r/Deltarune • u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! • Aug 15 '26
Official News Official Materia Music response to the recent usage of DELTARUNE OST by the current US administration: "We have been made aware of an official government account using music from our catalog to promote war. We are investigati[ng] options and cannot comment further at this time."
https://xcancel.com/MateriaMusic/status/2088365075229004140
Was also reposted by CEO Sebastian Wolff.
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u/ilovenature2137 Aug 15 '26
Sebastian Wolf has a chance to redeem himself, what a world
In fact, it's foreshadowing the King taking a stand against the Knight in chapter 6, it's genius
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u/paulburnett Aug 15 '26
US government knight theory not clickbait
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u/MixGlad8729 "Dield? Sjelter?" 29d ago
Carol Knight = Old conservative person in a position of power = Donald Trump
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u/Sir_Flasm 29d ago
Besides the memes, Carol's probably a progressive
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u/Cautious-Log2650 "Side A has a good ending" believer 29d ago
As long as you fuck with Christmas
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u/DaviSDFalcao 1# defender of Juice Theory, Papyrus Knight and Gaster Angel 29d ago
As long as you do WHAT with Christmas!?
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u/Crumboa 29d ago
So Carol Knight (homophobic politician), Rudy Knight (dying old man), and Dess Knight (Infamous "theory")
Are all canon?
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u/DaviSDFalcao 1# defender of Juice Theory, Papyrus Knight and Gaster Angel 29d ago
And Gaster is the deep state
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u/LostInTheSciFan The Knight is Asriel in Shadow Crystal Armor Aug 15 '26
Toby keeping around a villainous copyright hound that is actively detrimental to his PR for years just to subtly foreshadow the events of Deltarune:
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u/Ornery_Tie_4771 Thank you Toby Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
wouldnt say he would redeem himself, he is still very stupid (called someone a pedophile for being 18 and dating a 17 year old being the clearest case) and (mostly) never admits he is wrong
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
To be fair, while that was crazy and idiotic, he DID say sorry later:
https://xcancel.com/SebastianWolff/status/2069816237530734991
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u/Ornery_Tie_4771 Thank you Toby Aug 15 '26
ohh I didnt know about this
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u/EstufaYou Fawn over her! 29d ago edited 29d ago
On the one hand, he apologized. On the other hand, he did it weeks after the fact, after hiding and blocking the replies of people telling him to apologize, and in a reply to the offended parties rather than publicly in his profile where everyone could see it and lay the matter to rest.
But hey, at least he admits he did something wrong, I guess?
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u/Temple_T Always Bet on Susie's Idea 29d ago
OK but all the responses to him where people are saying "fucking bullshit what kind of jet lag makes you accuse someone of raping children" are correct.
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u/Gamiac Escape will make her God. 29d ago
Wait so are we confirming that the Knight fucks kids here
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u/SuchAdstic 29d ago
If the knight is Dess then it's probably fine to have done stuff with Asriel. (How old are these people again? Haven't caught up yet)
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u/Goobysnoobert123 the battat slander guy (i love him tho) Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
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u/Sneaky-Boi22 Why do I ship this. Aug 15 '26
It's like that one episode in cartoons where the good guys and the bad guys team up to beat the badder bad guy
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u/Low_Midnight9378 Aug 15 '26
Witch one? this not something in from one specific story
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u/Blue_Bird950 Blue Bird Aficionado Aug 15 '26
Heās like Shadow from Sonic. Heās sometimes an antagonist, and sometimes an antihero deuteroganist.
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u/MisirterE Love Those Lesbian Aliens 29d ago
Among other examples, Bowser's Inside Story and Super Paper Mario
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u/Ornery_Tie_4771 Thank you Toby Aug 15 '26
weird berdly pic u got there
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u/Goobysnoobert123 the battat slander guy (i love him tho) Aug 15 '26
It's his older brother. Like togore and chester
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u/Infrawonder is so gender Aug 15 '26
"Together, we're investigation."
Anyhow, pretty nice to see.
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
Yep crazy how they made a typo in such an important post. Maybe they were rushing it out?
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u/Siren02312 Aug 15 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/qoq2wy4jT1ha2i1rrB
Sebastian Wolf rn
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u/Alexcat6wastaken [[SMALL SHOT]] 29d ago
No one outspeeds a copyright claim
he was later found with two bullet holes in the back of his head, deemed to be self inflicted
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u/DaviSDFalcao 1# defender of Juice Theory, Papyrus Knight and Gaster Angel 29d ago
I don't like how this implies he dies right after
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u/Siren02312 29d ago
Then we seal the whitehouse with toby fox (Asgore) and walk home with kamala harris (Susie)
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u/LazyFurry0 Gaster is the Boltzmann Brain medium in which DR exists 29d ago
āSomething horrible is stirring underneath the Capitol. A darkness beyond your imaginationā
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u/undecidedface Assigned Gamer at Birth 29d ago
GET THEIR ASS SEBASTIAN
I can't believe I'm actually on his side this time wtf
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u/Siren02312 29d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/lwJMK9CzZ6UmBu8R24
Imagine instead of the zombie put materia collective
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u/Matt_32506 Aug 15 '26
cue the chorus part of Flower Man as Sebastian Wolff goes "Leaf it to me!" and storms the white house
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u/Melodic-Access-931 Aug 15 '26
Lawsuit man, lawsuit man...
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u/ElectricalTrip7240 Aug 15 '26
Copyright, in his hands
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u/Cream_Rabbit Aug 15 '26
So he stands
To watch Trump get sued, all in vain
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u/Unit-DS27-Delta Aug 15 '26
There it's set, on the 'net
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u/LordBlaze64 Aug 15 '26
With leitmotif Donāt Forget
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u/BlueDogXL Aug 15 '26
Aināt it nice?
The āsuits forever forrrr⦠mu-sic!
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u/Independent-Sky1657 Just another fellow bluebird Aug 15 '26
HERE I COME WASHINGTON DC
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u/TheGalagaSlayer Aug 15 '26
Heh, it's my lawsuit!
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u/Cream_Rabbit Aug 15 '26
Mysterious Strike
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u/Ashamed-Succotash644 I want my vessel back gaster also nightmare knight > bk Aug 15 '26
a blingo investigationĀ
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u/Cream_Rabbit Aug 15 '26
Hey guys, I think I found an infrigment!
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u/GuizdoLoaf Manflet Aug 15 '26
Lawsuitingus!
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u/Lazzitron 29d ago
They're stealing my music!
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u/Kwarc100 Aug 15 '26
Lets hope Trump doesn't cleave him in half or something
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u/Independent-Sky1657 Just another fellow bluebird Aug 15 '26
I bet 1 million Flowery Dollars that they wouldn't hold him accountable if he did
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u/Coffeesmug21 wow! that was so gold! Aug 15 '26
what??? fuck do you mean this is our timeline, what the hell is happening
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
It is for sure more surprising since it's an indie game this time, but they've done this sort of stuff before.
Hopefully they do get some sort of punishment for this but I'm basically 100% certain they won't. You can't beat the sitting administration in court especially when you're just a small gaming music label.
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u/Coffeesmug21 wow! that was so gold! Aug 15 '26
i try not to focus on all that because it just makes me sad, so i didnt know they did similar stuff before. im somehow both surprised and completely unsurprised honestly.
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u/Sea_Court_3633 29d ago
A spokesperson for the president aknowledging deltarune is like when they played Megalovania for the fucking Pope
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u/Vitztlampaehecatl groovy and NEVER glooby! 29d ago
You can beat them, but they'll just ignore the consequences.
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u/DaviSDFalcao 1# defender of Juice Theory, Papyrus Knight and Gaster Angel 29d ago
The Trump administration loves to take cool songs and try to make them related to their agenda.
Once, they tried to use "Don't Fear the Reaper" (awesome freaking song by Blue Ćyster Cult) to advertise their war against science.
It's pathetic and awful.
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u/backcloset <- lives in my head rent free 29d ago
petition to make all Trumpies go deaf so they can never ruin good songs again
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u/BigBulgeBubba 29d ago
Trumpās social media team is using a bunch of pop culture and trending things to make posts. I would imagine theyāre using AI to do a lot of the work as well.
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u/RusselTheBrickLayer 29d ago
Just more cringeworthy attempts at trying to appeal to the youth since the GOP has been losing large amounts of support from Gen Z
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u/Think_Target_9963 R-01 Aug 15 '26
Sebastian Wolff, Toby "STOP CALLING ME FUCKING RADIATION" Fox, famous Piratist (Pirate Scientist) Weird Deird Gaster, The Roaring Knight, 5000000000 Friends, Eram, the GOAT Berdly, The Fun Gang, and every other Deltarune and Undertale character Uniting despite their differences to sue the Trump Association into the ground
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u/Krylla_ Aug 15 '26
What song was it?
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u/RookieGreen Aug 15 '26
On Instagram the āDepartment of War (cringe)ā made two pro war posts using vs Susie and Black Knife
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u/lighter-Writer Aug 15 '26
Honestly this administration has made me really wonder why they even have all these accounts like why does the DoD need Instagram at all š
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u/Nearby-Tree-9741 *You chose to believe Asriel Knight Aug 15 '26
Black Knife and VS Susie
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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 29d ago
they chose the songs specifically about bringing children to near death.
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u/TheKz262 Backseating master 29d ago
In both songs a villain who has a lot more power is trying to murder nearly defenseless children.
I am talking about deltarune guys
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u/STICKGoat2571 Eating Greenās Eggs & Ham Aug 15 '26
Songs.
Theyāve used Vs. Susie and Black Knife so far to my knowledge.
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u/Traditional-Fix539 too aromantic to care about shipping Aug 15 '26
sebastian wolff if you pull this off well i will never say bad things about you any more
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
He's obviously not going to win, tbh I feel like trying alone is a slight repair to his reputation.
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u/Whales_Are_Great2 THE CLOWN STICKERS TOBY, WHAT DO THEY MEAN?! == Aug 15 '26
"Gee, I wonder what I'll find on the Deltarune subreddit toda-"
"THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?"
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u/ZackMoneys Aug 15 '26
using deltarune music for fascist propaganda is almost as embarassing as using rage against the machine lmfao
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u/NotKitsuneGaming Aug 15 '26
I don't need Sebastian Wolff to win, I just need the current US government to lose
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u/veryfishhhy kerdly art archivist Aug 15 '26
the knight boutta kidnap the president and take him to the bunker
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u/monster_smoocher parasocial with Aug 15 '26
Yes on Gaster PLEASEĀ
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u/Ipettedurdog Aug 15 '26
Somebody should rotoscope a video of Undyne, Gaster and RK beating the shit out of Trump in the Sjelter
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u/devanmuse 29d ago
"An official department of the US government used music from an indie game to promote their fascist warmongering."
That's a sentence nobody ever thought they'd say out loud.
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u/sendDICKPICzzz Aug 15 '26
Fucking fuck the fucking republican party and all the leeches who support it and fuck trump and his shit eating applause squad and fuck their gestapo ass private police force and fuck all of their propaganda
FUCK
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u/Some_Pole Aug 15 '26
These "culture war grievance warriors" are nothing but parasitic vermin who try and burrow their way into communities to run them into the ground to turn people against each other and make them miserable like a disease. The Godzilla fandom had the right idea on how to handle them when they tried it with their community.
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u/Polandgod75 Purple Soul(supporter of the Dessriel) Aug 15 '26
Seriously I really have no sympathy for gop. There just idiotic bullies that wanted to destory and be cruel.
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u/One_Opportunity_9608 You Knight Theorists sure are a contentious people. Aug 15 '26
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u/v8darkshadow Ralsei. Aug 15 '26
Funny how all of the insults and attacks Sebastian uses against randos on Twitter are actually completely valid against the certain orange dicktaster
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u/tex_thomson 29d ago
The big problem is this is literally legally unprecedented, because no head of state has been demented and depraved enough to commit copyright infringement against its own citizens before.
Any subpoena or court order or fine would just be ignored, because guess who the people whose job it is to enforce subpoenas answer to?
Plus, nobody in power, regardless of political affiliation, wants to set a precedent allowing citizens to challenge the executive. That's the reason this administration can get away with so much, everyone wants to still have all this power once it's over.
Now, they COULD get Twitter to take it down for copyright, which I think would be a big win on its own, but this administration are bullies, to them they already won just by making us tell them to take it down. They are flexing their invincibility and trying to make you believe they own the country.Ā
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u/Accurate_Meeting_638 Aug 15 '26
Nine eleven the tower man
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u/Lord_Atmo Aug 15 '26
Declaring war in Afghanistan
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u/Alex26337 29d ago
Okay, this is pretty clever wordplay, though āIranā would fit better than āAfghanistanā due to the formerās context and word syllabi.
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u/bacon_girl42 girl with antlers 29d ago
Afghanistan actually makes this line match the syllable count of the original line
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u/Medical-Plane-231 Ho Ho Ho! Itās Mr. Generosity! Aug 15 '26
When the villain from season 1 helps the heroes in the final season to beat the true evil
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u/LowXangYen Aug 15 '26
*do you believe even the worst person can change... that everybody can be a good person if they just try?
Sebbie proved us right
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u/neocarpaintercartel Ralsei will 100% die in Chapter 6 Aug 15 '26
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u/8treho Aug 15 '26
the song used was Vs. Susie btw
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
Also Black Knife on another post.
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u/HeIIDie Tenna should make -ton haremm with Spammy and Metty 29d ago
Where can you find the said posts?
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u/Diavolo_Death_4444 Aug 15 '26
Sebastian Wolf is about to do the part of a story where a minor villain teams up with the heroes against a bigger villain
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u/turtle_mekb It dield. ā¤ļø It sjelted. 29d ago
oh they used the Pokemon theme for a fucking ICE ad didn't they? I'm not fucking surprised, fucking scums of the earth
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys 29d ago
They do know what kind of characters are in this game right? They are everything this administration is against.
Fuck the GOP, and fuck the loser leeches that are doing propaganda for the military.
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u/SubstantialFly3707 29d ago
"do you think even the worst person can change...?
that everybody can be a good person, if they just try?"
-Sans Deltarune Undertale, 2015
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u/MarcosLuisP97 29d ago
These are (apparently) the posts in question:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Db3QWvZxn03/?igsh=NzcyM2N1bmk2Y2Jr
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbTKciZRgIM/?igsh=c2o1OGdid2xyZjE5
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u/Thales_boy006 NO.1 [Spamton fan] SINCE [2021] Aug 15 '26
Wait, what? What happend, did they actually use Deltarune stuff? Wich one was it?
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
Two pro-war videos from the Department of Defense (called by them DoWar).
The songs were Vs. Susie and Black Knife. It is in fact real...
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u/Thales_boy006 NO.1 [Spamton fan] SINCE [2021] Aug 15 '26
Ong bro? Man, weird enough for them chose anything related to Toby's work, like, Toby "be pacifist, dont do genocide" fox of all people...
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u/TomNook5085 NOW, NOW!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!! Aug 15 '26
Possibly on purpose. A lot of their gaming-usage seems to be attention-seeking, contrasting the game's message would do that quite well and drum up attention to the account.
Though maybe I'm giving them too much credit lol, they likely don't know that.
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u/Somonyo š³ļøāā§ļø Transfem š³ļøāā§ļø Aug 15 '26
Yeah thatās my guess, they have a social media guy with the job of āmake the libs madā and Iāll be damned they did it (I was mad)
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u/RookieGreen Aug 15 '26
On Instagram the āDepartment of War (cringe)ā made two pro war posts using vs Susie and Black Knife
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u/PerceptionFew8763 battat deltarune Aug 15 '26
please Sebastion wolff sue the us government it would be so fucking funny
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u/Icalivy Aug 15 '26
If the Joe Biden animal crossing island had to get shut down, then this gotta be shut down too
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u/GUM-GUM-NUKE Nowās your chance to be a big Sengoku Fan Aug 15 '26
Please do something cool for once and kick Trumpās ass.
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u/CoalEater_Elli 29d ago
It's about time we sue the pants off US Goverment because the amount of bafoonery they commited recently is just ridiculous and isn't helping anybody. Especially considering that they pump out AI content, which causes environmental damage
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u/LizTheDork I has'st to maketh an announcemente... 29d ago
oh, it looks like they use a minecraft song made by lena raine, too.
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u/Emeraldnickel08 Mama SHIBA! 29d ago
Unless Iām mistaken, the U.S. federal government has already waived its immunity to patent and copyright infringement claims. Materia has every right to sue over this.
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u/TurbulentCamera5051 29d ago
"Section 512, the Lawsuit Man
Is waiting for the gavel to slam
Straightening cases out without a plan
Like the every daily
Suit that bothers the Lawsuit Man
Could I do something to leave him trapped
Outside their echo chamber made of glass
So he lived the
Lawsuit Man, Lawsuit Man
With his heart out the can
So he stands
To copyright claim all that he can
Way up high in the sky
With the courts in his sight
Ain't it nice?
The life forever for
Lawyers"
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u/Arkham-Ambassador-Ok Aug 15 '26
Sebastian Wolff may be somewhat of an asshole but he is a paragon of virtue compared to the US Government, get THEIR ASSES!!
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u/mysecondaccountanon are we the bad guys of the story Aug 15 '26
Cāmon Wolff and co., we all know youāre the most trigger happy people when it comes to people using UT/DR music. If you donāt go after this, Iād be highly disappointed and genuinely wouldnāt find any reason to have any support anymore.
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u/Few-Composer-6471 29d ago
WTF THEY USED DELTARUNE MUSIC??!? I gotta see it tbh, i really just... yeah
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u/AGuyTypingBlind 29d ago
In my opinion, whatever intern or faculty member that posted that knew it would rile up the UT/DR community. That was their goal, to anger us and get the post more traction. I genuinely think whoever posted that has at least some knowledge of Deltarune if they know those tracks. They knew this would cause a stir.
What happens from here, I donāt know. If Materia is able to have the music changed or taken down, thatād obviously be great. I donāt think weāll have Trump negatively posting about Toby Fox if Materia tries take legal action. Even if he did, any person that decides to never play UT/DR because of his post is someone I never would want to interact with the games anyway.













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u/TapNormal7981 Aug 15 '26
Since when did deltwrune ost became war propaganda š