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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

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#6426: May 19th 2022 at 7:00:12 PM
captainpat Since: Sep, 2010
Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#6428: May 19th 2022 at 7:54:47 PM

I feel like "...something" is becoming a bit of a catchphrase around here, I keep seeing it in articles from time to time

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Veteran Editor IV
#6429: May 20th 2022 at 12:31:20 AM

Honestly, all the complaining about Egregious is a little overblown. It doesn't seem like it's popping up all that much nowadays, it doesn't sound too strange, nor is it a You Keep Using That Word thing, and a word that you can closely associate with a site can make it much more memorable (other than "trope", of course).

Edited by Piterpicher on May 20th 2022 at 9:31:55 PM

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#6430: May 20th 2022 at 12:33:27 AM

...Was anyone here complaining? All we said was that it's a word we learned about from this wiki. Or are you just talking in general?

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Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Veteran Editor IV
#6431: May 20th 2022 at 12:34:06 AM

Yeah, in general. The page for it seems a bit too negative. Though people probably wouldn't have cared much in the first place if a page didn't exist.

Edited by Piterpicher on May 20th 2022 at 9:38:09 PM

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6432: May 20th 2022 at 6:41:38 AM

I was going to say it looked like The Ex's New Jerkass was only up on the front page for five minutes before it got replaced by Cyber Green, but it looks like it got banished to the Shadow Realm returned to TLP instead. I'm always surprised how quickly rogue launches get taken down, since they never seem to stay up for more than a few minutes.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#6433: May 20th 2022 at 6:43:17 AM

It's just because the mods happen to be online when rogue launches are reported, sometimes it takes a while.

Edited by Amonimus on May 20th 2022 at 4:43:29 PM

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Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
CHOMPION
#6434: May 20th 2022 at 6:46:21 AM

Speaking of Cyber Green, I'm really surprised that we didn't have that trope until today.

Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.
GastonRabbit MOD C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#6435: May 20th 2022 at 6:53:07 AM

I actually agree that the Word Cruft page may be a little too snarky for its own good. Maybe bring it up in Outdated Pages if you're concerned?

Since nobody cross-referenced it here, the page was brought to the Outdated Pages thread and I trimmed the page accordingly.

(Also, this was apparently my first Yack Fast post since I received a Herald PM.)

Edited by GastonRabbit on May 20th 2022 at 8:53:51 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#6436: May 20th 2022 at 9:19:13 AM

Word Cruft is like, the bottom tier of mistakes you can make in this wiki, so it's wild how that page seemed so particularly spiteful. Like, some of it's annoying, but are rhetorical questions really so problematic as to warrant all that hate?

...did not realize I was self demonstrating a rhetorical question when I started typing that. [lol]

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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6437: May 20th 2022 at 9:59:52 AM

Ho Yay page images need to hit a specific sweetspot. They can’t be too generic, but they can’t be too explicit.

GenericGuy2000 I’m here, I guess. from a generic place. Since: Jul, 2021 Relationship Status: Cast away
I’m here, I guess.
#6438: May 20th 2022 at 10:03:53 AM

It’s the most delicate of artistry.

I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#6439: May 20th 2022 at 11:30:54 AM

(Also, this was apparently my first Yack Fast post since I received a Herald PM.)

I did do a double take when I saw your name in my messages.

good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#6440: May 20th 2022 at 11:33:56 AM

Do you feel like the number of one-word title works being released nowadays will enlarge the number of disambiguations in the site?

oh hey how are you doing?
RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6441: May 20th 2022 at 11:39:05 AM

Oh, absolutely. There's no avoiding it, especially once you include any remakes that may happen in the future.

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6442: May 20th 2022 at 11:43:52 AM

Depends on the title. Can't imagine that many works will want to title themselves Film.Pig :-)

Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#6443: May 20th 2022 at 5:33:56 PM

Whenever someone else brings up this wiki outside of here (of course not in a way that's shitting on it, I mean bringing up stuff like trope names and something on a subpage I guess), do any of you feel some sort of telepathic reaction? Kinda like how two bus drivers have some sort of psychic link whenever they happen to drive past one another.

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#6444: May 20th 2022 at 5:35:35 PM

[up] I wish I had psychic powers, or knew bus drivers with psychic powers.

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Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#6445: May 20th 2022 at 5:40:04 PM

[up] ...

I'm not sure if this is just me not understanding when people are joking about stuff, but the "telepathic connections" stuff is meant to be a figure of speech. I'm not being literal.

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#6446: May 20th 2022 at 5:41:01 PM

[up] Sorry, it's the first time I've heard it, so I didn't know what were you trying to say.

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RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6447: May 20th 2022 at 6:02:30 PM

I'm also a bit confused by what you meant, but I do tend to mentally go "Oh, that was unexpected." There are certain tropes that have already ingrained themselves into the wider nerd lexicon, like Flanderization, but others make me do a double-take whenever I hear them outside of here.

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(she/her)
#6448: May 20th 2022 at 6:41:53 PM

I wouldn't describe it as "telepathic" but it pleases me to see the site get mentioned in places I didn't expect.

Edited by MacronNotes on May 20th 2022 at 11:56:17 AM

Macron's notes
good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#6449: May 20th 2022 at 8:34:23 PM

Was the Flanderization name created by TV Tropes or was the title named after what was an already existing expression?

oh hey how are you doing?
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6450: May 20th 2022 at 9:14:58 PM

When I think of the name Rapunzel Hair, I think comically and unrealistically long hair. I do wonder why people just used it for long hair in general.


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