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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

FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15076: Jan 29th 2023 at 5:59:53 AM

I don't think I ever considered troping myself, but I should probably add an "about myself" section.


About the site, JavaScript ocasionally stops working in mobile. Sometimes it fixes itself, sometimes it doesn't.
Re: CNG — I'm calling out your bluff; I made a Haruhi reference in a recent issue of Trope Report. It's even a joke about Endless Eight! Takes you back to the good ol' days, doesn't it? The only way it could've been more weeb-ish would be if I included the lyrics to "Hare Hare Yukai".

HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#15077: Jan 29th 2023 at 7:06:15 AM

On the silence of the website, I do have some tropes in the TLP that I need to work on, but I haven't had the motivation to do so.

Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Veteran Editor IV
#15078: Jan 29th 2023 at 7:14:32 AM

As for Haruhi, this actually inspired me to add some games to Summary.Video Games.

To-do list items as of 29.01.2023: 231 (-3 since last check)

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
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)
#15079: Jan 29th 2023 at 7:16:44 AM

Haven't checked on my Mac yet but to edit posts I've needed to go into Firefox, which bizarrely works even though Chrome doesn't.

Wait, is this JavaScript thing something that happens in Chrome, but not Firefox? That would explain why I haven't seen any problems; I'm a longtime Firefox user (Chrome didn't exist when I switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox, since Chrome 1.0 came out about four years after Firefox 1.0, and I've continued to use Firefox since then).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 29th 2023 at 9:20:57 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#15080: Jan 29th 2023 at 7:18:55 AM

Still feels odd seeing Twisted Tropes on the right bar and remembering it was almost a stub page until recently.

Edited by Amonimus on Jan 29th 2023 at 6:19:43 PM

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Ian07 Since: Jul, 2022
#15081: Jan 29th 2023 at 8:12:27 AM

Visiting UsefulNotes.Ecuador once has suddenly made the site very aggressive about showing me Ecuadorian campaign ads:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/400f0636305989700c7ca597b7b2a9c5.png

FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15082: Jan 29th 2023 at 8:56:23 AM

[up] Let me guess, you don't live in Ecuador.

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)
#15083: Jan 29th 2023 at 9:15:21 AM

[up]

Ian07 from New Jersey, US

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 29th 2023 at 11:16:32 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15084: Jan 29th 2023 at 10:01:00 AM

The joke was, why are they promoting Ecuadorian politicians if he's from the United States? What's he going to do? Call all his Ecuadorian friends and ask them to vote for her?

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)
#15085: Jan 29th 2023 at 10:29:02 AM

What's he going to do? Call all his Ecuadorian friends and ask them to vote for her?

The answer is exactly the same in both English and Spanish: No.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 29th 2023 at 12:30:16 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#15086: Jan 29th 2023 at 10:30:37 AM

que?

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
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)
#15087: Jan 29th 2023 at 10:33:51 AM

[up]If you were responding to my post, I mostly wanted to joke about how the word "no" is the same in English and Spanish.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 29th 2023 at 12:34:09 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#15088: Jan 29th 2023 at 10:42:18 AM

Now that I’m feeling better thanks to a nice lunch, I thought of something funny. It’s a week later and I still like to laugh about the choice of page image for one of our newest tropes. XD For a trope with “beauty” in its name, they chose a rather ugly creature to illustrate it. What, did Lulu from Final Fantasy X want too much money? tongue

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15089: Jan 29th 2023 at 11:11:23 AM

[up] I know it's rhetoric, but the actual answer is because nobody suggested her. You do know there people who haven't played it, right?

Edited by FernandoLemon on Jan 29th 2023 at 4:12:06 PM

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#15091: Jan 29th 2023 at 11:30:19 AM

[up][up][up] She doesn't fit the trope. I don't recall her flirting or being implied to be sexually active at any point in the game. And in the sequel, she settles down and starts a family. (I rather like that of the three women in X, it's not the more conventionally feminine one who becomes a mother.)

Edited by Reymma on Jan 29th 2023 at 7:30:31 PM

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15092: Jan 29th 2023 at 11:31:12 AM

Oh yeah, I forgot; the important word in the title is "lascivious", not "beauty".

Edited by FernandoLemon on Jan 29th 2023 at 4:33:52 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
#15093: Jan 29th 2023 at 12:12:04 PM

Speaking of South American countries, for months You Tube thought I lived in Colombia and it took me ages to notice. I eventually changed my region. Also, at one point Twitter thought I live in India.

FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15094: Jan 29th 2023 at 12:19:37 PM

Sometimes when I search a specific Twitter account in Google, it'll take me to a random-language version of Twitter rather than the standard English. I don't know why.

Wikipedia also pushes Spanish Wikipedia as the first result (understandable, since I live in a Spanish-speaking region), but I prefer using English Wikipedia due to it being more fleshed out. Often, it will even omit the latter due to redundancy, much to my annoyance.

And finally, I had to change my YouTube account's language to English because it would start dubbing videos to Spanish by default, and I'd have to change the audio track each time I opened it.

All this to say, I'm glad Google doesn't take me to the Spanish-language articles of this site. No offense to the translators, but the English-language section is obviously much more fleshed out.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#15095: Jan 29th 2023 at 12:27:24 PM

[up][up]I wouldn't mind if YouTube got my location mixed up. cool Anywhere is cooler than where I am now. [tup]

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15096: Jan 29th 2023 at 12:35:35 PM

[up] I was going to make a "You live in Tropeistan" joke, but then I realized that whenever websites create their own country, it's very cringe (such as 4chan's Kekistan or the Reddit Island).

We do have a mascot, but what other such symbol do we have/lack?

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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)
#15098: Jan 29th 2023 at 12:42:55 PM

Oh yeah, I forgot; the important word in the title is "lascivious", not "beauty".

I think it's also worth mentioning that Beauty Mark is no longer a trope because it was determined to be meaningless on its own.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 29th 2023 at 2:43:32 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#15100: Jan 29th 2023 at 8:47:23 PM

Ever think What An Idiot and Idiot Ball are only different in formatting, despite the former's TRS?

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

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