Unclear name: Select Stitch At The Survival Menu

It took me a moment to realize this was a reference to a gameplay mechanic from Metal Gear Solid 3.

Laconically, this is about mostly cosmetic acts of medical care performed to give the appearance that some kind of medical aid is being applied - like applying stitches to a wound without doing anything else.

Might I suggest Band Aid On A Bullet Wound?

edited 19th Jan '12 10:00:46 AM by Ryusui

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I don't like that name. It reminds me of the Red Vs Blue ep where one of the characters is given CPR for a gunshot wound to the head and it works. It just sounds like it's about either the wrong treatment for an injury or too little care for an injury.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

The tropes seems to be "doing stuff that looks medical-y despite the fact that most such things aren't actually very helpful in first aid situations". Superficial Medical Treatment? Superficial First Aid? Superficial First Aid Treatment? Something along those lines?

Also needs some crosswicking. It's not listed on anything except indexes and supertropes.

edited 19th Jan '12 11:42:31 AM by NativeJovian

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This trope doesn't have YKTTW, barely has the required amount of examples, the name is plain bad, and the description is a horror to read. Shouldn't we throw this to YKTTW directly, or cut?

There are no heroes left in Man.

We have a lot of tropes about video game healing. I don't see how we need yet another one, yet alone one with a poor name, description, and few wicks.

I'm going to put up a separate thread about this habit we have of taking tropes launched without YKTTW and treating them as potentially valid rather than cutting them on sight.

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I agree with Dr. McNinja. This thing deserves a full redo.

...and this isn't one of them. This is a subtrope of Worst Aid, when the minor, cosmetic things that are normally done last (like splinting a broken limb or stitching a laceration) is the first (and sometimes only) thing a medic character does. It has nothing to do with video game mechanics besides the name (which is terrible, and should be changed), and it's definitely trope-worthy — we see this one all the time.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

I suspect this is a result of Show, Don't Tell. Fixing a bone is more visually obvious (and cringe inducing) than some of the other things.

Fight smart, not fair.

Well, as I said, either it's thrown back to YKTTW or it's simply cut. There are no other actions we should consider about this. I'm with Fighteer about this, we shouldn't be trying to fix every page like this one. If they are tropes they'll appear in YKTTW.

There are no heroes left in Man.

I'm for cut to YKTTW. Looks like a legit trope, just very poorly-made.

edited 20th Jan '12 11:54:06 AM by INUH

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Looks like most of the support is for re-YKTTWing. Should we go ahead and do that, or do we need a crowner?

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Hollywood First Aid?

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

The reason it had no YKTTW is that it was a product of splitting You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever.

Support kicking this back to YKTTW (regardless of its history).

edited 21st Jan '12 4:48:38 PM by rodneyAnonymous

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Was anything ever done with this, or do we still need to re-YKTTW it?

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

YKTTW'd here.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Wait, this thread suggested to send the page back to YKTTW, but it's actually still there.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

You mean the Select Stitch At The Survival Menu? Yeah, that never got cutlisted. I'm not entirely sure what the order of operations is, here — do we wait until the new YKTTW is ready before cutting the old page, or do we cut it now and let YKTTW do its thing after?

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Clocking. Let's see some activity here.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

Well, we decided to move it back to YKTTW, and it is in YKTTW, so the current trope page should be cut, no? I've cutlisted it, linking to this thread.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

Dude, you forgot to put the link to this discussion in the discussion page.

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Was the YKTTW launched?

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

Locking up.

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.