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WCDT January 9-13, 2012 (2096-2100)
pwhodges:
It seems my simple three-line scenario that seems to me to explain everything just didn't have enough words* to be satisfying - judging by the walls of text that continue to appear, and the listings of who blew off whom and when and who was playing what game and what everyone's obligations were.
* Or blame. Clearly I didn't assign enough blame to be acceptable.
truestatic:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Jan 2012, 16:07 ---* Or blame. Clearly I didn't assign enough blame to be acceptable.
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It's no fun unless we can make someone in to a pariah :D
In truth, I'm considering everyone's scenarios, and they're all very interesting, but I'm not going to take them as... sufficient explanation to excuse anyone. I mean, in the end, a lot of them end up feeling a bit contrived to me, and are so for the soul purpose of excusing the actions of the people that we otherwise can't really attribute to anything else. If I'm going to make assumptions, I'd rather just make the simplest ones. I think this is a perfect application of Occam's Razor, though I can be kind of a dumbass so it might not be an appropriate application of it.
quix0te:
--- Quote from: Vista on 13 Jan 2012, 13:58 ---In contrast, Marten blew off Padma when he had nothing better to do--and he didn't--and may never see her again. He acted like an asshole towards someone who should have been a friend first, because he didn't get what he wanted. (I understand that he didn't consider her a friend first, and I find that sad.)
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You have a much lower threshold for 'asshole' than I (and I think most people) do.
He certainly went further for the friendship' than she did.
He answered the phone when she called.
I had the same question Milesb did. Why did FAYE say he was an asshole? Albeit, I think we've established Faye has a ...skewed... lens of appropriate behavior.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 13 Jan 2012, 09:33 ---
--- Quote from: tender on 13 Jan 2012, 09:27 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Jan 2012, 09:13 ---However, I would not find it strange to hear: "be the bigger person", and would attempt to make my mind produce that version (though I can't guarantee I'd manage it every time, not least because my ageing brain doesn't learn new habits as reliably as it used to).
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Ah, ah, ah! As a society, we should eliminate the need to codify the "bigger people" of the world as the "better" ones.
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Nah, everyone knows short people are subhuman.
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Don't MAKE me bite your kneecaps, penguin.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Jan 2012, 14:24 ---
--- Quote from: Michael Jackson ---Damned Indecision And Cursed Pride
Kept My Love For Her Locked Deep Inside
And It Cuts Like A Knife
She's Out Of My Life
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I wonder if Jeph's going to leave this a mystery, as it is to Marten right now? Padma's never been a viewpoint character, so we may never know what was going on with her.
She had no way to know that she was reminding him of Vicki.
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Well, we don't know why Faye's dad killed himself. Or what Vicki really thought of Marten. So I'm suspecting we've heard the last of Padma (sadly).
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