Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31536324-20190117214835/@comment-27136653-20190307225620

Last thing: I'm aware of the nonsense that is Homestuck. Quite the paradox, being unable to acknowledge the UT logic as canon, but being okay with Homestuck, which breaks the meta even more.

I guess it all went down like this:

1) everything explained after everything being datamined, due to meta being the main focus.

2) people falling in love with the characters and wanting to develop them, theorize about them, etc, unknowingly developing the undertale world in the process

3) there's too much "outside" content to keep ignoring it, so it's in fact beneficial to ditch the "meta game" hypothesis and focus solely on the outside world.

Read the stuff in the link. The meta approaches the GameMaker code. The "unmeta" (I've just made that up) approaches the things featured in my AU - a replica of the real world mecahnics.