Random Thoughts & Questions: MrEnter Edition

[Chubby_Penguin]

You know what's funny is that I heard him use that term in reference to college, yet I haven't heard him mention it in relation to Growing Around. If the "rotating interests" problem is so bad that he can't make it through college on its account, shouldn't he be concerned over the future of his pet project?

"Growing Around however, isn't just me. It's a team effort and though passion may wax and wane we are all able to keep each other going."
Apparently he doesn't think so. The problem is if he and his team go through some rough patches he needs to be able to rely on his own artistic (used loosely) drive to get things done.

 

[Wabbu]

Enter made a new writting tips:
http://mrenter.deviantart.com/art/Writing-Tips-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Avoiding-Cliches-528183583

"The world would be so much better if I wasn't alive!" And it turns out... yeah... it kind of is. This is sadistic. Unless you want to be especially sadistic to a character, then don't do this. I'm warning you, if you handle this cliche especially poorly it can hurt. A lot.

"Why are you being so sadistic to a fictional character?"

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

Enter made a new writting tips:
http://mrenter.deviantart.com/art/Writing-Tips-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Avoiding-Cliches-528183583

"Why are you being so sadistic to a fictional character?"

For example, if you're I dunno, writing a series about kids ruling the world or making their own rules you're going to check out a lot in that medium. You'll soon figure out that most of them are crapsack dystopias and figure out that the area is a little over-crowded (Children of the Corn, Lord of the Flies, Kidworld [table top RPG], The Tribe [Live action TV series], Logan's Run [Book version], A Clockwork Orange [Teenagers, but still], Gone, Little Lamplight [Fallout 3], and Rule of Rose) so I can safely say doing something like that would be more prone to be being cliche.

Enter, if you don't want the world of Growing Around to be a "crapsack dystopia", it's a little late for that.

 

[Chubby_Penguin]

Enter made a new writting tips:
http://mrenter.deviantart.com/art/Writing-Tips-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Avoiding-Cliches-528183583

Awkward and in Love
If you want to portray your characters meaningfully in love, then make it meaningful. No more of this awkward banter where someone says something and the other person blushes, and there's stuttering. I don't care how "charming" you think it is, it's filler at the best of times. "But it's puppy love." Puppy love is for puppies and grade schoolers, not grown adults, which is where this cliche most often takes place.

Except people do tend to blush and feel awkward when they're falling in love. Maybe stuttering is a stretch for most people, but unless someone's been in a relationship for long enough to be truly comfortable with each other they're going to be awkward with each other.

Seriously, Mr. Enter mentions his asexuality so often yet he feels like he understands relationships better than, I dunno, people whole actually have been in or even currently are in relationships.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Someone: So it was sadistic when Johnny Bravo did it like that?

@Chubby_Penguin: It's like someone who has no idea how anatomy works trying to do an operation.

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

@Someone: So it was sadistic when Johnny Bravo did it like that?

Actually, I think he's bitching about a Fairly Odd Parents episode that he already reviewed a long time ago. Plus, Johnny Bravo was from the 90's, so to Enter it can do no wrong.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Ho Mo for Women: I thought he didn't particularly like Johnny Bravo.

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

@Ho Mo for Women: I thought he didn't particularly like Johnny Bravo.

I think there are a handful of 90's series he doesn't like, but he doesn't rage and nitpick them like he does modern shows, so he's still got a big double standard.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Ho Mo for Women: That's a big fucking double standard.

His ED page mentions he has only done an atrocity on one old 90s Nick show, and it went off really easy compared to modern Nick shows. And he recently did a page for another... And whaddaya know? It's an easy target!

 

[Headbanger General]

"Believe it or not, Lord of the Flies is a deconstruction of children's wilderness stories (like Hatchet)."

I may be off the mark here, but wasn't Hatchet about a plane crash survivor in the wilderness? It's been nine years since the fourth grade, but I believe the author based it on his experience with the Special Forces wilderness training.

Stop me if I'm wrong, but I thought Lord of the Flies was a social commentary where all the kids represented different aspects of human civilization.

The only similarity between the two is that they take place after a plane crash.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Headbanger General: I read that book back when I was in elementary school. Hatchet was a straight example of the children's wilderness story, nothing like Lord of the Flies at all. There was no deconstructive aspect to it that I can remember.

Thus showing that, like Chris and To Kill a Mockingbird, he never paid attention to his literature classes in school.

Alternately, we're all misreading it and he's mentioning Hatchet as an example of a children's wilderness story.

 

[Toy_Bon-Bon]

Enter made a new writting tips:
http://mrenter.deviantart.com/art/Writing-Tips-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Avoiding-Cliches-528183583

"Why are you being so sadistic to a fictional character?"

Because...emotional investment? Writers tend to do that with their characters. Explains why so many people cry at the end of Telltale's "The Walking Dead" games.

 

[AnOminous]

Stop me if I'm wrong, but I thought Lord of the Flies was a social commentary where all the kids represented different aspects of human civilization.

It may be that, but Golding also based it on a previous book called The Coral Island, also about a bunch of kids stranded on an island and everything was groovy. He didn't think it was realistic. So LotF was what he thought would really happen.

 

[Wabbu]

Except people do tend to blush and feel awkward when they're falling in love. Maybe stuttering is a stretch for most people, but unless someone's been in a relationship for long enough to be truly comfortable with each other they're going to be awkward with each other.

Seriously, Mr. Enter mentions his asexuality so often yet he feels like he understands relationships better than, I dunno, people whole actually have been in or even currently are in relationships.

Enter doesn't understand and hates love.
He thinks the way a normal relationship goes, is just filler
He wants them to serenade to each other after their first date.

 

[AveraDiane]

Except people do tend to blush and feel awkward when they're falling in love. Maybe stuttering is a stretch for most people, but unless someone's been in a relationship for long enough to be truly comfortable with each other they're going to be awkward with each other.

Seriously, Mr. Enter mentions his asexuality so often yet he feels like he understands relationships better than, I dunno, people whole actually have been in or even currently are in relationships.

Enter doesn't understand and hates love.
He thinks the way a normal relationship goes, is just filler
He wants them to serenade to each other after their first date.

Yeah. Even when I was a mini Enterbot, I didn't understand how he hates the whole awkward in-love thing. His projection gets stronger with each repetition.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

I guess looking at things subjectively isn't a thing for people with Aspergers.
And to answer your question, it all depends. My guess would be whenever he stops reviewing things like Spongebob or anything else popular with his fanbase or someone new come in who appeases his fans better.

https://archive.today/NYemO

In other news, here's a new journal. Nothing all too interesting - because it's mainly about him not reviewing ponies - but Enter explains his rotating interests, and explains the meaning of "sperging out".
It's kinda TL; DR though.

Having to explain sperging out has to be the spergiest thing one can do next to reviewing MLP.

 

[Cgame]

Enter doesn't understand and hates love.
He thinks the way a normal relationship goes, is just filler
He wants them to serenade to each other after their first date.

I think MrEnter is confusing asexuality with aromantic. Aromantic means you aren't interested in having a relationship, which is what MrEnter seems to mean by asexuality while asexuality means you don't have sexual attraction. Asexual people can be interested in relationships if they aren't also aromantic.

Having to explain sperging out has to be the spergiest thing one can do next to reviewing MLP.

To be honest, I think MrEnters MLP reviews are some of his better reviews except when he rages about something or involves his personal life, although this could have something to do with the fact that his MLP reviews were done early on before he became a lolcow. MrEnter is a lot worse when he reviews spongebob or teen titan go.

 

[AveraDiane]

I think MrEnter is confusing asexuality with aromantic. Aromantic means you aren't interested in having a relationship, which is what MrEnter seems to mean by asexuality while asexuality means you don't have sexual attraction. Asexual people can be interested in relationships if they aren't also aromantic.

To be fair, he did say a while back that he is both asexual and aromantic.

 

[CatParty]

I think MrEnter is confusing asexuality with aromantic. Aromantic means you aren't interested in having a relationship, which is what MrEnter seems to mean by asexuality while asexuality means you don't have sexual attraction. Asexual people can be interested in relationships if they aren't also aromantic.

neither are real things

 

[Cgame]

neither are real things

Actually, that is not true. There has been research suggesting that asexuality exists and that approximately 1% of the population is considered asexual. Researchers have also created ways to measure whether or not someone is asexual or not, although research in the area is still new. I didn't find much research on the topic of aromantic people, but I did manage to find a peer reviewed journal which acknowledges the existence of aromantic people. More research is definitely needed in the area of aromantic people. The real question here is whether or not MrEnter is asexual/aromantic or not.

Spoiler: References

References.
Van Houdenhove, E., Gijs, L., T’Sjoen, G., & Enzlin, P. (2015). Stories about asexuality: A qualitative study on asexual women. Journal Of Sex & Marital Therapy, 41(3), 262-281. doi:10.1080/0092623X.2014.889053

Yule, M. A., Brotto, L. A., & Gorzalka, B. B. (2015). A validated measure of no sexual attraction: The Asexuality Identification Scale. Psychological Assessment, 27(1), 148-160. doi:10.1037/a0038196