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@IanDSmith Achillean task: you're really good at this. Just don't fuck up one specific thing.
Thesean task: no part of your original plan or instructions will remain by the time it's done.
Hermetian task: your entire job is to courier messages back and forth between other people.
Odyssean task: the vast majority of your time will be spent on sidetracks.
Pandorean task: you're going to regret doing this, but you just can't let it go.
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@iris @IanDSmith Oedipidean Task
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@rvedotrc @IanDSmith I need an example.
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Maybe I will fall short of the incredibly high standards set, as this is not mythological, but pseudo-historical: Alexandrian, as in the relationship of Alexander the Great with his mother Olympias.
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@vruz Interesting! Here again interested to learn what that means to you.
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Alexander the Great and his mother Olympias had a complex relationship where their sheer ambition was marked by their mutual influence. Olympias played a key role in shaping Alexander’s sense of destiny, supporting his rise to power every step of the way, although their relationship was often strained by her strong will and ascendance and his desire for independence.
(as a description of the meme proposed above, which could be qualified as Alexandrian, in those terms)
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@iris
But here's one that I'm better known for excelling at:
A Promethean task is a task where you take on immense risk or defy authority to bring something valuable or revolutionary to others, only to face severe consequences for your efforts.
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@vruz relatable.
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@vruz @iris And, dude, being bound to a rock and having your liver pecked out by an eagle each and every day. Totz relatable!
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Various different internal organs bartered for a roof and a sandwich.
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@rvedotrc @iris @IanDSmith
Orphean Task
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@PTR_K @rvedotrc @iris @IanDSmith any learning task probably
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@iris @IanDSmith Cerulean task: a task that will make you blue.
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@stevendbrewer @Gorfram @iris @IanDSmith Da bah dee blue or blue xmas kind of blue?
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@codeofamor @Gorfram @iris @IanDSmith Like a Cerulean Warbler…
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@codeofamor @stevendbrewer @iris @IanDSmith Depends on your success at the task. Woad blue if you totally nail it. :verified_blobcat_blue:
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@stevendbrewer @iris @IanDSmith Delorean task: a task that needs cocaine to finish.
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@ZDL @stevendbrewer @iris @IanDSmith one of these things is not like the others! 😜
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@cybeej @stevendbrewer @iris @IanDSmith Is it the cerulean?
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@ZDL @cybeej @iris @IanDSmith Yep. The others are all nominally named after people (or Titans or Gorgons or whatever). But cerulean is etymologically distinct.
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@stevendbrewer @cybeej @iris @IanDSmith Oh wow! I guessed right, even though it was mostly in jest! Mostly...
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@stevendbrewer excellent! Always up for a pigment metaphor \o/
/cc @minouette
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Platonic task: you're chasing an idealistic form of perfection that, by it's nature, cannot and will not ever manifest in physical reality (but you're still expected to strive for it).
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@stevendbrewer @iris @IanDSmith
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@stevendbrewer @iris @IanDSmith Hyrulean task: fancy-schmantzy name for a side quest in the Zelda series.
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@iris Awesome!
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@iris @IanDSmith I love this series of definitions.
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@iris @IanDSmith The Thesean task! So recognizable!
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Promethean task: what you will do will have enormous positive impact and lots of people will be very grateful but you know you will be punished harshly for it anyway by your boss
Persean task: you have rashly committed to this task but will still be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards
Minotaurian task: you will be able to accomplish your task hanging in there by a thread
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@faassen @IanDSmith oh these are fire. The Promethean task is so real.
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@faassen @iris @IanDSmith Medusian task: You'll be horribly punished even though you did nothing wrong, and you'll never be able to look at yourself in the mirror again. (Well, maybe once.)
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@philipbrewer @faassen @IanDSmith I tried and couldn't come up with an appropriate Medusian task. Nicely done.
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@iris @faassen @IanDSmith Thank you! I cheated, in that it's not really a task, and only works because it follows another task that mentions looking in the mirror.
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Medean task: you help someone with their task, costing you everything, and they aren't even grateful!
Procrustean task: you are forced to do this absurd standardized task which causes grievous bodily harm.
Arachnean task: you boast about your skill, then prove it by beating the champion at this task and they go all Tonya Harding on you, so you just crawl into a corner
Cyclopean task: I have to do something and it's nothing. No, I have to do nothing! Nobody told me!
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It's amazing how rich a common frame of reference Greek mythology is in 2025 still, and to so many.
Possibly actually many people more than when it was formed.
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@faassen @iris @IanDSmith Medean task part 2, so you destroy everything precious to them regardless of the personal cost.
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Orphean task. You have to finish it completely before you can see if it works. Checking earlier will render all efforts useless.
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@Marrekoo @faassen @IanDSmith A soufflé could be a close match for this one!
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@iris @faassen @IanDSmith
Or some programming stuff where you forgot to save.
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Still pondering Cadmos and Oedipus.
The first like: your project is going nowhere, no result to be found. In despair, you follow someones advice to try something completely different, which actually turns out quite awesome.
And the second one is more like you try so hard in being succesful, but then it turns out you've hurt someone badly, and you are the actual m.f. causing the mess.
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@Marrekoo @faassen @IanDSmith so what I'm hearing is:
Cadmean task: you will only be successful after giving up all hope.
Oedipean task: your efforts will bring an illusion of success followed by actual irreparable damage.
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Yeah. But I'd leave the mf pun in.
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@Marrekoo @faassen @IanDSmith + "... you mf"
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A Phaetonic task: although you've been warned that you're not up for it, you stubbornly go through and inevitably mess up everything, beyond repair.
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@Marrekoo @faassen @IanDSmith and people say ancient Greek mythology isn't relevant to kids today
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Ok. Last one: Antigonean task. You try to do things following official orders, but your superior forbids you and punishes you for it. By the time your superior is reprimanded, you're already gone.
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@Marrekoo @iris @faassen @IanDSmith
@ me why don't you.
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@faassen @iris @IanDSmith Here is @tbaxter's collection of these: https://another.rodeo/tasks/
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@deafferret @faassen @iris @IanDSmith @tbaxter From that collection:
"Penelopean Task: same as an odyssean task but nobody talks about it because it is a woman doing it"
Ouch! Too true!
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@deafferret @faassen @IanDSmith @tbaxter some of those are good, others are wordplay more than really in the spirit of the myth (Poseidean). I'm impressed with how many replies here have come up with unique ones!
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@iris @faassen @IanDSmith @tbaxter The crap ones are probably mine, off the top of my head, and can be removed with a pull request / Issue. :) https://github.com/tBaxter/another-rodeo/blob/main/src/pages/writing/tasks.md
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The wugangean task: a sysiphean task but in continuum.
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@iris @IanDSmith the Thesean and Odyssean tasks are just ADHD
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@Valdus @IanDSmith oh. I feel attacked.
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@iris
Sorry, didn't see the original post you were replying to 🙈🙉🙊
Cassandrean task: you are going to be ridiculed and violated warning others, but you can't stop
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Zeusean task: you're going to spend an extraordinary amount of time fucking around, but never have to find out.
Orpheusean task: You're are going to extraordinary length, but still fuck up a simple task at the end.
@IanDSmith
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@lavaeolus @IanDSmith oh my. That is certainly an archetype, but is it a task? 🧐
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@iris good point - let me rephrase it :D
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@lavaeolus @IanDSmith took me a while to notice the edit. 10/10 upon revision.
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