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WDCT 10-14 January 2011 (1836-1840)
westrim:
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--- Quote from: westrim on 12 Jan 2011, 02:42 --- I've never been one for relishing another's pain, basically.
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I can understand that but I've long been of the opinion that Marten isn't real. Harsh, but I suspect also fair. If you want further confirmation that I'm a bad person, I also ignore what people are saying and pick the one thing I can make fun of for the heck of it.
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Good job, you found the issue: I cannot distinguish fiction from reality!
Or you're a twit, who's intentionally misinterpreting my point to be a twit. One of the two.
Because I feel like elaborating, he's not real, but he's supposed to be empathetic. Itchy and Scratchy aren't. Thus, those of you with, y'know, souls, get uncomfortable when pretty much the single person one would expect to help him is instead embarrassing him at every turn and meddling in his interpersonal connections. Nearly everyone else, Pintsize? Sure, I'd laugh. but not when it's his mom that Goddammit, I add one final point and that's all you focus on. Way to keep the conversation focused on the story, instead of snarking at fellow forumgoers for your own amusement. Stop acting like a troll.
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Jan 2011, 03:08 ---AH! We have FOUND the issue at hand!
Veronica is probably LOVING all this.
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I'd hope that she sets aside being a dominatrix when her son is involved, so no.
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jan 2011, 03:20 ---Well, you know how the expression goes: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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And it's back to tragedy when your mother jumps in and starts stabbing your broken corpse instead of helping you get out.
Carl-E:
I suspect this is comedy for those who don't have relatives like this.
I also suspect that there are very few of those here on the boards...
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: westrim on 12 Jan 2011, 03:35 ---Good job, you found the issue: I cannot distinguish fiction from reality!
Or you're a twit, who's intentionally misinterpreting my point to be a twit. One of the two.
Because I feel like elaborating, he's not real, but he's supposed to be empathetic. Itchy and Scratchy aren't. Thus, those of you with, y'know, souls, get uncomfortable when pretty much the single person one would expect to help him is instead embarrassing him at every turn and meddling in his interpersonal connections. Nearly everyone else, Pintsize? Sure, I'd laugh. but not when it's his mom that. Dammit, go read the stuff from last week and stop being a jerk.
I need to go to sleep, because I think I'm responding to some trolling but I can't tell.
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Really not trolling or suggesting that you can't distinguish reality from fiction, just that perhaps that you're taking the strip a little too seriously.
Although I'm prepared to accept that I should take it more seriously. Mind you, I'd never expect my parents to be the ones I depended on emotionally if I were in Marten's situation.
jwhouk:
Only thing I can think of, legitimately, is that she's trying to guilt-trip Faye.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 12 Jan 2011, 03:46 ---I suspect this is comedy for those who don't have relatives like this.
I also suspect that there are very few of those here on the boards...
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I don't think it's a personal thing. Mothers are supposed to be motherly; there's a reason that is a word, with the definition it does. When they aren't, and have made a previous appearance that did not identify them as unmotherly (that is, she was quite aware of what she said, joked around as though everyone was equal, defended her son's interests by intimidating Faye, otherwise indicating she was A Cool Mom), it's jarring. Everyone one else has acted according to the characterization we knew- Faye punched him, thus acting like Faye, Pintsize was Pintsize, etc. We don't know much about his mom other than she is his mom, so we expect her to act like... a mom. Which she did, with that full name thing outside the restaurant, but it wasn't context adjusted. Before she was funny and easygoing, which made sense because it was a fun and easygoing time in his life. Now it's not, and now it's jarring for her to still act like it's so.
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 12 Jan 2011, 03:47 ---Really not trolling or suggesting that you can't distinguish reality from fiction, just that perhaps that you're taking the strip a little too seriously.
Although I'm prepared to accept that I should take it more seriously. Mind you, I'd never expect my parents to be the ones I depended on emotionally if I were in Marten's situation.
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I defend my opinions with vigor, but I hold them at a distance. If it seems like this is personal- well I'm tired, I'm not my best at objectivity right now. Again, reading what I said last week would help with that.
I wouldn't plan to depend on my parents either (though they're 75 miles away, not 3000 miles), but if one cared enough (and had the money to) drop everything and flew over to see me the penultimate day after a major personal kerfuffle of mine, I'd expect them to act like I just had a major personal kerfuffle, not like it's been 6 months and I should stop moping and date that hot waitress. Tapability was funny the first time she visited; not this time.
*slaps self* Enough! I'm going to sleep, so I can be properly horrified at how into this I got in the morning later today.
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