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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM

Aetol from France Since: Jan, 2015
#9151: Jun 4th 2016 at 3:44:39 PM

I think after the revolution has become the new status quo, it's another revolution, not a counter-revolution.

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#9152: Jun 4th 2016 at 3:52:43 PM

People are usually only defined as "counter-revolutionaries" by the government that came to be as a result of that particular revolution. It's meant as an insult - sort of, "you're against the very notion of progress of any kind".

This accusation is very often levied well after the revolution is over, and it is partially based on the idea that the revolution continues as long as the society it created keeps improving in the direction (from the old system) that the revolution imposed. Che Guevara is probably the one most often credited with the concept of the continuous, or perpetual, revolution; but probably most revolutionary leaders have had ideas along those lines.

EDIT: My post disagrees with the one above, but I'm coming at this from the angle that the label "counter-revolutionary" is usually used. People within a revolutionary movement, as well as those in the rest of the world, might call it just another revolution, and view the previous (revolutionary) government as the current status quo.

edited 4th Jun '16 3:54:50 PM by BestOf

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#9153: Jun 4th 2016 at 10:37:22 PM

Would a conservative count as a philosophical counterrevolutionary before the revolution starts?

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#9154: Jun 6th 2016 at 3:36:40 AM

Hey so long ago there was a irc channel that tropers visited,does it still exist?

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Shishkahuben from trapped in this hell website with neckbeards Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#9155: Jun 9th 2016 at 3:42:07 PM

There is a trope called So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear, which redirects from, and was formerly named, Wutai Theft. However, nowhere in the trope page does the name Wutai appear. Who is Wutai and what did they originally take?

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#9156: Jun 9th 2016 at 3:46:09 PM

It looks like Wutai is a mandarin word for stage, and also a country in Final Fantasy 7.

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#9157: Jun 9th 2016 at 6:31:42 PM

Yeah, it's a reference to Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII, who hails from the nation of Wutai. IIRC she steals your all materia (magic-giving items) at some point (probably upon your first visit to Wutai itself, since IINM you recruit her somewhere else), and keeps doing that to any materia that you may acquire from battle until you fulfill a sidequest that ends with her giving back everything she stole (though she puts it all randomy in the inventory, forcing you to reorganize everything one by one).

EDIT: Turns out her case is indeed mentioned in the examples, under the Role-Playing Games folder. No mention of "Wutai", though.

edited 9th Jun '16 6:34:26 PM by MarqFJA

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#9158: Jun 14th 2016 at 12:06:45 AM

Is there any way to naturally alleviate pet allergies (in my case cat) note  without resorting to medicine?

edited 14th Jun '16 12:07:17 AM by MacronNotes

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Aetol from France Since: Jan, 2015
#9159: Jun 14th 2016 at 4:30:21 AM

I don't think so. (Also, anything that could meaningfully alleviate an allergy would qualify as medicine, I think).

Except getting a hypoallergenic cat, but they tend to be expensive AFAIK.

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#9160: Jun 14th 2016 at 2:31:01 PM

Can you work for TV Tropes? Like, for money?

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#9161: Jun 14th 2016 at 3:19:45 PM

I believe the devs do. However, I don't think there are open positions.

You could potentially get a job with Proper.io and try to get assigned to TV Tropes. I'm not clear what the distinction is between the people who directly run the TV Tropes Foundation or whatever it is now and the team at Proper.io who design and manage websites.

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#9163: Jun 15th 2016 at 7:59:59 AM

http://proper.io/

Although, I don't know if they are the ones in charge of the upcoming database rewrite.

And I am pretty sure the admins do not work for proper.

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#9164: Jun 15th 2016 at 2:47:54 PM

Yeah, I'd thought they were just working for TVT, but then I saw the thing at the bottom saying to contact Proper if you want to advertise, and I looked into it. They seem to be a driving force behind the theming/UX of the site at least.

edited 15th Jun '16 2:48:07 PM by TParadox

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#9165: Jun 17th 2016 at 3:14:42 AM

As an Australian... Why don't Americans don't vote for the presidential nominee directly, instead of the Electoral College?

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#9166: Jun 17th 2016 at 3:24:29 AM

Historically, because the United States were created as a group of states with very different population sizes and the smaller states feared to be marginalized in a direct election. I suspect logistic concerns about performing a multi-state-wide election also played a role.

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#9167: Jun 17th 2016 at 4:53:38 AM

The men who wrote the US Constitution weren't that big on actually letting the people directly run the government. Not only is the Electoral College designed to give smaller states more power than is strictly proportional (which has come to backfire, since the winner take all method has made some bigger states way too powerful), but the Constitution doesn't actually say that the electoral votes are pledged to the winning candidate. The state's electoral "votes" are actually the state government getting so many "electors", and it's left to the state to decide what that means. It was meant to mean a similar concept to the DNC's Superdelegates: appointed free agents who you have a general idea who they're going to vote for but won't actually know until the day they have to vote.

All of this was deliberately about taking control away from the common citizen and giving it to state governments.

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#9168: Jun 17th 2016 at 12:49:50 PM

Isn't there a tool on TVT that helps you start writing a story?

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#9169: Jun 17th 2016 at 12:54:27 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php It really needs to be better linked. And I'm not so sure how useful it is.

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#9170: Jun 17th 2016 at 12:55:45 PM

I see.

I guess I'll go to Writer's Block for help.

edited 17th Jun '16 12:57:00 PM by BaconManiac5000

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#9171: Jun 22nd 2016 at 8:00:53 AM

how can u tell if u pulled a muscle

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#9172: Jun 22nd 2016 at 8:46:28 AM

Pull another muscle and compare.

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#9173: Jun 22nd 2016 at 10:19:37 AM

Stiffness, discolouration and bruising.

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#9174: Jun 27th 2016 at 11:49:37 AM

Are examples from the SCP Foundation supposed to be sorted under Web Original, or some other category?

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