What would you ban if you could?

Ban the release of clearly rushed products.

Yes. This.

Pokemon characters in the anime continually and perpetually staying the same age.

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

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."

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

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

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

You are awesome.

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.

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.

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.

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

Curfew.

Extremists of all sorts.

Of course.

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

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

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

Calories. :|

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

People interrupting your hobby time.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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