Discussion (9) ¬

1. 
   Langland

   November 30, 2017 at 4:07 am | # | Reply

   Wow I called this one and I didn’t even know what the story intends to do.
2. 
   Moose

   November 30, 2017 at 8:19 am | # | Reply

   I’m waiting for when they go to the police station and start to describe Terrance the police chief goes, “He sounds like someone we’ve been looking for for the past year. He escaped from a mental asylum”

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     Viktor

     November 30, 2017 at 12:51 pm | # | Reply

     I’ve been seeing a lot of this recently. Terrance isn’t insane. Yes, he lives in a world that is different from reality, but the only difference is that, in Terrance-world, Terrance is always right. He’s not nuts, he just never stops to double-check or reconsider, because there’s no need. He’s right, so why waste the time? Therefore, any time he seems to fail or be wrong, someone else must have sabotaged him. Probably someone he already has a low opinion of, therefore proving he was right to dislike them. And if anyone doesn’t like Terrance, clearly they’re either jealous or evil, because how could you not like Terrance? He’s great!

     • 
       Trae Dorn

       November 30, 2017 at 12:55 pm | # | Reply

       Exactly right.

       Terrence isn’t insane.

       Terrence is just THAT MUCH of an asshole.

       • 
         Vorlonagent

         November 30, 2017 at 6:09 pm | # | Reply

         Dunning-Kruger Effect…

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
     • 
       Lax

       November 30, 2017 at 6:05 pm | # | Reply

       I dunno… He’s pretty much dinged every box for narcissistic sociopathy. Even in your description of him.
     • 
       EcchiKitty

       November 30, 2017 at 7:24 pm | # | Reply

       I tend to shorthand that as ‘insane’. His brain does not work with facts, it works with some mumbo-jumbo it made up on the fly. That does not count as sanity from where I’m sitting.
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       Moose

       December 1, 2017 at 9:10 am | # | Reply

       @Viktor: I was using the phrase ‘mental asylum’ for a comedic effect, knowing that it is an extreme and derogatory term for those who are in need of professional help.

       And yes I’ve known assholes and professional victims like Terrence. Short of electroshock therapy*, there isn’t that much one can do with them.

       *Again an exaggeration for comedic effect
3. 
   Ed Rhodes

   December 1, 2017 at 8:17 pm | # | Reply

   I’ve discovered the legal definition of actual insanity has one specific symptom that Terrance doesn’t seem to have manifested, hallucinations.