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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

Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
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#9926: Aug 30th 2022 at 7:05:58 PM

[up] 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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Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
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#9927: Aug 30th 2022 at 7:21:30 PM

Even though that forum is barely used anymore, the thread names in Wild Mass Guessing are so funny to look at without context.

Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.
JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#9928: Aug 30th 2022 at 7:22:03 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.

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harryhenry It's either real or it's a dream Since: Jan, 2012
It's either real or it's a dream
#9929: Aug 30th 2022 at 8:45:22 PM

I 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.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#9930: Aug 30th 2022 at 8:49:15 PM

That so many people here now weren't here for the Beware the Nice Ones Troper Tales page makes me sad.

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#9931: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:01:26 PM

[up] May I ask what they were like?

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#9932: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:07:07 PM

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."

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ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#9933: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:08:30 PM

i remember a specific entry that caught a lot of flack but i don't know if it's kosher to repeat it, it might be too popcorny

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It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#9934: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:14:54 PM

All I know about is the memetic pencil monologue, which I think is immortalized on Funny.Tv Tropes.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#9935: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:16:56 PM

Oh, 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.

* Arguably, this Troper is probably the youngest of which who suffers from this Trope. This is practically the invisible label that's under the invisible Berserk Button of this 13-year old kid. He broke 33 pencils in his life, and had a good friend break two of those pencils because they were too hard. He even yelled at someone because that guy was the third person who asked if he could be punched for the third time, with a teacher only a mile ahead!
  • 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.

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#9936: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:19:33 PM

Good luck snapping my pencils, I lost them all.

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#9938: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:25:49 PM

"had a friend break two of them because they were too hard" absolutely sends me

i wonder if the author is still out there breaking pencils

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#9939: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:27:04 PM

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.

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#9940: Aug 30th 2022 at 9:27:14 PM

That person and his friend are every pencil's worse nightmare [lol]

CG for short
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#9942: Aug 30th 2022 at 10:01:15 PM

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?

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It's either real or it's a dream
#9943: Aug 30th 2022 at 10:18:17 PM

[up] The 2.0 update is so far off that I'd say it's worth adding to the wishlist.

ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#9944: Aug 30th 2022 at 10:45:28 PM

the fact that there's no Oxford comma in Angels, Devils and Squid drives me nuts

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She / Her
#9945: Aug 30th 2022 at 10:48:58 PM

[nja]

Edited by RandomTroper123 on Aug 31st 2022 at 6:49:53 AM

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#9946: Aug 30th 2022 at 10:54:33 PM

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.

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ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#9947: Aug 30th 2022 at 11:02:33 PM

nah, Oxford commas are one of the "first come, first serve" grammar rules, so i can't do that. ill just sit over here and gnash my teeth some more

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)
#9948: Aug 30th 2022 at 11:14:48 PM

Ha, yep, that's the exact one I was talking about. The "Pencil Monologue" is comedy gold.

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#9949: Aug 30th 2022 at 11:28:32 PM

Yeah, "This Troper" and Troper Tales being gone before the rise of cringe culture helped the site in the long run. I can't imagine how much TV Tropes would be ripped apart as "cringe" by the rest of the internet if they weren't.

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)
#9950: Aug 30th 2022 at 11:40:19 PM

Actually, 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.)

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