Erupt

Hello Forge Hub! It's been a while since I've officially written something for the Front Page (from a planned perspective anyway!). I've actually adopted the lost kitty that we know as Community Spotlight. Adorable in some forms, rather playful yet clumsy and occasionally vicious... an article that can always be an entertaining or interesting read to see what shadows lurk amongst our boards. As you guys threw out a variety of different nominations, we did a random draw for this Community Spotlight and it was won out by Erupt. As painstakingly difficult it is to converse with Erupt in an absalotly professional manner, I feel I was tormented from deep within after spending 45 minutes talking to this guy about... well... nothing in particular other than my mother.

Here's what he has to say...

Erupt: Ahem. Hi.
Stevo: Ahhhh hello young Erupt. Before we begin... is there anything you want to say to Forge Hub? Any introductory stuff, like your name, age, etc...
Erupt: If I type something like "a lot" as "salot," leave it.
Stevo: o.O ....why on earth would you do that?
Erupt: Lol, just leave it :P
Stevo: Strange manchild... so any intro? yay/neigh?
Erupt: Um. Name's Alex. 14. I live in Brohio. Good enough? Also my skype lags because my internet is, like, the worst in the country.
Stevo: I wondered why I kept getting the spinny circles of death like... I was thinking we should probably start professionally and talk about forge and where you draw your inspirations from and then later herp it out in a derp duel.. sound good?
Erupt: Whatever makes you feel comfortable.
Stevo: I'm never comfortable, I have this nervous thing in my legs that I constantly have to move them... it helps me relax.. totally awkward.
Erupt: lol ADHD. That must suck for trying to sleep. I have something like that too... I think.
Stevo: Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder? or did I just make that up?
Erupt: Something like that...
Stevo: So moving on; you've been using Forge Hub since late 2010 and used to help out in the Tester's Guild, where did you initially draw your inspiration from when Forging?
Erupt: Yes. Initially? NeXn was a big, part of, if not all of my inspiration... Not going to deny it lol.
Stevo: One map? derp.
Erupt: Onemapwhat?
Stevo: Oh shoot the bread bin! I thought you were referring to the map Sequence, not all of NeXn's Forging. What was the name of your map where you had 4 Man-cannons reach the top and was kind of Construct inspired from Halo 3? Was that inspired by NeXn?
Erupt: That was Hero and no, that wasn't NeXn-inspired.
Stevo: I liked that map. It wasn't that similar to any other maps out at the time. Would you regard Hero to have been one of your successes in your Forge career or a failure?
Erupt: Umm, I think it was a good step for me because it was the first map I made that felt like my own, rather than being heavily inspired by another forger.
Stevo: You later reverted back to the style of NeXn though with a map that (if I'm not mistaken) secured you your first FHF, Burn?
Erupt: That was before Hero, actually.
Stevo: Ahh, my memory doesn't serve me as well as I thought then. So how did it feel to secure your first FHF win back in the day? Was it a proud moment, or were you just pleased that in the end people were playing on your map regardless?
Erupt: Well, being a new person to the site and such, I was pretty proud because I thought it was a big deal.
Stevo: Lol, thought?
Erupt: Are you questioning my spelling or..?
Stevo: No, just questioning the thought - as if to say you don't really see the same sort of pride in FHF anymore... Anyway, if you're not in Forge working on something, are there any other games you like playing? or do you just enter the big wide world and do stuff to pass time?
Erupt: Well, recently I've been playing a bit of Skyrim and the occasional bit of Modern Warfare 3, but mostly Halo.
Stevo: So you never entire the big wide world - You're not missing much bro... Wait a sec, entire? What the fudge was I thinking? o.O *ENTER
Erupt: I entire the big wide world often.
Stevo: Interesting concept, but I raise you a crumpet.
Erupt: Crumpets are for british people.
Stevo: Touché, but the French like tea cups. So when you're not on xbox, you're on Forge Hub.... if there was one aspect of Forge Hub you could change (for the better), what would it be?
Erupt: I only get to choose one?
Stevo: ... I hope that was about selecting either tea cups or crumpets...
Erupt: Ahhh, well, Eightball would be doing the next CS.
Stevo: lol what? you get to change one thing about Forge Hub, and it's who does the next CS? This is the part where I'd ask a colleague if you were high... unfortunately, there isn't a colleague, so I'm talking to myself questioning you being stoned.
Erupt: Revenge. I'm stoned salot of the time.
Stevo: Revenge? I didn't think it were possible to lose track of what goes on in a conversation but it seems we do have a third person contributing to this discussion. So, getting high, Forge Hub, Forge, MW3 and Skyrim... We're making progress.

Stevo: I'm gonna ask that all famous douchey question next where no one really knows how to respond to it because no one really has that much insight into their own life anymore... Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Erupt: Where do I want to see myself or in reality?
Stevo: Either would do, but if you say the back end of my mother, I'll arrange for a hitman to personally go frodo baggins on your ass and destroy that ring...
Erupt: I'd absalotly love to be doing exactly what I'm doing right now. Parents paying for everything, easy school and such.
Stevo: YOU WANT TO BE PETER PAN!?
Erupt: If you say so.
Stevo: So yeah, most CS articles have you ask the next spotlightee a question.. with which you'll probably never get a serious answer... so I'm gonna do something different and ask you if you could pick an animal that closest represents you, a hobby that you enjoy (that doesn't include xbox) and a location you enjoy spending time in... and then... I WANT YOU TO DRAW IT IN MS PAINT for the lovely readers of your article to take away and frame.
Erupt: All three? Not like a choose your question thing? :(
Stevo: Yeah all three. Draw the damn picture!
Erupt: Well, Dragon, Hobbies are dumb, and the back end of your mother.
Stevo: /facepalm. Draw that sugar... WITHOUT nudity! GO GO GO!
Erupt: I don't know what your mother looks like. pix pl0x
Stevo: Just draw a bavarian milk lady... you might get somewhere.

Stevo: Meanwhile... we've established you like marijuana, so does that mean you're also partial to a few alcoholic beverages every once in a while?
Erupt: Nope.
Stevo: You're not? Really? Damn, there goes the rest of my questions... Awkward. So, ugh, what you doing?
Stevo: Jokes, not interested.
Erupt: Your mothers back end.

<A brief awkward silence>

Stevo: ...moving swiftly on. So if you WERE partial to alcoholic beverages, what would you consider to be the worst place to wake up hungover?
Erupt: *Ahem* Your Mother's back end...
Stevo: On a personal note; how would you like your funeral; Cremation or Burial?
Erupt: Toasted
Stevo: Excellent, we can clearly 'roger' two 'birds' with one 'Bubble Shield' in that scenario.
*Erupt edits response to rare.
Stevo: I don't accept edited responses unfortunately, so cremated alive it is.
Erupt: Salot
Stevo: So did you start painting that picture?
Erupt: I'm busy doing your mothers back end.
Stevo: Mother Fluffer!
Erupt: I absalotly am.
Stevo: ... I think that about wraps us up. We clearly have enough hurrr-durrr in this interview to leave me with at least a few hours of editing...
Erupt: WAIT! Can you do me a favor?
Stevo: ....? This is new...
Erupt: Make Eightball do the next CS, and leave the Salots
Stevo: I can't say he will or won't but he might be added to a queue if nominated. So if you could ask the next spotlightee a question what would it be?
Erupt: Force him to do it! Were you absalotly extatic (sp?) for your... Wait, I changed my mind.
Stevo: ec•stat•ic/ek'statik/ Adjective: Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.
Erupt: How insalotful. Holy crap, keep that one. That is a good one.
Stevo: What is?
Erupt: Insightful, if you didn't catch it...
Stevo: ... you actually are weird.
Erupt: Inside joke dawg. I'm gonna go with 'Did you really want to do a Community Spotlight?"

Unfortunately... this interview ended abruptly due to me rushing to the airport to fly to America and arrange for a Frodo Baggins look-a-like to destroy Erupt. At least, that's how it acted out in my mind as I was kicking Z's out afterwards...

And no, despite me requesting this fancy picture of Erupt defiling my mother (Oh how wrong does this sound), he didn't actually draw it. So if you guys want to hang the picture up, you're going to have to draw it yourself. *♥ Sky's are forbidden to draw my mother naked

If you have any suggestions on who we should interview next, feel free to drop me a Private Message any time.