Comments on: Annotated 48-51

By: vitupera

vitupera — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:02:30 +0000

Yeah, my read on HR is that he’d definitely say that to Carol in a private moment, and maybe even equal parts mean it and be cynically aiming for her loyalty. (The sincerity makes it more believable, after all.) But when he’s with a group of gamers excited to be his guinea pigs, he’d take all the credit the better to come across as a god-creator benevolently granting them their wildest dreams.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:55:33 +0000

»but when did you realize it? «
Fairly early on, but I’ll admit that it took me until a page later (the finger scene) until I realized that this can’t quite have been how it actually happened — and then it was pretty clear that the sentence was more a memory that Carol was building into the dream, and it’s more of a realization that she’s way deeper in this shit than she ever thought she’d be, that the shit itself is also way deeper than it was supposed to get, and that she’d rather get out of this situation, very quickly.

By: Jdorr

Jdorr — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:20:56 +0000

“I couldn’t have done this without you” sounds like a pretty cut in dry manipulation tactic(whether HR was aware of doing I’ll admit is a bit less cut in dry) telling her that he couldn’t have done it without her insures that if she starts having second thoughts, he’s established in her mind that she’s also to blame. She can’t blame him without claiming some guilt for herself after all he couldn’t have done it without her

By: LP

LP — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:01:00 +0000

Man, some times that elevator just takes forEVER.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:00:26 +0000

Shout-out to fellow-countryman Dick Maas whose movie I never saw & which is probably rubbish.