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I am not ready to quit TV Tropes yet

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  • NyarlyNyarly
    edited 2011-08-03 16:25:17
    Likes cheesecake unironically.
    ^^^ If you do that, refrain from mindlessly bashing TV Tropes. There is another site that does just this and it sucks ass. Unless you are thinking of something, that sole purpose is bashing TV Tropes.

    The internet itself cultivates creepy fucks. Really, I sometimes if the creation of the internet doesn't happen to be a mistake. Then again, I tend to wonder the same about the entire humanity...
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-08-03 16:24:19
    Well, we are allowed to delete entries that don't fit. We also got rid of the fetish fuel ones, already.

    While Tv Tropes has its problems, I don't think it is entirely populated by creepy fucks. More of...people who are egotistical, a tad.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Egotism is a gateway to creepiness.
  • Engrish_IvyEngrish_Ivy
    ...
    Oh, and the fact that works like United States Angel Corps and Axis Powers Hetalia mention how educational and well-made they are in their writeups. There are others that do this, of course, but I don't particularly want to go looking for them.
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-08-03 16:30:03
    000

    I know that feel, bro.

    We could always create a competitor to TV Tropes, you know.

    Is TV Tropes really that bad, though? And could this competitor really compete?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    The problem is that for every 1 editor who knows what's what, there're 10 who don't care and just put whatever they want in the wiki. Such an attitude has been growing after a long time of validation.

    I think it can be fixed, but I'm certinly not capable of doing so, as I'm a bad editor who doesn't handle himself when it comes to writing entries and the like. 
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Inkblot, some stiff competition will keep things from getting worse.
  • AHRAHR
    Well, I know that APH isn't completely un-educational. You can indeed learn history from it. Moreso than most shows. It's entertainment first and foremost, but there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Oh, and the fact that works like United States Angel Corps and Axis Powers Hetalia mention how educational and well-made they are in their writeups.
    So remove it. Gushing isn't allowed.
  • vacasamavacasama
    Woki mit deim Popo.
    So how one would do that with being called a vandal or starting an edit war.
  • AHRAHR
    Explain why in the edit-reason.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    And if they repeatedly replace it, then take it to Ask the Tropers. 
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-08-03 16:35:04
    000



    Inkblot, some stiff competition will keep things from getting worse.

    stiff

    TV Tropes will crush any competitor like a bug. Nobody wants to re-invent the wheel and write 10,000 new articles that are almost identical to their TV Tropes counterparts.

    (How many cliches is it possible to stuff in one sentence?)
  • Engrish_IvyEngrish_Ivy
    edited 2011-08-03 16:38:59
    ...
    @AHR: But... Axis Powers Hetalia is horrible as a method of learning. The entire point of the franchise is to whitewash the horrors of World War II, leaving nothing more than a bland slice-of-life moe show behind.

    One with a psychotic fanbase. And now I can't find the link to that one person who wrote a fic about the Norway shooting, got a bunch of well-deserved flames, and responded on her livejournal.

    Maybe this is for the best.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-08-03 16:38:07
    The entire point of the franchise is to whitewash the horrors of World War II, 

    ...what no it's not. Have you actually seen/read the series?

    It's more of a parody, than anything. Like a Mel Brooks movie, if anything. And it does have some dynamics based in historical accuracy.  Most historical parodies do.
  • vacasamavacasama
    Woki mit deim Popo.
    You mean Tvtropes crushing itself?  That seems possible.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.

    You don't have to re-invent the wheel to be successful. You just make your own.

    (A lot more than that.)

  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    First of all, the competitor should use some actual, honest-to-goodness academically recognized tropes. 
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-08-03 16:39:31
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^Like this one, you mean?
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.

    That's where you'd start, then expand from there.

    I'd also imagine using an immediately identifiable style of commentary and format. 

  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    Yeah, that will limit its appeal significantly.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Depends on the style. 
  • Engrish_IvyEngrish_Ivy
    edited 2011-08-03 16:44:27
    ...
    @AHR: You cannot parody Treblinka in a moe show. Because that wouldn't be moe enough for the viewers.

    Also, yes, I did make an honest attempt at watching APH. It did not go over well with me.
  • AHRAHR
    ...which is why they don't choose to parody it?
  • Engrish_IvyEngrish_Ivy
    ...
    Hence, whitewashing.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Huh?
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-08-03 16:49:27
    ...white washing of what? There are plenty of stories that take place during world war two that have nothing to do with the concentration camps. Uhm...that would kind of be dude not funny to tackle that? I mean, like I said, Mel Brookes.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    I have watched a couple of movies on your list EngIvy, but the problem is I have no idea how to summarize a page without spoiling it to death or just writing lines of what happens....or identifying tropes that go with it.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    edited 2011-08-03 16:49:32
     I haven't seen it, but if I made a series with relationships and characteristics of nations being represented by anthropomorphic personifications of said nations, I'd probably dance around the whole Holocaust thing too, because there's no real way you could portray it that wouldn't be offensive to someone.

    Mind you, if I made it, I would just set it in the present day and avoid WWII altogether, but whatever.
  • AHRAHR
    Myrm: Actually, it jumps around time a lot. 
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