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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
See the Trope Launch Pad discard project
thread for context.
That's because those games rely on the responses being dependent on the seconds of the clock when the post is initially made. You might notice that the first post has a list numbered from 0-60.
Continuity Announcement has a very unusual definition of "Continuity" that I've never seen before.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupI just read Trope Example Laws for the first time in years, and wow, it's still a time capsule of the site around a decade ago.
It used to years ago but it was removed. Forgot the exact reason but it wasn't deemed necessary
Macron's notes
I know only one definition of Continuity, so then I've learned that in broadcasting it means something completely different.
Earlier I checked the edit history for YMMV.Power Rangers SPD and saw that someone added an entry for Speech Impediment that was quickly removed, which is the weirdest case of trope misplacement I've ever seen.
Random - I am eagerly awaiting the Overshadowed by Controversy TRS thread currently in the queue — I have a specific idea to potentially save the Trivia item but I don’t think I’m really allowed to say it until the thread.
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Aug 1st 2024 at 12:40:46 PM
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Dont you know Speech Impediment s are a subjective concept?
Has discovered that the Mover tool (unlike most functions) is not broken by the hypen in the wikiword, allowing moving the page to non-hypenated title and working from there.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanupwas there a cutoff date for Trope Launch Pad? im trying to search for some silly-named YKTT Ws back in ye olden days and they seem to be gone
i may be dead inside but at least i have Mystery :,)
IIRC there was a massive site crash back in 2008 that wiped a ton of data — the YKTT Ws you’re looking for may have been victims of that.
That or they were discarded. Search doesn't account for that.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall...you know, i forget if the Killer Hack thing happened before OR after the crash, because i know both Killer Hack events wiped out data as well
edit: went searching and the Killer Hack thing happened on Nov 2008, I forget when the Great Crash happened
Edited by MsOranjeDiscoDancer on Aug 6th 2024 at 11:43:50 AM
i may be dead inside but at least i have Mystery :,)I always get weirded out if I enter a topic recognize none of the posters,or I enter a topic and realize sadly everyone who posted previously is long gone,its the reality of having a site thats been going decades is that you'll have whole periods of different users.
Edited by Ultimatum on Aug 7th 2024 at 12:45:38 PM
have a listen and have a link to my discord servertell me about it, i was looking through Dwarf Fortress Let's Plays and i stumbled on the two different troper-run fortresses. the latest one was in 2013.
i hate being old.
i may be dead inside but at least i have Mystery :,)Thinking about it, root pages are kinda the Actually Workable Version of that seven-layer hierarchy someone wandered in to propose a while ago. Instead of arbitrarily assigning things to artificially-constructed layers, the hierarchy is built naturally by just assigning each item a parent item.
Admittedly, it's only really built for work pages right now, but it wouldn't be hard to make something like this for Super-Trope relations. Actually, didn't there used to be a tool that did just that? I guess it got abandoned and rotted away.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.root pages and supertropes don't work the same way, and I don't see how to technically work with supertropes without the designated relation tool or standardizing the formatting for related tropes paragraph.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupNoticed ATT is getting pretty backed up. TRS too.
Must be a busy time of year — some mods/engineers are probably on vacation or are otherwise busy.
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