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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

AoeAbility Akarat bless you. from Personal Evil Tower of Ominousness Since: Mar, 2021 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#13601: Dec 7th 2022 at 8:30:32 PM

I mean, it is a book written by a white supremacist, for white supremacists, and it isn't even written well from a storytelling perspective. I don't know if the character can be listed as a Complete Monster due to pretty obvious Protagonist-Centered Morality, which is entirely deliberate on the author's part, since the novel is simply an Author Tract on ideas that are almost universally agreed upon to be awful and misguided. I can, however, say that the protagonist is indeed presented as an awful human being in addition to his worldview, but that, again, is largely due to the fact that the novel itself isn't even written well.

Edited by AoeAbility on Dec 7th 2022 at 8:33:03 AM

You keep using the term "POV". I do not think it means what you think it means.
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)
#13602: Dec 7th 2022 at 9:25:28 PM

I never know what kind of English to use on the site. I had one of my edits later changed when someone was adding their own entry, because it used a non-US spelling of yoghurt (which seems like a lot of work for not much reward), but at the same time, the UK variant is also fairly common, and is generally inconsequential, but I digress.

The kind of English you're supposed to use is whichever one you want to use, which generally means the one you prefer to use in general, whether online or offline, which generally means a person's native dialect in the case of native English speakers. What that person did when they changed "yoghurt" to "yogurt" is against the rules. Per American and Commonwealth Spellings, people are completely allowed to write in the variety of English they're used to and after that we have a "first come, first served" rule saying not to change those spellings arbitrarily.

In the case of the Aluminum Christmas Trees/Aluminium Christmas Trees wicks I was moving, I kept the spelling the same per the "first come, first served" policy (the only change was moving them to the works' YMMV pages due to TRS making it YMMV); when I get around to moving the American English name's wicks, I'll leave those in American English the same way I kept the spelling of the links to the British English redirect the same.

Edit: Also, in the post you responded to, I noticed I made a typo and accidentally typed "being" when I meant to put "begin". That's been fixed.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 7th 2022 at 11:37:23 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#13603: Dec 8th 2022 at 7:17:20 AM

If I ever become an Engineer one of the first things I'll moderate would be clearing Query Bugs from duplicate questions and editing requests that have are not bug reports.

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Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#13604: Dec 8th 2022 at 7:40:30 AM

[up][up] Is it bad that I use American spelling but British grammar rules?

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#13606: Dec 8th 2022 at 7:49:50 AM

If I ever became an Engineer (highly unlikely as I don't even trust my own judgement), I would probably do whatever crowner and TRS stuff GastonRabbit and MacronNotes haven't already done.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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)
#13608: Dec 8th 2022 at 11:22:10 AM

I know you're joking based on the pothole, but that's actually not a problem. We don't care how people write in English as long as the spelling and grammar are correct in at least one variety of English. It's only a problem if the spelling and grammar are incorrect in all varieties of English.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 8th 2022 at 1:22:39 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#13609: Dec 8th 2022 at 11:38:21 AM

inb4 someone makes an article with American Sign Language emojis.

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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
#13610: Dec 8th 2022 at 11:50:50 AM

[up]That would be funny, but most of the English-speaking countries have different sign languages; there's not one that correlates to English. Conversely, South Korea and Taiwan apparently use Japanese Sign Language.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#13611: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:23:14 PM

We need to bring back the welcome text on the front page

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loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#13612: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:24:26 PM

[up][up][up][up]The image on MonsterClown.Web Original has been the image on SCP-993 for a while now.

The one on the JFF page should probably be updated to match it… do I need to make an IP thread for this, or can I just do it?

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#13613: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:25:54 PM

Of course changing the image would require IP

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It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#13614: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:26:18 PM

Er, that would be image duplication, which is against the rules. (Page and character page duplication is fine, tho)

The JFF page's image is fine.

Edited by WarJay77 on Dec 8th 2022 at 3:26:39 PM

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loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#13615: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:30:13 PM

Well, there’s a quandary. The JFF page should have the updated image, because it’s mimicking the style of a work page and those are supposed to have the most up-to-date images possible, but then the Web Original page would need a new image.

Edit: I’ve read the JFF and a more innocent-looking Bobble works better for the joke that the page is insisting he isn’t evil. Disregard.

Edited by loserswithwifi on Dec 8th 2022 at 8:31:41 PM

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
#13616: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:50:11 PM

That reminds me, Characters.All Tomorrows shares a lot of images with trope pages, and I've been meaning to bring it up on Image Pickin' for a while...

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we must dissent (it/they)
#13617: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:52:56 PM

...by precedent, the Dwarf Fortress page image will probably be replaced with the Steam release cover or something. But I strongly prefer the current one, so I'm not about to start an IP thread for it.

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I <3 Zinnia
#13618: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:55:07 PM

I find the caption extremely ironic now.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#13619: Dec 8th 2022 at 12:57:52 PM

That's why it should stay,for teh ironies

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FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#13620: Dec 8th 2022 at 2:37:13 PM

[up]x3 Since Covers Always Lie, I usually tend to look for an image that represents the work well. Happened with the thread I made the other day for The Maltese Falcon (1941), since most covers and posters for it don't show the fucking falcon.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Dec 8th 2022 at 7:37:38 AM

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#13621: Dec 8th 2022 at 2:40:48 PM

there's a falcon?!

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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
#13622: Dec 8th 2022 at 2:53:41 PM

[up][up] HTF do you advertise a movie named after its MacGuffin and not show the actual MacGuffin? That's like posters of Protagonist Title movies not showing the protagonist.

CG for short
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)
#13623: Dec 8th 2022 at 7:06:48 PM

I suppose there's a logic that it's a Macguffin, which by definition doesn't matter outside of being something everyone wants enough to drive the plot. But still, it's in the title...

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Veteran Editor IV
#13625: Dec 8th 2022 at 10:35:24 PM

Video Games of the 2020s has 1250+, so it'll probably reach a similar amount (unless it gets split).

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