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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
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#14851: Jan 24th 2023 at 9:09:26 AM

Both go on YMMV but technically means different things. One is "this may or may not be in the work" and the other is "fans react this way". It's weird to put them both on YMMV but I get why the indices are split.

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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)
#14853: Jan 24th 2023 at 9:15:30 AM

The distinction between the two isn't the part that I find odd, since that's easy to grasp. The odd part is the fact that we divide YMMV pages into two categories at all when we don't do that for anything else that isn't in Main, even though examples still go on the same subpages.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 24th 2023 at 11:17:28 AM

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#14854: Jan 24th 2023 at 9:18:10 AM

Well, we probably don't really want to make AudienceReactions/ namespace, I dunno.

Edited by Amonimus on Jan 24th 2023 at 8:18:28 PM

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#14855: Jan 24th 2023 at 9:32:32 AM

If it were up to me there'd be no such thing as a "YMMV trope" and the YMMV page would be just for reactions, but

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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)
#14856: Jan 24th 2023 at 9:41:58 AM

[up]I feel like Septimus has actually said something along those lines, but I don't remember where. I think at least one of the longtime mods said that.

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Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#14857: Jan 24th 2023 at 9:51:21 AM

To think this whole thing happened just cuz I wanted to complain... this place truly is fascinating. Honestly, I'd watch a mockumentery or however its spelled of TV Tropes being portrayed as a real ecosystem thats being studied.

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♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves
#14859: Jan 24th 2023 at 10:56:08 AM

[up]From the title, I thought that would be about comparing tropers to Pokémon types, and now I'm wondering if "applying Pokémon types to fictional characters" would be worth having a JFF page, or if it should just be a thread.

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#14860: Jan 24th 2023 at 10:57:31 AM

I think there's a Forum Game for that, or at least an Avatar based one.

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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)
#14861: Jan 24th 2023 at 11:30:11 AM

To think this whole thing happened just cuz I wanted to complain... this place truly is fascinating. Honestly, I'd watch a mockumentery or however its spelled of TV Tropes being portrayed as a real ecosystem thats being studied.

Since this is Yack Fest and not OTC, discussion isn't supposed to be predictable (well, except maybe the Absent People thread due to the "on-topic" part of the title, but even then people's reasons for being absent aren't always predictable). Being fascinating is just an added bonus.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 24th 2023 at 1:33:28 PM

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#14862: Jan 24th 2023 at 2:05:50 PM

[up][up]Anything can be a forum game if you try hard enough

which is a good thing and bad thing sometimes.

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He's finally back to kick some... wait
#14863: Jan 24th 2023 at 2:19:59 PM

Creator.Dingo Pictures now has 667 updates instead of 666, and that makes me sad.

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#14864: Jan 24th 2023 at 2:25:56 PM

That just means there's been 666 updates since the page was first made.

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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)
#14865: Jan 24th 2023 at 3:23:38 PM

[up]Or it meant nobody thought to move it to Archive.Dingo Pictures and lock it so it could stay at 666 edits forever.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#14866: Jan 24th 2023 at 4:18:35 PM

This is just from looking but Troper Covens feels like they're private community topics ,not enough to be considered insular but it feels like I really have no business posting in there even by accident

They're a bit like the gated communities but on tv tropes.

Edited by Ultimatum on Jan 24th 2023 at 12:19:23 PM

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C'est la vie. (he/him)
#14867: Jan 24th 2023 at 4:33:37 PM

[up]What does that make Mod Jabberings, then?

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#14868: Jan 24th 2023 at 4:36:14 PM

that's in the walled off section I think

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#14869: Jan 24th 2023 at 4:37:49 PM

I'd say say it's more like a secret tower.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#14870: Jan 24th 2023 at 4:42:48 PM

Its on island or so I hear

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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)
#14871: Jan 24th 2023 at 5:10:44 PM

It's a walled-off secret tower on an island guarded by a kraken.

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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
#14872: Jan 24th 2023 at 5:11:16 PM

the moon base on the moon

it's also a secret volcano lair

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
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)
#14873: Jan 24th 2023 at 5:14:25 PM

Moon base, yes, but not on earth's moon. It's on Europa, because there's no water on earth's moon and thus no islands.

Also, I think we might have accidentally turned this thread into a second random thoughts thread, so we might want to find something else to discuss (whatever that would be). At least it's not avatars being discussed this time (though the Slander thread is a different story)....

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 24th 2023 at 7:22:46 AM

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HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#14874: Jan 25th 2023 at 7:40:00 AM

With the whole Roiland situation, I saw a joke on Twitter about people running to put in Role-Ending Misdemeanour to Rick and Morty and it was hilarious.

Edited by HoloMew151 on Jan 25th 2023 at 3:40:26 PM

Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#14875: Jan 25th 2023 at 7:42:38 AM

[up][up] I mean if you think about it, this is the random TV Tropes thoughts thread

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