All the renames on TV Tropes are getting to me

Forzare · 2011-09-27 22:31:00

I could at least assume that every person I talked to was, at the very least, somewhat intelligent

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ninja'd by the dude hisself

Nova · 2011-09-27 22:31:03

I spot at least two people on that list who don't belong

RedEyedAbyss · 2011-09-27 22:31:16

Then your pool of reference is small.

AHR · 2011-09-27 22:31:51

~~Why the fuck is Juan on that list?~~

Forzare · 2011-09-27 22:32:16

~~More importantly, why the fuck aren't I?~~

Chagen · 2011-09-27 22:32:34

That doesn't mean anything.

There were more intelligent people on TvTropes than normal. Most forums would want for one of you guys.

Nova · 2011-09-27 22:32:42

Because you're not a troper.

Chagen · 2011-09-27 22:33:36

I added AHR and Forz to the list. I think they deserve the spots.

Forzare · 2011-09-27 22:33:39

^^ I was when Chagen wasn't banned.

Not that I was being serious with that comment anyway. I don't even remember what kind of poster I was on IJBM1. Probably just a low tier shitposter.

^ :O

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 22:34:15

Why the fuck is Juan on that list?

Chagen · 2011-09-27 22:35:13

I try to compliment you guys and I get this

Oi vey

GLaDOS · 2011-09-27 22:38:18

let's face it, a community that remains small will never be a community that remains active for long

that's how it went for Apperture Science as well

once we declared quantifiable results a mandatory procedure, it didn't take long for the science division to start proving their worth

even the less than steller employees found their "new" job positions... exciting... shall we say?

Nova · 2011-09-27 22:38:18

Compliment us with true facts then.

Anyway, yeah, you have a very small pool of reference. I go to a few other forums, and I can say with certainty that they have a much more intelligent userbase than TVTropes does. Not to mention the users there are a lot more wise. I talk to physicists, linguists, historians, chemists, writers, and I think there's even a business owner on them. Where do you guys think I pull all of this stuff out of? >_> Certainly not my own brain, I absorb it from them.

Malkavian · 2011-09-27 22:39:50

It's not that we're not complimented.... rather it's we feel worried about the majority of people you've met.

In any case, I'm seriously not that intelligent. If I'm one of the smartest people you met then... yeah...

Forzare · 2011-09-27 22:40:16

I mostly just pretend to be intelligent.

Nova · 2011-09-27 22:41:24

I am the same as Forzare. I've said it many times.

Chagen · 2011-09-27 22:41:45

"Compliment us with true facts then"

Did you

Seriously

Just rebuke a compliment

I give up

Why do I even bother

Oi Vey

"Anyway, yeah, you have a very small pool of reference. I go to a few other forums, and I can say with certainty that they have a much more intelligent userbase than TVTropes does. Not to mention the users there are a lot more wise. I talk to physicists, linguists, historians, chemists, writers, and I think there's even a business owner on them. Where do you guys think I pull all of this stuff out of? >_> Certainly not my own brain, I absorb it from them."

Are these sites all with small userbases?

Chagen · 2011-09-27 22:42:42

"It's not that we're not complimented.... rather it's we feel worried about the majority of people you've met."

I assume everyone online, including myself, is an idiot until proven otherwise

Nova · 2011-09-27 22:43:46

Just rebuke a compliment

Yeah, I did. If I'm going to be complimented, I'd prefer it to be on an aspect of myself that actually exists.

Are these sites all with small userbases?

One has something in the realms of thousands of active posters. Another is nearly dead, only has a handful of users now. Another has a few hundred. They vary in numbers.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-09-27 22:44:54

Incidentally, regarding TV Tropes' "small userbase," it's in the top 4000 most-visited sites.

In the US, it's in the top 1600.

Icalasari · 2011-09-27 22:45:08

You don't think I'm intelligent?

Nova · 2011-09-27 22:45:20

Is the #1 Google?

^ Not particularly.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-09-27 22:45:35

Almost certainly.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 22:49:49

I like being complimented and I like being considered smart, but the fact of the matter is that I know I'm not intelligent. Or that if I am, I'm barely so. And that there are far more intelligent people.

so, yeah, excuse me if I don't feel comfortable with someone calling me that. And don't worry, it's hardly personal. I always go lolwut when people call me smart.

Then I call them dumb, because that's what I think of anyone who thinks I'm smart.

Forzare · 2011-09-27 22:51:06

^ this, pretty much

Chagen · 2011-09-27 22:52:25

Well, Juan, you're.....how to put this....very good at debating. You know how to back up an argument, and you have a cool demeanour even when things get heated and confrontational.

~~And delicious Ho Yay with Malk~~

Icalasari · 2011-09-27 22:52:31

^^^^^ :<

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 22:53:00

Also, I find the lack of Nornagest disturbing.

He is probably one of the only users who I actually would ask about everything.

MillerCross · 2011-09-27 22:55:20

Well, Juan, you're.....how to put this....very good at debating.

Nope. It's just that my opponents' arguments are really weak.

You know how to back up an argument

Most of the time I improvise. It's like being Indiana Jones, but more stupid and I always leave the hat on the closed room

and you have a cool demeanour even when things get heated and confrontational.

Not gonna lie. I think my self control is probably the only good thing I have.

So, thanks.

Malkavian · 2011-09-27 22:55:58

I'm going to say it's not entirely uncommon for intelligent people to have low opinions of their intelligence. People convinced they're god's gift to intelligence or either morons or narccissicists.

That said, I still only think I'm of slightly more than average intelligence.

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