Talk:Dating Game/@comment-28446200-20160513013625/@comment-28222564-20160513055845

-Yes, a protagonist can be portrayed as an asshole, but an asshole should be one the reader can sympathize with. The main point of a protagonist is to touch something human inside the audience, so they could feel emotionally connected to said protagonist. That way they'll be able to place themselves inside the story. I feel this especially true for horror. If the main character is a gigantic piece of shit, the audience are less like to place themselves in the guy's shoes and would instead want the fucker dead.

-Really? Sorry, but the only transformation I see is an unmarried whiny bitch becoming a married whiny bitch.

-Yes, blood should be expected, since this one of those murder-related pastas. Though, don't see the need for whole paragraphs dedicated to descriptions of people dying. I prefer deaths in horror stories not to be longer than three sentences. One of the best pastas in my opinion is "The Rake". It didn't had much description of gore, even though the Rake is certainly capable of producing large amounts of it. Here's an excerp;

" He turned around and looked directly at me, covered in blood. I flipped the switch on the wall and saw my daughter Clara."

That's it. Whoever wrote this left everything else to the reader's imagination. I am not against a little blood, I just feel the story didn't handled it with class.

Again, I'm not "adverse" to gore. Dude, I listen to death metal. Speaking of which, I've read lyrics for a Devourment song once. Can't remember if it was "Babykiller" or "Fucked to Death". Anyways, for some reason I found it kind of funny. I even laughed a bit.