Gimnbo posted:Your PhD thesis probably wasn't written by 50 obsessive spergs though. nope, just one     
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Gimnbo posted:Your PhD thesis probably wasn't written by 50 obsessive spergs though. No, just one.  EDIT: Oh gently caress you.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:00
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Goddamn. But yeah I guess if all that poo poo was made by committee, as it were, it's a little better than a single guy writing 150k about imaginary pony novels. Only a little better, mark you.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:01
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Pierson posted:Goddamn. Not really, if you think about it. One guy writing endless mountains of text about terrible things is understandable, multiple people doing it means someone had the idea and other people agreed it was good.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:22
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Punting posted:Not really, if you think about it. One guy writing endless mountains of text about terrible things is understandable, multiple people doing it means someone had the idea and other people agreed it was good. None of us are as stupid as all of us.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:27
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Oh my dear gently caress. I logged out last night and the last thing in this thread was Hah Hah Rue's Black You're All Racist Nerds. Which always warms my heart. I awake this morning, take care of poo poo, log in, and HOLY poo poo 83 NEW MESSAGES?! Did Eddie show his dick to some one? Did the Tropers get defcon five creepy with Jesu again? Did Washout Tom update his never ending masterpiece? gently caress NO, PONY SEIZURES FOR EVERYONE. I was actually legitimately reading along rolling my eyes at the bullshit wondering if these were actual comics or something, and then I looked at my scroll bar and realized I wasn't even a third of the way done with the loving page. Cue a lot of skimming and a lot of scrolling and staring in abject terror at this massive imaginary bullshit. Say what you will about Tom, and oh BOY can you say a lot-at least he's WRITTEN SOMETHING. It's awful and reads like a technical how to anime bullshit, but he's written something. Even if that chapter is all he has ever written and is all he will ever write, he has produced more content, put more back into the world, than that bloated carcass of a puss filled pulp fiction page ever will. Thank you TV Tropes. Thank you for making Eye Em Teh Cutest look better by comparison. You weirdos. 
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Jun 11, 2014 14:45
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After having had time to absorb the pony stuff, I think everyone should go look at what TVTropes has done with Inspector Spacetime. Initially it was just a one off joke on the TV show Community making fun of Dr Who. Tropers have done... something with it.
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Jun 11, 2014 17:46
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Lottery of Babylon posted:The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of tropes, with vast ponies in between, supported by nothing. Everything: the minutely detailed history of the future, the archangels' autobiographies, the faithful catalogues of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of those catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogue, the Gnostic gospel of Basilides, the commentary on that gospel, the commentary on the commentary on that gospel, the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages, the interpolations of every book in all books. And a whole crapload of pony fanfic in trope-page form. Edit: they have a trope page for that story too, but it's naturally orders of magnitude shorter than the pony stuff: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLibraryOfBabel SerialKilldeer fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Jun 11, 2014 18:35
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Lottery of Babylon posted:As if the evil statue from the Children of Primus wasn't bad enough already, we're shown a universe where he succeeded in ressurecting his army and defeating Optimus Prime. His entire army Came Back Wrong, making them even more horrifying than they were before, but he doesn't even care, as it means they can't question his orders. With this army of zombie statues, he has waged a campaign of destruction across Equestria, starting by razing the entire city of Spurlin to the ground, leaving little more than a pile of rubble. Optimus Prime? What? Why Optimus Prime?!
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Jun 11, 2014 19:15
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Here's a break from the ponies: the "Glorious Nippon is the best at everything" sentiment crops up in the oddest places.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:36
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Metal Loaf posted:Here's a break from the ponies: the "Glorious Nippon is the best at everything" sentiment crops up in the oddest places. I dunno, I think this page has a point. I mean, there is, perhaps, only one medium of art that matches the excellence of videogames and that is (obviously) visual kei. Combining absolutely exquisite j-rock and j-pop, sprinkled with hints of videogame melodies, with the pyrotechnic visual flare that the Japanese are known for, visual kei takes its viewers on a rollercoaster ride of lights, fanfare, and music that even Beethoven could tap his toes to. Would that I were Japanese, (though under careful scrutiny, it appears my geneology tree does in fact show signs of a Japanese presence) I too would participate in this art of the 21st century and even perhaps venture onto the visual kei stage myself. It is no surprise that the impotent minds of Western society cannot fully grasp the total splendor of visual kei and instead choose to squandor their time listening to rap and country "music"
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Jun 11, 2014 20:06
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I dunno, I think this page has a point. 
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Jun 11, 2014 20:29
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Nice scaling.
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Jun 11, 2014 20:36
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Nice scaling. It was the first picture I could find ok. 
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Jun 11, 2014 20:38
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While breaking my scroll-thumb trying to flick past page 150, I noticed the recurring reference to the Ahuizotl, an Aztec mythological creature. The page's history is a mildly amusing tale of bronies inserting a Pop Culture section and then getting it deleted. Over and over again.quote:There is absolutely NO POINT in deleting that. quote:"In Pop Culture" sections are discouraged per WP:POPCULTURE (you cretin) At least Wikipedia has some degree of quality control. 
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Jun 11, 2014 21:22
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Tardigrade posted:While breaking my scroll-thumb trying to flick past page 150, I noticed the recurring reference to the Ahuizotl, an Aztec mythological creature. The page's history is a mildly amusing tale of bronies inserting a Pop Culture section and then getting it deleted. Over and over again. The one good thing to come out of XKCD, Wikipedia's policy on "In Popular Culture".
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Jun 11, 2014 21:24
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I mean, there is, perhaps, only one medium of art that matches the excellence of videogames and that is (obviously) visual kei. Combining absolutely exquisite j-rock and j-pop, sprinkled with hints of videogame melodies, with the pyrotechnic visual flare that the Japanese are known for, visual kei takes its viewers on a rollercoaster ride of lights, fanfare, and music that even Beethoven could tap his toes to. Would that I were Japanese, (though under careful scrutiny, it appears my geneology tree does in fact show signs of a Japanese presence) I too would participate in this art of the 21st century and even perhaps venture onto the visual kei stage myself. It is no surprise that the impotent minds of Western society cannot fully grasp the total splendor of visual kei and instead choose to squandor their time listening to rap and country "music" Every single member of X Japan has a trope page, even the ones who don't seem to have active solo careers.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:05
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Tardigrade posted:While breaking my scroll-thumb trying to flick past page 150, I noticed the recurring reference to the Ahuizotl, an Aztec mythological creature. The page's history is a mildly amusing tale of bronies inserting a Pop Culture section and then getting it deleted. Over and over again. Thank you Wikipedia for simply saying, get the gently caress out bronies, no one wants you in our Aztec folklore.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:22
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I was worried someone would take me seriously.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:39
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Annointed posted:Thank you Wikipedia for simply saying, get the gently caress out bronies, no one wants you in our Aztec folklore. (Undid revision 475644266 by 64.131.162.42 (talk) (gas all bronies)) (undo) (Undid revision 476263771 by 112.198.83.67 (talk) The brony Holocaust will go unmourned.) (undo) (BRONY RAUS!) (undo) (shut up about ponies goddamn) (undo)
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Jun 12, 2014 00:00
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Gimnbo posted:(Undid revision 475644266 by 64.131.162.42 (talk) (gas all bronies)) (undo) quote:So, um. How exactly should "Popular Culture" here be worded so that nobody comes later and deletes it "because WP:Popculture"? - 89.70.239.244 (talk) 12:15, 11 December 2013 (UTC) From the talkpage.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:08
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Sure, I think I've heard that Wikipedia cutting a whole bunch of fancruft (mostly related to anime) is what contributed to TV Tropes becoming the site it is today in the first place.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:20
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Swan Oat posted:I'm actually curious, did anyone read it? Any of it? Parts of it? I would love absurd highlights but holy poo poo that is a lot of words to process. "Quotes: Daring Do" posted:Blackmane's Log # 423: I've stopped dating these things. I no longer know or care about the date. I want this endless tedium to end.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:25
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Metal Loaf posted:Sure, I think I've heard that Wikipedia cutting a whole bunch of fancruft (mostly related to anime) is what contributed to TV Tropes becoming the site it is today in the first place. So xkcd is indirectly responsible for the worst parts of TV Tropes.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:30
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Congrats Tropers, you've made me hate metafiction.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:54
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Metal Loaf posted:Sure, I think I've heard that Wikipedia cutting a whole bunch of fancruft (mostly related to anime) is what contributed to TV Tropes becoming the site it is today in the first place. It was the "Popular depictions/use of the Christianity" section for the Christianity article where anime nerds kept editing it with dozens/hundreds of overly detailed descriptions of crosses/Christianity in Evangelion, Trigun, any Vampire anime, etc, to where the anime section was 2-3x larger then the rest of the article, at which point Wiki admins, tired of constantly reverting pages and said spergs filling up pages and pages of discussions demanding their anime references be considered notable, cut out a ton of "popular culture" stuff. Also, at some point the Ctl-Alt-Del author kept trying to edit the Mario pages to include his comic strip's references to it and then arguing that any depiction of a known IP in any medium should be considered notable.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:57
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Not going to lie, that was a thing of beauty.
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Jun 12, 2014 01:04
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I was worried someone would take me seriously. I know you were goofing around, I just wanted an excuse to post truck pump. 
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Jun 12, 2014 01:35
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SirSamVimes posted:Not going to lie, that was a thing of beauty. Yeah I was going to say, thank you LoB that was the funniest, most surreal obsessive nerd circlejerking I will ever experience. Just a link would just not have had the same impact irl couldn't breathe for a good 30s there as I was scrolling
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Jun 12, 2014 05:08
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Tropers wrote over 140,000 words about an adventure novel series in a fictional cartoon THAT DIDN'T EXIST TO BEGIN WITH BLAGHRARGA End thread, this shall be our monument to all that is wrong with tropers. e: going back to Harry Potter, I just realized something that made the whole "VOLDIE GREW UP IN THE BLITZ WHY DO YOU THINK HE WAS KILLING PEOPLE AND LITERALLY TEARING APART HIS SOUL TO STAY IMMORTAL  " point irrelevant. Hogwarts terms begin in September and end in the summer (June?). The Blitz lasted from 7 September 1940 to 21 May 1941. Hogwarts is a boarding school in Scotland. In other words, Tom Riddle was completely safe from the Blitz the entire time (or nearly the entire time) it was happening. You may now return to your marveling at troper obsession with ponies. Gen. Ripper fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Jun 12, 2014 05:52
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Huh. Where is it said that Hogwarts is in Scotland? Also, just for reference, how long is Atlas Shrugged and more specifically John Galt's speech?
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Jun 12, 2014 07:24
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Anticheese posted:Huh. Where is it said that Hogwarts is in Scotland? Third film says that Dufftown is one of the nearby towns.
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Jun 12, 2014 07:34
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Anticheese posted:Huh. Where is it said that Hogwarts is in Scotland? The speech is 60 pages, according to google. The book is 1,088 pages in the paperback edition, says Wikipedia. No clue on the movies, but there are three parts and the first is apparently 102 minutes. Yes, I'm bored, how could you tell?  Time to go dig up some horror! Thirty seconds of looking and I find this thread. quote:Fanfic ideas you have. Gonna scour this a bit. Here's the first bit that is kinda...why the gently caress would you even write that? Psyga 315 posted:I have an idea for a fanfiction that I may write very soon: Kickassia through the eyes of an Original Character who has no idea who any of the Channel Awesome guys are.  Lupus 27, ripping off so much poo poo I can't even list posted:It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth/Cybertronian war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call - home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans, Cybertronians, Thundarians, Eternians, Equestrians, Vorlons, and hundreds of other races, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
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Anticheese posted:Huh. Where is it said that Hogwarts is in Scotland? According to this Wikipedia page, Atlas Shrugged weighs in at 1,088 pages with a 645,000 word count. Not sure about the John Galt part. EDIT: Beaten, but thanks for filling me in on the John Galt part. Anyway, for your pleasure, here's a trope page for the WiiFit game, which begs the question, "Why would Tropers even bother with this game, since video games, masturbation, and crying while stuffing your face with Cheetos don't count as exercise -- well, not the kind that we 'mundanes' consider exercise, like running, walking, swimming, push-ups, etc?": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/WiiFit Some memorable WTF moments include: quote:Guide Dang It: If you don't know which muscles are your "core muscles", don't expect the game to stop and explain it to you. quote:Mission Pack Sequel: Wii Fit Plus has all of the training games on Wii Fit, including some Training Plus exclusives and allows you to keep track of your pets' weights. At least the sequel carries over your save data. quote:Nintendo Hard: Some of the balance games (and the Training Plus in Wii Fit Plus) quote:Unexpected Character: The female trainer is a new addition to Super Smash Bros.
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Jun 12, 2014 07:53
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Have any tropers weighed in on JK Rowling's donation to the Better Together campaign to vote no on Scotland's upcoming independence referendum?
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Jun 12, 2014 08:30
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Swan Oat posted:Have any tropers weighed in on JK Rowling's donation to the Better Together campaign to vote no on Scotland's upcoming independence referendum? I'm not sure whether Tropers will care, given it doesn't involve GRORIOUS NIPPON. If they do, they'll probably support her and her views because of who she is, rather then looking at the issue itself.
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Jun 12, 2014 08:45
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If Scotland does opt for independence what does that mean for the wizarding community? Does Scotland get its own Ministry of Magic? Will Hogwarts finally be free of meddling from the Ministry of Magic bureaucrats in London? These are some complicated issues and I expect the troping community to have answers.
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Swan Oat posted:If Scotland does opt for independence what does that mean for the wizarding community? Does Scotland get its own Ministry of Magic? Will Hogwarts finally be free of meddling from the Ministry of Magic bureaucrats in London? These are some complicated issues and I expect the troping community to have answers. Honestly, that might actually be an interesting story. Certainly be a step up from the Dark Depths of the Shipping Sea.
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Jun 12, 2014 08:56
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Never mind; the discussion's moved on.
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Swan Oat posted:If Scotland does opt for independence what does that mean for the wizarding community? Does Scotland get its own Ministry of Magic? Will Hogwarts finally be free of meddling from the Ministry of Magic bureaucrats in London? These are some complicated issues and I expect the troping community to have answers. You expect tropers to know anything about Scotland besides bagpipes, tartan, and irn bru? Edit: or haggis Anticheese fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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