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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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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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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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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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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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@ me why don't you.
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