stodgy
We have all seen people in various stages of life who manage to look and act like they are of a certain age and they are the best version of themselves. They tend to be pretty stodgy too, but because they are so young, they are constantly worried about what they are going to say or do next. It’s like they have a constant fear of being judged for anything they do that might seem out of the ordinary.
The fact is stodgy can be quite liberating. It lets us get over the fear of being judged for doing something that wasn’t done, to say whatever we want without being judged for it. The more self-aware we are the more we will be free to do what we want and not get judged for it.
I can’t believe that all of you haven’t talked to me about the idea of stodgy. I’ve been trying to learn from your experience and learn how to recognize when you’ve got the last word when it comes to stodgy. I know I’ve been thinking very differently about stodgy today, but I think I have a pretty good grasp of how you can get away with that.
Stodgy is when you know what your going to say but you say it, then you keep your mouth shut. When you say it and then you think about it for 20 seconds afterwards. That’s stodgy.
I know this is from the stodgy book. Ive found that if you say something stodgy enough, you will be asked to retract your words and apologize, or at the very least, say “I was wrong.” The best way I can think of to avoid stodgy is to say something that you are very sure of and that you know will not be misunderstood.
There are a lot of ways to be stodgy, but one of the main ones is to be direct about things that you don’t want to be directly addressed. That can be annoying at times, but if you say it, you are probably going to be asked to clarify your message, or at least say that it was your intention to be direct, but the situation was messed up.
In the case of Deathloop, the stodgy nature of the situation is that the visionaries are already locked into their own day-after-day cycle of paranoia – they may not know why they’re locked in this particular place for days (it’s implied that Colt was involved in some sort of miscommunication and never told them why he was locked in the first place), but they really hate it.
The main character’s explanation is his response to the stodgy message. If you look at the characters in Deathloop, the stodgy behavior of the people who are locked into the day-after-day cycle is so unlike Colt, they are so intent on killing others that they don’t even realize they’re locked into the cycle, and they don’t even know when they’re being locked into it.
The main character explains that Colt is in charge of a party that is trying to convince the people to go to the island and buy a ticket to the island so all their friends can get in. They are also trying to convince the people that they have the right to go to the island after their friends in the party get in, so they really dont care about the people in the group who can get in so they can get the tickets to them.
The party is also trying to get a friend of one of the Visionaries to go with them so they can come to the island and talk to the guy about his job there. They also need to talk to a friend of another Visionary to get help from the group to get out of the island. So the party is always in a bit of a state of flux. The main character has to make decisions that have a real chance of changing the direction of the party or their own life.