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Would you help her?

Yes
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49%
No
15
37%
Other
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Postby Scomagia » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:35 pm

United Muscovite Nations wrote:This scenario is so specific and so irrelevant to almost anything, that I have to believe that this is something that actually happened to you.

It is bizarrely specific for a hypothetical.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:40 pm

Scomagia wrote:
United Muscovite Nations wrote:This scenario is so specific and so irrelevant to almost anything, that I have to believe that this is something that actually happened to you.

It is bizarrely specific for a hypothetical.


I include selective details to help the posters visualize the situation and experience it before choosing a decision and justifying it

Simply saying “you were tricked into getting some mud on you and then mocked” for instance (and leaving it at that) cheapens the whole thing

Ideally, there should be a degree of immersion

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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:41 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Scomagia wrote:It is bizarrely specific for a hypothetical.


I include selective details to help the posters visualize the situation and experience it before choosing a decision and justifying it

Simply saying “you were tricked into getting some mud on you and then mocked” for instance (and leaving it at that) cheapens the whole thing

Ideally, there should be a degree of immersion

But you could use literally any scenario to give people the idea of the hypothetical. This is just bizarrely specific and immersive, which is why I think it is largely based on something that actually happened to you.
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Postby Scomagia » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:43 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Scomagia wrote:It is bizarrely specific for a hypothetical.


I include selective details to help the posters visualize the situation and experience it before choosing a decision and justifying it

Simply saying “you were tricked into getting some mud on you and then mocked” for instance (and leaving it at that) cheapens the whole thing

Ideally, there should be a degree of immersion

There's a middle ground between a sentence of explanation and twenty plus paragraphs of explanation, though. There's a lot of superfluous detail to reach the questions.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:44 pm

United Muscovite Nations wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
I include selective details to help the posters visualize the situation and experience it before choosing a decision and justifying it

Simply saying “you were tricked into getting some mud on you and then mocked” for instance (and leaving it at that) cheapens the whole thing

Ideally, there should be a degree of immersion

But you could use literally any scenario to give people the idea of the hypothetical. This is just bizarrely specific and immersive, which is why I think it is largely based on something that actually happened to you.


It wouldn’t hit as hard

The answers would be too intellectual and not emotional

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:45 pm

Scomagia wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
I include selective details to help the posters visualize the situation and experience it before choosing a decision and justifying it

Simply saying “you were tricked into getting some mud on you and then mocked” for instance (and leaving it at that) cheapens the whole thing

Ideally, there should be a degree of immersion

There's a middle ground between a sentence of explanation and twenty plus paragraphs of explanation, though. There's a lot of superfluous detail to reach the questions.


You don’t approve?

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Postby The Two Jerseys » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:49 pm

I'll let her use the hose because I'm a nice guy.

Bitch ain't getting a towel though...
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:51 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:I'll let her use the hose because I'm a nice guy.

Bitch ain't getting a towel though...


What if all hoses are outdoors?

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Postby The Two Jerseys » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:53 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:I'll let her use the hose because I'm a nice guy.

Bitch ain't getting a towel though...


What if all hoses are outdoors?

That's the point.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:56 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
What if all hoses are outdoors?

That's the point.


And how do you expect she’ll react?

Because hosing herself outdoors next to the party sounds like it would look very bad
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:59 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:That's the point.


And how do you expect she’ll react?

Because hosing herself outdoors next to the party sounds like it would look very bad

Who cares, it's not my problem. Either she gets hosed down, or the interior of her car gets muddy, her choice.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:05 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
And how do you expect she’ll react?

Because hosing herself outdoors next to the party sounds like it would look very bad

Who cares, it's not my problem. Either she gets hosed down, or the interior of her car gets muddy, her choice.


But it looks so ridiculous though...

A high powered self hosing?

Dude...

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Postby The Two Jerseys » Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:07 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:Who cares, it's not my problem. Either she gets hosed down, or the interior of her car gets muddy, her choice.


But it looks so ridiculous though...

A high powered self hosing?

Dude...

She showed up to my party uninvited, overdressed, and acted like a total bitch. She's lucky I'm letting her use the hose.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:08 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
But it looks so ridiculous though...

A high powered self hosing?

Dude...

She showed up to my party uninvited, overdressed, and acted like a total bitch. She's lucky I'm letting her use the hose.


You’re cold... :)

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:30 pm

The South Falls wrote:
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Number 2 sounds like it would be massively embarrassing.

By design. I'm not a big guy, so I must project myself.


What’s project?

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Postby Scomagia » Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:43 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Scomagia wrote:There's a middle ground between a sentence of explanation and twenty plus paragraphs of explanation, though. There's a lot of superfluous detail to reach the questions.


You don’t approve?

I didn't say that. I just think you could have aimed towards a bit more brevity on this one.
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Postby Chernoslavia » Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:52 pm

1. ''Sure, hand me the camera first''. I delete the photos. ''Alright, I'll shower first, you're the one who made me fall after all'' I take a quick shower, change into some clean cloths. I come back, hand her back the camera. ''now, leave the premises'' If she protests ''Yeah, I don't give a shit. Leave''. If she refuses again, I approach her in a threatening matter and yell ''LEAVE!''. I follow her so she won't get any ideas until she finally leaves the property.

Why? - I know her kind, she's a sociopath. She feels no empathy for anyone but herself. So she get's no sympathy from me. She is in my property (or in this case property of my relatives), I must remove her.

2. There is none. In this particular scenario, I don't feel inclined to forgive someone like that in any way. She gets the boot.
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What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:59 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:1. ''Sure, hand me the camera first''. I delete the photos. ''Alright, I'll shower first, you're the one who made me fall after all'' I take a quick shower, change into some clean cloths. I come back, hand her back the camera. ''now, leave the premises'' If she protests ''Yeah, I don't give a shit. Leave''. If she refuses again, I approach her in a threatening matter and yell ''LEAVE!''. I follow her so she won't get any ideas until she finally leaves the property.

Why? - I know her kind, she's a sociopath. She feels no empathy for anyone but herself. So she get's no sympathy from me. She is in my property (or in this case property of my relatives), I must remove her.

2. There is none. In this particular scenario, I don't feel inclined to forgive someone like that in any way. She gets the boot.


The camera has already been destroyed (she couldn't retrieve it during the fall, she lost it)

its deep in the mud somewhere

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Postby Chernoslavia » Sun Oct 07, 2018 12:04 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:1. ''Sure, hand me the camera first''. I delete the photos. ''Alright, I'll shower first, you're the one who made me fall after all'' I take a quick shower, change into some clean cloths. I come back, hand her back the camera. ''now, leave the premises'' If she protests ''Yeah, I don't give a shit. Leave''. If she refuses again, I approach her in a threatening matter and yell ''LEAVE!''. I follow her so she won't get any ideas until she finally leaves the property.

Why? - I know her kind, she's a sociopath. She feels no empathy for anyone but herself. So she get's no sympathy from me. She is in my property (or in this case property of my relatives), I must remove her.

2. There is none. In this particular scenario, I don't feel inclined to forgive someone like that in any way. She gets the boot.


The camera has already been destroyed (she couldn't retrieve it during the fall, she lost it)

its deep in the mud somewhere


Fine. I make her find the camera then I fuck her over.
What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:52 am

Chernoslavia wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
The camera has already been destroyed (she couldn't retrieve it during the fall, she lost it)

its deep in the mud somewhere


Fine. I make her find the camera then I fuck her over.


The Camera is probably at the bottom. That ain’t realistic.

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Postby Heloin » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:11 am

Were is the option for leave the party because I would never hang out with any of these people?

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Chernoslavia wrote:
Fine. I make her find the camera then I fuck her over.


The Camera is probably at the bottom. That ain’t realistic.

Because this is all hyper realistic.

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:14 am

Heloin wrote:Were is the option for leave the party because I would never hang out with any of these people?

Infected Mushroom wrote:
The Camera is probably at the bottom. That ain’t realistic.

Because this is all hyper realistic.


Its decently realistic right?

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Postby Heloin » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:19 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Heloin wrote:Were is the option for leave the party because I would never hang out with any of these people?


Because this is all hyper realistic.


Its decently realistic right?

Well, I wouldn't hang out with any of these people for a start so it's instantly unrealistic for me.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:22 am

Heloin wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
Its decently realistic right?

Well, I wouldn't hang out with any of these people for a start so it's instantly unrealistic for me.


you know: peer pressure, wanting to be with the In crowd, behaving like horror movie drunken kids, a focus on trying to get laid...

its not hard to imagine right? Hence the insane power level of the Crowd in this scenario.

standard college behaviour for a good solid percentage, that's what it was based off
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Postby Heloin » Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:24 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Heloin wrote:Well, I wouldn't hang out with any of these people for a start so it's instantly unrealistic for me.


you know: peer pressure, wanting to be with the In crowd, behaving like horror movie drunken kids, a focus on trying to get laid...

its not hard to imagine right? Hence the insane power level of the Crowd in this scenario.

standard college behaviour for a good solid percentage, that's what it was based off

Scomagia wrote:It is bizarrely specific for a hypothetical.

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