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openNo Title
Vulgar Bee readded this to Drake & Josh under Harsher in Hindsight:
- Josh teaching Megan's class with those college textbooks, at the dismay of the students and along with an unanimously certain but obvious reaction from many viewers who watched that episode. But when you think about it, the kids had a promising advantage to obtain some early head-start, college-advanced knowledge, as some of them heading into college years later would've been dumbfounded there's more to the four core main subjects than they were taught K-12. And yes, they'll probably get that old "High school nor middle school never taught you this" saying.
I removed it after taking it to the Hindsight cleanup thread, where I was told it wasn't an example.
Admittedly, I did once again forget to add an edit reason.
Wasn't sure what to do, so I came here. Sorry if this isn't a problem...
openMildly Concerning Attitude Anime
Joining Reaper recently edited the Isekai Quartet page. The edit reason they left is in relation to several weeks ago when an episode of the show came out and they insisted on adding a Early-Bird Cameo entry without confirmation from either Word of God or the show itself that it was the case.
The most recent episode confirmed they were right, but the edit entry they left read as follows: Oh, what's this? Did it turn out that it was Ristarte? Why, who could have told us so? Mayhaps, me', when I told you and you dismissed as speculation?!
This rubs me the wrong way and seems very aggressive. The reason we had the original entry hidden was because it wasn't confirmed.
openExample citations
I'm curious as to why Ron the Death Eater as a trope seems to be specifically about examples in fanfiction while Draco in Leather Pants more broadly describes fandom reactions? I still see rtde on some YMMV pages, but it was taken off a bunch.
openNo Title
Spiritual Predecessor is a redirect of Spiritual Successor. Shouldn't it be a separate page?
openIt Sucks! misuse?
This was deleted from YMMV.Doom Eternal:
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- The significantly smaller ammo pools for all of the weapons. While the developers intended for this to discourage reliance on any single weaponnote One of the major issues of 2016 was players simply defaulting to the Super Shotgun and Gauss Cannon to carry them through the entire game. and gave the chainsaw rechargeable fuel to compensate, many fans still heavily dislike the change.
- The reduction of pickups for health, armor and ammo, in favor of encouraging use of the Chainsaw and Flame Belch, as well as getting more Glory Kills. In the previous game, the Chainsaw was a way to occasionally delete a tougher demon or gain an ammunition resupply in a pinch; in Eternal it's treated as your main form of resupply and the player is expected to work it regularly into their combat loop. It won't be until the player gets the Crucible that they are able to delete tougher demons again, albeit in more limited scenarios.
- The nerfed Punch Attack makes it so the only way to get rid of Fodder enemies is to shoot them like everyone else. Though the idea behind it is to ignore the Fodder to focus on the tougher enemies and build up the Blood Punch meter, it doesn't quite hit the mark when Mecha-Zombies start showing up in the later missions.
The Edit Reason was "They Changed It, Now It Sucks! is for fandom overreaction to minor changes to a work." This is the first I heard it's required to be an overreaction. Is that the case. If so it, and It's the Same, Now It Sucks!, are widely misused.
Should I add it back. Or does it need to explain how it is an unfair overreaction. If the latter this sounds like Flame Bait as it's calling audiences Fan Dumb for hating on something minor. How is "minor" defined? It's not like Never Live It Down where the reaction can be compared to what's in-work so it has some objective comparison, I've never anything like that seen that in "It Sucks!" tropes. Thoughts?
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtopenNo Title
Harvest Moon GBC 2 is listed as Harvest Moon 2, but other sites call it GBC 2. Likewise with Harvest Moon 3. Should they be changed?
Edited by Pichu-kunopen Requesting a revert on Sequel Gap
Could Sequel Gap be reverted to before tropeminer's first edit on March 15? They alphabetized the examples despite the commented-out note saying they're sorted from shortest gap to longest. I sent them a PM yesterday and they acknowledged their mistake and said they would change the order back, but it's a lot of work to undo.
Never mind, they re-ordered it now.
Edited by rjd1922openRecommend/Ask about Fanfic?
Hello. I'm a first timer here and really know nothing of how to operate on this site. Yet if I may, how exactly do you recommend fan fictions or ask for those here to read through yours for some input?
openvideo examples not showing up
The video examples tab isn't showing up on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and the videos aren't showing at the bottom, though they're still visible at VideoExamples.She Ra And The Princesses Of Power. Anyone know what's going on?
openFranchise Original Sin for Harry Potter Literature
The Harry Potter saga has acquired enough space to fit its own page for the Franchise Original Sin trope. While some entries are understandable, this one feels kinda odd.
- One of the more common critiques of Crimes of Grindelwald was the titular villain's plan, where he wants To Unmasque the World with the purpose of taking it over and stopping the atrocities of the 1930s-40s. While his imperialist ambitions are undeniably bad, the invoking of Holocaust and Nazi imagery and Grindelwald's legitimate argument about how the Statute of Secrecy ultimately does a lot more harm than good for both Muggles and Wizards ended up striking a chord with a lot of audiences. As a result, it made the "good guys" seem extremely selfish, because when you read between the lines, it acknowledged that wizards could have stopped World War II, the Holocaust, etc., but considered staying isolated and segregated to be more important than saving millions of lives. To an extent, the implication that wizards value their secrecy and privilege over Muggle lives was always there in the original series. Even when Voldemort's supporters were pretty much declaring open season on Muggles during the final two books, none of the good-guy wizards ever considered informing them of the truth despite them finding out what's going on being the best way for Muggles to protect themselvesnote For one thing, the Muggle government could have coordinated with the Order of the Phoenix by combining their resources, and the Muggle Military and the Aurors and/or the Order of the Phoenix could have worked together to track down and kill/capture as many Death Eaters as possible. This could have given the good guys a major advantage over the Death Eaters; even if they don't have magic, Muggles can still fight and kill wizards (and given wizards' general ignorance of Muggle technology, it being used to combat the Death Eaters and Voldemort could have totally blindsided them), and the Muggle population outnumbers the Wizard population. Notably, Dumbledore reaches out diplomatically to a tiny enclave of murderous giants who hate wizards and kill each other for fun, but never considers reaching out to Muggles despite knowing full-well that the Death Eaters want to wipe all of them out. In fact, the only explanation we ever get for why wizards even maintain The Masquerade in the first place is Hagrid briefly claiming that they don't want to use their magic to solve Muggle problems in the first book. While the apparent moral was pretty ugly, the story never really dwelt much on the relationship between wizards and Muggles, which made it easy to ignore or handwave. Crimes of Grindelwald just made it explicit how far their callous indifference went and made it part of the central conflict, rather than a mere implication. It also didn't help that the 1990s were generally seen as a pretty stable era, which made a noninterventionist policy feel somewhat defensible to readers, while the '30s and '40s (and, adding in Reality Subtext, The New '10s) were not.
What exactly is the complaint here? Is the writer complaining that the wizards (and by extension, Rowling herself) chose not to reveal the existence of the wizarding world, even though that was never on Rowling's plans for the series? I'm no Harry Potter expert, but I'm sure the characters and Rowling have explained plenty of times why revealing the existence of the wizarding world to Muggles would be a bad idea. What should we do about this?
openEdit War on Ymmv / Killing stalking
The Ymmv/ Killing Stalking has an ongoing Edit War between doppip and SAB1984. Both of them are also accusing each other of stuff like homophobia (in the case of SAB 1984 to doppip) as well as shipping an abuser with his victim (doppip to SAB 1984).
Their various edit reasons back and forth seem to really violate the curtisoy the site runs on and falls foul of don't be a dick.
openMore people calling D.W. a sociopath... sort of
On the DependingOnTheWriter.Western Animation page, it says that D.W. from Arthur is sometimes a borderline sociopath. I'm not sure how to deal with that, but I disagree.
openWhere to ask this?
After writing a few examples of Spell My Name With An S as applied to Chinese translations of Japanese names with more than a bit of linguistic intro in all of them, I believe a description of this issue (Chinese translates, rather than transliterates, Japanese names if in kana) is worthwhile to be included in the lead of SpellMyNameWithAnS.Anime And Manga.
The problem is, I am not sure whether it is appropriate to include this to that page, and I'm not confident of the wording that should be used.
Where should I ask about this?
open Folder for Animated Films
I found a tendency to list Japanese animated films in the "Anime & Manga" folder rather than in the "Film — Animated" folder.
Should we fix this Double Standard?
Edited by IukaSylvieopenExamples in Analysis/HumanoidFemaleAnimal
Analysis.Humanoid Female Animal has a bunch of ZC Es. Should an Analysis page even have examples?
openOurKoboldsAreDifferent stuck in Limbo
We've got a good draft going in the sandbox and in the Launch Pad, but it's stuck as is without further discussion from the higher-ups.
So I remember watching this show on Netflix years ago and I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. It was about a single mother with twins, but they were witches and the mother was cursed to have twins forever. The twins never knew they were witches. But when the twins get older one of them always dies then later the other twin dies. When both twins die the mother is immediately 9 months pregnant and in labor. I remember really liking this show and I want to rewatch it but I can’t remember the name of it, I’ve tried googling this so many time but it brings me to shows that don’t match. If anyone knows the name of this show please let me know, thanks!