Furia posted:

Because in their animes sociopathy is lighthearted and accepted and a trait of genius or something

I'll never quite grasp when or why being a broken person became/is cool

sweeperbravo posted:

the phrase "Refuge in Audacity" springs to mind and then i looked it up and it's a Trope

I guess it must be one of the vanishingly few useful ones. Have you met people in your life who were so socially marginalized that they've given up even paying lip service to fitting in, and actively try to alienate themselves further by being deliberately unbearable? Through various means they sometimes find one another, assure each other "you're perfect exactly as you are! we are outsiders!" and reinforce the behavior through one of the geek social fallacies, and are convinced they've "won" the game against those jock popular kids, like they've cracked the code. The tvtropes website for very obvious reasons became a hotbed for folks like this, whose primary means of interpersonal interaction is online dialogue with other vengeful marginalized nerds.

Khazar-khum posted:

Fedora

Khazar-khum posted:

dirksteadfast posted:

Of all the Troper Tales that have been posted, this is the most mundane. This would be only mildly interested even as it was happening.

Recently found out my brother frequents TV Tropes. He actually is autistic and I can completely imagine him writing some of these (no skull bashing though).

Kajeesus posted:

Plenty of tropes are viable literary analysis/social commentary. The site lasted a decently long time before anime boob charts and insular pedo communities scared everyone away.

Kajeesus posted:

anime boob charts and insular pedo communities

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Proving that I am an extreme dork, I once showed up at an audition that was being run by several of my theater friends for a student-produced show. I had signed up near the end of the day, and I realized they were probably really tired and felt like going home. So not knowing what else to sing, and figuring they could at least use a laugh, when I got up in front of them to sing, I pulled out my cell phone, opened my music files, turned on Never Gonna Give You Up, and proceeded to Rickroll the auditioners. Granted, I probably wouldn't have gotten away with it if I hadn't known them pretty well, but it got me one of the lead roles, so I'm not complaining. Hopefully, I will have the balls to do this to real professional auditioners one day.

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This troper has two moments that she considers to be the highest points of awesome in her life.
At an anime convention in her state a few years ago, she went up to Yoshitaka Amano after his panel, and while he was signing an artbook for her, asked him - personally, in coherent and socially-correct Japanese - if he would please look at some art from her sketchbook. He agreed, and offered a few comments. While this troper's listening comprehension has always been poo poo when comes to Japanese and she has no idea what he actually told her, she drat well understood when he took one look at one of her pictures and said "Ah, sugoi!" She more or less idolizes the man, and lived off that compliment for a week.
This one might actually be a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming instead. Having just started working at Disney World on the Disney College Program, this troper spent a day off at Epcot for fun and souvenirs. She is magpie-like when it comes to swag, and was especially bad about the enamel pins they sell. At the end of the day, she went back to the monorail to return, and ended up sitting on a bench with a boy sporting a Give Kids the World badge. Normally, this troper would have been too shy and awkward to say anything. This night, high on Disney and very mindful of her excessive pile of swag and her duties as a Cast Member, she reached into her bags, pulled out a box of pins, and handed one over to him as a present. She introduced herself, they shook hands, and while they didn't really talk after that, this troper saw him turning the pin over and over in his hands for a long time afterwards, looking at it from every angle. She had a warm fuzzy feeling the whole way home. That was the moment when she first really felt she was getting what it meant to be a Disney Cast Member. (The capstone to the whole experience was when, coming off the monorail, she looked down and saw her shadow... which had sprouted a pair of Mickey Mouse ears. She had forgotten she was wearing one of those Mickey-ear hats. It felt like being given a merit badge.)

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Same troper as above's father also once flushed a flying squirrel down a toilet. Yeah, we have trouble with squirrels. Oh, and the father also hitchhiked in the mountains of Turkey on a logging truck, riding the logs. And shot a homemade flintlock. And accidentally (and unexpectedly) converted a 1911 semiautomatic military shotgun to full automatic during a hunting trip.

Boywhiz88 posted:

Photo of a card left at a memorial for Philando Castile




Maybe it's reading this thread too long but this feels like a fake.

Samizdata posted:

Not so much. The misspellings are far too cutesy (and legible enough to allow any reader to make them out) as is the art style. All of which is too cutesy for reality.

Overall, I just think it was someone trying to make a point about the unexpected consequences of police shootings.

Done badly.

Khazar-khum posted:

Dear Police

Whenever you shoot someone, memes spontaneously explode all over social media and clutter the place up with fake maudlin crap. So please stop shooting people.

Yours,

The Internet

Khazar-khum posted:

Dear Police

Whenever you shoot someone, memes spontaneously explode all over social media and clutter the place up with fake maudlin crap. So please stop shooting people.

Yours,

The Internet

Khazar-khum posted:

Audition

Khazar-khum posted:

sweeperbravo posted:

Can't wait for the rest of the inevitable Pokemon Go stdh to start bubbling out. "I met someone who is [demographic], and to my surprise, they also play pokemon! We are not all so different after all"

Khazar-khum posted:

Flintlock

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Same troper as above's father also once flushed a flying squirrel down a toilet. Yeah, we have trouble with squirrels. Oh, and the father also hitchhiked in the mountains of Turkey on a logging truck, riding the logs. And shot a homemade flintlock. And accidentally (and unexpectedly) converted a 1911 semiautomatic military shotgun to full automatic during a hunting trip.

Tunicate posted:

Noyemi K posted:

A 1911 isn't a shotgun, it's a semiautomatic pistol. Those can't "accidentally" be converted to full automatic.

Tunicate posted:

Tunicate posted:

sweeperbravo posted:

Can't wait for the rest of the inevitable Pokemon Go stdh to start bubbling out. "I met someone who is [demographic], and to my surprise, they also play pokemon! We are not all so different after all"

ElGroucho posted:

"And them we started suckin' each others dicks, because who the gently caress else goes walking around a park at night around 3 AM except the extraordinarily horny"

goose fleet posted:

hogmartin posted:

There is a Remington Model 11 semi-auto shotgun though. Except once we start trying to devil's-adovcate STDH then we all lose so pretend I didn't say that.

DorkusMalorkus posted:

Like this classic bullshit that's been floating around the internet for years, and goes to the front page of Imgur like every drat week

davidspackage posted:

Dude in the 3 am walk story told the guys on the bench how he got an Evee. Is this just a continuing story of a white kid living and learning about Pokemon as he encounters Magical Negroes?

davidspackage posted:

Dude in the 3 am walk story told the guys on the bench how he got an Evee. Is this just a continuing story of a white kid living and learning about Pokemon as he encounters Magical Negroes?

Postal Parcel posted:

That(3DS) is the prequel. Now, 20+ years later, older and "wiser" he once again meets a new black generation to "play" pokemon with while simultaneously being terrified.
KEEP IT REAL

Paladinus posted:

Ah, so that's the difference between Pokemon Black and White.

Fezz posted:

Can't even keep her story straight across two paragraphs. Is she looking for water Pokémon or is she looking for a Ghastly?