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WCDT Strips 3206 to 3210 (25 to 29 April 2016)
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Apr 2016, 23:20 ---[...]but that, when he criticised her (it was kindly but it was still a very blunt criticism), she didn't pull away but instead went back to the hug. She trusts Marten enough to believe that it was to help, not a personal attack on her. IMO, that's a good sign of a very healthy relationship.
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Dude. Marten was honest about the situation! Hallelujah! Real character growth there since his relationship with Dora.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: neurocase on 28 Apr 2016, 02:22 ---I read so many posts that just reeked of accusatory statements about how Claire is a manipulator and ALWAYZ DUZ THIS and she's NO GOOD WITH BOUNDARIES, and not one of them ever seemed to take into consideration the fact that Claire not only thought she was doing the right thing, she's as socially inept as Clinton is!
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Just because you may not intend harm doesn't mean harm won't be done.
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 28 Apr 2016, 04:44 ---Dude. Marten was honest about the situation! Hallelujah! Real character growth there since his relationship with Dora.
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It helps when the person he's seeing doesn't go totally off the rails when confronted with the truth. Claire is better for Marten than Dora was in that way.
Case:
Does this plot-resolution count as a Deus Ex Marten?
:psyduck:
And more importantly: Does tvtropes.org know about that one?
Why don't you go have a look? :evil:
EDIT:
--- Quote from: neurocase on 28 Apr 2016, 02:22 ---I read so many posts that just reeked of ...
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It's astounding, but there really is evidence in the fossil record that something other than "my projection = objective reality" actually can follow that specific introduction. Some researchers even claim that in the immediate aftermath of the great Tunguska Extinction Event of 1908 ...
For further answers to all your questions about why people are yelling at you to stop beating that specific dead horse (we sorta kinda know it's dead, whatwith all the bits and pieces coming off of it, see?) the distinction between intent and ill intent and why it sometimes matters less than (unspecified) people stopping their manipulative shit already, please consult your local instantiation of Akima, conveniently placed in the 2nd post after yours.
Or TheMacNut in the post right above this one ...
EDITEDIT:
Or you can listen to Neko_Ali in the post right below this one ...
Neko_Ali:
Maybe we could just all stop trying to find the one singular bad guy in all of this? Life is never that simple, no matter how much people want to reduce problems to one singular cause.
St.Clair:
In case anyone here hasn't seen it already, a relevant blast from the Onion past:
Romantic-Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested
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