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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« Last post by bulmabriefs144 on February 22, 2020, 08:36:47 pm »
Hmmm... I see your point.  Her answer was... not what I was expecting... but it is consistent with her behavior, but I think also... Maytag is an experience junky. 

Consistent with her stated views that her body she thinks of as a tool for experience... she truly treats her body like an amusement park taxi... every new experience is something she cherishes!  As long as 'the taxi', her body is not damaged permanently to prevent her from gaining more experiences she is ever curious.  So even things most might think of as undesirable to experience, entering the Dark cell, surviving a gang rape, being seared alive in a volcanic eruption, or slow drifting to sleep due to hypothermia in a snow storm she swallows whole... as long as she can survive it to experience more things.

A philosophy of 'What destroys, traumatizes, drives to heights of mind numbing ecstasy or utterly exhausts the body does not really touch the spirit other than to collect the memory of the experience'!

But Maytag, needs to be mindful that philosophy is a potential path to madness.  There are some experiences that WILL and DO touch one's core spirit and can affect even risk one's sanity!

I think that's the proviso we need to keep in mind, and probably bottom line as to why she's not hooked on drugs. 

Likewise, she's probably not keen on dumping herself into a volcano either, but grabbing some lava and tossing it one her hand (after she knew about that arm regeneration thing), would probably be just peachy.  May would probably be okay with a winter walk before sunrise, so long as she had somewhere to go afterwards.
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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« Last post by sunphoenix on February 22, 2020, 06:21:09 am »
Hmmm... I see your point.  Her answer was... not what I was expecting... but it is consistent with her behavior, but I think also... Maytag is an experience junky. 

Consistent with her stated views that her body she thinks of as a tool for experience... she truly treats her body like an amusement park taxi... every new experience is something she cherishes!  As long as 'the taxi', her body is not damaged permanently to prevent her from gaining more experiences she is ever curious.  So even things most might think of as undesirable to experience, entering the Dark cell, surviving a gang rape, being seared alive in a volcanic eruption, or slow drifting to sleep due to hypothermia in a snow storm she swallows whole... as long as she can survive it to experience more things.

A philosophy of 'What destroys, traumatizes, drives to heights of mind numbing ecstasy or utterly exhausts the body does not really touch the spirit other than to collect the memory of the experience'!

But Maytag, needs to be mindful that philosophy is a potential path to madness.  There are some experiences that WILL and DO touch one's core spirit and can affect even risk one's sanity!
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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« Last post by bulmabriefs144 on February 19, 2020, 11:21:29 pm »
I'm not convinced that Bern doesn't know about her true self.  I mean, you need to have a certain amount of intimacy to have regular sexual intimacy.  And it's likely that these two have had more than a few off-panel experiences together.

I also think that Killer Chef (I forget her name, but the psycho girl who works for Tin Man in exchange fore creating horrible monsters) is wrong about Maytag.

Emotionally cold people seem similar to people with antisocial (read: psycho) personalities, but they aren't necessarily the same.  In fact, I'm told that depressed people also often have blunted emotions.  Maytag is cheerful enough, but we're not really sure what the "true core" is actually.  Just that she's a bit bland emotionally, and also very driven and determined, but unlike an actual psycho, most of her drive appears to be to belong.  To fit in, to have people like her and entertained by her.    In fact, judging from her motivation to get through the Dark Cell even if her memory is gone, her eyes are gouged out, and she's in terrible pain, I would venture a guess that her desire to entertain is an authentic desire.   

Maybe she's a sad and lonely person at heart, who hides behind a mask of deadpan (from herself), and hides behind another mask of split personality (from others).  In fact, we've seen her actually crying a few times, and more even than her deadpan, it seemed real.  When people decide they don't rust her anymore is when she gets must upset, and she seems happiest not cracking jokes but being very honest

Update: I don't feel that's 100% true, just as all outlooks have some levels of hypocrisy.  She doesn't for instance starve herself or eat to obesity, or use most drugs aside from alcohol that I can see.  Well, I imagine the potions probably antidote most drugs to the point that they're not fun anymore.  But still, it seems her lack of boundaries doesn't extend to any sort of self-abuse.  Probably because since she accepts most pain, trying to hurt herself would be vaguely like tickling yourself.
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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« Last post by sunphoenix on February 19, 2020, 05:13:48 am »
Hmmmm... 'Doctor Maytag' has avoided the potential pitfalls of revealing her inner self's motivations and without lying.  Honestly, I do not believe she will actually lie to Bern... but she may say reveal...misleading truths to conceal the actual truth.  Who knows perhaps she may come clean about the true core of her personality....

I wonder how Bern will take that, Crest was not so... pleased.
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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« Last post by bulmabriefs144 on February 05, 2020, 06:41:01 pm »
She doesn't need to lie.

Maytag's choices would be exactly the same as Bern's. For completely different reasons.

Bern chose A or B, because unlike Polly, she doesn't enjoy hurting people. She's principled and a pacifist. 
Maytag is likely to choose A and B, because while she could technically do C easier than Bern, she likes big orgies, and she doesn't care about pain.  In fact, she made a similar choice already.  Actually cut her fingers off at one point to save Bern, and cut out her eyes to bet past the Dark Cell.

Also, let's try to move the forums to here...  https://discord.gg/CqDASP

Since this forum has been crashing lately.
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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 54: Discussion
« Last post by sunphoenix on February 01, 2020, 09:36:41 pm »
Uhm... Maytag...this is the part where you lie, Lie LIE!  Cause now is NOT the time and place to be frankly honest!!

You need to approach that conversation at a different point... in a different moment... explaining right now...will confuse and hurt Bernadette's feelings...

I feel a train wreak coming on...
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Flipside Discussion / Re: are the forums dead?
« Last post by bulmabriefs144 on January 27, 2020, 05:09:08 am »
I literally haven't been able to login for about two weeks.

The forums are literally nort only dead but broken.

My advice Brion? Talk to the guy from Gaia webcomic, or Tom from Gunnerkrigg Court, and see about having an internal post system after each comment (not Disqus though, Disqus started erasing my comments because they're a big company and political comments in a political forum seem to spill into webcomic posts getting erased, until basically none of my comments worked).

I will add that Discord link though.
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Flipside Discussion / Re: are the forums dead?
« Last post by Brion Foulke on January 26, 2020, 03:45:20 pm »
We DO have a discord for Flipside now: https://discord.gg/CqDASP
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