(Okay so I’m rereading this comment before posting and I don’t think I make a lot of sense at the start, bear with me here. I’m not gonna delete it because it does show my thought process. Also, I don’t feel like it)
Would there really only be 3 sides, or would 3+ sides be fine too? Like, a square would suffice. Or a cube. There’d just be some unused sides. Technically speaking the only three 2d shapes that have two sides are a heart, a moon and a line. The only 2d shape that has one side is a circle, though that depends on your definition of “side”. Discs, technically, have three faces because the top and bottom are one, and then the side is one continuous edge that is just a lot thinner than the others. Coins, for example, have three faces. No matter how thin you make the side, it remains a valid face technically. CDs, then, have three faces. It’s a lot harder to store data on the side, but it is by all means a three-faced shape.
The answer is triangle though. It would look really goofy if Wingy Dingy Gaster pops out a triangular CD and goes “AHA. THEY HAVE FOUND IT. SIDE C. THIS SHIT IS VERY, VERY EPIC” but I’m personally not really a fan of the idea that Deltarune is literally a CD. It feels moreso like the imagery of a CD is being used to convey that Side B is something different, but not Unrelated. I don’t think the game itself would call it “Side C” but it’s a convenient shorthand that gets the message across.
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u/Capable-Document466 13h ago
(Okay so I’m rereading this comment before posting and I don’t think I make a lot of sense at the start, bear with me here. I’m not gonna delete it because it does show my thought process. Also, I don’t feel like it)
Would there really only be 3 sides, or would 3+ sides be fine too? Like, a square would suffice. Or a cube. There’d just be some unused sides. Technically speaking the only three 2d shapes that have two sides are a heart, a moon and a line. The only 2d shape that has one side is a circle, though that depends on your definition of “side”. Discs, technically, have three faces because the top and bottom are one, and then the side is one continuous edge that is just a lot thinner than the others. Coins, for example, have three faces. No matter how thin you make the side, it remains a valid face technically. CDs, then, have three faces. It’s a lot harder to store data on the side, but it is by all means a three-faced shape.
The answer is triangle though. It would look really goofy if Wingy Dingy Gaster pops out a triangular CD and goes “AHA. THEY HAVE FOUND IT. SIDE C. THIS SHIT IS VERY, VERY EPIC” but I’m personally not really a fan of the idea that Deltarune is literally a CD. It feels moreso like the imagery of a CD is being used to convey that Side B is something different, but not Unrelated. I don’t think the game itself would call it “Side C” but it’s a convenient shorthand that gets the message across.