Talk:Eric/@comment-1196539-20140704123425/@comment-11139677-20140705220914

See, if not to praise the ending, what else is there? All in all, there isn't much about the pasta that was..well, frankly, good. A creepy indivual entering a game randomly? Been there. Done that. Said indivual speaking with eerily bad grammar? Ooh, never heard that before. Is there really anything creepy to write home about? Honestly, I might slap the word "cliche" on it, but i'd rather not.

Of course, when it comes to praise, there's also a certain type of reader that goes around saying "Oh, this doesn't have blood or cliche elements, so it's awesome." This pasta also has that going for it. Sigh. What's the problem with this pasta? Eric. Everything about him. He just comes off in a way that's so..done before. And then, he only speaks oddly because he's just young. Yeah, no, seeing someone talk with less-than-good grammar isn't really all that creepy.

Now-the definition of creepypasta as a story to "creep" someone out is actually a misconception. A creepypasta, by definition, is a telling of one's experience with an anomaly relating to one of various things, often video games or other media. Whether the end result of said anomaly turns up as scary, sad, or otherwise, does not make it a different type of story in any way. There are, of course, pastas that don't use the strange happenings format (Often Mindfucks, for example) but those are different types of creepypastas submitted as one, which of course, is fine.

Like this story, for example. The mysterious indivual, "Eric", showing up, is this pasta's anomaly. That character's odd behavior and antics are presented to 'creep' the reader out (though in my opinion they fail to do so.). So, whether it's creepy or not means nothing as to what it is.

Does the ending have it's problems? Well, sure. It does present the character as just a normal person, which is a tad bit..boring, I suppose? However, the character's behavior throughout the pasta as a whole is certainly behavior a normal person could show. So, really, its just that the character Eric is uninteresting in the long run, making him, like I said before, ultimately the problem with this pasta.