History Quotes / DeadHorseTrope

->''"A mean older lady in Hatena's family tells her that if she steals a particular artifact, her mom will come back home. She just ''believes'' them despite having been betrayed by each of those women in a previous episode and having negative reasons to trust them. It then turns out that the predictable liar ''[[ILied lied]]'' and it was a trap...and then Hatena gets bondaged up in a T-pose and moans and groans a lot while the definitely-not-an-audience-insert-character fights to save her. Now...personally, I don't find this to be particularly engaging or satisfying storytelling. I got bored with it around my thirtieth video game or so. Your mileage may vary depending on your tolerance for the sexist cliché so cliché that it's a cliché to call it a sexist cliché."''

->''"A mean older lady in Hatena's family tells her that if she steals a particular artifact, then her mom will come back home. She just ''believes'' them despite being betrayed by each of those women in a previous episode and having negative reasons to trust them. It then turns out that the predictable liar ''[[ILied lied]]'' and it was a trap...and then Hatena gets bondaged up in a T-pose and moans and groans a lot while the definitely-not-an-audience-insert-character fights to save her. Now...personally, I don't find this to be particularly engaging or satisfying storytelling. I got bored with it around my thirtieth video game or so. Your mileage may vary depending on your tolerance for the sexist cliché so cliché that it's a cliché to call it a sexist cliché."''

->''The thing about ''Crock'' is that it’s years-old reruns of strips whose whole vibe was [[TwoDecadesBehind already years out of date]] when they were new, which I know doesn’t ''sound'' like the description of something that would be interesting to read every day, but it definitely delivers a fascinating, tangled mess of weird cultural attitudes! Like, today’s strip plays on that well-known belief that “librarians don’t have sex.” I mean, how ''could'' they have sex? They’re ''{{nerd}}s!'' But the punchline here undermines this widely held stereotype: the bookmobile guy does, in fact, fuck. His paramour is named “Bertha,” though, so we can be reassured in the implication that she’s at least unattractive, and some small part of the world still makes sense.''

->''The entire crime-writing fraternity yesterday bade a tearful farewell to the last [[LockedRoomMystery "locked room" mystery]] at a large banquet held in its honor.. DCI Chymes then gave a glowing eulogy before being interrupted by the shocking news that the 'locked room' concept had been 'murdered' -- and in a locked room.''
-->-- '''Creator/JasperFforde''', ''[[Literature/NurseryCrime The Big Over Easy]]''

->"Back in [[UsefulNotes/TheFifties the 50's]] the fan-dancers were hot, right? Now you can see gonzo porn on the internet where 80 guys are fuckin' cumming on some chick's face. So you don't really wanna see the girl hiding behind the fuckin' flower fan anymore."

->"Now, some of you may think that the genre of fantasy is an excuse to free one's imagination to create truly alien and bizarre races. But that is utterly wrong! Fantasy is all about being derivative and not getting out of your comfort zone! It is very important that the genre of fantasy remains sternly under the shadow of [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien,]] and make no attempts to push the boundaries in any way."
-->-- '''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmUUupSgQk FANTASY RACES]]'''

->"Okay, I'm going to establish a new rule now: You know [[TakeCover cover-based combat?]] You're not allowed to base your whole game around that any more. You can still ''have'' it, in all its chest-high wall, pop-up shooting gallery tedium, but you've gotta have ''something else'', even if it's just a ''VideoGame/CookingMama''-style {{minigame}} during the celebratory post-firefight barbecue. Why? Because it's ''boring,'' it's ''overdone'', and I feel sorry for the artists. They go through all the trouble researching appropriate outfits for periods and the setting, drawing the concept art, painstakingly modeling and animating the characters, and then what? They get stuck behind bits of wall on the far side of murky rooms and you might as well have dressed them up in cardboard boxes and bunny slippers."
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch 2: Dog Days''

-->-- '''''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Magical Items 3''''', on TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday

->"Because how better to PROVE that ''RWBY'' is JUST LIKE an anime than to give it a ''{{tournament arc}}?'' I mean, a ''story'' [[TheChrisCarterEffect would have been nice,]] but--"

->"Right, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! Or maybe, what doesn't kill you [[{{Metaphorgotten}} is just killing you slowly?]]...The rebuttal to the cliché is, itself, now a cliché. That's how cliché it is."

->"Glenn Martin is [[BumblingDad the Dumbass Dad]], and his wife is [[WomenAreWiser the woman too good for him]]... Literally every {{sitcom}} and commercial since 1992. This {{cliche}} has been beaten to a pulp, buried into the ground, grown into a poison oak tree, been cut down, and burnt into toxic fumes."

->"Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have [[CatFight women punching each other out."]]

->''At a certain point, with age, we lose our grip on which ideas are cyclical and which ideas are perpetual and which ideas have died out. {{Music/Madonna}} is just mimicking modes of edginess that worked for her in the past--that were new and important in the past--but what was once progressive nearly always becomes regressive. Because we learn so much all the time. The racial exploitation of ''Sex''-era Madonna was provocative once; [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan now it's just exploitation.]] So when do we cut our idols loose? When does the Queen of Reinvention run out of raw materials and turn into the, um, Lesser Duchess of Recycling?''
-->-- '''''Jezebel''''', [[http://jezebel.com/madonna-what-are-you-doing-1510137010 "Madonna, What Are You Doing."]]

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->"Okay, I'm going to establish a new rule now: You know [[TakeCover cover-based combat?]] You're not allowed to base your whole game around that any more. You can still ''have'' it, in all its chest-high wall, pop-up shooting gallery tedium, but you've gotta have something else, even if it's just a ''VideoGame/CookingMama''-style {{minigame]] during the celebratory post-firefight barbecue. Why? Because it's ''boring,'' it's ''overdone'', and I feel sorry for the artists. They go through all the trouble researching appropriate outfits for periods and the setting, drawing the concept art, painstakingly modeling and animating the characters, and then what? They get stuck behind bits of wall on the far side of murky rooms and you might as well have dressed them up in cardboard boxes and bunny slippers."

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->''Meanwhile, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter must have seen [[Creator/JohnnyDepp Depp]] wandering around and assumed this was another Creator/TimBurton joint, so she shows up as a brothel madam with [[LegCannon an ivory leg that doubles as a gun]] (when you're seeing exploitation staples in {{Creator/Disney}} movies, you know it's time to retire them).''

->''The show was never afraid to go cartoonishly broad with its {{nerd}}s, with their flailing arms and nasally voices, colourful too-short pants held up with suspenders, and black-rimmed glasses taped at the bridge of the nose, as they scuttled off to chess club...Like a gritty Creator/ChristopherNolan reboot of a whole genus, the 21st century Poindexters of ''[[Series/TheBigBangTheory Big Bang Theory]]'' and ''{{Series/Community}}'' are far closer to the twitching robo-savant of ''Film/RainMan'' than the spluttering geeks of old, taking their cue from Creator/MichaelCera rather than ''Series/MrBean.

->''Meanwhile, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter must have seen Depp wandering around and assumed this was another Creator/TimBurton joint, so she shows up as a brothel madam with [[LegCannon an ivory leg that doubles as a gun]] (when you're seeing exploitation staples in {{Creator/Disney}} movies, you know it's time to retire them).''

->''The thing about ''Crock'' is that it’s years-old reruns of strips whose whole vibe was [[TwoDecadesBehind already years out of date]] when they were new, which I know doesn’t ''sound'' like the description of something that would be interesting to read every day, but it definitely delivers a fascinating, tangled mess of weird cultural attitudes! Like, today’s strip plays on that well-known belief that “librarians don’t have sex.” I mean, how ''could'' they have sex? They’re ''{{nerds}}!'' But the punchline here undermines this widely held stereotype: the bookmobile guy does, in fact, fuck. His paramour is named “Bertha,” though, so we can be reassured in the implication that she’s at least unattractive, and some small part of the world still makes sense.''

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