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Furia posted:Because in their animes sociopathy is lighthearted and accepted and a trait of genius or something 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.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 16:01 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 14:57 |
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I'm pretty fond of the use of the phrase "bashing his skull" for an assault that was almost certainly more "bonking him on the head."
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 19:20 |
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sweeperbravo posted:the phrase "Refuge in Audacity" springs to mind and then i looked it up and it's a Trope 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.
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 19:57 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Fedora 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).
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 20:50 |
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# ? Jul 8, 2016 23:13 |
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Fake edit: can you cut off contact with someone who doesn't exist?
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 00:04 |
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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. The ones like this where they probably happened, but are also literally the least interesting story anyone could ever tell, are the saddest.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 00:26 |
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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. Good point.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 00:35 |
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Kajeesus posted:anime boob charts and insular pedo communities Why are these phrases that have to exist
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 03:54 |
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Auditionquote: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. Sugoi quote:This troper has two moments that she considers to be the highest points of awesome in her life. Flintlock quote: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.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:08 |
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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.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 05:40 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:Photo of a card left at a memorial for Philando Castile 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.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 06:28 |
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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. 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
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 07:11 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Dear Police Christ, reality has become an Onion article, hasn't it?
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 07:51 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Dear Police Can you imagine a world in which nothing is meme-worthy?
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 07:55 |
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Khazar-khum posted:Audition poo poo that did happen: my high school's theater kids did a send off of the departing theater director by Rickrolling the audience at the final performance of that year's play. This was three years after the height of Rickrolling. I still cringe when thinking about it.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 14:54 |
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"Shhh, mom it's the long con."
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 15:33 |
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 19:47 |
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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"
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 19:54 |
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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" It's gotta be between a black man and a cop. It's just tone deaf enough to be perfect.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 20:41 |
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 21:02 |
Khazar-khum posted:Flintlock A 1911 isn't a shotgun, it's a semiautomatic pistol. Those can't "accidentally" be converted to full automatic.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 21:36 |
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JK. Maybe I saw this trash in the wild.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 21:51 |
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Noyemi K 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.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 23:18 |
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For gently caress's sake Also everyone knows you find Mews under trucks, not Onix.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 23:28 |
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Yeah, no. Didn't happen.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 23:33 |
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"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"
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 00:52 |
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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" 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
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 02:53 |
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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" Plausible, Red Team does suck dicks.
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 03:05 |
Whoever wrote this probably hasn't even played Pokemon Go. The same Pokemon are available to everyone in the same area, but they're unique instances on each phone (so if one player sees an Eevee in a place, everyone else can catch an Eevee there). It's impossible to "steal" a Pokemon from anyone.
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 04:01 |
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.
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 06:48 |
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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 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?
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 07:12 |
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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? 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
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 07:21 |
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Ah, so that's the difference between Pokemon Black and White.
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 14:44 |
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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. Paladinus posted:Ah, so that's the difference between Pokemon Black and White.
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 15:32 |
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"ya frickin Rattata"
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# ? Jul 11, 2016 02:31 |
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Can't even keep her story straight across two paragraphs. Is she looking for water Pokémon or is she looking for a Ghastly?
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# ? Jul 11, 2016 03:50 |
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"Someone smiled at me and asked if I need help. gently caress that rear end in a top hat."
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# ? Jul 11, 2016 05:02 |
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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? And what does she mean "following"? Could she see it or does she just mean she saw its sillhouette in the corner? How come none of the Pokemon GO STDH writers actually understand how the app works?
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# ? Jul 11, 2016 05:54 |
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Inconsistencies are the best part of STDH stories.
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# ? Jul 11, 2016 06:00 |