Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-27136653-20171019191825

This is not 201X Toby, since we don't know what year that is. And since it does not foreshadow anything, which we've agreed on already, it must be Undertale.

And you are right, we cannot prioritize vague similarities. However, the dog DOES represent Toby, which is a fact. So the fact is, that he inserted himself into his own game, which resulted in a continuity error, which can only be dealt with by excluding it from the canon, by saying that Frisk never visited the room in the first place, or that they did, but that there was nothing in it. It doesn't matter that Toby is not a dog in real life, the continuity error resulted from assigning Toby's work to the dog, which is also why I said the dog represents him, since simply going with it only stirs up paradoxes.

And about the paradox with the computer and whatnot, you chose to break it by bending facts, I chose to break it by dismissing it. As any other normal person would.

"It being a "reference to Toby" is technically not a fact"

How exactly is it "technically" not a fact? Do you need a direct confirmation from Toby Fox himself or what?

And you cannot use confirmation bias as an argument in a situation where one fact opposes ten others. And in this case, that one argument is the mushroom. If you ever wanna move on, you must learn to give way to the stronger side, since in this particular case, the weird mushroom will never be explained, unlike in real life, where contradicting facts often do get explained, or turn the situation around (when it is found they are linked to more evidence for example). Not the case here, unfortunately.