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Soulcleaver posted:Exception: Rocko's Modern Life, which really is as gross and perverted as Tropers think it is. Its not that TV writers of shows aimed at kids don't occasionally sneak jokes for adults into their shows (hell, the page i posted has one or two legitimate examples), its that Tropers are desperately searching for anything to legitimise their obsession with children's TV shows through pretending they're secretly for adults.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 13:36 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 08:29 |
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All the super-forced and dumb GOTTA JIZZ MY HORRIBLE FETISHES ONTO EVERYTHING, and still they miss the first season's murder/suicide and the scene in the new season where some guards get locked into a cell by a villain who makes a joke about how they're going to starve to death. But hey those weren't about sex so why would they be relevant to a list of things you wouldn't expect to see in a
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 13:52 |
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There is a particularily infuriating example on the video games GCPTR page. It's an entry for Neverwinter Nights 2 where a gigantic demon questions what gender you are. You get the option to motion to take your pants off and tell the demon to stand back. The demon shoots back that it doubts that it'll be able to see them due to its failing eyesight. A pretty amusing joke but this is a game that was rated T (for Alcohol Reference, Blood, Mild Language, Sexual Themes, Violence) so why the gently caress is that on a page about getting things past censors? A joke like that wouldn't really be out of place on any tv show that was aimed at a similar audience.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:25 |
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Testekill posted:There is a particularily infuriating example on the video games GCPTR page. It's an entry for Neverwinter Nights 2 where a gigantic demon questions what gender you are. You get the option to motion to take your pants off and tell the demon to stand back. The demon shoots back that it doubts that it'll be able to see them due to its failing eyesight. Because tropers will bend over backwards to put everything they kind of like into the pages of as many tropes as possible (but only if the trope makes it seem MATURE/EDGY/HARDCORE/BADASS - boy howdy do they love that word). Whether or not it actually works as an example of any of those tropes doesn't matter. What matters is that it's a thing that exists, and things that exist have tropes, and the tropes must flow.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:21 |
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Testekill posted:There is a particularily infuriating example on the video games GCPTR page. It's an entry for Neverwinter Nights 2 where a gigantic demon questions what gender you are. You get the option to motion to take your pants off and tell the demon to stand back. The demon shoots back that it doubts that it'll be able to see them due to its failing eyesight. Probably the same reason Futurama and Family Guy have radar pages. Because mention of sex on 'child's media' = getting crap past radar, but video games and cartoons are not just for kids so stop telling me to stop watching Bakagaijin Wonderland, DAD.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:23 |
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It's like a lot of them don't understand that the standards and practices board for any TV network isn't some high council that immediately attempts to stamp out anything bad, they're rarely more than just doing "our sponsors say they don't want you to do X thing so don't blatantly do X thing on your show or else we'll lose ad revenue and cancel you".
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:26 |
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Tropers think the Hayes code still exists, and applies to all forms of media.Radar: The Lion King Adventures posted:The scene in Switching Places where Simba and Nala discover that they're in each other's bodies. This paragon of subtlety that somehow managed to fly under the radar? It's a fanfic. There is no "radar" of evil censoring Moral Guardians for it to fool.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:43 |
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Actually let's look at the Lion King Adventures because it has like 20 subpages so tropers really seem to like it.The Lion King Adventures posted:The Lion King Adventures is a series of stories by author Anthony Barletta (ThatPersonYouMightKnow), set in an alternate universe, chronicling Simba and Nala's childhood. The two cubs encounter friendship, romance, evil wizards, crazy psychopaths and just plain creepy creatures who are trying to constantly kill them. YMMV posted:Are You Sure This Is For Kids: The series started off as very family friendly. However, the violence, horror and emotional darkness of the later stories made it more suited for older reading audiences. YMMV posted:Paranoia Fuel: The Writer is the creator of the universe, and everyone in it is just a character. This might make you paranoid that you're just a character in a story… Reviews posted:The Lion King Adventures fanfic review by Anonymous 13 B 24th Mar 14
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 18:02 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Actually let's look at the Lion King Adventures because it has like 20 subpages so maybe 3 tropers are absolutely obsessed with it.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 18:09 |
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quote:Mufasa (thinking): This reminds me of the time Sarabi and I... well, let's just say it resulted in Simba's birth. Why is he being coy to himself in his own thoughts? Somehow this irritates me the most in this hosed up shitshow.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 19:15 |
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Wait, The Lion King Adventures is just fanfic? What the gently caress? You don't need to sneak in adult jokes or whatever because there's nobody who would conceivably even want to stop you from writing whatever dumb poo poo you wanted. This is the worst thing. Like seriously the way tropers were writing about it I thought it was like a Saturday morning cartoon spinoff or something. Jesus.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 19:29 |
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Don't forget that any and all trope pages about that kind of garbage may just be written by the original author. I remember seeing a trope page about J.F. Bibeau's works that was obviously written by the man himself.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 19:33 |
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quote:What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The series is rather dark and violent, especially as it goes on, and even features Scar, the simultaneously loved and despised villain of the original film, raping a teen lioness and contemplating doing the same to Nala, a cub. I understand that the kids' stuff is unchallenging and easy to digest, but there's plenty of "gritty, mature" media where the same applies.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 19:47 |
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Kajeesus posted:Don't forget that any and all trope pages about that kind of garbage may just be written by the original author. I remember seeing a trope page about J.F. Bibeau's works that was obviously written by the man himself. Goddanmit, I'd forgotten about Bibeau until you brought him up.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 20:35 |
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Never forget about Bibeau. He is never not funny. Writing his own page on a site that has 20+ pages about a singular lion king fanfic is a new low even for him though. Can't he find at least one obsessive troper to do it for him?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 21:10 |
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quote:Anthony Barletta (who originally went by the pen name ThatPersonYouMightKnow) is an acclaimed author, primarily known for his masterpiece of literature, The Lion King Adventures, though he has recently published a novel, Flight. Review: Great for all the wrong reasons posted:I used to come across a particular type of fanfic series, one that tried to basically translate animated movie franchises into bad Anime story telling conventions. In these types of stories, the protagonists are hopelessly derailed at best and for some reason hang out with OC's trying too hard to be One Piece protagonists. A common story telling device is an over the top Black and White Morality, understandable in a child oriented series but made exceedingly bizarre, with the villains being over the top rapists that you are meant to find cool instead of revolting, fulfilling simultaneously the teen writer's needs to express his/her "edgy" worldview. Hilariously stereotypical romances may occur, as do spontaneous rape to make the characters "sympathetic" and "sexy". Anonymous13B posted:Having thoroughly examined this review, I must say that it is nothing short of nonsensical. Let us take a clear, in-depth look at the many flaws contained within it: Anonymous13B looks to be both the author of the written fellatio of a review Lottery of Babylon quoted as well as a guy who did some "voice work" for this stupid poo poo.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 21:10 |
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bucketmouse posted:Never forget about Bibeau. He is never not funny. I have no idea who this is and would like to know more. I looked him up and found a book with low ratings going for over two thousand dollars new, and a fanfiction.net account of what appears to be him having written fanfiction for the book he himself wrote.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 21:23 |
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Swan Oat posted:Wait, The Lion King Adventures is just fanfic? What the gently caress? You don't need to sneak in adult jokes or whatever because there's nobody who would conceivably even want to stop you from writing whatever dumb poo poo you wanted. This is the worst thing. Everything is worthy of inclusion on TV Tropes. What's depressing is that the "no notability" poo poo was originally supposed to mean something like "don't worry about adding citations for a random episode of some show you remember from 1987 that featured a guy hiding in a phone booth or whatever". Of course this quickly spiraled into everyone adding their unwritten slashfic to every page on the site because tropers are horrible people.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 21:45 |
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quote:The actor is notable as the voice of Tojo, a lion cub who was created by Disney for tie-in products related to their smash hit The Lion King, but never appeared in anything beyond a comic called "The Orphaned Birds." Anonymous13 B has portrayed Tojo in several of his recordings. W-what? quote:Deadpan Snarker: When confronted by a flamer in the earliest stages of his fanfiction series, he responded in this manner. This is bad. Really, really bad.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 21:46 |
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Ninjasaurus posted:He has no desire to be an omnisexual lion cub, and it eludes us as to why you would think that Everyone should just stop writing or speaking. Because nothing will ever top this line.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 22:24 |
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Ague Proof posted:This is bad. Really, really bad. Those sure are statements someone made, quite possibly in an even voice.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 22:28 |
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This doesn't mean much coming from me, because I'm not a big Lion King fan, but this fic honestly kinda makes me regret that The Lion King ever happened?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 23:00 |
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LaughMyselfTo posted:This doesn't mean much coming from me, because I'm not a big Lion King fan, but this fic honestly kinda makes me regret that The Lion King ever happened? If we regretted that things happened because of terrible fanfic, we'd eventually end up regretting the invention of the written word.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 23:05 |
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LaughMyselfTo posted:This doesn't mean much coming from me, because I'm not a big Lion King fan, but this fic honestly kinda makes me regret that The Lion King ever happened? They would just find something else to latch onto and inject rape into. When you write an "omnisexual lion cub" into the Lion King, you're clearly changing the characters/setting in such a way that anything good or unique about the original is lost*. The Lion King or My Little Pony etc are just interchangeable fictional templates to these people. *Obviously this can and has been done well, just not by Tropers.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 23:08 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:If we regretted that things happened because of terrible fanfic, we'd eventually end up regretting the invention of the written word. After five TVTropes threads, I regret it.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 23:11 |
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Ague Proof posted:They would just find something else to latch onto and inject rape into. When you write an "omnisexual lion cub" into the Lion King, you're clearly changing the characters/setting in such a way that anything good or unique about the original is lost*. The Lion King or My Little Pony etc are just interchangeable fictional templates to these people. Removing anything good about an adapted work can be done well?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 23:24 |
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quote:Also, when a fan mistakenly assumed him to be from Texas, he responded, "I've never been to Texas. Do I sound like I'm from there?" How is that snark? That's just rude.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 23:28 |
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Do tropers even know what snark means? I mean I get mr. bloated ego up there describing everything he says as "deadpan snark" because of the whole Internet idea that sarcasm is a superpower combined with the fact that he just can't stop verbally jerking off himself and anything he's ever worked on. But even besides that, it seems like whenever any tropers describe something as "snarky", they just mean either "kind of rude," or "a thing said by someone I like (aka myself)". Hammurabi fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jul 8, 2014 |
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WickedHate posted:I have no idea who this is and would like to know more. I looked him up and found a book with low ratings going for over two thousand dollars new, and a fanfiction.net account of what appears to be him having written fanfiction for the book he himself wrote. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3458196 I had been hoping for a new thread on this guy, but I guess he's gone radio silent since the last one. Didn't realize his book was going for over two grand though - that's absolutely insane, especially given how ridiculously poorly written it is.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 01:02 |
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I got the trope patrol on the rape patrol Goons that wanna make sure my casket's closed Trope critics that say he's "Rape oh Noes" I'm from the burbs stupid what type of facts are those If you grew up with the blues bein weaboos You'd celebrate the minute you was having views I'm like gently caress critics you can read the site news If you don't like my 'fics you can get off the web Got beef with SA if they don't think I know They don't like my page well I don't give a poo poo SO Goon threads try and use my troper rear end So advertisers can give me less cash for ads...fuckers I don't know what you take me as or understand the intelligence that a brony has I'm from rags to riches troper I ain't dumb I got 99 problems but a trope ain't one
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 01:27 |
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I ran into something that I had to share with this thread. I've been enjoying the Book Fight podcast where two guys who are college professors, authors, and small press publishers read a book and discuss it. They've got a lively conversation and it's entertaining stuff, especially when they get grumpy. So on this week's episode after the discussion of the book (which was really sedate and dull compared to most of their conversations), they talk about what one of them has found out about fan fiction. He's gotten a list of tropes that they run through and that gets goofy. The conversation starts at about thirty-four minutes in. As you might guess, they wind up horrified. Sadly the list of tropes is not from TV Tropes, I think their heads would explode if they were put into direct contact with TV Tropes, but it's the same crowd.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 01:50 |
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Finisher1 posted:I had been hoping for a new thread on this guy, but I guess he's gone radio silent since the last one. Didn't realize his book was going for over two grand though - that's absolutely insane, especially given how ridiculously poorly written it is.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 01:57 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:If we regretted that things happened because of terrible fanfic, we'd eventually end up regretting the invention of the written word. But I wonder... is this why there's so much weird Lion King fanart out there? It's not quite enough to rival Sonic, but I've seen enough of it to wonder.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 02:16 |
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Keromaru5 posted:Which brings us back to what Plato would have thought. I don't think it's as much the terrible fanfiction as it is the fact that the Lion King, having a cast that is nothing but talking animals, naturally attracts furries, and furries just have a way of ruining things.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 02:53 |
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Hammurabi posted:Because tropers will bend over backwards to put everything they kind of like into the pages of as many tropes as possible (but only if the trope makes it seem MATURE/EDGY/HARDCORE/BADASS - boy howdy do they love that word). Speaking of the word badass, guess how many times it is used on the characters page for Hells Kitchen. HINT: It's used more times then there has been competitors.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 03:26 |
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Testekill posted:Speaking of the word badass, guess how many times it is used on the characters page for Hells Kitchen. 55 times. This is, keep in mind, counting ONLY the times I saw the "Badass" trope/hotlink itself used for a character, no permutations or ANY OTHER Tropes with "Badass" in the name, simply the original "Badass" trope, and not counting simple uses of the word in a non-hotlink form.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 07:50 |
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Chrome's find function posted:badass
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 12:16 |
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Gordon Ramsay is a badass, but if you need to post 137 links on a page to explain why he is, it's time to learn how to actually communicate.
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# ? Jul 8, 2014 15:28 |
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Alpacalips Now posted:Gordon Ramsay is a badass, but if you need to post 137 links on a page to explain why he is, it's time to learn how to actually communicate. It's more that apparently anyone who has shown any slight, remote sign of skill or talent or resiliance is a badass. Also, apparently "Oh my god" is a meme. Not just that, but it's a meme that originated on Hell's Kitchen. The more you know, am I right?
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TvTropes Pleads the Fifth:Gotta Jizz My Horrible Fetishes Onto Everything
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