History Sandbox / Skewview

''Raison D'etre'' for tropes: '''Socratic Squabble''', '''Plates Platonics''', '''Descartic Discard''', '''Kant Touch This'''... [[JustForPun I can go on]], but safe to say Philosophy UsefulNotes needs an upgrade...

+ beauty look sexy or grotesque;
+ grotesque look beautiful or sexy;
+ sexy look beautiful or grotesque;

As for the merit to this existing is that the concept of trolling actually comes from folklore where a troll would disrupt elves and gnomes from their purpose of bringing about the season.

'''Prone to Purple Prose''' | '''Predilection for Purple Prose''' | '''Pure Purple Prose''' ... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 'nuff]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin said]]. -- Sometimes Less is More {{WellThisIsNotThatTrope}}.

'''Prone to Purple Prose''' | '''Predilection for Purple Prose''' | '''Pure Purple Prose''' ... [[OddlySpecificDenial 'nuff]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin said]]. -- Sometimes Less is More {{WellThisIsNotThatTrope}}.

'''Insufferable Specialist''' -- yes, without going into too much detail, BunnyEarsLawyer covers this to the letter, even though the TropeNamer reference might be obscure to some... (I mean, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bunnyearslawyer_6414.jpg this]] used to be the picture).

'''Generalists are Generally No Good''' -- Characters who poses several skills and are pretty much capable of anything are considered overachievers, despised for their various acomplishments, and one flaw is enough to bring them down.

-> -- ''Read The Freakin Manual!''
-> -- ''But there is no such thing!''
-> -- ''Read My Freaking Guide then, It even has a Map!''

There are, of course, non-game examples too, where a character in a story keeps a journal of some kind - See Grail Diary from Indiana Jones / The narrated journal of The 13th Warrior. And even Meta examples, where members of fandom have traced the journeys of characters throughout a narrative and its setting - See Map of the Fellowship's Journey in LOTR / Time Traveling in Back To The Future.

'''Topical Trivia Teacher''' -- A character that randomly turns teacher to the other characters (and sometimes the audience).

--''* George looks down at his shoes *''
--''* Biff smacks George's chin *''
->'''Biff:''' Don't be so gullible, McFly.

-> -- ''In for a penny, in for a pound, right?''
-> -- ''More like a pound of flesh...''
-> -- ''If you guys are done with the chit-chat... I'd really like to bury these bodies by morning''

--> -- ''In for a penny, in for a pound, right?''
--> -- ''More like a pound of flesh...''
--> -- ''If you guys are done with the chit-chat... I'd really like to bury these bodies by morning''

-- ''Read The Freakin Manual!''
-- ''But there is no such thing!''
-- ''Read My Freaking Guide then, It even has a Map!''

Developers and games that spawned the phenomenon simply couldn't shill out the money during development to make comprehensive guides and strictly relied on the player to figure things out as part of the appeal of the game.

In choose your own adventure style games, map making was a common trick -- these days, there are exploration/survival/walking-sim games that include this.

Today, because of digital distribution, some games do not even come with guidebooks, maybe a digital document that only points out the very basics of a game. Relaying on the community instead to start making the guide themselves, often, around digital distribution sites, wiki platforms if not dedicated sites by the developers or fandom representatives. There are even 0-Day guide publications and sites that have editors highly accustomed to this type of journalism.

'''Mandatory Makeshift Mapmaking''' -- In the early days of computer games, one copy of a game was sometimes shared among a group of friends, leading to some instances where some of them, without access to the official guide, improvised their own -- this has literally lead to many gaming sites or groups hosting them so that other players need not make their own.

This phenomenon has actually made a game's guidebook redundant in some instances and their content even less useful, thus making, Makeshift Mapmaking, uh, Mandatory... Today, because of digital distribution, some games do not even come with guidebooks, maybe a digital document that only points out the very basics of a game. Relaying on the community instead to start making the guide themselves, often on wiki platforms if not dedicated.

This technique has actually allowed developers and story tellers to focus on crafting more immersive experiences and re-balance games and instead rely on the player-base to document their findings themselves.

Some games even provide actual map interfaces so the player can place points-of-interest markers on them. Or even an actual guide book/diary to document in-universe progress and achievements.

There are, of course, non-game examples, where a character keeps a journal of some kind - See Grail Diary from Indiana Jones. And even Meta examples, where members of fandom have traced the journeys of characters throughout the narrative - See Map of LOTR Fellowship's Journey / Time Traveling in Back To The Future.

Note: I have done a few of these ''maps'' myself, mostly for games I've played in my youth... so this is very much an instance of AuthorApeal for me.

'''In Theory and Trope''' -- from ''In Theory and Practice'', a trope that acknowledges that while some concepts are only theoretical in RealLife they are ubiquitous in fiction. Originating from [[Predatory Big Pharma https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=grmaa8ybc2foyy2vgm4r2yo6]] discussion.