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Gimnbo
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DoctorPresident posted:

Zack Parsons also did that with the first part of "That Insidious Beast" (in the form of a TV guide from an alternate hyper religious imperialistic America) and also in the "CONEX: Convict Connections" series.

That Insidious Beast, of course, has its own tropes page.

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quote:

To capitalize on the insane success of Friendship is Magic, they create the world's first "biotoy" (a term which is intentionally divisive, referring to the concept of a living thing created and marketed as if it were a toy.)

There's actually a paragraph in the story the fluffy pony thing ripped off of that has this exact nomenclature debate, ending in the term bio-toy.

At what point does mere conceptual rip-off become plagiarism?

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Penny Paper posted:

They don't care about classical art. Why would they bandy this argument around?

Just because you don't care about something doesn't mean you can't exploit it to further your aims. See: all of TV Tropes.

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Regalingualius posted:

What does all of this make Daft Punk, then? :v:

Trying to shoehorn dumb poo poo where it doesn't belong does sound like a mighty familiar concept.

I was going to say Fallout: Equestria but my brain and conscience refuse to acknowledge even the slightest association between that and Daft Punk.

Gimnbo fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Jan 31, 2014

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Kaiser Mazoku posted:

How can regularity be alarming? That's a total oxymoron.

Isn't alarming regularity the plot of Groundhog Day?

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Apple Tree posted:

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Ohfuckohfuckohfuck. I wasn't even thinking about TVTropes or bronies; I was on tumblr looking at pictures, thinking it might be nice to make a small tumblr about biplanes for my brother's birthday because they're his favourite thing. I put in the word 'Spitfire'.

HOW THE gently caress DID THE INTERNET CONCLUDE FROM THIS THAT I WANTED TO SEE PAGES AND PAGES OF MY LITTLE PONIES loving EACH OTHER?

I was just trying to make my brother a birthday present about airplanes! They are EVERYWHERE. :tinfoil:

Sorry, bro, love ya but I'm not going through that again. You can find your own pictures.

Any interesting sounding two word compound has probably been made into the name of a pony OC. I'm guessing at least one has the RAF roundel on its rear end or something.

And the Spitfire's not a biplane.
:goonsay:

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Maybe it's not the tits themselves but talking about them that gets tropers off.

Gimnbo fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Mar 27, 2014

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Internet metal fandom is that circlejerk where they talk about listening to "the only real music in the world", right?

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TvTropes Pleads the Fifth: for both humiliation and for her to put her head in his butt.

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Birthday Gift series and other comics of the expanded universe created by the artist known as Erenisch is a fascinating dystopia for women.
I like how the guy points out that this alternate rape slave reality is a dystopia, but specifically for women.

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Suspicious Dish posted:

You also missed this sentence: "In short, getting raped was my dick would be the best thing that ever happened to her."

In case the subtext wasn't glaringly obvious enough.

Lampshaded Double Entendre posted:

"when she grinded against me, my crotch was pretty much right up against her… well, you know. ".

I legit don't even know what the trope entry is trying for here.

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Nerds will be so much better off once if the internet relieves itself of antiquated notions of "masculinity." Eating lots of bacon does not increase your value as a person.

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The lack of a Tanto Cuore entry is the most surprising thing I've seen on the site.

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Little Blackfly posted:

Holy poo poo these people are the worst history spergs I have ever met.




teehee I know a few historical references, aren't I just the smartest.



This seems more like "look at me I'm good a Paradox map games" talk than history spergin'. It's pretty normal for any discussion of that series. Admittedly those can be a well of sperg in and of themselves but this is pretty light stuff.

I do like the overt racism in calling Muslim west Europe a dystopia though.

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It's not much different from dudes liking lesbian porn but being repulsed by actual lesbians. Anything is valuable until you can't jerk off to it.

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Lottery of Babylon posted:

Its current annual budget consists of 800 Million bits, which sadly makes it one of the least subsidized government investments, especially compared to the Crown's expenditures for education and welfare.

Bolding mine.

I wonder what political leanings this guy holds.

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Flesnolk posted:

We're talking about bronies and tropers, though. I say fleece those worthless fuckers for every penny they have.

Yeah but the money's going to another brony and troper.

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Oda Nobunaga started the unification of Japan by glowing purple and being badass, not with dishonorable poo poo like matchlocks.

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quote:

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to Hermione/Sorting Hat? (warning: *very* disturbing! No, really.)

I just went through this out of curiosity. It's really less disgusting and more simply baffling, even if it is a rapist hat story. It was obviously not written seriously. At least, I hope it wasn't.

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It's Dozerfleet all over again.

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Your PhD thesis probably wasn't written by 50 obsessive spergs though.

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Annointed posted:

Thank you Wikipedia for simply saying, get the gently caress out bronies, no one wants you in our Aztec folklore.

(Undid revision 475644266 by 64.131.162.42 (talk) (gas all bronies)) (undo)
(Undid revision 476263771 by 112.198.83.67 (talk) The brony Holocaust will go unmourned.) (undo)
(BRONY RAUS!) (undo)
(shut up about ponies goddamn) (undo)

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I seriously can't figure out whether your inability to correctly post pics from imgur is a gimmick or not.

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sweeperbravo posted:

Interesting. I've known some folks who definitely fell under my definition though. Had a lengthy discussion with one semi-recently and weirdly we came to kind of an understanding of one another. It was doubly weird because the whole conversation took place in facebook comments on someone else's post. In his case it was because he'd been abused as a child by a female relative and resented that male victims are often overlooked and that women are assumed to be the victims, and the rest of us in the discussion tried to explain why that tends to happen (we weren't trying to justify it by any means, just explaining the reasons why it's even a thing that happens). But before that all came to the surface we had a patriarchy discussion where I had to lay it out like "You, individual dude, are not the patriarchy. You are not responsible for the behaviors, bad or good, of anyone but yourself, regardless of shared junk." I think he appreciated that because honestly "patriarchy" is a word that gets thrown around a lot in sexism discussion and I'm never quite sure who is using it right or wrong and who is hearing it right or wrong, so sometimes it's basically useless.

The terms patriarchy, privilege, and feminism are all victims of the social media telephone game. That's how you go from the environment in which men dominate the social and political discourse to "everything bad in the world is the fault of penis-havers."

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HapiMerchant posted:

mmm yes my fetish for watching girls get punched in the stomach is so very deep yes this isn't years of rejection manifesting itself at all

It's not even hiding it posted:

The viewer must create the illusion that women are over-privileged and deserve to be knocked down a peg from whole cloth. This is the "negative" interpretation method.

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I'm thinking the fact a ban on abuse games covers 40% or all ero games may be a poor reflection on said ero games rather than on ambiguous legal wording.

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FrozenVent posted:

Please link a source :allears:

Google tells me it's from Ye Olde Reddit.

Best response:

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nigga what

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His "oh, I'm a weirdo autist who's worthless" schtick is pissing me off more than the brony thing, really. It's not that hard to stop digging a hole on the forum. Just stop posting for a bit.

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I'm pretty sure this is how the last thread was closed.

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Hammurabi posted:

Why is this even on the page? Does anyone actually think that Baileys Irish Cream is anything but completely modern? It's not even marketed as such. Who the hell are these alleged people who think it's the "ancient booze of the Celts"?

It's almost like they're making up poo poo to put on the page.

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bucketmouse posted:

I wonder if the guy who wrote that grew up to be a PUA.

That page (or a similarly themed one) used to have an amazingly long faux-psychologist I'm Super Smart Listen To Me rant about the barrel in sonic 3 that spergs always have trouble with but unfortunately it seems to be gone now.

It was definitely that one. It was how I discovered the site in the first place many years ago, through a link from this forum. poo poo just came full circle for me.

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Darth Walrus posted:

Don't have time for an hour-long podcast. Summary?

A reader hammering off anime vampire clichés while another screams HELP in the background.

Basically what happens in this thread.

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I like the idea that even in an idealized, artificial world tropers would be outcasts.

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Makes me wonder if there's a connection between autism and fascism.

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I am not a book posted:

I'm digging that Japan for some reason decided to invade eastern Russia, an area that basically no one wants to live in... rather than going for like, any other areas with much greater resource availability that aren't frozen 99% of the year.

Also, who the gently caress is supposed to own Hawaii?

Hawaii looks like it's part of Polynesian Who-Gives-a-gently caress-There-Are-No-Catgirls. I'd imagine Japan owns east Russia because China can't be bothered to go kick them out yet.

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The Land of Japanese Cocks

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gallery posted:

"Koku" can also mean country, and it is sometimes used in names of countries, for example the United states of America is "Amerika gasshuukoku".

Oh, so the name was copy/pasted from Wikipedia.

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Lottery of Babylon posted:

What the hell is this even supposed to mean?
I'm guessing he thinks Arabs fight by randomly firing their guns in the air while shouting "AK-47s for everyone!"

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Darth Walrus posted:

So the TVTropes Cross Ange thread got even worse, and has now been locked. If you want to go fishing for toxic levels of :tvtropes:, you can dip your toe in them waters.

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As no one in this thread can talk about anything but rape, it is being locked.

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There is no aspect described in that article that isn't a terrible goddamn idea.

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It really is mindboggling that someone came up with an idol group composed of elementary school girls called "Girlfriend" and thought "Yeah, that's a great idea!"

I'm actually going to do you all the service of C/Ping the article so nobody has to go to that site.

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A junior idol group with members as young as 6 has banned one of their fans “for touching and monopolising” one of the girls at an event.
Junior idol group “Girlfriend,” whose 4 members range from 6 to 11, was holding a barbecue event for fans when one of the attendees began touching the body of one of the girls and monopolising her time, all prohibited conduct according to the event’s rules.
The fan in question reportedly knew such conduct was banned, and was unrepentant when confronted by the group’s handlers – prompting them to take the radical step of banning him from future events.
The group’s management has apologised to fans, members and parents for “even the slightest discomfort” they may have experienced as a result of this. No involvement from the authorities is apparent.
Similar groups have also recently come to public attention for “dakko-kai” – hugging events in which paying fans get a chance to touch up the girls in various notionally innocent games:

Online there is far more concern about other aspects of the group:
“Sounds more like a sex crime than a reason to ban him from the event…”
“Can’t really expect anything else when dealing with this kind of customer base.”
“Making elementary schoolers do this kind of work…”
“Just arrest anyone who goes there, problem solved.”
“Arrest the people who formed this group, you mean.”
“What are the parents thinking?”
“The guy who touched the girl is bad, but I think the adults who organised a skinship BBQ event with a 6-year-old are worse.”
“Parents, management, fans, all insane…”
“This is what the idol business is about!?”
“It’s OK to touch your girlfriend.”
“What the hell is this business about?”
“And what are the police doing?”
“I can’t believe they go on about censoring anime and manga when an industry like this goes completely unmolested.”

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