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Wales Grey posted:I disagree. They're clearly thinking about the shows they're watching, they're just not drawing any conclusions from their thoughts that are meaningful outside "this happens sometimes". Their refusal to seriously or rigorously analyze the media they consume is a side effect of their site's obsession with collecting and pinning down story elements; they want to curate, not critique. What meaningful conclusion could there be? It's art. It not like physics or engineering. It's simple. The more tropes, the better it is. That's why intellectual stuff like Dark Eldar: Path of the Incubus or Sora no Otoshimono will always be better than boring stuff like Intruder in the Dust or Love in the Time of Cholera. Geez. It's like when my Ms. Rehnquist wouldn't let me and my Nakama do the D&D Monster Manual for our book reports. So I gave her a Hannibal Lecture, and she sent me to the office. Now my step-mom says I'm grounded. Gawd, Pam, you're not my real mom!
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Swan Oat posted:National Novel Writing Month starts in like three days! Looking forward to the annual rush of "All right, time to work on my NaNo!" followed by one chapter of lovely fanfiction, followed a week later by "I'm so far behind, I should really be working on my NaNo," followed by total silence.
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Ratspeaker posted:Looking forward to the annual rush of "All right, time to work on my NaNo!" followed by one chapter of lovely fanfiction, followed a week later by "I'm so far behind, I should really be working on my NaNo," followed by total silence. Maybe we'll get lucky and an actual master piece will be written. 
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Maybe this will be the year someone just copy/pastes the John Galt speech into their Steampunk novel to boost the wordcount.
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Soulcleaver posted:I miss CrazyGoggs. I'll still watch their videos from time to time.
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Swan Oat posted:National Novel Writing Month starts in like three days! Wait, is that what NaNoWriMo stands for? Man, I was way off.
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Chromius posted:Same here. It's been almost two years since that Chris-chan troll posted anything on that channel and yet Farewell CrazyGoggs, he sacrificed his sanity in the abyss that is TVTropes for our entertainment 
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Alien Arcana posted:Wait, is that what NaNoWriMo stands for? Man, I was way off. I don't blame you; even after having it explained to me, I still assume it must be some pseudo-childporn anime because 
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I'm kind of surprised that TVTropes of all places is the first place you guys heard of NaNoWriMo from. I'd heard of it when I was 13, and I'm 20 now so it predates TvTropes by quite a while I'd guess. FrankenVonVogler fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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It does, but I also know for a fact TVTropes has been around for more than seven years.
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Current featured article: Sonic: After The Sequel, a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame. Oh, wait, that's wikipedia, not tvtropes.
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Tunicate posted:Current featured article: Sonic: After The Sequel, a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame.
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I clicked the 'random' button on TvTropes today, just to see what would happen. After 3 repeats of the main page, I got this 'charming' thing deposited onto my monitor. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlirtyStepsiblingsquote:Since the instinctive biological aversion to mating with a sibling or childhood friend is highly dependent on actually being raised in close proximity to said sibling/childhood friend, this can be Truth in Television for many 'siblings' whose parents married during or after their puberty, though they rarely end up becoming an official couple due to social factors. So, how's that family-friendly thing going, hmm?
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Sel Nar posted:I clicked the 'random' button on TvTropes today, just to see what would happen. After 3 repeats of the main page, I got this 'charming' thing deposited onto my monitor. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlirtyStepsiblings That's probably what they think "family-friendly" means.
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Penny Paper posted:That's probably what they think "family-friendly" means.  All censorship is bad and evil, and this includes omitting something purely for the purpose of good taste. I'm sure most Tropers would feel indignantly righteous if you told them not to wear an anime tshirt to a funeral.
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sweeperbravo posted:All censorship is bad and evil, and this includes omitting something purely for the purpose of good taste. It's the weirdest loving thing. On the one hand, they will go on and on about their pedo, rape, incest, or whatever bizarre fetish they have and no one bats an eye. "I can't ignore this! But at the same time, you can't say that Eiken is poo poo, because their loving homepage posted:We are also not a wiki for bashing things. Once again, we're about celebrating fiction, not showing off how snide and sarcastic we can be. It's not about showing off how snide and sarcastic they can be. It's about how loving sick and socially retarded they can be. And I'm pretty sure that "celebrating" is said with a wink and a nudge.
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Build Your Own Boat posted:It's not about showing off how snide and sarcastic they can be. Snarkiness, however, is permissible if not encouraged.
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CoolZidane posted:Snarkiness, however, is permissible if not encouraged.
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Elysiume posted:Only if you're deadpan. Deadpan Snarker: Web Comics posted:Not that they seem to particularly understand what "deadpan" means.
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Hammurabi posted:Not that they seem to particularly understand what "deadpan" means. I mean it's basically like saying "really" or "ultra" snarky, rigth?????
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Ratspeaker posted:Looking forward to the annual rush of "All right, time to work on my NaNo!" followed by one chapter of lovely fanfiction, followed a week later by "I'm so far behind, I should really be working on my NaNo," followed by total silence. That's if we're lucky. If we're unlucky, Mills College Anime Club Part II.
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Snarking is the Ties that Bind
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Now that it's November and NaNoWriMo is starting up we're probably going to see a lot more terrible troper... uhm... tfiction... and I for one can't wait!
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WELCOME TO HELL
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Spanish Manlove posted:WELCOME TO HELL B-but I just got out of Hell.
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wow this poo poo is still going on
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Nov 2, 2014 21:44
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This thread feels... different... i think that im... gay
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watho posted:This thread feels... different... i think that im... same
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no! no! noooooo!
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i heard that one of the worst things about tv tropes is that one of its members wore a trenchcoat that did not fit
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Think The Highlander with a rust colored pedostache
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watho posted:Now that it's November and NaNoWriMo is starting up we're probably going to see a lot more terrible troper... uhm... tfiction... and I for one can't wait!
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glad i can post in this thread again
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Sober posted:first drafts are kinda low hanging fruit though 1. No troper has ever written a second draft because that would be disingenuous to their first draft and would imply that they aren't brilliant misunderstood geniuses 2. Most tropers have never even written a first draft either
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hello I have not read 210 pages of this thread, but from what I understand it's a bunch of fat goons critiquing other fat idiots from another website in order to feel better about their poo poo lives is this more or less correct ? thx
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Don Tacorleone posted:hello hosed up if true.
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Don Tacorleone posted:hello Some of it is just mockery for the sake of it. Lots of pedobullshit too. That's always good to laugh at.
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Don Tacorleone posted:hello get out of here stalker! get out of here stalker! get out of here stalker!
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