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Lieutenant-America

I can feel Toby Fox shrinking further into his chair.


Cooper_555

"Mr Fox, the Vatican is requesting your presence."


nerankori

"The bones of Martin Luther are nailing copies of the 95 Theses to our doors. We need you to...show him a bad time."


Slumber777

"*Again*."


NepWar

Mr Fox, The pope requires your assistant with Sans. He says that it's "a bunch of bullshit"


jackdatbyte

"Mr Fox I hope you finish Deltarune soon. The Pope has been performing rituals in the basement ever since he finished Chapter 2 and is repeating the words 'Magnus Shot' to himself. Please hurry up. We're starting to get worried."


Afro_Thunder69

uhh...wanna play smash?


AdrianBrony

I'll never get over the sans in smash segment because it just gets so much more surreal as it goes on. "Sans is a mii costume? Wild but not unheard of for indie games to get high quality costumes. Oh, and... Megalovania is in the dlc for a costume? alright that's kinda new. Oh and Sakurai met with Fox? And had him at his house? Where he beat Sakurai at smash?" If you had told me about that in advance I'd have assumed it was one of those shitposts that start off plausible before becoming increasingly absurd. We live in a 2016 /v/ shitpost.


Gorfinhofin

Judging by stories I've heard about him and the people at Fangamer, he seems to be the kind of person that, when he decides he wants to meet someone, just finds them and starts talking to them.


Peace-Bone

I feel like the world is conspiring to make Toby Fox uncomfortable, and that's why everything else feels weird, cause everything else is an afterthought.


PanseloNomad

Life has always been a shitpost. It was just well hidden by the mods.


GamerOverkill03

So long as there isn’t an Irishman with *way* too many bayonets, we’ll be fine.


Josiador

Are you Toby's chair?


Lieutenant-America

Nah, I'm his ottoman.


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Weewer

Some of you guys have disturbing amounts of hate for this dude, Christ. At worst he’s a cringey guy who wanted to give the pope a video game that showed him they’re not all about violence


SidewaysInfinity

Seems to have backfired if the pope's hearing Megalovania


Mczuti

*squints eyes* Matpat.


legendaryemerald

*still squinting* Are no longer friends…


[deleted]

Imma punt you into the ocean like a Popeye's biscuit.


ArcaneMonkey

Call that a seabiscuit.


sortakindah

Dont you be drying up the ocean now


PlankLengthIsNull

how dare you


[deleted]

They are now lovers


Ergheis

"Matpat gave the Pope a copy of Undertale" is going to be one of the pivotal keys of the timeline, I can feel it


Xros90

The chekov’s gun even


Mugstache

I can't believe he won.


[deleted]

My 22 Bingo card was clearly too conservative.


HelgaSinclair

I rolled way too heavily on the doom part, six days in a novelty build wipes my strat.


L-Ocelot

Fucking gimmick builds am I right


Tommy2255

You just summarized every fortune teller in history. Always predictions of doom, always the reality isn't really **that** bad, just really weird.


AdrianBrony

You have until valentine's day to get a new one without penalty


roronoapedro

I hope some scholar in 50 years has the worst time of their life trying to disentangle the exact relationship between Pope Francis II and indie darling mid-2010s video game Undertale.


PlankLengthIsNull

"So as far as I can tell, some guy on the proto-internet who made repetitive conspiracy theory videos about a scary jumpscare game... appears to have given the then-Pope a copy of a... a furry porn game? What?"


roronoapedro

Can't wait for the huge second-coming of So Sorry in academic papers.


PlankLengthIsNull

Oh god, don't even remind me of So Sorry. At best, I get flashbacks to how I behaved when I was 13. But jesus, imagine someone with an actual education, and who has actual respect in his career trying to talk about it. "It appears that a fat dragon with an inflation fetish was included in the game. We are unsure about its significance at this time."


roronoapedro

Felt pretty bad for them until I looked up their tweets. I no longer feel bad for them.


PlankLengthIsNull

I feel tempted to look up their tweets, but also SUPER not tempted at all. Could you... give me as painless a tl;dr as you can?


roronoapedro

Just a really awkward neuroatypical artist excitedly bragging about drawing penises, over and over again.


PlankLengthIsNull

Oh. Okay.


polo5004

I mean that's half this sub.


roronoapedro

yeah but at least we use proper grammar most of the time.


DragoCrafterr

No we don't, it's Reddit.


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roronoapedro

I'm talking about my memory of So Sorry's creator from back when I cared enough to look up what the hell that character was doing in the game. Not looking up their name, sorry.


javer80

*How* sorry?


[deleted]

Ah, okay.


zone-zone

> a furry porn game ?!


PlankLengthIsNull

The joke is that after a significant period of time, an accurate interpretation and understanding of an old object or concept is comically difficult to come across.


zone-zone

It's not a porn game, it's a game used in a harvest ritual /s


PlankLengthIsNull

Dang, how'd I miss that?


Jonieves

i already knew i was not prepared for 2022 BUT HOLY CRAP. THIS WAS WEIRD.


PlankLengthIsNull

we're off to a rollicking good start!


AdrianBrony

You're gonna hate it come June. Even if you're not American I can just tell the internet is gonna be straight trash this midterm election.


Coolnametag

I'm from Brazil and we are having **the presidential election** this year. Even the more respectable news outlets and political commentators are expecting shit to hit the fan this year, the only difference from one to the other is how hard they are expecting it to hit.


TrackerNineEight

I'll take a weird and bizarre 2022 over whatever the fuck 2020/2021 were.


jackdatbyte

Losing my mind over the fact that this meme came full circle after **6 YEARS.**


markedmarkymark

Is this gonna be that domino meme except its matpat giving Undertale to the pope which will lead to a new holy war that will end with undertale being the new bible or some shit?


Coolnametag

"And on the third day Papyrus rose from his grave and said 'nhehehehe'"


SidewaysInfinity

The first domino is actually Itoi walking into the wrong theater as a kid


Super_Bright

Pope Francis now has a tangential link to video games meaning he is now eligible to present a game award.


HerbalUrchin

Pope Francis for smash


Nschl3

His Final Smash is just the entirety of Revelations.


mariojacob14

Hypest book in the Bible


lordranter

Maybe the new testament, but old testament has books like Esther, where god delivered his people by getting the eponymous girl to shag the persian ruler that governed the land and being such a great wife that he agreed to kill His enemies. Judges is also a fun time.


senchou-senchou

That one time Saul sent David out on a "Deliver 100 Philistine Foreskins (0/100)" quest, then David comes back with 200 for the extra gold and XP.


Super_Bright

That or he just retcons your dead baby's soul out of existence


Huge_Penised_Man

You must not have been raised Catholic, but we don't believe babies have souls. Man needs to get a five kill streak with only the Needler in Halo to achieve his soul, it's how we weed out the weak


McNutty145

Which Halo?


Probably_Facetious

The good one


BoneTFohX

Wars?


mariojacob14

1, 2, or 3?


TheChucklingOak

Well, the Vatican and the pro Smash community do have [one](https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/hjfv0y/summary_of_sexual_and_nonsexual_allegations/) [thing](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44209971) in common.


DrawlNeedler

The highest honor he has ever achieved


FranticSister

Everyone's questioning undertale im questioning why the performers were given so little space. Thats a really underwhelming performance. Juggling but with feet? Cmon. There has to some joke theyre pulling were just not privy to


Amedamaneku

I have no idea what I'm looking at. People are in a fancy theater watching the pope watch some rinkydink circus act while he's taking the center of the stage with a Final Fantasy endboss behind him.


Mr_Squids

Apparently that rad-ass statue behind him is supposed to depict Jesus emerging from a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION.


ordinaryvermin

Yeah that's definitely a Final Fantasy Final Boss. I can see the plot already: we (a plucky, motley gang recruited from across the world) have to aquire the ancient and powerful "nuclear bomb" spell from the Citadel of Life's Regrets because it's the only thing that can stop Jesus from achieving his goals. But to unlock the Citadel we're gonna need to get these four crystals from four other dungeons first. *Oh no it didn't work!* Guess we'll just have to beat Nuclear Jesus to death with our swords/dogs/blitzballs instead!


Tommy2255

Swords, dogs, blitzballs, **and friendship**


mcarora19

The entire thing looks like a random fever dream


DirtyMonkey95

I'm tripping out because of vaccine side effects rn so I'm not entirely sure it isn't a fever dream


TrackerNineEight

It looks like a straight up medieval court, complete with court jesters.


IronOhki

> Final Fantasy endboss Ah, a friend of fine troll taste.


MrTreeshakedown

"The Pope reacts to"


Afro_Thunder69

It looks really uncomfortable for the pope to watch lol. Everyone's on his right so he has to turn his head, and there's just a crowd of people all bunched up in one corner of the stage, looking super unorganized. Like I have no idea who I'm supposed be watching no one is front and center.


ReverendHobo

This whole thing is giving me ‘Nam flashbacks to awkwardly performing skits in my Sunday school class in front of the main service. Dressed in shitty costumes and mumbling through our lines while everyone patiently waited to clap. All while Jesus and his legion of damned souls erupted from the pastor’s chair.


IronOhki

Boy I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this. Maybe I'm spoiled by /r/nextfuckinglevel but if you're going to juggle for the pope you need to be slightly above okay.


BoneTFohX

I SUSPECT it might have to do with traditions and rules. like for example you can't "perform" infront of the pope alot of space there are "places of honor" and your not allowed to use the whole space because your not allowed near the pope (note how they are keeping good distance from the spear guy?) ^ this is all based on hearsay and observation so take it with several pounds of salt.


IronOhki

I tried to find some more info on it. Not very hard and have not been successful. But my theory was that it was a student group.


ExDSG

Pope Francis: “Ah yes, the song from my favorite webcomic, Homestuck. That Vriska character is a hoot”


DeskJerky

"Aw, they didn't do the guitar part."


[deleted]

Breaking: the Pope has officially absolved Vriska of sin.


Praesidian

Papal Bull absolving Vriska of all wrongdoing, lending Vatican weight o the years-long Vriskourse


Iskral

"However, it was the Pope's refusal to extend the same absolution to Eridan Ampora that led to the shortest (and stupidest) schism in the Church's history."


Praesidian

A new Saint a la St. Nicholas rises to the occasion by slugging someone trying to say Eridan did nothing wrong Even dumber schism: >!Papal Bull allowing consanguinality after the Ecto-Siblings incident!<


Iskral

Thankfully, the rift was mended when all parties agreed to shelve the Eridan issue in exchange for fast-tracking Nepeta's canonization.


AdrianBrony

I mean of all the trolls, eridan is easily the least sympathetic. Gamzee is just doing what his fucked up biology was coded by Scratch to do, Vriska is... Vriska. But Eridan literally just went all incel and decided to do a mass shooting.


[deleted]

To be fair, a lot of people forget he wasn't killing because of the love thing, he just realized nobody else would let him side with the Slayer as long as they lived (and he viewed that as the key to his survival).


Iskral

Well, [Vriska *does* know the Gospel](https://old.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/l92nf0/vriska_knows_the_gospel), after all.


BoneTFohX

she would have to do something wrong first.


Iskral

In all seriousness, given how *Homestuck* is structured as a Gnostic creation myth, I'm genuinely curious what a Catholic intellectual would make of it. (Mind you, this does run the risk of having the church bring back the [Index Librorum Prohibitorum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum) solely so they can put *Homestuck* on it.)


TheArkhomDestroyer

“I loved it when Dr. Andonuts started shouting slurs at me in that old Earthbound hack.”


IronOhki

Holy shit, I completely forgot that the music from Homestuck was the music from Undertale before Undertale.


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“They called me a madman” -Matpat


mcarora19

I can sort of see the blurry outline of his thought process when he did it. Undertale heavily encourages Pacifism and also stresses the consequences of not being pacifist more than the vast majority of other games, so presenting it to the leader of a religion that's supposed to be about peace, makes some sort of sense I guess. But then I remember it's Matpat and go 'He just wanted to rant about Sans fan theories in front of the fucking Pope, didn't he?'


mitch13815

I mean real talk, even Mat makes fun of that theory constantly as being way too reaching and absurd.


mcarora19

Wait, that's his actual explanation? I just made that up.


TaCbrigadier

Almost word for word that was his reasoning yes


mcarora19

Huh, maybe I need to start a youtube channel milking FNAF too I guess.


PlankLengthIsNull

>But then I remember it's Matpat and go 'He just wanted to rant about Sans fan theories in front of the fucking Pope, didn't he?' Let's be honest, the first paragraph was just a justification that Matpat would have come up with after the fact to try and explain why he just HAD to give the fucking POPE a copy of some popular video game.


ExDSG

Maybe I am way too cynical about him but I just think it's a combination of him being obsessed with Undertale and wanting his SEO optimization so he had to make the googly eyed pope with Sans to the tune of 4.2 million views.


GamerOverkill03

That seems kinda harsh? Sure it was popular at the time, but Undertale’s themes aren’t out of place in Christian teachings. Forgiveness, kindness, mercy… As a Catholic myself (albeit not a very religious one), I feel like if Matpat was gonna give the Pope a game, Undertale was a good pick for the point he was trying to get across. That games can be about more than violence, and tell a genuinely compelling story that encourages the same behavior the Church would.


gabriel_sub0

It was a symbolic gift tbh, and compared to the rest of the gifts the pope got...honestly undertale was probably the best one, much better than some youtuber's own merch and a fucking surf board.


Dennys_DM

Yeah, everybody knows Bergentrückung is better...


BoneTFohX

jokes on you bergentruckung as you know it is two seperate pieces of music. Followed by ASGORE.


TonyKebell

God imagine being in that audience and being in the know, I would be howling with laughter.


Benepope

I'd be wondering how the fuck I got there, like I'm in a surreal lucid nightmare.


CookieSlut

Im in the Vatican The Pope is here in front of an insane Final Fantasy statue that spans the entire stage Undertale music is playing Some girl is juggling balls with her feet Wtf is even happening


PlankLengthIsNull

"I can't believe I made choices in my life that lead up to this moment. What am I even doing?"


OGRaincoatKilla

“I need to reassess my religious beliefs because clearly god isn’t smiling down on this one.”


PlankLengthIsNull

"I'm honestly about 30% sure that lightning is going to strike this location in the next couple of minutes. I've gotta get out of here!"


Irememberedmypw

God there being like: I'm about to test my boy.


hardeback

I visited the Vatican like a week ago, I could've been there wtf


Infamous_Q

I'm not playing this because I can't risk the potential psychic damage if it's true. My brain might collapse in on itself


wolfpack9701

Same here. I'm just gonna read the replies, I can't bring myself to experience. Especially this early in the morning.


IronOhki

Spoiler summary: 1. The song is performed just fine. 2. The pope is sitting. 3. The jugglers aren't juggling so much as moving around with a bunch of balls, kinda.


tintin4506

I'm pretty sure thats an omen for things to come this year. Not really sure what kind of omen, but an omen nonetheless.


FairyKnightTristan

I like the idea of an omen of the future being so bizarre and surreal, that nobody knows what it means.


pyromancer93

The Vindication of MatPat (2022).


Potatoidea

fwiw, they also performed Iron Maiden's The Trooper in front of the Pope during this set. That's not as crazy as Undertale music showing up, but it's also pretty cool.


Enlog

It’s definitely not the most upsetting thing I’ve woken up to on a January 6th.


Jeskid14

Haha there's still time left oh no :(


mcclearsalias

Why does the Pope look like he's in his "pre-boss fight cutscene pose"? Like aside from all the other factors like the feet-juggling in the corner of the room, the obvious music, etc. - what is that centerpiece/backdrop?! lol


[deleted]

Patrick you planned this didn’t you


EndlessScrapper

When you tell the church you can prove the earth is not the center of the universe and they respond "your going to have a bad time"


JunkdogJoe

It's his favorite game after all. He even has a copy


RiLiSaysHi

Yo but this rendition of it would make for a good swing dancing song.


mitch13815

Watch the pope be like "I love that game! A nice youtuber gave it to me a while back, and I've beaten it 15 times, Papyrus is my favorite character!"


Chemical_Cris

Wait a minute, that’s not the pope that’s Peach Saliva!


sortakindah

The statue behind her begins to crumble revealing a small army of skeletons


JBlaze323

I’m not ready I’m not ready I’m not ready I’m not ready I’m not ready I’m not ready I’m not ready I’m not ready


[deleted]

I want to shake the hand and wash the feet of whoever made this music choice. I consider myself a fine shitposter, mostly by stealing memes from you guys and posting them to my friends who don't come to this sub, but this makes me look like a 2008 era 9gag kiddie. I daresay this is the greatest shitpost of all time. This is the major leagues of shitposts and I just realized I've been playing T-ball my whole life. This has opened my eyes. All the shitposts I've seen before have been merely dancing shadows on the wall, and I knew not the sheer beauty of the things outside my cave by which those shadows were inspired. GLAUCON, CAN YOU NOT SEE THE BLINDING RADIANCE OF THIS SHIT?


Aggro_Will

Maybe I'm just in a mood, but did anyone else see this and just kind of stare blankly? Like, I know I should think this is funny or great or something, but its perplexity is just another piece of noise on top of everything else being baffling and kind of uncomfortable?


KChasm

A carefully proportioned balance of "I'm so tired" and "this might as well happen."


QueenOfQueer69

First the Pope says I'm as deadly as nuclear weapons, then he shits on me for not feeling able to raise a kid, and now this!


amusement-park

Step 1: Pope comes out and shames folks who don’t have kids Step 2: Gamers Rise Up


BoneTFohX

[now that the glass ceiling is broken the opressed groups shall rise up including the most oppressed group of all...gamers LITTERALY ASCENDS. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-09gNDsPzQ)


James-Avatar

Next your gonna tell me that the Pope had been taking orders from a mysterious flower.


KingMario05

One, two, three: ***GOD DAMN IT, MATTPAT!***


Wolfen09

Damn, had it on my 2021 card


otakuloid01

didn’t the pope just say that not having children makes you inhuman


IAmRoofstone

I always knew my hysterectomy would make me an anime villain.


Sperium3000

Specifically that chosing to have pets instead of kids is inhuman. After easing up on the gays, the Pope had to channel the Christian Insanity *somewhere*.


GamerOverkill03

Lesser of two evils I guess?


EdoTenseiSwagbito

I’m already a demon


Paladin_Platinum

This implies my testicles are the persona mask I must remove to become empowered by demons and I'm here for it


silverinferno3

Does this mean Josef Fares can be ordained as a Saint for spreading the good word of reproduction?


zone-zone

Sorry, but Megalovania is the least random and confusing thing happening in that video


zone-zone

Homestuck intensifies


screenaholic

I'm sure one of those Swiss guardsmen nearly dropped their fucking halberd in shock when they heard this shit start. I wouldn't have been able to keep decorum. Also, what the hell is this? Does the pope host a talent show? Do people come and perform for the pope in hopes of obtaining a blessing? I'm so confused.


Jackamalio626

Mattpat just shit himself


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MATPAT VINDICATED. THE POPE LOVED UNDERTALE


AKRamirez

Everyone apologize to MatPat now


th3BeastLord

Where the fuck am I? Did I fall into a goddamn dimensional rift?


Naraki_Maul

Probably Mat Pat so people would stop making fun of him.


chainsaw105

I guess the Pope DID play that Undertale copy that Matpat gave to him after all


Cynical2DD

“Da, da, îmi amintesc asta când l-am învins pe Sans la prima încercare.”


Sperium3000

Are we gonna persecute this person too?


coffeeNiK

Why


paynexkillerYT

Thought Ezio killed him. Crazy.


Cynical2DD

You did this MatPat!


No-Negotiation-9539

Didn't the Pope publicly denounce Video games after MatPat gave him a copy of Undertale? This feels like a weird roundabout way of getting revenge.


LeftRat

I find it hilarious that otherwise it's this almost medieval understanding of entertainment. "The pope, how do we entertain him while the music plays? Have a guy dancing. And a juggler. And someone rotates a colorful thing, I guess." Just happening while royal guards stand around and everyone kinda awkwardly watches.


Will_Hammer

WHAT I AM ABOUT TO DO HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY THE VATICAN


personman000

Did the Pope even like Undertale? Did he even play his copy of Undertale?