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Adonis: This reminded me of one of those verses Frank does where he has some topic that's heavy on his mind and writes a story about it that barely shoe-horns in the topic. The problem is you were going against zygote, and even before reading his verse, I know he always goes all the way in on topics. But I could have overlooked that a bit if I felt you had taken this up a level. Instead, it seemed like you played the Elliot Rodger story pretty thinly. You spent a lot of time on the murders and not much on the rationale, and you didn't do much to flesh out this character beyond what all the media reports have done. I'm not a fan of non-fiction writing unless it's done with great reporting because it's harder to humanize through small minutae when you can't make up the details. In other words, with a fictional character, you can create all sorts of quirks and anecdotes. With a real one, you have to kind of play by what you know. This verse didn't go deep enough to me.

zygote: This was a very predictable approach from you on this topic. But that doesn't mean it wasn't very good. You went hard on the writer's voice to be in the tone of this perfectly named character, Don Goldpearl. And you executed as well as I've come to expect you to every week. I like your parody verses more than most people, so I'm a bit surprised by the way you're taking this so easily. But I enjoyed this verse, even as it was nothing special from you.

Vote: zygote