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(I'm not sure where this really belongs, so I'm putting it in YF for now. Mods, feel free to move it to Forum Games if you think it fits better there.)

The point of this thread is to list your favorite tropers and say what makes you like them so much. Please be specific; we already have Gushing About Shows You Like if you want to gush about TV Tropes or the Forums in general.

EDIT: Chopped the list because it's now quite outdated, and there are some comments in here that only made sense back in 2009 and may have even been a bit creepy.

edited 20th Apr '12 1:34:45 PM by lee4hmz

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#401: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:42:16 PM

I recommend US-International, as Nyktos said. It doesn't have circumflexes, but it has umlauts, accents, graves, various currencies, that German B thing, eth, and thorn, while keeping the punctuation layout. Cutpaste is inefficient.

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SpaghettiCatIII The crew from Dear God I have no idea. Since: Dec, 1969
The crew
#402: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:43:47 PM

Damnit, I need one of those.

...although nobody's said I was a psycho rapist before. Except SCIII, but that doesn't count." - Bobby G.
Matrix Since: Jan, 2001
Noimporta Since: Jan, 2001
Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#405: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:45:57 PM

Go to Control Panel -> Keyboard and find the thing that lets you change your layout. I forget exactly how to do it.

Edit@Noimporta: Iñdeed it does. Also, a circumflex is thîs thing, right? If so, it does indeed have them.

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:46:54 PM by Nyktos

I guess it is.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#406: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:47:00 PM

@Noimporta: yes, yes it does. You can use the tilde as a dead key (~n -> ñ) or just AltGr-n ñ. Also õ and ã.

^ Oh hey. no, that's a caret, I think.

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:47:30 PM by Tzetze

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BrokenChaos !serious from Gone Since: Jan, 2001
!serious
#407: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:47:04 PM

Tzetze:

Broken Chaos did that user history thing and is a techie who I don't understand. Yay!
Most people don't understand me. tongue

...Yer, to me, always gonna be the .hack//SIGN avatar dude. I seem to recall .hack//SIGN making numerous interesting, insightful comments – so I agree on the "not DUMB" sentiment of earlier tropers.

...I actually can't think of anyone who hasn't made some sort of interesting or insightful comments, and I lurk around a fair bit. tongue

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:47:23 PM by BrokenChaos

Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#409: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:48:42 PM

Which one is a circumflex then?

Edit: Wikipedia seems to agree with me.

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:49:08 PM by Nyktos

I guess it is.
BrokenChaos !serious from Gone Since: Jan, 2001
!serious
#410: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:49:46 PM

Tzetze: I just do that whole avatar == person association thing. And even with your avatar switching, most of them are .hack//SIGN, so I remember you. Hooray!

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:50:15 PM by BrokenChaos

Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
vigilantly taxonomish
#411: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:50:22 PM

Î is a circumflex accent. ^ is a caret.

One is an accent, the other is just a symbol.

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:50:53 PM by BobbyG

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Noimporta Since: Jan, 2001
#412: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:51:22 PM

So, if Broken Chaos associates people with avatars, that means...

SpaghettiCatIII The crew from Dear God I have no idea. Since: Dec, 1969
The crew
#413: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:51:34 PM

Damn, I need to see this HACK show...

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:52:16 PM by Spaghetti Cat III

...although nobody's said I was a psycho rapist before. Except SCIII, but that doesn't count." - Bobby G.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#414: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:52:13 PM

Oh. Well, you can't type h-with-circumflex even with US-Int... so uh... yeah...

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lee4hmz 486-powered rotating frosted cherry Pop-Tart from A shipwreck in the tidal Potomac (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
486-powered rotating frosted cherry Pop-Tart
#415: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:53:08 PM

I remapped my keyboard so I can do both AltGr and UNIX "compose" digraphs. §wéét!

PS: ĥĥĥ grin

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:53:47 PM by lee4hmz

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Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#416: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:54:00 PM

Ĥ

Seems to work, but the open-source version of it is slightly different. For example, if I hit a dead key on Windows followed by a letter it's incompatible with, I get the punctuation mark and the letter, but on Ubuntu I just get an error.

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:54:15 PM by Nyktos

I guess it is.
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#417: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:54:26 PM

I can't do it...

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
lee4hmz 486-powered rotating frosted cherry Pop-Tart from A shipwreck in the tidal Potomac (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
486-powered rotating frosted cherry Pop-Tart
#418: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:55:04 PM

I did Compose-^-h here, and I'm running Debian squeeze.

online since 1993 | huge retrocomputing and TV nerd | lee4hmz.info (under construction) | heapershangout.com
Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
(srahc 84) eltit
#419: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:55:32 PM

Do what? Ĥ? As I said, I think it only works on the Linux version.

I guess it is.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Blackmoon Since: May, 2009
#421: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:55:57 PM

I just know a couple of keyboard maps, like é or â, because I speak French. But I did get IME, so I can do this: お前のお母さんはくそたれだ!

SpaghettiCatIII The crew from Dear God I have no idea. Since: Dec, 1969
The crew
#422: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:56:18 PM

TZETZE. ICH LEIBE DU.

...although nobody's said I was a psycho rapist before. Except SCIII, but that doesn't count." - Bobby G.
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#423: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:56:22 PM

I can't do keyboard maps at all.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
BrokenChaos !serious from Gone Since: Jan, 2001
!serious
#424: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:56:31 PM

I can input it, but only through the character viewer (i.e., a map of all UTF-8 characters), not through OSX's compose-like feature. ĥ

(And I'm slow. :<)

edited 3rd Nov '09 5:57:05 PM by BrokenChaos

Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#425: Nov 3rd 2009 at 5:59:54 PM

I'm guessing that that doesn't mean "I body you", as Ubiquity insists?

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