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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

Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#11651: Oct 10th 2022 at 2:26:22 PM

Thats a very random thing to pothole, but who am I to judge?

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
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)
#11652: Oct 10th 2022 at 2:47:26 PM

We're not a successful company until we release our own web browser. It's in the rules.

It would be yet another Chromium derivative like pretty much everything except Firefox and Safari, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.

(Saying this as someone who's been using Firefox since before Chrome existed.)

Anyway, I think the thread has gotten derailed again, but since it's different from the last derail in terms of what it's about, it's not as big of a deal.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 10th 2022 at 4:51:30 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#11653: Oct 10th 2022 at 2:53:08 PM

[up][up] It's a series that heavily focuses on the use of narrative as a battlefield and I'm very fond of it.

(The Second War in Heaven involves weapons like the Shift, a memetic agent who exists in the space between the text and the reader and uses its modification of the narrative to communicate, intended to interfere with enemy communications on the scale of performing a Hostile Show Takeover on history textbooks.)

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Oct 10th 2022 at 11:02:05 AM

ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NO
Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#11654: Oct 10th 2022 at 2:56:31 PM

makes sense, makes sense

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#11655: Oct 10th 2022 at 9:18:44 PM

RE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=465#comment-11605

Probably search engine indexing, since we don't make sandbox pages private, so they get linked in, and the bot scanning is registered as inbound.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#11656: Oct 10th 2022 at 10:36:49 PM

I've been reminded that the Tactical Becomes Practical draft in TLP has basically been in Development Hell for over a decade because of the whole naming issue.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Oct 10th 2022 at 1:37:01 PM

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#11657: Oct 11th 2022 at 3:21:28 AM

[up][up] I thought inbounds came from non-search engine links?

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)
#11658: Oct 11th 2022 at 3:48:32 AM

[up]I'm pretty sure Google is the only search engine that doesn't increase the inbound count. I've seen DuckDuckGo show up in inbound lists before.

I got a rock for Halloween.
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#11659: Oct 11th 2022 at 4:49:45 AM

Yeah, that's right. Bing also frequently shows up in inbound lists.

Macron's notes
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
[Hiatus til March]
#11661: Oct 11th 2022 at 6:35:43 AM

Usin strikethrough markup in edit reasons makes the text in said markup disappear upon pressing Submit, similarly to how using it on article pages makes the text invisible.

When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior
moefoxes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
#11662: Oct 11th 2022 at 6:48:52 AM

Some people have little pictures under their titles and when you hover over them there's text. For example I saw one with Vriska's scorpio symbol and it said "8luh 8luh huge 8itch". I want one but I dunno what they mean or how they're acquired.

[down]That's what I was talking about, thanks.

Edited by moefoxes on Oct 11th 2022 at 11:37:44 AM

Inconsistently active.
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)
#11663: Oct 11th 2022 at 7:03:29 AM

[up]Are you talking about badges, like the ones Macron and I have? Those used to be available for everyone, but currently only mods can add them to their profiles, which is how the two of us got them without the badge shop being open. (Though only certain ones are available — the ones that used to actually be sold for money aren't available to anyone who doesn't already have them.)

Macron used the default tooltip text, but I customized mine (my herald badge's (the one with an H on it) text being a parody of "Crackerbox Palace" by George Harrison, for example). I'm assuming the text you saw was also custom text.

I think it would at least be ideal if we were able to give herald badges to the heralds who aren't mods, but I think the admins would have to do that.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 11th 2022 at 9:58:35 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#11664: Oct 11th 2022 at 10:02:24 AM

The "Return to Review Index" line at About Reviews is actually a button that takes a step in browser's history.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#11665: Oct 11th 2022 at 10:26:36 AM

It used to be that a mini Herald badge would appear next to the herald's name in their posts when they posted in their assigned sub-forum. That feature got lost in the last big update though.

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)
#11666: Oct 11th 2022 at 10:35:43 AM

Not getting my herald badge after I got promoted was really disappointing and it's becoming a small Running Gag at the herald thread to ask if it's still coming like we were all told they were. I don't care that much and I know nobody here has the power to do anything about it... but a girl can dream. [lol]

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#11668: Oct 11th 2022 at 10:39:35 AM

TIL Tropers/ pages can't be indexed.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
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)
#11669: Oct 11th 2022 at 10:50:38 AM

[up][up] But I was so close to getting that slightly bigger desk next to the window D:

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
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)
#11671: Oct 11th 2022 at 11:16:34 AM

...Look, I cleaned out the mod's secret ritual room for a month to get one, alright? I've earned it.

(I love the implication here that TVT is such a hot mess that "staff members" don't even get desks or the ability to dream. Just sit there and fix natter dang it!)

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#11672: Oct 11th 2022 at 11:17:48 AM

They dont get anything, they have to bring in their own equipment and if they dont have any they're fired.

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
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)
#11673: Oct 11th 2022 at 11:20:16 AM

We can't even unionize... our PMs are sent automatically.

(And yes, if anyone is curious, they do indeed flood your inbox. It's why I wish we had a way to search through our inbox...)

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#11674: Oct 11th 2022 at 12:05:32 PM

Usually if a person doesn't follow up on the welcome PM I delete it after a week or so. But my inbox still has a massive amount of them still hanging around from weeks, months, even years ago. I would trade War Jay's desk for a mass delete button.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#11675: Oct 11th 2022 at 12:06:58 PM

Wait, Heralds get their inbox absolutely spammed every time a new user posts in the forum?

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

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