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[mylegacy]

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[mylegacy]

Obviously.

[starmark]

why obviously

you don't have to

[mylegacy]

Of course I don't have to. I want to.

[starmark]

is this one of those italian hospitality things

[mylegacy]

I like your stupid Stand, you fuck.

[starmark]

i like him too

but you guys spoil him

[mylegacy]

Feeding someone is not spoiling them.

[#OFFENDED]

[starmark]

making him pudding just because he asks for it is kind of spoiling him

[mylegacy]

No, it's not. He asked politely, and he said he'd help. It's a reward for good behavior.

Besides, sometimes people just do things for other people because they like to.

[starmark]

i don't think he really understood what help meant

i mean

i think he understood that saying it would probably get him the pudding faster

he knows how to respond to not understanding something, but that's different than responding because he understood it.

[mylegacy]

Then I'll show him what helping means.

Do you not want me to make him pudding? Is my pudding not good enough for you?

[starmark]

don't be so damn crabby

i'm trying to explain to you how i think he works

[mylegacy]

You went directly from "don't feed him" to "he doesn't understand" so forgive me for not comprehending your rapid, bizarre subject jumps.

[starmark]

...

do i do that a lot?

rapid bizarre subject jumps

[mylegacy]

Often enough.

[starmark]

...oh

that probably makes it hard to follo





oh.

[mylegacy]

. . .

did you short circuit

[starmark]

no i just realized that's probably why people get pissed about not following what i'm saying a lot of the time

shit

i need to stop doing that so much

[mylegacy]

Well, at least now you know.

I've separated nine egg yolks by now, by the way, so you're going to have pudding whether you like it or not.

[starmark]

star is thrilled

he's probably going to hug you when you deliver it

[mylegacy]

You should teach him to say thank you. Or write it, or something. Courtesy is the quickest way to get what you want, so he'll probably find that intuitive.

[starmark]

he knows how to express happiness, so it shouldn't be too much of a jump to make, i guess

he knows what it means to kiss people on both cheeks, at least

[mylegacy]

How the hell.

[starmark]

because he understands reactions that are supposed to follow actions. or feelings.

so if you gave him pudding, and then told him to say "grazie", he'd figure out pretty quickly that when he's handed pudding the response is to say "grazie". that doesn't mean he'd make the leap to "that's what you always do when someone does something nice for you", but he'd get it in that specific instance pretty fast.

one of his friends loves him a lot and gets excited about him, and kisses his face like that when he sees him. so he made the connection that when he feels excited like that, the way to show it is by kissing someone like that.

[mylegacy]

So he can connect a response to a specific situation but can't generalize.

He's clever. Jojo won't shut up about it. See if you can get Star to do the cheek thing for him. Or maybe I'll just have Jojo hand over the pudding.