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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
OK so,spoiler tags cos I dunno
1)The She ra topic repeatedly talks about Catra and it's almost always negative
2) The Steven universe (not posted in it awhile) topic suffers from negativity in general
and lastly almost every topic getting derailed by comparisons to Star vs forces of evil's ending,very tiresome.
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverThe current discussion in the Values 'sonance clean up reminds me, I've never seen the word "occident" used anywhere other than in the title of Occidental Otaku.
I sure didn't know. It seemed like some pun on "accidental", like the creators made an otaku character without really knowing the subculture exists.
Edited by Piterpicher on Feb 17th 2023 at 10:11:35 AM
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)"Occident" originally paired with "orient", yes, but only one of those stuck around in the collective consciousness.
... *looks this up online on a whim* Apparently it was originally about the sunrise and sunset in particular. Most people definitely remember this even less.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Personally, I've heard the term "occident" used sometimes when talking about the ancient Roman Empire, especially the later period when it split between East & West. I've also heard of a white supremacist site called Occidental Observer.
. . . And, apart from Occidental Otaku, those are the only times I've heard the word used.
Oddly enough, on the word "Oriental," the only times I've heard it used in a racial context is in discussions about racism (incl. uses of the word "Orientalism"). Other than that, I've heard it used some times to talk about (again) the Roman Empire in it's later years, the concept of "Oriental Despotism," and in the name of a French region called "Pyrénées-Orientales". Which makes it funny when I hear the word "Oriental" applied to Greece or southern France sometimes.
Maybe the whole "saying 'Oriental' is offensive" thing is just one of those things that was a big deal a long time ago, but that I'm too young to have seen myself?
JustForFun.How To Be An Anti HeroIf this discussion regarding word etymologies is an attempt to get me to change the thread's title to "Wiktionary meta thread", it's not working.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 17th 2023 at 4:48:15 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.
Oh no, you see right through me.
I found out about The Thing That Goes Doink because it's queued up for TRS. That's a terrible name. It's like the opposite problem that Nakama had.
Edited by FernandoLemon on Feb 17th 2023 at 7:56:07 AM
The fact that the usage just involves an ordinary object from Japan (despite the description trying to come up with meaning related to wealthiness) reminds me of Kotatsu, which was redirected to UsefulNotes.Japanese Architecture because furniture items are not tropes. (I added both of them to Tropes Needing TRS quite a while back, before the TRS Queue was created and I started focusing more on the latter.)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 17th 2023 at 5:07:15 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.Nakama recently had an extra addition of hilarity given to me when I learned about Dasein, a word in Heidegger's writing that philosophers refused to translate because it was "super deep" when in reality it just meant existence (literally it just means There Being). So yeah, turns out philosophers do it too.
Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
You previously brought up how writers aren't good at coming up with trope names, and I think that's worse than the previous examples you gave for being the Nakama debacle years before the Nakama debacle even happened.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 17th 2023 at 5:16:35 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.I think The Thing That Goes Doink could be valid as a trope, but the name contributes to ZCE. I may or may not see if there are examples I recognize as "cue traditional rich family" and which are just decorations.
Edited by Amonimus on Feb 17th 2023 at 2:15:39 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

Yeah, I don't know what's being referred to either.
I got a rock for Halloween.