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WCDT strips 4371-4375 (Oct 12th to Oct 16th 2020)
BenRG:
I really would be interested in learning Yay's view of what it says about Elliott that he's continually talking himself down and doubting why anyone would be interested in him. Oddly enough, I think the exchange in panel 2 is indicative of Elliot's real problem: Awkwardness feedback loop. He stresses about how he gets stressed when the personal stakes are high. When you compare that to how he generally interacts with Renee, you can see that he's actually quite a nice and good humoured man; if only he could transcend his own fears, they wouldn't bog him down...
Like most of us, I suppose.
I do wonder just how Yay's multi-node nature is working here too. I imagine that several of them are playing with Hercules where the local node focusses entirely on helping Elliot!
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Oct 2020, 23:18 ---I do wonder just how Yay's multi-node nature is working here too. I imagine that several of them are playing with Hercules where the local node focusses entirely on helping Elliot!
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I wonder how their consciousness works. Do they all together have only one consciousness, or does each node have it's own separate consciousness, tangled with the others to a composite consciousness any one cannot so easily remove themself from. What if they go offline? Probably worse than being away from one's friends for months, as some might this year be: being away from their better half greater part.
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--- Quote from: Case on 13 Oct 2020, 07:25 ---German proverb rhyme: "Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul" -> "When someone gifts you a horse, you don't check its teeth (like a buyer would, to check for illnesses)". Means that mostly, humans offering gifts are not plotting your downfall, notwithstanding Troy. Can also be used to express worldweary cynicism, in the sense of 'don't bite the hand that feeds you', or as an admonition to be gracious.
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Always look a gift horse in the mouth. You wouldn't want to inadvertently accept what is really a great burden, would you?
Tova:
Paradon?
Paragon?
Annemoon:
Wednesday comic...
can anyone translate that last line for me? I'm quite frankly stumped... ^_^'
"Would you like us to play the part of the unruly patron? We could push this firmly over the precipice of reasonability and into the chasm of romantic farce."
Like roleplay? To what end?
oddtail:
I don't think it's meant to be roleplay per se.
The idea is that Yay offers to pretend to be an unruly patron in a bar and make Elliot (who subsequently throws them out, in the scenario) look competent and like a good guy.
Y'know, like someone "proving" they're badass by beating up someone pretending to be a mugger, or something like that.
To what end? In a realistic situation, something like this would not be useful. But it's a trope in "zany" comedies.
The joke in this case is that Yay is suggesting something that would not work because they are following the sitcom/comedy logic for a real-life (in the context of the comic) situation.
Hope that helps.
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