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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: Case on 26 Jan 2018, 12:42 ---
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 26 Jan 2018, 12:06 ---sometimes inventing things that aren't even THERE. Seriously if half the stuff that offended the people on the forum was how they treated people they meet in real life, I can't imagine how they would ever have any friends.
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Sooooh ... best to imply they're social outcasts that nobody wants to be around, so they have something real to be offended by?
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No, it is implying that they treat the new characters more harshly than they do real people. Because I seriously doubt that anyone would feel that a real person was somehow in the wrong for just asking a few leading questions without pressuring the person to answer them in an attempt to get them to realize something. We've just as a whole gotten way more critical of people in this comic than I could imagine ever being with real people. Myself included! I've been involved in arguments in the past on these forums where I've done the same thing.
You look for malice where there is none.
Case:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 26 Jan 2018, 12:48 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 26 Jan 2018, 12:42 ---
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 26 Jan 2018, 12:06 ---sometimes inventing things that aren't even THERE. Seriously if half the stuff that offended the people on the forum was how they treated people they meet in real life, I can't imagine how they would ever have any friends.
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Sooooh ... best to imply they're social outcasts that nobody wants to be around, so they have something real to be offended by?
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No, it is implying that they treat the new characters more harshly than they do real people. Because I seriously doubt that anyone would feel that a real person was somehow in the wrong for just asking a few leading questions without pressuring the person to answer them in an attempt to get them to realize something. We've just as a whole gotten way more critical of people in this comic than I could imagine ever being with real people. Myself included! I've been involved in arguments in the past on these forums where I've done the same thing.
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Fair enough.
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 26 Jan 2018, 12:48 ---You look for malice where there is none.
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Who, like me specifically, looking for malice in your post, right now? No, I don't think you have much malice in you. Less than average, if anything, judging by what I've seen from you. It's an old Gamer-burn ("pWnED u, Noob!", "At least I have a life ..."), is all.
I do think that this is one of those periods when there's been strain in the community and everybody is kinda vaguely pissed with those people whoTM who are being too easily offended and feel that now is the time to voice their agreement with the people who've pointed out that they think that some peopleTM on this forum are too easily offended - and I'm pretty sure that many who are happy now to have someone to agree with would be very surprised if they knew who those they agreed with had in mind.
Emperor Norton:
Fair enough. I've been a bit prickly the last few days, just not doing well (I have caught what I refer to as "The Malaise", which is just that feeling of not enjoying anything and feeling listless and vaguely bad for no reason). I apologize if I come off as more critical or nasty than intended :)
Case:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 26 Jan 2018, 13:20 ---Fair enough. I've been a bit prickly the last few days, just not doing well (I have caught what I refer to as "The Malaise", which is just that feeling of not enjoying anything and feeling listless and vaguely bad for no reason). I apologize if I come off as more critical or nasty than intended :)
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I don't think you have anything to apologize for - I think we have a cultural 'Those people whoTM'-problem that makes disagreements seem worse than they are, and the 'camps' seem larger than they are - which sometimes ends up in disagreements becoming worse than they need to be and many, many people feeling ill-treated. You just happened to be in front of my soapbox.
Hope The Malaise pisses off soon.
Shjade:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 26 Jan 2018, 02:44 ---
--- Quote from: Shjade on 26 Jan 2018, 01:14 ---...And no, good drama doesn't require a conflict.
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As Joe sniped me to saying... well, yes? Yes it does?
You're right that it doesn't need a villain to cause it, but... every story, period, requires conflict.
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http://www.thewriteturn.com/kishotenketsu-the-four-act-narrative-or-the-plot-without-conflict/
"All drama needs conflict" is common knowledge. In western/european schools. That doesn't make it universal truth any more than any other euro-centric "truths" about civilization, social norms, etc.
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