Brought it up on the locked pages edit request thread, it's been fixed now.
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 RepliesSurely this is a joke page. I like the enhance one though. Which I just followed.
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 Feynmanhelp, tv tropes showed up in my dream last night
unsure of what to add as a signatureWhy is this a page? And even so, you can't include folders depicting internet addicts in fiction?
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.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!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.
Hide / Show RepliesAnd 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?
:D Hide / Show RepliesIrony. 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...
Shouldn't "cliché" in the main article say "clichéd"?
Hide / Show RepliesWhich "main article"?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIs it bad that at the "tab explosion" image at the bottom I know most of them?
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.
Hide / Show RepliesBuddy, 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.
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.
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
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 FeynmanI read this website for 8 hours today. The sad part was that 80% of the tropes I already read.
HELP ME
Hide / Show RepliesHere are the forums. Have fun wasting even more time! ;D
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.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."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 MathematicsI'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 MathematicsAverted (or is it Subverted?) with me, I am in full control of all the Tropes I read.
Hide / Show RepliesThat's what they want you to think.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.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 agoAmazon.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!
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.
Hide / Show RepliesLook at the address bar, it's TearJerker.Live Action TV. :p
Edited by macroscopic Support stupid freshness, yo.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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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