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Arguably, this Troper is probably the youngest of which who suffers from this Trope. This is practically the invisible label that's under the invisible Berserk Button of this 13-year old kid. He broke 33 pencils in his life, and had a good friend break two of those pencils because they were too hard. He even yelled at someone because that guy was the third person who asked if he could be punched for the third time, with a teacher only a mile ahead!

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I actually poo poo myself when I read that. There I realized I wasn't just dealing with the usual horrifyingly egotistical Troper Tale. This person will BREAK YOUR PENCILS without a second thought. Should he meet you, without any regret, he will DESTROY your beloved pencil collection. Your Crayola, your HB, everything. That beloved pencil you had for three years? Snapped in two with no remorse. Even if you reinforce your pencils to try and stop him, he has a good friend, even better in the arts of pencil-snapping. And when he is done, you will be nothing, sobbing in a heap of pencils as broken as your dreams. And he will laugh. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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No formal training beyond watching a crapton of anime, but I've trained both myself and my younger brother (who is surprisingly skilled for a six year old...he uses that size to his advantage) to swordfight. I taught him basic tactics, and allowed him to develop his own style. We currently differ, as he uses a full blown broomstick(I don't let him near the actual models...), and I counter with my shorter, nodachi-sized weapons. Very simple tactic, though effective, really. Parry, thrust. Win.

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Major Tom posted:

Colonel Barry Smith: TROOPERS, WHO ARE WE?
Everyone: VANGUARD!
Colonel Barry Smith: AND WHAT DO WE DO?
Everyone: FIGHT FOREVER!

Yes, it's hamtacular. But drat if it isn't awesome.

Khazar-khum posted:

I've never figured out what, exactly, Major Tom is supposed to be writing. Novel? Game? Script? Script for a game?

Apple Tree posted:

Ah yes, 'lolis'. Another word in the TVTropes Newspeak lexicon. Normal English is so oddly lacking a word that means 'little girls you can lech at while being shocked, shocked if anyone calls you a pedophile in response.'

troublegum posted:

This sums up the most basic problem with everything on TVTropes. That rule about notability could very well be re-written to be "There's no such thing as notability unless we can make references to whatever obscure anime bullshit we watched this week." Tropers are hugely reductionist in their approach to every work of fiction - not just because they're trying to reduce them down to a list of tropes with terribly witty names, but because they're almost always desperately trying to crowbar in something that they can use to link things to their favourite anime's page. Usually the one they created themselves and are now desperately trying to link (or wick, in troper parlance) to as many other things as possible so as to stroke their e-peen whenever they look at the 'Related' page.

Josef bugman posted:

Oddly enough its just bits of the West, Germany's age of consent is 14, alongside the Netherlands and Spain. But you never see this brought up alongside the problem of "does this mean ages of consent are an arbitrary line and that we should be more understanding of different cultures", no instead it is always used to justify "But its really okay because she's 400 years old and not really his actual sister" type of poo poo.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Looking at the page again, though, it does claim that the negative reception was for the author's opinions, not the author's works. It doesn't say what those opinions were, or mention much else about the author other than the fans supposedly worship him. Maybe "thinks lovely writing is good" was the opinion they didn't like? Or maybe they were all just jealous of this gorgeous art:

COBRARocky posted:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110225120453/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TroperTales/BewareTheNiceOnes

CoolZidane posted:

A wise man once said "All things must pass", which means that all things which occur must inevitably pass. Eventually, this thing will pass as all things must. Because after all, all things must pass.

Asgerd posted:

You need a few more "supposedly"s in there. For every thing passes in time, even supposedly this one, maybe, I think.

Antivehicular posted:

2) "Child-girl" may be the most ham-handed way of describing a female child that I've ever seen. Then again, I guess when a woman old enough to have an adolescent daughter is a "schoolgirl," you've really boxed yourself in when it comes to describing an eight-year-old.

Geokinesis posted:

Even though this is probably STDH, I do like that he had to clarify gently caress with two tropes about saying gently caress although it makes it sound like he said:
'Because I'm gently caress loving me'

Improbable Lobster posted:

In 2008 the site hardware crashed and they lost a ton of articles. Some of the members reached out to anime fandoms which didn't help things any. Of course, they have a piss-poor article on it as well as a pointless contributor list.

Hedgehog Pie posted:

Sure, I like to just geek out over sillier stuff sometimes too, but unlike TV Tropes I don't claim to be an "academic resource" when I'm going down that alley. Who was it that kept saying that anyway, one of their forum mods I think?

TV Tropes/Vince Russo posted:

Ultimately, Russo's "creative" output will give an observer the idea that his writing is done from a play book (or trope book, if you prefer) the size of a religious pamphlet, and that he has relied on this limited source of potential ideas for the majority of his career within professional wrestling, rehashing the same concepts and ideas in multiple companies with multiple (and sometimes, the very same) characters.

Hedgehog Pie posted:

Flesnolk posted:

Besides, this is the worthless fuckup who wants to kill everything not American and thinks Russia will invade through Alaska any minute now.

Fuego Fish posted:

Not always. Charles Stross is a science fiction writer who is incredibly scathing of right-wing politics and a lot of his futures envision a more free and open society, to the point where he has some far-future stuff where energy-to-matter machines have eliminated want and also most forms of government on Earth.

Terry Goodkind, a fantasy author, is also a raging objectivist and in his "Sword of Truth" series of books, he has the protagonist butcher a bunch of pacifist protesters who were "armed only with their hatred for moral clarity." There's also a part with an evil chicken, but the less said about that the better.

Oxxidation posted:

A lot of the confusion may also be because David Goyer is an overt fascist and tends to cram tons of unpleasant authoritarian/right-wing ideology into everything he writes.

See also Man of Steel where immigrants are literally portrayed as an invading army who kill the earth with their very presence.

Anais Nun posted:

And then if you go back a few pages you get this.

Razorwired posted:

Because everyone knows that Spider-Man would have been a much better character if he was awesome and perfect at first, saved Uncle Ben and walked around being a Deadpan Snarker in a Love Triangle with Tsundere girlfriend Gwen Stacy and Fiery Redhead Mary-Jane

Sailor Viy posted:

Is there a place that his comics/novels can actually be read? I spent ages looking through the wiki trying to find a link to them. It would be amazing if these narratives only existed in the form of wiki synopses.

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

edit: also, I thought the title of his magnum opus Stationery Voyagers was a typo, but it turns out it is literally about office supplies

Antivehicular posted:

What's up with these guys and always wanting to make huge sprawling "universes/multiverses" to connect everything they make, anyway? I can only imagine it as a combination of delusions of grandeur and copycatting the stuff they consume, because the Star Wars EU has a lot to answer for.

Antivehicular posted:

Ironically enough, if the stories I've heard are right, George Lucas actually did have a lot of that stuff planned out, but it was sufficiently boring and irrelevant that his various collaborators convinced him to trim the fat. It would be a pretty good object lesson in the value murdering your darlings, if Tropers were capable of taking that phrase in a non-Silent-Girl context.

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The falling-out
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Too surprised to say anything the day she received it, her ingratitude was all-too-clear on December 28th. A phone call to her place to see if all was well ended with her spouting insults and condescension, going so far as to call the gift "creepy" just because Tina Nares was based on her. She claimed that he could still e-mail her, but only to the Yahoo account that she only ever checked once in a blue moon at the library downtown. She stated over the phone that she wouldn't let him write or call her-or else. He tried to be courteous, but she only went on and on with her power trip. She even bragged about how she "didn't need the likes of him" once she started her job at Polo Ralph Lauren. When he told her she filled a void in his life, she replied: "Fill it yourself!"

Outraged by her disrespect and ingratitude, and not taking kindly to her threats, the Dozerfleet founder dropped her like a hot potato. It would damage his confidence for quite a long time. On November 5th of 2006, when they had contact again, he threw his anger and pain right back at her, stopping just short of telling her exactly where she could stick it. He even told her to throw out her present. It was too good for her. There was no response, but it's safe to assume she didn't keep it.

Vaginapocalypse posted:

More awful opinions about women and condoms, nothing new here. Although "deathstyle" is an awesome word.

Cease to Hope posted:

That said, it's important to keep in mind that Hitler also ordered Röhm and anyone sympathetic to him to be rounded up and executed in 1934, on the Night of the Long Knives, plus the whole part where homosexuality was grounds to be sent to a concentration camp by the Polish occupation, so arguing that Nazism was somehow a homosexual movement is back to crazytown.

Literally Kermit posted:

H-Hitler belongs to you? Or you just own one of the many people who drove Hitler?

Jay O posted:

tl;dr How do you eradicate a TV Tropes page that doesn't need to exist?

Saint Drogo posted:

Ah, but Jay O is fair game because she bashes things (and worse, their fans ) for a living. Fast Eddie is the guy almost solely responsible for the 'no bashing (or real analysis)' rule on the wiki and he still has that little gently caress Critics message at the bottom of his page (y'know, under that anecdote about a conversation between him and his two sockpuppets).

MrAristocrates posted:

Does anyone know what game Yahtzee reviewed that apparently lead to Fast Eddie deleting most of the page? Somebody mentioned that FE did the AI on it and that sounds like hilariously stupid drama so I'd like to know more.

Count Chocula posted:

There was apparently some evidence that Community creator Dan Harmon is/was a Troper (Abed definitely is). I like the show, but that wouldn't really challenge the idea of Tropers as thin-skinned and emotionally immature.

Apple Tree posted:

Anyone got any content?

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This Troper would like to say that, as a fan of the Dark Age, it makes me feel EXTREMELY alienated and frankly angry to hear everyone constantly ragging on it. Personal history: I grew up in the 90s, and my first comics were Youngblood, X-Force, Wetworks etc. I loved early 90s Image and Marvel stuff—and you know what, I liked Rob Liefeld and I even like "bad girl" art. Yeah, I said it, I prefer Liefeld and Jim Lee and Todd Mc Farland and the like to some of the "classics" like Perez or Kirby. And yes I read it—and read it—for the tits and guns and action, I don't feel "stupider" for admitting that nor should I. Frankly, it strikes me as childish and myopic to talk of overt sex, sexualization, violence, etc as things we should just pretend don't exist in "polite company". There is nothing wrong with a healthy sex drive or wanting a visceral thrill. The Silver Age was fun FOR KIDS but unless you're completely dishonest it was incredibly sterile, myopic, filled with racism and misogyny and to be quite honest it was disturbing in many, many cases. Maybe the covers lied a lot, but the fact that many of them featured CHILDREN in compromising positions with adults (eg, skinny dipping with Batman and Superman, sitting spread eagle on a battleship cannon like it was their penis, etc) and for all the talk of "too much sex" in the Dark Age it had none of that. I can TOTALLY understand people liking the campy and yes Narmy aspects of the Silver Age and Golden Age, but why should people like this Troper and his friends have to feel like outcasts because we enjoy some T and A, or watching people with big guns shoot aliens or whatever? I never understood why we get so much grief. I'll admit all of the "excesses" (though I don't consider them excessive per se) of the 90s, but my question is, so what? It's the same argument I would make about Dead or Alive or Gears of War today: yes it's very sexualized, yes its all about tits and gore...so? What right does anyone have to be discriminatory? What right do you have to judge me? I guess my question is, who died and made you God? The fact the entire Dark Age page reads like a treatise by Linkara on why he hates Image comics is a perfect example of what I mean.

Nucleic Acids posted:

I've heard he finally cut off his lion's mane, and is dressing better (at least in his book-jacket photos); would you say that's accurate?