danime91
Since: Jan, 2012
Nov 23rd 2015 at 1:10:43 PM
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Why in the world is the very first point under Real Life something about sexual fetishes? Am I missing something? Because it seems to have absolutely nothing to do with this trope at all.
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SeptimusHeap
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Nov 24th 2015 at 10:51:02 PM
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That may be something for the No Real Life Examples, Please! forum thread that is linked from that page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I'm a bit confused by the Discworld examples. The trope description is basically that on some level the character has a goal, but on another level they think it's too difficult so they don't try, or outright sabotage themselves. But there's no sense in which Rincewind, for example, wants to go on adventures. He is positively motivated to avoid adventures, but that never works out for him. In a way, his Dismotivation moment comes in The Last Hero; he finally accepts that his status quo is that he goes on adventures whether he wants to or not, and he might as well give in.