It’s quite possible they have a “cool factory” but if so where’s the goods? K-pop, Old Boy and K-hop?

Well, I wonder if Robert feels the same about this blog.

I guess you didn’t like Mr. Vengeance or Lady Vengeance?

Robert said:
(loved Old Boy, thought Lady Vengeance sucked balls),

Damn, opinions are all over the place. I liked Lady Vengeance a lot, though it could have been a little less fast-paced while still retaining its intensity…and maybe a little less odd camera angles and tricks. Just curious - what didn’t you like about it?

if the shoe fits…

Question:

How do narcissists react to criticism?

Answer:

The narcissist is forever trapped in the unresolved conflicts of his childhood (including the famous Oedipus Complex). This compels him to seek resolution by re-enacting these conflicts with significant others. But he is likely to return to the Primary Objects in his life (parents, authority figures, role models, or caregivers) to do either of two:

1. To “re-charge” the conflict “battery”, or
2. When unable to re-enact the conflict with another.

The narcissist relates to his human environment through his unresolved conflicts. It is the energy of the tension thus created that sustains him.

The narcissist is a person driven by parlously imminent eruptions, by the unsettling prospect of losing his precarious balance. Being a narcissist is a tightrope act. The narcissist must remain alert and on-edge. Only in a constant state of active conflict does he attain the requisite levels of mental arousal.

This periodical interaction with the objects of his conflicts sustains the inner turmoil, keeps the narcissist on his toes, infuses him with the intoxicating feeling that he is alive.

The narcissist perceives every disagreement – let alone criticism – as nothing short of a threat. He reacts defensively. He becomes indignant, aggressive and cold. He detaches emotionally for fear of yet another (narcissistic) injury. He devalues the person who made the disparaging remark.

By holding the critic in contempt, by diminishing the stature of the discordant conversant – the narcissist minimises the impact of the disagreement or criticism on himself. This is a defence mechanism known as cognitive dissonance.

Like a trapped animal, the narcissist is forever on the lookout: was this comment meant to demean him? Was this utterance a deliberate attack? Gradually, his mind turns into a chaotic battlefield of paranoia and ideas of reference until he loses touch with reality and retreats to his own world of fantasised and unchallenged grandiosity.

I have gotten endless fun reading the savagings of Mr Bumgarner. I think its time that you let the cat out of the bag, someone must be taking the piss here.

If Shelton didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.

Oh, fucking A!!! What the hell is the matter with you? Did your mother drink when she was pregnant? Did you fall from the monkey bars one too many times? Was the oxygen cut off for too long in a harrowing diving incident? …

Why are you unable to comprehend what is being very clearly written?!

How pathetic is this, Shelton? Yeah, it is fun to read some of the comments (which occasionally go overboard), but Jeebus Echi Crisco, you take the one glimmer of hope (this time from Andreu) that is expressed here and use it as a reason to ignore everything else.

I gave you constructive criticism—CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM—that’s like construction paper except it’s criticism, but you can still make something with it.

Shelton, get out of this coccoon of denial you have wrapped yourself in where you can just pretend that the criticisms are a bunch of meanies. No, I and a few others have offered HELPFUL advice, which you just choose to ignore.

Do you even SEE the constructive criticism and the advice? This is what is so freaking annoying about your posts—you refuse to listen to or acknowledge what’s wrong and instead come back full-force with more of the same.

The one thing you have going for you—the one thing—is your drive and enthusiasm. If you EVER want to be a writer, you will have to channel that into something else that is in a completely different direction from where you’re going. No, it won’t be easy, but if it were easy, then everybody would be doing it.