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I wonder if there was any significance to it coming out on Homestuck Day.

If you're referring to the word "crashed" combined with "launch pad", it's probably unintentional. The thread used to be called YKTTW Crash Rescue (and was still called that for a while after that section was renamed) before the title was updated to say TLP instead of YKTTW.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 15th 2024 at 8:24:05 AM

Unfortunately no, it's total coincidence. The delay wasn't wanted.

Well, they were still always called "launches"

Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 15th 2024 at 9:36:43 AM

Figured, but it's funny enough to me. Now I wonder what Trope-tan's classpect would be?

This wiki just likes their rocket motifs I guess. But was "launch" ever used as a term before TLP became the term?

Yes

As an aside, I really miss the old look of the TLP. So nostalgic for me, and I honestly think it looked better back then.

Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 15th 2024 at 11:38:45 AM

Oh, wow it actually did have improvement tags back then. Somehow forgot but yeah it does look better than what we have now.

New adventures with TV Tropes and the ad server:

Someone on the Writer's Block forum asks in a very generically named thread if the name Gaston is too strongly associated with the Disney character to use. I look up the wiki pages for the animated and live-action Beauty and the Beast movies, the character sheet for the animated movie, and while I'm at it, the phenomenon of a name being strongly associated with one character (that, besides Disney's Gaston, also lists a certain character from Franco-Belgian Comics, though I don't notice that at the time). I then comment on the thread.

Neither of the pages I visit during all of this have the word "Gaston" in their title. I haven't typed it into the search bar either.

Next thing I know, I get advertisements for the Gaston Lagaffe comic books, specifically the German translations published by Carlsen. Not just once, the ad server seems to have decided that I am totally the target audience and should see these ads for days on end.

Coincidence?

TV Tropes itself doesn't do that kind of data collection (or so I'm told), but the selection of ads displayed is done by *spooky music starts playing* Google. Yes, obviously, Google knows a lot - like, a lot - about people's internet browsing habits. But that one seems kind of specific for an ad server that usually can't even decide what country I'm in.

I always feel like targeted advertisements are at once creepy and laughably mistargeted. Like offering you more of a product you have just bought and won't need again for a month. However I'm probably not their target market, I like to browse around to find the best prices and I am frugal with all spending (partly because I don't have a stable income yet).

I just block all ads everywhere when physically possible. If I can't, I'd rather not visit a site period. 99% of the time ads are either something I can't buy anyway, irrelevant to me, or literal scams or malware, and I can't support them getting even a cent.

I'm not sure how to tie this back to TV Tropes, I suppose I wouldn't be blocking them if they weren't so much in the face. And Premium would be worth considering if it did something I can't do myself anyway.

I can think of two websites that I would like to visit more often for what they say but they have so many video ads that my browser creaks when I go there.

I want to take a second to laugh at the silly lore we created in the April Trope Report. Trope-Tan is plugging A Trope Kilowicked Love, a self-insert fic in which she is the love interest. But it deepens; I introduced myself as Trope-Tan in the bio which means that Trope-Tan is me. And as we all know, I got banned for offensive material.

Make of this what you will.

omg that's hilarious

Again, I want to bring up Lucky Translation, many used to think the Yu Jyo card was lucky it still worked in English but it turned out it was not an accident, Kazuki Takahashi himself picked Jonouchi's dub name. And according to 4kids podcast he didnt mind the editing, but emphasized that the theme of Friendship should be present in the dub.

Malady Miss Conduct actually gave me her blessing for writing it. She's yet to tell me what she thinks of the final product.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Apr 17th 2024 at 12:11:58 PM

I found one of the saddest TV Tropes pics ever, Lonely Funeral, I am astounded we dont have a trope section for single paintings,we have one for the famous Baby Shoes, never worn short story.

If I'm being honest, I was expecting Up.

We do! The Art/ namespace is underutilised due to the contentiousness of "non-narrative" media, but it exists (and tell me that that painting doesn't tell a story), and has subindices for Paintings and Sculptures.

I have a similar feeling about the image for Readings Are Off the Scale. I expected something from Dragonball or another shounen battle manga, or something comedic. Instead it's from a gritty, realistic war film and the scene in context is terrifying.

coulda sworn we had a page for Nighthawks (the painting)

late to the party from last page, but the PBS Kids show discourse gave me flashbacks: does anyone remember multiple editors pimping the shit out of Survival of the Fittest everywhere

> late to the party from last page, but the PBS Kids show discourse gave me flashbacks: does anyone remember multiple editors pimping the shit out of Survival of the Fittest everywhere

Until just now I'd never heard of it

Just found an example that epitomizes the kind of nonsense I keep finding in my cleanup for The Team:

Yeesh. Five-Man Band was a mistake lol

Reminds me of an example someone posted here from a roleplay where someone else shoved over 20 characters into a Five-Man Band.

Wow, that's a mess. There's example trees and then there's example kudzu.

Does anyone else get taken aback whenever they look through old forum / social media posts directly referencing trope names the site no longer uses? I wonder how these people think of the site today...

I just realised that Volvagia is listed as The Heart because she's the only girl, which means someone was lazy when cleaning up The Chick.

Can I ask a random question?

What was the longest time a draft spent in the Trope Launch Pad before getting properly launched?