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Twiddler
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RobinZimm
Since: Jan, 2001
24th Mar, 2011 08:30:39 AM
I think it's a trope, but I can't find it with a quick search.
Catharsis
Since: Jul, 2014
24th Mar, 2011 05:57:46 PM
I tried searching with no luck. If we don't have this, we should. Typical phrases include: "Just a liiittle to the left... No, no, more to the right..."
Twiddler
MOD
(On A Trope Odyssey)
24th Mar, 2011 07:03:33 PM
I found a YKTTW for it under the name of Perfect Where It Was
What do you call it when one character is asking another to move or adjust something for them, and they're tiring them out, and at the end there's practically no difference in the thing being adjusted?