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I've been checking out the So Bad It's Horrible pages, and I've noticed that someone has been cutting out some reviews. I know that one of the rules says this (copypasted from the Film section and edited to reflect the pages that are affected): "It isn't a Horrible (X) just because anyone in That Guy With The Glasses and/or any other Caustic Critic reviewed it. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. (Though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.)"
The kicker is that with some stuff that does have actual critics' input, they still delete the reviews. So does that count as vandalism, and the links can be restored, or should they just be left alone?
Edited by arcadiarikaopenNo Title
Eastern Prince has vandalised the Hax.Home Page, Yoda.Home Page and AlBhed.Home Page. I've reverted them.
Edited by PyriteopenNo Title
What's up with the Eastern Animation folder on Ink-Suit Actor? One of those could go in film, and other isn't even really Eastern...
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What's our policy on Eastern naming conventions? I ask because Redkun changed all of the names in the description of Manga.Rurouni Kenshin from the eastern version of Last Name First Name to First Name Last Name and I am unsure if I should switch it back.
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One Eyed Dragon added a Wall of Text to Eastern Zodiac. Given that there was a person who added similar text to both Western Zodiac and Eastern Zodiac (as said in Western Zodiac's discussion page) a while back(and got banned for it), I wonder if that was the same person.
Edited by MacronNotesopenNo Title
Just want to make something sure here: Can Eight Deadly Words, as a YMMV, be brought up in any work regardless of overall opinion? I won't lie, I ask this because someone added it to YMMV.Xenoblade, which to those unfamiliar is a recent Eastern RPG with a bit of a cult following.
- Eight Deadly Words: The cast are bland, cookie-cutter heroes with no depth, and whose interactions with each other are sickeningly saccharine, making it difficult to care about their journey long enough for anything interesting to happen.
While I find that that entry goes overboard, I am biased, and I can't just shut down someone's entry in YMMV just because I don't agree with it.
Edited by ElbrunoopenNo Title
Good lord. Found the following on Insistent Terminology's Real Life subpage.
All of these look more like unintentional Expospeak Gags to me. I mean, if they were insistent about calling it that, then sure. But it all also looks like ESGs.
EDIT: Well, not so much the last one. But the others all qualify, I think.
The example(s):
- The German Democratic Republic used this trope a lot:
- Renaming its more oppressive features, similar to People's Republic of Tyranny - the Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the Anti-Imperialistischer/Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (anti-imperialist or anti-fascist protection rampart), both terms targeted at West Germany.
- Many items related to religious holidays were renamed to comply with secular ideology. Easter bunny-shaped chocolate was called a Frühlingsschokoladenhohlkörper (springtime chocolate hollow body) and angel figurines on Christmas trees were called geflügelte Jahresendfigur (winged end-of-the-year figurines). Even for a language like German that's used to long concatenated words, they sound rather ridiculous. Scholarship is divided about how much these terms really caught on.
- Foreign (especially American) words that entered German parlance, even those that were in use before WW 2, were replaced with Exactly What It Says on the Tin German words. Darts became Wurfspiel ("throwing game"), Supermarkt became Kaufhalle ("purchasing hall"), Comics became Bildergeschichten ("picture stories") etc. This was to emphasize that their versions were "completely different" from the corrupting capitalist counterparts.
- West Germany wasn't shy of returning this in kind. In the early years after WW 2, the West German administration considered itself the only legitimate German state and refused to recognize even the existence an East German state. It used alternative names, such as Ostzone ("Eastern zone") or Sowjetische Besatzungszone ("Soviet Occupation Zone"). They also refused to recognize any country that maintained diplomatic relations with East Germany, with the exception of the Soviet Union (which was too big and important to piss off in this way) until Willy Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik (New Eastern Policy) of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
openNo Title Webcomic
There seems to be a (sort of) duplication of pages. There's a AxisPowersHetalia.South And Southeast Asia, as well as an AxisPowersHetalia.South And South Eastern Asia. The images used are different, though, and the latter hasn't been indexed.
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Why does Madman Entertainment have a namespace for its sub-indexes? The articles should be located at Madman Entertainment, Directors Suite, and Eastern Eye, with a possible sub-index page at Madman Entertainment Anime And Manga if the index is really too long for a page.)
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User High Crate seems to be changing a bunch of articles (Characters.Koragasa The Eastern Reaches, Creatures.Dungeons And Dragons, Recap.Doctor Who50th AS The Day Of The Doctor, StarTrekDeepSpaceNine.Tropes Q To Z, Characters.Kuroko No Basuke...) from British spellings to American ones. They doesn't seem to be making any edits purely to do that, but if they're editing it for another reason, they're "correcting" spelling as they go. My understanding is that this is discouraged, as per Administrivia.American And Commonwealth Spellings.
What do?
Edited by NativeJovianopenNo Title
What is the appropriate way to list examples from Bonus Material? Mach Rider 1985 just removed this from Rage Against the Author without comment...
- Neon Genesis Evangelion has several Paratextual examples:
- In an easter egg on the Platinum DVD, Shinji (American dub) rages against the director for the Gainax Ending.
- There's also a gag sound track in which all the characters and Hideko Anno parody themselves as well as anime genres including mecha, and rage against each other and Anno who in turn spreads the rage back to the characters, the producers, and fans.
openWesternAnimation split in european and american?
Hi! This site classifies animation from North America and Europe under the label Western Animation and animation from (ex-)USSR into Eastern Animation (and japanese one under Anime). Why isnt european (especially french) animation split from american one instead of together with America? Especially looking to the past, european animation differs to american one regarding style and tropes, no Ocelot or Chomet or Lotte Reiniger could have been american films. IMHO, the difference between european animation and american one could be as broad as american and soviet productions, so why isnt western animation split in two? Furthermore, for searching purposes, probably, having them split could help.
I apologise if this topic had already been discussed, I wasnt able to find it elsewhere. If so, please provide a link, I am curious about what tropers think of this topic. :)
open Easter Egg or Freeze-Frame Bonus Live Action TV
So I was watching an episode of Murdoch Mysteries and saw a prop box of dynamite with the brand name "Big Bang". Of course I'm thinking it's a science joke. The thing is, I didn't actually freeze the frame to catch it, though I'm sure it would help. So where should I put the citation?
Edited by 69BookWorM69openWestern or eastern name order for japanese (etc) names? Anime
I've seen some japanese names that use western order (first name - surname), rather than the eastern order (surname - first name), since the anime fandom, at least somewhat consistently, uses eastern order, it can be pretty confusing when others don't. Is there a convention about this? And is it open to change if the convention is to sue western order?
openA Geek's Guide: Eastern Rhapsody Not Here?
So I decided to look up "A Geek's Guide" on TV Tropes, and only found two; Deathworld and CORE. While I will admit those two deserve to be here as well, why the hell isn't Eastern Rhapsody here too?! Seriously, that thing needs a trope page! It is awesome! If someone is already working on this, then please disregard this question. If not, here's the URL to the first thread. Enjoy the read.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-geeks-guide-eastern-rhapsody.284956/
open TV and radio "bleed" Live Action TV
Is there a trope for the interesting situation where one country's TV and radio inevitably crosses borders and ends up being (potentially) watched by an audience it wasn't intended for? I'm thinking of the way the south-eastern coast of England can clearly receive TV channels from France and Belgium; I'm betting BBC and ITV can be clearly received in the French side of the Channel. Recently I was in Lincolnshire (east of England) and the TV there could just about receive Dutch programmes, albeit on the edge of reception. Ireland's state radio service, RTE, can be picked up in large parts of Scotland and the North of England, although with a big Irish diaspora in Britain, I'm guessing this is deliberate. There must be lots of this in Europe, and a certain interchangability across the USA's northern border with Canada. (If this isn't an existing trope, might be one for YKTTW?TLP). Thanks for help!
openCoincidince or shoutout? Videogame
Some people found an Easter Egg in overwatch that consists of two books in a mini fridge. http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1161333-overwatch Being a savy gamer, I noticed that the books, one red, the other blue, bear a resemblance to the trap books from Myst. Now, if I went ahead and just added this to the shootout page, someone else is sure to say "Nobody will confirm that," and remove it. So I want to cut a potential edit war out well before the debatable entry even exists. Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement and such. What do you think? Coincidince? Or Reference?
Edited by sailing101
I'm brand-new as a contributor (first edit was today, relating to the Bathroom John entry), although been visiting a something like a year. I'd already posted this question earlier in another part of the forum, but realized this was probably the better home for it afterward, so bear with me ... it relates more to the "mechanics" of the wiki rather than any specific trope or work.
Is there a setup option somewhere here to display to me the times of ALL posts and other events in my local time (US/Canada Eastern, GMT-5)? It's much easier to see how recent an entry or posting is that way. Thanks and best.