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open Requesting a TLP discard
Requesting a mod discard here. The draft is in obviously lack-luster condition, but has already attracted 12 bombs and people seem to be posting specifically for the sake of it. In other words...yeah. Let's not do this again. I want a mod to discard it to prevent another incident.
It has no content anyway, so if the sponsor really intends to work on it, they could restart in 2 seconds.
Edited by WarJay77openTroper with grammar issues
Dark Paladin X’s edits have noticeable grammar issues, as seen here. I sent a notification, but there was no acknowledgment. This was, in fact, the second notification I’ve sent them, but after the previous one, they seemed to disappear from the pages I’ve seen them make those problems for a while, so I didn’t push further.
Edited by ShinyCottonCandyopenHow many bombs does a TLP draft need to require a discard?
The TLP Guidelines say that a trope needs five net hats to launch, but the page says nothing about needing five net bombs to discard a draft. Does the net 5 rule also apply to discarding drafts? I'm asking because there's a draft with 3 net bombs that will probably end up being nuked.
openIs there a Red Dead Redemption forum thread? Videogame
I can't find one, and I'm hesitant to potentially begin a duplicate thread
openChanging tropes’ names with a pothole
Is “changing” a trope’s name by using a pothole (such as changing Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? to Why Did It Have To Be Bees?) forbidden? I assume so.
Edited by jandn2014openFandom Rivalry on real people YMMVs
Are Fandom Rivalry examples (or any other fandom tropes for that matter) allowed on YMMV pages about singers or bands? I've come across a lot of them and they obviously have very little to do with their work, and the ones that do border on Flame Bait.
openPossible bot accounts
Carrying over from this discussion:
So there are two YKTS posters called lorenzo99 and J23 who both have the same blank white head on gray background, and I and a few others have suspected they are bots. At least one has posted a misplaced YKTS query here on ATT.
Any help?
Edited by ccorbopenAre there requirements to make Complete Monster proposals?
Is the thread reserved only for people with a certain amount of edits, or is it just open to anyone? I’m somewhat new.
openMentioning work titles in Playing With pages
Is that allowed? Like, for context? If for an example a trope was focused on children doing inappropriate things that we only associate with teenagers and adults, would it be permissible to say "5-year-old Eric plays Grand Theft Auto and watches South Park? Or should we just stick with " 5-year-old Eric plays violent video games and watches TV-MA programs"?
Edited by GlutentogopenDo creator pages need tropes?
According to Creator Page Guidelines, a page about a creator can have tropes that show up in many of his creations (but not from individual works) and trivia items. But do they need it? Can a creator page have just a brief description and a list of works, and be done with it?
openSneakily circumventing an Imagine Pickin' Decision Videogame
I noticed this a long while ago but never bothered to check up on whether it was discussed until now, and from the looks of things it wasn't.
A while back there was some minor edit warring over whether VideoGame.Persona 5 should use the boxart of the original version or the Updated Re-release. An image pickin' thread decided on the former and it went through, but at some point (I'm not entirely sure when), somebody readded the latter image in a captionbox hidden by a note markup.
No other game in the franchise does this on their page and it seems like this was purely someone trying to get around the image pickin' decision by quietly adding a second page image instead of replacing the agreed-upon one. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on the matter, but I do think the page looks cleaner with just one image.
Edited by Dirtyblue929open Adults Are Useless
So, I get that the Adults Are Useless trope is about adults being unhelpful to the youth or incompetent in any other way, but what really struck me and something I don't get about the trope is that in the description it says that Teens Are Monsters is an inversion of this trope. How is that so? Teenagers and adults are two different age groups, and an Inverted Trope is a trope that's played in reverse. A trope about adults being protective of the youth is what a real inversion of the trope would be, but how does Teens Are Monsters play an inverse role to Adults Are Useless? It's the same idea, just a different age group and less authority. The only possible correlation I can see is adults being unhelpful in situations where teenagers are misbehaving because said teens are growing up and no longer in that childhood stage of development, so teens doing things that younger children would get punished for would increasingly become the norm as part of the process of maturing. Another flip side could be that children will lose their innocence upon becoming a teenager and face many challenges that wouldn't befall younger kids, and so they start becoming cynical and that all manifests in teenagers being Foils to children and mini-adults who the actual adults become less sympathetic to and let them get away with things they wouldn't let children get away with. Thus, children are naive and vulnerable and think that teenagers are in the same line as them simply for not being adults yet, and that all potentially creates an inverse? Perhaps I'm looking too deeply into this, but....
The second thing that struck me is how on the Playing With page for Adults Are Useless, it constantly cites unspecified "monsters" in its examples, and I wanna know what/whom specifically they're referring to. It says stuff like "The monsters can only be seen by children" and "The monsters can only be harmed by children", which sort of gives me the impression that it's referring to the childhood phobia of monsters under your bed or in your closet. Could this possibly be in reference to the Teens Are Monsters trope and be correlating that trope with the aforementioned monster under the bed metaphor to highlight the foil between teens and children? It doesn't cite Teens Are Monsters on the actual Playing With page, however it does cite Teenage Wasteland which is often shown to overlap.
openPossible Suspended Troper active on TLP page
Troper "Avenger 09" has been actively creating proposed trope pages despite (per their own admittance) likely being under a lengthy suspension (their troper profile suggests they last edited in 2017). See this Trope Proposal which says:
"I noticed this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Anachronox was not filled in so I went ahead and made some entry's for this, frankly, underrated game.
"Since I cannot edit due to a long suspension I'm enduring. I've placed it here to gain attention to this oversight."
They've proposed this trope as well, which currently has enough hats to launch despite having a sketchy, awkwardly-worded description (including a typo).
May or may not be a problem, but wanted to make somebody aware of this.
openNon-Video Game examples for Regional Bonus Music
Can we start adding Non-video game examples for the Regional Bonus trope? Music albums in particular often have bonus content released exclusively for certain regions.
open Was Donald Trump tempting fate?
OK, so I realize that just about any discussion related to Donald Trump is a ROCEJ land-mine, and should be approached with extreme caution. But I wanted to bring this up because it seemed fairly straightforward.
Would this be an OK example for Tempting Fate?
- Over the course of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Donald Trump spent a significant amount of time claiming that COVID-19 was not a serious threat to the American People. He ignored it by holding in-person rallies and discouraged the use of masks. Ultimately, he caught it himself, and more than 200,000 American citizens died as a result of the virus.
open I can't remember this movie/show Film
Trying to find this tv show/movie i was watching but can't remember the title. It was a medieval time period. There is this specific scene i remember.People defending a city/castle from attackers and the enemy tries to dig tunnels to get inside.So the defenders hire a Scottish or Irish tunnel expert an he uses buckets of water to detect where the tunnels are. The water moves and he finds the location of tunnels. Then he orders the soliders to dig where the buckets of water were. The hole dug opens right above the enemies tunnel as they look up they pour oil and light them on fire. It could've been a show/movie or maybe a documentary series. I feel like it was either Netflix or Hbo/showtime something of that sort. It was definitely a city or some sort of fortification they were defending.
openYMMV for creators
Is it true that YMMV pages for real people aren't allowed, or does this rule only apply if their main page is prefaced with "Creator/"? Would it be permissible to creator YMM Vs for musicians as long as it is solely focused on their music?
I am currently on an Wiki Walk to find images for my avatar gallery. For some reason, some images download in the proper format, while others download with the Web P format (which is not supported by TV Tropes by the way, even by changing the file extension in the "Save Image As" menu), despite them having a different format in the image link. What is the cause of this and is there any way to circumvent this?
Edited by GoosefromWikipedia