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This is just having fun isn't it.

Why are there no video examples for real life? Is there an unspoken rule forbidding it?

Do we have a forum discussion thread for this? Not sure if Hide Your Pregnancy (Trivia) should be My Secret Pregnancy (Trope)...

Shouldn't this be moved as a Just for Fun article as it's a TV Tropes joke?

I just want to issue a shout-out to everybody who played a part in writing this section as though real life for a video game. People are up in arms because they got fooled by a blog post saying University would be added to the The Sims 4, and now they seem to be pushing for the collegiate experience in the game to be taken more seriously than that of real life.

Now, has there been a move away from writing the section as though life is a video game, or am I misremembering things?

No monthly fee? My ass, there's not.

Are other people considered NP Cs or players? If anyone else is another player, then everyone else should be a player; life is either a single-player game with six billion NP Cs, or it's a MMORPG with six billion players.

The information currently listed under "Random Number God" would much better belong in an entry for "Character Customization."

I'm too lazy to do this right now, and I might never get around to it.

Why is this locked? I really want to add a [[note]] after the image caption that says "Those are in-game expenses!"

"For a work that's apparently taken a damned long time to develop before release to the general public, it ought to be good."

I think there should be a note here right after "a damned long time" that says "Or six days depending on who you ask."

Should No Real Life Examples feature somewhere on the Real Life page? Or is doing that an example of No Real Life Examples in itself? If the latter is true, then that's an odd paradox.

Also, I suggest that Earth-Prime should be one of the names that directs here. We're already treated what is real as fictional by giving it its own trope page, so why not?

So couple of questions about inconsistencies (which may be prove I take this much too seriously :P):

• Are planets servers, are universes servers or are countries servers? I've seen all three used
• The term season is used interchangeably with year. But doesn't season usually apply to tv-shows rather than games?
• Are humans the only player characters? are all humans player characters? Many entries seem to contradict each other regarding this.

There's a bit from the "Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman" episode, "Is There a Creator" where one of the scientists puts forth the question of whether WE as humanity are simply complex, sentient characters within a gigantic video game many orders of magnitude larger in size than the data capacity of the highest-capacity hard drive of the highest-quality supercomputer as of now, being watched by GOD himself through an equally gigantic supercomputer. It's very interesting in that the idea almost matches the main article as of now.

As crazy as it might sound, what do you fellow tropers think?

I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my opinion of feminism. I just can't imagine a oppressed group not hating who is responsible. So I think we have to agree to disagree and I'm glad it was removed.

Should this page be considered as Just for Fun? This Troper can only see this page as how tropers have fun, not as a notable article.

How come theres no fridge sections?

I'm changing the page type to work+index rather than fun+index, as that will make some of the tabs show up. It is on the Just for Fun index anyway.

Across many real life subsections of tropes, I've noticed some examples are really vague in description, not identifying the person or date, or even location. what's up with these? Local examples from the area a troper lives in? Aow cmon!

Someone's pulling No Real Life Examples on the Real Life examples page and cutting out a lot of well-written entries. Am I the only one who feels something's going wrong here?

Wait, what happened to the Crowning Moment of Awesome section?

Why do people link Science is Bad to Christians who don't believe in evolution?Sorry,but I get the feeling that people don't get the memo that Christians don't consider macro evolution to be valid.Christians tend to believe that evolution when used as a basis in life can lead to a more immoral world.Yes, there are other factors for the world being crummy.But it really pushes my buttons that if someone doesn't believe in evolution then they are against all science.Most christians are happy science can do stuff for the good of man. The evolutionary point of view can produce Social Darwinism which has caused tragedy in the world.And no I will not bring up the German party that will be named because I will not evoke Godwins Law. All I am saying that people just assume that evolution is true because scientists say it. Before anyone says I hate scientists, the thing is I appreciate scientists who make new technology and new discoveries to help this world.I find that this could be considered a broken aesop that people should never question the norm unless society says so.

Re: Quantum Physics:

This is not a case of You Fail Logic Forever. Quantum Physics is about (effectively) all particles in a universe being entangled, and the effect this creates (observation changes the thing being observed). One of the implications this has (if it's strictly true) is that the universe is definitively deterministic (in a copy of this universe, everyone would make exactly the same decisions, etc). In that sense, it *guarantees* the reliable applicability of logical principles, provided you use appropriate scientific methods to isolate the factors you are investigating.

Something that is merely counter-intuitive doesn't seem like it can fall under You Fail Logic Forever, either. In that case, things that people say in real life which seem totally wrong but turn out correct (and soundly based) would have to also fall under You Fail Logic Forever; (that kind of situation tends to occur when one person's understanding of the given field is several levels above the other)

If there is a trope about predestination, Quantum Physics could fit under that. There Are No Coincidences ?

hmm, arguably it's more of the case that Logic fails at Quantum Physics (in the real world, there is nothing so simple as a linear causative chain. QP research has demonstrated this holds true even for ridiculously 'simple' events.)

Would it violate the rule of cautious editing judgment if I add serial killers as an example of complete monsters?

Why does it seem that this article has a "Life is a game" style?

Equivalent Exchange: Isn't it subverted by the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

Where did the Just Bugs Me go?

I(not so recently) edited Misaimed Fandom to get rid of all the conflicting political positions, for a simplified version that didn't openly mock a lot of people's views and beliefs.