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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

Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#21301: Jul 28th 2024 at 10:06:38 AM

[up] "In This Thread"

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
AnotherOnlinePersona Killed by Chills from Harlequin Forest Since: Dec, 2022
Killed by Chills
#21302: Jul 28th 2024 at 10:07:03 AM

[nja]

Edited by AnotherOnlinePersona on Jul 28th 2024 at 10:07:26 AM

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
#21303: Jul 28th 2024 at 9:58:35 PM

A lot of TLP drafts from 2007 have been bumped.

FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit The clown of STEEL from Ichnusa Since: Mar, 2024
The clown of STEEL
#21305: Jul 29th 2024 at 7:26:35 AM

And why do some Forum Game threads have (Seconds) in the title?

Oo oo ah ah
Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#21306: Jul 29th 2024 at 1:41:00 PM

[up] 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.

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#21307: Jul 29th 2024 at 9:23:00 PM

Continuity Announcement has a very unusual definition of "Continuity" that I've never seen before.

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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
#21308: Jul 29th 2024 at 11:05:55 PM

I 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.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#21309: Jul 30th 2024 at 3:42:30 AM

I've always thought Locked Pages does indexing and TIL it does not.

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MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#21310: Jul 30th 2024 at 3:43:31 AM

It used to years ago but it was removed. Forgot the exact reason but it wasn't deemed necessary

Macron's notes
loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#21311: Jul 31st 2024 at 11:44:53 AM

[up][up][up][up] /gen What do you find unusual about it? It reads like a straightforward description of what a continuity announcement is to me.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#21312: Jul 31st 2024 at 11:49:55 AM

[up] I know only one definition of Continuity, so then I've learned that in broadcasting it means something completely different.

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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
#21313: Aug 1st 2024 at 6:18:08 AM

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.

themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#21314: Aug 1st 2024 at 9:40:20 AM

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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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21315: Aug 1st 2024 at 9:48:34 AM

[up][up] Dont you know Speech Impediment s are a subjective concept?

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#21316: Aug 4th 2024 at 12:03:11 PM

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.

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MsOranjeDiscoDancer 2much2furious from the Saja Boys' last performance! Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Will you go out with me to the End?
2much2furious
#21317: Aug 5th 2024 at 12:44:08 PM

was 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 :,)
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#21318: Aug 5th 2024 at 12:57:50 PM

[up] 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.

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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)
#21319: Aug 5th 2024 at 2:08:41 PM

That or they were discarded. Search doesn't account for that.

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MsOranjeDiscoDancer 2much2furious from the Saja Boys' last performance! Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Will you go out with me to the End?
2much2furious
#21320: Aug 6th 2024 at 11:42:52 AM

...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 :,)
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#21321: Aug 7th 2024 at 4:39:01 AM

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 server
MsOranjeDiscoDancer 2much2furious from the Saja Boys' last performance! Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Will you go out with me to the End?
2much2furious
#21322: Aug 7th 2024 at 3:29:54 PM

tell 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 :,)
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
#21323: Aug 8th 2024 at 8:51:31 AM

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.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#21324: Aug 8th 2024 at 1:53:08 PM

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.

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themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#21325: Aug 10th 2024 at 4:53:35 PM

Noticed 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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