I didn't hate it. I thanked you for going to the trouble. I love puzzles. I hate being jerked around. I don't think you can deny that that was also a strong and intentional component of this. I care about helping you, but I can't do it if you don't want me to. You're telling me you don't want me to. I've asked my friend to look after your needs if I take a vacation but since you don't approve of my Wardening, I don't think there's much value in me choosing the Warden that will work with you on graduation and give you assignments. You should choose them. Then you'll get the style of communication and wardening that you want. It's your journey and only you can take it. If you want me to participate again at any point in the future, I'll be here. Also, if there's some kind of shipwide danger, I'll come find you and I'll protect you. I'm not abandoning you. But day to day engagement? Graduation work? Socializing? Counselling? Ball's in your court. Those are the boundaries you're asking for. Correct?
You can't say "I love sandwiches and thank you for the ham sandwich you made me, but also ham is meat and meat is murder", you know.
[It's pithy. It's something. He stares down at his communicator again, that Malcolm's frustrations continue pouring out of with almost physical force. Malcolm doesn't have any ideas from their months of prior rapport? Puzzles are a dialogue. What kind of special consultant could possibly not understand that? Did Walter really just romanticize something from the movies that never existed, that was just a shiny coat of polish on the carceral state?]
If I'm supposed to approve of your wardening for you to keep doing it but also be honest about any problems I have with you, then, yeah, I don't see how we can sustain a dialogue for now. Have a nice night. I mean it.
I’m not saying i love the ham sandwich, but I hate meat. I’m saying I love the ham sandwich, but I hate that the plate is lined with razor blades. I’m saying I’m not completely opposed to more delicious ham sandwiches in the future, but only when I’m sure you’ve stopped using razor blade plates because I have a concern you’d start putting razor blades right in the sandwiches. I can’t engage these sandwiches, no matter how much I enjoy them, while they’re just a way for you to hide razor blades so that I pick them up and cut myself.
You can have issues with my wardening and we can still work together, but you won’t tell me what the problems are or what you want me to do about them. Just tell me what the problem is, Walter, and what you want me to do about it. Honestly. Plainly. Not in allusions or pop culture references or puzzles or riddles. Just tell me. And if you’re not ready to come out of the House of Implying Things you’ve built so that you always have plausible deniability to hide behind, then I can wait.
Well, I told you that you should lock sensitive posts to a small trusted group, and technically I wouldn't know if that had happened, but given your reaction to the suggestion I have to assume you didn't do that I certainly can know that you've continued going out of your way to troll inmates and former inmates and their friends when the crisis isn't even happening anymore, as much as I told you not to do that either "Don't tell me I could have poked a vampire in the eye" was a total freebie you also managed to whiff somehow So. Yeah? These weren't coy little implications, dude.
I don't troll people. How was trying to give you ideas to defend yourself some sort of dig or... whatever you're implying by calling it a 'freebie'? How was responding to continuing verbal abuse in kind trolling? Is it a high point of my life not to rise above it? No. But a person gets tired of it, eventually, and sometimes I just can't deal with it anymore and why should I have to? I don't go out of my way to get in fights with people. I told you why I posted an open call for help and advice when I found Abel and Hilbert. But I also told you that I got the advice I was looking for, which means next time I don't have to make an open call. Next time, if something of that ilk happens again, I do know who to call directly. But at the time, I didn't, so I also think I did the right thing for that situation with the information that I had. It's not what I would do in the next such situation. So.... yeah. If you need to assume that everything I say and do is some attempt at making other people suffer intentionally, you've literally gotten nothing out of our conversations that you didn't make up so that the narrative you're spinning for yourself here has a villain.
.......Wait. When you were telling me to stop talking and that I was embarrassing you in public and asked why I didn't just call specific people... you're mad that I answered the question instead of taking it as a suggestion to do that next time? Well someone suggested it for next time way before you offered your "feedback", so if you ever speak to me again, here's an idea to avoid misunderstanding: if you think I should do something different next time, say "I think that next time you should do this." Because all you did was give me crap for what I did last time.
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[It's pithy. It's something. He stares down at his communicator again, that Malcolm's frustrations continue pouring out of with almost physical force. Malcolm doesn't have any ideas from their months of prior rapport? Puzzles are a dialogue. What kind of special consultant could possibly not understand that? Did Walter really just romanticize something from the movies that never existed, that was just a shiny coat of polish on the carceral state?]
If I'm supposed to approve of your wardening for you to keep doing it but also be honest about any problems I have with you, then, yeah, I don't see how we can sustain a dialogue for now.
Have a nice night. I mean it.
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You can have issues with my wardening and we can still work together, but you won’t tell me what the problems are or what you want me to do about them. Just tell me what the problem is, Walter, and what you want me to do about it. Honestly. Plainly. Not in allusions or pop culture references or puzzles or riddles. Just tell me. And if you’re not ready to come out of the House of Implying Things you’ve built so that you always have plausible deniability to hide behind, then I can wait.
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I certainly can know that you've continued going out of your way to troll inmates and former inmates and their friends when the crisis isn't even happening anymore, as much as I told you not to do that either
"Don't tell me I could have poked a vampire in the eye" was a total freebie you also managed to whiff somehow
So. Yeah? These weren't coy little implications, dude.
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Bye. Cross your fingers for a flood where you find out your actual role.
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BYE.
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Okay well that gives me something to reflect on too. Be safe.