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SerialKilldeer posted:My college offers a Milton course (also Shakespeare and Chaucer ones), for what that's worth. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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quote:Any time a character is ticketed for littering. For your benefit I bolded the instances where tropers are getting mad about jokes in a cartoon. edit: I realize I should have bolded the whole thing but I was being picky Djeser fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 18:38
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Oh, true, but it's strangely easy to just assume that Tropers are all in high school. At any rate, it makes the site's existence much easier to accept. Easy to assume, yes, but it seems a lot are college-aged, or even older: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TroperDemographics I am much more curious, though, about the 1% over 65. More from the page I linked, in which tropers think way too much about the clothing (or lack thereof) of a cartoon squirrel: quote:In Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy, Plankton steals Sandy's fur. Long story. He turns Sandy's fur into a robot and goes to the Krusty Krab in it. The fur has the bikini on it, but not the diving suit. So Sandy, dressed like she usually is whenever she's at home except for the fish-bowl thing on her head and her lack of fur, goes to the Krusty Krab. On the way, everyone yells at her to put some clothes on while she's wearing a bikini! And at the end, the police arrest her at the Krusty Krab for indecent exposure while she's wearing a bikini! Keep in mind that Squidward doesn't wear pants. Additionally, those SAME POLICEMEN just laughed and called her a hairless goat earlier, instead of arresting her.
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Apr 29, 2014 18:48
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That page has six different folders. How does anybody take Spongebob loving Squarepants that seriously?
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Apr 29, 2014 18:55
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Alpha3KV posted:That page has six different folders. How does anybody take Spongebob loving Squarepants that seriously? People take Spongebob very seriously.
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Apr 29, 2014 18:59
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SerialKilldeer posted:I am much more curious, though, about the 1% over 65. Isn't that Fast Eddie?
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Apr 29, 2014 21:41
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Krotera posted:To be fair, "binary" is a legitimate term for an executable file -- in this case though, they seem to just be referring to the data in the PNG as "the binary" instead of "the data" like any normal person would say. It's to distinguish it from all those nonbinary files on, say, Tumblr.
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Apr 29, 2014 22:09
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GottaPayDaTrollToll posted:It's to distinguish it from all those nonbinary files on, say, Tumblr. 
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Apr 29, 2014 22:39
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Little Blackfly posted:John Milton Class. I took an undergraduate class on Milton. I don't think tvtropes would have been welcome in class discussion though.
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Apr 29, 2014 22:58
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Holy poo poo, I wrote that troper tale about my high school blocking all the other sites. I remember being so happy about it. It must've been 8-9 years ago. The backup punchline is that the school blocked tvt a few weeks later.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:01
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Swan Oat posted:I took an undergraduate class on Milton. I don't think tvtropes would have been welcome in class discussion though. Huh, well that's me proven wrong. I never saw any undergraduate classes in a single author like that, but then I never really looked. Still don't believe the story thought.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:45
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Little Blackfly posted:Huh, well that's me proven wrong. I never saw any undergraduate classes in a single author like that, but then I never really looked. Yeah, at my school to get a BA in English you had to take a course on Shakespeare and one on either Milton or Chaucer. TVTropes would have been laughed out of any of them.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:49
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Yeah, at my school to get a BA in English you had to take a course on Shakespeare and one on either Milton or Chaucer. TVTropes would have been laughed out of any of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSn7f9lPF3c
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Apr 30, 2014 02:56
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TVTropes is something that fits more in an anime club at university than on a term paper (which would get funny looks from the professor at best)
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Apr 30, 2014 05:01
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:TVTropes is something that fits more in an anime club at university than on a term paper (which would get funny looks from the professor at best) But it's totally an academic resource, you guys 
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Apr 30, 2014 06:45
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Going back to creepypastas, I was skimming the YMMV page for the NES Godzilla Creepypasta (which is probably the most decent creepypasta I've ever read) and found this:quote:Paranoia Fuel: To anyone who owns, or has ever owned, Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for the NES. Maybe Zachary's copy isn't the only one of its kind floating around. Or maybe you had/have it and were never aware of it! Feel like giving it a whirl? Are you loving real?
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Apr 30, 2014 06:52
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Namtab posted:Yeah, I look forward to that troper's published novel. It's loving magical that Tropers are mad about an episode of Scrubs that directly calls out Nice Guys.
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Apr 30, 2014 07:41
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I was reading some of the troper tales posted above; even when I would have read TV Tropes semi-regularly I never really bothered with the Troper Tales section, outside of a few examples I found out about indirectly (Pencil-Breaking Guy and Master Anime Nodachi Swordsman). Reading them now, with trope names being used to convey concepts in every other sentence, the words that spring to mind are, "Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra."
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Apr 30, 2014 09:07
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Metal Loaf posted:I was reading some of the troper tales posted above; even when I would have read TV Tropes semi-regularly I never really bothered with the Troper Tales section, outside of a few examples I found out about indirectly (Pencil-Breaking Guy and Master Anime Nodachi Swordsman). Reading them now, with trope names being used to convey concepts in every other sentence, the words that spring to mind are, "Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra." They freely acknowledge it.
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Apr 30, 2014 09:16
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Found this in a different thread. SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Holy poo poo, I wrote that troper tale about my high school blocking all the other sites. I remember being so happy about it. It must've been 8-9 years ago. And you found Something awful after that? Life enhanced? This is also a trope:Misplaced names poster. quote:Why aren't those names lined up to the image!
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Apr 30, 2014 09:50
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Namtab posted:There were. Mostly the stories are "I discovered x series or y trope" but there's a little bit of gold in the dull mud. Thank you for posting those. They were just as entertaining as I'd hoped! Also, I couldn't resist looking at The Unfair Sex Discussion page, which thankfully preserved the Real Life examples that had been cut. Unsurprisingly, daytime talk shows were at the top, including a lot of  over poo poo on Maury Povich. The entire list is full of MRA bullshit and  about how hard men have it today.Here's my favorite: quote:Insults. It's ok for a girl to abuse a man so bad that Gunny Hartman would be proud. But if you're a guy, don't even think about letting slip the F word on a girl... or you'll get slapped. (And let's not even go into the whole hitting thing.) There's so much to say about this but I bolded the most desperate/pathetic part. quote:And on that note - any laws decreeing that a drunken partner is unable to give consent, even if they're conscious. While an agreeable idea, the application of this type of law is very uneven, as most guys who make the "Drunken mistake" will be encouraged to just accept it, while women would be treated (relatively) compassionately. haha you didn't think I'd go without mentioning  , did you?
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To be fair, that "when you hit him" bit is pretty  -worthy.Ninjasaurus posted:There's so much to say about this but I bolded the most desperate/pathetic part.  I guess that human contact just isn't a Troper "thing"? Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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Apr 30, 2014 10:20
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Sham bam bamina! posted:To be fair, that "when you hit him" bit is pretty I agree, the "21 Things a sweet guy would do" list is catshit crazy, which on its own would be amusing enough. But the impotent rage that troper responds to it with is wonderful.
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Apr 30, 2014 10:26
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Sham bam bamina! posted:To be fair, that "when you hit him" bit is pretty Yeah, but the correct response to that doesn't contain the phrase "retaliatory beating".
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Apr 30, 2014 10:47
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Darth TNT posted:And you found Something awful after that? Life enhanced? Every goon is actually a troper in an unconvincing rubber alien costume. 
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Apr 30, 2014 10:50
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Ninjasaurus posted:I agree, the "21 Things a sweet guy would do" list is catshit crazy, which on its own would be amusing enough. But the impotent rage that troper responds to it with is wonderful. Yeah, that list was mostly perpetuated by Redditesque Nice Guys and the women who put "I hate drama!" on their online dating profiles. What makes the Troper rage funny is that the list is a clear example of gender norms modern feminists want to eliminate for women and men. Internet dorks just don't know that because feminism is an idea for girls and TV says every feminist is a man-hunting serial killer or Lisa Simpson.
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May 1, 2014 04:56
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Razorwired posted:every feminist is a man-hunting serial killer or Lisa Simpson. But you repeat yourself. 
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The Bee posted:For all that tropers say about jerk jocks, they seem to value might above all. Even magic based on intelligence, the biggest nerd circlejerk, is less problem solving and more colorful ways of breaking stuff. Tropers less want to condemn misused strength then be the ones misusing it. It's why while the rest of the world moves on, they're still shining their white-hot grudges that they never could and never will. It'd be funny if it wasn't so drat pathetic. Cornwind Evil fucked around with this message at 08:53 on May 1, 2014 |
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May 1, 2014 08:46
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ungulateman posted:Every goon is actually a troper in an unconvincing rubber alien costume. 
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From the forums thread "Observations you've made about this site/forum/wiki":ickick 3 posted:There is a lot less creepy people on the site than before. I feel both  and  about this.Yesterday however, in the "Troper Shipping and Troper Dating Service" thread: Space Wolf posted:I've been noticing actual shipping, in the Yack Fest shipping thread, for over a page. That must be a new record. Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:Unfortunately, it's mostly shipping me with a fourteen-year-old girl. Said fourteen-year-old girl is user Daft Punch. Demetrios posted:What if it's Yoko? Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:And that's supposed to mean what to me? Demetrios posted:
No nudity but it's an anime girl so better safe than sorry. Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:She's fourteen? Demetrios posted:So they say. Dreigonix posted:She is not 14. Look at those boobs. Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:You do realize that you're talking about anime, right? Sixthhokage1 posted:Even in reality, some girls hit puberty and develop breasts relatively early Dreigonix posted:Yes. And I dunno if they're trying to make us feel like pedophiles, but Yoko does not have the body of a 14-year-old girl. trip posted:Some girls can hit puberty as soon as age 8 Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:@Dreigonix Well, there is a lot of sexualization of underage girls in a lot of anime. Sixthhokage1 posted:Real life aside, it's obviously for fanservice which when your character is 14 you should not be doing. Space Wolf posted:Dreig, that would be hebephilia. Dreigonix posted:@Space Wolf Hebephilia, then. And I guess I'm one to complain, since I'm 15 >.> trip posted:technically it's not hebephillia since i'm in that age group so i get all the women Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:By the way, in a lot of Japan, the age of consent is 13 years old. Dreigonix posted:I know. I watched The Nostalgia Critic's review of Sailor Moon. Space Wolf posted:I'd also like to add that being into young animated characters is not necessarily hebephilia; it's just Fetish Fuel and Rule 34. (Before someone quips on it, yes, I've been known to get into that sort of thing.) Hahaha you're a pedophile. Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:@Dreigonix Yeah, he talks a lot about it. Dreigonix posted:And I don't mind too much if a character is Really 700 Years Old; I mean, they've been around long enough..... Goddamnit you moron no! Don't let TV Tropes corrupt your young mind. Space Wolf posted:Hey, I'm not into actual 14-year-olds, so it doesn't count.
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May 1, 2014 13:06
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Bacon Maniac 5000 posted:By the way, in a lot of Japan, the age of consent is 13 years old. I'm pretty sure that's the national age of consent in Japan, and I'm also pretty sure nearly every prefecture sets it higher than that.
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May 1, 2014 14:49
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Once a Japanese troper came on TV Tropes and got upset that a troper was insinuating Japan was okay with older guys having sex with thirteen year old girls. Along the lines of "Why the hell do you think we'd be okay with that?" It's probably somewhere earlier in the thread but it was an  moment to see a glorious nihonese calling out a creepy anime fan on their creepy poo poo.
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Metal Loaf posted:I'm pretty sure that's the national age of consent in Japan, and I'm also pretty sure nearly every prefecture sets it higher than that. Time for me to crossquote from ADTRW. Clarste posted:13 is the national age of consent. Most if not all prefectures have their own local laws raising it (I believe 16 is considered standard). America doesn't even have a national age of consent, so technically it's 0: we all think it's 18 because our media gets made in California. I can also confirm that Yoko is 14 at the start of TTGL so wanking to her would be gross + creepy. Albeit only slightly more so than wanking to anim girls to begin with, but still... Namtab fucked around with this message at 15:33 on May 1, 2014 |
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May 1, 2014 15:31
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I thought the thing with Yoko was that the creators claimed she was 14 in some out-of-text website bio and so many people ended up calling bullshit that they backpedaled and said that her home tribe forgot how long a year was, and that she was actually really 17-18 in the series.
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May 1, 2014 15:45
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I made an earlier post quoting a lot of their Jailbait-related tropes/examples and it seems 14 is the magic number for the [under]age of their most-wankable anime girls. Good to know I guess? e: Here it is http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3569947&userid=208398#post428276211
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Goddamn am I tired of the "you can have sex with thirteen year olds in Japan" myth. It makes Japan look a lot worse then it is and it's borderline racism. "Oh, wacky Japan sure is full of pedophilia(and also giant monsters and martial arts)!" Speaking of sexual things on TV Tropes: Suspiciously Specific Denial posted:Worker: Tight-looking piece, eh?  It's literally rape porn! Like it's not ~fetish fuel~ or anything, the thing being quoted is a rape comic sold on a rape porn website. What the hell. They even put the issue number and title!
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Ninjasaurus posted:I made an earlier post quoting a lot of their Jailbait-related tropes/examples and it seems 14 is the magic number for the [under]age of their most-wankable anime girls. Good to know I guess? I blame evangelion, since its main characters are 14 and it teals with a lot of hosed up imagery that tropers just think is hot.
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WickedHate posted:Goddamn am I tired of the "you can have sex with thirteen year olds in Japan" myth. It makes Japan look a lot worse then it is and it's borderline racism. "Oh, wacky Japan sure is full of pedophilia(and also giant monsters and martial arts)!" First of all, how dare you group pedophilia with giant monsters and martial arts; the latter two are awesome.  Secondly, I've never heard of Fansadox and it seems their P5 council deleted most of the trope pages associated with it. But clearly not all of them! The Master posted:Fansadox #37 has the titular psycho tattooed on his back the word 'Master' in Japanese (or so he says), and he likes (read: forces girls he rapes) to be called this. This becomes a plot point when the girls escape, they find the sheriff and demand the supposed rapist-slash-sadist show his back. Turns out he wasn't the psycho, but the sheriff himself. Prime example of Bondage Is Bad. Quotes: Humiliation C Onga posted:First he stopped touching me, then he confined me to the kitchen, and now I'm just a piece of furniture for him to rest his feet on, while his new favorites suck his cock. I must admit, I even miss his cock in my rear end and his whip on my back. Apparently the webcomic Birthday Gift is by the same author. A review still remains! Erenischean Universe rocks! posted:Birthday Gift series and other comics of the expanded universe created by the artist known as Erenisch is a fascinating dystopia for women. The artist have meticulously built an alternative future where a "compulsory slavery law" for female members of the society altered the social norms drastically. Now treated only as chattel, females serve men in all kinds of ways as slaves, and the artist paints this world with shiny, bright colors that is uncharacteristic to other fansadox titles or BDSM comics in general. The writing and dialogue makes the so called Ereniverse special with its dark-humor and dry wit, making the comics enjoyable visually and intellectually. Also, here is the Troper who claims to have created all of these pages: And Zoid Berg At least two of the pages he started are still around: Webcomic: Women Hunt posted:Part of the Fansadox franchise of webcomics. Fan Fic: Saffron posted:Saffron is a Pokemon-inspired fan fic that presents the poke-world if the world would allow and encourage romantic and sexual relations between humans and pokemon. The story is presented from the viewpoint of a character who was driven over the edge by this development and started killing Pokemons. This guy REALLY likes his rape porn, doesn't he?
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And Zoid Berg posted:I intend to create (Up for Grabs) Did...did they sign up just for to make pages for this stuff? Enjoyable "visually and intellectually".  Ninjasaurus posted:First of all, how dare you group pedophilia with giant monsters and martial arts; the latter two are awesome.
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