Don't say that unless you actually feel like this is a victory to you...
[ kaiser thinks everybody should treat knowing what's in his beautiful mind as a win. but many people don't, what's up with that? this absolutely is slight bait to get noa to admit that he actually wants to know what kaiser thinks about things, but kaiser will regret it immediately if noa implies that he does.
better to rip the band-aid off and immediately get into it. he already had it on his mind, since it follows from what he was already saying. ]
... You're going to interpret this in the most unflattering way to me possible, but I think I know myself, and I know that intrinsic motivation only goes so far for me.
[ if anything, kaiser's curse might be knowing himself a little too well — ignorance is bliss, and kaiser has never known bliss. also, to be fair to kaiser, his intrinsic motivation goes much further than most, in spite of the fact that this is a herculean task for somebody with basically no inherent sense of self-worth to accomplish. ]
Sometimes it's easy to lose sight of what matters. You being close enough to give me shit for it is a good thing. [ it's the mental pressure, mostly, from being somebody who works better under constraints. kaiser is much less likely to make an unforced error if he feels like somebody will immediately smite him for it. ] Satisfied? Must I say more?
[ he's already said so much. he's said all this and has only eaten a single slice of bread... ]
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[ kaiser thinks everybody should treat knowing what's in his beautiful mind as a win. but many people don't, what's up with that? this absolutely is slight bait to get noa to admit that he actually wants to know what kaiser thinks about things, but kaiser will regret it immediately if noa implies that he does.
better to rip the band-aid off and immediately get into it. he already had it on his mind, since it follows from what he was already saying. ]
... You're going to interpret this in the most unflattering way to me possible, but I think I know myself, and I know that intrinsic motivation only goes so far for me.
[ if anything, kaiser's curse might be knowing himself a little too well — ignorance is bliss, and kaiser has never known bliss. also, to be fair to kaiser, his intrinsic motivation goes much further than most, in spite of the fact that this is a herculean task for somebody with basically no inherent sense of self-worth to accomplish. ]
Sometimes it's easy to lose sight of what matters. You being close enough to give me shit for it is a good thing. [ it's the mental pressure, mostly, from being somebody who works better under constraints. kaiser is much less likely to make an unforced error if he feels like somebody will immediately smite him for it. ] Satisfied? Must I say more?
[ he's already said so much. he's said all this and has only eaten a single slice of bread... ]