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I always get a laugh whenever they make a point of not giving "spoilers" for their stories. As if they were ever going to be finished/read anyway.
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crowfeathers posted:Hlioskjalf: A relative power to Regalia, he achieved this power by sacrificing his right eye to finalize his connection to the mythology of Odin. This power allows him to change the Mana in a spell and make it different Mana and thus, change what spell he's using, functionally allowing him to cast one spell out of another. What does this even mean? In fact, what does any of that even mean?
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Djeser posted:
To a casual observer those entries would seem to be longer than one line.
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That BBT male pregnancy thing was hilariously probably the best writing I've seen from tvtropes. Seriously, I got almost half way through before losing interest.
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Does anyone have any info about "Major Tom" washing out of the army, 'cause that's hilarious.
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Jan 9, 2014 01:03
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Maybe his family are all black albinos.
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Jan 11, 2014 00:47
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It isn't just tvtropes that stereotypes black writers, out whole culture does that.
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MinistryofLard posted:I think I've said it before, but if tropers summarised 1984 they'd say that its a story where a guy wakes up, meets a girl, has sex with said girl, then gets arrested by the government and brainwashed. That's all they'd have to say. Don't forget shipping.
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Roland Jones posted:So, yeah, that's a summary of my fifteen minutes of Internet fame. A pedophile was so weird and creepy that random people on the Internet came to my aid in frightening him off the Internet. I'm sure my parents are proud. Um, don't you mean ephebophilile you philistine?
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Odd confessions posted:Well, this one's kind of cheesy. ^_^;; Odd confessions posted:Odd confession time - I want to have cat ears on my head so I can emote in a subtle manner with them. Odd confessions posted:Oh, Internet feminists...I really can't stand them. Some of them do legitimately points out important arguments in logical and civil manner. More often than not, though, the ones I've encountered, both in and out of this site tend to be overly touchy. Almost as bad as grammar Nazis. There are 1867 pages in this thread.
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Jan 19, 2014 08:38
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Lol, you sister like Joss Whedon and tgwtg and you complain about it on somethingawful.
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Jan 19, 2014 09:47
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Since when is it not socially acceptable to like Joss Whedon? People will think you're nerdy, but otherwise?
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Jan 19, 2014 10:46
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What I'm saying is: people on the internet act like the universe is consumed in some great culture war over nerd stuff, but irl almost no one cares what media you like unless they like it too.
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Jan 19, 2014 11:51
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In fairness, they were bronies in the first place, so they didn't have to sink very far.
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I feel like pony/lesswrong stuff could easily sustain it's own thread. Fluffy pony couldn't though, as everyone involved would commit suicide.
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Jan 20, 2014 07:48
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Yeah, that's a Berserk Button for me too.
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Jan 21, 2014 17:19
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Nope, I Brutally Subverted that trope. When I need a pencil broken, I just get my Yandere Deadpan Snarker Nakama to do it.
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Honestly I legitimately like tvtropes. The forums and like 3/4ths of the articles are poo poo, but if you avoid anything related to ponies or Japan the site is ok.
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In their Harry Potter thread, there's a guy advocating for genocide.quote:The goblins need to smashed. Kill as many of them as possible and wrest Gringotts from them. Having the financial institution running Wizarding Britain in the hands of a faction with dubious loyalty at best is asking for trouble. quote:Goblins aren't human. Ergo, the abrogation of their rights is not an attack on human rights. quote:I find it very uncomfortable that goblins are basically fantasy Jews — short people with big noses who have an international control over finance with a strange and grasping concept of ownership that makes them seem avaricious.
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For other bad MLP fanfics that aren't as disturbing as fluffypony see: Xenophilia, in which a self insert human has graphically depicted sex with a pony. Friendship Is Optimal, in which an AI pony takes over the world and presumably everything else on this page
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Swan Oat posted:Written by Eliezer Yudkowsi? Close. One of his followers.
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Pointing out that Tropeers catastrophically miss the point of 1984 is almost cheating, since almost everyone does that.
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WastedJoker posted:Is there an actual alternative to tvtropes? Is there a need for one?
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cptn_dr posted:A degree in English Literature? How would a degree in English lit help me find pony torture pornography?
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Say which fanfics these were and provide links plz.
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The "Edit banned/Suspended - would like to edit again." thread is just hilarious.quote:Hello, I've been banned from editing and I would like editing privileges reinstated. I am aware of the reason that I was banned (it was due to a Chrome plugin that changes the word 'cloud' to 'butt' - I have since removed this plugin from my browser) and promise that I will never make a mistake like that ever again. This incident was a complete accident on my part and I mean the pages that I have accidentally vandalized, as well as this site in general, no harm. quote:"Alright, that's enough forever from Soban. Creepiest thing I've ever read posing as a "prayer." Soban has nothing of value for us to hear and is banned from these forums." quote:I am very sorry that I came across as rude, condescending, and insulting. I was attempting to open up a deep and important aspect of my faith for criticism in what I thought was an appropriate thread for the criticism that I wanted to receive. It was not my goal to be rude to my fellow poster, to condescend to them, nor to insult them by sharing a prayer of blessing over them and then open that prayer for criticism so that I could pray for them more effectively. I genuinely believed and was trying to be respectful of them. I know that in my experience, if someone from a different faith wanted to bless me, I would accept it in the spirit it was being offered, even if I disagreed with their religion.
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Has anyone ever pointed out to fast Eddie that maybe if not even the site regulars understand what these articles are about then they just might be shittily written?
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Lottery of Babylon posted:A troper named Polar in their LGBT rights thread announces she's getting married! This post has all the soban stuff.
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news posted:Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday that it is not illegal to secretly photograph underneath a person's clothing -- a practice known as "upskirting". Sane person posted:Yep, sounds like a pretty clear case of a badly written — or just out of date — law. Raven Wilder posted:Why should that be illegal? If you're in a public space, you should be able to photograph anything you can see; I don't see why what angle you photograph someone from should be regulated.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Link? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=3014#75349
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I think around the time of the first tvtropes thread Raven had a several page argument to the effect that not only was a white person using the word "friend of the family" not racist, but people who got mad at him for it were in fact the real racists. The guy is pretty much "Libertarian with Aspergers" personified.
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Swan Oat posted:I told my brother a joke last night and he smiled at me, does he secretly want to practice gay incest? Depends, was it a rape joke?
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Cracked SJW articles aren't nerds trying too hard to be funny; what they actually are is nerds not trying at all to be funny. Also there are some stock photos with "funny" captions. The rest of the site is either just ripping off Seanbaby (who I thought was hilarious when I was 15, idk about now) or lists of possibly-accurate trivia.
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Raven Wilder posted:I asked this in another thread, but this Mass. anti-upskirt law: it's illegal to take a picture up a woman's skirt, but what if someone just got their head down near the floor in order to look up a woman's skirt and didn't take a picture? Would that be legal? He hasn't given up yet.  quote:Well, this may be getting off-topic, but I'm of the opinion that, if it's legal for you to see something, it should be legal for you to take a picture of it. I know there are people who think taking someone's picture at all without getting their permission beforehand should be illegal, and I'm nervous about laws that would create a legal precedence for that.
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That guy is so naive it's almost endearing.
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I know there was at least one troper tale where the guy said he thought the holocaust was only wrong because it was too expensive, and Hitler would have been in the right if he hadn't wasted all that money on gas.
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Seems to me tvtropes gave an accurate explanation whereas you gave an... imcomplete one.
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quote:As embarrassing as it is to admit it, I've never liked it when characters in the media use strong language. I've heard all kinds of justifications for it: "it's more realistic" (point taken in historical dramas and other more down-to-earth stories, but are we really trying to call superhero films realistic now?), "it's the character' speaking, not the writer" (well I don't like that part of the character), "[character X] is just the kind of person who swears a lot" (point taken, still gratuitous though), and "what's the big deal, they're just words" (the biggest crock of bull I've ever heard, they're listed as vulgar in the dictionary for a damned good reason), and none of them have done anything to change my viewpoint. It's reaching almost phobiaesque levels; I get incredibly nervous when I have to watch a movie I haven't before when it's rated above a G, since even PG-rated films are allowed to use every swear word on the book except "gently caress", and even then there have been exceptions to the rule. It is downright humiliating how many good movies I've had to miss out on because of this entirely unjustified - but overpowering - fear.
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I gave yudkowsky all my parents' money, I'll probably be one of the guys who torture you shitlords in robot hell.
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CommanderCoffee posted:The only real-life person I know who wears a fedora with any regularity and is justified in doing so is my Maya-centric archaeology teacher, who only wears it on field digs. He has the leather jacket too, but that doesn't work well in Guatemala and so his gear there is fedora, t-shirt, shorts, hiking shoes. If you're an archaeologist you pretty much have license to wear a fedora imo.
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