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sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Furia posted:

Because in their animes sociopathy is lighthearted and accepted and a trait of genius or something

I'll never quite grasp when or why being a broken person became/is cool

the phrase "Refuge in Audacity" springs to mind and then i looked it up and it's a Trope :classiclol:

I guess it must be one of the vanishingly few useful ones. Have you met people in your life who were so socially marginalized that they've given up even paying lip service to fitting in, and actively try to alienate themselves further by being deliberately unbearable? Through various means they sometimes find one another, assure each other "you're perfect exactly as you are! we are outsiders!" and reinforce the behavior through one of the geek social fallacies, and are convinced they've "won" the game against those jock popular kids, like they've cracked the code. The tvtropes website for very obvious reasons became a hotbed for folks like this, whose primary means of interpersonal interaction is online dialogue with other vengeful marginalized nerds.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 16:01

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 14:49

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Kajeesus posted:

Plenty of tropes are viable literary analysis/social commentary. The site lasted a decently long time before anime boob charts and insular pedo communities scared everyone away.

Good point.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2016 00:35

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Can't wait for the rest of the inevitable Pokemon Go stdh to start bubbling out. "I met someone who is [demographic], and to my surprise, they also play pokemon! We are not all so different after all"

# ¿ Jul 9, 2016 19:54

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

davidspackage posted:

Dude in the 3 am walk story told the guys on the bench how he got an Evee. Is this just a continuing story of a white kid living and learning about Pokemon as he encounters Magical Negroes?

Postal Parcel posted:

That(3DS) is the prequel. Now, 20+ years later, older and "wiser" he once again meets a new black generation to "play" pokemon with while simultaneously being terrified.
KEEP IT REAL

Paladinus posted:

Ah, so that's the difference between Pokemon Black and White.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 15:32

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Inconsistencies are the best part of STDH stories.

Followed closely by the frantic doubling down if someone calls them out on it

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 16:27

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

My buddy Orangejello is pretty knowledgeable about stuff like this. With him, his brothers Redjello and Greenjello, and his sister Vagina working on it, we'll have an answer in no time.

I get all my Pokemon tips from Female

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 14:57

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Yeah as a teacher id def want my students making presentations that are chock full of memes

the real sth: No one ever liked me when I was a kid so now I succeed vicariously through fake younger versions of myself in stdhs I write and post on imgur

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 02:47

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Paladinus posted:

It's a teacher who themselves posts memes on imgur, though. People like that really exist.

Memes make me feel at least 8 years younger.

This is true. And I guess if any part of this stdh is true, at least that weirdass kid has a teacher that gets him.

Xen Tricks posted:

I sat through a presentation one time in comp Sci class, packed with such gems as do u liek mudkips about 2-3 years after that stopped being a thing. Hideously awkward, no one laughed. No one ever will.

That's just unpleasant. And you wonder if the presenter is thinking to themself "Hmph, jocks, they just don't get my sense of humor" when it's like most of us are nerds as well, and we "get" the jokes we just do not wish to be presented with them

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 13:50

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Spending years teaching a student how to be a good print journalist and then seeing poo poo like this must be heartbreaking

Editing is really a lost art.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 21:39

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

hyperhazard posted:

Not to mention, what was she menstruating out of? Her urethra?

See, the sex made the urethra bleed and she's a dumb woman so she thought that was her period!! :haw:

Women amirite lol

# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 20:27

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Thin Privilege posted:

Oh and lots of people who say Jews have sex through a hole in a bedsheet.

it's all just a mistranslation. They use the same holes as everybody else

# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 01:39

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Khazar-khum posted:

(a slightly different kind of sheepish to the JW, it has to be said). Her interactions with a different but, at the same time, very similar group of boys (you know what I mean, right?)

No! I don't!

# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 14:19

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

flosofl posted:

I know they're just nerd fantasy. But every single time, they manage to piss me off. Every. Single. Time.

As a child/teen I didn't get why people hated nerds. Troper Tales make me understand

# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 14:21

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Gender-swapped example of "guys of online dating" ?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 02:52

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

blue story's husband

# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 21:12

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

I KRIED B/C A MAN YELLED IN THE THEAT

# ¿ Jul 21, 2016 03:14

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

LIKE if u cry every time a ghost busts

# ¿ Jul 21, 2016 03:15

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

He needed to specify it was the Shrek version for [reason], he didn't want you to have the wrong mental versimillitude

# ¿ Jul 26, 2016 21:07

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Henchman of Santa posted:

I just think it's weird how many of those stories involve teachers when it's still July and the game came out this month.

Some regions have year round school, so etc

Also even nerds have to go to summer school sometimes

I like the cartoon exchange one even though it's fake. Most of these stdhs end with one person being the obvious, superior victor, but this just ends with both sides putting aside their differences and being pals :shobon:

More stdhs ought to be a lesson in humility imo.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 19:27

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Ytlaya posted:

To be fair, I can understand why someone who has only played the game by themselves wouldn't realize this. Unless you're specifically around other people who inform you of the fact they're trying to catch the same thing as you, you probably wouldn't realize that the game works this way.

Right and the people who write these things aren't likely to be around others, let alone others who will interact with them voluntarily.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 22:17

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Non Serviam posted:

You're trying to conclude that the idiot is a misogynist simply because (in his fantasy) he is mad because his best friend ended up dating a girl he likes?

People can have issues with someone, even if they're wrong for having them, without you needing to go into a ridiculous tangent of hate against women.

Good that it didn't happen though.

"hates a woman" not "hates women"

# ¿ Jul 30, 2016 15:42

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Jerry Cotton posted:

Sung in fluent Bohemian.

by a baby Muslim veteran refusing to use food stamps. pokemon

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 19:44

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Would you any expect less from "buttertitsaretasty?" the e.e.e cummings of our time?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 21:20

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Tunicate posted:

It was a rule that you shouldn't use first person so naturally they just referred to themselves as 'this troper' instead of 'I' because

I'm failry sure that the reason for that rule to begin with was to keep the "real life examples" sections of trope pages relatively clear of exactly this kind of dumb crap. Now, one might argue there shouldn't be a "real life examples" section on a site dedicated to tropes in fiction, but I can see its value and interest in a trivia sort of way rather than a "I cannot tell the difference between real life and my animes" type of way. Bit by bit though as people became familiar with the "This Troper" loophole, it became a breeding ground for spinning these yarns because, well, if you aren't cool in real life, make up a story about how you were cool in a fictional-type way, right? Over time the "real life examples" became so bloated that IIRC they might have been banned or split off to a different site, at least for the heavily abused tropes such as Crowning Moment of Awesome and similar things.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 15:56

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Zelder posted:

Inter gender MMA, now there's a good idea

THE PATRIARCHY SMACKDOWN

FEMI-FISTS VS MEN'S RIGHTFISTS ADVOCATES

# ¿ Aug 2, 2016 00:41

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

chitoryu12 posted:

A Tumblr post that I saw today:

I wondered what it would have been like growing up in a late 90's, early 00's school sitcom

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 20:42

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Tendales posted:

Neither the doctor nor the nurse apologized once, this clearly did not take place in canada.

The writer neglected to mention the hospital's overwhelming and pervasive smell of syrup.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 15:27

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Things have gone downhill for the Dos Equis guy.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 19:49

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Tunicate posted:

It's as if they're awful creatures who suck the joy out of the world by sheer proximity.

Kissing one would be a soul-destroying experience.

the human body instinctively fights even against itself to survive in a life or death situation

# ¿ Aug 10, 2016 03:43

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Fathis Munk posted:

I bet 50% of them are the shy nerd that stands in the corner but is actually kinda normal when you engage them. The other 50% are probably almost as insufferable irl as they are on the net.

That's possible. A lot of the dumb stories are probably just dumb posturing for nerd cred. Which is sad that that exists as a thing.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2016 14:54

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

So much edge youre just a circle

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 00:35

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

what the

# ¿ Aug 17, 2016 18:13

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

A nitpick- shoudln't he like, not be wearing a wedding ring? I thought dudes wearing wedding rings was like a post WW2 thing

# ¿ Aug 17, 2016 22:31

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

chitoryu12 posted:

At first I forgot the context and thought of a different picture entirely.

well they are assholes

# ¿ Aug 18, 2016 13:56

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

i hope the next bug in the shower goes on the girl. like she looks down and it's right on her feet. a long house centipede of a bug.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2016 22:06

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

I've had friends who assumed that all their clothes were made entirely by robots, not by miserable workers in a sweat shop in Bangladesh. I've also had housemates confused that I would repair torn hems and torn-off buttons on shirts instead of buying a new one. The idea that sometimes people will make a whole outfit out of lengths of fabric, for fun, really is beyond some people's imagining. Especially if they've led a very sheltered life up to that point.

Yeah I absolutely buy KK's story. Just being able to sew is a bamboozling concept to some people, being able to actually make something altogether (these days, in a first world country) is sorcery.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 13:40

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

This post on my feed gave me a bit of a smile. good on ya

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 18:35

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

"Storytime, kids" is code for "I'm a self-important asswipe" unless you are actually a schoolteacher or grandparent.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 02:37

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

The priest stood up and clapped

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 15:12

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 14:49

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

black people, the most amusing race

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 21:25

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