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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
JoeCovenant:
Why am I disappointed that Ol' Spookybot is coming across as desperate?
It's reminding me of Richard Pryor as the Wizard near the end of The Wiz...
"Please, please don't go. I live... I live here all alone... in terror... that someone will find out that I'm a fraud.
Please... just stay with me for a little while and talk.
You can talk to me crazy... call me names."
(Which is a BIT weird because I've been thinking of this exact scene for about a week or so. (No, I dunno why either!))
Hmmm... new idea for a story.. "When Gods get Lonesome!" :)
Annemoon:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 03 Jul 2019, 21:10 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 03 Jul 2019, 19:09 ---I see Roko's rant as this:
Imagine if you just went out and bought yourself a car. A nice, brand new car. You'd saved up for a down payment, got some financing for it - and managed to agree with the dealership/seller over the price. You were still trying to iron out the exact details and the delivery, and how to pay for some other stuff, when you run into your friend who you know has access to a ton of money. You mention to them what you were trying to do, and how you had all this difficulty, and you were financing it.
Your rich friend informs you that they own the bank/financing company. Instead of deciding to help you with your loan, they get on their phone and buy themselves a brand new Aston Martin - direct from the factory.
That is what has Roko so pissed.
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Then Roko needs to grow up.
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I don't think Roko needs to grow up, I think a couple of people here need to place in context the effort that she has done today, and the complete lack of empathy the person in front of her is showing.
It's easy to sit here with dryly reading 'a thing that has happend' and have an opinion on how roko's behavior was 'unfair'.
Well I don't think it was - she's worked her ass of for the entire day, and instead of listening and being an active help spookybot is invalidating every thing she did in front of her eyes and being flippant about that.
"look I'm also being such a good person - without doing almost any effort! isn't it FUNNY"
I would be pissed - this is not how you treat friends - you don't invalidate hard work in front of them to show of your own privilege. So don't say that Roko needs to grow up here.
This 'person' has feelings - they don't have the obligation to be perfect and reasonable - considering every aspect of the ultimate good - in every situation even though they are not mentally ready for that. Stop putting unreasonable expectations on people.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 04 Jul 2019, 02:49 ---Why am I disappointed that Ol' Spookybot is coming across as desperate?
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I came here just to post that I'm not liking Spookybot's sudden turn from confident and aloof to insecure and needy. It's like Lucas making a film in which he reveals that the Supreme Badass Darth Vader was a whiny teenager originally. Fortunately that never happened.
JimC:
If you do objective good for bad motives objective good is still done. However you may not deserve any credit for doing it...
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Tova on 04 Jul 2019, 02:24 ---Why are you asking "why not both?" in a response to a post which literally suggests that it is both?
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A misunderstanding, I suppose.
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