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  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    So the self-admitted worst parts of the website are hidden where one can't find them?

    I see.
  • Scrye2Scrye2
    edited 2011-08-15 19:35:03
    Electric Boogaloo
    It's under a veil, I think. SA probably doesn't want the outside world to associate it with SA as a main attraction.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Yes, it would be terrible to associate such a stupid part of the website with the rest, who are not like that at all.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    For a second, I thought you were talking about Troper Tales.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
  • AnneBeecheAnneBeeche
    I stand on Grendel's shoulders
    There's also RFA, which stands for Retarded Forum for Assholes. If you post in there, your account gets "forums cancer", which replaces your avatar with a forums cancer avatar so everybody can trip you and give you wedgies when you pass by, and annoying shit happens every time you post outside of RFA. None of that will go away until you purchase "chemo".

    Pretty ingenious, I think.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Then why do people post in there? 
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I'm not interesting enough to post there, and I waste enough time reading just a few threads there that I probably won't bother registering.
  • AnneBeecheAnneBeeche
    edited 2011-08-15 19:57:31
    I stand on Grendel's shoulders
    GL: Because they're assholes. Duh.

    One of the subforums in there is apparently called Your Console Sucks, which is probably devoted to nerd-fights over which console is the best.
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    It's probably there to let people get their troll/shitposting urges out.

    Though, isn't that what FYAD is for?
  • AnneBeecheAnneBeeche
    I stand on Grendel's shoulders
    I dunno, all I've figured out about FYAD so far is that NSFW rules don't apply there.
  • AnneBeecheAnneBeeche
    edited 2011-08-15 20:11:45
    I stand on Grendel's shoulders
    Nice informative post in SA's TVTropes thread incoming:

    Just as a reference for the people in IJBM: the RFA (Retarded Forums for
    Assholes) have all been shut down for good. And Forums Cancer did/does
    have some positive effects: lengthy screeds about politics in other
    subforums by posters that have Forum Cancer automatically let you know
    that it's some LF veteran and that you should just ignore the horrible
    opinions contained within.



    The only remaining FYAD-style boards are FYAD itself and YOSPOS.



    Also, Goons make fun of each other. We occasionally mock FYAD, FYAD
    mocks us back. GBS and FYAD have a long-standing "feud" (the     emoticon is there for a reason, as is ).
    I might think that FYAD's the worst part of this site by far, but its
    2002 and earlier registered-dominated clique disagree and need a place
    to hang without the Stupid Newbies like me and the rest of the Goons in
    this thread (I've not seen many pre-2007s on this thread at all).



    Thanks for the info, dude. :3

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    edited 2011-08-15 20:23:49
    Kichigai birthday!!
    I just wonder what all those acronyms stand for
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    FYAD_ Fuck you and die
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    edited 2011-08-15 20:30:27
    Kichigai birthday!!
    There was no need for being rude,jeez.

    Anyway, I like how the same guys who called tropers wussies for the NF entries find something as inane as OS-tans to be atrocious, horrible creations
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    No, they're creepy because somebody MIGHT draw horrible fanart of it.

    Although all things considered, I'll agree that ours is pretty fucking atrocious-looking and should probably be older. 
  • AnneBeecheAnneBeeche
    I stand on Grendel's shoulders
    Yeah, the drawing is subpar, and blue and brown make a horrendous color scheme.

    Those are my only complaints. Otherwise, she doesn't really bother me.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-08-15 20:36:40
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I was like..."for your...animé dingos?".

    I like my explanation more.  It's more amusing.

    Anyway, the whole thing about long political rants reminds me of another thing that I'd probably differ from SA about: When I'm in the mood for it, I really love arguing endlessly over various things.  This includes long megaposts picking apart people's arguments bit by bit, as well as continuing arguments after most of everyone else is sick of it.

    Sadly, that takes a lot of time and I don't have as much time to do that as I used to.

    Re Trope-tan: I think she's fine as is.  Could use a better picture, but I don't really care much.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Well, it really does seem that they just slapped together a bunch of anime tropes and called it a -tan.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Which would be the personification of what this wiki sometimes causes people to do.
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    I thought Fawriel made a better version of it. Wonder what happened to it.
  • DarkDecapodianDarkDecapodian
    edited 2011-08-15 20:45:04
    Clean your room little Billy

    Zipper mouths...on dungarees?


    Scrap that, zippers on dungarees at all?


    The original Trope-tan was created by what was essentially commitee decision in a thread. I'd hate to read the thread for the redesign...

  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Hrm. A subtle critique of TVTropes? Interesting.
  • vandrovandro
    edited 2011-08-16 00:47:51
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Oh, Dr.Sunshine appeared, I recall him as [AOD], he made a thread about the enviroment and global warming, there was also the manganese joke rename[...]he even got a translation project for some manga he (and I) liked. Was it Yankee-Kun to Megane-Chan? Ah whatever, it's pretty nostalgic. I really was a twat to him back then.
  • vacasamavacasama
    Woki mit deim Popo.
    The original Trope-tan was created by what was essentially commitee
    decision in a thread. I'd hate to read the thread for the redesign...

    As odd this may sound, the rule 34 version of Trope Tan seems to be the best drawn version of her.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Because she's naked, or because Ossan's a good artist?
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I never got to see that.  I'm kind of curious, in a vaguely terrified way.
  • Scrye2Scrye2
    Electric Boogaloo
    ^^Neither.

    ^Go to the TV Tropes article on Encyclopedia Dramatica.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    I'm scared to look...
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    /me goes and look

    And yeah, at the very least, it is better colored. --shrug--
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