Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31536324-20190117214835/@comment-32182236-20190214220040

"Properly programmed mechanics. Toby forgot to do that here. Or maybe he didn't know how to. Or maybe he did but shrugged it off due to assuming that no one would ever think that being able to forcibly quit the game when it logically should be on a 2-second autosave could be canon."

..So you think Toby is GOOD enough not to make Sueish plots and Deus Ex Machina, and NOT good enough to put in code that he ALREADY USED?

Is he skillful at storytelling or not? You're being inconsistent. If he is, he would have filled in the plot hole. If he isn't, he wouldn't have a problem with making a Deus Ex Machina. Either way, your arguments revolving Toby are inaccurate.

Also, guesses as to his intentions will always be inaccurate. So let's stop trying to guess his intentions, that'll always just get us nowhere. Instead, we'll use Death of the Author, because paradoxically, that usually gets us CLOSER to what the author was going to do.. As long as by "Death of the Author", we mean death of ANY author. We don't make our own story.. We analyze the story based solely on its own merits.

Mistakes in plots have become canon later on before. For instance, the first Matrix movie breaking the second law of thermodynamics.. was a plot hole! But it was given a made-up explanation in the second movie!

So let's stop bringing Toby into this and look at the game itself.