Scorched Spitz posted:

It's been brought up in the past threads, but what I can gather is that these people see writing as a completely solitary means of expression that doesn't require the budget for whatever nerdwankery they're into or the talent to do anything else. They suck at art and learning how to draw anything that isn't faux-anime bullshit takes time, so they can't do a comic despite that being half of what they know. Programming takes a shitton of effort to make the most rudimentary Asteroids clone, so making a game's completely out of the question even though that's the other half. So they write, encouraged by the A's their English teachers gave their lovely fiction for being grammatically correct.

That said, it's 80% literal.

Smoking Crow posted:

Also, be sure to give possible titles for the next TvTropes thread, TvTropes, The Sixth Sense.

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"Anyone know if there's any way to treat a burned stomach lining?"

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"What's the password?"
"Open this loving door!"
"...Alright, you're good. Sorry about that."

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"The government at least managed to keep the riverboats running. If the right business folk bribed the right government folk, sometimes they'd even run on time."

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"I looked back at Leon, but he was looking away. He wasn’t looking at another girl, but it was still enough to trigger my inner Polynesian tribal fire god of tiki rage. I NEEDED TO BE APPEASED."
-Narration from my (rather ignorant) yandere protagonist
"I imagined toked up teen addicts faced similar situations when they accidentally invited their dealer over to a party. Except in this case, the dealer was acting way nicer to the person he wasn’t selling to and also had teleportation powers and a magical pool cue and I was the one who tried to give him drugs because I loved him."
-Narration from the same protagonist after finding out who her crush really is and then being brought home to her mother by him

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Ithaqua explaining to Loki why he prefer eating people in his natural form.
"The Wind Walker kept his eyes on The Trickster God while he nibbled the skin off of the human finger he was eating, tearing a piece of marinated flesh off and swallowing as he continued, "I prefer my natural from, because it's so much easier to eat people like that. There's no issue with having to keep up with pointless table manners or having to use utensils. I don't even have to chew, I can just swallow them alive. There's no risk of choking on a femur, much less being wary of choking on a knuckle bone."

Glasgow Kiss posted:

I love how most of these are actually good bands/artists. I guess music with any emotional depth is horrifying.

Friends Are Evil posted:

I'm kinda surprised they mentioned Current 93 and Coil. I didn't expect Tropers to know about them.

Of course, they never mention the scariest thing either of them ever did.

They do also have extensive Nightmare Fuel pages for Juggalo bands like ICP and Axe Murda Boys.

Namtab posted:

So yeah, let's put some effort into mocking these loving dorks.

Midnight Rambler posted:

I've been giving Carol a lot of rides around campus, because her bike exploded a few days ago.
I find it hard to gauge if she's romantically interested or just looking for friendship. Proceeding with caution.

cutewithoutthe posted:

do you guys think parents would ever accept their 15 year old daughter dating an 18 year old collegiate boy

INHOPELESSONE posted:

Yes. Hibiscus is fifteen. And I am eighteen years and two months tomorrow. There is only two and a half years between us.

Kinkajou posted:

shame on you, taking advantage of a minor

INHOPELESSONE posted:

Harharhar. She asked me out, lest you forget. :P

solovyov posted:

Ok. I have a question. I know I've asked this before, in a different thread, but it wasn't answered enough to my liking. Here goes:

I'm worried about talking about TvTropes. Mainly, I'm nervous that whichever TvTrope thing I'm talking about won't be interesting, and that I would be an unfunny shitbag for talking about it. So, how do I know if it is ok to talk about TvTropes? How do I not be the aforementioned shitbag?

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Getting into my characters' heads and figuring out what they would do in any given situation.

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Getting out of the pre-production phase and actually start writing the damned thing.

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Aye-yai-yai. Where do I begin?
1. Deep, deep depression.
2. Procrastination.
3. Mental masturbation to fantasies of universal acceptance.
4. Concerns about storytelling ability.

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1. 'Borrowing' (intentionally or unintentionally) elements from history/other works.
2. Procrastination. I find it near impossible to get started.
3. Laziness in justifying disclosure of information. I have kings giving highly classified pieces of information to peasants they've just met, because I'm too lazy to have trust build up.
4. Trying to write things visually. I watch a movie or something and think 'I want something like this' (see point 1.), but it doesn't work on paper.

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Plots. I can come up with settings, people, religions, magic systems, geology, technology and the like forever, but then I can't figure out how to make them do anything. As a result, I keep winding up with pinball protagonists who aren't particularly engaging and aren't trying to accomplish anything worth doing.

Namtab posted:

In terms of actual content, one goldmine that never runs dry is the Romance Thread, 2722 (to date) pages of nerds wondering why they can never get laid and treating the art of dating like a TRPG, complete with stats and way overthought motives.


And what with this being TVTropes...


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Guess we've got two seperate instances of Tropers loving 15 year old girls. Never Change, TVTropes Please change, TVTropes.

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Here is a dilemma I placed before my creative writing class from the prequel series to New Dawn. I want to hear some answers about this, namely, because it is a very intriguing dilemma.

It is set in a medieval fantasy world, and is essentially in most cases a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance. There is one powerful state, called The People's Republic of Shard, that seems to have a slightly more modern view point in some matters, but a much more regressive view point in others.

The new hero, Aevon, son of the previous hero, Vonh, has basically just been handed a large Kingdom and told to show the world he is strong. However, during Olympic style games hosted by Shard, it comes out that one of the hero's True Companions, Warren, had been "forceful" with his wife in consummating their marriage.

This was thirty years ago, when he was eighteen, and he cannot forgive himself for it. He cannot so much as look at his son without feeling the urge to vomit.
This comes out due to Gabren Daindred, Ruler of Shard, having a spymaster with some supernatural powers.

So, in Shard, all crimes must be punished. Regardless when they were committed, regardless of who committed them, and without regard for if they were punished in another country. Gabren decides to go ahead and arrest Warren.

Aevon needs Warren for his quest, due to a particular prophecy, and he puts a lot more stock in those than his father ever did.

The thing is, Gabren makes the argument that other societies are barbarians for "silencing women's voices of protest", when his nation allows people to hold slaves. He even remarks that "our slaves are mostly enemies of the state; enemy nations defeated by the Shardan Military can either pay reparations or pay the Blood Price; one slave for each of our lives lost."

The thing is, Aevon's Kingdom led the charge in abolishing slavery everywhere...except in Shard, which kept their slaves due to their massive military and influence. Gabren has 100% Approval in Shard for resisting this change, among many other things.

So the dilemma is; what does Aevon do? Gabren, being the Host Nation's Overlord, sets this ultimatum; give us Warren for a People's Trial or pay the Blood Price, one slave for each year he remained at large.

Aevon has a number of choices, and he has to appear strong in front of the intimidating, powerful nation of Shard. He has to keep Warren with him, as he thinks, or he cannot win against The Gedroi Nine.

So my question to all of you is this; What is the morally acceptable thing for Aevon to do in this situation? What should he do? What is it wise for him to do?

Leradny posted:

No, although it would have made the story even cooler.
Do not read if you do not believe rules should be broken for any reason. If you do, know this was a one-off instance, I believe I was justified, and—most importantly—no one got hurt by me breaking this rule.

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Background information: I went to a marathon of the latest three Batman movies, dressed as Catwoman.
Normally I'm fine following the rule of not bringing outside food into theatres because I'd have lunch or dinner at a restaurant outside anyway. But, by the time the third came along, I and my two companions were hungry.
But the theatre still wouldn't allow people to bring food in. And the intermission was 30 minutes, which wasn't nearly long enough for people to go out and have dinner at one of the restaurants, then come back. And if I waited till the movie ended, all the good restaurants would be closed and I'd have to go home sleep-deprived and hungry or full of bar food.
In my opinion, that was silly. I had no intentions of going hungry and without sleep for a movie, so I ordered takeout for all three of us and insisted that I carry the bag. My reasoning was that people wouldn't suspect me, as I was in costume and a woman. For the same reason, one of my companions thought I would get caught. But I was hungry and in heels so I draped a jacket over the large bag of food and told everyone to go ahead of me in case they were scared they'd get thrown out with me.
I strutted back into the theatre, waving to all the tellers and ushers. The owner came up and said "Hello Miss Kyle", then went back to work. I also got a free pass to my next movie for being in costume.

Demetrios posted:

Best. Sneak-in. Ever. (Thumbs Up)

TParadox posted:

I want to sneak food into a theater sometime, because the food there is so expensive. Problem is, I don't think I could get away with carrying a bag in myself, and I rarely go to the movies at all. I think the number of times I've gone alone edges out going with friends on the grounds that I went to a lot of film festival screenings last year around my festival volunteer shifts.
Those volunteer shifts also got me unlimited free popcorn and drinks. (Well, the tiny bags and cups they give their own workers on breaks, one at a time, no questions asked.)
Anyway, pretty much the only way I think I could get away with bringing outside food in is to hide it in a female friend's purse. Which is the least likely way I'm going to go to a movie. (Hey, brought it back around to the topic!)

Troper Tales: Brother Sister Incest posted:

This troper had a thing for his sister for a while, and even tried approaching her about it, but was (gently and without further consequence, amazingly enough!) turned down. He turned to his writings as an outlet, making a sister character for his blatant author-insertion character and pairing them off. It didn't make him feel any better, but he just happened to eventually grow up and get over it with time anyway. (He would still be totally up for that, but the fact that it's not going to happen happen doesn't haunt him, at least.) Those two characters have come quite a long way since then, becoming rather well-developed now despite their less-than-noble origins. Their stories are surprisingly popular—who knew Brother Sister Incest was such a popular theme in the Furry Fandom?—so it ultimately worked out. As a bizarre epilogue, his mother just read those stories (!!!) but seems to have somehow missed the subtext.

Troper Tales: Brother Sister Incest posted:

This 19 year-old troper and his 15 year-old sister are well... kinda more than siblings.
* This troper is intrigued and wishes to subscribe to your newsletter.
* Um...WHAT!?
* Note: Whether it's the topic of this page or the age difference that's most likely to prompt the above reaction is hotly debated.
* This is the Internet, you can't expect our priorities to be entirely socially "acceptable", especially with this cushy anonymity.
* Wait, did you knock her up? And do you post on Yahoo Answers? I think I may have trolled you...
* Who uses Yahoo Answers? It's like a very slow message-board. It doesn't even work as a community because with Yahoo Answers somebody not only needs to know the answer but also be nice enough to give it to you (and find your question), while a messageboard will try to help anybody just because it's something to chat about. Ah well, this is off topic.
** I can think of other reasons to not use Yahoo Answers...

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who knew Brother Sister Incest was such a popular theme in the Furry Fandom?

Friends Are Evil posted:

Oh man, the TVTropes thread is back! I remember making some dumb "the telos of eros is you, baby" image for it, but it got lost when my old computer died.

The Nightmare Fuel page for Music remains the funniest thing I've ever seen on there. There's an extensive page about The Decemberists, for gently caress's sake. The Decemberists.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Eight different TVTropes play by post forum games have their own Nightmare Fuel pages. So does XKCD; apparently the "click and drag" strip being really big is terrifying.

Troper Tales were moved offsite to a mirror wiki; are they still fair game?

Friends Are Evil posted:

The Nightmare Fuel page for Music remains the funniest thing I've ever seen on there. There's an extensive page about The Decemberists, for gently caress's sake. The Decemberists.

ThatPazuzu posted:

Hey man, the Decemberists' Bachelor and the Bride is about a man raping his fiance, that's a valid thing to be creeped out by and... oh my God, they find Hazards of Love terrifying. There's a man who is also a fawn and they are very spooked by it.

Tobias Drake posted:

Seriously, there are plenty of things worse than dying. People overvalue the state of being alive.

Smoking Crow posted:

A goon project I would recommend would be to finish the reading of Major Tom's fantasy epic

The Handle posted:

It just occurred to me that problems like these would make for awesome homework at school:
''Dear Jane,
Sorry, but I won't be able to have dinner with you after all. Don't take it the wrong way - it's not you, it's me. I've just received an urgent assignment, and I have to take off straight away. I don't know when I'll be back. It's probably just as well - after seeing so much of each other over the last couple of months, maybe we need a break. You should take this time to see other people, and pick up more conventional tips, while I could use some space so I can figure out where to go from here.
John
John meant what he said literally, but Jane was upset; what did John do wrong?
"Here is a transcript of a couple breaking up; what common mistakes, which we have covered in class, are they making?"
"Here is the sexual history of Alice: we know that there is x_ij chance of each lover i of having the sexually transmissible disease j, and we know the degree of safety of every type of protections k, in relation to every type of disease j. We also know that Alice has slept n_i times with each lover i.
Use Bayes' theorem to predict the chances that Alice has any one of those diseases, at any point during her sexual history.
Once these probabilities are known, calculate the expected accuracy of the following tests for the disease, knowing their proportion of false positives and false negatives.
For each lover, calculate, assuming that they did not have any of the diseases beforehand, whether Alice has passed them on to them."
After fifty such exercises, the kids should become utter wizzes at this poo poo.
Also, look at this song I only just found!

EDIT: By the way, the interpretations that were made of that letter left me appalled:
I meant, most of the latter part of that "letter" is telling Jane between the lines that she needs to get more experienced and just all around better at the whole love game. 'Cuz she sucks at it — ergo, she should just forget the whole bit at the beginning about John sharing any of the blame (mainly about the skipped dinner, by the look of it), because it's her fault, really, that the whole relationship has gone south. tongue
And, hey — sorry for the short notice that I never mentioned this before: but, hey... what can I do? You just suck. Sorry I bothered, toots. <_<
"Pick up more conventional tips . . ." sounds like she was too wild and out there for John, and instead of him admitting he's not wild enough for her, he's telling her she needs to tone it down. Don't know if that's what the Stealth Insult comment was aimed at, but it's one I picked up on.

Sawboss Jones posted:

Oh boy.

This could be a funny thread if goons don't end up trying to be morally superior to Tropers about every single thing. Criticizing lovely writing and views on society are one thing, but getting legitimately pissed about a guy dressing like a doofus is kind of embarrassing.

Also, is there a rule against explaining problems with the site itself? There are a few fun things that I'd like to point out (That I even contacted Fast Eddie about just to be fair) that could give us more content to post. It's all really funny.

Sawboss Jones posted:

Also, is there a rule against explaining problems with the site itself? There are a few fun things that I'd like to point out (That I even contacted Fast Eddie about just to be fair) that could give us more content to post. It's all really funny.

Sawboss Jones posted:

Oh boy.

This could be a funny thread if goons don't end up trying to be morally superior to Tropers about every single thing. Criticizing lovely writing and views on society are one thing, but getting legitimately pissed about a guy dressing like a doofus is kind of embarrassing.

Also, is there a rule against explaining problems with the site itself? There are a few fun things that I'd like to point out (That I even contacted Fast Eddie about just to be fair) that could give us more content to post. It's all really funny.

Eagle Fan posted:

As for fans of the Jets, take heart. You only lost by 3 pts to the 2nd best team in the AFC, whose QB and coach are apparently having a lot of difficulty beating rookie Q Bs in their own division, you're already 1-1, there's really no place for you to go but up, and plus you get a long week ahead. Get rid of those stupid INT's and you might actually make something of yourselves this year.

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"Here is the sexual history of Alice: we know that there is x_ij chance of each lover i of having the sexually transmissible disease j, and we know the degree of safety of every type of protections k, in relation to every type of disease j. We also know that Alice has slept n_i times with each lover i.
Use Bayes' theorem to predict the chances that Alice has any one of those diseases, at any point during her sexual history.
Once these probabilities are known, calculate the expected accuracy of the following tests for the disease, knowing their proportion of false positives and false negatives.
For each lover, calculate, assuming that they did not have any of the diseases beforehand, whether Alice has passed them on to them."

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Brother-Sister Incest
Nothing adds that certain je ne sais quoi to a storyline like a romantic or sexual attraction between siblings. Most of the time it may be merely implied, but sometimes it's laid out right in the open for the viewer to see. Its presence in a story usually adds a great deal of emotional intens

Smoking Crow posted:

I meant for it to be a thing where you shouldn't go moralizing about the site without content. You made your own content, so .

Bonus football tropers:

Did he even watch that game? The Jets are garbage

losers posted:

Sawboss Jones posted:

I could also elaborate on what to do exactly, but I don't know if that would cross the line into touching the poop or starting a goonswarm.

Sawboss Jones posted:

I could also elaborate on what to do exactly, but I don't know if that would cross the line into touching the poop or starting a goonswarm.

Puppy Dog Grinder 6870 posted:

So, at the end of Issue One of my current story, the main character has been injured by various fights with Mooks and also a Giant Space Flea From Nowhere. He then gets into a fight with the Big Bad (of issue one). My problem is that the main character doesn't have enough health potions to recover enough health to win this last fight. Furthermore, it's absolutely vital for the plot of future Issues that he win this fight, because he gets his Yandere girlfriend as a Random Drop at the end of the fight, completing the Battle Couple. So how should I fix the discrepancy?

The solutions I've thought of so far are:

*Increase the main character's number of starting health potions (but I don't think his family could really afford more, he is impoverished, after all)
*Have him find a Deus Ex Machina Infinity Plus One Sword by random luck (but it'd have to be a one-time-use item or else it'd mess up the battles in future issues!)
*Maybe the main character can keep grinding on random Mooks longer and get more health potions first?

Any help is absolutely appreciated; this story is really close to my heart.

Sawboss Jones posted:

stuff