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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

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)
#20951: Jun 1st 2024 at 5:39:50 PM

Should I be concerned if I have accumulated 40 pages of edits in less than 5 five months?

As long as the edits are productive, a large amount of edits in a short amount of time isn't concerning. Handling TRS cleanup tends to involve making a bunch of small edits, for example.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 1st 2024 at 9:32:46 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#20952: Jun 1st 2024 at 10:29:27 PM

I wanna know just what trope would the "Floating Glass" on Batman Beyond Return Of The Joker be. Not enough to actually go through Trope Finder, but the efects IS SO COOL.

Explanation: There is a scene in the movie where Batman crashes through a window and the glass floats like snow while he gives the Joker the biggest beating he ever gave him in the DCAU. It sounds really explained like this but is CHEF'S KISS brilliant visually,

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
animuacid The girl of the window from Astyr residence in Lilysthia's grounds Since: Jan, 2024 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
The girl of the window
#20953: Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:05:19 AM

[up][up] I've mostly been doing wick cleaning and merging Character-Specific Pages, which also requires many minor edits to update the indexes and stuff.

I fondly remember when I started with Bleached Underpants. It caught my eye because it's related to Visual Novels, as most have an all-ages Self-Censored Release. But turns out the term Bleached Underpants was a bad and ambiguous pun invented here.

Edited by animuacid on Jun 2nd 2024 at 11:06:17 AM

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#20954: Jun 2nd 2024 at 11:02:30 AM

Had a dumb game idea, using crowner options to link to other crowners in chose-your-adventure way. The downside that it's a crowner bloat and requires moderation to set up.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#20955: Jun 2nd 2024 at 11:03:21 AM

in the old days we could make our own crowners and only needed the mods to attach them

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#20956: Jun 2nd 2024 at 6:37:39 PM

The normal way to make a CYOA on a wiki is with linked pages. There's a stub of a game somewhere made around the proper way to edit the wiki and deal with difficult tropers.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
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)
#20957: Jun 2nd 2024 at 6:38:22 PM

^ That would be Encounters

There was interest in reviving it but that never took off.

Edited by WarJay77 on Jun 2nd 2024 at 9:39:18 AM

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#20958: Jun 3rd 2024 at 8:05:09 PM

I'm browsing some of the recently closed threads at IP that I missed, and I honestly don't find replacing Sinfest with Ménage à 3 much of an improvement? Sure, the latter may not have the former's "baggage" attached, but... that's about it, really. The latter is just as overdosed with pics, and I find the art worse; plus the comic itself is also bad (though for different reasons).

Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#20959: Jun 4th 2024 at 6:15:42 AM

I really wish Tatsuya closed off Sinfest when he lost any interest in the characters and started up a new comic to rant about his politics, so we could cleanly separate the good and bad phases. But I still have affection for the old comic, and as others have noted, it makes for very good trope illustrations because for all his inability to make a coherent point or bring a story to a meaningful close, Tatsuya is brilliant for telling the story through visuals with no text needed.

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
#20960: Jun 4th 2024 at 6:47:11 AM

(I was going to comment further here, but then I realized what I said is wrong; so ignore)

Edited by FernandoLemon on Jun 4th 2024 at 10:53:14 AM

TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit The clown of STEEL from Ichnusa Since: Mar, 2024
The clown of STEEL
#20961: Jun 4th 2024 at 9:20:17 AM

Out of curiosity, I tried to check the changelog, and one of the entries was "made cultist reasons mandatory".

......Uuuuhhhhh did it mean to say cutlist?

Oo oo ah ah
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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
#20963: Jun 4th 2024 at 10:46:07 AM

no. you are now required to explain why you joined a cult.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#20965: Jun 4th 2024 at 10:55:04 AM

ZOLTAR!!!!

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
fragglelover Since: Jun, 2012
#20966: Jun 4th 2024 at 10:57:07 AM

I'm just trying to figure out what a "cultist reason" is, and how it would be done, much less made mandatory. Would you have to give one of you never joined a cult?

JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#20969: Jun 4th 2024 at 12:21:39 PM
Thumped: This post has been thumped with the mod stick. This means knock it off.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
GastonRabbit MOD 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)
#20970: Jun 4th 2024 at 9:29:51 PM

From the header (most relevant part bolded for emphasis, but the part about popcorn posting preceding it is relevant as well):

In addition, while discussing the Edit Banned thread is not prohibited on its own, discussing and/or alluding to specific cases is not permitted.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 4th 2024 at 11:34:30 AM

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
#20971: Jun 5th 2024 at 3:34:55 AM

I've actually not used the cutlist in years I think

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)
#20972: Jun 5th 2024 at 5:08:42 AM

I fixed the typo in the Changelog thread's header (belatedly) because it's not mandatory for users to say why they like a dog made of bread.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 5th 2024 at 7:10:53 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit The clown of STEEL from Ichnusa Since: Mar, 2024
The clown of STEEL
#20974: Jun 6th 2024 at 2:25:18 AM

Sometimes, I think back to the thread discussing this site's extensive use of Sinfest images in pages, and whether we were publicizing a alt-right comic or not.

And I remember that Tintin also is the example image for a lot of pages (maybe even more than Sinfest!), and it has some philonazi accusations too!

Of course, TinTin's situation is much tamer: from what I remember, the author of TinTin might have been a Nazi sympathizer, and he allegedly based TinTin himself on one of the Nazis controlling Vichy during World War II.
But otherwise TinTin isn't a vehicle for right-wing ideology, and today's kids might not even know what it is, or is seen as a classic. And I don't know if this was just a rumor or not.

Comparing this to a webcomic where the author is very much active and explicitly promotes Nazi ideals, I doubt we also need to purge TinTin images from this site.

But still, it's almost like a curse or something.

Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit on Jun 6th 2024 at 11:27:16 AM

Oo oo ah ah
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)
#20975: Jun 6th 2024 at 5:25:32 PM

[H]e allegedly based Tin Tin himself on one of the Nazis controlling Vichy during World War II.

How is that possible considering the first Tintin comic was published in 1929?

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