls".

Get enough points of data that all agree, and the odds that the thesis is wrong becomes vanishingly small.