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[Cioran]

One thing that sets Aches apart is compassion.

Only those characters are treated callously that show no compassion themselves - Pat and Nolan for example.

Onstad has taken Schulz's place.

[Doc]

Come on, really? You're now postulating that we don't see compassion in any other webcomics? Go back to your room and don't come out until you're willing to apply yourself young man.

[AugustWest]

don't come out until you're willing to apply yourself young man.

Pssst.  I think Cioran is a young lady.

[Doc]

Yeah, I know but 'young man' sounds better.
I'm also not entirely sure whether s/he's a troll or not and trolls always claim to be young girls from california.

[littlefallsmets]

Hiding behind false chivalry is definitely an indirect tool of defense by internet trolls, definitely.

It comes from the lonely ol' BBS smalltimes where a maladjusted dude would defend to the death anyone proposing to be a woman for the same of the one thin chance... one thin chance... that his playing the white knight in a chatroom for a person with a pu$$y, right wrong or crazy, could lead to the unlikely event of getting his c*ck wet for the first time in a long time.

And... like... there are still pockets of the internet where those souls exist.

It's a good, if blunt and crude, exploit to throw out there.

[Leon]

It comes from the lonely ol' BBS smalltimes where a maladjusted dude would defend to the death anyone proposing to be a woman for the same of the one thin chance... one thin chance... that his playing the white knight in a chatroom for a person with a pu$$y, right wrong or crazy, could lead to the unlikely event of getting his c*ck wet for the first time in a long time.

[dejavroom]

Only those characters are treated callously that show no compassion themselves - Pat and Nolan for example.

Clearly.

[Doc]

Clearly.

I spent a good minute there getting increasingly frustrated that I couldn't get the alt-text to appear by mousing over the comic.

[jay-ell]

Pssst.  I think Cioran is a young lady.

I just realized that Cioran must be my alternate self from a parallel universe in which my time-travel experiments were a success. 

This is just the kind of thing I'd have done if we'd had Internets when I was fifteen.  As it was, I had to wait 'til I was 17 to fully blossom into an arrogant blowhard. 

I knew there was a reason I liked Cioran.  Reminds me of myself as a pup. 

You realize of course, that if I secretly believe s/he lied on her profile, this whole message is a shrouded insult, but if I believe that s/he is who she says she is, it's the utmost compliment.  Which do I intend?  That information is classified. 

[Ben-San]

Only those characters are treated callously that show no compassion themselves - Pat and Nolan for example.

Nolan showed no compassion but also showed no special absence thereof. He displayed no greater crime than an inordinate interest in photographs of strange things, and when he was sent an invitation from somebody who appeared to be offering his desired product he responsed with great enthusiasm. In exchange for this, he was assumed to be a pedophile and killed.

Is the absence of circumstances in which to display special compassion also a crime worthy of punishment?

[AugustWest]

Nolan showed no compassion but also showed no special absence thereof. He displayed no greater crime than an inordinate interest in photographs of strange things, and when he was sent an invitation from somebody who appeared to be offering his desired product he responsed with great enthusiasm. In exchange for this, he was assumed to be a pedophile and killed.

Is the absence of circumstances in which to display special compassion also a crime worthy of punishment?

He's also a critic.  Critics are pretty compassionless, right?

[AugustWest]

Also, it's not clear that Nolan was actually killed or that Ray actually hired anyone to create a death relationship with Nolan.  Perhaps the threat was sufficient. 

Although I'm sure that Nice Pete could think of an apt way to dispatch a guy who looks like Edgar Allen Poe.

[lprkn]

My heart's explodin'! The possibilities!

[Cioran]

Clearly.

That was early times, before the characters had really developed. Like how in the early part of the Bible God is really mean but later gets a bit nicer.

[AugustWest]

I just realized that Cioran must be my alternate self from a parallel universe in which my time-travel experiments were a success. 

This is just the kind of thing I'd have done if we'd had Internets when I was fifteen.  As it was, I had to wait 'til I was 17 to fully blossom into an arrogant blowhard. 

I knew there was a reason I liked Cioran.  Reminds me of myself as a pup. 

You realize of course, that if I secretly believe s/he lied on her profile, this whole message is a shrouded insult, but if I believe that s/he is who she says she is, it's the utmost compliment.  Which do I intend?  That information is classified. 

Naw, Cioran is really Onstad.

Or Jough. Or Gina.