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Subyng posted:Wait, I don't understand why tvtropes is supposed to be bad? TV Tropes started as a rather normal website that just tried to catalog tropes in a fun way, putting words to all those common... Tropes. It was taken over by autists. Or, as Cracked (of all things) explains: quote:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-websites-that-are-clearly-f2123king-with-me_p2/
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If anything it's actually gotten way, way better over time. It started out gross and full of pedophiles, useless tropes, and miscatagorized examples, but now...well, it's only really gotten rid of the first problem, but it's still doing better on the other two, too. That's why there aren't any mock threads for it anymore.
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Dec 21, 2016 01:12
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The "Troper Tales" period was the worst. Then the king weirdo of creep mountain Fast Eddie said "gently caress this gently caress all of you" and deleted ALL of that poo poo and threatened to ban anyone who tried to start it back up. Things got better from there. The forums are a brown sea of weeaboo juice though.
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I really do love the Plinkett Trek reviews. I wish he'd drop in on some of the shittiest episodes of Trek, but it wouldn't be the same. Also MisterBibs I'm sure people other than me have wound you up about this, but the prequel reviews were sort of predicated on disappointment, sure. In reality, they spend most of the time just saying how lovely they were as movies on their own. Which is very true. But I'll tell you what really bothers me... It's them GREEN PLASTIC DRUM CYMBALS! 
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The only Star Trek reviews I care about are the TNG reviews done by the guys On the Greatest Generation Podcast. And All Iknow about TV Tropes is from the old mock threads that were mostly filled with posts about people who had ORIGINAL IDEA DO NOT STEAL about a school for magic that has houses and a kid named Betty Cobbler is the chosen one, no it's not like Harry Potter at all! Or Sci Fi stories were everyone talks in very mechanical ways or the totally not Japanese aliens have a discussion about honour in a field of cherry blossoms. Or what I found offensive, people using their fanfictions to create tropes so they could have the credit.
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Dec 21, 2016 01:59
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Humans are incredibly lame in the future, so obviously they'd drink root beer and nothing more exotic.
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Dec 21, 2016 02:21
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I'm more interested in if they're drinking A&W or Barq's.
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Kazinsal posted:forums are a brown sea of weeaboo juice though.
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dont even fink about it posted:TV Tropes started as a rather normal website that just tried to catalog tropes in a fun way, putting words to all those common... Tropes. I never get invited to All Night Sex Parties. 
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Delsaber posted:I'm more interested in if they're drinking A&W or Barq's. Not Barq's, what are you a madman? Synthaffeine is strong enough for anyone.
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Dec 21, 2016 03:48
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Just watched ENT "The Expanse" and man, what a tonal shift that was. I mean I get they are pissed about the attack and all that but the show went from "We're exploring with occasional fights" to "Grimdark WAR!" I almost expected NPH to show up and start doing ESP on giant bugs or something.
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Hey, is that show "The Expanse" any good?
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Tikifire posted:Just watched ENT "The Expanse" and man, what a tonal shift that was. I mean I get they are pissed about the attack and all that but the show went from "We're exploring with occasional fights" to "Grimdark WAR!" I almost expected NPH to show up and start doing ESP on giant bugs or something. Not enough Space Nazis (in space) for you in Trek? Just wait...
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TheBigAristotle posted:Hey, is that show "The Expanse" any good?
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Dec 21, 2016 04:12
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Enterprise retooled every season, the surest sign of a failing TV show, but it didn't hit gold until season 4 by which time it was already doomed.
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Astroman posted:I never get invited to All Night Sex Parties. John Hodgemen always sends me snapchats from his sex parties, with masks. He's just laughing at me.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Hey, is that show "The Expanse" any good? Am I the only one who finds it really dense? Like there's so much going on and it's so complicated and there's so many characters, I feel like I've plunged into Season 3 of a show at random or something. I want to like it, but it doesn't draw me right in like other shows do. 
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WickedHate posted:Enterprise retooled every season, the surest sign of a failing TV show, but it didn't hit gold until season 4 by which time it was already doomed. Not sure what you guys were making fun of up there. Did I mess up a naming convention or something?. Please enlighten me if so.
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Sash! posted:Humans are incredibly lame in the future, so obviously they'd drink root beer and nothing more exotic. Hu-mons drink the hell out of some synthehol, but the Ferengi invented that so Quark's not about to shame them for it
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Phimosissy posted:Not Barq's, what are you a madman? Barq's Has Bite, something the Federation desperately needs.
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Phy posted:Hu-mons drink the hell out of some synthehol, but the Ferengi invented that so Quark's not about to shame them for it
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In Voyager, one of the Vulcan crew started going through pon farr and infected Torres so now she's going through it as well. She and Paris get trapped in a cave and Paris spends the whole episode trying to fend her off because it would be wrong to take advantage of her at this time. At the end Tuvok shows up and its like "no way, you gotta bang the crazy outta her." He and Chakotay go hide behind some bushes to give them privacy but luckily the crazy Vulcan shows up and they resolve it through a lame fight scene.
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While watching through TNG I tried not to let the science get in the way of enjoying the show. I'll make a few jokes about how silly something is, but it doesn't have to be 100% realistic to be entertaining. But Genesis is inexcusably bad. Holy poo poo. This episode is worse than Sub Rosa for me.
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Genesis makeup, acting, and lighting was hella good tho. I loved Ogawa's subtle orangutan arms. They wanted to descend spider-Broccoli from a cable like a web, but they ran out of budget/time.
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Genesis is a top five nonsensically dumb but amazing Star Trek episode
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Delsaber posted:I'm more interested in if they're drinking A&W or Barq's. Barqs is good and mixable with whiskey, but my favorite was always Weinhard's.
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There it is. The Star Trek thread has been reduced to discussing which sort of root beer is preferable. Even if every episode of Discovery is worse than the worst episode of Voyager, at least we'll have something new to talk about.
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Dec 21, 2016 10:28
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The correct answer is birch beer, actually.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc
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Zurui posted:There it is. The Star Trek thread has been reduced to discussing which sort of root beer is preferable. I like a good Sioux City Sasparilla myself. Back to the topic, what's with all the space Nazis in Enterprise? Were Berman and Braga on some sort of Hitler kick in the early 2000's or what? Tikifire fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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...is that his real voice? He's not putting on a stereotypical 'nerd voice' there?
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The_Doctor posted:...is that his real voice? He's not putting on a stereotypical 'nerd voice' there? That's Mike Stoklasa's character Harry S Plinkett, or Mr Plinkett. Depending on the situation, he's an elderly serial-killing diabetic, with a subplot in the prequel reviews involving a kidnapped hooker. Also pizza rolls.
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TheBigAristotle posted:That's Mike Stoklasa's character Harry S Plinkett, or Mr Plinkett. I'm sure there's a reason why people take this guy's opinions seriously, watch his hour-long youtube videos, and fête him for years as a true nerd icon, but this post sure doesn't help me put it together.
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skasion posted:I'm sure there's a reason why people take this guy's opinions seriously, watch his hour-long youtube videos, and fête him for years as a true nerd icon, but this post sure doesn't help me put it together. He didn't like Star Wars so they worshipped his disgusting rape fantasy series. Like, no joke, the Plinkett reviews are basically an exercise in how loving terrible nerd fandom is. Yeah I'm watching a dude overacting and pretending to be a serial killer/rapist with a woman locked up in his house, but man look at that insight about Star Wars. Its really gross.
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Zore posted:He didn't like Star Wars so they worshipped his disgusting rape fantasy series. You must be fun at parties.
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WampaLord posted:You must be fun at parties. Yeah, jokes about rape are hilarious. 
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Dec 21, 2016 15:43
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Zore posted:He didn't like Star Wars so they worshipped his disgusting rape fantasy series. That first sentence might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on these forums. He didn't like the Star Wars prequels and goes into humorous detail for several hours as to exactly why. He also couches it in the setting of a creepy murderer, which just lends to the absurdity of it all. It's not real, and you are a humorless babby. I honestly would not want to live in a world that was tailored to your no-doubt wacky and hilarious sense of what is and is not appropriate. Also, to make this more thread-appropriate, I listened to The Greatest Generation podcast last night, it's pretty interesting, definitely will be checking out more in the future. Unless they make a joke that offends me, then I'm going to cross my arms and huff a lot.
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It's weird to see people get up in arms over slightly edgy humor on these forums, but hey, different strokes.
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WampaLord posted:It's weird to see people get up in arms over slightly edgy humor on these forums, but hey, different strokes. Don't you see? Laughing at jokes means you're going to commit crimes, duh. Just like video games make people murder, etc etc.
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Mister Adequate posted:This here novel has a Federation-esque Humanity that does that kind of stuff. Well, they're sort of a Federation moving gradually moving towards the Culture. I would like to recommend this book to the thread. It is good.
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