Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Whoa, it is. I never actually clicked that so I didn't know that until today.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Same here. The More You Know...
It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
Sinful Saint
Holy shit. Hang on.
edited 19th Mar '14 12:14:02 PM by Frishman
If you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy, have some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.
The Eccentric Electric
The more tropes a series or character has, it USUALLY implies that said work/character is more developed and as a result better in quality. Not always the case, but it usually is.
Living The Fever Dream
Other times, it just implies that the series caught on with a bunch of young nerds for whatever reason.
It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
Still just awesome like that
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
More often this.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Before the recent change in spoiler policy, there used to be characters with tons of spoilered tropes. They were almost always a traitor or the Big Bad. If the Big Bad was the WS, s/he would have ties with the main characters, like being their family or former friend.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Mad Scientist Wannabe
There's still a few that have that stuff going on. We need to clean that up.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
In the wiki itself, I've noticed that some tropers apply The Abridged Series as a trope on a work that an abridged series is for. Just... why? The trope doesn't really apply to the work itself, doesn't it?
Same applies to using Shout-Out in the context of works using shout outs to the work in question.
edited 24th Mar '14 11:55:58 AM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.
That means clean up is required.
Yeah. Same thing with YouTube Poop. Some people list that because a work tends to get pooped often, but YouTube Poop isn't a trope, it's a medium.
"Just as planned."
It's probably worth mentioning it as a piece of trivia - You Tube Poop Source or similar.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Also the whole X Meets Y thing. It's a just for fun bit, yet I'm betting almost all wicks there are treated as tropes. I feel that since some put "in-universe examples", there's bound to be some sort of YKTTW without making it Catchphrase-y.
edited 24th Mar '14 2:00:58 PM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
Where do you complain about a page that someone made by mistake, yet it keeps appearing on my watchlist, even if I drop it?
Ask The Tropers or start a thread in Tech Wishlist and Bug Reports.
Though I'll note that when I clicked your link it just took me to the home page.
hiya, the name's scout.
I've noticed this community is really kind and welcomes a new troper, and it's really easy to make friends because they don't judge you by appearance.
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literary masochist
Note that it's kind of hard to judge appearances by default on the internet. You can't see anyone's face unless they show it to you, and that's pretty rare.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
I'll do that. Thanks.
Also, yeah, that was the exact thing that appeared when I clicked the thing in my watchlist. It appears on said watchlist as a colon.
edited 29th Mar '14 10:07:55 AM by Quag15
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
Some people here to take "insane" as a compliment. Actually, this is the first place where I saw people using that word as a compliment; when I first saw that incidence, I was baffled, thinking "Why are you describing your favorite character as mentally unbalanced/dysfunctional?" Oh sure, some characters ARE legitimately mentally troubled, but I found it odd that some people say as if it's a good thing (yes, I know why people do that, so don't state the obvious).
I guess "insane" is pretty much the same as "epic" nowadays.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Still just awesome like that
Eh, I'd heard "insane" be taken/used as a compliment as far back as...hm, at least 6 or 7 years ago? One of my friends in high school and I would use it a lot in that way, but, then, we were kinda really pretentious.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
I just figure it can be used to describe something you think is awesome. Like, say, if I were listening to a really hot beat, or listening it an incredible rap verse, I'd say, "This beat is insane!" or, "That verse was insane!" Alternatively, you could use it to describe something you think is Crazy Awesome, like a TV show or movie or video game. E.g., "This show/movie/game is absolutely insane and I love it."
edited 29th Mar '14 8:53:47 PM by PhysicalStamina
It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
Still just awesome like that
Oh, I thought he meant insane as in "not sane."
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
He probably did, I was just describing how I'd use it.
It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
Humor Mode is Joking Mode.
JM just redirects to HM, even though more people use JM than HM.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else