Tropers / iwantedtoaddsomething

Alex Johnson
Zombo.com (THE INFINITE IS POSSIBLE)
Keith Le Blanc <- the wikiword is fine so idk why it displays weird here
Game Helpin' Squad
Obmoz.com
Recap.Lightning Made Of Owls

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Notions

• True Art Comix: A comic strip that does the same exact True Art Is Incomprehensible jokes over and over, until eventually descending into Mind Screw itself.

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This game contains a lot of blunt satire, mainly about consumerism, rationalism, and tech-optimism. Sometimes annoyingly blunt. Consider your expectations managed.
(Weakly:) It was the best I could do given the circumstances.

Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix)

Basic Trope: A work is the song "Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix)" by DNA and Suzanne Vega.

• Straight: Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix).
• Exaggerated: A re-remix of Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix), also by Alan Coulthard.
• Downplayed:
  • Other versions of Tom's Diner.
  • Other remixes made by Alan Coulthard.
• Justified: DNA wanted Alan Coulthard to make his own remix of Tom's Diner.
• Inverted: A Sequel Song from the point of view of the guy behind the counter, remixed by Alan Coulthard's evil twin, Anal Wontsoft.
• Subverted: A remix of Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix) that starts out sounding identical.
• Double Subverted: But it turns out all of the underlying song is still present, just with new sections inserted.
• Parodied: A remix of the fictional song "Bob's Taco Stand" that includes a bunch of incoherent piano stabs.
• Zig Zagged: A re-remix of Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix) that adds a bunch of reverse cymbals and high-pass fade-outs that sound like they're about to segue into a beat drop or something, but it never does, and the entire song plays out unchanged otherwise.
• Averted: Most works avert this trope simply by existing and not being about Tom's Diner or having any involvement from Alan Coulthard.
• Enforced: "Alan, we'll need you to remix this new hit single."
• Lampshaded: "Up next is the Alan Coulthard remix of 'Tom's Diner', by DNA and Suzanne Vega."
• Invoked: DNA invites Alan Coulthard into the studio.
• Exploited: Alan Coulthard gets good money for his remix.
• Defied: Alan Coulthard refuses to remix the song.
• Implied: A song is listed as being by DNA and Suzanne Vega, and remixed by Alan Coulthard.
• Discussed: "What's that remix of Tom's Diner called that has the piano solo in the middle?"
• Conversed: "Gee, I guess this song is really good, if it not only got remixed once by DNA, but again by Alan Coulthard."
• Deconstructed: Someone is distracted while listening to this song and falls into a well.
• Reconstructed: It turns out the well was a huge fan of Suzanne Vega.
• Played For Laughs: Weird Al covers the song, putting his usual spin on it. (This does NOT apply of Weird Al only covers the original Tom's Diner, or makes a cover that isn't specifically based on Tom's Diner (Alan Coulthard Remix).
• Played For Drama: It's a solo piano arrangement.
• Played For Horror: The song is rewritten to be about Tom's Diner being a Living Structure Monster that eats anyone foolish enough to come inside. Scary piano.^note But not the scary piano. Actually, that would be fitting. Throw that in, too.^note I love the scary piano. I would hug it and tell it it doesn't scare me.^note Super Mario 64 is actually a pretty scary game, namely with the Nothing Is Scarier camera technique.^note I mean Camera Screw.^note The camera in Mario 64 sucks.^note And they decided a great idea for the DS version would be to make the camera even worse. Like, who honestly used the touch screen camera bullshit?^note Unagi the eel makes me go yay. Very cute. Chain chomp is also cute.^note A while ago I came up with a joke that "every reported SM64 creepypasta phenomenon is true; you just weren't able to adjust the camera angle to view it in time before it disappeared."^note Also I got Wiki Walk'd and I went onto the page for B3313 and saw the Jump Scare entry and: I would absolutely protecc this Toad Chuckya abomination◊. Scrungle. Scrunglllllle. Looking at him makes me make a noise.^note That noise is not BUP but it should be.