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WCDT strips 4146-4150 (2nd to 6th December 2019)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 03 Dec 2019, 04:09 ---I guess I'm too long-term of a reader to not immediately think of 1795.
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Thank you for making me binge through 250 old strips. It's not like I wouldn't have anything better to do.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Dec 2019, 18:49 ---... Sven could be vocalist, and it would fulfill him.
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AIUI Sven is one of the top songwriters in the country music scene. WTF would he want to play in a little local amateur band?
alc40:
--- Quote from: JimC on 04 Dec 2019, 15:21 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Dec 2019, 18:49 ---... Sven could be vocalist, and it would fulfill him.
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AIUI Sven is one of the top songwriters in the country music scene. WTF would he want to play in a little local amateur band?
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He writes country songs for money, but he didn't say what style the song was that he actually cares about. Since the people he approached didn't like it, maybe he would be interested in collaborating with Marten's band on something like that.
andrybak:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Dec 2019, 23:37 ---I've been wondering if we've been misreading Marten all along. He isn't passive, he's just really good at constructing worst-case scenarios and so he's staying in 'safe' territory where there are no serious risks of failure. I can certainly empathise as that's one of my personal greatest weaknesses. It would certainly explain a lot about him if he wasn't just loathe to change but was genuinely afraid that he'll screw up if he does!
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Have you read "Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality"? Being prepared for worst-case scenarios is one of Harry's core goals in this fanfic. Marten, of course, isn't a hyper-deductive-rational-genius, but your observation is interesting nonetheless.
chris73:
(Finally some Marten!)
The way Claire is acting towards Marten is really setting me off because I find it quite patronizing, I mean a librarian is good but its not up there with being a Doctor, Firefighter, Nurse, EMT, Policeman etc in terms of respect yet she seems to think being content in a job is a negative
Marten has a job he doesn't actively hate and which seems to have some job security and allows him to pay the bills which isn't all that bad in my book, I mean my mom was a hospital cleaner for 30 years and while I'm sure she didn't like the actual job itself she certainly had many friends there and when she passed they put up a commemorative park bench in her name
Claire on the other hand hasn't graduated and the studying is causing her some massive stress and emotional breakdown yet shes chiding Marten for being content
I also find the physical interaction interesting here in that they start separate then move closer together (once Marten starts agreeing with Claire), subconscious manipulation by Clare?
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