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Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 22nd 2024 at 8:06:39 PM

RallyBot2 (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#34226: May 30th 2024 at 1:51:41 PM

Requesting temporary lock of KangarooCourt.Real Life for a few days for reasons that should be obvious considering current events.

animuacid The girl of the window from Astyr residence in Lilysthia's grounds Since: Jan, 2024 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
The girl of the window
#34227: May 30th 2024 at 1:58:20 PM

[up] I'm not seeing frequent edits nor vandalism there.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#34228: May 30th 2024 at 2:05:32 PM

[up][up] That entire page should probably be on a year-long example delay, at absolute minimum.


Requesting a new example on Sex Slave.

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Zeke mentions that there's a market out there for attractive Blades (and this is something he and his Blade had to worry about, since she "looks human enough, for a Blade"). Since a Blade naturally trusts and thinks the best of the person who awakened them, it's easy for them to take advantage. Criminals will kill a Driver, then scoop up the core crystal of the Blade, and put it up for sale. While a Blade is naturally far stronger than any human, if their Driver dies the Blade returns to their core, meaning essentially their only way to fight back is to commit suicide. We see this happen in one quest, though for other reasons.

Edited by Discar on May 30th 2024 at 2:06:52 AM

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
RallyBot2 (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#34229: May 30th 2024 at 2:31:12 PM

[up]The lack of recent-example vandalism means we have no cause to go NREP. It's just a certain high-profile trial may warrant a temporary lock to prevent vandalism specifically reacting to the verdict.

Mrph1 MOD he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
he/him
#34230: May 30th 2024 at 2:48:22 PM

KangarooCourt.Real Life is now locked.

We can pick up any discussion about No Recent Examples separately.

GAKDragon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Every rose has its thorn
#34231: May 31st 2024 at 2:05:43 AM

Requesting corrections to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Chernobyl . There are several instances of the acronym "RMBK" to describe the nuclear reactor involved in the accident. However, the reactor's Russian name is Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosty Kanalny (which translates to high-power channel reactor, fyi). Therefore, RMBK is not correct and should instead read RBMK.

NPM Since: May, 2024
#34232: Jun 1st 2024 at 4:26:10 AM

Requesting the following edits be made to Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan:

Comic Books

  • Afghanistan made its first appearance in the Marvel Universe in a 1981 issue of The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk finds himself in Nuristan province, Afghanistan right in the thick of the Soviet invasion. He arrives just after the Soviets had destroyed a village, and an Afghan rebel walks past him, not even noticing the Hulk, due to being shell-shocked from witnessing his family being slaughtered by the Soviets
  • An issue of Cloak and Dagger has them busting an international drug ring throughout Asia that takes them to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.
  • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #6 sees the Joes traveling to Afghanistan to retrieve the crashed remains of a Soviet spy plane, assisted by the local mujahideen rebels. There, they face off against their Soviet counterparts, the Oktober Guard. The following issue sees the Joes and the Oktober Guard teaming up against Cobra.
  • Watchmen has the Soviets take the opportunity to invade Afghanistan in order to expand their sphere of influence, feeling emboldened after Dr. Manhattan leaves the Earth for Mars. Notably, the timeline of the invasion is considerably delayed in this setting as a direct result of Dr. Manhattan's influence: The invasion begins in October 1985 rather than December 1979.

Film

  • In Predator, it's heavily suggested that Dutch's crew took part in some black ops missions in Afghanistan. When they come across a downed helicopter, Poncho says "Do you remember Afghanistan?", while Dutch himself says he's "trying to forget it". The novelization makes it clear that Afghanistan was one of the operations they took part in, alongside Angola, Lebanon and Cambodia.

Live Action TV

  • The Americans is a show about two undercover Soviet spies living in the US during the 1980s, and naturally the Soviet–Afghan War is a recurring theme throughout the series. One notable episode features Phillip assassinating two mujahideen commanders at a restaurant, and another features both Phillip and Elizabeth manipulating one mujahideen commander to kill two others, with the motivation of destabilizing the Afghan resistance.

Music

  • Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" includes the lyric "Russians in Afghanistan" in the final verse of the song.
  • The Clash's "Washington Bullets", from the 1980 album Sandinista! is mostly about denouncing the United States' intervention in Latin America. However, the final verse contains a "Not So Different" Remark condemning the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, which happened just before the album was recorded.
    And if you find an Afghan rebel that the Moscow bullets missed
    Ask him what he thinks of voting communist
  • Soviet rock band Kino's "Blood Type" is a Protest Song concerning the Afghan war, sung from the perspective of a Soviet soldier serving his country.

Edited by NPM on Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:52:54 AM

Ellipsicle fly me to the moon from out there (Private) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
fly me to the moon
#34233: Jun 1st 2024 at 5:58:34 PM

Hello, previously on Trope Talk I considered whether or not a name change for Crazy Workplace would be a good idea, as I believe it causes confusion on the trope's nature. I was directed here as a place to suggest an alternative redirect name instead: Eccentric Employment

Og post here: I brought this up on the discussion page a while ago, but nobody saw it so I'm posting here instead.

I've been thinking about whether this trope could use a name change. I feel it doesn't illustrate the trope well enough and is too similar to other trope names. One suggestion I got back in TLP was 'Eccentric Employment' as a name, and I quite like it; it illustrates that the job itself can be wacky as well as the actual goings-on. Thoughts?

Nuts!
MyFinalEdits Delete message from Parts Unknown (Spin-off Series) Relationship Status: Cast away
Delete message
#34234: Jun 1st 2024 at 7:01:10 PM

You have to ask in the All-Purpose TRS thread rather than here, since renaming a trope requires TRS. Also, you have to do a wick check to gauge how much misuse or confusion happens across the examples by the name.

Edited by MyFinalEdits on Jun 1st 2024 at 10:02:20 AM

135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311
CanuckMcDuck1 PEPSIMAN from Japan Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
PEPSIMAN
#34235: Jun 1st 2024 at 8:26:41 PM

Hi. I would like to ask for the source code/links for the three images on UsefulNotes.Chernobyl. This is to create an Image Pickin' thread in order to decide which of the images could stay, since it is unilateral for pages to have more than one image.

[down]Thank you. I will try to remember if this need to happens again.

Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Jun 1st 2024 at 9:45:27 AM

Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.
Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#34236: Jun 1st 2024 at 8:39:46 PM

You simply need to add “?action=source” to the URL to get those.

[1]

[2]

[3]

Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#34237: Jun 1st 2024 at 11:00:07 PM

And there's a button literally saying "Page Source" in the top menu, so adding to URL isn't needed.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
ClancyGardener life is a state of mind from 53 miles west of Venus Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
#34238: Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:11:18 AM

Please swap Sandbox.Monster Star Trek and Monster.Star Trek.

[down] It can wait.

Edited by ClancyGardener on Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:47:31 AM

Trope Editor (he/him)
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#34239: Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:43:47 AM

@GAK Dragon: Seems like someone already did this.

~NPM: Sorry, but are you asking for an addition or a rewrite?

@Clancy Gardener: It's not Monday yet.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
NPM Since: May, 2024
#34240: Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:49:32 AM

[up]

Addition. Those are examples of the war being featured in media that aren't listed on the page, that I'd like to have added to the relevant sections. If that can be done, that'd be great.

Malady (X-Troper)
#34241: Jun 2nd 2024 at 4:20:13 AM

SI Prefix Tier Names redirect to SI Prefix Name, so its Tiered by Name parentage is more obvious.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Trevor807 from Texas Since: Sep, 2018 Relationship Status: Brony
#34242: Jun 2nd 2024 at 12:08:37 PM

On Fallen Creator, change:

  • Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, after a screed he posted against the "men's rights" movement in March 2011 went viral, in which he essentially said that he agreed with them on every point, but they should "man up" and stop complaining, because women get special treatment for the same reason as the mentally disabled. It didn't help him when he deleted it, or when he was exposed for defending himself with sock puppets, and it really didn't help when he posted an article a few months later saying that a number of "men behaving badly" stories in the news was due to society suppressing male nature - including the rape allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Julian Assange. He fairly clearly condemns rape, but the juxtaposition was enough for some, as well as his assertion that female urges were "encouraged."

To:

  • The reputation of Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, took its first hit after a screed he posted against the "men's rights" movement in March 2011 went viral, in which he essentially said that he agreed with them on every point, but they should "man up" and stop complaining, because women get special treatment for the same reason as the mentally disabled. It didn't help him when he deleted it, or when he was exposed for defending himself with sock puppets, and it really didn't help when he posted an article a few months later saying that a number of "men behaving badly" stories in the news was due to society suppressing male nature - including the rape allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Julian Assange. Adams' reputation tanked even further over the years with his support of Donald Trump and other right-wing causes, culminating in Dilbert being cancelled in 2023, when he published a racist video calling African-American people "a hate group". Its relaunch as Dilbert Reborn has seen criticism for fixating on the things that got it cancelled.

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#34243: Jun 2nd 2024 at 1:41:54 PM

Clancy, there were additions, so that's with this week's batch anyway. And speaking of which, please swap the following:

opal6561 Opalinski (he/him) from Who knows? Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Opalinski (he/him)
#34244: Jun 2nd 2024 at 3:27:55 PM

Proposing another change to the I Am Not Making This Up entry on Administrivia.Permanent Red Link Club that is still short, but still states that all links to the trope were purged when it joined the club.

  • I Am Not Making This Up: Used as a pothole for absolutely anything that sounded even the slightest bit outlandish, it consequently became a grating catchphrase (appearing on more than 2,500 pages at its peak) that made This Very Wiki look like idiots with an incredibly low threshold of disbelief. Not only was this trope the first very page to be permanently redlinked for being a Pothole Magnet, all instances of the phrase were automatically deleted from the wiki, leaving blank spots where it used to be. Some discussion related to this incident is preserved on I Am Not Making This Up Discussion, and in-universe examples were moved to "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. Since this is TV Tropes and even Reality Is Unrealistic, you don't need to say this, as there's no reason not to believe such things happened.

Some autistic aromantic young man
JHD0919 (Life not ruined yet)
#34245: Jun 2nd 2024 at 3:30:25 PM

[up]Like I mentioned here, I do not believe mentioning them is necessary given they've long since been filled.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#34246: Jun 2nd 2024 at 11:42:07 PM

DTH but leaving the PRLC entry alone. It's been rewritten enough times.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Nejiiuyn Kaiser der Anonymität from The Mysterious Beyond Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Kaiser der Anonymität
#34248: Jun 3rd 2024 at 9:37:09 AM

I recently launched a trope yesterday titled, Underground Alien Civilization, and according to American and Commonwealth Spellings and Creating New Redirects, I believe I'm supposed to ask here for a moderator to create a redirect to accommodate the Commonwealth spelling of "Civilisation".

My treasure? If you want it, you can have it! Search for it! I left in that place!
Rhino8888 from Spain Since: Mar, 2020
opal6561 Opalinski (he/him) from Who knows? Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Opalinski (he/him)
#34250: Jun 5th 2024 at 10:23:18 AM

Sandbox.Title Goes Here may need to be PRLC'd because it has been cut and recreated a few times.

Some autistic aromantic young man

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