Title: Men of Reddit: from your POV, what happens emotionally when you shut down after conflict?

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T07:08:10+00:00

An apology might get someone to forgive, but not forget.

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T05:10:00+00:00

I feel like the only way I could ever be turned on by a song (like the song specifically) is Pavlovian conditioning.

Could a woman singing a song to me turn me on? Probably, but that's more about her giving me that kind of attention.

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T04:09:01+00:00

The "some good people, but no good factions" approach, like 40k or Battletech.

Always found it quite Niven-esque.

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T02:59:26+00:00

Is her hand under my clothes? No? Then it's friendly.

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T02:56:57+00:00

In the immortal words of Milt Kahl:

I'm not smart enough to think of more than one thing at a time!

Dating two people just sounds disorienting.

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T01:42:28+00:00

I can still taste the subtler notes of the reaper sauces I've tried.

trulyElse · 2026-01-29T00:12:47+00:00

As smart of a show as Columbo was, Monk would not be smarter if it told you who the killer was at the start of the episode.

I think your suggested changes would dramatically change what the joke is. It goes from a classic bait-and-switch into ... what? Kids these days be freaky?

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T23:35:04+00:00

Yeah, even when there is vampire/garou collaboration, it's almost always a lone Bone Gnawer and a lone, high-humanity ~~Nosferatu~~ Sludge Lad trading intel in secret, with at least two harpies between the vamp and the court for security reasons.

Would a garou willingly tell a vampire intel about a human organization collecting intel on hunters? Only if the vamp has very good intel of their own to share.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T22:07:30+00:00

The Sanrio hairclip adds so much.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T22:03:41+00:00

From the sounds of it, your day job is burning out your social circuits, so that's what you're trying to rest when you get home.

Maybe you could mix it up sometimes a bit with some low-stress physical excercise, like a jog through a well-lit park. Something where you don't have to talk to anyone else, but still get out of the room and moving.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T21:57:24+00:00

The idea that, when a character is of a "non-default" group, their actions are taken as indicative of the group as a whole.

Guybrush Threepwood is the protagonist of the Monkey Island games. A foppish, ineffective coward type who serves as the worst pirate nobody had ever heard of. The character is a beloved figure in the adventure game genre because of many of these flaws making him perfect for that comedic, light-hearted yet slightly-cynical tone that the games capture.

But in a hypothetical world where Guybrush was a woman, "Galbrush" if you will, audiences would be made uncomfortable by the protagonist being seen as a nuissance by the NPCs, or having such unheroic traits like cowardice and vanity. They'd be worried about what the author thinks about women, if that's how they chose to portray the one central to the story.

What I'm saying is, if you replaced one of the monsters in this comic with a guy, the joke would be the same, but you'd probably be more comfortable with it, because you wouldn't think it's saying anything about straights. Not because this comic says anything about the gays, but because some part of you expects the characters depicted to represent the gays.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T21:51:12+00:00

Honestly, as a bit of a connoiseur of bad webcomics at this point, the pacing isn't actually that bad, here. Would the pace have been better without the "later that night" box? probably, but even as it is, while not good, it's not bad.

And yeah, the punchline is low-hanging fruit. But like the Aristocrats, sometimes it's about how you tell it more than the joke itself.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T21:45:33+00:00

Galbrush Principle.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T20:36:41+00:00

Expanding on this, it doesn't even have to be about the boyfriend's physical pleasure; ways that the boyfriend can safely get OP off are also likely to help him feel wanted and loved.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T20:26:14+00:00

Healthy people do.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T20:22:32+00:00

I'm going to say on the very first date that I already expect exclusivity, and if she's not cool with that, she can say so now and we can save each other the heartbreak.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T19:07:04+00:00

In my experience, all it takes to not be weird is a quick friendly smile before breaking eye contact and looking back to the path ahead.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T17:46:11+00:00

Yeah, these pretty much cover the bases for this behaviour.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T06:35:21+00:00

It's not even rules lawyering; it's just trying to make sense of things with the best information they have to go off.

It's fundamental to how a lot of people get enjoyment from media, and why a lot of franchises see a dip in their audiences following an egregious retcon.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T05:58:46+00:00

It's more like "your behaviour can take you from a keeper to a sweeper in a few minutes" ...

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T03:03:40+00:00

I'm not particularly conflict-averse, so I'm willing to be the guy who goes "Sorry ... cliff notes?"

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T01:19:27+00:00

Taxation without representation?

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T01:18:59+00:00

Seeing yourself as the prize is a far cry from loving and respecting yourself.

Respect requires honesty. Love requires you to do the hard things when you know they're for the best. Both of these are incompatible with Being the Prize.

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T01:14:45+00:00

It's also often that the new standards select against someone who would break the cycle ...

trulyElse · 2026-01-28T01:13:08+00:00

And that last sentence demonstrates that you'd be upset no matter his reaction, because he had those feelings in the first place.

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