General Page Quote Discussion:

heads up, the page quotes for Africa Is a Country and The Theme Park Version are the same. maybe we should do something about it?

Keep it on Africa Is a Country, replace the quote on The Theme Park Version.

Seconded.

Second Prize has an unsourced quote.

Edited by Adept on Jan 11th 2022 at 9:48:46 PM

I suggest replacing it with the dialogue from the scene the page pic comes from:

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Edited by Willbyr on Jan 11th 2022 at 7:49:12 AM

Better. Current is also a joke that doesn't really get the trope across.

As a car enthusiast, I think I should point out that not one "d" in "Cadillac Eldorado" is capitalized.

x6 how about a literal Theme Park Version of Vietnam from South Park? It's the boys' book report presentation, which was told to them by Jimbo in a kid friendly way that they took literally.

Edited by Hello83433 on Jan 11th 2022 at 9:52:35 AM

From this ATT regarding the current page quote for Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Besides being a gushy review quote, a quote from the game itself would be a better fit for the page, and there are a couple to pick from. Two quotes from Henry, the protagonist, that describes his motivation for the game. The first one is said verbally and the second one is written in the quest log.

And another one from a major character, Sir Radzig.

Edited by Super_Weegee on Jan 11th 2022 at 12:24:07 PM

I think for the right amount of detail and plot relevance, the second quote makes more sense to use for that page.

~Delibirda brought up RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse in the copy/paste thread, and while there's no plagiarism problem with an attributed quote, it's still three paragraphs. Any suggestions for debigulating it?

The last paragraph seems to best summarize the inciting incident of the AU.

Yeah, the last paragraph seems to sum it up well enough.

x5 that South Park quote seems good enough.

Edited by Orbiting on Jan 12th 2022 at 4:38:38 AM

The South Park one might be taking the trope too literally.

re: Lunaverse quote, I think it could use some of the part before for context:

x4: Also, I was trying to recognize the word "debigulating" for a few seconds there and then laughed out loud when I got it.

Supernatural Is Green’s quote has nothing to do with the trope other than the color green.

Agreed it's bad. I'm not seeing a suitable replacement anywhere, but I'd prefer having no quote to that one.

Entertainingly Wrong has a note in the quote explaining it, which kinda defeats the purpose. It might work to just remove the note, but I feel like we can find a better replacement. Here's a Sunny quote referencing Star Wars, which might be universal enough:

Might be too close to Comically Missing the Point, though. Here's an OOTS one:

Probably too long, though.

Reposting since I only had one response from it. I would like to suggest a quote change for Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse, from this:

To this:

Reasoning that BoJack is a washed-up actor who is toxic only to those associated with him, and though he tries to clean up his act he ultimately fails tragically. Bahato is an immortal who was Maddened Into Misanthropy because his family was killed by someone who thought was his friend. He is taking out his grief not on the one who killed his family, but on the entire world, and even when he's told outright that people have changed from back then he refuses to listen.

While I don't have an issue with the new quote, we don't assume people are familiar with the quote's context. The quotes are presented in isolation for a reason. The context of the work is irrelevant if the quote fits.

The current quote on Trauma Button is very weak. There's a bracketed sentence on the quote source explaining the context, and the actual quote is completely unillustrative otherwise. Any better suggestions or should I just pull it?

I never liked it due to how context dependent it is, but I guess it's not hurting the page. But surely there is a better replacement talking about triggers or something.

Both quotes are totally interchangable to me without context and nothing you said convinced me that the new quote is better. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, so I’m fine with keeping the old one.

Edited by antenna_ears on Jan 16th 2022 at 12:45:06 PM

I can think of some decent Trauma Button quotes, but they're all too spoilerific to suggest as a quote. I don't know if the best thing is to leave the current quote up or pull it, but it would be nice to find a better one.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Jan 16th 2022 at 4:15:51 AM

I'm surprised there are so few Trauma Button quotes. While I strongly dislike the current one, it's probably not quite terrible enough to be considered worse than nothing. Would this be better?

The Cast Full of Gay quote requires just a little bit too much knowledge of in-joke to be good. Not terrible, but I think this one is better:

I think the problem with Trauma Button is that it can often be linked to a reveal or plot twist, which means there are some good quotes out there, but they'd be too spoilerific to use.

I think your suggestion is better. I'm not a massive fan of relying heavily on including descriptions, but it's common enough in page quotes (so it's just a me thing) and it does help to display the trope, at least a bit.

The Cast Full of Gay suggestion seems fine. I don't have a problem with the current quote, but I also don't know the work; so it sounds, from your post, like I'm missing something important about the quote that affects its usability as a trope quote. If that's the case, I'm happy to accept your feelings on the matter. I don't have any issues with the suggested replacement.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Jan 17th 2022 at 5:52:24 AM