Wow. Well, maybe this can be a learning opportunity. A chance to, I don't know, start doing things differently, get closer to people. :)
[He honestly doesn't mean anything passive-aggressive by that - it's just that he's getting an impression from Jack that isn't altogether unfamiliar to him, of something like an emotionally distant businessman so far removed from the common man he can hardly see things from the common man's perspective; like some business partners he's known, except... on a futuristic, cosmic scale.
And heck, it's not like Marco himself hasn't been guilty of similar lacks of perspective in the past.]
<marco>
Well, maybe this can be a learning opportunity.
A chance to, I don't know, start doing things differently, get closer to people. :)
[He honestly doesn't mean anything passive-aggressive by that - it's just that he's getting an impression from Jack that isn't altogether unfamiliar to him, of something like an emotionally distant businessman so far removed from the common man he can hardly see things from the common man's perspective; like some business partners he's known, except... on a futuristic, cosmic scale.
And heck, it's not like Marco himself hasn't been guilty of similar lacks of perspective in the past.]