Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3821-3825 (3-7 September 2018)
dutchrvl:
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--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 04 Sep 2018, 13:45 ---That's true, that is a possibility. It's however not the impression I got from the cadence of Tai's initial correction.
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I'm curious how you determined the modulation or inflection of Tai's voice reading text in a comic with no audio.
I'm not saying you started out by assuming Claire was being bratty and worked back from there based on absolutely no information whatsoever, I'm just curious how Tai sounds in real life.
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Based on your (kind of passive aggressive) last sentence, you seem to want to insist that I have a preconceived negative opinion on Claire. If that's what you want to believe, that's fine. I already acknowledged that your possibility was also a good one, but not how I perceived the situation based on my initial read. Are you telling me that you have not formed specific voices and ways of talking for each character inside your head during reading?
Not sure why you seem to be so sensitive about anyone (in this case me) perceiving one specific comic initially as more negative behavior by Claire than you did yourself. We discuss characters' behaviors all the time here and it's quite common that somebody perceives behavior differently than others when they first read a comic.
EDIT: to be clear, I really enjoy and appreciate it when others point out different interpretations of a certain comic that did not occur to me upon my initial reading. It's one of the main reasons for me coming here. What I do not appreciate however is somebody insisting my interpretation of a specific comic situation is due to prejudice against a character.
bhtooefr:
I... admittedly don't actually budget per se, but I have a strategy that works decently for me. Then again, I have a fairly decent intuition of how my finances work, so I can get away with not actually making a formal budget.
The rough structure is:
* If your employer offers a 401(k) and matches your contributions, contribute up to the match limit. (My employer matches 6%.) Otherwise you're leaving money on the table.
* Auto-transfer part of every paycheck into savings, and don't touch that money except in case of emergency.
* One model that I've seen to get started with this is the "put $1 in the first week, $2 in the second week, so on, until you get to $52 the 52nd week of the year". I don't like that model for two reasons:
* It puts the biggest contributions in the end of the year when expenditures tend to be higher, and missing out on most of the interest
* it's a complete pain in the ass to set up as an auto transfer.
* So, I did a variation on it last year: you'll have put $1378 into savings by the end of the year. $1378 / 52 is $26.50. My credit union only does whole dollar amounts on autotransfers, so I scheduled it every 2 weeks, on payday, for $53. You end up with the same amount in the bank (actually more because you accrue more interest), and it's a hell of a lot less work to set up. This year, I upped it to $60/paycheck, for $1560/yr deposited not including interest.
* If you've got a surplus after that and your bills, pay down any high interest debt first (I feel it's important to have the safety cushion for immediate emergencies available even if it costs you more in the long run - if you've got a lot of debt, once you've built a safety cushion of savings, you may want to pay down debt before adding to savings), then go into savings and investments. I consider anything that I put in as surplus savings as fair game to use in the same year that I put it in, and I put transfer comments on my manual savings transfers to keep track of how much surplus I've added.
* At the beginning of the year, mentally freeze savings. Anything that's in there - whether it's the automatic transfers or surplus I've put in - stays there unless there's a damn good reason for it to come out, and if it comes out, it's treated as a loan from my savings to me, and must be replenished ASAP. (It can obviously be moved over to another savings or investment vehicle, but the idea is to keep it out of "liquid cash".)
* Keep the checking account's balance high enough to take all expected hits in the near future. I don't like to see my checking account under $1000. In a higher cost of living area (although Marten does have three roommates and no car, which helps - I have very cheap rent, but also a car payment), I'd probably want to keep that closer to $1500-2000. This means that if a bunch of auto bill pays go through at once, I'm fine.
* Use credit, but use it wisely. 0% financing deals are your friend if used responsibly, as you avoid the cash flow hits of a large purchase, and you can make interest on the cash that you haven't paid off yet. Still, don't buy something you can't afford.
This strategy certainly isn't minmaxing your finances, but it's IMO manageable without having to micromanage everything.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Tova on 04 Sep 2018, 19:42 ---Good thing no-one around here is prone to jumping to conclusions based on incomplete information; otherwise, this conversation would be quite amusing.
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Ha, isn't the whole point of this forum to discuss different viewpoints and interpretations of the comic and its characters' behaviors? After all, if we'd all perceive the comic the exact same way, what's left to discuss? :)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 04 Sep 2018, 18:51 ---
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 04 Sep 2018, 13:45 ---That's true, that is a possibility. It's however not the impression I got from the cadence of Tai's initial correction.
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I'm curious how you determined the modulation or inflection of Tai's voice reading text in a comic with no audio.
I'm not saying you started out by assuming Claire was being bratty and worked back from there based on absolutely no information whatsoever, I'm just curious how Tai sounds in real life.
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Attempting to get the cadence through a text only media is something that writers actually strive for.
Jeph's a pretty decent writer, so I totally get what Dutchlvr means by his comment.
After all, this *is* no 'Tai' in 'real life'...
We're left only with the author's words.
How we perceive them relies "... on a great... many... things."
(Not least, cultural/specialised knowledge... I can't guarantee it, but I bet a few people reading my last line there heard EXACTLY the voice my quoted words were made in. :)
You are, of course, correct that bare text is a bugger to put cadence into... but it is not impossible.
IN the same way that some might read a posters view in here and, through their previous comments on a character, suggest that any negative comment towards them is being made purely because "you don't like them"... which sometimes may be true... but just as often does not.
Short version?
Saying "You only said that cos you don't like them", is a pretty lame stance to take during a discussion... 'sometimes' :)
Cornelius:
Not to mention that once you get into the realm of poetry, that's a pretty important part to actually get right.
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