Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20181113232840

"Now that we got THAT taken care of.. Back to Undertale. Your phone example is not comparable to my HUD example. Nobody comments on or makes notice of a menu, or items turning into data."

Thaaaat's nitpicking. Either go big or go home. Either it's all canon, or none of it is. I see a yellow button or options, I think, "HUD". And there's no reason whatsoever why any yellow interface button should NOT be a part of the HUD.

"My eventual take on how the HUD works eventually boiled down to the buttons not really being "buttons", persay, but fields of magic that gives you the power to perform a specific action."

So they're not buttons to you anymore? Despite CLEARLY being displayed as buttons in the game? Wow, why are you trashing your unshakable theory all of sudden? But I admit, this is a plus for me. The more non-meta people are gonna lean, the happier I will be.

"I DO warp what is displayed, but what I don't warp is what was explicitly said and what had an effect in the story."

What was said in the story directly hints on the idea of a simulation, thus contradicting the message of the game. That is my conclusion. We must therfore necessarily warp the things said into something equivalent, yet less meta.

"Instead, I warp what they could have meant, while keeping the original dialouge."

Yeah. Basically, instead of that, you warp the dialogue (remember, dialogue = HUD; no one actually speaks in letters, remember!), but keep the potential meaning. So with turns, he really just meant an on-alert break... as in, he will stop fighting, but will demolish you if you move an inch. Or something like that.

Also, about Deltarune, I know it has nothing to do with Undertale. I'm not blind. I'm just drawing from it as an exemplary source for the figurative picture I'm painting here... i.e. I'm using Jevil as a mere example of a person who realizes that the world is a simulation; not that Jevil is a proof of anything concerning Undertale, obviously.