Line #65 Tropers/NanoMoose


1	Tropers/NanoMoose, a lady (rather than moose) who turned her usual handle into a WikiWord for the sake of convenience. Student, wannabe writer, video game addict and slavish Looking Glass Studios groupie, she is rumoured to be Australian, despite a suspicious fondness for tea, dislike of Vegemite and skin that bursts into flame upon contact with the rays of the daystar.
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3	Intensely passionate about writing in general, storytelling in particular, and the need for stories to be celebrated and explored wherever they happen to occur - be it within literature, film, animation, or video games.
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5	She spends her days locked in a room with ten million books, correcting the grammar and spelling of the world in between bouts of education, and appears to be sustained only by macaroni and periodic carbonated beverages.
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7	Longwinded. Owns several hoodies. Probably correcting spelling and adding more words to something at this very moment.
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9	!! This troper is disturbingly and obsessively knowledgeable about the following things:
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11	* {{Creator/Pixar}} and Pixar's works.
12	* Valve's [[VideoGame/HalfLife achievements]] in [[VideoGame/{{Portal}}interactive entertainment]].
13	* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''
14	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' (particularly ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'').
15	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect''
16	* ''VideoGame/DragonAge''
17	* ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', though it has yet to actually ''frighten'' me. Oh well. Hallucinations!
18	* Looking Glass Studios and [[VideoGame/{{Thief}} related]] [[VideoGame/SystemShock products]], as well as just about anything its ex-staff members go on to make that doesn't require clicky plastic guitars. Such as ''VideoGame/Prey2017''.
19	* Like ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'' ([[VideoGame/{{Bioshock2}} and]] [[VideoGame/{{BioshockInfinite}} sequels]]).
20	* And ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}''. Up until the most recent "instalment".
21	* And ''Videogame/DeusEx''.
22	* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', but not the sequel.
23	* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia'', particularly the more recent 3D games.
24	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'', up until the Stupidness quotient became unbearable - right around the time Ezio appeared in a second game.
25	* Okay, [[InTheHood basically anything with a major character in it who wears a hood]].
26	* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''
27	* ''VideoGame/{{Spec Ops The Line}}''
28	* ''VideoGame/{{The Walking Dead}}''
29	* Indeed, much Telltale.
30	* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon''
31	* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''
32	* ''VideoGame/{{DmC Devil May Cry}}'' and ''VideoGame/HellbladeSenuasSacrifice''
33	* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn''
34	* Okay, mainly video games.
35	* Which should probably make the addition of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' no surprise.
36	* Or ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''.
37	* Maybe ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''.
38	* And ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''.
39	* But not ''Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}''. It's totally great.
40	* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''. My favourite episode is 'A Beautiful Dream'.
41	* ''Literature/GentlemanBastard''
42	* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin (specifically, ''[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy Earthsea]]'').
43	* Creator/NeilGaiman (specifically, ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'').
44	* Creator/TerryPratchett (specially, ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Discworld]]'').
45	* Creator/DianaWynneJones
46	* Creator/{{Lois McMaster Bujold}}
47	* You may be sensing a trend.
48	* Creator/TimSchafer
49	* Creator/ChrisAvellone
50	* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', because puns.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra related]].
52	* ''StarWars'' and the EU...intermittently.
53	* Creator/NinjaTheory
54	* Creator/FrictionalGames, or to use their informal name, Scaring the Howling Bejesus Out of Our Fanbase Studios.
55	* ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' because being a Catholic makes everything about reading it better.
56	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', specifically the twelve-episode main series for its precision, beauty, and uplifting core.
57	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' because duh.
58	* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' because cathartic violence is nifty.
59	* ''LightNovel/FateZero'' - uh, the anime, I mean.
60	* Stuff with vampires in it due to latent goth tendencies coupled with an unnecessarily large pool of world mythological knowledge.
61	* Also, [-also, um. [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse The MCU]]-]. ''Shhhh.''
62	* '''Note:''' I am willing to mock every one of these things on the understanding that it is with the uttermost love that I do so.
63	* '''Additional Note:''' I am not on this wiki to talk about why I dislike anything because that's dull. Assume that I ''know'' whatever I'm talking about is flawed and that I love it anyway. I think long and deeply about media and smash people with WallsOfText if I believe they misunderstand this. This is a pre-emptive apology if you encounter me in a crusading mood and find yourself confused, frightened, annoyed or bored: I'm very sorry! I steer clear of YMMV and similar pages for this reason, but I haven't been able to squash the impulse completely.
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65	!!This troper contains examples of:
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67	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: When I was young, I often received the comment that I was away with the fairies. Getting older just means I can expand my list of mythical travelling partners, and write field reports.
68	* ExpospeakGag: For reference, see last paragraph of preamble.
69	* GrammarNazi: I read a lot. This is one side effect.
70	* RageBreakingPoint: I have my biases. I try to stay out of arguments, because it's the internet and FailureIsTheOnlyOption. Still, some convictions I hold can make that button really ''tempting''...
71	** ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' questions the player's (and developers'?) motivations in pursuing a heroic fantasy that hinges wholly upon ever-more-realistic violence. This is a good question, and it is a good game. Indifferent gameplay, but a compelling and well-presented story.
72	** The ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was fine. The Extended Cut was fine, too. The game itself was great!
73	** Multiplayer and single-player should ''never'' occur in the same game.
74	** Reboots and reinterpretations of stories are never inherently bad (even if they are often mediocre). Never listen to fans who only want more of the same.
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76	!!Contributions:
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78	* An incredible amount of [[SerialTweaker Serial Tweaking]]. Editing pages four separate times to fix four tiny spelling errors, that kind of thing. Um, sorry.
79	* Filled out the ''Characters/{{Prototype}}'' CharacterSheet after it was launched. Roughly seventy-five percent of the page's content was added by me. The second game...not so much.
80	* Various ''{{VideoGame/Thief}}'' examples scattered throughout the wiki. Nothing related to the reboot, though. The reboot is a blight upon the franchise.
81	* Documenting my abject and virulent hate for the [[DarkerAndEdgier direction]] taken by Ubisoft in the ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia Sands of Time]]'' trilogy. Also, a passionate defence of the rebooted game and especially Princess Elika.
82	* A refusal to conform to American English. Grey is a colour. ''Nobody can take it from me.''
83	* Innumerable tiny formatting, punctuation, spelling, grammar and clarity tweaks. I like words!
84	* I'm too nervous to launch pages. But I've been here a while.
85	* Circle brackets are pretty.
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