General Page Quote Discussion:

The current quote on Fat and Skinny seems long and complainy. I think the first one on the quotes page could be a good replacement.

The quote on 4Kids Entertainment is not only complainy, but also pretty long. It can go, but I don't know what to replace it with.

/ Both of those replacements look good.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System currently has four page quotes, all of which are different slogans it's had over its run. I think the first one works the best, but I'm open to other people's feedback.

I agree, the first one is best.

That was pushed back at the bottom of the previous page, so reposting:

I'm thinking the quote on Reference Overdosed is a bit underwhelming. Making lots of reference doesn't make it overdosed.

I'm thinking this example from "Super-Showdown-Bowl!" would make a better page quote:

First quote is best.

dropping by just to point out that the pages Devious Dolphins and its superpage, Dolphins, Dolphins Everywhere, have the same page quote. maybe we should change for one of them?

Edited by anza_sb on Aug 17th 2020 at 9:52:00 PM

For Ocean Madness:

Black Mage: We have always lived in the ocean. There is no before. There will be no after. There is no place for time here among the dark, among the alien things that crawl and swim in a sea without light. We are one of them now. We have always been one of them.
Red Mage: Black Mage? You're narrating again.
Black Mage: My companions succumbed to sea madness weeks ago.
Thief: Dude, it's been two and a half hours.
Black Mage: I alone maintain a gimmer of humanity. I fear it is fading fast.
Red Mage: What kind of dark wizard in league with nameless forces of primordial evil are you that you can't even make a successful sanity check versus boredom?
Black Mage: I ignored the pitiable babbling that issued from their misshapen lips. Their wet gurgles, a noise that had once been words, came to and end when one of the things outside assaulted our craft. I welcome death.

— 8-Bit Theater, Somewhere Beyond The Sea, My Elder God Stands On Golden Sands

Kind of long for my tastes, but if that’s what we go with the trope potholes would need to go.

nah, that's way too long.

Too long. Cut it down to just the first Black Mage line.

Edited by HighCrate on Aug 18th 2020 at 8:15:49 AM

I think up to Thief's line would be clearer, since just the first line doesn't mention they've been at sea.

Edited by Chabal2 on Aug 18th 2020 at 5:19:43 PM

The first line is already the quote on Eldritch Ocean Abyss.

Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy

"Ruined World + cast of Jerk = [[EightDeadlyWords I don't care what happens to these guys"]]

— Demotivational Poster◊ with the Eight Deadly Words

I removed the pothole, but even with it being mentioned below it has been added for the at least 4th time. Permission to add a note not to add potholes because this page have been a prevalent problem with it despite all other efforts?

Spark9 reverted the Charles Bukowski quote on Writer's Block to the Asimov quote we removed a while back. I've sent him a message to come here, but I want to make sure that we agree on reverting it.

This would work perfectly for Series Fauxnale if a 13th Captain Underpants book had been released... but it hasn't happened yet.

Still good enough, you think?

The page quote on Accidental Aesop misunderstands the Audience Reaction. Accidental Aesop is when the audience sees an aesop in a work that wasn't intended to have one, while the page quote is about someone seeing a different aesop than the intended one.

Well, I was not aware it had been discussed here.

That said, the Bukowski quote (about "writing on writer's block") is an example of "How I Wrote This Article" Article, not of Writer's Block; so it doesn't belong on the latter page.

Page quotes can be discussions of a trope, and the Bukowski quote is definitely a discussion of Writer's Block; in any case it gives a better idea of what a Writer's Block is than the Asimov quote does.

I don't agree that a simple "X is better than Y" gives any idea of what X or Y actually are.

When X is Writer's Block and Y is the definition of Writer's Block, then it explains what Writer's Block is.

Edit: That said, we can use a voice other than me and Spark9 in this argument.

Edited by thok on Aug 21st 2020 at 5:49:39 AM

"Writing about writer's block is better than writer's block" is indeed a relevant description of writer's block and not just an "X is better than Y" comparison.

... That said, it's kinda lackluster. Any better suggestions?

Chaos Architecture is about places and sets inexplicably looking different between installments (The Other Darrin, but for locations), but the quote describes a location that is known for changing shape in-universe.

Nothing on the quote page looks good... and there's nothing on the trope page. I'd just pull it. Better no quote than a misleading one.

Worst of all, it uses “different than” instead of the grammatically correct “different from”.