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I'd like some help reverting and/or fixing edits by PenguinBiscuts, whom I suspended for poor spelling and mangled markup.
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I just cutlisted a trope called Constantine Curse that was created without going through YKTTW, and is an example of Trope Namer Syndrome. Hope it isn't a problem to bring that up here, but I see that its creator is entry-pimping it all over the place.
I'm not positive, but I think the trope would be covered under Superhero Paradox and/or Destructive Savior- is there a trope for like "everything in the hero's life that can go wrong, will go wrong"?, because that's part of what this idea seems to be.
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I've posted two lengthy entries about the same subject, although worded differently, detailing how the Blue Shell seen in the Mario Kart series is a Franchise Original Sin; specifically, I've posted it in the YMMV page for Mario Kart Double Dash and in the Franchise Original Sin article. Here's the latter's version of the entry:
- Mario Kart, being the respectable, long-running franchise it is, of course has some skeletons in its closet. The Spiny Blue Shell that debuted in Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Super Circuit was actually a quite honest and balanced weapon in those two games, since it worked like a blue shell that hit every other racer in front of the one who threw it; however, in Mario Kart Double Dash, the item was given an overhaul, where it was given wings, thus only hitting whoever is leading the race, and the possibility to explode, which means a damage that takes longer to recover. While normal damage (I.E. being hit by a normal shell) only takes two seconds or so to recover, an explosion flat-out stops the kart, and it takes roughly five to ten seconds to gain speed once again. The fact it explodes on contact, alongside the fact that it only hits the leader (although the explosion can hit nearby racers), means the only kart getting any benefits whatsoever is the one in second place, which often happens - unsurprisingly - to surpass the one at the head of the race. This "feature", already problematic when playing MK:DD!! in single player, was even more frustrating in the DS sequel, Mario Kart DS, and outright plagued single player races in Mario Kart Wii, where getting hit by a Spiny Blue Shell inches before the race ended was so common, that unlocking characters and/or karts requiring Golden Cups at 150cc difficulty was nearly impossible. Thankfully, the Nintendo 3 DS outing of the series, Mario Kart 7, while still having the Blue Shell explode upon hitting the first-place driver, also stripped it of its wings, thus reverting it to its pre-Double Dash form: now the shell hits everyone else in the process*(although it doesn't quite work like a red shell with other drivers, as they're all accidental targets. Its only real target is still the lead racer).
But then I noticed there are rules about how a Franchise Original Sin works, and to which extent an example applies. Specifically,
Rule of thumb: if you can imagine a reboot without the element in question, then it qualifies. If you can't, then it isn't a Franchise Original Sin. Secondary rule of thumb: If it wasn't visible in previous good episodes, it's an Ass Pull or a Retool gone bad, not a Franchise Original Sin.
My question is - given the item was in Mario Kart 64, it shouldn't count, but then again, the item wasn't present in the series' first installment, either, as Super Mario Kart had no such thing as the Blue Shell, thus meeting the whole "if you can imagine a reboot without the element in question" criteria. What should we do?
[EDIT: I nearly forgot - happy new year, fellow tropers!]
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I'm not sure where to put this. I was trying to edit the Live Action Ensemble Dark Horse page with an I Pad and accidentally wound up messing up the formatting. I tried to fix it, but I think I just made it worse. I'm really sorry. I can't fix it on my own since I won't have access to a regular computer for a couple of days.
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Hello. How do we increase an images' size? The rules dictate that the image I upload can't go over 350 px. Now the pictures I upload are apparently too small to be seen clearly in the trope pages I want them to appear in. How can I make them larger? Is there like a function or code to increase their size in said pages?
Best regards.
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In the film section of Exact Time to Failure, the 1st example has a title, but the next one has no name of the work listed, no potholes, and the only hints are the work above and the phrase "also used in the first movie". Can someone name the work so I can fix it?
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I'd like to raise a concern over the user biscuitsngravy. On the one hand he's helpful at sorting out nattery entries on the Bowdlerise index. On the other hand he randomly deletes (valid) entries from indexes including Bowdlerise, Harsher in Hindsight and What Could Have Been. Curiously most of the deleted entries concern Nickelodeon shows (such as Avatar and Rugrats).
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We got a guy in YKTTW Who takes offence when one points out that his 4 paragraph definition spends its 2 first paragraph talking about stuff not related to his trope or his trope's media. He also insist on using words that don't actually exist in any actual dictionary beside Wikitionary (And by how own admissions, words that aren't even in use in most of the english speaking world) and lastly gets rather offensive, arbitrarily calling people "Californians" which he hates, for some reason.
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New troper Bluedudex2 is showing a lack of understanding of how we work with his terribly made page Nintendo Logic, which I'm going to cutlist.
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There's an Edit War going on over at the Smile Pretty Cure! page - one user (a Yuri Fan on a crusade against het pairings, I don't even know) doesn't "approve" of people posting pairings he dislikes and has been deleting them without reasons or using "justifications" like "I don't think they should be here". He's also threatened to report people for reverting his vandalism.
I'm not sure how many socks this guy has, but the offending edits have been made under midoriri3 (not midoriri2, she's one of the people who's been reverting his vandalism), xXxMcKenziexXx, and Michael Cole 2, the last of which has been used to harass people off-site (at FF.net, over het pairings. Shipping is Serious Business, apparently).
I don't know what to do, especially because this guy is so persistent (his bs has been reverted for now, but he'll be back), but this is getting too embarrassing to not report.
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Just to be clear, if a trope isn't Omnipresent, aversions should not be listed, right?
I'm pretty sure that's the case, but I'm not positive, so I'm checking before I go tearing through Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys, which came to my attention from an edit to 1632 including that trope.
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Marshal Valor readded the Barack Obama example that we decided to remove with discussion page consensus for being Flame Bait. Further, we decided to keep a cleaned Real Life section in the Special Efforts thread on RL section cleanup.
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The trope page for Transsexual at present has a large set of definitions for terms used by trans individuals in real life, but they seem to take up too much room on there, and don't describe the trope much at all.
Could they be placed within a folder on the page to help with navigation, or should they be left as they are? Or is there another option I'm missing?
I think I have the right place to ask this. I thought about "Trope Talk" in the forums but that's about the tropes themselves, the alternatives given here don't match either, and there's no activity in the Discussion page for one of the two works (the other doesn't have a trope page/discussion at all). If I'm wrong I'll take it where it should go. Anywho:
Trying to figure out which trope a particular situation comes under. I originally added it in Never Learned to Read but now wonder if it's better suited to AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle.
The example refers to a character used in sketches on the Mark & Brian Radio Program / The Brian & Jill Show. The character is an out-of-work voice over artist where the gag is that, while he otherwise speaks fine, once he starts reading the scripts he mispronounces the hell out of everything. An example, quoted in Never Learned to Read, is below.
Never Learned to Read, given the premise, seems the better fit. But the guy can read. He just stinks at it (found a version of the sketch that lampsahdes this in fact). Accent seems to fit, but at the same time seems to be about mispronouncing the word by just stressing the wrong syllable, which this character cranks up to absurd levels.
Wondering about a possible 2nd opinion.