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I'm so sorry everyone. I knew the guy had issues but I did not think he would ever come up with Tommy Taffy: Daddy issues. I just wanted them to read I Scream from a Black Square et al.

Same exact problems as Tommy Taffy. Same bitch characters. Same beating you over the head with the abuse, no subtlety at all. It's the literary equivalent of watching a cartel execution video. You come to satiate your morbid curiosity, to bear witness at the worst parts of humanity, and you come out of it disgusted, depressed, and downtrodden. If the author ever intended anything more than that, then it's been lost in the execution

Hunter is right, the dad suddenly turning evil feels more stupid than scary. Honestly it makes the family look like a couple of beta bitches for not doing anything substantial. If the abuse occurred over the course of months or years, it would be more believable, but the author establishes that it wasn't the case. Why even have the father at all, if you can achieve the same effect with some rando home intruder breaking in and doing all this shit. It could happen to anyone, anywhere, and at any time, and the event would leave an impression that lasts years. I'm sure more people would be receptive to that idea, and you even could keep the weird torture porn...

It is funny how all their criticisms of the story can be applied to Tommy Taffy as well. That story wasn't deep either.

Also here's another thing I've noticed about Elias's writing style: poorly-written female characters. Nearly every woman and girl in his stories thus far have been either meek and helpless, entirely nonexistent as characters, or straight-up villains in the case of Feed the Pig. Any case, they're usually the first ones to face the brunt of whatever monster or creature is the focus of the story.
 
Man, they still really want that Tommy Taffy dad to die a horrible and pointless death fighting a confirmedly immortal demon man, huh? How dare he not ensure not only his own death, but also a doubling down of the torture of his family as a result HE LITERALLY ALREADY EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND AND CAN PERSONALLY ATTEST TO WHAT A CUCK, AMIRITE GUYS?

As for this story - would gave worked better as straight up demonic possession. They got weirdly fixated on media literacy and allegory. Not everything has to be a tortured metaphor for beating your kids while drunk, fellas. But, yes, poison gas doppelgängers emerging from the ground and then raping mom with a brick was certainly a choice.
 
Godchu said:
Hunter is right, the dad suddenly turning evil feels more stupid than scary. Honestly it makes the family look like a couple of beta bitches for not doing anything substantial.
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A fun theory is that the dad was a massive abusive cunt before hand so the family didn't noticed anything strange when a monster replaced him because he was always awful.

Godchu said:
It is funny how all their criticisms of the story can be applied to Tommy Taffy as well. That story wasn't deep either.
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At least Tommy Taffy and Feed the Pig had mystery, themes, and actual world building. This story has nothing! There isn't really a mystery because the author didn't set up a contrast for the father by showing us how he actually was before the change, also the family didn't really seemed that surprised by his actions so the abuse is seen as normal. We didn't really have any hints that the father was a monster outside of him spacing out or having strokes, which again is kinda normal for a mentally ill person (idk why the author known for being blunt decided to be very subtle with this aspect). We also learn nothing about the creature, how it was able to shape-shift into the father or his motive for doing things. The army shows up, shoots him off page, then say "Your daddy is a monster, kid!" and that's it. Also for themes, Tommy had a generational abuse thing going and The Pig had suicide and second chances, I got fucking no idea what kind of message this story is going for.
 
Minus the banter this story was just uncomfortable to listen and not in a good way.

After finishing it the only thing that stuck out to me was that the we had no tv or internet cause my parents didn't believe in technology thing was only in the story to make the earthquake and mass casualty event from the goblin gas a "surprise". I wonder where this story falls in the Elias timeline because I'd have to guess this is one of his earliest works with how sloppy and empty it is. I even get why they got into media literacy thing at the end in the "are we missing something?" kind of way. Also how did the goblin know the dad was reading a newspaper the morning before going to work?
 
I'm not at all surprised by this shit. Elias Witherow proves with each one of his stories he gets off on child abuse. This isn't the writing of someone who writes as a coping mechanism for their own shitty childhoods, this is a redditor writing his personal spank bank.

If I had to give it any sort of compliment, it had me curious about the "the winds blow north. I HATE IT WHEN THE WIND BLOWS NORTH!" shit or whatever. It could have been interesting if it wasn't lost in a sea of rape and child abuse and not written by a pretentious redditor, and what I presume to be a pedophile. Did he start actually writing something then distracted himself with brick-rape?

He's a fucking hack.
 
This story was fucking hilarious from start to finish. It's just so over the top, what else can you do but laugh? I think it also funny nothing really bad happens to the kids solely because the author gets tons of shit for child abuse in his stories, so it just gets funneled to the mom instead.
Which, btw, is she dead? After she gets brick fucked into the wall, she stumbles up into her bedroom and then the dad crawls into the kids room and then takes them to the shed for a lynching(wtf is this story) and that's that. Did she just walk up to the room and die? Did I miss something while laughing at the absurdity?

I can't tell if the guys are actually uncomfortable or just burnt out over how shit it is.
 
Wow, this story fucking sucked. If I'm going to be forced to feel horribly uncomfortable by the writing the least it could is not insult my intelligence with a "It uhh, was a gas gremlin or something" in the ending. Just fucking leave all that out. Leave it at the kid being taken away by the cops with a "you're okay now, you're gonna be okay", not this retarded "I shouldn't be telling you this" waffling.

Backpack rip was peak, they should have yelled at the producer more at the end of the episode.
 
Rick The Stick said:
This story was fucking hilarious from start to finish. It's just so over the top, what else can you do but laugh? I think it also funny nothing really bad happens to the kids solely because the author gets tons of shit for child abuse in his stories, so it just gets funneled to the mom instead.
Which, btw, is she dead? After she gets brick fucked into the wall, she stumbles up into her bedroom and then the dad crawls into the kids room and then takes them to the shed for a lynching(wtf is this story) and that's that. Did she just walk up to the room and die? Did I miss something while laughing at the absurdity?

I can't tell if the guys are actually uncomfortable or just burnt out over how shit it is.
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Apparently she was alive at the end, she was being carried out by stretcher by the ambulance and called for the kids.
I was annoyed because at the name of the boy "Tommy" and the added daddy issues I thought this was going to be some origin story for Tommy Taffy. No just Elias being fucking lazy when it comes to naming characters.

I thought the end yelling at Henry or whoever the Asians name is was getting kinda cringe and awkward. It went on for a bit too long.
 
Crypt Kicker said:
I thought the end yelling at Henry or whoever the Asians name is was getting kinda cringe and awkward. It went on for a bit too long.
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They weren't venomous enough to make the long period worth it. They should have raked him over the coals especially when he revealed his excuse was wanting to pull the quote "I'm gonna fuck your mother" out of the episode.
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
They weren't venomous enough to make the long period worth it. They should have raked him over the coals especially when he revealed his excuse was wanting to pull the quote "I'm gonna fuck your mother" out of the episode.
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True. I couldn't tell if they were just playing around with him or trying to downplay how actually annoyed they were with him.
I'd berate the shit out of him after learning that was his reasoning for choosing this piece of shit story. But then again, if it were me I would have shot the idea down the second I learned who the author was.
edlt: typed "wouldn't" instead of would.
 
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Crypt Kicker said:
True. I couldn't tell if they were just playing around with him or trying to downplay how actually annoyed they were with him.
I'd berate the shit out of him after learning that was his reasoning for choosing this piece of shit story. But then again, if it were me I wouldn't have shot the idea down the second I learned who the author was.
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Especially when "I knew the story was a trainwreck and would be a great episode" was right within reach. That's all the justification the producer needed.
 
God damn, when was the last time they read an even Okay story? I feel like everything they've been talking about the past couple months (aside from Cupcakes) recently has been "meh" slop, or dogshit that's just barely being carried by the guys' riffing on it.
 
Cave Fisher said:
God damn, when was the last time they read an even Okay story? I feel like everything they've been talking about the past couple months (aside from Cupcakes) recently has been "meh" slop, or dogshit that's just barely being carried by the guys' riffing on it.
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Fleshgait was bretty gud, I wish they'd do more wendigo/skinwalker tales, I have a soft spot for them.
I'm hoping they have some really good ones lined up for October but every year with nearly every youtuber I watch I get excited thinking they have some great Halloween spooky shit on the itinerary and every year I set myself up for disappointment.
 
Cave Fisher said:
God damn, when was the last time they read an even Okay story? I feel like everything they've been talking about the past couple months (aside from Cupcakes) recently has been "meh" slop, or dogshit that's just barely being carried by the guys' riffing on it.
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I actually really liked the first story in the "all the flight attendants are crying" episode, and the polyamorous hell ep was at least fun. Cupcakes was fun too imo.
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
Especially when "I knew the story was a trainwreck and would be a great episode" was right within reach. That's all the justification the producer needed.
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It is a shit excuse, this show has been going on long enough that the producer should know that the hosts find child/sexual abuse uncomfortable and the best trainwreck stories are pure schlock. This story was full of child/sexual abuse but very little schlock for the hosts to grab on to and have fun with.
 
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