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WCDT Strips 3196-3200 (11th to 15th April 2016)
DSL:
Good friend with occasional violence. Faye's found her Faye.
Morituri:
While people are in the military they learn a particular way of dealing with pain.
"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
That helps keep them effective as soldiers while in physical pain; reciting that mantra they focus on being strong - on continuing to do their duty - and doing that takes their minds off the pain. Doesn't make it stop hurting, but allows them to think about something else for the duration of the emergency (or until they get killed, whichever happens first).
It keeps them effective as soldiers, but it makes them about a thousand percent more prone to further injuring themselves than people who haven't been through that. And it leaves them prone to re-injuring themselves by stressing parts of the body that aren't fully healed.
I've heard that mantra dozens of times now from guys who are out of the service for years and still in emotional pain, and as a long-term strategy for dealing with emotional pain it sucks, for pretty much the same reason it isn't an effective long-term strategy for dealing with physical pain.
In my not-so-humble opinion, the military organizations of the world should devote at least as much effort training ex-soldiers to be effective civilians as they spend training ex-civilians to be effective soldiers. Most of them Don't. To be fair lots of countries have something like the (USA) GI bill that covers college tuition for ex-soldiers, but most of them don't, and even the ones that do don't devote effort to the emotional side of it.
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Apr 2016, 05:23 ---I really think that we need a cast-iron protocol in this forum for a poster to communicate that their comment is sarcastic, parodying or intended to be humorous.
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For what it's worth, I recognized that, and thought it funnier to pretend it wasn't.
I assume this was directed at me because it came immediately after I made a comment wherein I chose, for the purposes of my own funny, to ignore that a person was making a funny
Tova:
--- Quote from: USS Martenclaire on 11 Apr 2016, 00:40 ---The thing is, Bubbles is right. As a human, Faye will never understand what it's like to be an AI. However, Faye most certainly *does* understand the feelings that arise from it - the anger, the feeling of isolation, the sadness and desire to punch things.
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More than that, Faye understands how it is to feel anger at herself for being "weak."
She also understand that Bubbles isn't in a place where she could believe anything different, which is why she didn't argue and simply offered her sympathy, the thing Bubbles truly needed.
hedgie:
Also, Bubbles really *did* seem to handle the situation in the best way possible. She walked away and didn't show how bothered she was until she got "home". Given her size, a physical confrontation would end in some puddles of goo that would be hard to explain away, and really with that sort of obnoxious brat, there's really no point in arguing. A certain pink-haired AI (assuming she didn't just pass) has shown a tendency to zap first and ask questions later.
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