Parrhesia Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Sounds like these forums, to be quite honest... Ninja 'BNP' Monkey with a cutting-edge statement on the state of the forums right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Laufeyson Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Also have to note that the examples given in the Nightmare Fuel page(s) are just absolutely hilarious. Its like tropers are afraid of everything. Damn nancies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Letters Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 I love the Nightmare Fuel pages. They became my favorite when Troper Tales went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Laufeyson Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Troper Tales was just really....D: Im glad that went away cuz holy crap. Collywobbles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaMonkey Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 (edited) sorry to bring this up, and doubly so if i'm mistaken, but aren't you racist yourself? i remember there being a big topic where you said some "unchoice" words like last year or something. No. Ninja 'BNP' Monkey with a cutting-edge statement on the state of the forums right now I don't vote for or support the BNP. Edited June 22, 2014 by NinjaMonkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyFireMage Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Narm page is best page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Laufeyson Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Narm page is best page No disagreements here. Narm in general is just wonderful and hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryhard Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) TVTropes forums are bad - i once saw someone openly displaying their diaper fetish that's pretty much all I need to say the site is okay. Ninja 'BNP' Monkey with a cutting-edge statement on the state of the forums right nowAin't it Ninja 'Go Back to China' Monkey? Edited June 23, 2014 by Tryhard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 TVTropes forums are bad - i once saw someone openly displaying their diaper fetish that's pretty much all I need to say the site is okay. Ain't it Ninja 'Go Back to China' Monkey? this entire post is correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Laufeyson Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 TVTropes forums are bad - i once saw someone openly displaying their diaper fetish that's pretty much all I need to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryhard Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) if your curiosity must know I originally saw a much longer video but you get the gist of it from it I think he is pretty infamous or something, but I just saw this randomly sad times (it's hard not to generalize the forums after this, but this is pretty much the worst I saw) Edited June 23, 2014 by Tryhard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refa Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Those guys are just plain dicks a lot of the time and argue over the smallest things. I regret nothing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Laufeyson Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 if your curiosity must know I originally saw a much longer video but you get the gist of it from it I think he is pretty infamous or something, but I just saw this randomly sad times (it's hard not to generalize the forums after this, but this is pretty much the worst I saw) Hvorfor..... D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleece Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Its alright for trivia and such but other than that I don't like the site or its community much.. And for some reason they act like some character from some goofyass series I liked as a tween is a canon sue and often seem to treat it as fact on various relevant entries rather than opinion all because she's the new protagonist in a sequel of said series that wasn't well recieved when I thought that kind of stuff was suppossed to be confined in ymmv pages so its like what?? A lot of the trope names just sound so dumb and I don't see why anyone would seriously want to use them in a conversation outside the site. ...Also going by what you guys are saying it sounds like the forums were much worse than I thought its a good thing I looked very briefly seriously what the fuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) I appreciate it for giving names to tropes or concepts that I would otherwise have to tediously describe for myself every time I wanted to reference them. If you ignore/don't read the actual examples or visit the forums, I think it makes a great repository for tropes and clichés; the best around, at any rate. Edited June 23, 2014 by Makaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau of Isaac Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I liked when it was new and everyone used and posted on it to refer to things in a "yeah, that's so true!" kind of way, instead of constantly referencing articles like they are laws and acting like it's an official source on anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I appreciate it for giving names to tropes or concepts that I would otherwise have to tediously describe for myself every time I wanted to reference them. If you ignore/don't read the actual examples or visit the forums, I think it makes a great repository for tropes and clichés; the best around, at any rate. This is fine when the word is something like 'spanner in the works'. You know. A real phrase. That doesn't need capital fucking letters. But saying like... lazy example would be 'Nakama', which means 'unrecognisable Japanese word' to most people and you're like 'but it means circle of friends', so say 'circle of friends' then you cunt. And there's a few with really obtuse names - 'the Woobie'? Like who the fuck that doesn't read that site is going to know what that means. This is just of the like 30-60% of pages that actually are tropes, and aren't, like - here's a good example, they have a page for 'anticlimactic death'. They seem to feel it's anticlimactic if they don't get last words on their deathbed to their firstborn child. Being shot to death has been classified as anticlimactic to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau of Isaac Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Nakama just means, like, comrade. It seems they renamed it since for that reason. :0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) This is fine when the word is something like 'spanner in the works'. You know. A real phrase. That doesn't need capital fucking letters. But saying like... lazy example would be 'Nakama', which means 'unrecognisable Japanese word' to most people and you're like 'but it means circle of friends', so say 'circle of friends' then you cunt. And there's a few with really obtuse names - 'the Woobie'? Like who the fuck that doesn't read that site is going to know what that means. This is just of the like 30-60% of pages that actually are tropes, and aren't, like - here's a good example, they have a page for 'anticlimactic death'. They seem to feel it's anticlimactic if they don't get last words on their deathbed to their firstborn child. Being shot to death has been classified as anticlimactic to them. I think that someone getting shot all of a sudden, with a certain feeling of randomness to it, can be kind of anticlimactic. I'm not sure if I can think of any examples of it, but I'm reminded of No Country for Old Men when Chigurh gets hit by a car towards the end of the film (though in that case he does not die). It's violent, but because it feels completely unplanned Actually I can think of an example. In Cowboy Bebop, there's this one episode where Spike trains some mook in martial arts. They get attacked and the guy manages to make a really sweet dodge, and then gets hit by a bullet immediately afterwards. It's sad, but it's not really dramatic and kind of punctures the tension rather than ramping it up. I do agree that getting shot is probably not normally anticlimactic, though. Edited June 23, 2014 by SeverIan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ϲharlie Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 That reminds me of the first time I encountered the phrase "ho yay". It confused me at first, because most people use ho interchangeably with slut. Then I found out that ho was actually being used as an abbreviation of "homoeroticism". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 [spoiler=Major Breaking Bad Spoilers]The specific example was Combo's death.[spoiler=Fucking Major Breaking Bad Spoilers][spoiler=Seriously Do Not Click Without Finishing The Final Series]Hank/Gomez, as well. (seriously do not quote this post) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZemZem Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) huh I can see where the pedophilia claims are coming from now. Edited June 23, 2014 by ZM© Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Letters Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) Well that, and the people who think the narrator in Lolita is a good guy you're supposed to sympathize with. Edit: Huh, looks like the page on Lolita got cleaned up. Good job, TvTropes. Edited June 23, 2014 by Silent Letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaze Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) This is fine when the word is something like 'spanner in the works'. You know. A real phrase. That doesn't need capital fucking letters. But saying like... lazy example would be 'Nakama', which means 'unrecognisable Japanese word' to most people and you're like 'but it means circle of friends', so say 'circle of friends' then you cunt. And there's a few with really obtuse names - 'the Woobie'? Like who the fuck that doesn't read that site is going to know what that means. This is just of the like 30-60% of pages that actually are tropes, and aren't, like - here's a good example, they have a page for 'anticlimactic death'. They seem to feel it's anticlimactic if they don't get last words on their deathbed to their firstborn child. Being shot to death has been classified as anticlimactic to them. I don't know. I think there is value to tropes like the Byronic Hero, Complete Monster, Xanatos Gambit/Xanatos Speed Chess, and so on. Notable nuanced differences are The Chessmaster, The Trickster, The Manipulative Bastard and The Magnificent Bastard. A lot of these don't need capital letters but still. Concrete definitions with comparisons and contrasts are nice. Edited June 23, 2014 by Makaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint of Games Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) I enjoy participating there, the Forums have become the WebSite that I spend the most time in. I would be lying if I said that there were never difficult days... but overall the good outweighed the bad. Well that, and the people who think the narrator in Lolita is a good guy you're supposed to sympathize with. Edit: Huh, looks like the page on Lolita got cleaned up. Good job, TvTropes. A while ago, the Admin of TVT and some of the Moderators got fed up with all the "pedoshit" ,as they called it, and gathered a group of people in order to remove pornography, shameful content or anything involving sexual acts regarding minors and started either deleting it or severely altering relevant pages. It is why there is no longer a KissxSis page, for example. Google had even threatened to remove their advertisement if they had not done something. Edited June 23, 2014 by Saint of Games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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