[nikicherry1234]

What is ERAM in the Light World? Theory, because I haven't seen one yet.

Cloak / cape / blanket

Kris's red horned headband

Connected to the Knight, somehow. It's "mare" backwards. Knight-MARE

Random-access memory (RAM; /ræm/) *

Shadows

Something to do with a bat (wiffle/bese ball and winged mouse looking animal)

Other (reblog / comment)

Remaining time: 4 days 10 hours

I need to know what is the most prominent interpretation. What is ERAM? What is ERAM in the Light World?

* The two widely used forms of modern RAM are static RAM (SRAM) and dynamic RAM (DRAM).

I believe in random-access memory:

In computing, magnetic-core memory is a form of random-access memory. It predominated for roughly 20 years between 1955 and 1975, and is often just called core memory, or, informally, core.

Bad Memory - Using it depletes one HP unless the protagonist's HP is three or lower, in which case it restores all HP.

You threw the Bad Memory away. But it came back. [Drop]

Core memory uses toroids (rings) of a hard magnetic material (usually a semi-hard ferrite). Each core stores one bit of information. At least two wires pass through each core, forming a two-dimensional X-Y-wired array of cores.

The torus is an example of a toroid, which is the surface of a doughnut. Doughnuts are an example of a solid torus created by rotating a disk, and are not toroids.

A standard way to visualize a solid torus is as a toroid, embedded in 3-space. However, it should be distinguished from a torus, a surface which has the same visual appearance: the torus is the two-dimensional space on the boundary of a toroid, while the solid torus includes also the compact interior space enclosed by the torus. A solid torus is a torus plus the region inside the torus, with a non-zero volume. Real-world objects that approximate a solid torus include O-rings, non-inflatable lifebuoys, ring doughnuts, and bagels.

Even after magnetic-core memory was replaced by semiconductor memory, main memory was often still referred to as "core", particularly by people used to the term who worked on older machines with magnetic-core memory. The process of copying the entire content of a computer's main memory to a disk file for further inspection by a system programmer is still called a "core dump".

cat is a shell command for writing the content of a file or input stream to standard output. The name is an abbreviation of catenate, a variant form of concatenate. Originally developed for Unix, it is available on many operating systems and shells today.

In addition to combining files, cat is commonly used to copy files and in particular to copy a file to the terminal monitor. Unless redirected, cat outputs file content on-screen.

Verb: catenate (third-person singular simple present catenates, present participle catenating, simple past and past participle catenated)

To connect things together, especially to form a chain.

In formal language theory and computer programming, concatenation is the operation of joining sequential objects, such as character strings, files, lists or pieces of audio or video, end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In certain formalizations of concatenation theory, also called string theory, string concatenation is a primitive notion.

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as 1 and 0, but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, on/off, and +/− are also widely used.

... And this is how I connected ERAM to image Friend.

– Hey bro, what do you want to eat?

– The souls of the innocent.

– A bagel.

– Nooooo!

– Two bagels.

[amphithere564]

Personally I see the Mantleholder as a the "demon" Catti and Kris apparently summoned ages ago. More approximately a Darkner recreation of the emotions at the moment of the summoning like how the titans are just Fear, and other mix Lightner/Darkners seem to be appearing more often (Shadowmen (Darkners patterned off the shadows of a light world object), Sound Of Justice (Darkner patterned off of a dark world decoration rather then a physical light world object as their is no Gerson statues in the light world), Pink and Maddie (Lightner ghost possessing a Darkner), All of the Seven Flowers (Planters empowered by constant care and love) and such).

- it'd fit with how Toby Fox cited Omori (a game with a final boss which is yourself but evil (summarised horribly by me here but yeah)) as something that had already tread ground he wanted Deltarune too, and how the Mantleholder knows Kris intimately enough to actually ragebait them to a degree. (Aqua also exists and shares a lot of the Mantleholder's kris'isms and everyone has already yelled about how that is thematic and important)

- it'd explain why it has fire and cat connections (Fire through Kris and the dreemurs, Cat through Catti) through a "Darkners patterned after a particular event/trauma" sort of way. Which doesn't feel that far of a stretch for the story to reveal especially with how the Mantleholder said it'd be back/had work to do and how chapter 6 is probably going to not be as happy as the last ones. It was Chapter 3 that introduced Planter's with the hidden cactus so why couldn't it also be chapter 3 that secretly introduced some other types of weird Darkners. (The Knight comes to mind as another weird Lightner/Darkner situation)

- fits with the fact the boss's spites are called Shadow Mantle in the game AND in the fight the mantle itself has No Hitbox (eg you can walk through the mantle without taking damage) because it doesn't have a physical form. Instead holding form in whatever object it possesses, eg your video game character really was just scrapping with a peice of cloth in a life or death situation

- fits with why it is sometimes called Nightmare in the code and it's direct reference to one of the Zelda games with its "You cannot defeat us, let's rumble" line. With "Us" being used in a Mantleholder + Shadow Mantle it's possessing/holding way and as a parallel to the player. You know how a lot of people playing the game say "Us" when referring to Kris and the fun gang, same sort of thing there.

I can't entirely red string connect every thread about the Mantleholder there is to make this an irrefutable take (As other candidates like Asriel Mantleholder, Dess Mantleholder, Horned Headband Mantleholder, Prince alone in deepest Dark Mantleholder or Ice E Mantleholder all have their own bags of connections and reasonings), but still wanted to share at least one of my plausible takes on the Mantleholder considering its place in the story as an actual threat

So to actually answer this uhh. "I don't think the Mantleholder exists in the light world".

Also, last things last:

[ohandcounting]

I'm all for the Gaster agenda posting, but with how much it's been dominating the discussion it kinda feels like this to me.

[amphithere564]

Yeahhhhhh, fandom hysteria once again at work.

[vinnieairhead]

#fuckERAMerasure

[commanderruby]

i've noticed a lot of people either refer to the mantle boss as "eram" or "shadow mantle holder" especially in the tags and i'm like.

have literally ANY of you called it "nightmare"?????????

[amphithere564]

Personally use Mantleholder more then Nightmare or Eram because Nightmare isn't used enough for people to know what I'm talking about and I don't wanna clarify everytime while Mantleholder gets it across and Eram is a name just waiting to be deconfirmed in game as soon as they return. Plus the mystery identity they have lends itself to a "title" sort of name that Mantleholder is (nightmare sort of fits that too because it's a name that describes a thing instead of a name that describes a person foremost.)

All three names have merits for their use lmao, but agreeing more MFs need to know about nightmare being a related name to this freak

[clearfrogdeity]

Just Eram teaching some Old Friends a new trick:

[actualized-animal]

every chapter of deltarune has a secret npc who only appears if you leave and re-enter the room 1225 times while you have a bagel in your seventh inventory slot and the npc is a sentient doorknob and when you talk to them the music cuts out and they’re like “who’s that whispering in the trees, it’s two sailors and they’re on leave, pipes and chains and swinging hands, who’s your daddy, yes i am” and then within four hours there’s a thirty minute long video on youtube titled “ASGORE IS FRIEND??? DADDY THEORY EXPLAINED” and it already has 100,000 views and then a year later people call the next chapter disappointing because it was focusing too much on developing the main characters instead of explaining the doorknob guy

[amphithere564]

Reblogging to say that I do specifically like how half these theories have started to go "oh shit we actually need to include how this develops the characters" within the last year and have started to thread actual fricken storylines into their theories. Like, it's honestly entertaining when it's not specifically about the fandom hallucination darlings (Image_Friend, Dess and Gaster) (I'm bias as fuck against those characters purely because they show up so often that their over inclusion actually makes people ignore other important threads and thoery potential like Spade King specifically knowing what a soul dying looks like, Carol's fucking Everything, Rudy Holiday existing as the most fridged and useless character ever in a TOBY FOX GAME, Whatever the fuck is going on with Berdly and also the Mantleholder existing)

Like yes fucking pop off gang, prove Side B right by having your head too close to the path to see where we are going. I don't even wanna be mean when I say this but a lot of theorists could really help themselves by playing a mandatory scene only run of Deltarune where they only interact with the minimal amount of the game that is needed to get through it. Tho also, people having fun and not bashing on what people enjoy so I'ma shut my trap and probably do this type of run myself to get my head out of the sand.

[eyeballsoup7310]

Chat why are we surprised there are multiple FRIENDs. Like yes it’s a new confirmation but did nobody pay attention to the eram fight like at all. Folks. Yall. Guys. Guys? Hello is anyone there. fellas it’s dark in here where am I is anyone listeni

[amphithere564]

Mantleholder erasure and friend posturing has been WUAHGFHGHT but also really funny in a "damn Toby was right MFs with their face too close to the path ignore where they are going." Way.

Also thanks for the meme it's peak.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[sashaforthewin]

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

[kitsuneofthemist]

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

[airagorncharda]

OH HEY, THATS TOMORROW

[pikos-den]

MOON DAY MONDAY

[amphithere564]

Oh shit Moon Day Monday, LESFUCKINGGO

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

Reblog if you:

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

No one will know which is it

[weaselle]

This guy inspired me to repair my own macbook. First of all, you should know that I am not… like, I have to look up HOW to look up what my computer specifications are. Tech, that ware either soft or hard, is not a subject in which I experience comfort or competence. But my puppy peed on my keyboard, and I asked the apple store, or the fucking mac cafe, or the godsdamn Computer House Chill Zone or whatever cute ass name they have for their bullshit store, and they said it would be TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO REPLACE MY KEYBOARD. I’m not even exaggerating.

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

anyway, this guy is also fueled by spite, and doing holy work, and I have mad respect

[dragonfox-in-a-teacup]

This is awesome. Man is doing good ass deeds 24/7 because he’s giving people control.

[dantes-infernal-chili]

How dare you not leave a link to his channel, this guy is the savior of the modern world.

[the-original-b]

vittoria alla ribellione

[nonamehorse]

Fuck Apple, Fuck every big tech company

[theinfamousdoctorf]

iFixit: The Free Repair Manual

iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Let's fix the world, one device at a time. Troubleshoot with expert

And if you need the ‘proprietary’ tools; go here!

[twinanimatronics]

I Fixit is actually how I repaired my dad’s old iphone 12 and then claimed it as my own!

[lizardlicks]

ifixit also makes kits and instruction for nearly every part for consoles, computers, phones, tablets, just about anything. We’ve replaced multiple parts on our old 3Dses at this point. It’s not nearly as hard as you might assume and very worth it to learn how to repair your own electronics.

[proseuctorwalton]

Getting in on the Fuck Apple train

[amphithere564]

That screw fact is actually kinda fucking diabolical.

[3hkowalski]

I MUST PURIFY OFF!AU just for fun

Caine ->Judge, Jax->zacharie, ragatha->Sugar

I've been so addicted to Pepper Steak lately that I've had it on loop for the 100th time while drawing this

[lilacbunby]

@amphithere564 something you'd like image wise?

[amphithere564]

RAHHHHHHHHHH

[lcl-cultist]

After playing chapter 5 wr and seeing the new dialogue I came up with this. Gaster has been nothing more than a passive voice and only guiding us when necessary. Eram seems to be more active by stealing the mantle and showing the player the weird route where we get stronger. Not to mention Eram owns a pack of friends to hunt down Kris. If Eram is suppose to bring chaos it would make sense why they chose to toy around with the crystal holders. To show them they have no choices and that nothing matters in the end. It's going to be all the same so its better to get to the ending quicker.

The game of Deltarune is actually just a survey itself for Gaster to see what players do and how they act. After all toby did say that the ending is not important. Meaning your actions and experiences are the important thing here. That's why Gaster has been playing a more passive role during the normal route. He only intervenes when needed like with the knight and how he admires your determination to keep fighting.

[amphithere564]

Reblogging because this be affirming how passive Gaster has been this whole time while Eram has been hitting the gas on tormenting mfs

[squoobest]

DEVICE_PROTEIN

[gnarly-websurfer]

its crazy that everyone is hallucinating that the new Pink shop dialogue means gaster has a friend army when it's basically soft confirming that ERAM has been the secret overarching antagonist that everyone assumed gaster would be. ERAM was the "strange someone" that drove jevil mad, the caller who made spamton a big shot, the one thats actually shown to be in the bunker, the person who wanted gerson to use the shadow crystal, and the leader of the pack of FRIEND cats that Pink's body mentioned. every single thing this guy has done was credited to gaster by the fandom. insane stuff

[amphithere564]

Here's the part where someone mentions that Toby Fox said something I can't remember exactly about how another indie game already did what Deltarune was vaguely trying to do (Omori, I think it was. Which everyone pinned for the dark worlds/fantasy worlds and "real world" seperation.). Something something Eram is an evil/trauma manifestation Kris something something

[ohandcounting]

In Light Of The New Pink Shop Dialog

[amphithere564]

Saving this for personal use on friends when they have a comeback.

[meowing-at-u]

- shadow crystals are pieces of glass that "move like water in the hand"

- the vision that the shadow crystal shows us differs depending when and where you are in the story

- "the idea of discarding this felt very, very wrong" / "felt like trying to throw away someone's ???"

- seam confirms that they are the discarded, broken dreams of lightners: a physical manifestation of grief.

SHADOW CRYSTALS ARE LITERALLY THE TEARS OF LIGHTNERS

- asgore kept his 7 wedding flowers alive and healthy in glass cases for 2 decades past their day long lifespans

- glass = dreams

- broken glass = broken dreams

- "even when broken, I am more than glass" —Flower Man

- the 7 flower's desire is to reciprocate the care that asgore showed them

- the 7 flower's dark world forms are not only the flower itself, but the ENTIRE CASE: flower, soil, glass, and anything else underneath

CARE + GLASS (symbolically, literally) ALLOWS A FLOWER'S DREAM TO BECOME REALITY.

A dream must be realized to be brought to life.

- seam will purify all 5(?) shadow crystals into the PURE CRYSTAL

- pure crystal is not only one but multiple lightner's broken dreams, fused into a single incredibly powerful dream.

- darkness = water

- shadow crystals are, again, water in the light world.

- a dark fountain transforms EVERYTHING within the dark world. darkness ANIMATES inanimate objects.

- water = life

If the dark world can bring a dream to life, then could the PURE CRYSTAL lift a dream out of the shadows and into the light?

– — –

Someone stole the Shadow Mantle from Seam.

What's stopping them from returning and stealing the Pure Crystal, too?

[amphithere564]

Investing stocks here, Eram relevance tomorrow.

[scolojendra]

HEY ERAM FANS HOW WE FEELIN!!!!!!

[amphithere564]

ERAM NATION RISE

[quackels]

oh okay that happened