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Deadlock Clock: May 17th 2012 at 11:59:00 PM
seahen Since: Jul, 2009
#1: Apr 12th 2012 at 12:57:14 AM

I created this index, but to follow the example of Screw This Index, I Have Tropes, I now think Instant Index Just Add Tropes would be a better name.

Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#2: Apr 12th 2012 at 2:24:51 AM

And both of them are Search Generated Indexes. Hmm...

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DoktorvonEurotrash Welcome, traveller, welcome to Omsk Since: Jan, 2001
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#3: Apr 13th 2012 at 1:38:59 AM

I don't think this should exist at all. Tropes like Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja are very different from ones like Instant Armor or Instant Runes. There's no purpose to the Instant Tropes index, it's just listing tropes with the word "instant" in the name.

If anything, I think we should have an index for the "Instant X just add Y" tropes. (I thought Instant Index: Just Add Water! was what I was thinking out, but it turns out to be about actual water-related tropes. Oh well.)

edited 13th Apr '12 1:40:34 AM by DoktorvonEurotrash

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ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
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#4: May 14th 2012 at 7:29:29 AM

Clocking due to lack of activity.

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Routerie Since: Oct, 2011
#5: May 14th 2012 at 7:47:04 AM

This is a search-generated index linking unrelated tropes. Delete it.

Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#6: May 14th 2012 at 8:55:20 AM

[up] Yeah, that.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#7: May 14th 2012 at 9:09:25 AM

I think we should redefine this as an "Instant X just add Y" index and leave it alone otherwise.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Routerie Since: Oct, 2011
#8: May 14th 2012 at 10:02:06 AM

That would still be a bad index. Four Instant Awesome aka Everything's Better With X tropes, which are presumably broken, plus three unrelated tropes - one about the ease of creating AI, one about shrinking matter by dehydrating it and one about how things freeze into blocks of ice when they get cold. Plus an unrelated index about water tropes.

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10: May 15th 2012 at 10:27:07 AM

Are there "instant" tropes that we could list here, deleting the current Search Generated Index usage?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
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#11: Jun 17th 2012 at 9:06:34 AM

Doesn't look like there's any interest here. Locking.

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