TV Tripe posted:

Authors like to use themes to create a sense of unity or cohesiveness within their work. Some extend themes to the names of the characters, often beyond the similarities that would be expected for characters from the same culture or who all speak the same language.

Patter Song posted:

Last month I saw two links to TVT on LP on the same day. Both of them got shouted down for linking to a horrible site.

Metal Loaf posted:

This banned troper decided he'd had enough, so he went and set up the TV Tropes Mirror Wiki on Wikia.

The 'Permanent Red Link Club' page posted:

All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters: While we understand there is a difference between the two, and admit that, in general, the media tends to portray them as the same thing, we here at the Tropes Mirror simply do not want the controversy!

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Fake edit: poo poo, just realized that it came off like I agreed with the whole thing! That wasn't what I meant. I only technically agreed with the bolded part, which seemed to be what Crosscontainment focused on! Any acting upon pedophilia is of course child molestation, all I'm pointing out is that a pedophile can choose not to become a child molester, and some child molesters aren't pedophiles, they're just hosed up in different ways.

Darth Walrus posted:

Gato posted:

What is it with tropers and naming elements? More importantly, what does he think guns were invented if not for killing people? Why wouldn’t people just use other weapons? What has communism got to do with anything?

Jasper Chalks posted:

It would appear that [Games Workshop] have copyrighted [chainswords]. This does not bode well for Eddie.

Nautatrol Rx posted:

What's worse is that he's not upset at actual critics. He's upset at the slapadaisical kid-glove criticism from tropers he's received regarding his word-salad. If the harshness of literary criticism were to be compared to the Fujita Scale, troper criticism would rank around "a fart in the wind". That's what he's upset about.

UberShyGuy posted:

Honestly, while I don't think TVT is really an irredeemable rapeheap like the deluded jerks over at SA seem to have convinced themselves that it is, I do however think it has some pretty major issues, most of them extending from the moderation team (FE and Madrugada worst of all, obviously, but many of the rest don't seem much, if at all, better) with their asinine, hugboxy policies and the crowd of creepazoids that said policies have attracted.

Bottle posted:

WE ARE NOT IMPORTANT
We can't actively change anything about TV Tropes. We're not a cabal of shadowy figures gathered around a table with steepled fingers. Our words carry no weight, and our criticisms will most likely go unheard.

Celery Face posted:

I think Eddie doesn't bother to let users quote because he doesn't want anyone to see the inevitably thumped posts. Doesn't make it less annoying though.

Volume posted:

The same kind of power thewindfish gets off on when he indulges in his pedophile fantasies with his brother.

General Panic posted:

e: Also, why the hell would the town tailor be jealous of your fantastic eyelashes? Don't tell me, "because anime."

neo YT Pism posted:

Frankly, I think Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female on Male has a lot more potential for controversy, if only because girls abusing guys, and causing trauma to their male victims comparable to that of female abuse victims, is a lot more plausible than girls raping guys and causing trauma to their male victims comparable to that of female surprise sex victims.

neo YT Pism posted:

I wasn't claiming that women had no libido, just that it tended to be lower than for men. This follows from evolutionary logic; "eggs are expensive sperm are cheap" thus evolution would favour a species where females are generally more careful about sexual reproduction than males.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP-9sIsFVSY ["Human Nature - Sexual Behavior & Reproductive Strategies" by MysteriousMaskMan, who by the looks of the other videos on the channel is a crazy antitheist; someone with a stronger mental shield than me can watch the video and comment on what the fact "neo YT Pism" endorses it says about him]

Alternatively some might interpret the sex drive gap as being the other way around, for whatever reasons, and while what I've come across doesn't sound as convincing as evolutionary-psychology logic, it would at least make more sense than the idea of the sex drive gap being nonexistant.

Debot posted:

I still think we should start measuring horniness in millihumps and just average along various lines to see who's horniest of all.

Madrugada posted:

This thread is serving no purpose anymore. The question that was asked in the OP was answered within four posts, and since then it's been little digs at people. Locking it up.

joeyjojo posted:

I know a indian student who named Raj who started getting job call back after he changed his name to 'john' on application forms so I think there is sadly still a lot to be said about having a white name at least.
Still I think calling your child a getto name Shaniqua like is pretty stupid in it's self. But that's just me.

DaveWoo posted:

No there isn't, you idiot. They're both terrible ways to create/describe a character.

Geokinesis posted:

You don't happen to be from the UK do you? As if you do I have the same dubious honour of having my childhood poetry published in possibly the same book.

Hedgehog Pie posted:

This is a problem many beginners seem to make, not just Tropers. I remember a screenwriting teacher telling me that when looking over his students' scripts, most musical references would be divided between vague "jazz music plays here" instructions and more specific yet ill-considered talk like "CHARACTER spontaneously starts singing 'Umbrella' by Rihanna".

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Ambiguatron posted:

The only time you'll roll your eyes at some character at a trench coat is if the author means you to, and if you roll your eyes without the author's permission delivered in the form of a troper-comprehensible encoding, there's something wrong with you, not the creator or the work.

fulltime D posted:

So in a story I am using a nuclear pulse drive on an alien spaceship that is traveling at relativistic speeds. The science officer of the human ship detects that the aliens are using their nuclear pulse drive to decelerate from relativistic speeds (presumably they had originally used it to accelerate). Is this even remotely plausible? Could the aliens do this without blowing themselves up?

Matues posted:

Ever read the book Marooned in Realtime?
It had technology that could create "Bobbles", essentially a spherical area of frozen time. Anything inside was practically invulnerable, and to someone inside only a moment would seem to pass, no matter how much time passed outside.
Some people used it for this sort of thing. They'd drop a time nuke outside of their ships, bobble up, then it would go off and propel them forward. This could happen several times a second with computers setting off the bobbles.

fulltime D posted:

Fortunately I have similar technology on these ships ("supergravitic shielding") which pushes the ship partially out of the spacetime continuum, so using supergravitic force bubbles to that effect is a possibility.

fulltime D also posted:

But I am wondering about it even without that technology. How WOULD one decelerate from 95% light speed?

Matues posted:

Hit something?

Matt II posted:

What, like a nebula? Could work I suppose.

CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: TROPES posted:

The trope you're looking for is Orion Drive.

fulltime D posted:

Horrible, horrible, non-indicative name; I remember fighting that one.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

Jesus Christ how clueless can you get?

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Patter Song posted:

Black Griffon: do your friends do that terrible thing where they write in the unique brand of non-idiomatic English pioneered by anime fansubs? "If you do this, I won't forgive you!" "I must protect you!" "He won't die even if you kill him!" "As expected from that man." "If you thought you could challenge me, you're 100 years too early!"

Nautatrol Rx posted:

I swear these kids are some kind of super-mutants with powers to just gently caress everything up and spray poo poo onto the internet. He's wanting to assemble a list of reasons his Nazi-themed fantasy world's inhabitants would want sex slaves.

Just gently caress.

Hamburger Helper posted:

But why bother with something you dislike at all? Don't Like, Don't Read (or watch, as the case may be).

quote:

black men: Jesus fuckin Christ dude, pull up your goddamn pants and wear clothes that fit. I already have issues with people entering my personal space, you're making it worse.

quote:

Middle Eastern.
Kinda like them.
Except Persians.

Snow posted:

I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with an optimistic and plausible near-future USA setting, and a story to put there. What I've come up with is disturbing: the country splits mostly peacefully into two or three. You have one country roughly in the South and West that's taking over Cuba and parts of Mexico, versus the Northeast and Midwest with a very different culture and government, with the Pacific coast either in the second group or as a third nation. That is my optimistic scenario at this point.

Leofish posted:

But man, what the hell is up with tropers and TATMNBN? They all seem to love it so much, and this guy is convinced that it should have stayed.

Bad Bromance posted:

Lottery of Babylon posted:

They think everything is surprisingly well-written.

Olive Branch posted:

Dude, what the gently caress are you going on about. Are you drunkposting or something?

Clocks posted:

and frankly it's more entertaining than hearing you go on long, rambly diatribes about how "guys, don't fall for trolls" which is all you really needed to say.

quote:

You don't understand because you're all a school of scared fish in the water instead of sharks. You see the blood and wonder if you should run rather than attacking.

Doktorvon Eurotrash posted:

Offensive to transgender people? I don't think so. The protagonist doesn't come off as a transgender person to me: he wants to become a woman on a whim, because he thinks that would make him happy. He doesn't have a deep-seated conviction that he is a woman whose physical sex doesn't match her actual one.
Now, I'm cis-gendered and unfortunately don't know a lot of transgendered people, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. But my personal opinion is that your idea isn't offensive to any group of people.

Namtab posted:

Here's Volatile Chill's Troper Page