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Flesnolk posted:Wasn't he just a jobber with an incredibly insulting gimmick? He was portrayed as the mentally disabled nephew of Eric Bischoff. It was amazingly offensive, even given some of the other amazingly offensive poo poo the WWE has pulled in the past.
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Feb 26, 2014 00:03
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And the AV Club's quality and relevance sink lower and lower from greatness...
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Feb 26, 2014 00:23
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Check out the selection of stories they've chosen for demonstrating their literary science: quote:Star Wars For something that invites you to "Get this table as a poster for writing inspiration!", they don't seem to be interested in any actual books. Tropers' reference pools may be narrow, but they're not about to let the media get away with having Small Reference Pools! Small Reference Pools posted:Gundam is the only Humongous Mecha anime show you can count on anybody knowing about. Depending in the country, people may or will know about or have heard of Super Dimension Fortress Macross (or Robotech), Go Lion (or Voltron), Mazinger Z (or Tranzor Z), Great Mazinger, UFO Robo Grendizer (or Grandizer, Goldorak or Goldrake), Getter Robo (or Starvengers), Kotetsu Jeeg (or El Vengador), Combattler V, Voltes V, Daimos (or Starbirds), Neon Genesis Evangelion, and newer Mecha Shows will often include cameos or shout-outs to any of them. The rest of Humongous Mecha series are mostly known to anime mecha fans, only. Haha, those dummies only know maybe a dozen giant robot animes, don't they know there's a whole world out there they haven't discovered? 
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I came to this thread to post that. The comment section full of people talking about how TV Tropes is awesome is just icing on the cake. Edit: ^^^ What? They would expect people to know Gundam? Better get ready for disappointment then.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Haha, those dummies only know maybe a dozen giant robot animes, don't they know there's a whole world out there they haven't discovered? Gundam's massively influential to the genre and all, but expecting that you can count on people having heard of it is pretty loving hilarious.
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As with the last time I saw it, the chemical formulae are the dumbest part. Ghostbusters = Five Man Band + Mad Scientist + Sealed Evil In A Can + Hilarity Ensues Water = Hydrogen + Oxygen Totally the same thing, right?
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I'll defend making pages and what have you for jobbers. As a kid a lot of my favorite wrestlers were jobbers (THE BARBARIAN!) and it's nice that someone remembers them and records fun stuff they did.
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This is the same site that posts 900-word reviews of every individual Adventure Time episode, so I can't say I'm terribly surprised.
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Now if only someone made a periodic table that removed all the TVTropes garbage and had links to much better articles it would actually be good.
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Random Stranger posted:The swirling cloud of Lovecraft followers (as opposed to the Lovecraft circle who got lumped together by those followers) is actually kind of interesting in a "fan fiction goes professional" kind of way. August Derleth was painfully bad; he would be a troper if he was around today. Derleth wrote unbelievably lovely Sherlock Holmes fanfic also. Except he published it as the adventures of Solar Pons and Dr. Parker, because copyright.
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Are we talking about an Internet review Fandom here? I don't understand what this epic these people are lamenting the loss of is.
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The reviews in question weren't even that good. They were pretty much word for word copy-and-pasted from a guy on a site called Bulbagarden. The guys even admitted as such in one of their "commentaries." Doesn't help that the guy in question was also pretty loving crazy.
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I'm just hoping they don't speculate about the symbolism of Lumiere retaliating by puffing out flames and burning the guy on the bum. The mind boggles.
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Kay Kessler posted:The reviews in question weren't even that good. They were pretty much word for word copy-and-pasted from a guy on a site called Bulbagarden. The same Bulbagarden that's basically "Wikipedia with Pokemon"?
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Penny Paper posted:The same Bulbagarden that's basically "Wikipedia with Pokemon"? Bulbapedia is a part of Bulbagarden, so yes kind of.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:For something that invites you to "Get this table as a poster for writing inspiration!", they don't seem to be interested in any actual books. They're interested in books: comic books, manga, 50 billion-word fantasy series, but actual classic and contemporary lit, nah. Even if they try to include pages about classic lit, it would still be a hollow attempt at being more than just a Buffy fansite mixed in with Wikipedia at its worst.
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The irony is, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having that as your focus. The problem lies with the fact that they have these delusions of grandeur about being the premier site for blah blah blah must categorise more pony fanfic. The site as a whole knows exactly what it is, and rather than embrace it, they seek to temper it with another bare bones article about Virginia Woolf.
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I feel a strange sense of deja vu, as if this same conversation has been had across multiple threads while remaining the same and it is getting boring as gently caress.Bolt The Pikachu posted:What would happen if Sonichu was... good? This is a goldmine guys.
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Maremidon posted:This is a goldmine guys. Clicking the "open/close all folders" button repeatedly and watching the scroll bar go from chunky to ant-sized is so loving funny.
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Fuego Fish posted:Clicking the "open/close all folders" button repeatedly and watching the scroll bar go from chunky to ant-sized is so loving funny. It's the little things that make life worth living.
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Bolt The Pikachu posted:What would happen if Sonichu was... good? An inauspicious opening.
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Maremidon posted:What would happen if Sonichu was... good?
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Here's a list of every time somebody says "yes".quote:In Black Knight 2000, the Choir of Angels sing "YEAH!" whenever the player gets an extra ball, or wins the Match Sequence.
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this has probably been pointed out already but on their Something Awful pagequote:A Darker Me: It's a joke on Something Awful that every goon is a nerdy, overweight "neckbeard" in Real Life. Individual goons, however, tend to make up obvious lies about how awesome they are for the fun of it. 
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From what I understand that page is very based on pre-2008 SA, which is different from SA now. And then these threads happened, so you're basically never gonna get an unbiased opinion of SA from TvTropes.
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lmao just click on any of those unfinshed projects. Forever The Strangest Dream - a Yume Nikki fangame (I don't know what that means) http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/ForeverTheStrangestDream The Dream in question ends halfway through. Also: quote:The Cameo - Possibly the darkest version ever. The sadistic doctor (Dr. Greyyman) you've spent the entire second half of the game fighting? Yeah, he's an AI, formerly called The Dream Emulator. He transports you to The Violence District for the final part of the game. His true form? The Goddamn Grey Man. quote:Meaningful Name: If you're familiar with games of this sort, you just might be able to figure out who Dr. Greymann really is.
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Tropers wish they could make something as unsettling and creepy as LSD: Dream Emulator (what the Grey Man is from, for anyone who didn't know).
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Maremidon posted:BOLT THE PIKACHU Oh, God, the tropes list here is a goldmine: Sure, buddy posted:Author Avatar: Like in the "Original" Sonichu comic, The author of this story has himself in the comic and has near unlimited powers. Unlike Sonichu The Author Avatar is not named after the author himself, Has a completely different back-story then the author and is actually likable. Does the concept of a Five Man Band even work when you have multiple people in each slot? posted:Five-Man Band Oh sweet Jesus posted:Luke, I Am Your Father: The Dictator is Bolt's, and by extension, most of the Chaotic Combos', father. He was responsible for their mutation into Pokémobians. It later turns out that he is secretly Christian Weston Chandler and his motives behind mutating them were to turn them into expy's of the Sonichu cast. This is later Subverted, by Bolt saying that Christian created Sonichu, and he is not Sonichu. He is Bolt. At this point, the only thing sadder than CWC is a random Internet dude trying to "zing" CWC by writing his own lovely "parody" of Sonichu, complete with lame self-inserts... and the only thing sadder than that is someone who can't even be bothered to write the loving thing.
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Antivehicular posted:At this point, the only thing sadder than CWC is a random Internet dude trying to "zing" CWC by writing his own lovely "parody" of Sonichu, complete with lame self-inserts... and the only thing sadder than that is someone who can't even be bothered to write the loving thing. To be fair, I think it'd be a hell of a lot sadder if he did spend hours and hours writing it.
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psy_wombats posted:To be fair, I think it'd be a hell of a lot sadder if he did spend hours and hours writing it. I agree that it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, but the dude put in the effort to write a drat TVTropes page for it and has already clearly exerted substantial mental effort into this thing. Failing to write it after doing that is at least something of a failure. Anyway, I'm not even sure if I can quote anything from this: "Pokemon rear end Version." Surprisingly not sexually exploitative... well, maybe sexually exploitative? It implies that the player character is the bastard rape-baby of evil Professor Oak, so a little bit sexually exploitative. There's generally a heaping helping of grimdark combined with a heaping helping of "I'm gonna FIX POKEMON MECHANICS, you guys!"
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Morkyz posted:Hello, I've been banned from editing and I would like editing privileges reinstated. I am aware of the reason that I was banned (it was due to a Chrome plugin that changes the word 'cloud' to 'butt' - I have since removed this plugin from my browser) and promise that I will never make a mistake like that ever again. This incident was a complete accident on my part and I mean the pages that I have accidentally vandalized, as well as this site in general, no harm. Really hope that he edited the FF7 page, because I am a child.
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quote:(it was due to a Chrome plugin that changes the word 'cloud' to 'butt' - I have since removed this plugin from my browser)
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FF7 would be a very different game if it was all about Butt Strife.
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Darth TNT posted:Hahaha, no. Their favorite villain is David Xanathos. How old do tropers tend to be anyway? I always found the Gargoyles wank out of place on that website given the other media that's popular there, I'm wondering how many tropers actually caught that show during their childhood and how many are just pretending to be familiar with it from reading the tropes page.
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The thing is, Gargoyles is actually a really good show. Animation-wise it's quite good, the storyline is intricate without being overly complex or self-referential, and generally pretty solid watching even 20 years later. However the obsession with it on TvTropes is all cargo cult. The villain's elaborate machinations made him the name for the "Xanatos Gambit" trope, and that put the show into the eyes of the tropers as being just as amazing as their Japanese animes. So yeah, the obsessions tropers get with particular shows is all incestuous. Someone makes a reference, someone else hypes it up, and sooner or later you've got the whole website raving about it. The same thing happened with Fallout, which is why you've got dumb poo poo like Fallout Equestria.
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