I like this line of reasoning. Eugene sounds like a real name. If it’s attached to his IRL identity, the loss of face value could be enough to have immense interest in discrediting the place that he was discredited. That’s a tremendous sunk cost. I can’t think of any easy solution to that kind of problem :/
I’m fairly sure I remember seeing a comment from Eugine_Nier saying “no, it’s not my real name, just a pun on engineer”. But I can’t find it now. Anyway, if that’s right then I think this explanation doesn’t work.
(But a person can resent being publicly criticized, punished, etc., even if there aren’t “real life” consequences.)
I like this line of reasoning. Eugene sounds like a real name. If it’s attached to his IRL identity, the loss of face value could be enough to have immense interest in discrediting the place that he was discredited. That’s a tremendous sunk cost. I can’t think of any easy solution to that kind of problem :/
I’m fairly sure I remember seeing a comment from Eugine_Nier saying “no, it’s not my real name, just a pun on engineer”. But I can’t find it now. Anyway, if that’s right then I think this explanation doesn’t work.
(But a person can resent being publicly criticized, punished, etc., even if there aren’t “real life” consequences.)
Here it is.
Well done!