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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

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#13551: Dec 6th 2022 at 8:12:45 AM

[up] I was referring to this post of theirs which was a response to me linking to a IRL crime in my post. I removed the link and apologized

CG for short
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#13552: Dec 6th 2022 at 8:42:48 AM

For the record I talking about people in general,not to you especially but I apologise if you felt I was singling you out

Edited by Ultimatum on Dec 6th 2022 at 4:44:04 PM

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Libraryseraph uu~ from Canada (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
uu~
#13553: Dec 6th 2022 at 11:02:17 AM

~@wingedcatgirl: did I misread your last post in discussions about moderation, or did people really used to be able to unthump themselves

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIA
wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#13554: Dec 6th 2022 at 11:07:22 AM

Yep! It was a long, long time ago, but it used to be that thumps were applied by editing the word "thump" in [square brackets] into a post, and of course it was possible for users to just re-edit their post and delete it.

Obviously this was a bad idea and would just get them in more trouble, but the fact that it was possible meant the site had to deal with people doing it, so modern-day thumps don't work that way.


We should note that this system was replaced long before we started using the forums in earnest, so we never experienced any of that personally; this is all nth-hand knowledge.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Dec 6th 2022 at 2:08:31 PM

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
Libraryseraph uu~ from Canada (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
uu~
#13555: Dec 6th 2022 at 11:17:13 AM

...Next time I'm horrified by modern tvt's spagheddie code, I'll remember it could be much worse

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIA
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)
#13556: Dec 6th 2022 at 12:31:26 PM

The old thump markup still exists and its text is utterly ridiculous.

[down]See for yourself:

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 6th 2022 at 2:32:14 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
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)
#13557: Dec 6th 2022 at 12:31:33 PM


This post was thumped by the Stick of Post Thumping

I got a rock for Halloween.
ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#13558: Dec 6th 2022 at 12:36:37 PM

There have been instances in every tournament season up to the present (2010-11) of a player doing well with a deck using nothing above Uncommon, the second-lowest rarity,

Found on Junk Rare in reference to the Pokémon TCG, and rarely have examples been so open about their datedness.

Well, at least in the current era, it’s still kind of close to true, as one viable deck archetype is founded on rares in a meta built around triple-rares. Though some double rares do tend to get sprinkled in there, and this card game has its far share of rarer alternate art cards that people use.

My musician page
Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#13559: Dec 6th 2022 at 4:55:33 PM

Does anyone else remember Joss Whedon being in Fallen Creator or was it just some sort of Mandela Effect? The first mention of him I could find in the edit history was in 2011.

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#13560: Dec 6th 2022 at 4:56:47 PM

[up] I think I read an entry about him there once, but my memory is shit so you might have to take a grain of salt with it.

CG for short
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#13561: Dec 6th 2022 at 5:02:38 PM

The cleanup thread concurred that he belongs there and someone wrote up an entry. I dunno why it was never added (which it wasn't going by the history).

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#13562: Dec 6th 2022 at 5:09:45 PM

It wasn't added because either no one suggested the entry on the locked pages thread or the entry was suggested but the request was rejected because the writeup wasn't sufficient.

Macron's notes
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#13563: Dec 6th 2022 at 5:30:30 PM

He was there, and I think he's been removed and put back in an amended form more than once. Fallen Creator is a thorny article, more than one troper has suggested cutting it, and a cleanup thread is still at the Sandbox stage.

Also, I found another case of an image linking to a trope instead of a work: Faster Than They Look.

Edited by Reymma on Dec 6th 2022 at 2:02:13 PM

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
KaabiiFan13 Since: Apr, 2022
#13564: Dec 6th 2022 at 6:49:16 PM

I was reading down the history of Low-Tier Letdown's Pokemon section, and noticed how passive-agressive (at best) the entries used to be to the examples.

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)
#13565: Dec 6th 2022 at 7:39:09 PM

[up]While I'm pretty sure I'm the one who gave the go-ahead to split Tier Induced Scrappy between High-Tier Scrappy and Low-Tier Letdown after people voted in favor of it, I haven't been personally involved in the cleanup effort, so I'm not sure if anyone who's been working on the examples has been toning down complaining, as opposed to just moving them as-is between high-tier and low-tier.

I got a rock for Halloween.
Anarchist2 Confounded by avatar changes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Confounded by avatar changes
#13566: Dec 6th 2022 at 8:16:50 PM

The text on non-existent pages still refers to YKTTW, not TLP.

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)
#13567: Dec 7th 2022 at 1:31:06 AM

[up]Yeah, the old name is still on a lot of pages, such as how the link to tropes' drafts on discussion pages says "YKTTW archive" instead of "TLP archive", and how the internal name for a TLP suspension still uses the YKTTW name.

I got a rock for Halloween.
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#13568: Dec 7th 2022 at 2:06:42 AM

Those require admin fixes and since they relatively minor issues they are being overlooked for the time being.

Macron's notes
techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#13569: Dec 7th 2022 at 3:47:17 AM

RE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=543#comment-13566

The discussion page on newly-launched tropes also refers users to the "YKTTW discussion".

EDIT: Oh, interesting, it's also an automatic link. Any others beside Kubis?

Edited by techno156 on Dec 7th 2022 at 10:48:24 PM

PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#13570: Dec 7th 2022 at 4:41:56 AM

x11 [up] Think that's bad? SoBadItsGood.Comic Books opens with a subbullet claiming that there are only 25 episodes of Atop the Fourth Wall.

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#13571: Dec 7th 2022 at 4:44:42 AM

[up]I'm gonna assume that's in response to my post, as it makes sense as a response to it, but that's too mamy arrows.

My musician page
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#13572: Dec 7th 2022 at 5:21:36 AM

Wynncraft still uses the color font, interesting.

Bovine Fiction is that example of Works by Subject that makes me question how it was made in the first place.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#13573: Dec 7th 2022 at 5:50:07 AM

[up] I'm surprised that it's lasted this long. It feels like it's rather outlasted the creator's YouTube careers at this point. I don't think that Salted has uploaded in several years now.


Just alphabetised a bunch of pages, and some of those entries really make you not like having an ordered alphabet.

Also while working on this page, I have also discovered a new dislike of method acting.

At some point, it must get a bit silly, to do the real thing when very few have a conception of what it would be like. It just needs to be realistic, not perfectly life-accurate. At this rate, they may as well start murdering people for the film.

Edited by techno156 on Dec 8th 2022 at 12:50:41 AM

NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves
#13574: Dec 7th 2022 at 6:22:19 AM

[up][up][up][up]I just removed the offending sentence.

Edited by NitroIndigo on Dec 7th 2022 at 2:22:28 PM

HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#13575: Dec 7th 2022 at 7:42:55 AM

[up][up][up] I do remember some thread talking about that issue. Can’t remember if it went anywhere…

Also, flashbacks of shame to the time I made Equine Fiction.


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