This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Janitor: Fast Eddie asked me to look in on this entry, as it is using a lot of "cycles" — whatever those are — and is really big on-disk. He doesn't go into videogame entries because of a professional conflict. Is there some way to chop it up into smaller pieces?
Tanto: Frankly, I'm not sure what the point of this entry is anymore. It was originally posted with the intent that we could cannibalize some of its ideas for ourselves, but now it just seems to be posted wholesale with a lot of links to other entries (some of which are very borderline, incidentally). Is that really necessary?
Sci Vo: I think I see what happened. It turned into a sort of Pot Hole game of matching entries on The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Clichés
to existing tropes. That's why it takes so many cycles: whenever someone views the page, the server looks up each link to see whether to color it blue or red. It's not as bad as if they were red links — verifying non-existence takes the longest — but it's probably about half as bad, and there are a lot of links there.
There are several options. A lot of work apparently went into the entry-matching, and it's interesting, so simply discarding it would be my least favorite. Slicing it up would be another option since it's a numbered list, and 192 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4. Also, I think that turning all of the internal links into the equivalent external links would save the cycles.
Sci Vo: Okay, I just split the 192 clichés into eight pages of 24 clichés each. Hopefully that will do the trick.
Guest: Who the heck is Rynn (see Rule 151) and what the heck is Maginot?
Citizen: "The Maginot Line (IPA: [maʒi'noː], French: Ligne Maginot), named after French Minister of Defense André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in the light of experience from World War I, and in the run-up to World War II." [1]
Haven: Took this out, since that troper doesn't seem to be aware this is a list someone made. It appeared as 193.
- Killer Rabbit's Theorem: Suppose that an average enemy Mook is the median value of cuteness versus horror in appearance, with a native of the Sugar Bowl representing the former extreme, and the local Cosmic Horror representing the other. The more an enemy diverges from the median in *either* direction, the more power powerful the enemy in question is likely to be.
