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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#601: Feb 28th 2021 at 4:57:14 PM

Yandere.Music: The Britney Spears examples are using the word "may", which is tipping off Examples Are Not Arguable for me. The "Perfume" example looks like a keeper thanks to the last line, but not sure about "Toxic".

Edited by Berrenta on Feb 28th 2021 at 6:57:24 AM

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#602: Mar 8th 2021 at 10:59:36 AM

The indentation on Blood On The Clock Tower is completely messed up...

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#603: Mar 8th 2021 at 11:24:24 AM

[up] Thankfully, it's not a very large page. I'll fix it.

Edit: Okay, I'm cleaning up and the grammar is also really bad at points.

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 8th 2021 at 2:27:03 PM

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#604: Mar 8th 2021 at 11:44:29 AM

Alright, cleanup is done and I sent the troper some notifiers.

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#605: Mar 11th 2021 at 5:06:09 PM

Why are the I Thought It Meant subpages indexing their contents? Personally, I don't think they should.

Edit: Turns out there was a bug. It's taken to the appropriate place.

Edited by Berrenta on Mar 13th 2021 at 2:33:14 PM

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#606: Mar 16th 2021 at 12:04:56 AM

So many examples on ThatOneBoss.Final Fantasy XIV are Bonus Bosses, which are supposed to be disqualified from the trope...

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#607: Mar 18th 2021 at 5:46:27 PM

Finally went back to my little cat planet revamp after being reminded about it. Finished the revamp, and will now incorporate the sandbox!

The original style will be given a home in SelfDemonstrating.Cat Planet.

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#608: Mar 19th 2021 at 9:30:17 AM

Meanwhile, The Talkies Crew needs serious help.

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#609: Mar 22nd 2021 at 7:02:23 PM

Not sure how to wrap my head around Reynaldo The Assassin. ZCE's? Check. Poor formatting? Check. Natter? Yep, it's there.

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#610: Mar 22nd 2021 at 7:33:04 PM

I took a stab at it. There might still be more issues.

Also, I cutlisted the YMMV page.

Edited by Serac on Mar 22nd 2021 at 9:36:10 AM

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#611: Mar 25th 2021 at 5:42:29 PM

Some help bringing The Trickster down to a realistic size? ~2500 wicks doesn't make sense for something with that many subtropes.

For example, The Chessmaster x The Trickster, they share 488 pages.

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#612: Apr 24th 2021 at 8:58:30 PM

True Crime Obsessed...yikes, that needs help. Some tropes aren't linked, some are out of order, one doesn't exist...

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BrashBuster Unconventional Crossover Enthusiast from another place, not from outer space Since: Mar, 2018
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#614: Apr 29th 2021 at 11:07:03 AM

Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby has needed some cleaning for a long time; even having taken out most of the constant and borderline complaining quips about the game's difficulty, and having cut tropes that don't actually fit (such as Can't Drop the Hero, Confusion Fu, and Reality Is Out to Lunch), I'm struggling to figure out what to do with four examples:

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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: If you've ever seen a pro pitcher throw a knuckleball, you'll know that Owl's pitches (while unquestionably an exaggeration) aren't quite as impossible and "physics-defying" as most players assume. Probably misuse anyway, but I'm still unsure how much Owl's pitches resemble knuckleballs.
  • Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: With baseballs, not bullets. Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way, with Rabbit's pitches moving slowly and then speeding up, and Owl's pitches moving in a zigzagging manner. And yet, even they have nothing on Tigger's pitches, which in midflight become invisible. The trope's description is unclear enough that I don't know how much of this is valid and how much is misuse.
  • Fake Difficulty: Tigger's balls turn invisible in mid-air, meaning you have to mostly rely on luck to score a precise hit on them. You can predict when to hit Tigger's balls by watching their angle and speed before they turn invisible; is that still "fake"?
  • Nintendo Hard: And how! It starts off really easy, but quickly escalates to a level reached only by few games in existence. What, you thought a game about Winnie the Pooh would be easy? I mostly just don't know how to rephrase this example to be less snarky.

WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#615: May 5th 2021 at 7:12:42 PM

Webcomic.Deviant Art Secret Wars scares me and I don't have the willpower to clean it. It's a mess of ZCEs and broken indentation.

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Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
#616: May 6th 2021 at 12:04:47 AM

The part about the comics being ongoing with a planned finale in 2010 is telling.

It's a thing that exists, so I'm going to drop the link on the page.

WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#617: May 6th 2021 at 12:05:47 AM

Oof. I didn't catch that.

The Ancients strike again...

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Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
#618: May 6th 2021 at 12:57:40 AM

The page is much easier to handle when you comment out everything first and remove the % before the few acceptable entries.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#619: May 6th 2021 at 9:12:45 AM

Jesus... that's a lot. grin

Yeah, I think the best way is to ignore indentation for now, first see what tropes really don't fit and toss those, and then try to give context for each ZCE, fixing indentation as you go from trope to trope.

Edited by Redmess on May 6th 2021 at 6:14:10 PM

Optimism is a duty.
WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#620: May 6th 2021 at 9:56:54 AM

Yeah, unfortunately my default cleaning method is just to do everything at once and just scroll down the page, which means that every problem I run into I fix, but it also means I get burned out very quickly on longer pages.

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#621: May 6th 2021 at 10:54:46 AM

I think that works fine in mild cases, but yeah, this one will require a bit more of a systematic approach.

And don't feel ashamed to do it in multiple goes and take breaks.

Optimism is a duty.
WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#622: May 6th 2021 at 6:25:04 PM

I do sometimes, especially on the really long pages. [lol]

Anyway, thanks Tabs, good work as always.

Edited by WarJay77 on May 6th 2021 at 9:25:43 AM

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#623: May 6th 2021 at 6:26:44 PM

Was directed here from the Fixing zero context examples thread.

Manga.Nagasarete Airantou - multiple issues with ZCEs and indentation, at minimum. I made a start on the page's Zero Context Examples, and got the Character Sheet and YMMV page, as well as deleted manga-site links that were on the pages. The main page is a big enough job I think I should need help.

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#624: May 10th 2021 at 7:47:17 AM

Blind has some pretty awful grammar.

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#625: May 12th 2021 at 2:40:03 PM

So, just stumbled across Recap.Tales Of The Alliance, an entire orphaned recap index for Pantheon.Tales Of The Alliance (????)

Obviously all this needs to get cut but there are so damn many pages that I literally do not have the time to do it right now

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