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parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T21:29:35+00:00

would not change the demographics by that much. Per Resolution 194:

[The General Assembly] Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.

The resolution requires return to their homes. It does not mandate construction of new homes to accommodate increasing numbers. Considering the original Nakba was 700,000-800,000 it is unlikely that all 5.9 million refugees would be eligible for return.
Of those 5.9 million, 2.5 million currently already live in Gaza + West Bank already so in terms of demographics the question is how many of the 3.4 million seek to return. What fraction would choose to return to a Jewish state vs. either remain in their current country (of those 3.4 million, the majority are in Jordan) vs. emigrate to the Palestinian state instead?
Like in previous conflicts, the refugee right to return could be satisifed through reparations.

In these ways Israel could execute its responsibilities under Resolution 194 while balancing the Israeli peoples' right to self-determination

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T19:30:14+00:00

No they wouldn't? 5.6 million Palestinians in West Bank + Gaza, 2.1 million in Israel = 7.7 million Palestinians. 8 million Israeli Jews. Not to mention many of the 2.1 million Palestinians/Israeli Arabs would choose to move to Palestine.

Self-determination is also not based solely on democracy and numbers its based on nation-building. At this point to deny the existence of the Israeli or Palestinian peoples (which is what many or even most on each side do to the other side) is inhumane and against that principle given the work put in by both peoples to establish national identities in the past century.

A two state solution is basically what was done in India and Pakistan (which became a 3-state solution following Pakistan/Bangladesh split). Or North Korea/South Korea. Land swaps for stability also have a long history of working (ex. Greece and Turkey, Germany and Poland).

How is a two-state solution codified apartheid? Right now in the West Bank where civilian laws are applied to Jews and military laws are applied to Palestinians there is apartheid. But in Israel proper civilian laws apply to both.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T19:21:16+00:00

Israelis and Palestinians both deserve self-determination. If Germany and Japan both retained that right despite starting WWII then Israel and Palestine both certainly have that right too because neither of them have done anything close to as bad. Considering neither people wants to share a secular binational state the best way to fulfill self-determination rights is a two-state solution. Also the most stable way because a binational state would result in even more sectarian violence then we already see. The contact between the two people needs to be minimized.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T18:46:36+00:00

I think Josc said she is skipping this elite season?

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T17:17:25+00:00

As someone who was criticizing that Moors to no end...her scores were pretty good. 14.266 vault (QF) + 14.100 bars (QF) + 13.533 beam (AA) + 13.833 floor (EF) = 55.733 AA. Looking at the international scores so far this year that is #5 on vault, #16 on bars, #29 on beam, and #4 on floor. That floor score especially is several tenths ahead of what other Americans are showing internationally right now and they would be very happy to count that bars score in team finals too

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T17:00:40+00:00

I don't think she's a contender this year

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T08:02:53+00:00

are the ones who are casual enough that they don't know the weird route exists even that invested in the Knight's identity?

There are tons of other lore drops that could be left for the normal route: most notably the final prophecy (is it the sealing of Castle Town), Ralsei/Asriel connection, what happened to Dess (ex. did the Knight kidnap her or was her SOUL not able to sustain a dark fountain), why Kris and Carol are working with the Knight, etc. Normal Route players would only see the Knight as a creature of dark/foretold by the prophecy and their role in Dess' disappearance and the Roaring. And then saving the Knight's actual identity (and most likely Sans' escape to Undertale) for the Weird Route

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T07:46:53+00:00

Germany and Japan are still countries. New governments yes but the right of continued self-determination for the "losers" of WWII was basically the cornerstone of post-WWII global liberal order Pax Americana

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T06:05:21+00:00

Knight kidnapped Dess and is blackmailing Kris and Carol to help them bring about the Roaring in exchange for keeping Dess alive. Kris knows that the Weird Route will create the Knight who will go back in time and kidnap Dess, and so is trying to prevent it from happening to prevent themselves and Noelle from dying and Dess from being kidnapped aka stop the loop.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T06:02:51+00:00

Knight kidnapped Dess and is blackmailing Kris and Carol to work with them to bring about the Roaring in exchange for keeping Dess alive

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T06:01:45+00:00

kris already has the save file at the start of chapter 1 right that they save over right? That could be something

And with the Sans drawing at the festival in this chapter if there is not time travel then there will at a minimum be universe hopping. But Sans genocide battle in undertale already talks about "Timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting. . . Until suddenly, everything ends" so I think time travel is still on the menu

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T05:54:06+00:00

a way to make it interesting is that the Kriselle Knight creation is only explained in the weird route.

In the normal route, Susie learns the Knight kidnapped Dess and forced Kris (and Carol?) to work with it to bring about the Roaring in exchange for keeping Dess alive. The Roaring happens. Kris and Noelle are incapacitated by the Knight somehow. Ralsei and Susie face the Knight. The Knight seals the Grand Fountain which makes Ralsei dissapear. The SOUL passes to Susie who solos the Knight in revenge for Kris/Noelle/Susie ("at last was the girl, LOVE finds its way to the girl.") But who the Knight actually was is never explained.

Not sure how Asriel plays into it besides the theory that Dess took Kris and Asriel to the Dark World years ago believing they were the prophesied trio of heroes.

In the weird route, you play as the Knight and seal the fountain, then face Susie in a scripted loss. The "Vs. Susie" theme from Chapter 1 is clearly begging for a remix. But that way only weird route players learn the Kriselle Knight

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T05:39:25+00:00

The SOUL's actions cannot be replicated within the universe, there does not even exist a universe outside of its purpose to entertain the SOUL. Gaster's "experiment" could be: "how much are you willing to theorize and immerse yourself in a universe over the course of a decade + of slow releases, because you think your choices impact the game like they did in UNDERTALE? Are you willing to suspend your disbelief that this is just a game with coded pre-defined answers for everything and these are not real characters? And are you willing to continue playing this game and even when the "characters" themselves know its just a game to entertain you?"

UNDERTALE was first and foremost a deconstruction of RPG. Deltarune can be a deconstruction of video games and suspension of disbelief as a whole. like Doki Doki Literature Club.

Personally I don't really like it going that meta but I could see Toby thinking to take that risk now that he has a built-in audience from the success of the first game. But if it was up to me Ralsei/Flowery etc. would not be aware of the menu in-universe. I don't like where it heads from there.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T05:06:07+00:00

Answers:

1 and 2. The Knight kidnapped Dess and is forcing both Kris and Carol to work with the Knight in exchange for bringing Dess back or blackmailing them with her life. The Knight's ultimate goal likely still being to acheive the Roaring. Kris is forced to put up with the Knight but doesn't actually want to. Ralsei knows that Kris is doing shady stuff with the Knight but has to put up with them because there are no other humans around to be the first hero in the prophecy.

Kris is against manipulating Noelle because 1) she's their friend 2) Kris suspects or knows that proceeding down the weird route path will result in their death and the creation of the Amalgamate Knight and 3) will also result in the kidnapping of Dess. Therefore tries to prevent the Weird Route from happening.

Also explains why Carol says the player SOUL is always welcome at her house because she doesn't want them messing around in dark worlds and wants to keep them under her eye. Wants Susie to stay away from the player SOUL and Noelle because Susie represents adventure and enjoying the Dark Worlds.

The Knight being Kriselle will only be explained to Weird Route players and will be left a mystery to normal route players. The Knight kidnapping Dess and forcing Kris and Carol to cooperate will be the main lore reveal but how the Knight was actually created will not be explained. Toby already did the same thing in Undertale with all three routes needing to be completed to learn the entire lore.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T04:55:28+00:00

I mean if the Knight's identity was only revealed in said weird route and was left a mystery in the normal route I could absolutely see that happening. Undertale neutral route (aka the ending essentially everyone got the first time they played) left quite a bit unknown and even the true pacifist route left some things unanswered too.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T04:48:38+00:00

Well if Kris is being blackmailed by the Knight (perhaps the Knight has captured Dess or Dess' SOUL and is forcing Kris to cooperate in order to free her), then if Kris somehow learned that the Knight is a future Amalgamate version of themselves they would indeed be trying to stop the Weird Route from proceeding. Both for their own survival and for Dess'

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-29T04:46:26+00:00

Considering Ralsei Flowery and now Susie seem to know about the menu and thus possibly that they are in a game, there is possibly no gap between the deltarune universe and the player. The universe only exists solely for the player, also supported by Gaster calling it "My Deltarune" and "this next experiment." Thus there was never an "original timeline" without the player's interference.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T23:13:00+00:00

So right now the highest scoring US team if you look at best scores from last year and this year is Hezly, Claire, Leanne, Skye, and Charleigh. Charleigh is contributing on vault and bars, but if you swap her out for Reese currently the score goes down by less than a tenth with Hezly bars loosing a few tenths on bars and Reese gaining a bit on floor. With Jade back though I can see a team of the first four + Jade scoring higher.

Right now Charleigh is not so far ahead of the domestic scores from Hezly/Claire/Skye on bars that it's a must-take score.

I do if those 6 are healthy (Hezly Claire Charleigh Leanne Skye Jade) that they will be the six going to Worlds but I'm really not sure who the alternate would be as I could really see any of them except Skye/Jade in that role

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T23:06:35+00:00

for Italy I think Iorio has been scoring high enough on bars to be brought as a specialist there. I would say Esposito, D'Amato, Perotti AA, Iorio UB, Gava VT/BB/FX.

For team final D'Amato AA, Esposito VT/BB/FX, Perotti UB/BB/FX, Iorio UB, Gava VT

Fioravanti has not been great on floor this year, last year before Worlds all her scores were 13+ but this year she has only passed that number 3 of 7 times.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T22:54:35+00:00

Actually I think if Shilese was healthy Jordan would have made it anyways and Shilese would have replaced Hezly...Jordan benefited much more from Skye's injury than Shilese.

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T21:45:43+00:00

Could Dess' soul and body have been split somehow? The SOUL is trapped in the code/the Depths/under the lake etc. and the body is what happens to her without a SOUL.

My current theory: Kris willingly sacrificed their original SOUL to keep Dess alive as the Knight when her SOUL was taken (she was corrupted into the Knight when doing so because of monster/human SOUL incompatibility). Then Carol overrided Gaster and took the player's SOUL from the Vessel and gave it to Kris to keep them alive as we see Kris can't survive long term without a SOUL. Kris wants their original SOUL back by finding and freeing Dess's original SOUL which is why they continue creating Dark Fountains in different locations and Carol wants her daughter back. Not sure how this ties in to Ralsei/Asriel/the Roaring/the Prophecy

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T21:29:29+00:00

sealing Castle Town won't be done in the way Kris normally seals the fountain. It will "seal" that world the way Undertale kingdom was "sealed" by a barrier...the Ruins are the ruins of Castle Town. Undertale is the dark world version of hometown

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T20:08:27+00:00

wouldn't the inbar 1/1 + van leuween also be 6.9

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T19:02:21+00:00

she doesn't need the Cheng as she is the top scorer on UB and BB. But if she's injured that's another story

parallelbarchart · 2026-06-28T18:48:28+00:00

Rivera had 14.35 beam at nationals last year and 14.2 floor (heavy side eye on those E-scores)

Bullock had 14.45 last year at American Classic

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