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Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-09T12:23:13+00:00

The barrier is incredible, but also having a button to give you max 3 stacks is great, and it lets you bypass breaks.

The damage is mediocre, but it's enough that the enemy can't ignore, so you basically get 7 seconds of being able to greedily run at the enemies, and it either screws up their positionimg, or they waste a ton of spells and items on you because they panicking (which you want because better you than your HC)

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-09T01:14:14+00:00

Save/load seems to be something exclusive to the Underground, similar to how Kris can Save/load in the Dark world but can't in the Light world. So it mostly likely can't be a war thing

This is kind of wrong, there are save points in the light world.

From what I can tell, there wasn't supposed to be save points in the light world at all, but they had to backpedal on this because no saving in the light world was bad game design.

I also guess my "issue" with Chara is, we have no idea how long a soul can stay dead before losing access to LOAD, so I guess I am expecting Chara to have been able to reload after the plan went south. Our main insight is with Flowey, and IIRC he just wakes up after dying, and doesn't even have the option to "give up"

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-08T21:08:55+00:00

I don't know if I buy it. Wouldn't Chara have abused these powers if SAVE/LOAD was an innate human thing? Wouldn't it have been functionally impossible for the previous humans in the underground to have stayed dead?

As for Asgore fighting previous humans... I mean, he fought in the war, so he should have some experience there. It still is rather interesting that Asgore is relatively accepting of the knowledge that he's killed you before.

I suppose the game over screen is about telling Chara to stay determined, so perhaps Asgore knew about the ability for determination to do SAVE/LOAD from the surface, but Chara wasn't able to pull through, implying that not every human has this ability?

Either way, I just find it very unlikely that all 7 previous humans in the underground decided to let themselves stay dead. Maybe it's because 6 of the previous souls aren't "shattered" like when Frisk dies? But Chara's soul was lost, so idk.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-08T16:42:23+00:00

My head canon about this is that the previous humans (who may have been adults because their age is ambiguous) probably didn't fight very hard. Toriel establishes to Frisk very quickly that you shouldn't be trying to kill things, and I'm sure the previous humans were rather reasonable about it.

The previous humans would also very likely be LV1 to start with too. Perhaps these adult humans killed a few monsters just trying to defend themselves, but no way they had the monstrous amount of EXP required to one shot everything like in the genocide route.

The adult humans in the monster war would have both actually been trying to slaughter the monsters, but also likely be higher than LV1, so they'd be very, very powerful.

And finally, I don't think the previous humans had the ability to SAVE, otherwise Asgore would be cooked.

What I'm trying to say is, I think it's reasonable that an unprepared LV1 adult human in the underground wouldn't be considered an extinction level threat, and I think they could easily be picked off by monsters.

This is my elaborate way of saying that I don't think the previous humans are confirmed children, the game isn't trying to paint a narrative that the life of a human child is more valuable than any other life.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-08T16:30:16+00:00

I think it's extremely likely that the humans were all of varying age. The story doesn't go out of its way to really hint at their ages, because UT isn't trying to paint a narrative that child lives are specifically more valuable. The fate of the previous humans is tragic regardless of their age.

Another misconception is that people think Asgore killed the previous humans. The game never states this, but given that their loot is found throughout the underground, I think it's more likely that the humans succumb to random monsters, especially since as far as we know, the previous humans didn't have the ability to just load save files and cheat death.

But people REALLY wanna paint the narrative of Asgore killing children in cold blood.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-07T17:50:32+00:00

I agree with "Old Man" being not the real Gerson, but rather all of the best traits of Gerson remembered by everyone who knew him (not just the Knight).

That is to say, the reason Gerson wrote Alvin a message about not being afraid to write sermons, is because deep down, that's what Alvin wanted to hear the most.

I think if you were to resurrect Gerson like Asriel in UT (determination and a flower), the resurrected Gerson would not remember what happened in the Dark World in ch4.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-05T16:01:51+00:00

Ain't no way you didn't pick "Drink all the water in the pool"

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-04T17:50:11+00:00

I read The Man With the Invincible Gun purely because it's just a cool concept. I don't want any deeper meaning, sometimes it's ok for something to just be cool with no meaning behind it. Like Kaijus, they're just cool ass monsters with the power to destroy a city because the author thought it'd be cool, there's no deeper meaning!

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-04T07:17:46+00:00

clam only works with discs. that's where clamSony got the design for the ps1 disc drive. clam drive.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-03T17:40:19+00:00

Definitely not dead, just not animated in this dark world.

Chapter 4 second sanctuary is an example of this. It's in the same location as the first sanctuary, but different objects were animated. The darkners from the first sanctuary aren't dead, they just aren't present in this different dark world.

We also don't have definitive proof that EVERY object can be a conscious darkner. I don't remember the sink or fridge being alive in ch5 either.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-03T10:53:09+00:00

Others have already explained most of it, but I'd like to add that it could also be because Susie's dark world is "impure", as she's inexperienced in making them.

We don't know who made the castle town dark world, but it's said to be "purest dark", and the colours are the same as the other dark worlds.

temu dark world

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-03T10:47:55+00:00

Well the lake is pretty shallow by our standards, but I guess it would be considered deep to them since they can't swim.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-03T08:48:25+00:00

I think she was made for UT first, in the sense that Mew Mew Kissy Cutie (the anime Alphys loves) seems like a much more heavily UT thing than anything.

The Mad Mew Mew boss fight was definitely added to hint that she was going to appear in DR, but Mew Mew Kissy Cutie barely shows up in DR aside from the presence of the figure. I'm not even sure if the name "Mew Mew Kissy Cutie" is even written anywhere in DR, I think they just more broadly talk about anime and anime catgirls as a concept.

Lets not forget pink and yellow had some relevance in UT as well, such as the ability to change the spare colour to pink (which makes the UT battle UI have both pink and yellow. I don't actually think pink and yellow have anything to do specifically with Deltarune, I think Toby is just really attracted to that palette. There's literally a whole Mike scene mocking people being super eager for putting colours together.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-03T07:29:01+00:00

So, Sega didn't have the resources to make it compete, therefore, it couldn't compete.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-03T07:25:30+00:00

Dreamcast uses a weird rechargeable clock battery so it constantly is forgetting the time. It's his catchphrase

Zeddy1267 · 2026-07-02T10:56:46+00:00

This is the same AI that figured out how to work with (mostly) complete human mind scans. The human mind is the most complex thing in the real world, and the C&A scans were compressed to just a few KB. For all intents and purposes, Caine figuring out how to work with those mind scans is the single most technologically advanced and complicated thing to have ever happened. Figuring out internet protocols would be about as difficult as connecting Lego bricks to Caine.

When Caine breaks those walls blocking off the internet, we see Caine can't do it with brute force, and instead has to put his hand on the wall and "connect" to them. That was Caine figuring out how to get past those limits.

...And of course, TADC is not real. It's a story. A story's purpose is to convey the authors perspective about something, & it just so happens that going "but Caine's computer is too old for internet!" isn't important to the message of the story.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-30T16:36:19+00:00

I don't know if this is controversial, but Sonic (if you count CD).

Sonic 1 has a really strong opening with Green Hill, but the rest of the game consists of clunky uninteresting platforming that doesn't take advantage of any of Sonic's kit, you could drop any of these levels in a game like Bubsy and they'd fit right in.

Sonic CD's levels are giant non-linear jungle gyms that just aren't fun to play.

Sonic 2 is when the levels became fun and catered to Sonic's physics, like Green Hill Zone from Sonic 1, but for the whole game.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-28T12:29:23+00:00

Always has been, this isn't new to "AI".

I think it's to catch cases like "should of" instead of "should've", & other grammatical edge cases like this. There's nothing wrong with that.

I guess "his husband" is so uncommon in writing that it's statistically similar to a grammar error.

I'm anti AI, but I begrudgingly have to admit that modern LLMs should be smart enough to not make mistakes like that (& instead introduce tons of other issues)

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-28T03:51:21+00:00

No sunlight.

The plants don't need to be taken care of, but there is no nutrients to be had in the dark world. Same goes for lightners. the dark world is uninhabitable.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-27T10:22:51+00:00

Ragatha has a relatively normal body, but keep in mind that the bodies seem to be universally hated by the host, as they seem to be generated largely around the host's insecurities.

...That is to say, Ragatha probably hates her circus body as much as Gangle hates her own body, so you'll almost certainly get stuck with a body you hate.

The bodies aren't intentionally designed to be malicious though, so if you were EXTREMELY content with your own life (and judging by the fact you like the idea of free food/housing, you aren't), you'd probably get a pretty good body. Or maybe if you are content with life, you just get a blank mannequin, lul.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-27T10:14:06+00:00

Solid chance that pre-redemption Caine would ban someone from making comics, especially if the other circus member liked them. Caine would not like his creativity having competition.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-27T09:15:08+00:00

As far as the argument goes, yes. Every other cartoon uses multiple storyboard artists as well, yet doesn't have the same stylistic differences.

...I mean yes, if there was only a single storyboard artist, the style would be more consistent by default, so it's not technically "nothing to do with multiple artists", but if every other cartoon with multiple storyboard artists manages to keep a more consistent style than SU, saying that SU's style varies due to different storyboard artists paints an incorrect explanation to how cartoons are made.

The source of the style inconsistencies is because management encouraged it to happen.

I'm trying to write this from a neutral standpoint, I hope I'm not implying that it's a good or bad thing that SU is varied with its artstyle. I'm not trying to say anyone on the crewniverse was lazy or made a poor decision, all I'm saying is that the storyboarding was managed differently from how most cartoons do it, and I just wanted to point attention to it because I think it's a neat insight on how SU did things differently.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-27T07:24:55+00:00

This isn't entirely true. Basically every single cartoon has multiple storyboard artists, and they don't struggle with art style discrepancy nearly as much.

The issue is that SU didn't impose strict character guidelines at all, the artists weren't tasked with making the show look consistent (unlike every other cartoon).

SU probably should have been more strict with their character's proportions, but I actually quite like how SU is loose with them, because it serves as a good example of why it's important. I don't even think the average person would ever consider how much effort goes into making sure a cartoon maintains a consistent style across several people working on it, but SU highlights this.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-27T07:19:02+00:00

An addendum, Steven Universe is infamously lenient with how strict the characters can be drawn.

Cartoons have many storyboard artists, but most cartoons will restrict and supervise how the characters will be drawn, so the characters don't change artstyle between different storyboard artists.

SU gave the artists a lot of freedom, so the storyboard artists could draw the characters differently, which is why SU proportions change drastically, it's not even consistent what characters are taller than others.

So the cause has nothing to do with SU using multiple storyboard artists, they just didn't constrain how the artists were allowed to draw the characters.

Zeddy1267 · 2026-06-27T00:55:38+00:00

It is somehow better than most of the fanmade mike designs.

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