Goat Man: Didn't pay too much attention to this one so I can't really speak about this. /x/ stories kind of have a tendency of being really stupid to me for some reason—like this one ridiculously LARPy /k/ airsoft story imaginable like yeah bro the green berets totally asked you to help them train and search for a missing woman
. I don't think 4chan, especially /x/, is the place for these kinds of long anecdotal stories anyway. I don't know why, but they all feel wrong in some way I can't readily explain.
Laughing Jack: Fun bad like Jeff the Killer. Would have preferred they'd done this as a regular episode where they could actually go on ridiculously long tangents and shit on the story proper but oh well.
The Tall Dog: Elias Withrow's worst story so far (besides Tommy Taffy, obviously). This is what I was talking about before. Any editor would only have taken a single look at the opening narration before telling him to tone it the fuck down, nevermind how the dad is not only and asshole and a narcissist, but also a complete buffoon. Seriously, this guy1) hears his daughter explicitly mention the tall dog to him, 2) reads forum post outright telling him what's going on (probably because the author couldn't fit it in the exposition otherwise), 3) finds out she is biting other students
and eating dog food—and yet he does nothing until it's too late. Somehow, this is supposed to be about trauma leaving shells of ourselves, but it could just as easily be interpret that she was turning into a furry and had to be put down.
Sonic.exe: Fun and dumb. It's so over the top it kind of reads like an intentional shitpost, but deep in my heart I know it was some kid, possibly very autistic, who tried to make his own shitty rip-off of Ben Drowned.
Mayhem Mountain: Story seems a little mediocre compared to the authors other works, made all the worse by the terrible "performance" from the readers. Pretty much a death ride you'd build in Rollecoaster Tycoon but from the perspective of the passengers, as people have said online. Never been on a roller coaster, so I can't relate to that fear, and the story doesn't really offer anything else. There's the weird billionaire Jigsaw shit, but is a one-shot so that goes nowhere. This should have gotten extra sequels, not Deepwood.
R: Tommy Taffy beats you over the head with its premise that there's no room left for you to be involved with it in any way, and the story is so barebones you can't get invested in thr characters or world or anything else, so all they could do is agree with the author's central thesis of "child abuse bad."
