Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20190827144806

VHS tapes, as well as any magnetic tapes, degrade in quality over time.

Have you seen the movie "Kung Fury"? Parts of it parody the fact at many video tapes made in the 80's are now filled with quality warps, which the movie uses as transitions from scene to scene.

1989 was 30 years ago. Now imagine causing the same warp in a videotape.. ten times over.

The result would be indecipherable, on both a video and audio level.

And yet, we can still listen to the Dreemur family tapes, without noticable distortion.

And we can hear Asgore and Toriel talking plainly on the first tape. Under normal circumstances, the device records both the voice of the user, and the subject. But we can't hear Chara's voice on the tape because of the Mother Effect, that prevents us from hearing Our Character talk.

I think the big issue here is that Ambassador wants to seperate Sans (who came with Gaster) and Frisk on the timeline. Which would cancel out both one of my star theories in the Two Souls script that Sans is a future version of Frisk, and also nullify Chapter 11.

So forgive me if, after spending years testing and researching these theories, I'm a little testy when someone wants to casually displace the timeline by several hundred years.

I do not think Occam's Razor favors the idea of multiple calendar systems being in play, when a single one can explain everything we observe.

Alphys has proven that monsters can unlock the secrets of Gaster's work, with enough study. She's putting dimensional boxes into people's phones all over the Underground.

Over 300 years, there's no way that Gaster's enigmatic technology would still elude the monsters. They would have cracked at least some of it by then. Alphys wasn't a Gaster Follower, just someone smart enough to pick up the pieces.

So I find it unrealistic to say that the monsters would have learned nothing of Gaster's otherworldly technology in 300 years.