Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20200214154305/@comment-32182236-20200218012607

Then, maybe we can find another major find.

The only real major find that's been found was NarraChara, which dates back to November of 2015.

We still know next-to nothing about Gaster, how monsters use their magic, or even many of the basic rules that the world of Undertale follows!

I have attempted to make some progress in solving some of these mysteries, by theorizing about monster evolution, creating "HUD field theory", but I can't solve Undertale on my own, and even if I could, I, just like anyone else, have made mistakes, and we need to be able to spot each other's mistakes (biases make it next-to impossible for you to spot your own errors. This is likely at least part of the reason why papers get peer-reviewed in science. In fact, it's probably less HUD field theory and more HUD field hypothesis, as we haven't put it through rigorous testing phases.)

And while there are many other theorists, if most of them don't even know the most effective way of theorizing, then we won't really get anywhere. (Which is exactly what we've observed:4 years of almost nothing new. Yes, there are debates, but the vast majority of these debates were going on 4 years ago as well. That's right, they've been going on for 4 years and never resolved. I wonder why? ...Maybe it's because each side was using a different set of rules.)

So, I started a quest to make qualifiers. Build up, from the ground up, using logic, science, and a few branches of epistemology, what would be the optimal way of theorizing. A method that wouldn't fail. A method that, if we all used, would help us solve things.

And, of course, on a thread where people could try and point out flaws within it. After all, I don't want us to use a flawed system when theorizing! We need a system that works.. Otherwise we'll just end up right back where we were, with us getting nowhere.

So, I needed something that didn't make assumptions, or, when it had to, pick one that's almost certainly true anyway. All information we have about the world of Undertale comes from the game.. And yet, some bits of it aren't actually in the world of Undertale.. Wait, where have I seen this before?

All information we have about our world comes from our senses'''.. And yet, some things our senses give us aren't actually in our world.. (Illusions are a thing, after all.)

..And there I began.