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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 18 Jan 2018, 19:26 ---
Part of my reaction to her is probably partly because of dealing with women like her in my women's studies courses when I was in college. Graduate students can be the absolute worst.
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Yeah, I got that distinct impression that your impression of Evie has been somewhat (heavily maybe?) colored by your own negative experiences in college. Mostly because you seem to be transferring negative personality traits of those you encountered onto a cartoon character we know virtually nothing about. Some of your suppositions "I'm sure Evie lives in an echo chamber full of academics who think she has a brilliant mind" is not really based on anything.
If anything, PhD students are never treated as brilliant in academia, even when they may be. If anything, PhD students are reminded continually that they know basically nothing. I will say though that I am only speaking of those in STEM, I can't speak for those in humanities and social studies.
I agree though that graduate students can be the worst though...
Oh by the way, please note that I respect your opinion and am in no means trying to harp on you, it's mostly since your opinion on Evie seems to be by far the most negative here, and based on what we know atm I am surprised how anyone could have any particularly strong opinion yet about who she is. A strong opinion on how she interacted with Bubbles, sure, but sweeping conclusion on her personality/character or even upbringing (I think Morituri said 'wallowing in privilige', wonder where that came from??) are rather premature.
I will stop about this now.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jan 2018, 05:58 ---Bubbles herself says she doesn't know what her feelings toward Faye are. Love is a very real possibility, but so is a crush or an unusually tender friendship.
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Yeah, I am also wondering what kind of love there is, even from Bubbles' side.
I agree that she clearly loves Faye, but you're right, she doesn't even know herself what exactly she feels.
Is it a real romantic interest? A very strong friendship-kind of love? The rather common crushing on your 'rescuer/savior'?
I'm leaning towards the first or last considering her "you're beautiful" comment, but who knows?
Shjade:
--- Quote from: traroth on 19 Jan 2018, 08:22 ---Now you are stretching things a bit. If you go that road, "bitch" is also an insult, but it's not the same word and not the same meaning. Ok, I confess I didn't knew the word "catty". I'm always happy to enrich my english vocabulary... :-)
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Being called a "tomcat" isn't exactly a compliment in most cases either. Maybe not overtly insulting, but...
On topic: my concern at the moment is Amanda and Evie (especially Evie) potentially setting back any relationship development between Faye and Bubbles with not only unsolicited encouragement/enthusiasm, but Evie finding the relationship fascinating and wanting to intellectually dissect it, to their detriment.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote ---I dunno what the answer to it is other than to scrutinise every single word and parse ever single sentence you may speak before you ever do so.
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How is that different from checking for pedestrians before you drive your car through an intersection?
Tova:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 19 Jan 2018, 08:40 ---There is an alternative that people have not considered.
What if Melon wanted to give the business money?
Its clear that Union Robotics isn't doing that well if Faye isn't budgeting money for something vital like food. Sure, they're doing repairs and doing a little ink, but that's not going to keep things afloat for too long.
Word might have gotten out that UR is fairly quiet and to an eccentric AI like Melon, she might want to help without looking like she's helping. Therefore, grab a dildo, take it in for a "check", pays the fee and throws in a substantial tip.
Sure, this is a wild theory, but it still certainly merits some thought.
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I think it's a better theory then straight up assuming Melon is an idiot, Faye is being exploitative, and Jeph is a terrible storyteller.
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