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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 19 Aug 2017, 13:06 ---As opposed to the "May is an ex-con and deserves her shitty lot in life" narrative that seems so popular in this thread?
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One that I don't subscribe to and have said so many many times.
I've said repeatedly that May's situation sucks. And that no one deserves to have a body that they can't actually look after because of money, no matter what they've done. (And even talked in detail about my own struggles with issues with my body that I cannot go to the doctor for, that I could be possibly doing more damage to my body because I'm ignoring it, but I don't know, because I can't see a doctor, cause I can't afford to).
Case:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 18 Aug 2017, 12:41 ---
--- Quote from: Shjade on 18 Aug 2017, 02:15 ---If you can't have a reasonable discussion with someone, it's because of the person, not the concept of privilege.
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Any concept can and will be misused and abused. That doesn't invalidate the concept.
Edit: And there are definitely problems to address with the culture as a whole and its ramifications. But that's a much longer conversation, and probably beyond the scope of this thread.
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Actually, we do have a thread over in DISCUSS for precisely that discussion that you worry would be beyond the scope of this thread -> "Has Callout Culture lost it's focus?" One of my personal favourites, truth be told.
Come to think of it - a lot of the discussion here would also fit pretty well over there.
TL;DR - Feel free!
PirateNinjaMonkey:
Long Time reader first time poster. I got a question for those of you keep insisting Winslow never had a problem before with is body orthat e didn't show it. Could it have happened say off panel, he is a character that is rarely the focus of an arc but i doesn't mean that behind the scene he's perfectly content with his lot in life. He could have wanted a body for a while but finally got the guts to ask Hanner's for one. It might not have been an out of the blue type thing.
It just seems quite a few of you are jumping to the conclusion that it was just on a whim he decided he wanted a fully functional humanoid body. I don' think that's the case. Also what bugs me is that some of you seem to keep insisting that he wanted to rub his new body in people's face. Hell in this comic when something happens to someone they alway go to where that person is work or home just to tell them the news. Why is he the bad guy for wanting to do the same. And I highly doubt it was to rub it into people's face either. In fact when he showed it to Momo despite their brief interaction he was happy afterwards. He wasn't like geez she didn't gush all over me and tell me how awesome I am. He was content by her reaction.
Meilu:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 19 Aug 2017, 12:47 ---Yes, calling him a little fuck is totally not talking shit about him.
Also, yes, I'm sure the Must be Nice and I'm Happy for you weren't dripping with sarcasm and completely genuine!
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I don't think calling him a little fuck is talking shit about him. I think it's expressing anger and frustration. Maybe we have a different definition of "talking shit". Talking shit is more along the lines of criticizing someone unfairly behind their back... like fat shaming someone you saw eating cake to one of your mutual friends.
--- Quote ---(If you can't tell the last sentence was dripping with sarcasm and completely not genuine.)
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I'm autistic and often can't hear or read sarcastic context. At any rate, you can simultaneously be happy someone's situation improved while being mad at them for being insensitive, so perhaps I'm reading it in a more literal way than you are.
--- Quote ---Sorry, no, that whole spiel was designed to make him feel like shit.
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May got emotional because her rich kid friend showed up and flaunted his new body. You want her to play nice so he can continue his good mood in blissful ignorance of how insensitive he's being. I disagree that that would've been the best thing to do. Could she have handled it better? Probably. Could he have handled it better? Probably. But that's what makes the comic good, and worth arguing over.
--- Quote ---I know that everyone reads the comics through a filter of their own experiences, but if you can legitimately, with May's past attitudes and actions, believe that she meant those statements genuinely... that is reaching.
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I actually do believe she's happy for his circumstances changing while simultaneously being angry at him for how flippant he's being. That's totally a thing that happens. People are complex, I'm sure AIs, treated like normal people in the comic, are too.
flondrix:
Totally off-topic, but I know how to insert an image that is out on the web somewhere by clicking the button with an icon of a framed picture and inserting the URL between the tags, but is there any way to insert an image that exists as a file on my local drive? (i.e., no URL to paste)
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