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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

BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#16651: Mar 29th 2023 at 6:00:55 PM

Not sure if this goes here but a friend sent this to me and it made me think of our unnoficial "motto"

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/give_a_game.jpg

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
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)
#16652: Mar 30th 2023 at 1:13:12 AM

[up]Must be why I pretty much gave up on learning programming after attempting (emphasis on attempting) to learn it in college.

I got a rock for Halloween.
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
[Hiatus til March]
#16653: Mar 30th 2023 at 5:10:04 AM

This is the first time I've seen the page Report Siht and I thought it was meant to be "Report Shit" but misspelled for the lols.

It's "This Troper" backwards. Oh my God-

When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#16654: Mar 30th 2023 at 7:04:04 AM

I've actually always disliked the use of that around the wiki for that exact reason.

techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#16655: Mar 30th 2023 at 9:33:24 AM

Did they remove the hat from the default avatars?

Just saw a few user, seemingly without a profile picture, but with the hat removed.

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
#16656: Mar 30th 2023 at 9:34:38 AM

[up]AFAIK, that's a custom avatar. Probably been shared via the avatar sharing feature.

My musician page
PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#16657: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:10:54 AM

I just remembered a dumb moment in my history of complaining cleanup.

Once there was a troper that had placed edits on a bunch of examples under dubbing-related tropes like The Song Remains the Same or Voiceover Translation where they made "suppositions" for the reasons behind some choices that always ended up as "Geez, these foreign dubbing studios are all managed by cheapskates unable to get people who aren't tone-deaf!"

Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Mar 30th 2023 at 8:11:30 PM

FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#16658: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:23:31 AM

I made a page for Fresh Guacamole, a 2-minute short about a man making guacamole. Still managed to get five tropes out of it. So "I can't think of any tropes" is not an excuse.

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
#16659: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:32:53 AM

If I can't think of at least 8 tropes for a work page straight away, I make it a sandbox first.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#16660: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:42:01 AM

I try to do sandboxes, but I usually just make the page in one go anyway so even if I use one it gets cut immediately.

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 30th 2023 at 2:42:13 PM

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#16661: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:48:04 AM

I use sandboxes for new work pages by default

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#16662: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:52:06 AM

Ha! Draft work pages? Make separate sandboxes for projects? What a fantasy!

Heck, I usually make work pages on impulse or for some ulterior reason. The only reason Bloody Battle exists is because I wanted to properly propose it at Trope Pantheons, which I very much did.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#16663: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:53:21 AM

I used to try to make a page in one go, but I wasn’t satisfied with their quality, so I sandbox now.

CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#16664: Mar 30th 2023 at 11:56:03 AM

To add on to whether or not I sandbox things, I usually only do that when I'm preparing a TLP or a Pantheon Profile.

The only thing I'm probably gonna draft is Characters/ pages if I ever make one, mostly because I need to sort all the images.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#16665: Mar 30th 2023 at 12:01:36 PM

I rarely use it for TLP stuff either. Once again, I make my first draft in one go or not at all.

All I really use sandboxes for, aside from project thread stuff (i.e., wick checks and cleanup sandboxes), is for drafting TRS OPs and the occasional Complete Monster EP.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
[Hiatus til March]
#16666: Mar 30th 2023 at 4:20:15 PM

I tend to make sandboxes for work pages if they get long enough, like Mechamato took like 30 pages in my Notepad app, though I did update it directly from its note in said app. Or maybe because the episodes only came out weekly.

In the case of recent ones I've made, they were established directly to the designated work page on the spot. Now that I think about it, the fact that the whole work (or as much as is that's out at the time) was accessible was also a factor just as shorth length was. Because either way I work on and update the page via Notepad app, which works as a personal sandbox anyway.

Yet to officially attempt TLP though. Even though I adopted a draft.

When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#16667: Mar 30th 2023 at 4:21:19 PM

pfff sandboxes

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
[Hiatus til March]
#16668: Mar 31st 2023 at 6:48:04 AM

What is FadeIn.Fade Out and why does it have 3 wicks

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_03_31_213218.png

Even the last wick is confused.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 31st 2023 at 9:48:29 PM

When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#16669: Mar 31st 2023 at 7:12:10 AM

Likely meant to be two tropes separated by a slash. Fade In/Fade Out.

good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#16670: Mar 31st 2023 at 11:24:19 AM

I feel like there is an underlying confusion over what Lampshade Hanging means across the wiki. From my understanding, the trope is supposed to be about characters In-Universe commenting on an implausible or contrieved situation in order to strenghten the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief by showing the events are supposed to be seen as unusual in the narrative rather than a consequence of negligence on the author's part. However, I frequently see it getting used for any time a character aknowledges anything that has a trope in the wiki, sometimes not even self-referentially. I've even seen it getting used for a director in a making-off once, even though he was simply discussing the film.

Edited by good-morning on Mar 31st 2023 at 3:31:59 PM

oh hey how are you doing?
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#16671: Mar 31st 2023 at 11:25:56 AM

Might be something worth a TRS if anyone is brave enough.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#16672: Mar 31st 2023 at 11:26:04 AM

Creator's Pet used to be a complaining magnet back when it was called The Wesley, and much of it was down to a rambling description that didn't properly define it. It spent about half its length talking about the trope namer, harped a lot on the writers paying no attention to the audience, and when it did define it, gave three criteria: Hated by fans (The Scrappy), Loved by the writers (Creator's Pet) and Butting into big scenes for no reason (Character Focus). But the pothole to Creator's Pet was not very helpful because it was already a redirect to The Wesley. It was written more as a rant than an article.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#16673: Apr 1st 2023 at 4:05:23 AM

sometimes you can tell when someone has joined just to see how weird we are

its liking poking wildlife

I mean,we are pretty weird all things considered,but the weirdness gets exaggerated

Edited by Ultimatum on Apr 1st 2023 at 12:06:15 PM

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#16674: Apr 1st 2023 at 4:55:02 AM

[up] You say that, but there are definitely parts where that weirdness isn't. tongue

We literally have an entire namespace that's dedicated specifically to spreading misinformation. The closest that comes on a lot of other sites is just people lying for fun, rather than having a dedicated section for it, or misinformation is specifically banned.

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
#16675: Apr 1st 2023 at 5:07:00 AM

I don't think it counts as "spreading misinformation" if it's framed to make clear it's not meant to be believed. At least, not any more than any other fiction.

My musician page

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