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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

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#12302: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:14:31 AM

Indeed, I thought that was what we were talking about. "Real facts" doesn't sound like a forum game, more like a Yack Fest topic.

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#12303: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:17:41 AM

Hence why I was confused, lol. Two games exist: Real facts and fake facts. But for a while I assumed the "Did You Know?" thread and the "Recently learned" thread were the same thing.

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#12304: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:25:58 AM

I can move it to Yack Fest if it fits better there.

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#12305: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:28:44 AM

But we have this thread already. That's why I was so confused. [lol]

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#12306: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:35:43 AM

The "game" part is that you've gotta say if you knew the fact the previous person posted already before posting your own fact.

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#12307: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:37:21 AM

Well we have multiple as a question games so maybe the fact thread isn't that out of place. The Things you didn't know until recently thread is more for personal observations.

At the very least the game fits in FG more than the Cuddlepile and the Pantheon thread does.

Edited by MacronNotes on Oct 26th 2022 at 5:38:25 AM

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#12308: Oct 26th 2022 at 3:03:58 AM

I think the fake facts game works in Forum Games because it's a game for coming up with fake facts. The "Things you didn't know until recently" thread is Yack Fest material and not a game because it's for stating personal anecdotes.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 26th 2022 at 5:04:27 AM

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#12309: Oct 26th 2022 at 3:22:22 AM

Things You Didn't Know Until Recently is also for facts you learned recently, whereas in Did You Know... I can share whatever interesting facts I happen to already know. :P

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#12310: Oct 26th 2022 at 4:55:26 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the facts are fake, I try not to post too often simply cuz I'm scared what I post will be wrong

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#12311: Oct 26th 2022 at 6:25:07 AM

Well, if something someone "learned" recently turns out to be made up, then c'est la vie.

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#12312: Oct 26th 2022 at 6:41:14 AM

Observation: I feel like every time I say that we've had a productive month in TRS, we end up having an even more productive month. Just look at the Changelog section of the Trope Report Dummy Edition.

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#12313: Oct 26th 2022 at 6:50:56 AM

Ah I also learned there's a TV Tropes podcast, I dont plan on listening to it cuz I hate podcasts with a passion that rivals imprisoned gods but its cool to know we have one

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#12314: Oct 26th 2022 at 6:52:42 AM

[up]Given it hasn't had a new episode since February, I wonder if perhaps "had" is a more accurate term than "have".

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#12315: Oct 26th 2022 at 6:54:00 AM

I mean thats fair

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#12316: Oct 26th 2022 at 6:54:42 AM

I brought up both podcasts on the home page up a few weeks ago because I never hear anyone talk about them and I never bothered listening to them myself.

On the Rocks still uploads regularly but On the Tropes doesn't.

Edited by MacronNotes on Oct 26th 2022 at 1:38:45 PM

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#12317: Oct 26th 2022 at 10:37:18 AM

Speaking of "TVT content", the state of the Echo Chamber page makes me sad. (I swore I cleaned it once, but I guess that was Twisted Tropes, an equally sad page.)

Edited by WarJay77 on Oct 26th 2022 at 1:38:20 PM

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#12318: Oct 26th 2022 at 10:47:50 AM

I still have "read Twisted Tropes and fill in ZCE" in my TO-DO.

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#12319: Oct 26th 2022 at 1:46:46 PM

The tropes that show up most often in the TV Tropes Association Game are a good indication of what genres and media the wiki pays the most attention to.

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#12320: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:27:51 PM

I'm becoming allergic to people using curly brackets for multi-word wikiword without modifying anything, beside adding pointless space and wasting my time during wick cleaning.

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#12321: Oct 26th 2022 at 2:29:04 PM

Sometimes people will pothole a trope name to itself. That drives me up the wall.

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#12323: Oct 26th 2022 at 3:10:06 PM

I have seen multiple people do the curly brace thing and space out every single entry on the work's trope list. I don't get it at all.

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#12324: Oct 26th 2022 at 3:41:32 PM

It's so weird when Wiki Wording is much easier to do.

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#12325: Oct 26th 2022 at 3:46:08 PM

There’s also annoyingly many forumgoers who do multi-word curlybrace potholing without even spacing. There’s also people who still, in 2022, refuse to properly include namespaces when potholing to a work.

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