Pull: Sensory Overload

As I understand it, LOLcats are kill on sight as images go.

Bingo

Gone.

Any suggestions for a replacement?

It might be difficult to convey in a regular image what sensory overload feels like (though perhaps somebody out there has tried), but you could try somebody suffering from it.

I suppose one way to get the sensation accross is to produce an animated image so overstimulating that it gives most neurotypicals an overload. But you wouldn't want something that horrible on a page anyway.

edited 3rd Jan '12 10:19:55 PM by ArcadesSabboth

You just described a sensory overload. The page image should be about Sensory Overload.

I don't know how we'd begin to pic this, unless someone finds or makes a pic of someone being subjected to extremely loud music and crazy visuals.

Beat Hazard tries to invoke it on the player. Instead of a typical Bullet Hell it only has a moderate amount of bullets - but they shine like hell.

Does that count as an example?

Nope. Sensory Overload the trope is about overloading supersenses.

Aren't there some examples from Daredevil? I seem to recall something like that in the movie, at least. I'm not familiar enough to know exactly where to look though.

Also, if this is limited to sensory overload of supersenses, a rename might be in order Nothing major. Supersensory Overload, perhaps. Also, we need to kill the Real Life section mention of stuff like flashbang grenades and blinding lasers.

Yeah I know that is a TRS function. I'm just suggesting taking to TRS when you have a chance.

edited 4th Jan '12 9:19:21 AM by Auxdarastrix

If it is going to remove all the real life material, then it definitely needs a rename. Sensory Overload is, AFAIK, an established term for what can happen to folks on the autism spectrum and I would say they have hypersensitive senses but not "super" senses.

I mean, if you have to point out that Wikipedia uses a different definition then this wiki is probably using the term wrong.

edited 4th Jan '12 9:47:34 AM by ArcadesSabboth

There are many, many words and phrases used differently on TV Tropes than elsewhere. "Trope", for instance.

That is not a reason to rename

I didn't "have to" anything. Was just a "read the article pls".

edited 4th Jan '12 1:17:27 PM by rodneyAnonymous

However, having a trope name that causes misuse as the result of being a pre-existing phrase elsewhere is a valid reason for changing it. Whether or not that applies here isn't a matter for Image Pickin' though.

That is usually only a problem when the dictionary definition and the trope definition are opposite or subtly different.

edited 4th Jan '12 3:54:17 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Right. What I mean is that if the Sensory Overload trope means something other than the dictionary definition of "Sensory Overload", and people begin using the trope to mean the latter, it might be cause for a rename. No clue if that's the case here though.

Well, a definition discussion would be a TRS, I just thought it worth mentioning briefly that a name change might be considered.

Anyone more familiar with superheros comics than I know where to find a picture of this being used against superheros?

There should be examples from Daredevil. Also, this might be better named Supersensory Overload, if we make a TRS thread about it.

edited 4th Jan '12 5:10:21 PM by Firebert

"Supersensory" is not a word.

TV Tropes is not an encyclopedia.

Just saying we might want to change the name to indicate that it only applies to Super-Senses, as most of the examples I see are for affecting normal people, including real life examples.

Removed bad examples. (Very few, by the way, not counting the Real Life section that I chainsawed; ~90% of them were about super-sensitive / superhuman senses.)

edited 4th Jan '12 6:06:25 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Not sure those are bad - the description mentions that autistic sensory overload counts, and that's NOT super senses.

No it doesn't.

edited 4th Jan '12 7:10:08 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Oh my god, you just axed that part, didn't you? It was right there, talking about Truth in Television! What the fuck!

Half the description (two sentences out of four, btw) was totally inappropriate for This Wiki. It may as well have been a cookie recipe.

Also, it's not like the article was hand-crafted by saints and I ruined it. Or it was right and I made it wrong. Someone added that; someone else removed it. No need to get upset.

edited 4th Jan '12 7:32:05 PM by rodneyAnonymous

It might have been important! You don't just get to ax half the description, especially when it's so short!