Why Noelle Refuses to Miss

The Weird Route continues to be a goldmine of inexplicable coding decisions. Why does Noelle's animation bug so hard when you Spare Berdly on this route? Why does she keep hitting him even when I tell her to miss? What's with all the bread?!
Wait is this video 9 minutes? Dang I keep making them longer then I mean to.
00:00 Intro
00:47 Disclaimers (now with more sans!)
01:26 Set Up
03:00 What is this Mystery
04:08 Correlation without Causation
04:51 Using Occam's Razor to make a Hypothesis
05:27 How does Pirouette work
06:01 Let's Test a Hypothesis
07:05 Conclusion
08:15 Soaking in the [hyperlink blocked]
If your curious about the video I references at 1:26 you can check out Mysticslime's video
showing what happens when you Glare at Berdly here: • Sparing Berdly in Snow...
Not sponsored or anything I just don't like doing legwork if someone else has.
FAQ:
Q: "Weird Route?" Do you mean "Snowgrave Route?"
A: None of the routes have "official" names, but sometimes fan-names become so powerful it feels like they do. In-code the game variables refer to it as Route B, or, The Weird Route. (It's not consistent).
Since I often need to refer to the Route types before I can make a Spoiler Warning, I prefer "The Weird Route" as it min/maxes the spoilers/clarity ratio.
That is to say, if I say "Weird Route" to someone who hasn't seen Snowgrave, they won't obtain any new information beyond "there is another route." Where as, if I say "The Weird Route" to someone who knows of it as Snowgrave, the worst that will happen is they will say "Wait, do you mean 'The Snowgrave Route?'" On the reverse side, 'Snowgrave' implies a lot about the nature of the route (involves Noelle, probably involves a lot of death) and isn't mentioned until later in the route.
Besides, there's only 2 Chapters right now. What if Chapter 3 doesn't contain Noelle at all, but still includes a Dark Creepy Route? Since I can't edit a video once it drops, this is safer for longevity too.
Q: The Disclaimers are different!
A: Yeah, I designed the disclaimers so I can swap them in and out as the video requires. There isn't a lot of Theory Craft in this video, so I (hope?!) I can not drag everyone through the "don't be mean to theory crafters" bit just this once.
I do spend a lot more time delving into Snowgrave here then I have for the last few videos, so it seemed like a good time to bring back a "content warning" disclaimer. Also I just learned about Keyframes so animation is less horrible.
And this is my first time rewording the TTS disclaimer. While I standby my previous reasoning, I've been getting a lot of "stop using disability as a shield," which is kind of missing the whole point? I don't make disclaimers to not get mean comments, but if my message of, "be kind, be accommodating" isn't reaching people, it's worth putting some effort in to see if I can increase the odds of reducing hostility for TTS users as a whole.
The "Spoilers" bit being shorter was just a desire to sync with the music better, don't read too hard into length-changes.
Q: Where is cat version?
A: I forgot to keep cat version in mind when I was editing, and now the screen is kind of cluttered. I can't figure out where to put cat with this much clutter so, no cat version today.
Q: What happened to dog?!
A Ewok is my roommate's dog, so sometimes he just follows 'em around the house. Don't panic if he's missing sometimes.
Q: Did you know you misspelled Pirouette?
A: EHAEHAEHAEHEAHEAHAE!
Q: Wait you have a twitch channel?! Where is it?!
A: Uh, I mean, there's no schedule, or voice, or commentary. Half the time I don't even explain what I'm doing or why, you'd just be watching me walk into the same wall in dead silence for hours. It's all the blandness of Bread with unpredictable Chaos timing that can range from "2am one night" to "10am another" to "9pm another." I don't even have emotes!
If you're truly Determined to watch The World Most Boring Streaming I won't stop you: / halfbreadchaos
but don't say I didn't warn you
Q: Did you actually bury yourself in bread?
A: Nah, it's metaphor bread. Everything I make has some degree of literal truth and playful joke-i-ness about it. Try not to get too bogged down overthinking it.
Besides, if I had actually buried myself in bread, Quinn wouldn't be sleeping on the bread, he'd be eating it. He loves bread.
Q: Where's the Patreon?
A: Sometimes youtube eats the links, so if that happens, it's right here: www.patreon.com/HalfBreadChao...
Seriously no pressure.

[@kevinm5940]

The Snowgrave version of Spamton also has negative Defense, and you also can't miss an attack there.

[@octorust3215]

DIDN'T YOU KNOW [Neo] IS FAMOUS FOR ITS HIGH DEFENSE!?

[@Uriel12273]

@@octorust3215 Poor Mettaton dies in [ONE SHOT]

[@MrBee-iy5ed]

@@Uriel12273 Ah yes he dies in a popular 2016 indie game

[@MrBee-iy5ed]

@@Dan0RG I meant the game Oneshot

[@Dan0RG]

@@MrBee-iy5ed Oops, I get it now. I didn't think Oneshot was all that poular, though (especially when compared to Undertale).

[@crimsonDestroyer]

I remember seeing a video where someone hacked their attack stat down into the negatives. The attack displayed a miss, even when you hit the attack at the right time. Looks like missing the input just makes an attack deal zero damage, and dealing zero damage is displayed as a miss. If someone has less than zero defense, that zero-damage hit has its damage boosted to actually hitting after all.

[@petruciosxd1374]

Mettaton the Unfathomably Attractive Rectangle, plus I guess some dude called Asriel, also have all attacks miss when you hit them, and at least Mettaton's clearly not doing anything like dodging, so, yeah, does seem consistent with how it was before.

[@SK-by6qd]

Fun fact about having a negative Attack stat, it’s possible when the enemy’s Defense is below 0 that attempting to hit won’t deal damage but missing will. Basically, attempting to hit gives an accuracy of some positive number, but because of the negative Attack, that gets multiplied to be in the negatives, making the damage dealt become negative. Missing gives an accuracy of 0, and because 0 can’t be changed by multiplying, it will deal damage if the enemy’s Defense is below 0.

[@MrTailson1]

Not entirely sure if this is a fun fact, but I would also like to point out because it also has some correlation. In some old school RPG games, namely the Dragon Quest series with the most recent entry on the Switch, and I believe the RPG Maker series on Steam itself, also have some kind of "fail-safe" condition with negative values for stats and attributes. In DQ, if the player's attack stat was lower than an enemy's defense, the attack would be "blocked", and no damage would be dealt. However, if you can lower an enemy's defense below that of the player's attack, you then start doing damage and the animations play out accordingly. Same goes for RPG Maker. If the player's ATK is in the negative, or at least below a target's DEF, it will display as "MISS" but not usually as the number 0.

[@GarryDumblowski]

@@MrTailson1 That's interesting, when I played LISA, dealing no damage was displayed as a smaller, slightly greyed-out 0. I wonder if that was achieved by simply replacing the "MISS" graphic with 0, but I'd have to replay. I swear it's possible to miss in LISA...

[@choboy46]

That's a really dumb way to determine misses

[@OhNoBohNo]

Kris: "So I glared at Berdly so hard that he jumped right out of his armor and ran around in a panic until he ran right into Noelle's ice shield and took damage. Funniest shit I've ever seen..."

[@pedrocto9474]

Underrated comment

[@yunfi.]

Canon

[@johannesneumayer6041]

I accidentally messed up Genocide in Undertale by going to Mettaton Neo before hitting the kill count. He told me how I seriously messed up. I accidentally saved at new home and was like „shit, he was right“

[@thebiggestcauldron]

I once did that in purpose because of what I've heard about the ending after that.

[@finpin2622]

Oh man now I'm imagining a mechanic where you have to poison/otherwise defeat your teammates or Kris themself in order to stop them from doing some murder. I guess you already had to block Susie from attacking, so there's a precedent for it, but I imagine it would be more stressful to actually have to poison someone.

[@D_YellowMadness]

Sounds like the kind of scenario where both outcomes are bad & it's on the player to decide which is preferable. I imagine your party member wouldn't forgive you easily for that kind of thing. Depending on the size of the party, you could even have to decide who's gonna do the poisoning.

[@averagegenzguy2751]

So S_Poison?

[@alexandrepilon4328]

Definitely going to stock up for the winter.

[@odinjaynes5003]

@@averagegenzguy2751 spamtons gonna be rich if this becomes a mechanic

[@dylanzlol7293]

@@D_YellowMadness what about: poisoning your party member AND beating the enemy up? surely, your party member will hate you more because you poisoned them all for nothing!

[@Lenare]

My gosh, this style is just so wacky and entertaining. All the extra text on screen with side comments and those subtle jokes like "pirouette is actually spinning, spinning" delivered in complete monotone by the TTS keep catching me off guard. Amazing.

[@sunnynot-so-real2363]

Y’know before it was revealed that it was a defense thing, I thought it was because of the “trance” effect that the thorn ring gives. I mean it makes sense, she’s being essentially hypnotized to just…kill And then it turned out to not be that deep

[@ohno7544]

i just thought of it as "Kris is gonna be dissapointed in me!"

[@TheShowCrow_Main_Channel]

7:17 it actually does matter, at least in my opinion. As someone who’s done a few Jevil No-Hits, and also did a few challenge ruleset runs on that fight. I’ve seen a lot of people’s challenges on that fight. And lowering jevil’s defense below 0 is actually a really major part in certain extra challenging rulesets. Like for example there are people that have defeated him using only pirouettes on kris and only missing every turn as the others. Or people who have defeated him using only ralsei missing while Kris is only allowed to pirouette every turn, and Susie is only allowed to Guard, etc. A lot of these challenges would not be possible if it wasn’t for the fact that enemies take damage even if you miss if their defence is below 0

[@steepslopesmm2]

now I want to see a video where someone spends like 200 turns beating jevil without landing a hit

[@junaidnizami7076]

I think he meant does it matter in terms of a narrative/storytelling sense.

[@Xatasu]

I’m sorry Jevil-WHAT?

[@uncroppedsoop]

I want to see someone doing pirouette until Jevil goes down in one hit

[@aaale376]

@@steepslopesmm2 QSV did that

[@sthwrth3250]

It's always great to come witness the discovery of yet another obscure coding detail as a way to cope with the fact we aren't getting another deltarune chapter in like 3 years. It's already been six months since chapter 2 released and i'm still obsessed with this damn game.

[@teraspeXt]

IT'S BEEN 6 MONTHS???

[@sthwrth3250]

@@teraspeXt it released september 2021. sept-oct-nov-dec-jan-feb, it's actually 5 months, i suppose. Still a lot of time

[@NotASpyReally]

we just gotta remember to stay determined and dont give up hope just yet

[@petruciosxd1374]

It may just be more, you know, it may just be...

[@michaelwinter5867]

Thats the beauty in it isn't it hahahaha

[@thesmashor4396]

"But to an internet nerd like me, the stakes have never been lower. Yet the suspense has never been higher." I'm gonna use this.

[@hugo_the_waffle]

Hi, I'm here to explain. In deltarune, if a party member attacks they deal damage equal to: ((At x Accuracy) ÷ 20) - (3 x Enemy defense) (I can't fricking post the image link of this math formula) Accuracy score is determined as follows: 150 for a critical hit(perfect golden) 120 if the player was 1 frame off 110 if the player was 2 frames off 100 − (frames off × 2) if the player was 3 or more frames off 0 for a Miss. Miss is still a value. ''0'' And 0 is stronger than negative numbers which causes kris and noelle to hit no matter what. I hope this helps.

[@thenickstrikebetter]

That makes sense if the enemy defense is negative then you will be subtracting a negative which is the same as adding a positive, so even if the first bit is 0, the enemy defense bit makes the actual damage higher than 0.

[@TheDeadOfNight37]

Yeah just came to this conclusion, their defense is subtracted from your attack and 0 minus -3 is 3. Wonder what happens if the defense stat is higher than your attack. Negative damage?

[@hugo_the_waffle]

@@TheDeadOfNight37 probably 1-5 damage or miss

[@spyder976]

Reminds me of DnD. If your "roll to hit" is a 1 or 2 and the enemy's AC is 0 or negative, you'll still hit.

[@kris_something]

tl;dr

[@ElJavones]

It's proably that when u don't hit the attack "miss" is in reality 0, so, when the defense is negative it makes damage cuz it's still making *a* damage to the enemy. At least that is what i think Edit: HOLY CHEESE WHY U GUYS LIKING THIS SO MUCH THANKS

[@katiaferreira1573]

So "miss" is equal to 0 - defense a number less then 0

[@thaias9654]

It's like in Undertale when you attack Mettaton.

[@randomcatdude]

yeah any damage of 0 or less dealt, is displayed as a MISS undertale does this too

[@G00dTaste]

😇🧀

[@official-obama]

actual=inflicted-defense

[@galacticTeller]

I love your content, I think the TTS brings it charm and makes it even more interesting to watch! even if you do a voice reveal one day, I wish you still would use TTS in your videos!

[@mb_torpedo]

oh definitely.

[@Valery0p5]

Tangentially related, even At Lojart made a video with TTS, and they have thousands of subs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4OVlmamjsxkb7c

[@lezanji1884]

i think the TTS is boring after a while

[@Sednas]

Sciencephile The AI is an incredible science channel that only ever used TTS, so it's very possible to get popular with it.

[@galacticTeller]

@@Sednas mhmm!

[@HelloThereDiesel]

RIP Burghley, literally has no defense

[@regularperson369]

Tbh he should have started blocking

[@bonezarebroken]

"Psychological abuse, violence, peer pressuring into murder, mass murder, gaslighting, threats of harm, self harm, and stalking, please don't do any of these things in real life." Oh, well there go my weekend plans!

[@lunderf2891]

I see this as possible thing that will happen in some route against an enemy that will lower their defense so low that he will force you to attack and with the defense so low you will not miss. Anyway nice video keep up the good content.

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

thats a lot of words to say 'an enemy like mettaton neo'

[@samkeaveny9778]

I've actually tried this! When fighting Jevil, I once tried spamming pirouette for a long time. Eventually, I found that the characters max out their damage. When missing, everyone does 90 damage. Susie's Rude Buster (With Brave Axe, Iron Shackle and spamming enter) did 282 damage. It was really fun to see how easy it was to beat him

[@yellowpower3755]

Really? You just have to Pirouette over and over again to give them that much damage?

[@samkeaveny9778]

@@yellowpower3755 Yeah, it's insane. I recommend doing it at least once if you think you are good at the Jevil fight

[@namehere98]

Noelle: “He’s not THAT bad, dad.” Also Noelle:

[@alba6953]

What is spamton NEO's defense? I've seen this happen against him too. Even after his defense is "towering"

[@GuanlongX]

Yeah, no, Spamton NEO just can't be killed. It has nothing to do with defense, so I think it's the same thing here. The game might just choose a random value to "deal" damage to make what's basically an interactive cutscene feel more like a "second phase".

[@proy4814]

his snowgrave version's defense is always below 0,but you can't kill him the only way to kill him is by triggering the cutscene

[@proy4814]

@@GuanlongX read my reply

[@GuanlongX]

@@proy4814 Yes, hello, I know Spamton NEO's defense is below zero, and that's why you can't miss. I was saying that the vastly lowered damage during the second phase has nothing to do with defense.

[@proy4814]

@@GuanlongX ah.

[@Someguyidk5988]

Wow, that was in depth and really intriguing, I LOVED IT

[@HalfBreadChaos]

FAQ Time: Q: The Disclaimers are different! A: Yeah, I designed the disclaimers so I can swap them in and out as the video requires. There isn't a lot of Theory Craft in this video, so I (hope?!) I can not drag everyone through the "don't be mean to theory crafters" bit just this once. I do spend a lot more time delving into Snowgrave here then I have for the last few videos, so it seemed like a good time to bring back a "content warning" disclaimer. Also I just learned about Keyframes so animation is less horrible. And this is my first time rewording the TTS disclaimer. While I standby my previous reasoning, I've been getting a lot of "stop using disability as a shield," which is kind of missing the whole point? I don't make disclaimers to not get mean comments, but if my message of, "be kind, be accommodating" isn't reaching people, it's worth putting some effort in to see if I can increase the odds of reducing hostility for TTS users as a whole. The "Spoilers" bit being shorter was just a desire to sync with the music better, don't read too hard into length-changes. Q: "Weird Route?" Do you mean "Snowgrave Route?" A: None of the routes have "official" names, but sometimes fan-names become so powerful it feels like they do. In-code the game variables refer to it as Route B, or, The Weird Route. (It's not consistent). Since I often need to refer to the Route types before I can make a Spoiler Warning, I prefer "The Weird Route" as it min/maxes the spoilers/clarity ratio. That is to say, if I say "Weird Route" to someone who hasn't seen Snowgrave, they won't obtain any new information beyond "there is another route." Where as, if I say "The Weird Route" to someone who knows of it as Snowgrave, the worst that will happen is they will say "Wait, do you mean 'The Snowgrave Route?'" On the reverse side, 'Snowgrave' implies a lot about the nature of the route (involves Noelle, probably involves a lot of death) and isn't mentioned until later in the route. Besides, there's only 2 Chapters right now. What if Chapter 3 doesn't contain Noelle at all, but still includes a Dark Creepy Route? Since I can't edit a video once it drops, this is safer for longevity too. Q: Where is cat version? A: I forgot to keep cat version in mind when I was editing, and now the screen is kind of cluttered. I can't figure out where to put cat with this much clutter so, no cat version today. Q: What happened to dog?! A Ewok is my roommate's dog, so sometimes he just follows 'em around the house. Don't panic if he's missing sometimes. Q: Did you know you misspelled Pirouette? A: EHAEHAEHAEHEAHEAHAE! Q: Wait you have a twitch channel?! Where is it?! A: Uh, I mean, there's no schedule, or voice, or commentary. Half the time I don't even explain what I'm doing or why, you'd just be watching me walk into the same wall in dead silence for hours. It's all the blandness of Bread with unpredictable Chaos timing that can range from "2am one night" to "10am another" to "9pm another." I don't even have emotes! If you're truly Determined to watch The World Most Boring Streaming I won't stop you: www.twitch.tv/halfbreadchaos but don't say I didn't warn you Q: Did you actually bury yourself in bread? A: Nah, it's metaphor bread. Everything I make has some degree of literal truth and playful joke-i-ness about it. Try not to get too bogged down overthinking it. Besides, if I had actually buried myself in bread, Quinn wouldn't be sleeping on the bread, he'd be eating it. He loves bread. Q: Where's the Patreon? A: Sometimes youtube eats the links, so if that happens, it's right here: www.patreon.com/HalfBreadChao... Seriously no pressure.

[@kevinm5940]

I'm pretty sure it's "Side B", like a casette tape, not "Route B"

[@candarus_collective]

I'm sorry you get flack for basic stuff like friendly disclaimers D: Great video though! I think people who are super dedicated to finding bugs (or features??) like this are fascinating.

[@dedo9990]

Dude i'm pretty sure you just wasted your time testing that mechanic on Jevil since I remember the same thing happening in the Susie and Lancer fight when I attacked Susie, and i didn't even need to lower her defense

[@kamilson-sy7id]

I hope you will do more mouse traps video :D

[@RaphielShiraha64]

@@dedo9990 yeah snowgrave spamton also has that, he started with negative defense

[@alzhanvoidsansado]

I think this a fun bite-sized snack kind of video. Definetly would like to see more of these. There are a lot of interesting but not particularly complex theories/observations you could talk about.

[@Gr4yscaler]

You should make it a series, it's very interesting!

[@TMSonicFan47]

Huh. Wow. It's cool to see how a complete accident lead to this video. It's a pretty interesting find if you ask me.

[@Dctr-mg8km]

This was a really cool exploration into the game. I'd enjoy seeing more short-form theory/game mechanics content if you find more things you want to make videos about.

[@flannsyn]

I don't know what merit might come from Spamton's poison but I as well took two vials on my main save just in case. Surely they will be crucial during the Roaring.

[@Octobeann]

Very well structured video, covered a lot of stuff without ever feeling like it's filler.

[@gibbhartin643]

I think the fact that is how the attack meter works is interesting from a coding stand point, and the TTS makes your channel be more recognizable, because from what I seen you are one of the few TTS theory channels, and most of the non-TTS theory channels have very similar voices and ways of talking (to my perspective at least), so the TTS is very unique and recognizable for that simple reason.

[@Reialine]

I find hillarious that Berdly's outfit in the dark world is only for show, you would think it would work as some sort of protection but nope, 0 Defense!

[@bearturtle6058]

undertale and deltarunes stats are pretty wonky. There's also Undyne having more defense without armor.

[@zeo4481]

@@bearturtle6058 It's funny cuz Toby actually was more worried he didn't include her armor being cracked after we don't save MonsterKid than the actual statline. As genius as Toby is he also is very weird when it comes to those stuff

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

well, stats change depending on emotion, so it aint that weird

[@icicleditor]

I love the idea of these smaller videos to spruce up a random day! This really sounds a lot more like a programming quirk than any thing super story relevant.

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

its in undertale too, its used to make sure you kill mettaton neo (hes got -4000 def) and probably used for betrayal kills as well. definitely not a programming quirk and probably will be used in deltarune but not in the ways described in the video

[@Busshhu]

i just wanna say, i really really like your channel

[@tetrisbit]

I look forward to every time you post. Your videos make my day and I wish your videos were 3 hours and never ended so I could watch all of them forever. Also, I think the TTS is really unique and interesting and is one of the reasons I like your channel slightly more! I think it wouldn't change too much if you did ever reveal your voice.

[@HalfBreadChaos]

Thanks, comments like this make my day. :D My voice might not alter the finished videos by much but it would certainly alter the comments I get and the production time. I've calculated this to be the lesser of the evils.

[@ASquared544]

“Will this be important? Probably not.” Toby, taking notes: “Yes. Probably not.”

[@Greatwolfpearl123]

YES! I just love these videos!!! 💖😁 Keep up these amazing videos! I was so excited this new vid was made! I’d like to watch more of these explanation videos, whatever you want to make is fine by me!

[@HalfBreadChaos]

Oh snap you peeps are so fast I haven't even pinned the FAQ yet. (Also thank you, I'm always so nervous when a new video drops, but then the positivity makes it all worth it).

[@ohno6919]

Ah, I learned about the pirouette cycle from this video and used it much more recently to finally beat Jevil for the first time! Good memories :]

[@RemnantCult]

Yes, I love that idea! Making this a series would be great if you're up for it!

[@Shrooblord]

Short-form like this is great! I love your longer lore analysis videos and they're the main reason I'm interested in your channel, but these off-the-deep-end dives into random trivia stuff are super entertaining too.

[@Misshowzat]

Fantastic vid. Dan from Game Grumps gave some interesting insight to Susie & the chalk. He said his Dad (Avi) & friends used to steal it & eat it because it would give them a fever for a few hours so they could get out of class. I've also heard sometimes people can crave chalk if they have a potassium deficiency often from not eating good food often enough. It would also line up with Queen & the bananas you collect. Queen's No.1 concern is Noelle's happiness & she's concerned about Susie to the point where she actually brings food to school for her if you talk to her. Anyway, hopefully this helps.

[@rayhaas6145]

Can't wait to watch!! Thanks for the amazing content 🙏

[@Violet111]

I'd love to see these become a series! I get caught up in the same little rabbitholes sometimes lol so seeing the ones that other people go through is just as exciting.

[@managingbusiness141]

Maus Traps is a genius series idea. I am 100% here for it. This video was extremely interesting, too! Your detective skills are phenomenal!

[@rauhillah3884]

FACT: when fight Susie with Lancer, purposely miss attack on Susie would still hit her with minimum damage.

[@coboldoconlaspada9139]

Omfg. Another video? Dude, Ur insane, for the quality of this stuff i tought u would take double the time u did. Ur awsome AND EFFICENT. I love ur content man, It gives me lots of the Happy chemical.

[@rai1578]

I really enjoyed this video. It's the kind of small and obscure thing that nobody else has really covered. I'd definitely tune in for more videos like this.

[@-ZH]

Wooo, yeah, data collection

[@Palasid11]

You are absolutely insane for going through the Jevil fight to test this theory! Great job!

[@mre-man2043]

1:21 "Well their goes MY weekend plans" a laugh track then proceeds to play at deafening volumes, bursting the eardrums of the cast, the studio & the audience themselves, some start screaming , others are absorbed into the cacophony of laughter -the April second eternal laughter incident

[@BouisV]

I love your videos, they're very high quality and very entertaining!

[@Awoken_YKW_Fan9001]

This combined with the infinite grinding exploit/glitch means you can literally not even hit Berdly and he'll fall in one hit. (somehow)

[@DeltaBlazin]

You know, this actually happened for me with Susie and Ralsei during the normal Spamton NEO fight. Yeah, i found this out because I wanted to try beating Spamton NEO while only using Kris, and while i did succeed, on my first attempt, Susie and Ralsei attacked on their own when I just tried to have them miss to make it work, but they attacked anyway.

[@Blocky_Frog]

I normally have a problem with TTS channels, but at least you use a voice that doesn’t make me want to rip out my ears, so thank you for being cool

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

the only tts that makes wanna rip out my ears is the mistake that is the tiktok voice

[@bluekon734]

Love the videos bro, they are always good fun.

[@laytonpro8655]

I only found your videos today but I am really enjoying your content, keep it up you’ve just earned a new subscriber 😄

[@HomeByMidnight]

oooh I love these videos! finding small gimmicks like this could lead to an overall larger theory, who knows plus it fills that hole of silence in waiting for chapter 3, so i'm all for this looking forward to more mousetraps!

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

i highly doubt its as deep as you think it is. minus defense has already been used in undertale to make sure mettaton neo dies in a single hit (mett neo has -4000 def)

[@Pinkflame1001]

YES!!! this video was awesome and I love the idea! keep it up!!!

[@CheesyLizzy]

Mousetraps sound like a great idea Also I just wanna say I really love your videos so far. They've made me think about theories and aspects of the game I'd never considered before ^^

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@jjQlLlLq]

No no no I'd be DELIGHTED if you make the mouse hole series!! 🙏 You'd be doing god's work at analyzing the game not only from the surface, but from the insides too. As a fellow hole diver, I also get excited over testing tiny minor things like that lmao. Alas, my life's a mess and so is my brain. I'd be glad to consume bites of knowledge from your videos.

[@NillTest]

The intro makes him awaken from his bread pile. It makes me smile.

[@mrb5940]

Cool video! Big fan of how you formated it

[@Legithiro]

The amount of dedication that went into this is impressive

[@junaidnizami7076]

Really interesting video. I think your series concept of mouse traps is pretty cool, small little tidbits of information that the game gives us but doesn't lead to anything big(as of now). Every channel does big lore videos unless you have something interesting and unique, such as the goner code video which I loved, I think the "mouse-traps" mini-series will help you find your own niche topic to discuss. Thanks for the content!

[@HalfBreadChaos]

Secretly everything I do is, to some level an experiment. There's the obvious "how does my audience respond to this" factor which I get through comments, and the technical "how does KZbin respond to this" which... has been fascinating. My previous video (the Closet Dark World) had a ton of animation, info, and jokes lovingly weaved into it, but it did pretty badly. I suspect this is because the Title and Thumbnail aren't particularly engaging. This video is the polar opposite, light on content, heavy on building intrigue through the thumbnail/title. Immediately this became my most popular video from the algorithm's perspective. This doesn't mean I'm going to stop making info-dense deep-dives but it tells me that shorter snappier videos are more profitable and that thumbnail/title are Actually Very Important. Not that I'm purely profit-driven, I just recognize that my ability to keep making videos in the future is strongly tied to how well my channel does. (If I can't support myself through the channel then I lose time to whatever job replaces it, which means less content). So there's an incentive to find a happy-balance. Shorter videos are better for informing people as well, since it's hard to remember every piece of trivia in a 20 minute ramble session. But uh, yeah! :D My pleasure. Thanks for the uplifting comment, I never imagined how big of an impact comments like this have until I experienced it from the creator-side. It still blows my mind.

[@junaidnizami7076]

@@HalfBreadChaos Thank YOU for the unique and interesting content! I've read your About section and I love your approach to diving deeper into these games. Not worrying about what the "right" thing to happen would be but exploring all that can happen. I'm excited to see how this approach will continue to manifest itself in your content. I'll be here sticking on for the ride, wishing the best for you going forward.

[@literallynobodytahgafa4186]

Best content ive seen in a while,keep goin!

[@Violeticy_]

Wow i really didn't know that That's so interesting Would lovee to see more videos like tho from you in the future

[@painslut]

That was pretty interesting! I'd love to see it become a serie !

[@gundhamstyle]

This video was recommended to me by KZbin, and I'm glad it was. It was super interesting to see how the defense mechanism works (honestly I thought the conclusion would be "It was a bug", so that was surprising) and like you said, how it could impact the story in the future ! (And I think there is a high chance it will, given that it's a Toby Fox game and with attention to detail, he would have patched it if it was useless) In short, this concept of video is really fun to watch (at least for me) and I hope you will make it a serie ☺️ (Edit : Also, thank you for making the subtitles available for your video !)

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

its probably just going to be use to make sure you land killing blows in the future chapters' weird routes

[@DrPepsi-bm6id]

8:15 I loved this explaination video, please make more!!! Have a [wonderfully] day !

[@rareprops]

Super interesting would love to see more videos like this!

[@SanMaster17]

I still can't believe you find so much stuff!

[@lynda3589]

Noelle didn't take to kindly to losing that spelling bee lol

[@terraclock]

i really enjoyed this video and it was pretty fun, but the longer more in depth videos about bigger topics are what i’m here for. if these take away time from making those videos, then i think you shouldn’t make these. if you are ever starved for ideas and you can’t think of any juicy topics, then these are great to push out until you can make a larger video.

[@RHVGamer]

you're really finding every single small detail in this game

[@Rosie-fd1fn]

dude you bring up new points to a game that I thought has been picked clean for lore or plot foreshadowing (with all the info we had). but stocking up for the winter with the poison, I've never seen anyone mention thag

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

thats just what he says when you try to buy something with a full inventory. its not s poison specific

[@noideawhatmynameis9071]

It’s a great video! Thank you for making it

[@Clockwork_Enby]

good vid and I think it’s a great idea for a series :)

[@eee-xd5bo]

This video is sick. Inrcedibly well done.

[@azira6620]

This was really good!!!

[@richardkirkland6805]

I actually love your use of the Text-to-Speech, since I find it weirdly charming.

[@ArtBySoup]

I clicked because I like delta rune, I stayed because your TTS screen and reasoning were awesome, thorough, and spread really great awareness. Ty

[@iamcre8ive]

Does it matter? Might not, but this is a very cool discovery :D All discoveries are cool for me ^^

[@rmjrmj4]

WOOOOOOW! This was so deep, I love it and YES you should make this a series, I'd love to watch more. Seeing the inner workings of this game inspires me. I think you've struck gold. P.S. What is the other half of the bread?! lol

[@berrystarcreations]

I like how he writes “mass murder” and “don’t do any of these things” it makes it sound like he means “Hey, guys, you can’t do mass murder! Just make sure you don’t kill people by accident?

[@hexagonalchaos]

bordley fight speedrun miss-only% kris glares to reduce burghley's defence, then noelle attacks but misses. repeat until birbley is dead.

[@Victorion_The_Gacha_Fairy]

lol misspells

[@ryandennison8754]

0:50 honestly, thanks for educating me. Had no idea about this.

[@Leo-kh1fd]

great video! i love your content :)

[@Miriam3742]

I enjoy these videos and they deserve more views

[@doubleoof7907]

Imagine if this is just a bug, it’s happened before, people get crazy lore ideas due to a glitch and then the devs just patch it

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

it was used in undertale so that mettaton (who has -4000 def) dies in one hit

[@Games4Life7712]

I've known this for quite a while, but never knew about it working on Burghley. I only saw someone do it by using pirouette on jevil to kill him easier, whiff an attack, and still hit.

[@Zoukos23]

Damn, if you can make such interesting videos while using TTS, then I should probably try it too 😳 I've always wanted to make videos like these, but didn't wanna use my voice for privacy reasons (and for other reasons, but privacy is always #1), so the TTS seems like a good solution. Played around with the TTS you mentioned for a bit and it seems adequately natural. It's obviously not the same as a real human voice, but it's way, way better than nothing.

[@user-jb9nz2fs2u]

as long as it isnt the stupid tik tok voice lol

[@GippyHappy]

Noelle: _Hit or miss, I guess I never miss huh-_

[@kormannn1]

Jevil was probably like: YOU'RE THE MOST BORING FIGHTER I'VE EVER SEEN, SEEN. CAN YOU DO ANYTHING? xD

[@Puptoon2022]

It’s probably not intentional but I like to think that just like missing an attack in Undertale is like sparing them, by missing an attack in the Snowgrave Route, doing damage is a form of mercy

[@cyclopsmouse2247]

Wow, maybe toby might use this if he doesn't already know about it..

[@moronribbons5774]

2:20 should also note, the blast resistance upgrades make rocket jumping cost less health as well, effectively allowing you to purchase an inherent gunboats effect that doesn't take your secondary...

[@Wyi-the-rogue]

great! love this stuff!

[@JezElectro13]

Imagine one of bosses being able to be defeated ONLY by that in one of last chapters.

[@aurawarrior1367]

I don’t mind the text-to-speech. It’s like the vessel is actually making a KZbin channel in the void and their sharing their theories with me

[@FloweyFanClub]

you are an absolute master of your tts bread. how do you do comedic deliveries with no direct control over delivery? i do enjoy the theory crafting diving directly into "oh. wait. that's a game mechanic." followed by BUT WAIT. THATS STILL SCARY.

[@bionicwither14]

You are a prophet. I may need to stock up for winter.

[@vehicle1291]

1:12 "peer pressuring into murder" dude... you've gotta try this new murder stuff, all the cool kids are doing it... it's, like, lit... fam...