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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
I joined long after that, but I've been lurking the site ever since the early 2010s. I vaguely remember Troper Tales existing, but I never bothered looking at it.
Your melody still remains in this room and it ringsI only joined like a year or two after Troper Tales was cut, so for me it's just this weird reminder of how different the site was back then. I'm glad it was gotten rid of before "cringe culture" took over the internet.
That so many people here now weren't here for the Beware the Nice Ones Troper Tales page makes me sad.
I'm betting fifty percent "This is me" and fifty percent "This one quiet guy I knew suddenly shot a guy who was bullying him."
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldAll I know about is the memetic pencil monologue, which I think is immortalized on Funny.Tv Tropes.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallOh, it was more like 90% vain humble bragging "This Troper is such a sweet guy who wouldn't hurt a fly, but oh, you won't like me when I'm angry!" followed by some specific example of them being cool standing up to someone annoying them.
There was this one example though, that never failed to crack everyone up. Mostly because of the response underneath it.
- You want my pupils to disappear like those of Rena Ryuugu? I'd LOVE to become Solid Lead Pencil Crazy and switch from funny and all-around nice guy and go all Ryoko Asakura on you instead! ['''Parable Note: There was presumably multiple potholes to different tropes here.]
- Wow, multiple Beware the Nice Ones-related tropes here. I really am a young Yandere, aren't I? :D
- He broke 33 pencils in his life, and had a good friend break two of those pencils because they were too hard.
- I actually shit myself when I read that. There I realized I wasn't just dealing with the usual horrifyingly egotistical Troper Tale. This person will BREAK YOUR PENCILS without a second thought. Should he meet you, without any regret, he will DESTROY your beloved pencil collection. Your Crayola, your HB, everything. That beloved pencil you had for three years? Snapped in two with no remorse. Even if you reinforce your pencils to try and stop him, he has a good friend, even better in the arts of pencil-snapping. And when he is done, you will be nothing, sobbing in a heap of pencils as broken as your dreams. And he will laugh. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Apparently, this Not Always Related story
used to be a Troper Tale about Failed a Spot Check.
I also remember the Random Number God Troper Tale page because so many people were convinced their dice were cursed and were trading advice on how to deal with them. One of them involved what I can only describe as ritually sacrificing their dice.
RE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=398#comment-9929
WRT: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=398#comment-9935
I can see how that might be a bad idea under cringe culture.
This troper believes that "This Troper" seems like a bit of a weird third-person way of addressing a user. This troper wonders why tropers are called tropers in this context, and not called users. It sounds like some kind of Robo-Speak.
It seems like a lot of shortcomings in the site features are kind of waiting in the coming soon™ 2.0 update. Does that mean we should hold off on Wishlist entries until then?
the fact that there's no Oxford comma in Angels, Devils and Squid drives me nuts
You can't make a redirect if it's worded the same, punctuation is a custom title thing. We do have a thread
on this.
Ha, yep, that's the exact one I was talking about. The "Pencil Monologue" is comedy gold.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallActually, people already used to mock us for Troper Tales, and people still find the site "cringe" even years after the ban. (The Nightmare Fuel stuff hasn't helped a ton either.)
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall

Troper Tales was removed many years ago (I think in the early 2010's range), so if you joined the site after that period, then it makes sense to not remember it.
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