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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
a drinking game is supposed to kill you by making you down a drink every couple of minutes, right? that's how cool grownups who drink, which i absolutely am one of, have fun, right?

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RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

Annointed posted:

Put one drop of liquor of any choice in a cup of water/tea/coffee/whatever brew you like. Take a drink every time TvTropes made you upset, horrified, or disgusted.

You'd still die of alcohol poisoning.

Hedgehog Pie
May 19, 2012

Total fuckin' silence.

corn in the bible posted:

itd be pretty sad if you had your friends together and all you could think of was to drink while watching the least funny people in the world play videogames for you

Erm, I'll have you know that The Runaway Guys (over 27,000 words in the "main" article alone) are much more worthwhile than losers such as Katherine Mansfield, Raymond Carver and Seamus Heaney (none of whom have TV Tropes articles).

Djeser
Mar 22, 2013


it's crow time again

The way a drinking game works is you have five bajillion rules and no one is allowed to have fun.

The Time Dissolver
Nov 7, 2012

Are you a good person?
If your response to someone delineating a drinking game is to say "That's impossible, you'd get alcohol poisoning or die" then the real troper is you.

Venusian Weasel
Nov 18, 2011

quote:

Doctor Who drinking "game"

gently caress shotglasses just hand me the bottle, I need to keep up with the drinking game.

No one's survived to write the trip report but I imagine the process goes something like this:

Beep boop take a shot beep boop take a shot beep boop taken nshor beep boppp druenkenly posts bebedick comerbath faaffictiojln on tvtrops forms beeep bpp ww this drinkng gme s hard bep bopp dead

Lottery of Babylon
Apr 25, 2012

STRAIGHT TROPIN'

The Time Dissolver posted:

If your response to someone delineating a drinking game is to say "That's impossible, you'd get alcohol poisoning or die" then the real troper is you.

Getting drunk with friends is cool and good.

Writing a 6000-word convoluted rulebook delineating precisely how you would totally get super duper drunk with friends if you had any is not cool and not good.

All incarnations

Every time you spot an animation mistake, drink. WARNING! If you're playing while watching My Little Pony And Friends, we highly recommend that you don't drink anymore than a sip at a time lest you want to end up comatose.
Any time someone breaks into a song, have a drink.
If the characters themselves comment on it, take another drink.
Every time a new character joins the song. If you wish to breathe between shots, it's recommended that you only include named characters that have a solo verse or a duet.
If new pony or accessory is introduced that has no other logical reason to exist other than to sell new toys, have a drink. NOTE: this rule is only in effect IF you know that toy of the character or accessory exists.

My Little Pony Tales

Take a drink whenever someone gets sent to their room.

My Little Pony Friendship Garden

G3/G3. 5 ponies

Take a drink whenever Rainbow Crash says "Dahling".
Take a drink whenever everypony breaks out into song and/or dance.
Take a drink whenever anything that looks like it could be shipping happens.
Take a sip whenever somepony says something corny.

The Runaway Rainbow:
Take a drink whenever Rarity says "That was fun! Let's do it again!"
Take a sip whenever you see a rainbow with pink in it.
Take a sip for every mane color that escaped being washed out.
Two sips if it's one of the four colors of the shooting stars.

A Very Minty Christmas:
Take a drink whenever you see something human-looking.
Take a drink whenever Minty bucks something up, then say "I just don't know what went wrong" or "Oops; my bad" in your best imitation of Derpy's voice.
Take a drink whenever Minty's sock obsession comes up (but slow down during the song).
Take a sip whenever Thistlewhistle whistles.
Take a drink whenever she mentions her fear of clouds.

Generation 3.5
Take a drink whenever you see the words "Once upon a My Little Pony time."
Take a drink when ever a Rainbow appears.
Take 2 drinks when Rainbow Dash appears.
Take a drink every time she talks about her scarf.
Laugh epically at her demise, then drink when Rainbow's scarf falls in the mud.
Take a drink when you see Scootaloo or Sweetie Belle, then: cry in shame (and give a hearty cluck for Scootaloo).
Take a full glass if Pinkie Pie says "Pinkilcious," then sing "Twilightlicous," then drink a shot.
Take a drink whenever footage you know to be from previous episodes is reused (but only sips for Rainbow Dash's Special Day).

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

General:
Take a drink whenever 'pony' is used to replace the suffix '-body'.
Take a drink whenever Celestia speaks.
Raise your glass, then take a drink whenever Celestia saves the day.
Take a drink whenever somepony's mane gets ruined.
Two if it's not Rarity.
Take a drink whenever somepony brohoofs another pony.
Take a drink whenever somepony belches.
Take a drink whenever there's a moment of Getting Crap Past the Radar.
If you find a pony-related video that is less than ten seconds long and has over a hundred thousand views, take a drink for every hundred-thousand.
If the video has over a million views, just down the whole bottle.
Drink two whole bottles if said video is a Kyrospawn video.
Take a drink if a character is voiced by Tabitha St. Germain other than Rarity. Take an additional drink if they turn out to be a Large Ham.
Finish your drink if it's the 'mute' Gravy Tub.
Take a drink whenever you hear a Wilhelm Scream.
Take a drink whenever you hear a Stock Sound Effect.
Two if it's a Hanna-Barbera sound effect.
Finish your drink whenever "My little pony/ponies" is said by anyone.
Take a drink whenever somepony screams.
Take a drink whenever somepony sneezes. (Three's a Crowd doesn't count unless you want to be on the floor.)
Take a drink whenever a rock (or pile of rocks) takes centre-stage in the show. Take another whenever one's likened to a sentient being.

Applejack:
Take a drink whenever she calls somepony 'sugarcube'.
Take a drink whenever she bites somepony's tail.
Take a drink whenever she says something stereotypically Southern.
Take a drink whenever she force feeds someone an apple.
Take a drink whenever she bucks something.
Take a drink whenever she says 'What in Tarnation?'
Take a drink whenever she's missing her hat or her freckles.

Fluttershy:
Take a drink whenever she apologizes.
Take a drink whenever she squeaks or does something similar.
Take a drink whenever she yells.
Take a drink whenever she says 'Um'.
Take two drinks whenever she gets assertive for a change. (Putting Your Hoof Down doesn't count if you value your liver.)
Take a drink whenever you see her interact with animals.

Pinkie Pie:
Take a drink whenever she does something cartoonish, like appearing from impossible locations, eating an entire cake in one bite, etc.
Take a drink whenever she says 'Okey dokey lokey'.
Take a drink whenever she breaks the fourth wall.
Take a drink when she interprets a sarcastic statement or a figure of speech as being sincere.
Take a drink whenever she throws or attends a party.
Take a drink whenever she eats anything.
Take a drink whenever she uses her "Pinkie Sense."
Take a drink whenever she runs her mouth nonstop.

Rainbow Dash:
Take a drink whenever she mentions the Wonderbolts.
Take a drink whenever she knocks somepony over.
Take a drink whenever she says 'cool' or 'awesome'.
Take a drink whenever she leaves behind her rainbow trail when she flies.
Take a drink whenever she uses a cloud for something.
Take another drink if the cloud is abused/destroyed.
Take a drink if the cloud is used on another character.
Take two drinks whenever you see her performing the Sonic Rainboom.

Twilight Sparkle:
Take a drink whenever she uses her magic.
Take two drinks if a spell backfires.
Be careful. Some episodes could cause liver failure just on these alone.
Take a drink whenever she is seen reading a book.
Or if she says "I've been reading about [insert plot-convenient subject here]..."
Take a drink whenever she mentions writing a letter to the princess.
Take a drink whenever she's upset with Spike.
Take a drink whenever she has a Super OCD moment. (Lesson Zero doesn't count unless you already have an ambulance on standby.)

Rarity:
Take a drink whenever she changes outfits.
Take a drink whenever she's disgusted by something.
Take a drink whenever she flicks her hair.
Take a drink if she's shown at her boutique working on something.
Take a drink whenever she starts being a Drama Queen or Large Ham.
Take a drink whenever she calls somepony 'darling'.
Take a drink whenever she has glasses on.

Spike:
Take a drink whenever he fawns over Rarity.
Take a drink whenever he acts as an Audience Surrogate.
Take a drink whenever his tail is utilized in an odd fashion (i.e. as a shovel, jackhammer, etc.)
Take a drink when he is brutally honest.
Take a drink if he breaths fire.
Two drinks if he sends/receives a scroll/s.
Take a drink whenever he takes abuse. (Do not count Just For Sidekicks if you want to live.)
Take a drink whenever someone glares at him for saying or doing something inappropriate.
Take a drink whenever he eats a gemstone.

Cutie Mark Crusaders:
Take a drink whenever they loudly announce their plans.
Take another drink if their plan goes horribly wrong.
Take a drink whenever they excitedly check their flanks, expecting their cutie marks.
When they say something to the effect of "CUTIE MARK CRUSADER <INSERT OCCUPATION HERE>!" you must repeat what they said and take a drink. If you mess up your repetition, you must repeat the process—including the drink—until you get it right.
Take a drink when Sweetie Belle's voice cracks.
Take a drink whenever Sweetie Belle interacts with Rarity.
Take a drink whenever Scootaloo talks about or interacts with Rainbow Dash. (Be very careful with the episodes Cutie Mark Chronicles and Sleepless In Ponyville.)
Take a drink whenever Babs Seed blows her mane out of her eyes.
Take a drink whenever Babs covers her flank with her tail.

Big Macintosh
Take a drink every time he says "Eyup" or "Nope".
Now take a drink for every word he says that isn't one of those two words. (Watch out for the opening of Applebuck Season if you know what's good for you. You're being set up if you're challenged to this one by somebody who then cues Ponyville Confidential or worse, Filli Vanilli. If the latter, be sure you don't get suckered into drinking when it's really Flutterguy talking, and be ready for when AJ makes Mac "explain himself".)
Take a drink every time you see him working on the farm.
Take a drink every time you see him with his relatives.

Shining Armor
Take a drink every time he says "Twily!"
Take a drink every time he's in the same shot as Princess Cadence.

Nightmare Moon:
Take a drink whenever Dramatic Thunder strikes in her presence.
Same for Princess Luna.
Take a drink whenever she laughs or otherwise gets hammy.
Same for Princess Luna. Two drinks for the ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!!
Take a drink whenever you see her as a cloud of energy.

Discord:
Take a drink whenever he rhymes.
Take a drink whenever he snaps his fingers.
Take a drink whenever he mocks the Power of Friendship.
Take a drink whenever he blatantly defies the laws of reality.note
Whenever there's a Foe Yay moment between him and one of the Mane Six ponies, have a drink. Have an ambulance on standby.
His interactions with Twilight alone will pretty much render anyone but the strongest drinkers unconscious.
Take a drink whenever he touches the ponies period, both before and after his Heel-Face Turn.

Queen Chrysalis:
Take a drink whenever she (or another pony) expresses the words "love, love, love."
Take a drink whenever she invades Shining Armor's personal space.
Take a drink whenever she uses magic.
Take a drink whenever she (as Cadence) acts blatantly out of character.
Take a drink whenever everyone else completely dismisses Chrysalis acting out of character as perfectly normal.

King Sombra:
Take a drink whenever he... whenever he makes an appearance, really. Might as well make it a strong one, because that's not very often.
Take a drink whenever he speaks. Again, make it a strong one, since it's a rather rare occurrence.
Take two if he mentions crystals.
Take a drink whenever dark magic is used.
Take two when it's used by the protagonists.
Take a drink if somepony interacts with him.

Lord Tirek:
Take a drink when you see him draining magic.
Take a drink when he uses his own magic.
Down a whole bottle in celebration when he has his awesome battle with Twilight Sparkle.

Background Ponies:
Take a drink whenever Derpy makes an appearance.
In The Last Roundup, take a drink for every line of dialogue that Derpy says.
If you're watching the censored version, either slowly and mournfully drink a whole bottle in the fond memory of the true Derpy or quickly wash down a whole bottle in celebration.
Take a drink every time bronies rejoice over Derpy just being part of a crowd scene like a regular background pony.
Take a drink if you see Lyra jumping up and down.
Take two if you see her sitting like a human.
Eat some candy every time Bon Bon's voice changes, then wash it down with a drink.
Take a double shot whenever Lyra and Bon Bon are seen in the background together.
Take a drink every time Time Turner, formerly known as Doctor Whooves, is seen running.
Take a drink every time you forget that Time Turner's name is Doctor Hooves.
Take a drink every time the Flower Trio say "The Horror, The Horror!"
Take a drink whenever a background pony—or buffalo—does something weird in Return of Harmony II.
Take a drink whenever Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon act bitchy towards the other fillies.
Take two if they act bitchy towards the Crusaders.
Take a drink whenever a changeling transforms on-screen.
Random Fact, if you include the Queen, there are exactly 26 changelings changing onscreen
Take a drink every time you see an alicorn in the background that isn't Twilight or the princesses.

ZeroCount
Aug 12, 2013


on the other hand drinking yourself to death is an adequate reaction to sitting down and watching ponies with your brony pals so maybe theyre onto something here

Cygna
Mar 6, 2009

The ghost of a god is no man.
It's doubly stupid since the only rules you need for an effective Doctor Who drinking game are "take a drink every time somebody a) runs or b) yells 'Doctor!'"

Ninjasaurus
Feb 11, 2014

This is indeed a disturbing universe.
Tropers don't understand the effects of alcohol because they've never tried it. Who are they making these drinking games for, exactly?

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Ninjasaurus posted:

Tropers don't understand the effects of alcohol because they've never tried it. Who are they making these drinking games for, exactly?

Their knowledge and understanding of alcohol and people who drink is comparable, almost identical, to their knowledge and understanding of sex and people who have it.

Hammurabi
Nov 4, 2009

Ninjasaurus posted:

Tropers don't understand the effects of alcohol because they've never tried it. Who are they making these drinking games for, exactly?

You know those alcohol-tasting robots? Like that famous wine-tasting one, or the one in Barcelona that's programmed to be able to distinguish between different types of beer?

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Ninjasaurus posted:

Tropers don't understand the effects of alcohol because they've never tried it. Who are they making these drinking games for, exactly?

Anime cliches who never get drunk and down whiskey and vodka like water.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
troper drinking games are basically just "every time something happens, drink"

Joshlemagne
Mar 6, 2013

Ninjasaurus posted:

I will be sure to include visual novels under the "anime/manga/hentai" umbrella

You're doing the same thing anime fans do and lumping a huge, diverse thing together even when that doesn't really make any sense. Like the thing Darth Walrus posted was pretty much the equivalent of someone saying "I don't see what the fuss is over this late night cinemax softcore show having a graphic rape scene is. I've seen hardcore shock bondage porn that's way worse". Anime fans can't differentiate between kids' shows, prime time dramas, late night sofcore shlock, and hardcore porn.

It's like, imagine there was a group of people in another country who were really into American tv/movies, but they lumped it all under some silly blanket term, let's say Amere. And you decided one day to see what the generally agreed on list of best Amere was and it looked something like:

Baywatch
Avatar: the last airbender
The Wire
Debbie Does Dallas

You would probably be more than a little confused, but that's pretty much how anime fans operate. And that's really dumb. But at the same time, it's silly to take something like Caligula as a condemnation of all American cinema. Basically, be better than anime fans is what I'm trying to say.

corn in the bible posted:

troper drinking games are basically just "every time something happens, drink"

Drinking games are basically poking fun at the tropes a particular thing overuses, so it makes sense that tropers would take that simple concept and do stupid things with it. Kind of like how the site itself was fine until it got taken over by weird obsessives who had to catalog every trope and sub-trope and inverted sub-trope and inverted twice roundabout double reconstructed sub-trope.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Ninjasaurus posted:

Tropers don't understand the effects of alcohol because they've never tried it. Who are they making these drinking games for, exactly?

Judging by previous evidence in this thread, it's more that they're calibrating these games according to their giant, unmanageable alcohol addictions. Remember Mark von Lewis, who boozed so hard and so often that he lost all his teeth?

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Darth Walrus posted:

Judging by previous evidence in this thread, it's more that they're calibrating these games according to their giant, unmanageable alcohol addictions. Remember Mark von Lewis, who boozed so hard and so often that he lost all his teeth?

The ratio of Tropers who are alcoholics compared to the ones who have weird hangups about alcohol but have never actually imbibed any is like, 1:1000 or something. The guy you mentioned, DrunkScriblerian, and DrunkGirlfriend are the only out-and-out alcoholics I'm vaguely certain of. The rest are alcohol virgins with all of the weird obsessing and glorifying and misunderstandings that go along with it.

Puppy Time
Mar 1, 2005


It's probably just the same problem with their other lists, where people see a list and go, "Aha! They are missing this one thing! I will add it!" and then a game to get people tipsy turns into suicide by alcohol because including everything matters more than the original reason for the list.

Ninjasaurus
Feb 11, 2014

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

Joshlemagne posted:

You're doing the same thing anime fans do and lumping a huge, diverse thing together even when that doesn't really make any sense. Like the thing Darth Walrus posted was pretty much the equivalent of someone saying "I don't see what the fuss is over this late night cinemax softcore show having a graphic rape scene is. I've seen hardcore shock bondage porn that's way worse". Anime fans can't differentiate between kids' shows, prime time dramas, late night sofcore shlock, and hardcore porn.

It's like, imagine there was a group of people in another country who were really into American tv/movies, but they lumped it all under some silly blanket term, let's say Amere. And you decided one day to see what the generally agreed on list of best Amere was and it looked something like:

Baywatch
Avatar: the last airbender
The Wire
Debbie Does Dallas

You would probably be more than a little confused, but that's pretty much how anime fans operate. And that's really dumb. But at the same time, it's silly to take something like Caligula as a condemnation of all American cinema. Basically, be better than anime fans is what I'm trying to say.

Just to reassure you, I'm not actually an idiot or completely ignorant about anime. I thought it was pretty clear I was exaggerating for effect. I haven't seen much anime that I've liked (or much at all, now that I think about it) but I recognize the differences between Studio Ghibli and Violent Rape Visual Novel and Panty Shot Magical Girl Squad and Giant Robots Transform shows.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
If your drinking game can accurately be summed up as "Everyone drinks every 10 seconds, while also watching show/movie X I guess", just get drunk and watch the show/movie with your friends without attaching a dumb game to it, you'll have more fun.

Stottie Kyek
Apr 26, 2008

fuckin egg in a bun
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SassyBlackWoman

quote:

The odds that she's a Fag Hag are directly proportionate to her weight. Arguably the Distaff Counterpart to the Scary Black Man, though she can be quite scary herself when pissed off. Might also be a white character's Black Best Friend. Close cousin to the Spicy Latina.

There is a variation on this, more subdued but no less expressive: the regal Deadpan Snarker, who will often be well-spoken and articulate, with a more highbrow vocabulary and a regal, imperious manner of expressing herself, but still willing to toss subtle (or unsubtle) barbs and make herself heard. Perhaps the best known of this "African Queen" variation is the X-Man Storm.

And the examples are labelled "Strong, Independent Examples That Don't Need No Trope! *snap*" :negative:

BlueDude
Aug 7, 2014
This thread needs a drinking game. Here, I'll start:

Take one shot every time Lottery of Babylon posts something really loving long.

Murderion
Oct 4, 2009

2019. New York is in ruins. The global economy is spiralling. Cyborgs rule over poisoned wastes.

The only time that's left is
FUN TIME

Ninjasaurus posted:

Tropers don't understand the effects of alcohol because they've never tried it. Who are they making these drinking games for, exactly?

That game would kill you if you're drinking water, so...

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
law and order svu is about cops who arrest pedophiles and rapists



Magnificent Bastard: Darius Parker or Fin's stepson. Not only does he commit one of the most heinous crimes described on SVU by murdering a woman, raping her with his KNIFE, and then burying her 14-month-old son alive, but he walks, even after confessing to the crime. How? first he mentions that he has an upcoming burglary case before he confesses to the crime while waving his right to counsel. However, because he mentions his upcoming case, it is implied that he should have counsel present, making his confession and the bodies discovered by that confession inadmissible in court. He then goes to trial and picks apart the prosecution's case while airing Fin and Stabler's dirty laundry, getting the Judge recused from the case by mention the DUI of Stabler's daughter, and getting his mother to reveal that she hates him because he was the child of her rape(by his grandfather/father).

The Magnificent Bastard is what happens when you combine The Chessmaster, The Trickster, and the Manipulative Bastard: bold, charismatic, independent, and audacious. Capturing the audience with their charisma, incredible intellect, mastery of manipulation, and boldness of action, this character is a show-stealer, demanding your reverence at every turn.

hes the most handsome and charismatic knife-raping child-murderer ever *gigglesquee* hes so hot






also
Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Although the show usually takes pains to point out that these crimes are horrific and carry devastating consequences, many critics have nevertheless pointed out that there is also a tendency for the show to get a lot of lurid and sensationalist entertainment mileage out of them as well.

dont do the cool things, like running an underage rape cult

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

BlueDude posted:

This thread needs a drinking game. Here, I'll start:

Take one shot every time Lottery of Babylon posts something really loving long.

That's like 10 or 20 shots? Still better than troper's drinking game rules of "everything, drink".

Djeser
Mar 22, 2013


it's crow time again

TVT Thread drinking game:
drink until you forget

BlueDude
Aug 7, 2014

corn in the bible posted:

itd be pretty sad if you had your friends together and all you could think of was to drink while watching the least funny people in the world play videogames for you

Speaking of which:

YMMV/NintendoCapriSun posted:

One True Pairing: Just about everybody that knows both him and Lucahjin often support both of them hooking up.

YMMV/Chuggaaconroy posted:

Fan-Preferred Couple:

* Some of his fans think he and female LPer MasaeAnela would be adorable together. They even call her a female version of him.
* Who was Chugga's partner during The Runaway Guys' Mario Kart: Double Dash!! tournament? MasaeAnela. The commenters went crazy.
* It also doesn't help that Masae is often hanging out with Chugga at his home, as seen in Stephen Georg and NintendoCapriSun's vlogs.
* Chugga visited her town in his Animal Crossing: New Leaf LP. The commenters went crazy...again. It even got to the point that when Chuggaa said he had a very special announcement (which turned out to be that Amelia was living in Masae's town), many people thought it was gonna be that they were together.

ProtonJon has never had it better.

Joshlemagne
Mar 6, 2013

Ninjasaurus posted:

Just to reassure you, I'm not actually an idiot or completely ignorant about anime. I thought it was pretty clear I was exaggerating for effect. I haven't seen much anime that I've liked (or much at all, now that I think about it) but I recognize the differences between Studio Ghibli and Violent Rape Visual Novel and Panty Shot Magical Girl Squad and Giant Robots Transform shows.

Oh no doubt. But there are a lot of people who come to the conclusion that all anime is bad forever after being exposed to any amount of anime fans. Which is honestly a perfectly reasonable reaction. It's the one time when a person is more likely to encounter the terrible fandom before the thing itself. I think if people were exposed to "gamer culture" or trekkies before they ever played a video game or saw an episode of Star Trek they would probably think those things were terrible and want to burn them to the ground too.

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Every time you see a drinking game with too many rules on TV Tropes, take a drink.

Tracula
Mar 26, 2010

PLEASE LEAVE

Djeser posted:

TVT Thread drinking game:
drink until you forget

This seems like a pretty good thread title.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Turns out that the freaks aren't contained to just TvTropes!

Someone defending Cross Ange posted:

Just saw the 2nd episode...wow they're really going full lesbian with this. The character design has to be some of the beautiful I have seen, it looks like an art piece (where the artist has put lots of work into the faces/eyes/hair) except fully animated. Especially the hair which looks amazing on all characters. I can only hope they keep up the visual quality.

My only gripe with this show is that so far it seems to be containing themes begging for full "proper" nudity, but I'm betting the creators can't do it because it would impose big limitations on when/where it can be broadcast (age restrictions etc). So they have to make do with coming as close to nudity as possible and basically teasing. drat shame since the fanservice is easily this show's biggest asset so far (combined with visuals).

I'm not even going to bother "analysing" the plot or characters because this is one of those shows where it's a complete waste of time trying to think about what is going on in it. Completely pointless. That much was obvious right from the get-go. It's a shameless fanservice show, and the only thing that saddens me is that they can't go all-out with the main thing they're going for.

Found this on The Escapist, that so called bastion of sophistication on the Internet.

Chromius
Aug 5, 2014

Stays shiny, even in milk.
Seems like Cross Ange is the type of show that tropers would want to make except that it would be a really really boring 'epic' 7 part fanfic series and the characters would all be like 5 years younger than they are in the anime.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Arcsquad12 posted:

The Escapist, that so called bastion of sophistication
By whom? Serious question.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Sham bam bamina! posted:

By whom? Serious question.

Whom as in "which idiot poster" or as in "who the gently caress calls the Escapist that?"

Because the first is someone called Aaron Sylvester, while the second is the majority of the users on the website.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
So the TVTropes Cross Ange thread got even worse, and has now been locked. If you want to go fishing for toxic levels of :tvtropes:, you can dip your toe in them waters.

Gimnbo
Feb 13, 2012

e m b r a c e
t r a n q u i l i t y



Darth Walrus posted:

So the TVTropes Cross Ange thread got even worse, and has now been locked. If you want to go fishing for toxic levels of :tvtropes:, you can dip your toe in them waters.

quote:

As no one in this thread can talk about anything but rape, it is being locked.

Political Whores
Feb 13, 2012

From Wikipedia

quote:

The series is set in an utopia generated through Mana. It focuses on first princess of the Misurugi Empire, Angelize Ikaruga Misurugi. She was celebrated by the people of the empire, and was supposed to wear the crown. However, the shocking truth is that she is a Norma: an irregular existence that cannot use Mana, and are treated as heretics and as "things" rather than people. She is exiled to a remote island where she instead meets a group of Norma girls who know nothing but battle. The girls spend their days riding humanoid robot weapons called "Paramail" hunting giant dragons that have come from another dimension to invade.

:psyduck:

Testekill
Nov 1, 2012

I demand to be taken seriously

:aronrex:

Political Whores posted:

From Wikipedia


:psyduck:

They wisely don't mention all the rapey themes and elements. Jay O summed up the first two episodes in the Internet Critics thread and she could not be more negative of them if she could.

Ron Paul Atreides
Apr 19, 2012

Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

Political Whores posted:

From Wikipedia


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Thos reads exactly like what a Troper would pen if they ever actually bothered to write

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Ninjasaurus
Feb 11, 2014

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

Testekill posted:

They wisely don't mention all the rapey themes and elements. Jay O summed up the first two episodes in the Internet Critics thread and she could not be more negative of them if she could.

Where can I find this Internet Critics thread?

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