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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
#251: Jan 27th 2020 at 12:41:21 PM

Ban the release of clearly rushed products.

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BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Routeferret from ur mum's place Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#253: Jan 28th 2020 at 1:21:52 PM

[up] Just that, but for other cartoons (e.g, The Simpsons because Maggie's been a baby for years now.). The characters age as the series goes along.

That would actually be a cool cartoon concept. I'll write that down in the list of stories I think about making but never actually do.

Edited by Routeferret on Jan 31st 2020 at 9:01:26 AM

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
#254: Jan 29th 2020 at 5:25:16 PM

Ban pre-shredded cheese! Make America grate again!

Okay, now that that joke's out of the way: ban lists without oxford commas.

It's not "my parents, ayn rand and god" it's "my parents, ayn rand, and god."

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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#255: Jan 30th 2020 at 6:23:47 PM

I'd ban the TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life joke. I think it's gotten so old.

For every low there is a high.
Awe921 eh Since: Jun, 2018
eh
#256: Jan 30th 2020 at 11:12:50 PM

ban my negative emotions because holy fuck are these annoying free me from anxiety

BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#257: Jan 31st 2020 at 2:11:11 AM

[up] Have a free online hug and a double thumbs up from me, my friend.

[tup][tup]

You are awesome.

VengefulBale Bishie Gijinka Meta Knight from Nowhere Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Bishie Gijinka Meta Knight
#258: Jan 31st 2020 at 9:38:01 AM

Ban any companies who bend over for opressive governments just to get richer.

Also ban the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, replace it with a new one directed by Filoni, Favreau and Lucas in a coordinated effort.

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amitakartok Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#259: Jan 31st 2020 at 11:58:29 AM

[up][up][up][up]That plus Self-Demonstrating Article. Seriously, they're trying so hard to be witty that they become completely incomprehensible to the point I have to invoke the Laconic version just to understand what the hell the trope is supposed to be about.

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
#260: Jan 31st 2020 at 1:46:38 PM

I think it's less that they're inherently bad and more that people suck at writing them, or really want to be funny and try to hard and go over the edge into not funny territory.

Speaking of, ban trope pages that are only a quote, a paragraph, and a compare and contrast sentence.

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Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#261: Feb 11th 2020 at 8:20:07 AM

I would ban the bizarre obsession people have with shame nowadays. There's a shame for everything.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#263: Feb 11th 2020 at 9:14:02 AM

Extremists of all sorts.

[down]Of course.

Edited by Weirdguy149 on Feb 11th 2020 at 12:28:43 PM

The legend has returned.
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
#264: Feb 11th 2020 at 9:17:16 AM

[up]Oh, but not without also banning the misuse of the term “extremist” to paint reasonable people as crazy.

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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
#265: Feb 11th 2020 at 2:09:02 PM

Not so much a specific thing as an action. I would ban people who remind me of their religion/political stance/ideology/whatever every two seconds. Look buddy, I know you're proud of who you are, but I just! Don't! Care!

Edited by BackSet1 on Feb 11th 2020 at 5:11:51 AM

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Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
CHOMPION
#266: Feb 11th 2020 at 2:15:03 PM

Calories. :|

Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.
Dhiruxide Since: Dec, 2016
#267: Feb 11th 2020 at 2:25:03 PM

Ban Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence

It just reeks of lazy game design and with advanced, be a little more creative than that. When you can grab onto a ledge but cannot and need to go on a convoluted path to get to the upper level...

Here's another thing I'd ban: comments on reviews on this site.

Edited by Dhiruxide on Feb 11th 2020 at 1:53:46 PM

BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#268: Feb 11th 2020 at 10:54:36 PM

People interrupting your hobby time.

KJsixteen BORK from The Alola Region Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
BORK
#269: Feb 12th 2020 at 11:20:15 AM

Deadly Walls in Shoot 'em Up games. I don't know how many times I got killed by simply touching the walls while getting distracted by annoying little shits or stray bullets, especially if my hands are panicking.

Google Snake Game.
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#270: Feb 12th 2020 at 9:38:14 PM

Fake mobile game ads - the kind of thing where the ad shows something that's not even the same genre, such as when ad shows a fighting game animation but turns out to be a turn based rpg.

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
#271: Feb 13th 2020 at 2:41:31 PM

[up]

Adding to this, all instances of Lady Not-Appearing-in-This-Game and any future ones are banned.

Edited by BackSet1 on Feb 13th 2020 at 5:41:42 AM

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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
#272: Feb 13th 2020 at 5:17:13 PM

On this topic, lately I’ve seen ads while playing mobile games that look playable, but the moment you touch them, they take you to the app store. Some even start playable but switch to the link mode after a bit. Ban them all.

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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
#273: Feb 13th 2020 at 5:38:15 PM

Ban ads in mobile games in general. I just wanna play Solitaire, man.

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ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#274: Feb 16th 2020 at 4:47:28 AM

Alcohol. My father is obnoxious when he's drunk.

FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD
VengefulBale Bishie Gijinka Meta Knight from Nowhere Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Bishie Gijinka Meta Knight
#275: Feb 16th 2020 at 6:26:42 AM

The perception that all men must drink alcoholic beverages at least once in their life. I fucking hate alcohol, wine, whisky, etc. And that's all I'll say

Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, ngl

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