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Tova:
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 16 May 2020, 14:36 ---I didn't mean to imply that Claire needs to be chastised.
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That surprises me because you described her behaviour as "disrespectful" and "unacceptable."
Reaver:
Claire you're gonna have to leave your own Chill zone, you are like the most unchill of the unchilled, you are the anti chill lmao
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 15 May 2020, 13:30 ---
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 15 May 2020, 09:42 ---
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 15 May 2020, 06:23 ---I do hope that we'll see some reaction from Clinton. I know it's Claire's party and all, but the last time my brother pulled something similar on me, I walked away and went home. It's not funny.
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^This. CLaire's behavior here is simply unacceptable to me.
Clinton (3 years younger, btw) has shown in the past to be supportive, protective, and AFAICT respectful towards CLaire, and quite respectful in his interactions with other cast members like Brun and Emily as well.
Claire makes fun of him (fine), has been meddlesome in his affairs (not fine and rightfully called out on it), and now is simply disrespectful and downright mean to him. Not cool at all.
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To be fair, when first introduced, Clinton was not respectful or chill in his interactions with cast members (Hannelore comes to mind).
More recently, however, he has shown definite signs of improvement (IMO).
In the same timeframe, Claire has mostly been shown freaking the F out over stuff - by her own admission, and mostly over little things like her entire future, so... *shrug*
So... maybe I am taking it a bit too far, but I'm irritated by what could be construed as hypocrisy, gatekeeping, and/or not granting others the same respect and consideration one would want for (and has been shown to) oneself.
tl;dr - pot, kettle.
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They're siblings. It's pretty realistic from that standpoint.
Andy147:
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 14 May 2020, 10:41 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 May 2020, 09:49 ---
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 14 May 2020, 09:44 ---Also the characters are only graduating now so Marten is what, 23 now at most? I don't think everybody has grown up to own their nerd nerdhood by then. Some never do.
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It's my understanding that Claire was a graduate student, so she and Marten are probably closer to 25
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I'm not sure if we ever got an age for Marten, but Claire was 24 when she was interning at the library, so I'm assuming that it is now at least a year later and she is at least 25.
According to a timeline created at some point, which I believe to be reasonably accurate, Marten was born in 1981 and about 2 years had passed in the first 3000 comics or so, which put comic 3078 around October 2005 (which would put Marten at 24 at that point). Assuming the passing of time has been more or less at the same pace plus a time jump around comic 3100 (I'm too lazy to actually work on the time line myself), I would put it another 1-2 years further in the future or so, so Marten is probably 25-26 at the moment. Just guessing here though.
Edit: I found that timeline here
But looking at it again, some of it is off. For example. it has put Marten moving to Northampton in summer 2003 and meeting Faye in November 2003, but that can't be correct, because in comic 2332 Pintsize mentions he was Marten's only friend in Northampton for 2 years before he met Steve.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter. I kinda want to make a QC timeline myself, but at the same time I know I don't have the time to actually do it.....
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Judging by Thursday's comic he was in 9th grade after element 118 was named Oganesson, which in our universe at least happened in November 2016.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Tova on 16 May 2020, 16:00 ---
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 16 May 2020, 14:36 ---I didn't mean to imply that Claire needs to be chastised.
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That surprises me because you described her behaviour as "disrespectful" and "unacceptable."
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I see what you mean. I guess to me the word 'chastise' means a severe (verbal, usually) punishing, which I don't always find warranted even if I find certain behavior by itself unacceptable. For example, if somebody doesn't pick up their dog's poop, I find it unacceptable but I don't find it warrants chastising, but instead just a simple "hey, please pick up after your dog". Not sure if this makes sense, maybe only to me, ha! :-)
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