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(09-22-2015, 02:26 PM)Flashhelix Wrote:I won't go further but having one tumblr name say "my brother is this and so I got to eat lunch with a few people on the team and asked them some questions" is not something I carry as far as I would "My name is ___, I write on behalf of this site's section, spend a lot of time on the lore forums, and I spoke with Fern himself; here's the record of it and what I took away from his answers!"(09-22-2015, 02:17 PM)V Wrote:(09-22-2015, 02:11 PM)Flashhelix Wrote: How is the claim that it isn't canon any more shaky than the claim that it is canon? We've seen ample evidence that flavor text can be non-canon, just as I'm sure there are examples of things such as questlines or dialogue confirming something asserted in the flavor text of an item.We've seen a single instance of a group of localization team members, none of whom are in a position of authority, give personal opinions during a private lunch conversation about one of the most mechanically dubious objects available on the cash shop.
You're gonna need a bit more evidence than that to start throwing around words like "ample".
I'm personally not a fan of IC Fantasia, but let's not misrepresent facts here.
There's not too much mechanically dubious about it. People on the dev team charged with translating, interpreting and (quite) often changing the lore of the game are probably qualified to make a statement such as "Is this object that would break the setting of the game over its knee canon?" The lore status of Fantasia matters far less than the many, many pointless roleplayer (IE a demographic that SE pretty much is unaware of the existence of) discussions would lead you or I to believe so. You don't exactly need a live confirmation by Yoshi P himself.