Thomas takes things too seriously.
Hello, I'm a troper, and an alcoholic. I created the page
"End of the World" Special based on a one-off comment from Kieron Gillen, and now regret it. I think the relative epicness of Deus Ex blinded my eyes to the fact that it's just a Hero Has To Make A Choice In The Ending. I revamped
Standard FPS Guns to better reflect the gameplay mechanics and functionality of weapons in shooter games. I also created and kickstarted the examples section of that page to give
EntryPimps somewhere to pimp their favorite games without cluttering the description. Lastly, I created the
Fackler Scale of FPS Realism page out of whole cloth, though credit for almost all of the games added, described, and sorted in the example section goes to others.
Things I like and am guilty of:
- Conversation in the Main Page. I love it. What's better than one viewpoint on something? Four viewpoints! Also a really handy way to avoid revert wars.
- I am a classificationist. I love having criteria for when something is this, and when something is that.
- I like subjective tropes as flavor in general, but I am also happy about the creation of the YMMV ghetto. It both protects them from deletion and keeps them out of the way of more concrete tropes.
- Segregation in general. No, not that. Folders by genre? Good! Putting character tropes on the character page? Great!
- I'd go even farther than that, and say that especially for Video Games and Tabletop Games, a separation of Gameplay and Story tropes is in order. Often T Vtropes is the best-condensed guide to a game (see Game Breaker, Disc One Nuke, Bonus Boss, etc) but I don't want to find out that Aeris dies in the process.
Things I dislike:
- People who delete entries because the original work made a subtle point or joke that went over their head.
- Putting slash and fandom pairings into Main and Character pages. Look, I really don't care that Stan/Kyle according to every fangirl ever, I really don't.
- Deletion in general, except in really obvious Not The Trope cases.
- On the other hand, people that forget that Tropes Are Not Good and Tropes Are Not Bad and shoehorn their favorite Anti-Hero archetype (Knight in Sour Armor, etc) into everything, or vice versa.
