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Ah, yes, the Loops. Those things. The premise is that every piece of fiction that has ever existed is real and part of a multiverse-spanning computer called Yggdrassil. Then something goes wrong. Now all the universes are stuck in time loops which happen to conincide with our perspective of when those pieces of fiction take place - so the My Little Pony loops  start when the show starts and end whenever the show ends at the time of writing. Some characters 'persist' between loops, others don't, some are on and off. Sometimes crossovers happen , of varying length and quality.It tends to devolve into either bad meta humour, endless in-jokes or regular low-quality writing. I happen to have a soft spot for it because nine times out of ten it takes the piss out of the usual fanfiction cliches and doesn't take itself seriously at all.  Apparently the 'curator' of that particular set of loops is getting real defensive about how they choose to spend their time instead of being willing to accept people don't like the stuff they like.
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Tropers, Bronies, and Fascists: Appropriating Norse Mythology like it's going out of style.
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Sep 19, 2014 07:29
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Real political purges don't work that way "Ugh, you just don't understand how political infighting works, man who was nearly killed in Communist purges during the Spanish Civil War."
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Sep 19, 2014 11:54
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Chexoid posted:If only there was a sudden craze for turning classic books into JRPGs. I did see some manga versions of Shakespeare's plays in the bookshop a while ago. I wondered who they were for, but it must be tropers.
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Sep 19, 2014 12:53
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I love how half their 'criticism' of 1984 is just them trying to convince themselves that it totally couldn't happen and nothing could ever be that awful and it'd all come crashing down soon after the book ends anyway right? Right?
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Sep 19, 2014 13:04
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Strategic Tea posted:I love how half their 'criticism' of 1984 is just them trying to convince themselves that it totally couldn't happen and nothing could ever be that awful and it'd all come crashing down soon after the book ends anyway right? Right?
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Sep 19, 2014 13:36
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I don't think that I've ever seen a review before that completely omitted any specifics at all about its object and its judgement. Does this even count as one? It's strange, I don't disagree with the overall assessment (great gatsby is boring and shallow) and yet, I know that the tropers understanding of it is wrong. It seems inherent to them.
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Samurai Quack posted:It's strange, I don't disagree with the overall assessment (great gatsby is boring and shallow) and yet, I know that the tropers understanding of it is wrong. It seems inherent to them. For one thing they think the Great Gatsby is out of print, despite the fact it's been on the presses for churning out to new middle school students pretty consistently since 20s literature became an acceptable thing for English classes.
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Sep 19, 2014 16:08
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Nintendo Kid posted:For one thing they think the Great Gatsby is out of print, despite the fact it's been on the presses for churning out to new middle school students pretty consistently since 20s literature became an acceptable thing for English classes.
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Sep 19, 2014 18:13
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Strategic Tea posted:I love how half their 'criticism' of 1984 is just them trying to convince themselves that it totally couldn't happen and nothing could ever be that awful and it'd all come crashing down soon after the book ends anyway right? Right? I know that's what I did after I read it, because the ending made me extremely depressed. But that was in high school and even I could see the point George Orwell was going for. Gonna have to  at the troper complaining that 1984 isn't a criticism of totalitarianism, just of communism and that all the bad poo poo about communism was just propaganda from later historians. Because it's not like the only communist countries in history have been totalitarian shitholes or something, that's all propaganda 
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Sep 19, 2014 18:48
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It's weird and hilarious that stalinists read and post on tvtropes
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Sep 19, 2014 19:16
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It's probably just a stupid troper who calls himself Stalinist because it's edgy. Of course, that's most Stalinists, but still.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:19
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With how often Tropers take things at face value, I can't believe that they miss that 1984 is talking about how government surveillance is bad. They just see "DYSTOPIA: THE NOVEL" and leave it at that. You don't write about dystopias, you use dystopias to broach other subjects. It's a setting for god's sake.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:37
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Arcsquad12 posted:With how often Tropers take things at face value, I can't believe that they miss that 1984 is talking about how government surveillance is bad. They just see "DYSTOPIA: THE NOVEL" and leave it at that. You don't write about dystopias, you use dystopias to broach other subjects. It's a setting for god's sake. Tropers often get setting and plot mixed up, just look at all the worldbuilding they do.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:44
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Thinky Whale posted:"Ugh, you just don't understand how political infighting works, man who was nearly killed in Communist purges during the Spanish Civil War." Don't forget them latching onto the Prince as the big treatise on political theory, despite the strong possibility it was a book of flattery intended for wealthy patrons and the very real fact that Machiavelli was a staunch republican.
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Sep 19, 2014 20:27
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WickedHate posted:I have autism and I've never seen the appeal, personally. He said while buying a Nintendo system to play a Sonic game in the year of our lord 2013
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Sep 19, 2014 21:21
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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:He said while buying a Nintendo system to play a Sonic game in the year of our lord 2013 I changed my mind since then. 
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Sep 19, 2014 22:04
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WickedHate posted:I changed my mind since then. - a person who bought an SA account in 2013
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Sep 19, 2014 22:36
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YMMV/And Then There Were None posted:Draco in Leather Pants: Lombard seems to be gaining himself a bit of a fandom on deviantART.
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Sep 20, 2014 03:58
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Strategic Tea posted:I love how half their 'criticism' of 1984 is just them trying to convince themselves that it totally couldn't happen and nothing could ever be that awful and it'd all come crashing down soon after the book ends anyway right? Right? To be fair, isn't there that epilogue chapter that's structured like a historical essay after the fall of the Party?
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Sep 20, 2014 10:01
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I don't think there is.
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Sep 20, 2014 10:33
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Flesnolk posted:To be fair, isn't there that epilogue chapter that's structured like a historical essay after the fall of the Party? You might be thinking of The Handmaid's Tale, which does exactly that.
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Sep 20, 2014 10:39
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Flesnolk posted:To be fair, isn't there that epilogue chapter that's structured like a historical essay after the fall of the Party? There's a Newspeak dictionary at the end, and iirc it's written in past tense. I guess one could theorize from there that the language is abandoned at the time that the dictionary portion is written, and thus the Party is no longer in power. I mean, it's almost definitely out-of-story and actually written from Orwell's perspective, but God forbid we let a cautionary tale have a fitting ending, right?
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Sep 20, 2014 10:43
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Yeah, I think either I had crossed wires with the Handmaid's Tale or was remembering a bunch of arguments I'd seen that the way the Newspeak dictionary is written implied an eventual fall of the Party.
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Sep 20, 2014 12:11
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Flesnolk posted:Yeah, I think either I had crossed wires with the Handmaid's Tale or was remembering a bunch of arguments I'd seen that the way the Newspeak dictionary is written implied an eventual fall of the Party. Pretty much any government will fall eventually. It's like saying a movie where the bad guy wins doesn't have a purpose because one day, barring magic or super science in the story, they will die.
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Sep 20, 2014 15:43
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corn in the bible posted:Fanfic Recs: Web Original Oh, this thing. It isn't Fan Wank, it's literal masturbation over the military invading Hell and it's awful. Scenes include Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling the demons 'baldricks' and having that stick as a nickname, Bill Clinton spotting and killing a succubus infiltrator because of his experience thanks to Hillary, demons being killed en mass by tanks, a bunch of marines guard a psychic transgender sub called 'kitten' (explicitly lower case) and learning a valuable lesson about tolerance, soldiers invading hell finding that all aborted babies go there and are eaten as snacks, Julius Caesar making a nation of dead people in the conquered Hell, George Bush being an effective president, Jesus teleporting a bunch of soldiers into God's throne room and killing him, plus more lists of military equipment being described in tediously boring action than you can shake your stick at. It's all stupid, stupid poo poo.
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Illuyankas posted:Oh, this thing. It isn't Fan Wank, it's literal masturbation over the military invading Hell and it's awful. Scenes include Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling the demons 'baldricks' and having that stick as a nickname, Bill Clinton spotting and killing a succubus infiltrator because of his experience thanks to Hillary, demons being killed en mass by tanks, a bunch of marines guard a psychic transgender sub called 'kitten' (explicitly lower case) and learning a valuable lesson about tolerance, soldiers invading hell finding that all aborted babies go there and are eaten as snacks, Julius Caesar making a nation of dead people in the conquered Hell, George Bush being an effective president, Jesus teleporting a bunch of soldiers into God's throne room and killing him, plus more lists of military equipment being described in tediously boring action than you can shake your stick at. It's all stupid, stupid poo poo. Wait, wait, wait Someone liked Gordon Brown?
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corn in the bible posted:Wait, wait, wait The same guy wrote George W. Bush as a skillful manipulator and leader. I don't think he's playing with a full deck.
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Illuyankas posted:a bunch of marines guard a psychic transgender sub called 'kitten' (explicitly lower case) and learning a valuable lesson about tolerance
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Illuyankas posted:[...] Julius Caesar making a nation of dead people in the conquered Hell [...] Jesus teleporting a bunch of soldiers into God's throne room and killing him That sounds stupid as all hell (  ) but that bit about Julius Caesar's personal nation in Hell sounds pretty awesome and could probably be a cool story if it were done competently. History's greatest conquers won't let something like death get in the way of their ambition!And Jesus killing God sounds like something out of an SMT game, maybe he's actually going to be the writer for SMT5?
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Sep 20, 2014 17:18
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Night10194 posted:The same guy wrote George W. Bush as a skillful manipulator and leader. I don't think he's playing with a full deck. The author is a neocon whackjob who looks a little like the Penguin, so it's not that surprising. TSW is all over TV Tropes, but mostly because him and a few sycophants from when the story was on Star Destroyer.net used the site as gigantic, free ad space. Also, not kidding about him looking like the Penguin: 
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Sep 20, 2014 17:45
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Yet more proof that tropers cannot face reality without excessive categorization:Dark and Troubled Past posted:Eminem. The man's life has been hell. This is placed right between an entry on the Elephant Man and an entry on Holocaust survivors. Lighter and Softer: Other posted:Some grandparents are accused of this by their children. Loads And Loads of Characters posted:* At the moment, the total human cast of Real Life has just passed 7 billion. Red Oni, Blue Oni: Real Life posted:Hard drinking, hard fighting Christopher Marlowe was the Red Oni to William Shakespeare's Blue Oni. Same as the above posted:Model company Tamiya has a logo consisting of two white stars; one on a red background, one on a blue background. And indeed, the red star stands for passion and the blue one for precision. Soda companies are people too! posted:Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Coca-Cola has survived by its aggressive and continual marketing campaign and bright, memorable advertisements, is incredibly popular, and is sold in red cans. Pepsi has a much more subtle presence in marketing and is sold in blue cans. On the other hand, Pepsi is totally the Red Oni, in spite of the can color. When their ads do show up, they're all about aggressively taking potshots at Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola's marketing generally involves adorable polar bears quietly enjoying a refreshing Coke. (On that last one: it's generally not a good thing if you change your entire position halfway through a paragraph.)
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Does Pepsi murder union organizers at bottling plants or just coke? Truly, the company that does that gets the anime nickname it so richly deserves.
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I can't help but the old Freep thread title would also be fitting for TVT. TvTropes : There's always more and its always worse.
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Illuyankas posted:Oh, this thing. It isn't Fan Wank, it's literal masturbation over the military invading Hell and it's awful. Scenes include Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling the demons 'baldricks' and having that stick as a nickname, Bill Clinton spotting and killing a succubus infiltrator because of his experience thanks to Hillary, demons being killed en mass by tanks, a bunch of marines guard a psychic transgender sub called 'kitten' (explicitly lower case) and learning a valuable lesson about tolerance, soldiers invading hell finding that all aborted babies go there and are eaten as snacks, Julius Caesar making a nation of dead people in the conquered Hell, George Bush being an effective president, Jesus teleporting a bunch of soldiers into God's throne room and killing him, plus more lists of military equipment being described in tediously boring action than you can shake your stick at. It's all stupid, stupid poo poo. someone needs to tell fplus about this because I demand a dramatic reading of the highlights
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It might take a bit to compile that for them - even just the first "book" is 85 ludicrously long chapters of this nonsense. Probably not a one-goon job.
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Sep 20, 2014 18:38
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The highlight was definitely the author getting fired from his job with a defense contractor because one chapter had some classified information in it, IIRC.
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Whenever anyone asked him about technical stuff he'd cover his rear end by saying "that's classified," even if he'd already put it in the story, so I'd not be surprised. There's also the part where he has the Pope excommunicate God, on the note of highlights.
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Flesnolk posted:Whenever anyone asked him about technical stuff he'd cover his rear end by saying "that's classified," even if he'd already put it in the story, so I'd not be surprised. There's also the part where he has the Pope excommunicate God, on the note of highlights. This is art 
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I even googled it to find the exact excerpt so nobody else would have to dig around for it:quote:It was a relief to be dealing with a normal-sized figure again. “Lugasharmanaska, you can lock in on Deumos’s mind at any time?” Also, even funnier is that the author of this mess turned into kind of a lesson to Fast Eddie about how quickly these internet cults of personality can turn around, but that might be a story for another thread.
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