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WCDT Strips 3491 to 3495 (29 May to 2 June 2017)
Mr. Doctor:
I never believed a romantic scenario was possible between those two in the first place. Now I don't even think a friendship would be possible. I would personally have a hard time getting closer to someone like Brun.
brasca:
They were both there when the bar burned down and while no one's life was in danger it was still a traumatic event especially for Brun who lost her job and everything she had. Events like that can bring people together and perhaps Clinton may be blinded by that.
Case:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 31 May 2017, 01:17 ---See, this is the reason I keep going back and forth on how I feel about Brun.
On the one hand, she is an interesting character and can be quite likeable. And I can definitely sympathize with anyone who has trouble interacting with people. I may not struggle to the EXTENT that she apparently does, but I've been there.
On the other hand... I know it's partly for the sake of the last-panel joke, but the very matter-of-fact way she rejects a joke that does not fit what it *should* be kinda annoys me.
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IDK, it seems to me like Jeph doesn't really know yet what he wants to do with her, so right now, she feels a bit like a one-trick pony.
But yeah, I was a bit disappointed with today's "Brun-takes-Clin-ton-literally-again-badumn-tish", too ...
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--- Quote from: oddtail on 31 May 2017, 01:17 ---a person who has trouble communicating with people acting like there is a proper way to respond to what she said is something that just rubs me the wrong way
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One of the admins at the forum where I "advise" is autistic. She has exactly the attitude you are disliking there. She was one of the originators of the forum thirteen years ago, so my belief that she is not suitable to have any kind of mod powers cuts no ice.
(click to show/hide)Sadly, two days ago she used it to justify permanently banning the forum's fourth most prolific poster, whose guts (to put it directly) she hates. I am not the only person who is really, really furious. (click to show/hide)Oh, and she did this by explicitly dumping all the procedures set up to ensure fairness in moderation by another mod, training to be a lawyer, who died last month and so can no longer object.
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To the degree that she believes people are required to react to her spontaneous associations in a way congruent with her internal monologue (because of course they have spent the past weeks in her brain)?
Had a friend who was prone to converse like I'd spent the past 20 minutes in his brain ("Hey, nice bar - how'd you find it?", "So John came up to me the other day and told me about that thing with ...", "Oz, who the fuck is John and what the fuck does he have to do with the conversation we were having?", "Oh! So John is this guy. As I was saying ...", "I hate you ..." )
But he was just a self-obsessed twat, not autistic.
BenRG:
Yeah, I thought that this was going to come up eventually for Brun and Clinton.
It is no surprise to me that she really doesn't get how 'friend' could be anything more than just enjoying being with someone on a personal level and having a degree of trust for them. I suspect that at least part of this may come from her having a difficult time with non-literal meanings of words. I'm sure if Clinton had specifically asked Brun whether she was interested in Elliott romantically, he would have got chapter-and-verse of the Brun-Elliott-Renee triangle (FWIW, I suspect that Brun would consider it inappropriate to have romantic thoughts about Elliott because "he's Renee's" and that would literally be the end of it for her).
Of course, all of this puts Clinton in a massive disadvantage. He is very bad at being direct with girls to whom he is attracted. He can only express himself in the most roundabout and indirect way which, as we see here, Brun will entirely fail to understand. Probably not a good sign but Brun's conversational needs are pretty clear. We'll see how he deals with them. The real problem is that I suspect Brun will need something like: "I am romantically and sexually attracted to you. Would you like to enter into an emotional relationship with me?" I think that Clinton's head would probably explode if he tried to say that.
I just want to add that panel 4 is the sweetest that Jeph has ever made Brun. Her simple incomprehension of the question, her innocent inability to understand why Clinton wanted to know and whether 'friend' could mean anything other than the obvious is really endearing.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 31 May 2017, 20:50 ---Ohhh, Clinton...
[...]
This does not end well for you.
[...]
This does not end well for you. Find a person who you for who they are, and who likes you for who you are. It isn't easy, but it is the only way you'll be truly happy.
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Am I the only one who sees Clinton's attraction in both of these cases to be breathtakingly superficial?
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I think you're right, but it's something Clinton has to figure out for himself. As do each of us.
It took me a long time to learn to recognize the signs of "hey. I really don't like spending much time with this person, certainly as much as I'd need to to justify going after anything more than friendship".
The people who just have to be in a Relationship to satisfy their ego probably don't care.
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