Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160303205101

Hey there! I'll get right to it. Toby is against dataminers ruining the experience for others. In the code pre-update, a block of warning text read:

"Part of this game's charm is the mystery of how many options or secrets there are. If you are reading this, please don't post this message or this information anywhere. Or doing secrets will become pointless. By the way, most of the seemingly unused text/files are used. If you can find the in-game context for an asset, you can show it off. But if you can't, it probably means you haven't looked hard enough. Anything truly unused I'll probably post myself, later. Living in a world like this, where people can simply cheat out the answers from the code... your impatience has REALLY damaged you, hasn't it?"

This ominous message was changed to the following after the 1.001 update:

" Greetings. You have made yourself completely clear. Understood. I, your humble servant, will follow you to the utmost..."

Variables were also renamed from "demonx" to "demony", along with a few others.

I've been told there is a huge double entendre here. First and foremost, dataminers who ruin the experience for other players are baddies. Secondly, though - and hear me out - I recall Toby saying that he loved to see the theories that fans came up with. Perhaps speculation on Gaster is causing him to be written into the code - perhaps against Toby's original intentions (the guy was removed, after all).

Gaster's files were some of the last ones written into the game. It is speculated that there was going to be a story arc that involved him and depicting how sans got so powerful, but Toby ran out of time. He left a few files in, some of them incredibly deliberate in that they were meant to be seen (altering Fun values? Come on, that isn't an isolated never used room. There's programming behind that.)

What do you guys think?



  