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Fuego Fish posted: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. I think "Xanatos Gambit" has since been renamed. It was originally meant to refer to a scheme where the villain would succeed regardless of the outcome or something like that, but it ended up being treated as "any clever plan" and had to be revised. There was also "Batman Gambit" at one point, which was basically "Xanatos Gambit except a hero did it".
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Metal Loaf posted:I think "Xanatos Gambit" has since been renamed. It was originally meant to refer to a scheme where the villain would succeed regardless of the outcome or something like that, but it ended up being treated as "any clever plan" and had to be revised. There was also "Batman Gambit" at one point, which was basically "Xanatos Gambit except a hero did it". Tropers not really understanding tropes is a such a problem that they actually made an index for trope distinctions. "Lucky" for us, they cover this: quote:A Batman Gambit is a plan designed to succeed by predicting the opponent's moves based on the opponent's flaws and most likely actions. It isn't supposed to fail but can if the opponent does something unusual.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 17:45 |
Has anyone ever pointed out to fast Eddie that maybe if not even the site regulars understand what these articles are about then they just might be shittily written?
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Morkyz posted:Has anyone ever pointed out to fast Eddie that maybe if not even the site regulars understand what these articles are about then they just might be shittily written? Does Fast Eddie even give a gently caress about the tropes themselves? It seems like he's more concerned with maintaining the hugbox and holding everything together.
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Fast Eddie's rules are: Don't be mean. Don't change, alter, or in any way disrespect anything related to Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the site. As long as you abide by those, you can pretty much do whatever the gently caress you want for all he cares.
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Also: Don't piss off the advertisers.
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Soulcleaver posted:Also: Don't piss off the advertisers. To appease them, get rid of anything with rape in the title, and put them back up when they aren't looking.
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Morkyz posted:The "Edit banned/Suspended - would like to edit again." thread is just hilarious. This is infinitely better with the appropriate quote that got him banned. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore and as I am uncertain if I found it via a link posted in the thread earlier or due to one of my searches on their forum for funstuff it's like finding a needle in a tropestack. He wrote a horrible prayer full of prejudice. I wasn't even able to finish reading it. Also, just some new content and look a possibility for future hilarity to boot. Your tagline! Thread starter and currently only post posted:Pretty straightforward concept here. If you could give your work(s) a tagline, what would you pick? Tvtropes sexed To be fair, it's just words and no pictures but I would rather but a redundand NSFW here than a missing one. Tropers try to help another one old lubricants and different names for the clitoris.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:A troper named Polar in their LGBT rights thread announces she's getting married! This post has all the soban stuff.
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The Soban Saga - now all in one place! A TVTroper woman is getting married to her girlfriend. Soban weighs in because soban posted:Polar, I have very mixed feelings about this. One half of me is excited that you are taking a big step towards what you think will be your future joy. The other half is worried that your taking a step that will lead you down a path that will not lead you to Joy. In the end, it is not what I think that is right that matters, it's God's. So, when I go to bed tonight, here is my prayer for you and your family. captain Ahab posted:Alright, that's enough forever from Soban. Creepiest thing I've ever read posing as a "prayer." Soban has nothing of value for us to hear and is banned from these forums. soban posted:Soban has nothing of value for us to hear and is banned from these forums." The End. Best story TVTropes has ever written.
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Yeah, that Soban post was funny. I saw the movie Limitless yesterday and considering it was about a failed writer I couldn't stop thinking about TVtropes. So let's see what they have to say about that movie. Link to page quote:Actor Allusion: Eddie offers his boss a toast point when they are at the restaurant just before having lunch with Carl. Toast points were the Trademark Favorite Food of Baracus in The A-Team, in which Bradley Cooper starred as Face. quote:Book Ends: The film begins and ends with Eddie and Lindy in a restaurant. I'd also point out that a bit further on the page is this trope: quote:How We Got Here: The opener of the movie is Eddie Morra standing on a high ledge, thinking back to everything that put him there. quote:The Cast Showoff: Bradley Cooper speaking fluent French, which he does in real life. quote:Done interestingly since the movie opens In Medias Res: Eddie jumping off the cliff into the sea foreshadows his apparent suicide jump that opens the movie. quote:Instant Expert: NZT-48 allows Eddie to develop expertise in just about any field (from Mandarin to economics) in a matter of hours. part of the second of three reviews posted:Unfortunately, this movie suffers from a real problem: The protagonist is a jackass. On the influence of NZT, he acts smug, manipulates several people including his girlfriend, makes deals with Russian gangsters, takes mind-altering drugs, and breaks into the business world just by being that good. His decisions all look as if they should have real, tangible consequences, and they do. However, at the end, we suffer an enormous asspull: The main character got off the drugs offscreen, but retained all the capabilities. Why? Because he came up with Phlebotinum offscreen. gently caress that. This also contains a linke to the brilliantly named trope all writers are writers. It's not that bad actually, I just wanted to post the name.
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# ? Mar 4, 2014 09:34 |
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Speaking of writing and TVTropes, what's happening with Washout Tom these days?
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Darth TNT posted:The scene even fits in the movie and he also speaks German, Italian and maybe Chinese at some point. How is cast showoff even a trope? To Tropers, skills such as 'speaks another language' or 'can carry a tune' are the kind of rare talents that make everyone jealous, so any actor using them in their work is just showing off.
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Anticheese posted:Speaking of writing and TVTropes, what's happening with Washout Tom these days? I think he's gone. I think he's been gone for a while. (But don't worry, he didn't quit, he just followed orders)
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# ? Mar 4, 2014 15:55 |
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One of these days, he's going to show up in GiP, isn't he?
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HopperUK posted:To Tropers, skills such as 'speaks another language' or 'can carry a tune' are the kind of rare talents that make everyone jealous, so any actor using them in their work is just showing off. I thought that they were trying to say that an actor has an actual talent that gets added into the story. In this case, it's Bradley Cooper speaking French (which, according to this one YouTube interview I saw, he can do in real life). But this is a much better explanation.
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I actually groaned reading a thread where tropers take turns asking each other questions, to be answered in character by their main character.quote:The questions sat in front of me like a particularly ornery gatekeeper, demanding answers and tribute before I could proceed further. I took a swig from a flask in my pocket. I needed some liquid courage if I was going to be able to suffer these questions, which were more probing than my last proctologist's appointment. I can't say why, but Bill Watterson's Tracer Bullet is better. Maybe because his Calvin and Hobbes strips had more original cliches. William Bear fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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Figures that the Fedora would be the most prized possession.
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# ? Mar 4, 2014 19:42 |
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The difference between this and Tracer Bullet is that Calvin and Hobbes is funny
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ArchangeI posted:Figures that the Fedora would be the most prized possession. Drinking game! Take a shot when you see a fantasy race that's already been done! original fantasy races do not steal posted:Okay, so I was thinking of putting together a fantasy setting, and was looking at the races to go in it. Thus far I have:
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Arctic Bunny posted:Intelligent dolphins Arctic Bunny posted:kept by the merfolk
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Arctic Bunny posted:Passover Zombie - A rare condition where people expire, but their soul does not depart their bodies. Lil' Chaim Zombwitz: How is night different? Papa Zombwitz: What you think? Lil' Chaim Zombwitz: Brains! dipped in salt! William Bear fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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quote:Borachan Zombie - Almost alive in that they can eat and heal (but not have intercourse) Of course. I honestly don't see much wrong with reusing standard fantasy fare races. If you do something interesting in how these races interact, it could be good. Of course, the fact that he just listed a shitton of races with barely any thought as to why they matter to the story means that it would be dull if it was written. Thankfully, it won't.
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William Bear posted:Lil' Chaim Zombwitz: How is night different? Will the zombies not come after you if you have blood painted over your door?
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William Bear posted:Lil' Chaim Zombwitz: How is night different? Has to be made into a cartoon special now.
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William Bear posted:Lil' Chaim Zombwitz
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Sham bam bamina! posted:This is so close to being worth $7.95. Oh my god and I just realized the "Chaim" pun too I think you should go for it
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The sad thing is that, the amazement of Zombie Passover aside (although I would also read more about Li'l Chaim Zombwitz learning about the season with his loving zombie family), "Passover Zombies" are actually a potent, if not particularly original, horror concept. The concept of finding yourself trapped in an animate but dead, steadily decaying body, with the knowledge that you're going to have to ride this out until your body either disintegrates into nothing or someone mercifully destroys your brain, could be (and has been) used for something really effective... but with this kind of Troper list, you know it's not going to be used for anything at all. Also, I'm still trying to figure this poo poo out: quote:Borack - The most vital of the undead, they can eat, heal naturally and engage in intercourse (but rarely do). To become a borack, the subject not only has to start out alive, but must also have significant medical and magic knowledge, otherwise the long complex procedure is fatal. So if they metabolize, heal, and reproduce (or maybe just copulate, who knows), what makes them undead and not just immortal? How the poo poo does this even work? Did the writer think about it? Probably not! Gotta fart out more races, after all.
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sweeperbravo posted:I think he's gone. I think he's been gone for a while. Nah. He's still around. Last seen posting in the endless and pointless Writer's Block Daily, where they all talk about their unwritten anime fanfictions and that one troper with a Liv Tyler avatar comes in and keeps asking people what they think about her idea to turn Oliver Twist into a Middle Earth Spacepunk Steam Opera or whatever.
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"Can I make Dr. Dickstab, my ghetto supervillain, not racist?"quote:Okay, so I'm trying to create a recurring Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain for a superhero story about Cape Busters, a gangbanger turned supergenius who calls himself "Dr. Dickstab". The idea behind the character is a comic relief figure who mixes Sophisticated as Hell with Tim Taylor Technology and the stereotypical behaviors of a ghetto gangbanger (for an idea of what I'm talking about, imagine someone who uses words like "metric fuckton" as scientific units of measurement and who runs all of his technobabble through Gizoogle). I feel like such a character who's Playing Against Type as a mad scientist rather than a thickheaded street thug could be a legitimately funny concept.
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Djeser posted:"Can I make Dr. Dickstab, my ghetto supervillain, not racist?" Start by not writing anymore! Best, Everyone
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sweeperbravo posted:Start by not writing anymore! Don't worry, all he'll ever "write" is a Trope page and a thread in Writer's Block.
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Djeser posted:"Can I make Dr. Dickstab, my ghetto supervillain, not racist?" "I can't make him white because then the audience would be laughing at a white person, which would ruin my plan of making them laugh at the concept that a poor black man who speaks in vernacular English might be good at science!"
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Djeser posted:"Can I make Dr. Dickstab, my ghetto supervillain, not racist?" I want a funny black guy, not a white tool. Edit: drat my short attention span and Antivehicular posting quicker by about half an hour. Regarding fantasy races I wonder what the difference between Altenans and Elves will be. edit2: Trope discussion. asker posted:One Head Taller vs. Huge Guy, Tiny Girl. But this is a difficult concept. One head taller means HUGE! the answer posted:Huge Guy, Tiny Girl and its opposite are intended to be extremes of One Head Taller, generally used for comedic effect. If there is significant overlap, then they are probably being misused. Darth TNT fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Mar 5, 2014 |
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"People Sit on Chairs" - I'm going to assume some troper is cataloging every time someone sits down on a chair, ever, because TV Tropes.
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Alpacalips Now posted:"People Sit on Chairs" - I'm going to assume some troper is cataloging every time someone sits down on a chair, ever, because TV Tropes. It's their term for tropes that are broad enough as to be effectively meaningless. Because, the reasoning goes, a work where people sit on chairs is not in any way notable for that fact. I'm sure that tropers have ironically tried to list works where people sit on chairs, though. It's funny, because that's exactly what I'd consider their One Head Taller page. It could be a vaguely interesting bit of pop culture analysis (maybe how relationships in drawn media often use a height difference as shorthand and how it's often conveniently one head's difference between the partners), but from what I can see the page is just a list of relationships where people are different heights. Subverted: my girlfriend is as tall as me Averted: my girlfriend has no physical dimensions Deconstructed: my girlfriend is in pieces in a bag in my trunk Reconstructed: my girlfriend lives, she liiiives
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Cross posting this from GBS, TV Tropes has a page on the game that will never be released, Star Citizen: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarCitizen They consider the "game" making lots of money an "awesome moment".
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Antivehicular posted:So if they metabolize, heal, and reproduce (or maybe just copulate, who knows), what makes them undead and not just immortal? Because they're subject to Revive Kills Zombie of course!
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What was the story behind that, out of curiosity? Was it pretty much the dev got tons more money than expected, realized they would have to spend even more than that to satisfy all of the stretch goals, and bailed out?
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