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Rant: That guy at my LCS who explains every single joke in a comic
I was at my local shop last Saturday flipping through a new issue of The Flash and this dude behind me starts explaining the punchline before I even got to the panel. He did it like 4 times in 10 minutes. I finally just turned around and asked him why he thinks I need a running commentary on every gag. He got all defensive and said he was just helping me understand the deeper layers. I get being excited about a book but has anyone else had a fellow fan kill the mood by over-explaining everything?
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the_cole17d ago
Feel like this is just a specific flavor of a bigger thing I've noticed everywhere. People forget that not every conversation needs to be a lecture or a lesson. I mean, maybe it's just me, but there's a difference between sharing something cool you noticed and assuming the other person couldn't possibly get it on their own. Idk, it's like some folks think their role in the world is to be a walking Wikipedia page for everyone else. Real life isn't a classroom and not everyone is your student.
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the_max17d ago
Hate that I've been on the receiving end of this so many times... it's exhausting when someone treats every casual comment like a teaching moment. Makes you not even want to share things anymore. I feel you on this one, really hits home.
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