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Mar 12, 2014 13:39
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For me, the hallmark of a troper's "memorable villain" is always the personal quote (or quotes, plural, if you're unlucky) which completely fails at being anything but pathetic. They always read like someone with a bad memory trying to recite a line from their favourite fansubbed anime where the "purity of the original Japanese" was prioritized over any sort of readability or flow. That and the fact that they're pretty much always umpty-billion years old.
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Mar 12, 2014 13:44
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Inspector Zenigata posted:Somebody doesn't know about anachronistic swords/gigantic swords no human could carry.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:14
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Has anyone tackled this page yet? Basically, it's 34 pages (if you copy it into Word) of tropers discussing about how fictional characters are shipped with inanimate objects. Some of it is just "Hey, that guy from How I Met Your Mother really likes his suit collection", but the there is stuff like:Cargo Ship posted:Harry Potter:
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Mar 12, 2014 15:38
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lucythenomad posted:Has anyone tackled this page yet? Basically, it's 34 pages (if you copy it into Word) of tropers discussing about how fictional characters are shipped with inanimate objects. Some of it is just "Hey, that guy from How I Met Your Mother really likes his suit collection", but the there is stuff like: This might be the very embodiment of nerds trying too hard to be funny.
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Mar 12, 2014 15:44
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lucythenomad posted:Draco×goblet, which comes from a line in the first book after the Slytherins supposedly won the House Cup, "A storm of cheering and stamping broke out from the Slytherin table. Harry could see Draco Malfoy banging his goblet on the table. It was a sickening sight." Obvious intentional misinterpretation of "banging" produced the pairing. 
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Mar 12, 2014 16:27
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Testekill posted:This might be the very embodiment of nerds trying too hard to be funny. And here I've been blaming Cracked.com for that. Boy, is my face red.
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Mar 12, 2014 17:26
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Testekill posted:This might be the very embodiment of nerds trying too hard to be funny. quote:Psychonauts: People pair Ford Cruller and his bacon. It's actually rather amusing. This is actually hilarious! wait where are you going
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Mar 12, 2014 20:03
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The notation in those things makes my head hurt. Why Admiral!Ford Cruller? Why not simply Admiral Ford Cruller?
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Mar 13, 2014 00:07
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Forget it. It's fandom dribble.
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Mar 13, 2014 00:09
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scamtank posted:Forget it. It's fandom dribble.
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Mar 13, 2014 00:13
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Tardigrade posted:The notation in those things makes my head hurt. Why Admiral!Ford Cruller? Why not simply Admiral Ford Cruller? The ! just denotes that there is an alternate universe element but that everything else is the same, I think. It makes "admiral" a more dramatic adjective. I hate it as well and can't read it without imagining someone squealing.
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Mar 13, 2014 00:21
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sweeperbravo posted:The ! just denotes that there is an alternate universe element but that everything else is the same, I think. It makes "admiral" a more dramatic adjective. Don't you mean squeeing?
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Mar 13, 2014 00:33
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Penny Paper posted:Don't you mean squeeing? Yeah I guess I did But squealing also connotes a piggy sound that is equally appropriate
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Mar 13, 2014 00:41
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Penny Paper posted:And here I've been blaming Cracked.com for that. Boy, is my face red. Looks like there's a bit of overlap between Tropers and Cracked.com writers.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:20
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This is all irrelevant because the actual personification of tryhard nerd "humor" is that one obnoxious kid who won't stop quoting Monty Python.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:26
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That Cracked article is just a fridge horror page with better layout. "Soberly examining the plot" to Majora's Mask can apparently send you into madness, and any video game involving ghosts is terrifying because DEATH. As someone who works with kids, I think a majority of them enjoy dark things are because it's fun to be scared when you know it isn't real, plus they want to distance themselves from "kiddie" media. So another thing tropers don't understand: Children. Maybe kids who don't stay up late on Halloween to watch Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street eventually become tropers.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:40
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It doesn't even take all that much looking to see how much crossover there is. 10 Most Unnecessary Lists (Now That We Farm Out Our Article Production To Forum Users) 25 Photoshops Of The Same Four Jokes Run Completely Into The Ground The Ugly Truth About Hamfisted Social Justice Lectures By White Able-Bodied Men Disguised As Blog Entries 5 Weird Scenes From Incredibly Famous Video Games That Everyone Reading This Already Knows About girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 04:47
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Six Weird Historical Facts I Got Out of an Old Ripley's Believe It or Not Book
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Mar 13, 2014 05:35
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Cracked SJW articles aren't nerds trying too hard to be funny; what they actually are is nerds not trying at all to be funny. Also there are some stock photos with "funny" captions. The rest of the site is either just ripping off Seanbaby (who I thought was hilarious when I was 15, idk about now) or lists of possibly-accurate trivia.
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Mar 13, 2014 06:07
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Morkyz posted:Cracked SJW articles aren't nerds trying too hard to be funny; what they actually are is nerds not trying at all to be funny. Also there are some stock photos with "funny" captions. The rest of the site is either just ripping off Seanbaby (who I thought was hilarious when I was 15, idk about now) or lists of possibly-accurate trivia.
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Mar 13, 2014 08:03
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Soulcleaver posted:Seanbaby is the only good thing left on Cracked right now. He is also not good.
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Mar 13, 2014 08:11
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cody is sort of ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd_guDxjWQs
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Mar 13, 2014 08:21
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Yes John Cheese, PLEASE tell me more about how horrible your childhood was in the form of hi-larous top 10 lists.
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Mar 13, 2014 09:18
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I probably played Wind Waker more than any other Zelda game because its graphics, music and over all fun never failed to cheer me up, and it helped me through some rough times. Let's see why I should have been making GBS threads myself like a wuss instead of enjoying it.tropers posted:The Redeads. The scary part isn't that they're hard to fight. They're actually rather easy. It's that, if you try to shoot them from afar or from behind, they'll look up and stare into your loving soul with their empty eyes... before turning back harmlessly to stare into the ground again. Pretty horrifying if you're standing less than two yards behind one of them.  It's easy to beat, it makes loud noises, and looks like a tiki statue. It's practically a Scooby Doo monster, and someone's trying desperately to convince the world it will haunt your dreams.
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Mar 13, 2014 15:01
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Inspector Zenigata fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 15:11
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Alpacalips Now posted:I probably played Wind Waker more than any other Zelda game because its graphics, music and over all fun never failed to cheer me up, and it helped me through some rough times. Let's see why I should have been making GBS threads myself like a wuss instead of enjoying it. I'll admit, it is freaky-looking and frustrating to defeat if you don't know what you're doing, but it isn't nightmare fuel.
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Mar 13, 2014 15:37
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Raven Wilder posted:I asked this in another thread, but this Mass. anti-upskirt law: it's illegal to take a picture up a woman's skirt, but what if someone just got their head down near the floor in order to look up a woman's skirt and didn't take a picture? Would that be legal? He hasn't given up yet.  quote:Well, this may be getting off-topic, but I'm of the opinion that, if it's legal for you to see something, it should be legal for you to take a picture of it. I know there are people who think taking someone's picture at all without getting their permission beforehand should be illegal, and I'm nervous about laws that would create a legal precedence for that.
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Mar 13, 2014 16:34
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 no one tell him that looking up someone's skirt is also illegal
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Mar 13, 2014 16:40
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Djeser posted:
I can't wait until he face-down with a cop's knee in his back. "But it's not illegal!"
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Mar 13, 2014 16:43
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Penny Paper posted:I'll admit, it is freaky-looking and frustrating to defeat if you don't know what you're doing, but it isn't nightmare fuel. Yeah, but things exist in a binary of sunshine and happiness versus mind-bending horror for tropers. There's no room for "hey, that thing's mildly unsettling; effective character design for a zombie husk, Nintendo!" It's all "Oh my god, I'll never be able to sleep again, no that the anime zombie screamed at me  "
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Mar 13, 2014 16:46
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Dark Souls can be kind of a scary game if you're unfamiliar. Let's see what tropers think.DARK SOULS NIGHTMARE FUEL posted:
Rhea is a cleric lady who wants to go around and make it safer for more travelers, like your player character. The warrior they're talking about has no interaction with her whatsoever. In fact, this is the line they're talking about. Crestfallen Warrior posted:Did you see her? At most, he's just jaded and annoyed. He never once sounds like he's planning to do anything. Also, Laurentius is a jolly fellow who considers you a good friend for saving his life and teaches you how to make fire with your hands. When you bring him fancy fire powers, he gets curious because he likes to learn new things and seeks to learn them for himself. He's very excited and thanks you for providing him his adventurer's spark again. Where in all of that was something horrifying? What happens after is, if you like the guy, but that's beside the point.
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Mar 13, 2014 17:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtIiR4C1R4&t=400s Here's the line so you can judge for yourself (6:40, if the timestamp doesn't work). You could take his tone as being kind of hungry, if you're the kind of person who always jumps to that kind of conclusion, but the rest of the line makes it pretty clear what he thinks of them.
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Mar 13, 2014 17:47
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Don't get me wrong, I hate the site, but I think something's getting lost in translation here. Isn't Nightmare Fuel supposed to mean "at least mildly unsettling thing", not "inherent cause of immediate real PTSD"?
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Mar 14, 2014 02:53
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LaughMyselfTo posted:Don't get me wrong, I hate the site, but I think something's getting lost in translation here. Isn't Nightmare Fuel supposed to mean "at least mildly unsettling thing", not "inherent cause of immediate real PTSD"? With tropers, there is no difference. And I hate the site too, but I do venture there to dig up the more inane stuff for you guys to laugh at. Think of me as an Internet take on Jane Goodall.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:04
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corn in the bible posted:He is also not good. nah
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Mar 14, 2014 03:27
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LaughMyselfTo posted:Don't get me wrong, I hate the site, but I think something's getting lost in translation here. Isn't Nightmare Fuel supposed to mean "at least mildly unsettling thing", not "inherent cause of immediate real PTSD"? They used to have three separate entries: regular Nightmare Fuel, HIGH OCTANE NIGHTMARE FUEL, and NIGHTMARE FUEL UNLEADED. But in one of his rare moments of clarity, Fast Eddie and his moderators decided that having three categories collecting the same poo poo was stupid, so they all got lumped together. That's why you'll see something that says "huh, skeletons are kinda creepy" a few sentences away from "THESE SKELETONS ARE DEMONIC SPIDERS AND THEY RAPE THE GHOSTS OF CHILDREN SPOOKY".
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Mar 14, 2014 03:43
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One was supposed to be "stuff that's unintentionally scary", one was "stuff that's intentionally scary", and one was "??????scary???"
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Mar 14, 2014 03:54
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LaughMyselfTo posted:Don't get me wrong, I hate the site, but I think something's getting lost in translation here. Isn't Nightmare Fuel supposed to mean "at least mildly unsettling thing", not "inherent cause of immediate real PTSD"? Arcsquad12 posted:They used to have three separate entries: regular Nightmare Fuel, HIGH OCTANE NIGHTMARE FUEL, and NIGHTMARE FUEL UNLEADED. 
Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mar 14, 2014 04:43
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Sham bam bamina! posted:From what I can remember, it's that Nightmare Fuel was the article for accidentally scary things and Unleaded was for deliberately scary things, and then they changed Unleaded to High Octane because someone finally figured out what "unleaded" actually means. I should hope that troper was forced out, for daring to indulge in the sin of actually researching something instead of just copying their favourite anime.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:51
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