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Added 2024-07-29 03:45:41 +0000 UTC"Gosh, Lem, I'm really having a rough night."
"Here, I'll make it worse."
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@Penguin - oh yeah, it's the kind of thing where I don't really BLAME him; he's not much of a critical thinker and he's in a terrible situation - it's more of an indictment of their execrable society.
Josh
2024-07-31 04:42:59 +0000 UTCNothing quite like a sibling to know JUUUUUUUUUUUST what to say...
HandsomePenguin
2024-07-30 00:12:42 +0000 UTCHe has also been going to war since he was a literal child. So the definition of good might be a bit skewed here.
HandsomePenguin
2024-07-30 00:11:51 +0000 UTC@Rob - I have noticed that this Lemuel character may not actually be a very good person
Josh
2024-07-29 20:53:31 +0000 UTCWow, using someone's survivor's guilt against them is a real dick move...
Rob N
2024-07-29 13:20:21 +0000 UTCI see. But this "giving an enemy a chance" reasoning comes a very close to the general trope of victim-blaming. Of course, with a huge difference that in a war, you have to take reasonable precautions to not "give" an enemy such a chance. In real world there's usually a need of whole separate system of military court to determine whether some orders were criminally endangering the personnel or reasonable within the situation. And it's especially tough because (1) civil judges are just not equipped to make such judgments – thus a military structure needed which is kinda itself a waste of military resources during the war (and personnel wasting time in trials instead of fighting); (2) the people that would have a good perspective on the situation / be witnesses might be already dead. There's no conclusions in this post. Lemuel stabbing Duane by Duane's own insecurties about this, though...
Duke BG
2024-07-29 07:57:58 +0000 UTCI think the part that's killing me is they're both kind of right? People ARE almost certainly preying on Lem's desperation. Duane DOES tend to retreat into narrative and philosophy. Those boys from The Brothers Adelier are shining through, this scene :(
CD
2024-07-29 07:55:31 +0000 UTCduane must be either pretty socially thick or have intentionally forgotten this conversation, for that subsequent chat to make sense in context. why not both i suppose
Spen Cyrrh
2024-07-29 06:40:30 +0000 UTCLemuel's logic is Duane wasted time fucking around trying to impress Claggart (ego), Jon called him out on it and put a stop to it, and the enemy had their chance to conclude their attack. Everything exploded from there. Lemuel thinks this because Duane has thought this in the past, and agonized to his brother over it during many a drunken pity party. It's a very shitty thing to throw back in his face right at this moment.
Ashley
2024-07-29 05:50:41 +0000 UTCIt doesn't even make much sense. Duane's ego was neither a cause of that particular engagement, nor a cause of Jon's demise.
Duke BG
2024-07-29 05:41:54 +0000 UTCIt circles back to status quo by the end, and winds up... making that chapter 7 conversation come off quite different. This is a bad night for Duane.
Ashley
2024-07-29 04:43:36 +0000 UTCLow blow
astine
2024-07-29 04:40:44 +0000 UTCOh man this is so real. Great page, really heartbreaking! It's funny to connect this to chapter 7 where Duane's like "Hey is something bothering you?"
Capsandnumbers
2024-07-29 04:38:28 +0000 UTCNo one can wound more terribly than family.
Stretch Andrews
2024-07-29 04:29:53 +0000 UTCPretty accurate.
Ashley
2024-07-29 04:15:14 +0000 UTCMe: Whoa Lem, that's pretty rude! Also Me: Pretty sick burn, tho *Oof Stones meme goes here* More seriously, I actually do feel bad for Lem here. It might be a simplistic summation of things but it feels like Lem wants Big Brother Duane to make things better like he did when they were kids, only Duane can't/won't. So Lem's concluded that as much as he might love him, big bro ain't shit so he's gotta Be The Adult and take care of matters himself.
Ladile
2024-07-29 04:14:21 +0000 UTCIt's really the kind of pointlessly cruel thing you say when all you care about is making someone else feel as shitty as you feel.
Ashley
2024-07-29 03:51:09 +0000 UTCI understand your brother's being unhelpful, Lem, but that's a bit of a low blow.
Fitzy
2024-07-29 03:49:17 +0000 UTC
