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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)
#10976: Sep 23rd 2022 at 1:23:13 AM

Just coincidence, really tongue

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#10977: Sep 23rd 2022 at 3:15:39 AM

Sounds like there's a need for a master trope page, or an x trope with y condition page.tongue

HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#10978: Sep 23rd 2022 at 3:19:55 AM

I still remember the time I tried to launch a trope that was basically “good rats” but it didn’t work out.

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#10979: Sep 23rd 2022 at 3:42:59 AM

I brought it up a while ago. I didn't know that there were still transformation tropes being made. I guess that category we are missing a lot of tropes in.

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arimothereindeer Boi from here to eternity, that's where she takes me Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Boi
#10980: Sep 23rd 2022 at 12:15:14 PM

This is more of a personal reflection that also involves the forum/wiki, but going back into my forum post history is a weird reflection because at first people knew me for loving Showa era anime, especially those by Fujio Akatsuka. Then they knew me for loving Daft Punk, and now it seems people mostly know me for liking Nations as People media and stuff like that. And while that makes sense, I still love all of these things, yet looking back on them feel like chapters of life where people view me differently, and I almost feel like completely different people during different times.

Reindeer in the direction of reindeer
loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#10981: Sep 23rd 2022 at 12:37:26 PM

I barely ever hat or bomb drafts. I only hatted Police Pig because I felt bad for suggesting an example without hatting [lol]

CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#10982: Sep 23rd 2022 at 5:43:31 PM

Why should you feel bad for not hatting it? An example makes the draft more complete, but most of the time(if you're early) you still gotta wait until it has even more examples.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
GastonRabbit 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)
#10983: Sep 23rd 2022 at 6:38:43 PM

Apparently, Deadbeatloser 22 is the only active mod with a Troper Wall, so I used that as an opportunity to add a line joking that she has a monopoly on them.

I got a rock for Halloween.
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#10984: Sep 23rd 2022 at 6:46:06 PM

I cut my troper wall after becoming a mod because I felt weird about for having it around. It's just mostly old stuff from my first account anyways (back when you could vandalize troper pages).

Edited by MacronNotes on Sep 23rd 2022 at 10:12:08 AM

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CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#10985: Sep 23rd 2022 at 6:46:44 PM

Septimus has one, but it needs permission to vandalize.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
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)
#10986: Sep 23rd 2022 at 6:48:54 PM

That's different; Sep's comes from back when people could vandalize other troper pages. We have a separate namespace but he didn't make a new one. I don't consider that an active wall more than an archive of sorts to preserve the vandalism from years ago.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
GastonRabbit 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)
#10987: Sep 23rd 2022 at 7:11:07 PM

[up][up][up]For what it's worth, I locked TroperWall.Gaston Rabbit shortly after becoming a mod because I don't want to make one (at least not currently) and I didn't want anyone making it without my permission. (I had already been thinking about asking for it to be locked before I had the ability to do it myself, but never did.)

Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 23rd 2022 at 9:12:04 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#10988: Sep 24th 2022 at 9:15:45 AM

Damn I did my first hat in a while on a TLP draft after initially giving a bomb cause I thought the sponsor didn't acknowledge a concern that was brought up about an example on their draft but they did and I was a dumbass. So I hatted to offset the bomb I gave.

CG for short
HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#10989: Sep 24th 2022 at 1:28:01 PM

I wonder how often trope pages are edited by only one person?

Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Veteran Editor IV
#10990: Sep 24th 2022 at 1:46:03 PM

Trope pages, that's pretty unlikely since they're visible on the home page and chance are we've noticed the vast majority of them at least once. Now work pages, many of those are probably very rarely edited by more than one person.

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
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)
#10991: Sep 24th 2022 at 1:49:14 PM

Technically, only trope pages made before the TLP was required could reach that status if they were quietly posted and never caught. The TLP makes it more or less impossible to not have multiple people working on the trope, even if only one person's name is attached at the end.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
KaabiiFan13 Since: Apr, 2022
#10992: Sep 24th 2022 at 2:14:45 PM

Reading this TRS thread made me realise just how prone Audience Reaction tropes can be towards knee-jerk responses. That might be obvious, since "Reaction" is in the name, but still...

Also, prior to Deader Than Disco being renamed to Condemned by History, I assumed that "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny was the opposite of Vindicated by History (though reaction tropes can't be played with).

HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#10993: Sep 24th 2022 at 2:17:24 PM

[up][up] Whoops, I meant work pages. Silly me!

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
#10994: Sep 24th 2022 at 2:23:26 PM

You know, I think we need to reclarify what Web Video, Web Original, and Web Animation mean since people keep confusing them.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
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)
#10995: Sep 24th 2022 at 2:42:12 PM

[up][up] Oh. In that case, there are a lot of those. tongue

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#10996: Sep 24th 2022 at 5:39:37 PM

[up][up] I have a thread running for Web Original, long story short is that I don't know what it offers that other namespaces don't already cover.

And yes, people confuse it a lot.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Sep 24th 2022 at 9:40:32 AM

GastonRabbit 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)
#10997: Sep 24th 2022 at 5:41:47 PM

[up][up][up]Web Animation is exactly what it sounds like, Web Video is for types of videos other than animation, and Web Original is a mostly deprecated category that stuck around to catch pages that don't fit neatly into any other namespace for online works. However, a lot of pages still in the Web Original namespace are holdovers from back when it was the only namespace for online works, so a lot of them could probably be safely moved.

Edit: And being ninja'd is one of the first things to happen to me after getting out of bed.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 24th 2022 at 9:26:20 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
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
#10998: Sep 24th 2022 at 5:44:20 PM

Web originals could be used for written works or websites but we already have blogs/ and, well, websites/ for that.

Edited by BackSet1 on Sep 24th 2022 at 8:44:25 AM

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#10999: Sep 24th 2022 at 5:45:05 PM

That reminds me, when you guys encounter a page through a wick cleaning, namespace check or whatever; are you the kind who simply fixes the immediate problem and ignores any non-immediate issues, or the kind who tries to fix everything? Because I fall in the latter category, and it's certainly made things more difficult for me.

PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#11000: Sep 24th 2022 at 5:45:34 PM

Who made Picross show up as Mario’s Picross? It should be Picross. Pretty weird thing to custom title.

It’s being fixed, but I just wanted to point it out.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Sep 24th 2022 at 8:46:05 AM


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