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Administrivia: There Is no Such Thing as NotabilityAll works are notable. posted:Wikipedia tries in many regards to be the opposite of what we are. We want to be fun, interesting and a cool place to sink hours of time. Wikipedia wants to be a compilation of previously published facts from respected sources. Serious business. Presented with a choice between serious and fun, we went with fun. Citations from respected sources = Serious business Cataloging every instance of rape in recorded media = Just for fun By, For, and About Fans posted:TV Tropes Wiki was started by fans. People, that is, who like stuff. You will see that articles work better here when they are about something you like. This is a little bit of a shock to folks that are used to cynicism about the media. It takes a minute or two to get used to. "You jerks can go on all those other sites to make fun of how dumb my favorite cartoon series  "Just Because It's Notable Doesn't Mean It's Safe To Host posted:We consider every work notable. But works that are nothing but porn aren't appropriate to host on this site. We don't need porn in order to understand storytelling. Administrivia: The Content Policy and the 5P Circuit is just full of an insane/inane number of  that could easily be summed up in one sentence: STOP POSTING PORN AND PEDOSHIT YOU ASSHOLES!It shows just how immature and ill-equipped tropers are at being able to discuss anything even remotely sexual without needing several huge loving articles walking them step by step through the reasons why porn and pedophilia is no longer allowed on the site. And there are still many, many discussion threads dedicated to what should be a simple concept for them. quote:Q: Is the content policy going to change? In other words, they would totally still have porn on the site if Fast Eddie had a different source of funding than Google AdSense. Makes me wish he would win the lottery or something so TV Tropes could be 100% independent and self-sustaining.  quote:Also, in the case of H Games, there is this questioning to fill up: So, wait: porn is still allowed, but only if it fits our arbitrary criteria?
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Apr 24, 2014 03:54
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with his stuff, but why Joss Whedon? Because, like most geeks, Joss Whedon is their god. Plus, as someone mentioned before, TVTropes used to be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fansite. Academic resource, my black rear end. Just say you're a marginally-useful TV trivia website, or is being honest with yourself considered "not cool" these days?
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Apr 24, 2014 04:05
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quote:Critical Research Failure: The bootleg Pokémon episode ends with NAME REDACTED playing the Pokemon Black hack, depicting the game as being possessed, floating in the air, and reaching through the screen to steal NAME REDACTED soul. While this was most likely done for the sake of ending the video on a joke, it can put off those who enjoyed the original creepypasta because it managed to be creepy without including any supernatural elements, thus standing out from the likes of so many cliche haunted videogame creepypastas. He also refers to the Lavender Town Syndrome when describing this hack, even though Pokemon Black and Lavender Town Syndrome are two separate and unrelated creepypastas. Guess which internet reviewer this section came from. Also, look at the dumbasses getting mad because he wasn't loyal to the creepypasta.
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Apr 24, 2014 09:24
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JonTron. Now show choice excerpts from the Game Grumps page.
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Apr 24, 2014 11:21
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Testekill posted:Also, look at the dumbasses getting mad because he wasn't loyal to the creepypasta. quote:It seems he [the hack's creator] was trying to convey a message; though it seems I am the sole receiver of this message. I’m not entirely sure what it was — the inevitability of death? The pointlessness of it? Perhaps he was simply trying to morbidly inject death and darkness into a children’s game. Regardless, this children’s game has made me think, and it has made me cry. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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Apr 24, 2014 11:34
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Raserys posted:JonTron. Now show choice excerpts from the Game Grumps page. Not gonna touch that can of worms. EDIT: Also, creepypastas are stupid and only scare morons and manchildren. Also regular children but they at least have an excuse.
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Apr 24, 2014 11:39
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Man, a while back I went through my reasons why I personally hate Jafari in the AUG thread (Boils down to he was a morally bankrupt prick in high school), and now I see him here? And of course tropers near-worship him.
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Apr 24, 2014 16:02
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Penny Paper posted:Academic resource, my black rear end. Just say you're a marginally-useful TV trivia website, or is being honest with yourself considered "not cool" these days? The thing is, literally no one is trying to make an academic resource site, but Fast Eddie still thinks it is that because it sounds impressive.
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Apr 24, 2014 16:09
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Testekill posted:Not gonna touch that can of worms. Regular kinds of creepypastas,done well, can be somewhat unsettling/creepy. The goal is to make you think it MIGHT be true or real regardless of the fact that it's just something sombody wrote up to be scary. Now VIDEOGAME creepypastas on the otherhand are all complete poo poo, i'd suggest y'all watch look up Retsupurae's videos and go through the creepypastas. They all use the same 3 or 4 different "scary" things in them and Slowbeef totally sells with his "creepy" voice.
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Apr 24, 2014 19:19
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Now VIDEOGAME creepypastas on the otherhand are all complete poo poo, i'd suggest y'all watch look up Retsupurae's videos and go through the creepypastas. They all use the same 3 or 4 different "scary" things in them and Slowbeef totally sells with his "creepy" voice. Basically every single videogame Crappypasta ever is Mario BLOOD: The BLOODY adventure of the BLOODY REALISTIC BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD.
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Apr 25, 2014 06:09
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tvtropes: this children’s game has made me think, and it has made me cry
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Apr 25, 2014 06:13
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Tracula posted:Basically every single videogame Crappypasta ever is Mario BLOOD: The BLOODY adventure of the BLOODY HYPER-REALISTIC BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD (with skeletons). Fixed that for you.
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Apr 25, 2014 08:17
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The thing is, literally no one is trying to make an academic resource site, but Fast Eddie still thinks it is that because it sounds impressive. Actually I think it's worse than that. They are trying to make an academic resource site. They're just trying to redefine 'academic' so it covers ignorant and/or dumb people. Seriously, try criticising TVTropes on a lot of websites and watch the 'YOU'RE A SNOBBY ELITIST!' fly. 'Academic' isn't a fig leaf, it's an attempt to degrade the term so that they never have to consider the horrible horrible possibility that somebody might be smarter, better informed or have better taste than them.
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Apr 25, 2014 08:53
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Raserys posted:JonTron. Now show choice excerpts from the Game Grumps page. Taking a page from step aside, I copied the Game Grumps page into a word document, removed all the formatting, and set it to 12 point Times New Roman.  Shorter than Hamlet, longer than Julius Caesar.
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Apr 25, 2014 09:13
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Lightanchor posted:Taking a page from step aside, I copied the Game Grumps page into a word document, removed all the formatting, and set it to 12 point Times New Roman. shorter than the something awful steam thread op
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Apr 25, 2014 11:06
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Apple Tree posted:Actually I think it's worse than that. They are trying to make an academic resource site. They're just trying to redefine 'academic' so it covers ignorant and/or dumb people. Seriously, try criticising TVTropes on a lot of websites and watch the 'YOU'RE A SNOBBY ELITIST!' fly. What's really great about it is the codgerly old academic isn't even a thing at my school. I watch Orphan Black and go to hip hop shows with my advisor and my favorite prof is usually on stage at local raves.
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Apr 25, 2014 12:51
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Regular kinds of creepypastas,done well, can be somewhat unsettling/creepy. The goal is to make you think it MIGHT be true or real regardless of the fact that it's just something sombody wrote up to be scary. The problem with most video game horror stories is that video games are computer programs, and writers are only rarely actually programmers. However, the people who write those video game horror stories usually rely on 'program glitch' type 'haunting,' which never reads properly, because they're not willing to admit that they're just writing ghost stories. Oh, the funny game's doing something serious and it's spawned you in a weird blank room with DIE written on the wall in gold coins you can't collect and now Mario's crying. And then nightmares, which are always stupid because they never go into the body horror that made the very first one work. The only exception that I've seen so far is The Princess, a story written by a goon, which uses actual programming glitches- dropped textures, forced T-poses, forced orientation, game slowdowns- to set up the horror, and lets the obsessive nature of gamers do the actual damage.
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Apr 25, 2014 12:54
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Razorwired posted:What's really great about it is the codgerly old academic isn't even a thing at my school. I watch Orphan Black and go to hip hop shows with my advisor and my favorite prof is usually on stage at local raves. Amazingly, TVTropes relies on stereotypes to understand the world. You'd never expect it from a site where they talk about Jerk Jocks and all those dumb sluts.
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Apr 25, 2014 18:27
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Has anything major actually happened since I last posted here in like October 2013 cause this conversation about TVTropes thinking it's academic has been repeating itself since like 2011. Are tropers still legit creepy or is it mostly just manchildren and nerds left at this point. Fill me in guys, is mocking tropers again gonna be worth my time?
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Apr 25, 2014 19:01
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You left a month too early, because in November 2013 this thread temporarily became the Dozerfleet Productions fan thread. Check it out if you want to know what an alien simulating human life would be like if its only exposure to human life was TV Tropes and conservative Christian dogma. Otherwise I can't recall much drama that's happened since then. Tropers continue to be baseline level idiots and a few of them are creepy. The big name tropers (Jabrosky, Major Tom, etc) haven't done anything major or had huge breakdowns lately.
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Apr 25, 2014 19:13
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Namtab posted:Has anything major actually happened since I last posted here in like October 2013 cause this conversation about TVTropes thinking it's academic has been repeating itself since like 2011. we started talking about lesswrong for a while but that was spun off into another thread to protect the ideologic purity of the tvtropes thread, i guess
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Apr 25, 2014 19:16
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Djeser posted:You left a month too early, because in November 2013 this thread temporarily became the Dozerfleet Productions fan thread. Check it out if you want to know what an alien simulating human life would be like if its only exposure to human life was TV Tropes and conservative Christian dogma. Wow, that dude's amazing. Odd1 - The Romance Thread posted:n actual news, there's this one girl I used to hang around with a bit on campus who I just saw yesterday for the first time in a while—or, rather, she saw me, and then proceeded to hug me four times.note Side note: She seemed to smell of incense and weed. Very probable, since she started talking to me about someone who has written books about psychedelics. Either she's very affectionate or I think I might have some sort of shot there [lol] If nothing else, she more or less demanded she give me her number (which it turned out I already had and forgot about), so that's something. Might try to see if she wants to get together when I can make some time. Miscallaneous Soup - The Romance Thread posted:Question: In case it ever happens, though I doubt it, what does it feel like when you like someone? (i.e. crush) 
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Apr 25, 2014 20:08
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Namtab posted:Wow, that dude's amazing. People on drugs like hugging other people, film at 11. Speaking of film, you'd think Tropers would understand that from watching movies with drugs in them.
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Apr 25, 2014 20:10
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I wanna know what that dozerfleet guy is doing nowadays, someone check on him
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Apr 25, 2014 20:34
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Somfin posted:
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Apr 25, 2014 21:41
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Namtab posted:Wow, that dude's amazing. Dozerfleet Highlights quote:Not but a week after getting the idea to write 90 Has No Secant, the Dozerfleet founder attended FILM 203 class and was told he'd be watching The Ring. Some of the strange kids sitting in the back of class cheered, and wondered "how?" They knew about the upcoming movie. The Dozerfleet founder hadn't heard. The teacher then explained that his class would be watching the Japanese version. Liberals on marijuana! quote:It's obvious: Obama wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire. He wants Kenya to be annexed to said rebuilt empire. Everything he does is about rebuilding the Ottoman Empire - with the most corrupt of the corrupt bands responsible for its original downfall to be put in charge. It's petty revenge by that faction for not being allowed to have total control of the empire a century ago. Blaming those Muslims who were not interested in being controlled by the Brotherhood for the empire falling apart when it was really the Brotherhood's fault all along. Obama wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire! quote:A Pentel Click-It series PD-15 plays Pextel, the tragic and ill-fated Arnold Rubblindo reincarnated as a ship captain for the Voyagers' Bindaf 3000 spaceship. A pink American Crafts Ultimate Gel Pen plays Pextel's girlfriend Pinkella Goldsen, who loses her family when a factory worker commits a cruel act of betrayal. Papermate Write Bros.-series pens play Rhodney Antilles, Oceanoe Hendelbin, and Marlack Inkripe, childhood friends of Pextel's whose disappointments in life lead them to join the Voyager program. A white rubber eraser plays Erasaxo Herrick, the Bindaf 3000's official mechanic. Slowly learning about the crew's existence through prophecies and trace anecdotes are Mitchell Lomken and Eliot Brownside, Braldonian refugees living in Antia to flee persecution from enemies of the Lomken Estate. Aiding the Voyagers on missions while still on their homeworld are Skidders Garret Nobee and Katrina Mantalone. quote:Candi is the single most-frequently-decapitated character second only to Laura Herrante in Stationery Voyagers: Final Hope. The Hebbleskins have specific orders for how they want her beheading carried out: fully nude, on a block, her facing down, the ax falling down on her from her left side, head into a basket, no blindfold. To date, counting all versions of the character, her head has been chopped off 13 times. quote:In October of 2006, it was predicted that the Dozerfleet founder's Facebook page had a greater likelihood of lasting long-term. It was assumed, however, that the MySpace page would also be around for a while. Instead, the latter only lasted three years total. There is always more Dozerfleet. goatse.cx posted:I wanna know what that dozerfleet guy is doing nowadays, someone check on him Lately, making recipes and organizing his labyrinthine stories. Diserning goons will notice that "one sided crush", "sexual pursuit", and "rape" are all signified by the same color on that chart.
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Apr 25, 2014 21:55
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More like, Lieberals All those quotes are cool and all, but none of them are a match for the simplicity of "Obama wants to revive the Ottoman Empire". Short. Sweet. Insane. E: Ugh, looks like he pulled the stationary warriors videos aka the ones I really wanted to make fun of. Namtab fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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Apr 25, 2014 22:08
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Djeser posted:Dozerfleet Highlights I like the bit in this quote about how he was "dragged into" the fandom. Like no, he didn't WANT to be a fan, but they FORCED him!
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Apr 25, 2014 22:09
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I wanna know what kind of discussions the fandom for a movie about a ghost girl who comes out of your tv and drowns you was having that political leanings made a difference. Unless you want to argue that TV-Ghost-Girl is a representation of the free market, or of the impact of mass media on the culture of mass consumption but... That doesn't sound troper like.
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Apr 25, 2014 22:12
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How the gently caress does a character get decapitated 13 times? Is she a mythical hydra?
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Apr 25, 2014 22:13
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Tardigrade posted:How the gently caress does a character get decapitated 13 times? Is she a mythical hydra? Worse, she's a woman. Seriously, this guy has issues.
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Apr 25, 2014 22:15
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FrozenVent posted:I wanna know what kind of discussions the fandom for a movie about a ghost girl who comes out of your tv and drowns you was having that political leanings made a difference. The well is the iraq war, but different political leanings interpret Samara differently, is she Saddam or Bush? E: Holy poo poo quote:It was bound to happen, and then it did. After the Dozerfleet founder posted a thread to the Ring Forum concerning the weapons of Saddam's that made their way into Syria, which the mainstream media admitted to in 2012, long after the damage had been done, the uber-leftist admins decided they'd had enough. The Dozerfleet founder would have to get his fix of Ring trivia somewhere else. But good riddance. No more throwing pearls before those swine. Namtab fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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Apr 25, 2014 22:19
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Namtab posted:Has anything major actually happened since I last posted here in like October 2013 cause this conversation about TVTropes thinking it's academic has been repeating itself since like 2011. There was also that  poo poo about child-pony torture fetishists, that sure was something.Wan die indeed.
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Apr 25, 2014 22:36
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Yeah, do not go looking that poo poo up. Seriously, that Fluffy stuff is some of the most hosed up poo poo I've ever seen.
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Apr 25, 2014 22:45
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Apple Tree posted:Got a link to that? Here you go. As usual, start from the earliest part and work your way forward. E: just to make it clear, this is about The Princess, not that hosed up poo poo that has just recently been discussed.
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Okay what do you make of this, I just completed Hate Plus really enjoyed it. I completed it on a the Harem ending. So lets see what the tropers deal with a complex word heavy game with a Japanese visual novel look dealing in an adult way with gay and lesbian relationships. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VisualNovel/HatePlus quote:Really 700 Years Old: When you start reading the old logs, *Mute discovers that Old *Mute was over 1600 years old, which seems unimaginably ancient to her. Kind of amusing, considering that current *Mute is no spring chicken either, since she's 900-something and looks around 14. All in all could be much worse
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Apr 25, 2014 23:38
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Englishman alone posted:So lets see what the tropers deal with a complex word heavy game with a Japanese visual novel look dealing in an adult way with gay and lesbian relationships. Englishman alone posted:the Harem ending quote:she's 900-something and looks around 14
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Apr 25, 2014 23:53
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Uh... you do have to know the story and what its about as its looks bad but isn't it AI's transhumanism, and a loving horrible society and how such things are formed. Christina Love is a really good and clever writer. It just looks like a horrible nasty piece of animé pedoshit.It just looks really bad,Its the closest game of being a historian dealing with unreliable sources and issues of primary source. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/29/wot-i-think-analogue-a-hate-story/ RPS in my defence I hope. Tropers do seem to make it rather unpleasant and off putting looking at the titles in retrospect though.
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Englishman alone posted:Christina Love
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