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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

Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#21801: Nov 8th 2024 at 10:00:15 AM

I've gone on TV Tropes so much when I go to Google on my phone's browser it starts showing me newly-launched tropes

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smartselect_20241108_095512_samsung_internet.jpg

(it showed me Labyrinthine City too but I couldn't screenshot that one)

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21802: Nov 8th 2024 at 10:10:43 AM

When they arent rude or nitpicky, reading Headscratchers is really fun.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
BlueXIII Still breathing, despite everything. from Shambhala Since: Sep, 2017 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Still breathing, despite everything.
#21803: Nov 10th 2024 at 12:16:16 PM

I heard from a Redditor that someone tried to create a hoax on TV Tropes by sneaking in their Transformers OC in as a canon example across numerous pages, even managing to get them as the headline quote on at least one page. Is this incident true?

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#21804: Nov 10th 2024 at 12:19:27 PM

They're lying to you

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21805: Nov 10th 2024 at 1:08:31 PM

Is there a way to really view old pages other than the Wayback Machine? It Will Never Catch On Real Life had so many examples that were interesting and way better written than the versions on And You Thought It Would Fail. Nowadays trying to use the Wayback Machine just plops you into the "Sorry, this page is cut" message, with no way to see the old page.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
Malady (X-Troper)
#21806: Nov 10th 2024 at 1:11:55 PM

How old do you want?

http://web.archive.org/web/20100414230246/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItWillNeverCatchOn works for me, getting a 2010 page.

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21807: Nov 10th 2024 at 1:42:05 PM

That's not the real life page, if you try that one, it will plop you right back to the page telling you its been cut. The worst part is that for a few seconds it works but then in a time that is too fast to read anything the page will plop you right out.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
Malady (X-Troper)
#21808: Nov 10th 2024 at 2:07:02 PM

What are you trying to do? Just pick a date you want, and substitute it for "20100414230246", then open the folders to get examples?

Why would it send you back to actual TV Tropes?

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21809: Nov 10th 2024 at 2:19:42 PM

I dunno, it just keeps doing it. Does it work for you? Can you read it? I tried it and it still booted me.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
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
#21810: Nov 10th 2024 at 2:22:25 PM

That happened to me too! Although in my case I was trying to find/reattach TLP draft archives that vanished due to a glitch.

Might be an Archive problem — IIRC they got hacked recently.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Nov 10th 2024 at 5:22:52 AM

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21811: Nov 10th 2024 at 2:24:15 PM

Oh Sweet Jesus that aint good.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
Malady (X-Troper)
#21812: Nov 10th 2024 at 3:06:47 PM

What browser are you on? I'm Firefox Desktop on Windows 10?

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21813: Nov 10th 2024 at 3:08:24 PM

I tried two browsers but not firefox.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
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)
#21814: Nov 10th 2024 at 4:21:27 PM

Noticed it myself not too long ago, yeah.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21815: Nov 10th 2024 at 6:56:45 PM

I finally found a way cant mention it because it might break the rules, but if you were worried for me I am fine now.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#21816: Nov 11th 2024 at 5:34:19 AM

The Archive is having difficulties and isn't reliable, hope they can fix it soon.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
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)
#21817: Nov 11th 2024 at 11:43:50 PM

[up]Yeah, when the mod team was discussing whether to move a defunct online work to Darth Wiki not too long ago (I think late last month) and the Wayback Machine turned up no results other than a snapshot of a 404 error from after the work was deleted, at least one mod mentioned that the site's search feature can make it easier to find archives, but that said search feature wasn't working, so it does seem like they don't have everything back up yet.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2024 at 1:44:57 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#21818: Nov 13th 2024 at 9:57:05 AM

I have to wonder: why is it that editing a review will give a preview of it, like you can do with page edits and forum posts, but this is not available when you create the review in the first place?

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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
#21820: Nov 14th 2024 at 5:30:15 AM

I'm going through NightmareFuel.Vanity Plate and I'm finding basically nothing on it scary. Unsettling or startling at worst, but not scary per se.

Quite frankly some of the logos on there I genuinely wonder what is scary about them.

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JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#21821: Nov 14th 2024 at 5:33:34 AM

The scary part was probably the abrupt change in audio mixing and tropers seeing them when they were kids.

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
#21822: Nov 14th 2024 at 5:44:05 AM

[up] I guess that's true. This logo is listed and I remember seeing/being scared of it as a kid at the time — now I just think the animation is cool.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#21823: Nov 14th 2024 at 5:47:41 AM

Feel it's been brought up before. NF is ymmv for a reason, but if there are examples that are definitely not it I'd leave them to designated cleanup.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
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
#21824: Nov 14th 2024 at 8:11:43 AM

The Windows XP startup scared me when I was little.

AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21825: Nov 14th 2024 at 1:29:38 PM

I have so isolated myself from the tropes part of tv tropes, I havent seen the word or thought the term "deconstruction" in months. It used to be so ubiquitous or I isolated myself pretty hard from the tropes side of things.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.

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