Quickie Questions

As in the tropes? The former is the anti-Christmas guy. The latter is a miser extraordinaire.

Does anyone know where the Fast Eddie quote on Neologism comes from? It sounds like the conversation it took place in was fucking hilarious, so I'd like to see the rest of it for myself.

edited 15th May '16 12:23:43 PM by MarqFJA

How would one go about becoming a hand model?

Does anyone know why Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us has the alternative name "Pandora plea"?

From RenamedTropes.A To E :

"Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us was known as 'Pandora Plea'. It was renamed for clarity since Pandora's box does not clearly bring to mind using dangerous weapons."

No idea what the rationale for the first name was.

edited 18th May '16 10:19:43 AM by Aetol

Pandora was given the box of terrible things because they knew she'd eventually be curious enough to open it and unleash enough to keep humanity too busy to try to overthrow the gods, which is something they could totally do with fire and no problems?

I have a question for this pair of earbuds that say "break them by playing pink noise for 24 hours": do i have to actually listen to the pink noise for that long, or can i just run it in the background?

I would guess that it's just playing them and you don't have to listen to them. It's possible the effect requires playing them into a sealed ear canal though, but in that case, you could probably just plug the earbuds with sticky tack or something.

Why do you want to break a set of earbuds so cheap that a day of broad spectrum noise will destroy them?

Does break here mean damage, or prepare? I read that as prepare. I am really not sure how pink noise, or any noise could ready a set of earphones.

Listening to pink noise that long through buds can damage your ears.

edited 20th May '16 5:23:49 PM by war877

Oh, break them in. That makes sense. I mean, I'm kinda surprised any speaker would need to be primed like that, but okay.

Yeah. Don't listen to pink noise for 24 hours straight.

yeah, i meant break in. i am so stupid

Headphone break-in is largely a myth. About the only time there's actual changes from "breaking in" the headphones is larger over-the-ear units where the drivers can settle from their precise location at production. Earbuds don't have the physical space for this process to happen.

What's your favorite thing to do besides internet, hobbies and fiction? Mine is eat.

Wrong thread. This is for factual questions.

Game? Definitely wrong thread.

edited 23rd May '16 4:32:38 PM by war877

Damm, this game is hard.

Does tvtropes have a chat group? Such as IRC/Discord/etc.?

Nothing official. There was one that tropers set up to represent the wiki (I think it was #tropers), but that became more of its own thing than something for the wiki. And then a group of people who gathered in Yack Fest decided the forum needed a channel of its own and formed #YackFest. And then that became more of its own thing than something for the forum (or even just the right side of the forum). If they still exist, they're pretty much full of ex-tropers who either got bored with the site, left in protest of whatever policy change was their last straw, or got banned.

I think both of those were on Swiftirc.

edited 25th May '16 2:57:49 PM by TParadox

There's also the various Skype chats.

On Ask The Tropers, the introductory messages says (emphasis mine) "Have a question about tropes, the content, or how the TV Tropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help."

But then we have the Trope Talk subforum. So, can anyone here enlighten me on when it is more appropiate to ask a trope-related question on ATT, and when it's more appropiate to do so by creating a Trope Talk thread (if one doesn't already exist)?

edited 27th May '16 10:32:43 AM by MarqFJA

ATT is where you go if there is no clear better choice. Things that go on ATT are normally, reports of misbehaviour, reports on problems with trope pages or work pages, and policy questions.

Trope Talk is mostly for help with how to use tropes, or distinguish between two tropes.

Wiki Talk is for policy discussions with the site or site business.

Trope Finder is for finding a trope you don't know the name of.

The projects subforums are for forming collaborative efforts to improve the site and TRS if for deciding what to do with a trope page.

So all those questions that I had asked about tropes on ATT in the last few weeks should've gone to Trope Talk?

New question: Does anyone know who coined the term "nanite"?

As far as I know, Captain Samantha Carter of SG1.

That is the earliest use I can think of.

Although, MST 3 K probably used it before Carter.

I can definitely say Star Trek used it at least eight years before SG-1 did.

This site has it as first appearing in the Oxford dictionary in 1990. That would be consistent with Star Trek TNG's season three, which had an episode featuring nanites.

A counter-revolutionary is someone who opposes a revolution. Do they have to actively try to stop a revolution while it is still in progress to count, or can they act a decade or two after the revolution has completed to try and restore the system that was in place prior to the revolution?