Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20180713194833

"The HUD is the same way, it only appears in a fight, contest of sorts, or at a Save Point."

That's a condition, yes. But tell me, where did the energy to summon and sustain the HUD come from? Why did it appear only on those occassions, and how? Real world does have answers to these, it knows what fueled the fire, why and also how the fire appeared. For the HUD, it's just one condition. Yes or no, true or false, 1 or 0. A boolean datatype.

"Or, you know, Frisk simply just doesn't want to."

Or, you know, Frisk simply just can't. Perhaps for the same reason why they can't go out of the box that bounds their soul when it's a monster's turn. Do you see my point? You stubbornly insist that these things have no explanation, that this is simply how the world "works", but choose to rationally defend everything else. I have long ago defaulted to the case that if something has no explanation, the meta, the game's code, is the only explanation left. So as long as we don't explain the HUD, its presence will imply a simulated reality. And to be frank, the HUD is inexplicable.