not to be sentimental and sad or anything but i’m really curious to see how toriel and asgore split in deltarune. like clearly the main cause(s) in undertale were the deaths of their children (and the subsequent murders of every lost human toriel attempted to adopt :( ) but we don’t have something so black & white to rely on in this universe. it’s…Worrisome
BEST CASE SCENARIO: they divorced because of irreconcilable differences. admittedly it’s hard but it’s a healthy display of divorce and why that can be a good thing
FUNNY CASE SCENARIO: they divorced over something really, really stupid (toriel losing her shit after getting one too many bouquets or something)
WORST CASE SCENARIO: deltarune and undertale have timeline parallels and this is some @mmmmalo level shit where we can’t look at asgore ever again (malo. i love you but i swear to god please don’t take this as an open invitation to scar us all with theory)
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Anonymous asked: toriel learned flower language and asgore accidentally talks shit about her using a bouquet
toriel: you keep giving me daffodils. what the FUCK am i grieving
what if asgore gave her daffodils because events of undertale are seeping into the subconciousness of his deltarune counterpart resulting in him being subconsciously aware of asriel and charas passing, hence the grieving.
“There is a copy of the NES game Golf in the firmware of every Switch system”
Me: Oh haha, what a weird thing, probably some remnant from the debugging process -
“Since that was a game that Satoru Iwata programmed himself, this could have been intended as a way of saying that Iwata is spiritually a part of every Switch and is watching over and protecting every system.”
On July 11th*, the date of Iwata’s passing, doing Iwata’s “directly to you” motion with the Joy-Cons on the home screen will play a sound clip of Iwata and launch the game.
(* Before you try this yourself, note that simply changing the date on your system will not work, as this runs off the Switch’s internal internet-synced clock, meaning that changing the date manually will only work if the system has never been connected to the internet)
I… I can’t…
It goes even further than that.
Firstly, opening the game like this person is in the video is only possible with a brand new unit on system version 1.0.0 that has never been connected to the Internet. Because of this, opening it is pretty hard to replicate, unless if you have a completely brand new Switch. So, even if the system’s internal date is on July 11, it still won’t open if the system version is up to date.
The thing is, it’s not supposed to be opened.
The hidden Golf game has been described as an omamori, which, in Japanese culture, is a charm usually bought at shrines that offers spiritual protection and good luck if you keep it close to you.
Sometimes they’re made of cloth, and look like a tiny bag, which can contain a written prayer. People often tie them to something like a purse or a backpack, so that it’s always with them. Here are a bunch of different ones:
Omamori are not supposed to be opened, as doing so is said to remove its blessing.
Seeing as the hidden Golf game on the Switch is so difficult to run under normal circumstances, it’s probably not supposed to be opened in the first place. It’s likely meant to represent an omamori in Iwata’s honor. Its very fitting, because of how portable the Switch is, since people are likely to take it with them like they would with an omamori strapped to a purse or backpack.
Hey, everyone. Since we’re now in July and this post is still making the rounds, I’m sure there are people who are going to want to try to activate the Golf game on their Switch on the 11th. So I wanted to provide an update to this:
As @lunarhalo24 helpfully pointed out, this inclusion of Golf in the Switch system was meant to be an omamori, a blessing from Iwata. And there’s another important cultural thing about omamori to note here:
An omamori’s blessing is only good until the end of the year, after which it expires and the omamori is traditionally disposed of in a sacred fire. So the files being deleted at the end of last year seems as though it was symbolic of the blessing’s time expiring.
So yes, there is now almost no way to actually access it. Because it was never meant to be accessed.
Reblogging because this is a really interesting way of combining tradition and technology in someone’s memory and as a good luck charm.
fun fact! the reason crows are seen as omens of death is because they are smart carrion eaters. In ye olde times, they learned pretty quickly that battles = food and would congregate just outside where two opposing armies were gathering.
