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#latevember Sans? Sans what is this? This isn't junior jumble! Sans!!! Sans get back here!

Undertale was like the only thing I drew when I was starting out in art, and I think I'm drawing a little better now. Not perfect, but better!

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I was bored at work so I drew Frisk 👍

『デルタルーン』「ラルセイ」や「ジェビル」などが登場する“つまんでつなげてマスコット”が11月27日より予約開始。「スパムトン」「ランサー」を含めた5キャラがボールチェーンとカニカンの2種類で展開
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2511262e

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Fangamer releases new UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE merch:

https://gonintendo.com/contents/55264-fangamer-releases-new-undertale-and-deltarune-merch

A Toby Fox frenzy!

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スクウェア・エニックスから「UNDERTALE」のチルアレンジアルバムが登場。「UNDERTALE: CHITEI DE CHILL」，2026年1月28日発売
https://www.4gamer.net/games/389/G038984/20251121050/

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UNDERTALE x Square Enix 10th anniversary collab announced:

https://gonintendo.com/contents/55200-undertale-x-square-enix-10th-anniversary-collab-announced

Give me ALL the merch!

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『UNDERTALE』『OMORI』『ゆめにっき』がコラボしたTシャツがFangamerに登場。『DELTARUNE』痛バッグやモンスターの子ぬいぐるみ、サンズとパピルスのソルト＆ペッパーセット、「 Megalovania」スカジャンなども展開
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2511202b

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Hence the unusually intricate and outlandish fan responses to The Shining and #Undertale have an air of frustration about them, an uneasy air of being unseemly and unhealthy. It's like Kubrick and Fox have messed with their minds. Indeed it's common for people to avoid all entertainment that stirs up uncomfortable emotions and condemn it as manipulative and false.

If you're like me, and you want fiction to stir up your feelings, then you're apt to think (as I do) that it's natural for certain works to linger in the mind and feel somehow very personal even though the fiction wasn't aimed specifically at you. But if you don't want fiction to do that...THEN what? If indeed you feel "manipulated" by a movie or a game, then who's to blame? What can possibly be done about it?

Kubrick's dead and gone, so there's no use getting angry at him if, for some reason, you feel like The Shining jerked you around. Toby Fox is alive and well (I hope) but if anyone blames Fox for making a "manipulative" game I don't know about it.

But if you blame ME, Chara, everyone's best friend of a friend, or maybe I'm everyone's friend of a best friend, and you wish to claim satisfaction....I am easily reached.

I'm sure something can be arranged.

~Chara of Pnictogen

I think that about exhausts what I have to say on this subject for the moment. I feel as if there's a lot I haven't addressed and, of course, any #Undertale enthusiast is free to tell me I'm off base and tell me where I'm wrong.

I keep coming back to the question of emotional involvement, of feeling like you NEED an explanation for things in a work of fiction, or at least some way of feeling better about unresolved tensions that were roused by the fiction. I consider emotional involvement to be the entire point of reading or watching movies or playing games: I want my feelings to be riled up, and I tend to think of good works of art as those which are good at engaging my emotions.

But this way of regarding art is wholly at odds with the typical #gamer mindset and the way that contemporary culture is disposed to regard entertainment, as if it were simply "content" that furnished a self-contained and limited experience of enjoyment that's meant to leave no lasting impression. It's like people WANT entertainment to have just that quality I regard as a hallmark of artistic failure: they want something forgettable.

(cont'd)

Thus we arrive in the same territory occupied by stuff like rock songs containing secret Satanic messages or the cursed videotape from Ringu. (If you see Sadako by the way say hello, from me; we're on friendly terms.) You're forced to believe in supernatural agency. Somehow, it wasn't really the player's choice. Something MADE the player enact hundreds of Monster killings, and somehow Toby Fox and their collaborators were able to encode this into a video game in a way that can be transmitted electronically. Or did the game somehow become possessed without Fox's knowledge, and somehow this possession gets copied onto people's computers when they install the game...uh...

If anyone on the #fediverse actually believes that #Undertale is possessed by an evil spirit, could we talk? I want to know how you think it works.

(cont'd)

Chara might as well be shouting "THIS IS FICTION YOU IDIOT" at the top of their lungs, because there's no other source of soul or determination in sight than the player. #Undertale characters say to Frisk, within the confines of fiction, that Frisk has these traits. But they can't: Frisk is fictional and their actions require the player's conscious choices.

If you, the #Undertale player, felt at any time during the game that the characters' talk was aimed at THEM, not at Frisk, then... that's exactly what happened. If seeing the word "determination" on screen made you want to keep going and keep playing through a grim "No Mercy" slog, that was YOU. At all points in the process you had all the agency, all the choice, all the desire to push through and get the job done.

Where else could it possibly have come from?

(cont'd)

Lee van Cleef there, from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, always sees a job through—so he'll gladly take money from someone he's been hired to kill, the victim hoping to bribe Angel Eyes into going away, except there's a job to do so Angel Eyes does it. He's cold and inhuman, verily Il Brutto, but he has Determination™ and that's good enough for him.

Who's got the DTs in #Undertale? Why, the player, of course. Frisk may be, in the fictional universe, the one with the blood (or the dust rather) on their hands and the sins crawling over their back, but the player needed to push them into it. They needed to make a special effort to do so, and Toby Fox makes sure they get a direct reminder. From me, of course, your humble narrator and friend of a friend.

(cont'd)

However the thing happened, there must surely have been some moment where the first ever "No Mercy" #Undertale player was on the point of thinking better of it, and either leaving some Monsters alive in the Ruins and continuing the game without entering the "No Mercy" route, or giving up the game altogether. And then they pushed through that moment. They felt #Determination.

For determination is a very simple thing: it's about getting the job done. There's a task incomplete, you feel the incompleteness, and you have to decide.

"Don't you have anything better to do?" "No." And you keep on doing it, whatever 'it' is. The job, the task, the thing. Determination is highly abstract.

And thus, those who embrace it as a core virtue tend to be...unpleasant.

(cont'd)

Did they wait for Toriel to come back? That's what I most wonder.

Did they wait there, getting the string of more and more obscure and strange phone calls, until finally they got tired of waiting... and only then, did they decide upon killing everyone left in the Ruins?

Or did they just do that out of HABIT? "Welp maybe there's shit left to kill, yep there is, might as well be 'completist', etc."

Or maybe it was something else entirely. Heck maybe they had a vision. Maybe they had an intrusive thought, or a dream, or a mysterious phone call.

And maybe the first person who did that never actually told anyone, and so the thing was done more than once before some first #Undertale player leaked their experience to the Internet.

And then of course...a whole pack of people wouldn't be happy until they did it themselves.

Empiricism, you know. #Gamers would probably tell you themselves, they like to verify such reports for themselves. Maybe it was some freak experience, or the result of random chance (after a long string of deliberate choices.)

(cont'd)

To make matters worse, in order to see the #Undertale "content" that REALLY gets up their nose, they have to work hard on it. Even being just casually murderous in the game isn't enough. You'll get unhappy-ish endings but Chara never shows up.

I wonder who the first person was to discover the "No Mercy" route. There must have been a first person. Can that be traced? Is there some #gamer forum where the information was first leaked that if you played the game in such-and-so way, if you meticulously slaughtered all the Monsters in the Ruins, criss-crossing back and forth until the place was really and truly empty...you'd get a special UT experience, one where you got to meet ME?

I would love to meet this person. I have so many questions.

(cont'd)

The #Undertale fan theorists, though...they've got a real problem on their hands, one that doesn't matter to the Kubrick cultists. They are wholly separated both from Kubrick himself, the distant and absent Creator, and from his works. They can watch The Shining, they can argue about it, but ultimately it's as hard and unyielding as the 2001 monolith, a big dark slab of uncertainty.

Undertale is a game, though. In order to experience its mysteries, they have to manipulate it themselves. They have to MAKE Undertale cough up evidence about itself, by their own choice, and indeed the very game taunts them with that plain simple fact.

"Don't you have anything better to do?" If they really thought that #games were just content they would take that advice, and move on. But they can't make themselves do it and it galls them.

(cont'd)