want to note that laserdisks, i understand, write on both sides and are much more resistant to errors from being scratched. especially moreso than video james disks
I really like this because this is the most meaningful synthesis of the mechanics / worldbuilding / narrative we have from Undertale and the plot of Deltarune. This whole time I've had no lens to connect Deltarune - Undertale other than Toby's "Deltarune is the game you play after you finish Undertale".
The only problem is, AFAIK, we haven't seen evidence that any other characters have a SOUL in Deltarune. I thought of it as a rare and fucked up thing which represents player autonomy, and that humans in Undertale have souls because they're the player characters. Soul = player character, and we can just imagine the departed human souls as Undertale games which never came out. But this is just how I loosely conceptualize things and would go in the "Maybe" section.
As an aside, Toby Fox marinated in Homestuck during some of his most important creative years. Something fun about Homestuck is that the narrative elements exist as physical objects in-universe. The story is a game across three disks and an expansion cartridge, the canon exists as an in-universe icon, what is and is not canon defines tangible bounds, etc.
"What happened in Homestuck?" is not the lens I am using to analyze this by, I am just thinking about what a brain that marinated in Homestuck world for 7+ years might think.
Undertale and Deltarune having a "Side B" is something "Homestucky", in the sense that it could represent some tangible and wacky narrative fuckery. The prophecy being the game script is "Homestucky" (but, to be fair, indie games have been doing this kind of thing for years. No shade, people love it.) The way you describe them intermingling is a dead ringer for "Homestuck shit".
Anyways, you're way more in the know about Deltarune than I am. I haven't seen UNUSED before so I am eating this uppp. edit: There was a Survey where people could submit answers and Fox might give unique responses? Yuepppppp that's Homestuck baby
I know nothing about going to grad school, so I can't gauge where you are on the "fucking insane" meter.
By "fucking insane", do you mean "Wildly nontraditional but completely doable"? Do you mean "apparently unviable, crazy to attempt"? Etc. I can't say anything about how viable this is. I'm around the same age and I've been thinking of things in terms of: Will I regret this decision in 5, 10, 20, 30 years? Will I wish I made a different decision? So, I think the answer to "is this insane?" would be a useful one, and I think this is a place where finding some sort of mentor person, even if it's a short meeting, would be wise.
You won't be surprised to know that my vote is in the "follow your dreams" camp. Maybe you're maybe too old now, but in a decade or two you'll be definitely too old, right? Wouldn't you rather taste this fig before it expires?
There is a category of things which everyone talks about but I have no interest in, and is normal amounts of annoying because of that. Some are very evil, like Football, while others are normal evil, like Taylor Swift.
GTA, however, is very annoying, which makes it super evil, I think
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4: why does "cantos xxx by ezra pound" sounds like a pornographic parody title. and would jokes of the sort make sense during his time?