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WCDT strips 4381-4385 (Oct 26th to Oct 30th 2020)
Reaver:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 28 Oct 2020, 20:32 ---
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 28 Oct 2020, 19:26 ---And this is what... after two drinks?
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Clinton appears to weigh about 50 pounds. Two pint-sized glasses of high-alcohol not-Miller Lite beers affecting him strongly is believable.
Also, I don't think I like Clinton anymore. He's on a date, and talking to Elliot about how he's sniffing around Brun and thrown by how she disinterested she was. That's super hurtful, completely self-absorbed, and feckless. I'm now thinking it's better that Elliot stay away, since he's just going to get hurt if Clinton can't be bothered to think about his feelings.
Sure, it's just one slip, but there are some things that are fundamentally very revealing about a person's inner character. This one says Clinton doesn't think much about other people's feelings, even though he's on a date and should be very focused on them, and is a bit faithless since he was chasing Brun in his head even though he's got something potentially going on with Elliot. It lacks integrity.
It'll probably get papered over and forgotten, or his personality changed in some way, this being a comic strip, but that's my current reaction.
Can we go back to following Roko around for a while? Maybe she'll find love and sex and bread, eventually.
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LMAO! “ On a Date” He got invited to hang around where Elliot works
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Beast_Reborn on 28 Oct 2020, 20:42 --- I was never quite as pissed off at Corpse Witch as I now am at Clinton, which I suppose says a lot about how I'm reading this story.
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I had to look up that arc again. I'd forgotten who Corpse Witch was, despite remembering the "partitioned memories" plot.
Corpse Witch was a cartoon villain. What she did amounted to slavery enforced by blackmail, and objectively far, far worse. But it was hard to seriously hate her because she was so 2 dimensional, and we never liked her in the first place.
Clinton, on the other hand, is a full-fledged character who has generally been sympathetic. He's a lot more real to us than Corpse Witch.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Reaver on 28 Oct 2020, 21:29 ---LMAO! “ On a Date” He got invited to hang around where Elliot works
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Man, that was rude.
Sneer all you like, both of them built it up significantly. It's not a casual "let's just hang around" event for either of them. Quibbling about labels doesn't change what it actually means.
EDIT: Also, I have to ask - what exactly do you think Elliot is thinking? Are you really unable to read hurt in his expressions in the strip?
Reaver:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 28 Oct 2020, 21:32 ---
--- Quote from: Reaver on 28 Oct 2020, 21:29 ---LMAO! “ On a Date” He got invited to hang around where Elliot works
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Man, that was rude.
Sneer all you like, both of them built it up significantly. It's not a casual "let's just hang around" event for either of them. Quibbling about labels doesn't change what it actually means.
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A real date is not “ Hang out where I work, while I work around you” Dates are for getting to know each other. This whole plan was a mess, everyones messed up here but aways so quick to lower the Boom on Clinton.
Elliots clearly being distracted from his job, which is unfair to his boss who is paying him to work... Clintons drinking is probably also just so he can stay in the bar and not be loitering and taking space.
Yeah he said a rudeish thing but Meaner and less kind intending things fall out of Mays mouth and even Fayes and thats just met with “‘Well thats just how they are/ you dont understand their trauma” I’m sorry if you felt I was rude, but this is ridiculous.
Clinton clearly thinks right now in his booze stupor “ Well now neither of is have to worry about knowing! Because we both know”
I certainly can see how Clinton said something dumb, but he ( to me) cleary thinks he’s helping Elliot by preventing him from being told “ I pictured us having sex and its super gross” like he got.
N.N. Marf:
Elliot doesn't know, he knows that Clinton told him that Brun said that,.. From Elliot's perspective, this could be seen as psychological manipulation.
--- Quote from: Reaver on 28 Oct 2020, 21:43 ---Yeah he said a rudeish thing but Meaner and less kind intending things fall out of Mays mouth and even Fayes and thats just met with “‘Well thats just how they are/ you dont understand their trauma” I’m sorry if you felt I was rude, but this is ridiculous.
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Faye/May are often crude. It doesn't matter why so, they are. There's a long precedent there. Were you to just meet them, you might be taken aback the first time, and maybe the next few times, too, unless you weren't told that that happens often. It's not an excuse---it's a warning to newcomers, to save them the trouble of dealing with that over an over until they've had enough of it and leave, maybe making a scene that others, too, might have to deal with. (Please point us to the Questionable Content pages that cite `past trauma' to excuse bad behaviuor.)
Clinton is obviously moved after that interaction with Brun, but we don't know whether he's much upset, much relieved, or unsure---though he seems sure that he is, whatever it is.
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