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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
Milayna:
Heh, I guess Spooky really did get tired of the omnipotent mastermind shtick. It feels kinda weird, though - people don't just randomly go peasant like that, nor is it practical for them to do so. Money aside, I don't think that it's even possible for Spooky to just give up all power, and even if they did, it would raise its own moral problems.
Not to mention, how would you trust them? If Bill Gates, or hell Warren Buffet even, decided to just put on a backwards cap and skateboard and come at me all like "hello fellow everyperson, I donated everything I had to charity, I'm just like you!" I'd...well, I'm too polite to tell him to GTFO, but I'd just be...polite.
"Humanizing" (A word that is insufficient in this context but oh well) an entity that has a vast gulf between it and the heroes is generally a good thing. Older cartoon and video game villains might as well be named "Baddy McPillageface". They're less a character than a device for the hero's journey, and even that's usually nothing more than a lazy power fulfillment. Which has its own place, but when telling a story, you need your villains to be empathetic. But they don't just...have their villainy go away, that's as much a part of their characters as anything else.
It feels a lot like that with Spooky, though. They were introduced by knocking out several innocent people with no warning for convenience, were explicitly stated to be mostly amoral and untrustworthy, with a few key sanctified beliefs, and likened to an incomprehensible god pulling strings behind everyone, who briefly surfaced like a mythical kraken to a select few observers. And now, they're...apparently not using 2 billion dollars of their tentacles for anything?
I don't mind, so much, that they're trying to make friends with Roko. Like I said, "humanizing"! Turns out even The Mastermind is an awkward, lonely nerd. But now they seem to be less a Mastermind than a bored rich person. If they stopped being The Mastermind at some point, well...that's a really major plot shift that can't just be elided, you know? Like, what if Beatrice just started walking around in mom jeans and pestering Elliot?
Gyrre:
Spooky did say they weren't really using it and that it seemed absurd to them now that took a moment to think about that. That's a large degree of self-awareness.
EDIT: responding to Milayna, two posts up.
pwhodges:
Administrator Comment I have split the charity stuff into a separate thread which is in the Discuss! forum.
Charity, Change, and the Rich
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: brasca on 04 Jul 2019, 19:47 ---
Assuming that’s an honest answer what makes Roko fun to be with?
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"Roko is your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
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Well, Veronica is so much fun to be with that people paid big bucks for her, ah, company.
[[THWACK]] [[THWACK]] [[THWACK]]
Veronica: "Your bottom is too raw. We must let it recover. We shall leave you in that position and reevalueate in 30 minutes."
Client: "Please Mistress! Just a few more swats!"
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: brasca on 04 Jul 2019, 19:47 ---Strip is up!
Assuming that’s an honest answer what makes Roko fun to be with?
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She challenges them. She has no hesitation about telling them off or calling them on their shit, and they've never had anyone do that before. Much like Q found Picard so interesting because Picard stood up to him. (But didn't hit him. There's a reason Q never went back to bug Sisko.)
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