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I'm not even sure what to say to that
I never got why people bothered censoring city names and other information from stuff they got online. It's never hard to replace REDACTED with a * and find the article and missing information in question...
I have kept up with YKTTWs, and launched a new trope yesterday (well, in part thanks to someone prematurely launching it, but that got me to do it faster I guess).
I updated my troper page today.
1. Clean up my old YKTTWs. I've YKTTW'd a lot of things. Most of these did not succeed in becoming tropes. What I did was:
* look at all the old YKTTW links on my troper page, then find out which ones still had content
* for most of my old YKTTW ideas, write up a summary of the proposed trope if I remember it
* try to find place on the wiki to archive old YKTTW discussions permanently without them getting deleted after a while
* ask on forums about this. I know that forum threads get zapped for inacitvity and so do YKTTW threads.
*** sandbox: should be permanent but people may cutlist. discussion page: gets cleared after a while. No go.
*** open question (still open): can I use my username as namespace, the way Memes or Expy are used?
*** decide to just copy text over to userpage since userpage was guaranteed against age-based or inactivity-based deletion.
* copy text from two YKTTW logs to userpage
** add in reply times and usernames to plaintext logs
2. launch page
* figure out who launched my YKTTW
** get help from forums
** discover recent launches
** curse out lack of "where this was launched to" indicator on already-launched YKTTW pages
* contact person who launched my YKTTW, hoping to smooth out relations in case Maddy sent him/her an unfriendly PM
** be reminded of PM button at the top of normal wiki pages, after trying to figure out how to PM said person
* launched page
* cross-referencing new trope with related tropes
* choosing index for new page, and indexing new page
* getting post-launch suggestions
* fixing wording
* expanding definition beyond controls
* adding wicks
* added to Pages Needing Wicks
* discovered another interesting YKTTW that was launched to discard
** contacted creator; discovered that he'd made the page without using the YKTTW launcher
3. backloggery: changing my "now playing" list to become the "all the games I intend to finish" list
* go through game lists and see which ones I plan on finishing
* editing them to give "now playing" status
* adding/deleting/changing rating of/changing name of a few games
4. wrote up work page for Kendo Rage
* looked back through Youtube videos of gameplay
* lots of cross-referencing trope names
* web search of site:tvtropes.org to see where to change mentions of Kendo Rage to links
* lots of little edits, clarifying or fixing things, and adding troeps
* big edit: reorganizing tropes list into categories
4. other things
* requested custom title for PachelbelsCanonProgression
* expanded platformer game control schemes on StockControlSettings
* added redirect from StandardControlSchemes
* added redirect to RegionCoding from RegionalLockout
** added line of text to RegionCoding to indicate that this article isn't just about region codes, but about geoography-based denial of entertainment in general
* went through watchlist
* discovered Galaxy Angel, added to "to watch" list
** watched one episode of Galaxy Angel
*** decided I didn't like it, moved to "on-hold" list
* discovered Galaxy Fraulein Yuna, added to "to watch" list
* watched one episode of .hack//Sign
* friended a friend's free account on Steam
* asked on Steam forums whether a Mann Co. Store purchase in TF2 could cause a free Steam account to become a premium (i.e. paid and full-featured) Steam account, in addition to changing TF2 account from f2p to premium
** got an affirmative answer which is likely to be true, since the answer was "putting money in your Steam wallet gives you a paid Steam account"
* notice very interesting phenomenon in game
* try to find trope
* cannot find trope
* ask about it on trope talk "what trope(s) would apply here?"
* directed to LostAndFound page, which ought to be an entire subforum itself (as should YKTTW; both of these fit a forum format a lot better)
* other people can't help
* cannot think of other examples yet; not going to YKTTW yet, start forum thread in videogames forum asking for comment/examples/advice
Hmm...NaNoWriMo has good intentions, but the whole "quantity over quality" emphasis and the fact that people may not even read the novels kind of defeats the point. I guess "the point" is really as an anti-procrastination tool, but I don't see the value in that if it doesn't help you be a better writer.
Still, I feel like semi-participating, namely writing something without the word count. Current events are more than enough inspiration after all.
Even my IRL friends at least listen.
We shall see what happens.
Edit: But we won't see until tomorrow, because my brother yelled at me to slow down my download so he could use the internet.
holy shit I know that feel bro. Those huge posts I typed up above? Yeah.
The best way to be a better writer is to write, right? And NaNoWriMo is just a way to get people to write, by making it an event.
Frat meal had rabbit meat this time. Can cross that off on the list of meat of pet animals I've had which I've eaten.
Because if it was, now all animals will hate you, and your god will also not like you as much.
It just bugs me that this video has so many views when there's a better quality video of that scene that is actually synced properly.
One more reason to dislike "The X people who disliked this" comments.