Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-32182236-20171028164912

We've discredited it all. The tweets? They're confirmed not to be canon, and are therefore useless. The kickstarter? It doesn't properly credit Temmie for any of the design choices, contains a video where Sans and Papyrus know about US money, and says you can marry a robot. The trailer? It doesn't properly fit within the canon-It must both be before and after Frisk fell, but can only be one. Frisk walked through the walls, so it must be after they fell, but at the same time, it must be before they fell, since collision wasn't there, and Papyrus thinks he could be the mom, when this is clearly not true, proven back in Snowdin. Therefore, it can be discarded, as it is inconsistent on when the same scene takes place in. And the award? A- The credits are a lie, and B-It wouldn't be real evidence, just the dog absorbing yet another object, likely a Nose-Nuzzle Trophy.

No, if there's no proof on either side, we take Occam's Razor-The simplest option is that this is just a regular dog. The simpler option that actually fits the evidence is that this is a regular dog who accidentally barked up an indie game-It takes the evidence at face value, and doesn't add anything to it. This is all we're told, and this is all we can assume. We can't search for connections that don't exist-This is where all those "X is Illuminati" theories come from. Saying that since Toby is an indie designer, and therefore the dog must be Toby is a case of the Prosecutor's Fallacy-There are many other, equally likely designers-The evidence doesn't specifically point to Toby-Assuming it does because that's what fanon believes is jumping to conclusions. Besides, Toby didn't make it by barking/speaking at a computer, come on.

Toby worked on the Halloween Hack, which when patched to Earthbound, BECOMES a full game by itself, with its own story and maps. It's not a fraction of a game, it is now whole. And Toby made it. I do agree that the sentence doesn't work, but only for the same reason why it doesn't work for Undertale-He only made the hack, not the WHOLE game that you get when you combine it with Earthbound.