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Idiosyncratic [=CelestaPlebs=] Since: Aug, 2020
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Jun 4th 2021 at 5:17:08 PM •••

The link to the outside article is broken, so I need someone to swap in this snapshot. https://web.archive.org/web/20190824041417/https://salient.org.nz/2009/10/tv-tropes-will-ruin-your-life/

Add a title. Stay safe; stay well. Live beyond… memento vivere! Should intermittent vengeance arm again his red right hand to plague us? Hide / Show Replies
LuigiTheEditor Crash Man (Pilot)
Crash Man
Jul 19th 2021 at 11:32:48 PM •••

Question: Why does TV Tropes wear the fact that they demolish lives like The Medal of Honor?

Oh, the misery, everybody wants to be my enemy. Spare the sympathy, everybody wants to be my enemy. Hide / Show Replies
MrStranger616 Since: Feb, 2020
Sep 22nd 2021 at 7:55:48 AM •••

Surely this is a joke page. I like the enhance one though. Which I just followed.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Mar 23rd 2021 at 7:02:08 AM •••

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Has everyone been misusing?, started by MorganWick on Jan 6th 2011 at 12:07:39 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
moefoxes cabby plush Since: Apr, 2020
cabby plush
Aug 9th 2020 at 4:36:32 AM •••

help, tv tropes showed up in my dream last night

unsure of what to add as a signature
MrStranger616 Since: Feb, 2020
Jul 31st 2020 at 11:57:55 AM •••

Why is this a page? And even so, you can't include folders depicting internet addicts in fiction?

drzoidsquoo Dr. Zoidsquoo Since: Apr, 2015
Dr. Zoidsquoo
Feb 20th 2020 at 5:29:13 PM •••

I'm not saying this isn't a thing, but I think it applies more to the internet in general than to TV Tropes specifically. In fact, I've had less of this experience with TV Tropes than with other websites.

I am not a squid.
Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph Since: Apr, 2015
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
Apr 21st 2019 at 2:13:41 PM •••

Ah, probably the most (in)famous page on the entire wiki. And the only thing most people know about us.

Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!
MrReviser121 Since: Mar, 2016
Nov 14th 2016 at 8:07:15 AM •••

I beg to differ on this trope, I feel that browsing around this website has given me a more interesting way to look at films.

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violettglass Since: Mar, 2010
PastaCow His Royal Majesty Since: Dec, 2014
His Royal Majesty
Jan 14th 2016 at 5:31:01 PM •••

And whatever you do, do not join the TV Tropes Forum thinking you can be an "occasional poster". If TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life, the addictive forum will prove you never had one to begin with.

I didn't even get to the addiction part of being a forum poster, where do I get my money back?

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search Since: Jan, 2016
Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:07:46 AM •••

The entire internet is exactly like this, not just tvtropes.org.

Dingbot Since: Feb, 2012
Dec 30th 2015 at 12:12:13 AM •••

Irony. It hurts. While wiki-walking TV Tropes, I came across an article referencing Cracked.com, and began multiple tab browsing there, and at http://www.cracked.com/article_20202_6-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-making-comics-more-diverse.html I found a reference to TV Tropes ruining your life. So I'm back.

Please help me...

Kombucha Since: Jun, 2013
Dec 1st 2015 at 6:43:30 AM •••

Shouldn't "cliché" in the main article say "clichéd"?

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Dec 1st 2015 at 11:40:13 PM •••

Which "main article"?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Spy227X Since: Mar, 2015
May 25th 2015 at 2:10:54 PM •••

Is it bad that at the "tab explosion" image at the bottom I know most of them?

hagagaga Since: Aug, 2011
Jul 21st 2013 at 5:56:24 AM •••

I propose changing "7+ hour" to "16+ hour" because I and several others have been on this site continuously for 16-20 hours at a time before.

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XplodingCobra Since: Jan, 2014
Feb 4th 2014 at 2:24:15 PM •••

Buddy, right at this moment in time, my wife is supremely pissed that I've been on here almost continuously for more than two weeks - to include 20+ hour days EVERY day. I haven't done something this retarded since I was in the Army and didn't have a choice.

Tightwire Since: Apr, 2014
Aug 29th 2014 at 5:05:54 PM •••

How about you compromise and make it 12+ hours?

Tightwire Since: Apr, 2014
Aug 29th 2014 at 5:05:04 PM •••

I realised TV Tropes had conquered my life on the day when, during the discussion of a movie, I quoted the title of a page in the assumption that the other person knew what the hell I was talking about.

idiodabble Since: Aug, 2014
Aug 19th 2014 at 2:56:35 PM •••

A similar phenomenon happens with music appreciation: you begin to enjoy some songs much more, while other songs lose their appeal. You learn to appreciate the complexities of jazz or really interesting chord progressions*, then get annoyed at every pop song's use of 1-5-6-4. Would this be worth mentioning on the page?

  • for one of my favorite examples: Danny Elfman's This Is Halloween

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Aug 20th 2014 at 1:27:57 AM •••

I suspect that is more akin to Ear Worm. I don't think it's related tough - there is a difference between liking something and spending time obsessively on it.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
itchylol Since: Dec, 2012
Nov 22nd 2013 at 8:03:15 PM •••

I read this website for 8 hours today. The sad part was that 80% of the tropes I already read.

HELP ME

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LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
Icarael Since: Dec, 2010
Oct 31st 2011 at 2:56:29 AM •••

It's Administrivia. It's the sort of thing only the guys upstairs can edit.

"Stealing is a crime and drugs is a crime too BUT if you steal drugs the two crimes cancel out and it’s like basically doing a good."
pittsburghmuggle Since: Jan, 2010
Jan 29th 2013 at 2:12:46 AM •••

I wish those guys upstairs would turn down their music. I'm trying to trope!

"Freedom is not a license for chaos" -Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
pittsburghmuggle Pittsburghmuggle Since: Jan, 2010
Pittsburghmuggle
Jan 29th 2013 at 2:11:28 AM •••

I'd like to add that if you hit the "random page" option and it takes you to a page you've already read - forget it, your life is over.

"Freedom is not a license for chaos" -Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
TheAnswer Since: Jan, 2011
Jan 12th 2013 at 9:41:42 PM •••

Averted (or is it Subverted?) with me, I am in full control of all the Tropes I read.

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youwhat oh lord Since: Sep, 2011
oh lord
Oct 31st 2011 at 11:15:13 PM •••

I have probably averted this trope, but seriously. I started with one tab, and ended up with 22. Gosh dang it to heck!

I am not the first time to the first time and the sender and the first thing is a few months ago
IMayBeInsane Since: Jul, 2011
Jul 8th 2011 at 9:23:57 PM •••

Amazon.com does this, but with it's WISHLIST button.... Tell me you haven't gone to Amazon.com, wishlisted something... Then saw something you liked in their "customers also bought..." section and tabbed all five of those... And so on and so forth.

I'm going through the playstation 1 section right now... And I still have 60+ tabs to go...

Looking at my other window... I've got another 30 tabs for TV Tropes.org... Half of them left up from yesterday....

SOMEONE SAVE ME!

kd7sov Since: Oct, 2010
Oct 30th 2010 at 6:05:34 AM •••

Should I be scared that, in the linked image at the bottom, I was able to specifically identify the open window as the relevant Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming page?

I admit, this has more to do with the fact that I know the named Next Generation episode than with my familiarity with CMOH pages, but.

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90.32.42.186 Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 19th 2010 at 4:53:11 PM •••

Damn straight.

I am not that concerned with actual tropes in media, you'd be a wally if you hadn't noticed them (i.e. most horror films - cutest girl lives, randiest girls die roughly in order of how quickly they get undressed). Problem is, this bloody site. So I'm reading about being a Cloudcuckoolander and thinking it sounds like me on a good day. And I see something interesting so I open it in a new tab. And then here;s something else. And something else. And horrid horrid Firefox is able to quit and save my open tabs for later. I now have to turn off Wi Fi when reloading Firefox so the poor thing doesn't spend two minutes reloading everything. Whinge! Wail! Woe is me! Wanna know what TV Tropes did to My So-Called Life?

[ps: as I have not created for myself a user profile, you cannot contact me, thus I shall point out that this is sardonic sarcasm, in case you somehow managed to miss that]

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