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Are the statistics used on But We Used a Condom! correct? On the article, it says that the total failure rate for condoms is 3% and that is mainly misuse. When I look up condom effectiveness however, it seems to say that the 3% in question is the estimated rate for absolutely perfect use, with no mistakes of any sort, while the standard use has a failure rate of around 15%, which is explained as being the result of misuse or nonuse.
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I saw this new entry on the Unfortunate Implications here:
A number of sources have pointed out that Eaglemoss should had realised that making Luke Cage a white pawn in their chess set wasn't the best choice.
But, I don't see where this source came from and there doesn't seem to be a link attached to this statement.
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mazaka removed a The Woobie example in Endofwatch with "Goodis Not Nice status is still viable for The Woobie?" as edit reason.
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If a work has an example of Voodoo Shark for an earlier work (IE a sequel series has a Voodoo Shark handwaving something from an earlier work), should Voodoo Shark go on the sequel series, or the one where the shark is trying to fix the plothole?
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A politician says something along the lines of "my opponents are the Devil". The media ridicule him for crazy fundie antics. Then it turns out, he was actually quoting an obscure poem, and almost nobody got the reference. Which trope is it, Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure or something else?
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Can an Endless Game be placed on one of the Unwinnable pages if there's a way for someone to lock themselves out of most of the gameplay, forcing them to reset?
To clarify, because it's a weird situation. Animal Crossing: New Leaf has bamboo shoots, which, when planted, grow into full-grown bamboo plants which can only be removed by cutting them down with an axe and then digging up the base. Unlike the rest of the trees in the game, bamboo can reproduce by spawning more shoots buried underground, which also grow and eventually spawn more bamboo shoots. They'll cover your entire town if you let them. Including the area just outside your house. I've seen reports from people who had to completely restart the game because they didn't play in so long that their characters were effectively trapped inside their houses; if you don't have an axe and shovel in your inventory/storage, there's no way to cut down the bamboo and almost the entire game is inaccessible.
This is such a bizarre situation that I feel like it should go somewhere, but I'm hesitant to put it on Unwinnable by Mistake or Unwinnable by Insanity (it's easily avoidable) since Animal Crossing doesn't have a win condition in the first place. Kill Screen doesn't quite apply, since 1. it's not a glitch; technically the game is working exactly as intended and 2. it's triggered by player neglect/experimentation, not progress/playtime.
Edited by MissMokushirokuopenNo Title
I have one page left to crosswick with the newly-launched More than Three Dimensions. There is a Dungeons and Dragons example that is specifically about Basic D&D Immortals rules, and I have no idea what subpage to crosswick the example to as I'm not very familiar with the franchise.
Help? Thanks!
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Want to check before I add some examples: Album Single has absolutely nothing on it. The page is two years old, according to the history at least, and has never had examples. It's a stub at the moment but one that can be easily cross-wicked with a little effort.
It's not example-less for any reason right? Needs Wiki Magic rather than a cut or a lock? Not an Omnipresent Trope for music?
Edited by RotparopenNo Title
Junk Man Dan removed two Fridge Horror examples in SpongeBob SquarePants with the following edit reason: "Snails, worms, mullusks, and jellyfish are non-sentient in the Spongebob universe. Also the chum thing has been In Universe played with and debunked. It IS clear that this was originally meant to be the case, but they changed it as things went on." And included two moments in Star Trek.
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While on a wiki walk sparked off by a troper on this very page, I came across the Real Life section of Hanlon's Razor. There are some entries with 3 bullet levels. That's a no-no right?
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So can I start an page about this website? And what namespace and indexes it would it fall under?
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Truro left a pretty angry edit reason over at Contested Sequel:
"The only one making it personal here is YOU. This entry was put here to be fair to both sides of the argument. And just so you know, pointing out that the game isn't perfect and has flaws doesn't mean I hate it."
In doing so, he called the other troper a hypocrite.
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So I just heard that Ron the Death Eater now requires citations, like Unfortunate Implications (which is still the face of TV Tropes citations to this day, as far as I'm aware). Why's that? And having previously added an example to Frozen Disney upon witnessing certain events here involving the demonization of the character listed in said example (before I had heard about the new citations requirement, mind you), I feel obliged to ask, would a citation from here regarding those events be considered valid? Or would I be better served to look elsewhere for citations?
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Namespace question from a newb: So I'd love to make a page for the Dutch-British comic Storm, which if I understand correctly would have to be placed at Comic Book/Storm. Only that namespace already has content of course, about the Marvel character of the same name. So, where to put my article?
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Okay, question. Let's say that throughout a video game you're led to believe that a certain character, say Alice, is the Big Bad. Then near the end of the game you discover that Alice was actually being controlled by Bob, who takes over as the game's actual final boss.
Does this count as Bigger Bad? I was under the impression that one of the prerequisites for Bigger Bad was that the player/main character never actually fights them, otherwise they're just a regular Big Bad.
The subpage for Turn of the Millennium in the trope Unintentional Period Piece here has this message commented out: "Please don't add anything further about 2000-2009 until 2015, unless you specifically provide an unusually compelling reason. For most shows, it won't be particularly clear which ones bleed that decade out of their eyes until then." When will we remove the message?
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