Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-27136653-20190805225946

Using Toby as argument falls under the subjective opinion umbrella. It's the only thing left to do once we cannot deduce anything else from the canon, or if our canon deductions seem disharmonious with what we've already established. It doesn't matter that Toby trolled us in the past. I mean, isn't it a logical fallacy in itself to argue that just because Toby likes making jokes, all of his statements are therefore jokes/incredible?

Imo, you have it all upside down. The first step should be deducing what the author's intention was. This can include leaving the meaning ambiguous. And after that, we start making our own assessments wherever possible. Because, again, this is not the real world, the scientific method doesn't apply here, you cannot run any tests with Undertale, because it's not physical. The only thing you can test is the behavior of its source code, and that won't exactly tell you a lot about the story, only about how the code functions. Basically, you will be able to describe the entire UT world as a thing generated by its code. Great. UT = simulation theory is hereby proven. Excellent job.

Here's the truth: if you don't care about what intentions Toby had regarding the game, you can make up anything you want. You can treat the game like your own plastic toy and develop a story for it, give it a purpose, an end goal, make it come alive.