Laconic Description Improvement

Laconic.Creeper World:

I guess the first one's better? Sorta long though?

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I support the first one.

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Chained Sinkholes can be resolved by unlinking the middle one.

It doesn't have to be so dramatic, it's "An RTS / Tower Defence about defending the last base of humanity against the hostile Great Flood."

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Laconic.Compilation Rerelease. Should that say that it's a Video Game trope?

Because the description says that Omnibus is for textual works.

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Laconic.This Is Going To Be Huge is "History proves this to be false. It fails big time."

It's not the worst, but it's a response to the trope title, which we understand is discouraged if not forbidden these days.

We've got "Character thinks something's gonna be a big deal, but the audience already knows it wasn't." Any ideas for improvements?

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Apr 21st 2022 at 12:13:59 PM

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

The trope itself is kind of negative on the face of it, and is often used to complain, but Four Lines, All Waiting has this laconic that is also negative.

• The series has many simultaneous plots. Have fun trying to follow them all.

Feels like the second sentence can probably be cut, yes?

For Laconic.This Is Going To Be Huge, all I can think of is:

• A character becomes invested in something they believe will be very successful, but which the audience knows is doomed to failure.

For Four Lines, All Waiting, how about:

• The work has a minimum of four simultaneous plots, which it advances by regularly switching between each of them.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

That does sound better.

So the laconic page for Code Geass is this

• A Chessmaster acquires a Magical Eye with Mind Control powers and leads La Résistance to victory by using 4 meter tall mechs. AND PIZZA!

In an attempt to make the laconic more fitting, how about something like "An exiled prince can compel people to do what he wants them to with his eye in order to avenge his mother's death"

That sentence doesn't quite work.

"Can compel people...to avenge mother's death" doesn't flow.

Back when I had a dayjob, I drove there. I wouldn't say "I can use a car to drive to work."

So you might want something more like "Exiled prince is gifted magical compulsion powers and uses them to solve and avenge his mother's death."

Mother's death feels like it was rarely tocuhed upon, the series primarly focuses on leading Japan's rebellion against world-dominating British empire while hiding as a school student.

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Combine them?

• An exiled prince with magical compulsion powers leads a rebellion against the world-dominating British empire while trying to resolve his mother's death.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

Like that suggestion Wyldchyld

Gaslight does absolutely nothing to describe the plot of the film, other than referencing the protagonist's mental state.

How is this:

Ten years after the murder of her aunt, a woman and her husband move back into her house, whereupon the husband begins to psychologically manipulate her.

Edited by delayedboom on Apr 26th 2022 at 1:14:08 AM

We don't sweep with a broom, no~

That works for me.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

The Laconic for Precision F-Strike states:

There are several issues here:

• This suggests O.O.C. Is Serious Business can apply to a work, when it actually applies to a character. This makes it a Sinkhole, which aren't allowed.
• The main page can also apply to slurs (which is stated on the line "Other profane words such as "damn," "shit," hell," "goddamn," or slurs." from the main page). However, this version doesn't note this.
• The unabridged page states, "A Precision F-Strike is... when a swear is unexpectedly used in a work with mild language." Therefore, can I instead use the more concise "work with usually milder language" instead of "not known for using them to make a point"?

Can I fix these errors? For the record, I tried to do that beforehand. However, someone reverted it back.

~rileybrant20 please talk this out here and not in edit reasons as well. are good points, though I can comment that "both of which meaning something" sounds too general and "expletive" is rather uncommon word for "swear".

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Ok and good to know. If I do edit that page again, I'll keep that in mind.

How about this?

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Apr 30th 2022 at 1:31:19 PM

Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?

Remove last two of three "profanity" to reduce redundancy and sounds good enough to me.

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Do console useful notes need Laconics like Laconic.Play Station 5?

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Not snarky ones, that's for sure. I think the "impossible to get" part is nowadays more of a meme or in-joke than actual fact.

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(to The Living Drawing) I like it. However, I would also note that it can also apply if spoken by a character who usually doesn't swear.

How’s this

Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?

I like it.