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The This Troper thread

MyrmidonMyrmidon
edited 2011-06-11 17:19:15 in General
It contains larger amounts of Internet Tough Guy than any thread should contain.
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  • RaddRadd
    edited 2011-06-11 17:21:24
    Be specific, there are like 5 in Wiki talk alone.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13052471670A25702800&page=1
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Also, lol overreactions. I wonder what some of them would have to say about TVTropes if they never encountered the web series. 
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    I remember when TVTropes held a major superiority complex over the rest of the Internet.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    ^ I think the tenses are a bit wrong there...
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    At least we're not Something Awful in terms of braggadosity. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Depends on where you go/talk to people.

    I do prefer TvT, but I don't think it's automatically superior to everything as some of the forumites seem to think.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    There's stupidity on every website. TVTropes just happens to have the "excessive fandoms" type. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Well, yeah, I wouldn't imply otherwise. -shrug-

    My real problem anyway is how many of the supporters of This Troper/SA seem to...I dunno, be annoying and illogical, I guess?
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-06-11 17:58:54
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Perhaps the same could be said of all the Internet. 

    Of course, I guess there are points each side can see (Troper Tales is creepy/Liking anime isn't horrible). 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Yeah, that's my problem, that both sides are not using logic so much as generalizing and strawmanning each other.

    Yes, I know how hypocritical this post is.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Yeah, it's not ever good to generalize. Everybody who does it is stupid and wrong. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    And strawmanners are the worse: "LOL, LOOK AT MY IMPRESSION OF YOU THIS IS WO YOU ARE HURR DURR"
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    I know. They should all be burnt in an effigy, the lot of them. Whoever has used a strawman argument, ever, should do this, since they were all always wrong about everything. 
  • 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 know. They should all be burnt in an effigy, the lot of them. Whoever
    has used a strawman argument, ever, should do this, since they were all
    always wrong about everything. 


  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Stop strawmanning me, Forzare. God, you always seem to strawman. Meaning that all of your opinions are wrong. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    ^Inoright? Stupid Forzare. Even your right opinions are wrong.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    If I never hear the word 'strawman' again, it'll be too soon.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    There's a wonderful meme out there. Three words, involve sunglasses. Can you tell me what it is?
  • 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.
    Inoright? Stupid Forzare. Even your right opinions are wrong.
    Stop strawmanning me, Forzare. God, you always seem to strawman. Meaning that all of your opinions are wrong. 
  • JG_PunkJG_Punk
    edited 2011-06-11 19:14:41
    YO YO YO U CAN'T C ME BOUT TO SPIT SUMTIN' STOOPID!
    ^ ^
    three words? How about:  NO ONE CARES!

    People say that there's bad on every forum and they're right, but I have yet to see any other forum besides TV Tropes have people talk about how they totally 'pwnd' the bullies by using a badass creed or how they want to fuck their sister or their whole 'no one likes me so I'm asexual' thing.

    Or rather, I've never seen a site that has people like that that doesn't allow others to mock them for it.  Besides TV tropes
  • 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.
    Every site has bad.

    TVTropes just has a unique flavor of bad.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-06-11 19:17:25
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    And I've never seen a site so vitriolic to nearly anything and everything that doesn't fit preconscribed notions of "Internet cool" whilst simultaneously being morons as Something Awful.

    See, it's not honest to shove all of a website into the descriptors of one part of said website. Besides, TVTropes has bigger problems than that. 

    ^ This, basically. 
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Or rather, I've never seen a site that has people like that that doesn't allow others to mock them for it. Besides TV tropes


    Yet one of the many things that TV Tropes has going for it, I suppose.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    three words? How about:  NO ONE CARES!

    One: It's deal with it.

    Two: Curiously enough, it really applies to your post as well.
  • JG_PunkJG_Punk
    edited 2011-06-11 19:25:08
    YO YO YO U CAN'T C ME BOUT TO SPIT SUMTIN' STOOPID!
    ^ ^ ^The difference is Something Awful is consistently funny.

    TV Tropes idea of humor usually has people mishmashing memes together, referencing Gurren Lagann, overusing the words 'epic' 'win' and 'fail'.  And filling a page for what will most likely be a pile of caca when only a minute long trailer for it came out.

    ^ ^ How old is this meme? Was I blessed with the luck of never discovering it until now?
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-06-11 19:25:06
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Wow, I wonder what minute-long trailer you could be referring to. Also. 

    Also, Something Awful has forums that hide behind a comedy website. Of course it's funnier than TVTropes.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-06-11 19:26:53
    You can change. You can.
    ^ ^ ^The difference is Something Awful tends to be funny.

    It tends to be funny for people who...I honestly don't know. I just know that I have never been amused by them. Or by any internet show (I'll never like a chip/Ironicus LP), for that matter, but let's not go there. Let's get to the real problem in your post.

    TV Tropes just has people mishmashing memes together, referencing Gurren Lagann, overusing the words 'epic' 'win' and 'fail'.  And filling a page for what will most likely be a pile of caca when only a minute long trailer for it came out.

    One: Yay, generalizations

    Two: There are far more references to Buffy/Firefly than GL

    Three: Epic is almost always removed on sight by editors like me unless I consider it necessary for it to stay.

    Four: Whatever the TGWTG fandom crimes are, they hardly fall to the whole freaking place's fault.

    TvT's like a sandbox wiki. We allow many, many things slide as long as they catalogue tropes and conventions. I've yet to check the trailer and correct the article, but if the tropes fit, they stay. We don't worry about the quality of the show, because it is not important. A badly written romance story is still a romance story. 

  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    I just know that I have never been amused by them.


    Hopefully you do not mean Retsupurae, because if you do then I must rescind my respect for you.

    /eh
  • JG_PunkJG_Punk
    edited 2011-06-11 19:33:33
    YO YO YO U CAN'T C ME BOUT TO SPIT SUMTIN' STOOPID!
    ^ ^Well that's admirable regarding the epic thing....I think.

    Though regarding the buffy and firefly references, I was just giving GL as an example.  Shockingly enough I really didn't watch Buffy or Firefly, I may have caught an episode or two if they were on,  hell I watched and knew more about Angel than I did Buffy (except that I didn't know it was related to Buffy) so I wouldn't know many of the references outside of the blatant ones.

    I'm not generalizing, I know there's smart tropers on the site but they're usually overshadowed by the sperging of stupid fandoms.

    Keep in mind I enjoy Gurren Lagann, but its fandom needs to take some paxil.

    And I need to remember how to spell.
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