Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM
This place is full of beautiful people with beautiful minds?
Well, I guess here's something.
There's apparently a massive amount of Deconstruction in fiction, at least if the 13 subpages are correct. Even in places I wouldn't have expected otherwise. It's...kind of remarkable how many we found. (Like My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. It's a simple show for girls or so I'm told, what's there to break down?)
edited 19th Apr '13 5:52:15 PM by Raidouthe21st
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)The deconstruction is in the fact that it has decent writing as far as merchandise-driven kids shows go, A FEAT WHICH HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN'S CARTOONS EVER.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.You don't need angst to do a Deconstruction on something, that's a very common misconception.
edited 19th Apr '13 7:09:36 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.@X: Then I've run into a lot of assholes who 'weren't in their right minds'
Honestly, this is why I'd rather not even discuss stuff like this. It's hard to have a discussion about something when you can emotionally disconnect where others can't, regardless of how 'political correctness' works.
I'm talking about things like people saying 'How can you even suggest that?' when you bring something even mildly controversial up.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe I just like to learn about shit? Maybe I just want to ask fucking questions? Maybe I just want to discuss something I know little about, thus I am going to approach said something from every angle and not just the 'you're right if you agree with this one :3' angle?
I mean for fuck sake, I've been told off in the same way Alma has in these sorts of issues. Privilege. Being white. Being fucking skinny in one incredibly insulting case. So you know what? I give up. People aren't worth the time to tip-toe around or please if all I get is called out by shitheads for garbage I can't help about myself. I'm sorry my family isn't dirt poor. I'm sorry I'm white. And I'm sorry that my weight insults people somehow.
Seriously, for me, entering any form of discussion like this isn't worth my time or anyone elses. Therefore, I bow out and leave it to people with brass balls and not china ones.
/cynical and probably out of line with everyone else's view rant
NOTE: This is a general rant and not targeted at anyone. X's explanation just got me thinking about some whys is all.
And inadvertently brought back some less than stellar memories.
Not to mention I've had a coffee on an empty stomach and I'm sort of wired and pissed off for some reason. Need to bitch about something to cool off. May as well be this. Also, this should probably reside in the 'Do you like people?' thread.
edited 20th Apr '13 1:27:43 AM by TopographicOcean
YUUGI WANTS YOU FOR DRINKING BUDDYNo, let's let that thread die with the painful memories
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That's just "This Troper", by some goon. It's silly.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Why? It's just a silly internet series. Hell, there's an entire video dedicated to Mark and he's managed to...manage.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Well, the maker of the series hasn't posted anything TVT-related in about a year, I believe, so if you're really nervous about it, you probably have nothing to worry about at this point.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.I tend not to handle criticism and mockery well. Even if it's good-natured, which I suspect that video, with its multiple comments along the lines of "Wow, these losers actually exist?", is not.
I doubt I'm in any of them, since I'm a pretty new user here. But every now and again, I'll get hit by a wave of paranoia concerning my openness on the Internet—that video brought it back to the surface. Sometimes I forget this stuff is visible to everyone on the Web and not just the people who actually use/post on TV Tropes. A while back, I Googled my name and rather than being proud, I was terrified. I went around deleting as many of my old online accounts and references to my real name as possible. I even changed my last name on Facebook. I couldn't help but think, "Holy shit, how easy would it be to find me if someone put a hit out on me or something?" Which I know is completely irrational, but yeah, the public nature and obsession with connection that the Internet has can be scary. (Cf. Any controversy about Facebook's privacy policies.)
edited 20th Apr '13 6:25:07 AM by Alma
You need an adult.I apologize, in that case. Didn't mean to bring that all up for you.
Side note: It's harder for me to search my username, because it either comes up with it randomly appearing in a string of code or a few people who aren't me. For example, I am not Dan English of Twitter.
edited 20th Apr '13 6:28:04 AM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.I doubt I'm in any either...
And I actually Googled my actual name just now and got a result for someone with my name in Perth. What. The. Fuck.
Anyway, the videos themselves don't exactly seem good natured ribbing. It's like lurking... with intent to be a dick head.
Googling my username results in Yes music, thankfully.
edited 20th Apr '13 6:29:12 AM by TopographicOcean
YUUGI WANTS YOU FOR DRINKING BUDDYWell, they're not exactly good-natured, but they're more just pinpointing the worst we have to offer. Which can, admittedly, get pretty bad.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.My handles were always common-sounding enough to fly beneath Google's radar, I think. I would go by "Jordie" (which is my name; but without a surname Google gets confused, the poor dear) or, more recently, "Alma". Searching for the latter would probably just get you a lot of ghost porn.
You need an adult.Eh, it's just the result of cherry picking to find some of the more "quoteable" kinds of quotes, for people's amusements. It's like the Pony Thread Simulator videos, or those Youtube comment videos. I think pretty much everyone watching 'em knows that from the start they're not supposed to be a complete representation of what all posters/tropers/whathaveyounot are like.
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edited 19th Apr '13 4:00:59 PM by Robotnik