tl;dr Nobody's this stupid, there must be another explanation
Something needs to be done about the astronomical suicide rates among space pirates. Like, we need legions of psychologists and maybe a generously funded Federation suicide prevention programme. There’s no other explanation for their behaviour
Case in point: a debris field in a high security system. You know how long it takes the cops to arrive in a High Sec system? It’s like, you blink and before that blink is half done there’s a bunch of hyper-aggressive Carabinieri in Anacondas all staring at you with that ‘Go ahead make my day’ vibe. You can almost see their fingers flexing over their triggers. Plus there’s me, a much lesser threat and basically incompetent, but still in a big ship with lots of engineered guns and shields. Plus a measly two tons of Painite (which is apparently enough to attract every high suicide risk in three systems)
Into this febrile setting drops Hamish McDong, who has somehow managed to acquire a wanted status in his Sidewinder. ‘Mostly Harmless’ would be generous. But he’s feeling confident because he’s in a wing with his fellow idiot Lucrezia Phalange, who’s rolling in her fearsome Adder. “I see all” announces Hamish. Clearly he doesn’t, because he’s completely overlooked the Anaconda cops who are suddenly looking all excited and interested. Lucrezia then orders me to drop 50k credits worth of cargo or she’ll start firing in 15 seconds
First off, it’ll take me a lot longer than 15 secs to work out how much cargo that is and then there’s all the fiddling around with menus and sub-menus to jettison it. Secondly, lol
And thirdly, Lucrezia isn’t going to live past 16 seconds. As I’m pondering all this, Hamish loses patience and opens fire. My shields give a little shiver then go back to sleep. As I’m still having Deep Thoughts the Anacondas let out a collective whoop of excitement, there’s a few flashes and bangs, and then Hamish and Lucrezia are ex-pirates. Hamish’s last words were “This can all stop if you just hand over 50k credits worth of cargo.” I mean, what can all stop Hamish? The railgun bullet shot by a deadly NPC with perfect aim which has just gone through your power plant and come out the other side?
And as I’m shaking my head and deploying my collector drones another wing of fools drops in. Closely followed by even more cops who must’ve heard all the excitement. So now there are like 6 or 7 cops with time on their hands. And the new pirate says “Wh
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I miss him. I know he wasn't anyone's favorite person. He was a good man by no one's standards. But he loved 7 year old me, as if I were the only thing that mattered to him. I wonder what he would think of my boys. I think about what might have been different. Would I have had the confidence to do right by myself? 31 years later, the man who was forced to kill him is the one who comforts me the most. I take his hand because he is my friend and while I know that his hand took my dad's life, I can't be angry or upset about it. I'm grateful for every loving second I got. He loved Portland. I'm going to pier park to remember my mean old dad. If you want to talk about your dad or if you need a hug; I could really use one too and I'll be here all day.
So I have a huge grudge against these cops in my town and I want to kill some of them cause they've made my life a living hell. I have an mental illness and they aren't considerate at all. They have no idea of how much I go through each day. These deputies comes and yells and screams at me everytime when I call for help. They don't know what it is like to suffer from manic depression and having not the ability to control yourself. I want to go gun some of them down and in return their co workers will open fire and shoot me. I just don't have any respect left for them cause what they've done to me. Please help stop me before I go biserk and get myself killed.
Within one day, Tony goes from talking to Melfi about AJ's suicide attempt to going way, way too far on a made man in an opposing family when tensions were already running high as they were. During his convo with Melfi, they discuss how perhaps AJ unconsciously knew the rope was too long, ala it was most just a cry for help. Tony criticizes him for being a fuckup, even at suicide. He calls suicide "the coward's way out" and she responds "well, i think whoever said that didn't understand depression... but you do, don't you?" So now Tony has a few things floating around in his brain. One, suicide perhaps isn't the coward's way out, not at least for the person suffering with depression. Maybe he'd be justified if he did commit suicide. Two, there are those who attempt suicide merely for the attention, they're sorry-sacks, pathetic, if you're gonna do it, do it right. At least there's a respectability to really executing a successful suicide. "Hey... maybe I should prove it... Watch this shit, this'll make sure the job is done." So the next day, when he hears about what Coco did and said, he flies off the handle... definitely typical of Tony... but to go do a curbstomp? That's wayyyyy overboard. And he knows immediately. And subconsciously he's just made sure his 'suicide by whacking' is certain.
Don't get me wrong. It's probably the case that he really regrets it, both consciously and subconsciously, esp. when he's in the proverbial pool with the proverbial cinder block tied to his foot. But he made sure the rope was the right length. He's tied himself to mast, successfully. He's gonna die, he's basically suicided himself, but it's gonna look like anything but. Actually, this would be pretty fucking brilliant.
Note: I really don't know if he gets whacked at Holsten's, and this post doesn't hinge one way or the other if he did. It's all about that short span of time and what prompted that one particular decision to curbstomp Coco.
