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WCDT 2907-2911 (2nd - 6th March 2015)

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celticgeek:
Rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry...

Meilu:
Bad trans jokes in the forum, blah.

Seems every character is a shadow of themselves lately. I'm frustrated with the whole thing, maybe I'll break for awhile and play catch-up later. Like when I get a computer after a few months years.

Mr. Black Licorice:

--- Quote from: neurocase on 04 Mar 2015, 20:30 ---I try to like Marigold, I really do. The fanbase generally seems to like her, Jeph has mentioned at one point that he's her favorite character...but then she pulls shit like this. I know it's meant for comedy, but she's evolved from "sort of endearing social recluse making something of an effort" to "complacent, petulant, self-centered womanchild (manchild is a thing, so why not womanchild?) who doesn't particularly give a rats ass about anyone but herself"

A few sweet moments with Momo isn't enough to sell me on her, and it's strips like this that reenforce why.
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Eh... You see a complacent, petulant, self-centered woman-child, I see an introvert who really doesn't know much about these other people her friend is talking about. Yes, she's met them, but Marigold really hasn't interacted with the gang much. From her point of view, she's there to spend time with her friend Hanners - not talk about Hanners other friends.

Some people would much rather talk about ideas than people and others prefer interaction through games rather than direct conversation. I am, for one, not a great conversationalist unless you get me on a subject that I'm passionate about. I really don't like talking about other people... maybe Marigold is the same way?

valkygrrl:

--- Quote from: Meilu on 04 Mar 2015, 20:55 ---Bad trans jokes in the forum, blah.

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If it makes you feel better I'm ashamed of myself for using a joke older than I am.

Emperor Norton:
Just from an introverted hermits point of view (which I am. No seriously, I'm a super hermit).

Sometimes when friends hang out, we don't JUST sit around and hang. Like maybe I'll be playing a game while they read through some of my TTRPG books or maybe my wife and a friend are playing a 2 player board game while I grab a snack. We don't know exactly the context of what was going on before Hanners started talking. There are PLENTY of times where I'm reading something, playing something, etc, and someone starts talking to me and it takes me a minute to catch up to the fact that I didn't hear a word they said because I was already in the middle of something else.

... Now usually I also admit that I had no idea what they said, but there is an urge to try and cover before you just accept this will happen. Because extroverted people sometimes feel like you should immediately drop everything you are doing and pay attention to them the moment they open their mouths. That being said, I don't think Hanners is the type to do this. If Marigold had said "oh sorry, I was distraced, what were you saying?" I'm sure Hanners wouldn't have been annoyed at all.

So basically, I get why Marigold did that, and its not "being a woman-child" its being a really introverted person and possibly a lack of context of how the conversation started and being defensive because some people really do react badly to the fact the world doesn't revolve around them (even though I don't think Hanners is one of those people)

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