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WCDT Strips 3256-3260 (4-8 July 2016)
themacnut:
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--- Quote from: jheartney on 03 Jul 2016, 20:56 ---When Marten finds out, he's going to have some hard decisions to make. Will he stay in the roommate situation with a relapsing Faye?
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You think Marten should kick her out if she relapses just once? Why not just kick her out now and be done with it?
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She's already relapsed once. This is number two, and done quite deliberately.
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And here's the thing about relapses; no-one, not even the addict themselves, knows how long they will last. Faye may just down this one bottle and then go back on the wagon, or this could be the start of a weeks- or months-long bender. During which time she may lose the job at the skate park (possibly after seriously injuring herself and/or damaging one of the fighting AIs due to trying to work while drunk) therefore losing another source of income and thus her ability to help Marten make the rent. If her alcoholism gets her and Marten evicted, that will almost certainly damage their friendship.
Of course, we still don't know what's going to happen here. Faye may still choose not to take that drink, or could decide not to get another bottle. The reasonable thing for Marten to do is keep a close eye on the situation to see how bad this relapse may be before making any decisions about whether to give Faye the proverbial boot from the apartment. He doesn't know about this potential relapse yet of course, but if it keeps up he will find out.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Welu on 04 Jul 2016, 08:09 --- As patient and understanding as Bubbles is being with Faye, I highly doubt she'd let Faye drink and work. Especially when work involves metal and high temperatures. From the outside, Faye is off the clock and having a drink at a friend's place.
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Uh, right. Metal and high temperatures and FRIENDS' LIVES.
Don't forget, these two are essentially working as medics. When surgeons go to work drunk, it's not them accidentally cutting themselves with the scalpel that's the main worry.
Is it cold in here?:
Good analogy except that her mistakes would be disfiguring or expensive, not lethal. That triple-reinforced core is designed to survive attacks by a combat chassis.
Come to think of it, though, I wouldn't take any bets on it surviving an accident with a cutting torch.
blue5:
Next strip: Bubbles takes a sip of booze and shorts out. Faye goes to rehab.
elfly:
Total abstinence is kind of fucked up and probably leads to people relapsing in alcoholism over and over. The AA method of using guilt and telling people they can never become better about alcohol use is destructive and doesn't really work outside of a few extreme cases, which Faye probably doesn't fall into.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/
Faye relearning how to drink like a normal person is probably a good thing.
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