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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

techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#10627: Sep 13th 2022 at 12:38:10 PM

That and people on the 'Spectrum are more likely to miss jokes and misinterpret it.

CG for short
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
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#10628: Sep 13th 2022 at 12:41:58 PM

[up] I can attest to that—I'm on the spectrum myself and that's happened to me before.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#10629: Sep 13th 2022 at 1:00:29 PM

As someone Sarcasm-Blind over text, sometimes an indicator is very helpful.

Edited by Amonimus on Sep 13th 2022 at 11:01:38 AM

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loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#10630: Sep 13th 2022 at 1:08:25 PM

I have the opposite problem; I can never figure out if what I write seems sarcastic/serious/mean/otherwise appropriate or inappropriate or not.

themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
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#10631: Sep 13th 2022 at 6:00:12 PM

Sometimes I see posts from the "Mod Jabberings" subforum pop up in Recent Posts, but obviously since I'm not a mod I can't see them normally. Is this a glitch?

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#10632: Sep 13th 2022 at 6:30:03 PM

Probably just an oversight in the coding for that list.

MsCC22 Since: Aug, 2022
#10633: Sep 14th 2022 at 9:12:51 AM

You know, for a website that is so anti-negativity and anti-complaining, TV Tropes does tend to attract these a lot.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#10634: Sep 14th 2022 at 9:13:35 AM

opposites attract and all that.

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#10635: Sep 14th 2022 at 9:24:58 AM

A lot of the complaining is about complaining, ironically enough.

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#10636: Sep 14th 2022 at 9:25:14 AM

We're so anti-complaining specifically because we attract so much complaining. It became so rampant in the past that it had to become official site policy to take it down in order to deal with it effectively.

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#10637: Sep 14th 2022 at 9:59:04 AM

Cos it's one thing to rant about the aspect of the work you dislike on social media or forum, another to have it posted as an Official™ Audience Reaction™ entry on a recognizable Fan Wiki™.

Edited by Synchronicity on Sep 14th 2022 at 11:59:54 AM

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10638: Sep 14th 2022 at 10:14:12 AM

Also, the Reviews section was specifically created as a place for people to put their rants on the merits/demerits of a work on.

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Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#10639: Sep 14th 2022 at 10:20:42 AM

Considering that there's like hundreds of thousands of Edit Reasons and that there's a constantly updating list containing the most recent ones that people watch over to find the rude/questionable ones, I wonder if people literally spend days just watching over that list.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Sep 14th 2022 at 10:21:05 AM

CG for short
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10640: Sep 14th 2022 at 10:29:51 AM

Back in the day I used to.

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Time to SLEEP
#10641: Sep 14th 2022 at 11:49:35 AM

I've never seen the Bulletin with three listed items before.

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#10642: Sep 14th 2022 at 11:50:25 AM

It's happened recently I think with the Nice Hat bulletin being up.

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we must dissent (it/they)
#10643: Sep 14th 2022 at 12:11:03 PM

That and people on the 'Spectrum are more likely to miss jokes and misinterpret it.

I rely heavily on context cues to identify jokes, and also think I'm hilarious for expressing absurdity solemnly.

Sorry.

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#10644: Sep 14th 2022 at 12:12:47 PM

[up][up][up]I took the bulletin regarding the deprecation of the LightNovel/ and Wiki/ namespaces down because it's from the 10th of last month, so it's quite a bit older than the other two, so people have already had a chance to read it, and unlike the Nice Hat bulletin, it was simply announcing the changes instead of asking for help implementing them. I would have asked Macron if it was OK to take down since she added it, but since she's taking a break, I can't do that at the moment.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 14th 2022 at 2:13:47 PM

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#10645: Sep 14th 2022 at 12:15:30 PM

LN does need help moving stuff and Wiki thread needs pages discussed if they should be moved at all, but unless someone wasn't paying attention (or is on mobile), I think everyone got the point to not make new pages there.

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MsCC22 Since: Aug, 2022
#10646: Sep 14th 2022 at 12:16:26 PM

Honestly I sounded hypocritical when I put that post because I did used to complain a lot in the YMMV sections of works back in the old days. Now I find myself attempting to get rid of any complaining I see and to only post my gripes about certain works in the forums and Twitter.

themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
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#10647: Sep 14th 2022 at 7:43:10 PM

Observation: TRS has been having an incredibly productive month! Since the start of September (not counting insta-closed threads), we've closed 19 threads! (And if McLeaned closes, that'll be 20!)

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Sep 14th 2022 at 10:44:09 AM

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#10648: Sep 14th 2022 at 11:54:35 PM

Three of the videos on Goomba Stomp (I don't know why the link is red) are from Origami King. I feel like there should be a rule against having multiple videos from the same work in order to prevent clutter.

Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#10649: Sep 15th 2022 at 1:07:43 AM

Paper Mario: The Origami King has a lot of video examples. According to the Video Overdosed page, it has approximately 400+ videos on this site, the largest amount belonging to a non-Western Animation work.

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#10650: Sep 15th 2022 at 1:40:31 AM

RE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=426#comment-10648

Agreed. All of the videos in Magical Incantation all come from the same show, and there's an argument to be made that they might be closer to Magic Music than an incantation.

(Red linking might be happening because it's not a valid namespace)

At worst, it might make sense to limit it based on percentage of other videos, or the variety. If more than half of a trope examples are the same work, that might be considered excessive. Especially if they're all the same. If they're very varied examples, that might be enough to justify an exception.

Edited by techno156 on Sep 16th 2022 at 3:00:09 AM


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