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Don Gato posted:graphic tape and violence
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Samurai Quack posted:Ugh, gently caress you Japan Come on, that's pretty racist. There's plenty of weird stuff in every country.
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Sep 22, 2014 12:38
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Christ I'm sorry I asked. Everyone shut the gently caress up about gamesgate or I'll repost every last word of My Little Galtse. Ascended fridge horror? What?
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Sep 22, 2014 12:42
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Kurtofan posted:Ascended fridge horror? What? My great memory for stupid bullshit allows me to tell you that "Fridge Horror" means realizing the terrifying implications of something that happened in a story after finishing it, IE while you're getting a snack from the fridge. Ascended Fridge Horror would thus be a new installment of that story acknowledging that implication within the story itself. Aren't you glad you know that now? I sure ashoafkblrh;ffff
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Sep 22, 2014 12:45
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Secret AI moves. You can probably guess but it has to do with moves the AI can use, but when a character is controlled by you you are unable to do them. Usually due to balancing.what posted:An interesting aversion/subversion of this trope occurs in MK 9: Shao Kahn is not playable in the game, yet he has a complete moveset programmed into the game. If he WERE to be made playable, all of his AI moves would be perfectly in tact. quote:In Bioshock, enemies with guns could melee you with their weapons while the only weapon you had with a melee attack was the wrench. BioShock 2 fixes this, letting you melee with any weapon, although the drill does the most melee damage. In both games, the enemies can throw grenades at random, where you are only allowed to do so when using the Launcher.  How is this an example?
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Sep 22, 2014 14:02
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Darth TNT posted:But the drill is the equivalent of the wrench? Not only that, you can't control the splicers. The "secret ai move" is the AI hitting you with their guns as melee weapons in Bioshock 1, something the player cannot presumably do. Of course, the troper who wrote that has no idea how to effectively convey information in a concise manner, so they just have a bout of word diarrhea and cannot stop writing about video games.
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Sep 22, 2014 14:15
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Darth TNT posted:Secret AI moves. You can probably guess but it has to do with moves the AI can use, but when a character is controlled by you you are unable to do them. Usually due to balancing. No, it's that he's in the game as an AI-only character, but the game's files contain player-inputtable commands for his moves. So as is, you can't use any of his moves because he's an AI-only boss character, but the functionality exists in the game for you to do so without having any of the moves the AI can use locked off.
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Sep 22, 2014 14:30
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Robert Downey Junior likes to ship all of his characters with another male character and certainly has no problems flirting and kissing guys (which hilariously means in Iron Man has got with Batman and Spiderman). The Ho Yay in the Sherlock Holmes films almost goes off the chart - and his real life relationship with Jude Law is the same - claims Tony Stark and Steve Rogers get married after the film etc
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Sep 22, 2014 16:30
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All I took from that is "people who ship real people are the scum of the earth".
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Sep 22, 2014 16:36
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People who ship cartoon characters tend to be insufferable and creepy enough as is.
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Sep 22, 2014 18:52
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HMS Boromir posted:My great memory for stupid bullshit allows me to tell you that "Fridge Horror" means realizing the terrifying implications of something that happened in a story after finishing it, IE while you're getting a snack from the fridge. Ascended Fridge Horror would thus be a new installment of that story acknowledging that implication within the story itself. Oh so it's like esprit d'escalier but ++dumb Also tropers should be kept in a fridge
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Sep 22, 2014 20:26
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sweeperbravo posted:Oh so it's like esprit d'escalier but ++dumb Well, the concept of "fridge Horror"; That you read a story/watch a show/play a game, and all is well, and then as you're off doing something else afterwords you suddenly realize something very unsettling about the book/show/game, isn't a dumb thing itself. It's just tropers think any made up grimderk bullshit they inject into the show to make it SO DEEP is "fridge horror".
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Sep 22, 2014 21:54
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I've been going through the Comedy Bang Bang tv series on Netflix and I realized that the Getting Crap Past The Radar page is basically this guy.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I've been going through the Comedy Bang Bang tv series on Netflix and I realized that the Getting Crap Past The Radar page is basically this guy. Is that the guy who voiced Kelly in the "Behind the Pen" shorts that The Onion produced? He's a dead ringer. E: link to example Wales Grey fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 03:04
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Wales Grey posted:Is that the guy who voiced Kelly in the "Behind the Pen" shorts that The Onion produced? He's a dead ringer. I thought that was Andrew Daly (from Review and one season of MADtv).
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Sep 23, 2014 19:38
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I should read Derrida one of these days.
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Sep 23, 2014 21:41
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Penny Paper posted:I thought that was Andrew Daly (from Review and one season of MADtv). It is Andy Daly who I don't think voiced Stan Kelly.
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Sep 23, 2014 22:23
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HapiMerchant posted:Well, the concept of "fridge Horror"; That you read a story/watch a show/play a game, and all is well, and then as you're off doing something else afterwords you suddenly realize something very unsettling about the book/show/game, isn't a dumb thing itself. Yeah, stupid name aside, Fridge Horror is basically what all those Cracked "8 Movies That Were Darker Than You Realized" or whatever articles are. Things like "Remember the celebrations at the end of Return of the Jedi? Those Ewoks better party down while they still can, because all of the debris from the second Death Star will be attracted by the forest moon of Endor's gravitational field and lead to the mother of all meteor showers, killing every last Ewok." Thought experiments like that can be fun, the Tropers just take it too far by basically turning that into their canonical way that Return of the Jedi would end.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:27
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There was an Expanded Universe novel that explained that some debris did hit Endor, but most of it was sucked into oblivion when DS2's hyperdrive activated during the explosion. Stupid explanation for something that didn't need to be explained.
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Sep 25, 2014 19:11
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Arcsquad12 posted:Stupid explanation for something that didn't need to be explained.
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Sep 25, 2014 19:23
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quote:Life is hard for straight actors who play gay roles. Every interviewer will insist on asking them if the love scenes (or more often, kissing scenes) were difficult to play. If they say yes, they risk undermining the role, and sometimes the interview will attempt to frame this as homophobia. If they say no, this may be inferred as coming out, and will certainly start (or fuel) rumors. If they try to Take a Third Option it may be seen as a cop-out. Poor straight actors. Will their hardships ever end.
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Sep 25, 2014 22:24
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WickedHate posted:Poor straight actors. Will their hardships ever end. Which trope page is this from?
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Ninjasaurus posted:Which trope page is this from? Undermined By Reality.
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I forgot which movie it was (maybe Brokeback mountain?) but I remember once when an actor playing a gay/lesbian in some movie got annoyed at those questions. It ended up with him pretty much going "I act like I am in love, just like any other role; now can we talk about the actual movie"
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Sep 25, 2014 23:34
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It's more the troper's attitude about it, like it's a real distressing Scylla and Charybdis situation for the actor personally, and not just an annoying thing interviewers focus on.
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Sep 26, 2014 02:07
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HMS Boromir posted:My great memory for stupid bullshit allows me to tell you that "Fridge Horror" means realizing the terrifying implications of something that happened in a story after finishing it, IE while you're getting a snack from the fridge. Ascended Fridge Horror would thus be a new installment of that story acknowledging that implication within the story itself. Fridge Horror is present only in the darkest and most terrifying of fiction, such as Winnie The Pooh posted:A bit of both Fridge Brilliance and Fridge Horror (but mostly the latter)-the reason why some of the characters act as they are is because they represent psychological illnesses: Pooh represents eating disorder, Piglet represents generalized anxiety disorder, Rabbit represents OCD, Eyeore represents major depression, Tigger represents ADHD, and Christopher Robin represents schizophrenia. (Emphasis theirs)
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Sep 26, 2014 02:32
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OK the rest I...almost can see what angle they're TRYING to come from. Like, they're forcing it as hard as possible but still. The gently caress does that last one imply? Is Roo Toy Jesus and they think that's horrifying?
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Sep 26, 2014 02:48
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Fridge Horror is present only in the darkest and most terrifying of fiction, such as I take it they copy pasted it from Postmodern Pooh or Pooh Perplex? E: Nah Tropers aren't even good enough to make something like what I heard those books were about.
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Sep 26, 2014 03:48
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Some people like to look at silly things and extrapolate incredibly complicated things from them because it's amusing, a form of mental masturbation. Some people do it and think they've discovered the great secret truth hidden in the work and they're oh so brilliant for it. Guess which group Tropers are in.
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Sep 26, 2014 05:55
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Secret group C: "discovering" the hidden dark meaning of a work while physically masturbating.
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Sep 26, 2014 06:00
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That "Winnie the Pooh characters represent mental disorders!" thing is way older than Tropers. I remember hearing it back in the 90s, pretty often.
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quote:In 2003, Marvel tried to get a lower import tax rate on their X-Men action figures by claiming that they were not dolls, but toys. U.S. tariff laws defined a "doll" as a figure representing a human, while a "toy" represents an animal or creature. So in summation, the crux of Marvel's argument was that the X-Men are not human, which directly opposes the main Aesop of the X-Men series. The judge ruled in their favour. I'm pretty sure this was copied out of one of my Econ textbooks aside from the trope shoehorned in explaining the joke.
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Unlikely. Tropers think textbooks are for eating.
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Sep 26, 2014 08:20
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AngryRobotsInc posted:That "Winnie the Pooh characters represent mental disorders!" thing is way older than Tropers. I remember hearing it back in the 90s, pretty often. The weird thing is that Winnie the Pooh predates most of those diagnoses iirc, so it makes double nonsense (  )
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Sep 26, 2014 17:13
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brocretin posted:The weird thing is that Winnie the Pooh predates most of those diagnoses iirc, so it makes double nonsense Man don't you know that Death of the Author means that a work can be about anything at all, even things the actual creator couldn't possibly have been writing about?
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brocretin posted:The weird thing is that Winnie the Pooh predates most of those diagnoses iirc, so it makes double nonsense Yo man did u know that if u watch the Lion King it says Sex in a cloud? I kno right pretty sick they show that to kids
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Looked up a rather awful cartoon called Ripping Friends. The trope page had this helpful tidbit.quote:Artistic License: Biology: No, there's no such thing as a fart gland. 
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brocretin posted:The weird thing is that Winnie the Pooh predates most of those diagnoses iirc, so it makes double nonsense AngryRobotsInc posted:That "Winnie the Pooh characters represent mental disorders!" thing is way older than Tropers. I remember hearing it back in the 90s, pretty often. 
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fade5 posted:shell shock in WW1 is similar/a part of what's called PTSD today Wasn't Ulysses S. Grant famously afflicted with severe PTSD? He would go into his tent and cry before battles, and couldn't eat rare meat, IIRC.
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This just in, cartoon characters aren't fully realized human beings, but are in fact caricatures and will often have exaggerated traits for comedic effect.
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