History Tropers / Flaminghello

A Genius.

->Gordon:"So Ryan, what do you think of Peter?"
->Ryan:"He's a freak!"

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[[caption-width-right:350:A Genius of the Lowest Order]]


Who am I? I'm Canadian, high school graduate, IQ of 141 (last time I took an IQ quiz on the internet, at any rate). I'm intelligent in that I'm good at math - not much else. I like to imagine my life as a TV show, with season finales declared at the conclusion of long-term story arcs that I arbitrarily decide. I guess if I had to summarize my "character arc", it would be the transition from an irrational, selfish, child to a stable, emotionally mature adult. I probably still have a ways to go, but I've definitely come a ways from where I started. In person, I'm not a particularly talkative person, but I'm told I have a "savage" sense of humor when I apply it. Just going off my observations of how people react to me, I'd guess I'm an alright person.


Also, I'd like to apologize for some shitpost edits I made back in 2011. I was kind of a dipshit back then, and I am sincerely sorry for my actions.


I run the greatest blog of all time, ''[[http://ourwierdworld.blogspot.com/ MovieReviewsWithPeterChang]]''.\\

'''Season Summaries:'''\\

* '''Season One''' being the first year of high school. An immediate clash between eight years' worth of catholic school indoctrination and the public school environment ensued. I handled that poorly. I met a nice girl at the beginning of the year but that didn't pan out. In general, I was a very edgy individual, acting like I had it tough (classic 14-year-old nonsense). Grew my hair out and was all-around not a pleasant person to be around. By the end of the year, I decided I would dedicate the next year to making up for it.
* '''Season Two''' being the second year of high school. I set about making good on my pledge to make up for my misdeeds, and largely succeeded. For the first half of the year, I was still pretty unpleasant because I was still really edgy, but I managed to shake that off and became a happy person. I met lots of new people and got into some wacky adventures. All-in-all, a very fun year.
* '''Season Three''' being the third year of high school. I decided to become edgy again, and became angry at everything for reasons I'm still not 100% clear on. As it turns out, anger is not a sustainable source of energy, so eventually I had to let it go. The wackiness really started ramping up around this time. I made a few new friends and finally started getting it into my head that edginess is not a path to happiness. By the end of it, I was on a good path.
* '''Season Four''' being the fourth year of high school. I decided it was about time to start seriously taking a look at myself, as I had taken some weird detours over the last three years and could not honestly be considered a good person. I still got into wacky escapades and it was all-around a light-hearted year, but it was also an important learning year for me, as I decided it was time to start acting like a decent human being.
* '''Season Five''' was the final year of high school. Putting the final touches on my polished, new "good person" personality was the goal. It followed a pretty classical story arc - I started with momentum, it dissipated, I declined, it looked like all hope was lost, and in the end I overcame and I'd say I successfully put myself on the right path, albeit with still quite a bit of work to do before I'm a functional adult.
* '''Season Six''' being the next 5, 10 years. I don't know at this point. I really didn't want to continue with the "TV Show" thing but I couldn't really make it go away. Over the course of this season I guess I'll move towards greater independence and start systemically correcting my flaws. It's an exciting time full of opportunity.

[[folder: episode names (incomplete)]]
[[WMG: Season One]]
* Pilot
* Gradual Inclination
* Both Extremes
* Drama
* Cool Stuff
* Valentine's Day
* Longhairs
* Red
[[WMG: Season Two]]
* Poleatar's Ninth
* Halloween
* Recidivism
* Why Bother
* Math
* Getting Better
* Morning
* Be Here Now
* Daisy
[[WMG: Season Three]]
* Paul
* Brainer
* Solid State
* Dull
* Flower
* Clubbing
[[WMG: Season Four]]
* From Many People's Strength
* Dollarama
* Redux
* Base Camp
* Precognition
* Insulation
* Listless
* Sign of the Times
[[WMG: Season Five]]
* Sunshine
* Attention Deficit
* In It
* Off
* Vitamin C
* Paranoid
* Vertigo
* Nosebleeds
* Limitless
* Equilibrium
[[WMG: Season Six]]
* Moreover
* Imaginary Friends
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Tropes associated with me and the world as I view it]]
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism:
** Whenever I'm on a roll at any game I become substantially more confident. It takes until I lose at a game for the effect to wear off.
* AntiHero: Classical.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** "...Whose crimes against Scotland include High Treason, Rebellion, Embezzlement, Grand Theft Auto, Jaywalking, and Shoving a Moose out of a Moving Aeroplane."
* BadassBoast:
** "The game is over when I say it's over."
* CharacterDevelopment: As most people go through.
* DevelopmentHell:
** I promised a review of ''High School Musical 3'' for my blog. It was a few months before I bothered.
*** I finally did get it done, only to promise a review of ZombieLand that will likely never come.
** The New Calvin Comics
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Inverted. People often say they can't tell if I'm being serious or not.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** "Scientist Cow" a character I created during french class, season one.
** Calvin Comics
* HypocriticalHumor:
** (Watching BreakingBad) "''Dumbass.''" *Lifts water glass to drink and spills on himself
* IncrediblyLamePun: I love a good pun on occasion.
*** "''AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY''"
* LargeHam:
** Then she does this high-kick, jutterbug sort of dance, ''LIKE A CRAZED STORK IN HEAT!''
** '''YEAH! EAT IT BITCH!'''
** '''I SHOT! I SHOT!'''
** Write that. '''WRITE THAT!''' (throws pencil)
** '''MOVE!'''
** '''OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'''
** '''NO! NO!'''[[hottip:*:When my ball went into the gutter on bowling day.]]
** '''JUMP!'''
** '''YEAH!'''
** ''CALVIN!''
* NeverLiveItDown: I made my character run away during '''ONE''' game of Diablo III. I've been accused of "running away during every game we play."
* NoIndoorVoice: I alternate between this and "the quiet one". I was considered for "loudest" in my final yearbook.
* NotSoAboveItAll: I'm really no different from any other person. Neither are you.
* RunningGag:
** "LORAX!" - Season One
** "War Cry!" - Season Three
** Whenever I lose at a game, I immediately call the other person out for cheating, no matter how much of a stretch my accusations are.
** "Meme."
*** "lime"
*** "pucker"
*** "suck it in"
*** "smooth."
* TheAntiNihilist: My forum quote is from Elon Musk: "Well, first of all, why go anywhere?". I take that as inspirational - the goal of life is to craft one's own meaning.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Quotes from Me and Those Around Me]]
-> "Pessimism is a waste of energy."
--> Myself
-> "That [nihilism] is the worst possible philosophy. You would be happier following literally any other philosophy."
--> My brother
-> "The metaphor I used was that I was scanning a small part of a couch, saying 'I ''know'' there's a couch here somewhere' while failing to realize that the only way to find a couch to relax on was to step back, stop trying to find the couch, and recognize that it was always there."
-> My approximation of the concept of the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Taoism ego and the process of reaching enlightenment.]]
-> "(falsetto)Yeeeeeah!"
--> A celebratory exclamation used primarily by me, but borrowed by lots of other people.
[[/folder]]

** '''''CNN JUST CALLED IT, HE FUCKING DID IT!!!!!!'''''

* Listlessly
* My Name is Peter

* AmbiguouslyGay

** "It was loud and flashy and sexually depraved and [[IWasToldThereWouldBeCake there were no refreshments.]]"

** "Do I look like God frightens me?"
* ButtMonkey:
** ''Calvin.'' His whole life is a real-life Calvin Comic.
** Mannek for most of season one.
** Jordan Dubbayah from Season Four onward.
* CharacterDevelopment: When I describe how I was in season one to fiends I made in season three, they say they cannot imagine me being like that. Whether I'm a better person of not is more or less the topic of the show.
* ContinuityNod:
** Castle Ferrum is based on schematics I drew up in season one.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Season three, in a very petty, 15-year-old sort of way.
** Season Four gets weird.

* GrowingTheBeard: The show really started picking up in the second half of season two.
* HeroicBSOD:
** [=S01E01=] "Paul" puts me in this state a few times.
** "From Many Peoples Strength" revolves around my breaking out of one, among other things.

* IncrediblyLamePun: I spent an entire day cracking these once.
** "I thought the test[[hottip:*:science test on acids, bases, and salts]] was rather... ''basic.''

** Zacen: "Aargh that pun hurt."

* NoIndoorVoice: Liam considered voting me "loudest" in the yearbook.
* NotSoAboveItAll: As much as I may like to think I'm smarter or better than anyone else, I'm really, ''really'' not.
* OnlySaneMan:

** "You Pervert!" - Season One

** Whenever I lose at a game, I immediately call the other person out for cheating, no matter how much of a stretch my theories are. It's intentionally left ambiguous whether or not I'm serious.

* TheAntiNihilist: After season three, I tried on this philosophy. I never renounced it but it doesn't factor into my decisions much anymore.

-> "Actually, this is the first time I've been in public without underwear on."
--> Myself, on the topic of swimming at 10:30 PM, "Flower" (Season 3, Episode 11)

-> "Are you just sitting there, watching House and listening to MaryLambert by yourself?"
--> My sister, on me doing exactly that

-> "I wasn't kidding when I said I was a genius."

Who am I? I'm Canadian, currently in high school, IQ of 141 (last time I took an IQ quiz on the internet, at any rate). I'm intelligent in that I'm good at math - not much else. I like to imagine my life as a TV show, with each passing year being a season (how this will be handled after I graduate I have yet to work out, though I'm guessing I'll just declare season finales where I feel appropriate). I get inordinately angry when people borrow that fantasy and "do it wrong", as in the case of someone on Reddit who seems to think that all of college would fit into one season. I guess if I had to summarize my "character arc", it would be the transition from an irrational, selfish, child to a stable, emotionally mature adult. I probably still have a ways to go, but I've definitely come a ways from where I started. If you ever met me, you'd probably note an off-beat sense of humour contrasted with general quietness (I'm going off of how my fiends talk about me). If you didn't guess by the quote up top, my name is Peter. Chang is a pseudonym, though.\\


Also, I'd like to apologize for some shitpost edits I made back in 2011. They were uncalled for, I thought it would be a funny joke to pull on some people by directing them to this website and having them find a bunch of insults. It was not funny. Thanks to whoever took those edits down.\\

* '''Season One''' being the first year of high school. An immediate clash between eight years' worth of catholic school indoctrination and the public school environment ensued. I handled that poorly, driving people away left and right. I did meet a nice girl at the beginning of the year, but she wanted nothing to do with me by the end. Can't say I blame her. I got into some wacky adventures along the way, met some interesting characters. By the end of the year, I had one fiend, who I was an asshole to. He was too nice a guy to tell me to fuck off. I had also grown my hair out, becoming a greasy, edgy jackass. All things considered, not a year I'm proud of. Even near the end of that year I realized something was wrong with me, and decided I was going to become a better person in the following year.
* '''Season Two''' being the second year of high school, I set about repairing my life in the wake of the long-hairedness. I spent a lot of time under a tree in a park near the school, which was also sort of a high-traffic area, so some people were sort of sketched out. More wacky adventures ensued, and I did manage to make some fiends and assimilate myself into this new world. I was still an asshole for most of it, but about halfway through I got into the swing of genuinely trying to make a change; I needed to let go of a lot of edginess and arrogance before it was possible. I learned to be happy, almost becoming too happy, as I stopped really thinking before I acted and got pretty wacky. I drove some people away but I didn't care because I felt that I was finally free from the shadow of my past jackassery. I was, but I was still behaving like a jackass, just with no malevolence, so how much that cancels out I'll let you make your own judgement on. I'm not proud of the way I acted, but I'm proud of where my heart was, if that makes any sense. I really really enjoyed that year.
* '''Season Three''' being the third year of high school. I just got really angry and did a lot of random bad things for reasons unclear to me. I attribute some of this to having watched BreakingBad over the summer and wanting to emulate Heisenberg's character evolution because of some weird feeling of powerlessness that had crept into my life in the preceding months. I was also pretty horny, which definitely contributed. The year was an interesting show of watching my fear of taking charge of my life conflict with my anger over not feeling in charge of my life. Fear won. Just like in season one, toward the end I realized something was wrong with me and decided to try to be a better person. I ceased to act with malevolence but I didn't really do anything good. The season ended ambiguously, even I myself uncertain as to what my next move would (or could) be.
* '''Season Four''' being the fourth year of high school. I decided to imagine this season as done non-linearly, a series of seemingly unrelated (or only somewhat related) episodes building up to an epic finale. Unlike the previous three seasons, which were primarily wacky escapades and schemes dotted with life lessons, this season took a hard look at my character and my relationships with those around me, putting a spotlight on how warped my sense of morality had become and how much of an asshole I was to the people I claimed to care about. I decided I wanted to become a better person, but did a pretty bad job of it, pretty much going off the chain and doing whatever the hell I felt like, still dominated by the fear of taking charge of my life and taking responsibility for my action, though. I got weird with that year, probably walking away with some minor brain damage and a lot of funny stories. By the end of it, I decided maybe it was time to start growing up, but I had no real idea of how I was going to go about that. I had a good time.
* '''Season Five''' is the final year of high school. A final conflict began with my selfishness and cowardice and my desire to become a better person. It was a pretty classical story arc. I entered into it with confidence and a clear mind, I made good ground, I declined, I reached a darkest hour wherein it appeared I was destined to be a selfish, cowardly ass for the rest of my life, and then I won. I still have to learn to handle fear properly and probably should learn some better emotional coping mechanisms but as of now I'm capable of being a good person and capable of change. Whatever the future holds, I'm optimistic I can rise to the challenge and look good doing it.
* '''Season Six''' being the next 5, 10 years. I don't know at this point. I wanted to walk away from the whole "TV Show" mindset but it looks like I still need it. I imagine at some point I'll kick the habit. I guess it will depict how I adapt to standing on my own, how I build my life from here on. Probably going to involve a lot of time skippage, which is nice because I really didn't want to keep imagining being a TV character, so doing stuff "offscreen" will be a nice change. It'll bring the story to a conclusion - ignominious, selfish defeat or glorious, freeing victory over my own inner demons and whatever external antagonists I run into. Let's see what happens.

-> "Like most people my age, I like to think I'm mature for my age."

-> "Heroes don't yell 'eat it, bitch' when they win."
--> Jacob upon me yelling that at him when I defeated one of his units in Risk, "Brainer" (Season 3, Episode 2)

--> Laura, on me doing exactly that

* BiTheWay: Confirmed in Season Four.

* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: I saw maybe 15 episodes of {{Glee}} five years ago, and have watched half of the pilot in 2015. Just check out page 604/5 of the forum thread on the show to see how I feel about it.

** "lime."

Who am I? I'm Canadian, currently in high school, IQ of 137 (last time I took an IQ quiz on the internet, at any rate). I'm intelligent in that I'm good at math - not much else. I like to imagine my life as a TV show, with each passing year being a season (how this will be handled after I graduate I have yet to work out, though I'm guessing I'll just declare season finales where I feel appropriate). I get inordinately angry when people borrow that fantasy and "do it wrong", as in the case of someone on Reddit who seems to think that all of college would fit into one season. I guess if I had to summarize my "character arc", it would be the transition from an irrational, selfish, child to a stable, emotionally mature adult. I probably still have a ways to go, but I've definitely come a ways from where I started. If you ever met me, you'd probably note an off-beat sense of humour contrasted with general quietness (I'm going off of how my friends talk about me). If you didn't guess by the quote up top, my name is Peter. Chang is a pseudonym, though.\\

* '''Season One''' being the first year of high school. An immediate clash between eight years' worth of catholic school indoctrination and the public school environment ensued. I handled that poorly, driving people away left and right. I did meet a nice girl at the beginning of the year, but she wanted nothing to do with me by the end. Can't say I blame her. I got into some wacky adventures along the way, met some interesting characters. By the end of the year, I had one friend, who I was an asshole to. He was too nice a guy to tell me to fuck off. I had also grown my hair out, becoming a greasy, edgy jackass. All things considered, not a year I'm proud of. Even near the end of that year I realized something was wrong with me, and decided I was going to become a better person in the following year.
* '''Season Two''' being the second year of high school, I set about repairing my life in the wake of the long-hairedness. I spent a lot of time under a tree in a park near the school, which was also sort of a high-traffic area, so some people were sort of sketched out. More wacky adventures ensued, and I did manage to make some friends and assimilate myself into this new world. I was still an asshole for most of it, but about halfway through I got into the swing of genuinely trying to make a change; I needed to let go of a lot of edginess and arrogance before it was possible. I learned to be happy, almost becoming too happy, as I stopped really thinking before I acted and got pretty wacky. I drove some people away but I didn't care because I felt that I was finally free from the shadow of my past jackassery. I was, but I was still behaving like a jackass, just with no malevolence, so how much that cancels out I'll let you make your own judgement on. I'm not proud of the way I acted, but I'm proud of where my heart was, if that makes any sense. I really really enjoyed that year.

* '''Season Five''' is the final year of high school. A final conflict began with my selfishness and cowardice and my desire to become a better person. At present it seems that selfishness and cowardice won, but there's an episode and a half left to turn that around. I entered this season with confidence and a clean mind, but the confidence was soon undermined and my intelligence declined. I stopped trying to change for a large portion of the year, slipping back into the standard routine of being an asshole to my friends and doing whatever I feel like as long as I never have to deal with fear. I'm not sure I can turn it around, but I guess I have to try.

* CharacterDevelopment: When I describe how I was in season one to friends I made in season three, they say they cannot imagine me being like that. Whether I'm a better person of not is more or less the topic of the show.

** "meme."

Also, I'd like to apologize for some shitpost edits I made back in 2011. They were uncalled for, I thought it would be a funny joke to pull on some people by directing them to here and having them find a bunch of insults. It was not funny. Thanks to whoever took those edits down.\\

** "lime."

Who am I? I'm Canadian, currently in high school, IQ of 137 (last time I took an IQ quiz on the internet, at any rate). I'm intelligent in that I'm good at math - not much else. I like to imagine my life as a TV show, with each passing year being a season (how this will be handled after I graduate I have yet to work out, though I'm guessing I'll just declare season finales where I feel appropriate). I get inordinately angry when people borrow that fantasy and "do it wrong", as in the case of someone on Reddit who seems to think that all of college would fit into one season. I guess if I had to summarize my "character arc", it would be the transition from an irrational, selfish, child to a stable, emotionally mature adult. I probably still have a ways to go, but I've definitely come a ways from where I started. If you ever met me, you'd probably note an off-beat sense of humour contrasted with general quietness (I'm going off of how my friends talk about me). If you didn't guess by the quote up top, my name is Peter. \\

** "meme."

Also, I'd like to apologize for some shitpost edits I made back in 2011. They were uncalled for, I thought it would be a funny joke to pull on some people by directing them to here and having them find a bunch of insults. It was not funny. Thanks to whoever took those edits down.