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WCDT Strips 3151 to 3155 (8 - 12 February 2016)
scandina:
Good to see Jeph stretching the art to new locations; that first panel just works somehow.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 11 Feb 2016, 14:38 ---
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 11 Feb 2016, 08:48 ---That is not coffee - that is burned coffee beans cooked into a soup with flavored sugar syrup added and hidden under layers of cream, fat and who knows what else.
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Starbucks does sell regular coffee. It's not bad, but there is a thing called Bridgehead here, and it supersedes all other chains for me now.
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As Thrudd pointed out, even without the sugar and fat, the beans are burnt to hell. Easy to mask the flavour of shit product. I tend to prefer lighter and medium roasts for the reason that it's easier to see GIGO in action if the beans are bad than it is with darker roasts. I pay far less going into local places that roast their own and use better beans.
chaospersonified:
Coffee? Starbucks? What? They serve burning caffeine-water and also caffeinated sugar. They do not serve coffee.
ShaenTheBrain:
This storyline is infuriating. I never expected Faye to be this weak or this stupid. I expected Dora to continue to be an irredeemable monster, but I'd hoped that maybe, for once, someone, anyone, would call her on it. No such luck. No, once again, no one, in the comic or in real life, can see through the Hot Barista fantasy (or the small business owner self-insert fantasy) to the disgusting reality within.
Dora has always been too weak to keep her employees at a professional distance, to keep her professional and personal lives separate. Instead, she indulges herself by letting them bleed into each other. She blurs what should be clear lines. By trying to have her cake and eat it, too, she puts herself in the impossible position of having to choose between her personal and professional obligations at every turn. Her employees and so-called "friends" are the ones who suffer for it.
Dora betrayed Faye. Dora's betrayal left Faye so desperate that she had to resort to survival-crime to stay alive. In the real world, where underground robot pit-fights don't exist, Faye would be whoring herself out on a street corner right now, because of Dora. Dora even acknowledged that Faye needed help. But Dora didn't help her. Dora kicked her when she was down. Dora looked at a bad situation, and decided to make it worse. She had power, and instead of using it to help, she abused it, so that she could re-assert her precious "authority" and put her insubordinate subordinate in her place. Instead of saving what was left of Faye's life, Dora destroyed it, by giving in to her most petty emotional impulses.
Dora is Faye's enemy. But Faye still insists on treating her like a friend, on buying into the bullshit fantasy that is "forgiveness." Trusting someone who betrayed you is stupid and weak. The only thing you can "trust" a betrayer to do is to betray you again. And why wouldn't they? By taking them back into your life, you've removed any consequences they might have suffered for their betrayal, and by doing so, you've quietly condoned that betrayal. The moment it's more convenient for them to betray you than to not betray you, they will stab you in the back again.
Dora doesn't deserve Faye's forgiveness or her friendship. She doesn't deserve anyone's friendship. She's a toxic, insecure control-freak who lashes out at anyone who, in her diseased mind, threatens her authority over her petty little fiefdom. She poisons anyone who makes the mistake of letting her into their life. She's a terrible person, and she deserves to suffer for it.
Their mutual "friends," especially Marten, have all proved that they don't deserve the title. They proved it when, the very second they found out what Dora did, they didn't cut her off forever. Marten proved how weak and stupid he is when he didn't break off all contact with Dora forever, once he found the good sense to finally dump her.
The only satisfying conclusion to this story would be if Faye skinned Dora alive and set what was left on fire.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: ShaenTheBrain on 11 Feb 2016, 17:06 ---I never expected Faye to be this weak or this stupid.
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I don't see how she's either, please explain.
--- Quote from: ShaenTheBrain on 11 Feb 2016, 17:06 ---She blurs what should be clear lines.
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Why should they be? Why intentionally not be friends with someone?
--- Quote from: ShaenTheBrain on 11 Feb 2016, 17:06 ---Dora's betrayal left Faye so desperate that she had to resort to survival-crime to stay alive.
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Even ignoring Faye being sober now, Faye has a much better job than she did before. She's getting paid to do something she did as a hobby, and while we don't have numbers, it's gotta pay more than a barista gig.
--- Quote from: ShaenTheBrain on 11 Feb 2016, 17:06 ---(various bits about betrayal)
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I suppose it could be debatable whether Dora firing Faye was the right thing to do. Do you know who never doubted that it was the right thing to do? Faye. Faye needed help, and she needed motivation to get better. She's making constant progress, and getting back in touch with her friend is definitely a step in the right direction for both her and Dora.
Your view on forgiveness itself is rather depressing, and the last sentence is rather terrifying.
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