Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT January 9-13, 2012 (2096-2100)
Overkillengine:
Alright, explain how doing anything other than not horribly investing himself in a response will constructively aid Marten and not end up being likely to waste his time and worsen his standing with Padma?
Normally when one person cuts communication like that, hope is a fool's game at best. Especially in today's world, where communication is often just a matter of taking 30 seconds or less to text a quick reply if you don't want to have an extended voice conversation.
(Assuming her cell phone works of course. I could see this being a perfect storm of leaving to be at dying grandma's side + unexpectedly dead phone causing the communication outage. )
She is unwilling or unable to reply. No point in him worrying about it, and getting too aggressive...rarely works out well.
idontunderstand:
Actually I'm wondering if there's a difference between being aggressively passive and passive aggressive. "Passive aggressive" doesn't seem to describe Marten too well.
Welu:
Jim is the bakery manager, I thought? Elliot calls him the boss in this strip.
I'm not sure about Dora's "passive aggressive" comment. I originally interpreted it as just sassing Faye, as I can't see how Marten is making any kind of comment about Dora or Faye. If it's toward Padma, I'm not sure how you can be passive aggressive about someone you're already openly talking about. From what I can see, either Marten doesn't see the similarities between this and Vicki at all or he's remembering all too well how hard this was last time, so he's taking the emotionally safer route, according to his experiences.
I think seeing Padma would help if just for future reference. People want to know how they messed up so they can fix it to not do it again.
I think Faye's comment is accurate. There's definitely times people I know and myself seem to go out of our way to do nothing. :mrgreen:
Soulsynger:
--- Quote from: Overkillengine on 11 Jan 2012, 01:29 ---Alright, explain how doing anything other than not horribly investing himself in a response will constructively aid Marten and not end up being likely to waste his time and worsen his standing with Padma?
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She is unwilling or unable to reply. No point in him worrying about it, and getting too aggressive...rarely works out well.
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Oh, I never opted for the trainwreck storm-the-beaches option. All I wanted to say is that too much passivity on either side is emotionally hurtful in many cases.
Marten is doing the right thing here. In this case. Under these circumstances. In this particular informed reality.
If we/he had more information we/he might think differently.
(There is no automatic fail scenario under these circumstances.)
--- Quote from: Welu on 11 Jan 2012, 01:43 ---[ ... ]
I think Faye's comment is accurate. There's definitely times people I know and myself [strike]seem to[/strike] go out of our way to do nothing. :mrgreen:
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Oh, Marten isn't going out of his way to do nothing. That is EXACTLY his way, methinks. oO
Overkillengine:
--- Quote from: Soulsynger on 11 Jan 2012, 01:44 ---There is no automatic fail scenario under these circumstances.)
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Clarification of "automatic fail": hyperbolic phrasing to illustrate and emphasize something being of such an improbable magnitude that using a 100% probability of failure descriptor results in statistically negligible variance between the actual and stated probability. :-P
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