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Lottery of Babylon posted:Washout "Eye'm the Cutest!" Tom believes that you can "glass" the entire planet with nukes. I think he's just using glass as a general verb for "to nuke" at this point because he thinks that's how people who are actually in the military talk. Dude must think Halo was a documentary.
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That guy is so naive it's almost endearing.
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# ? Mar 18, 2014 23:06 |
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I looked up hetalia on ALL THE TROPES In The Movie both the Axis (sans Italy of course) and the Allies get a Crowning Moment of Awesome in the fight scene, including Russia face-palming the enemies and America doing backflips. Also America and Germany punching the poo poo out of the bad guys. Towards the climax of Paint It White, after the entire main cast falls from a spaceship (long story) and crashes into the ocean far, FAR below, we see Germany weak, injured and alone, barely managing to stand, searching the island for anyone else who made it. His strength finally gives out and he collapses, only to glimpse a glow beyond the trees - when he goes to find out what it is, Italy is sitting on the beach, making pasta over a fire. Then, all the other countries begin to emerge from the trees, each drawn by the light. Germany: Th-that's Italy! But… how… Japan: *walks up next to him* I think… it is the soft glow of hope. The first scene of "To The Unfinished Tomorrow" is pretty much a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming in itself, in which Italy goes to wish Germany and Austria luck before a major military operation. His impression of Germany and his sincere wishes for neither of them to get hurt had this troper grinning for the rest of the preview. Not to mention that Germany's facial expressions are so absolutely Moe that even This Troper, who is more or less indifferent to Germany, had to go, "D'Aww . . . " Axis Powers Hetalia's 3-part Valentines strip. It has the Tsundere Germany in full deredere mode, trying to do his best to understand his partner Italy and come to terms with his feelings for him (even reading a book on Valentines and aknowledging Italy as "his first love"), and needing the help of Austria for such things. It's a big "aaaaawwwww" from the beginning to specially the end, where it's hinted that Germany might be a grown up, amnesiac Holy Roman Empire after all... and that he may have started to recover his long-lost memories..
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Washout "Eye'm the Cutest!" Tom believes that you can "glass" the entire planet with nukes. I think he's just using glass as a general verb for "to nuke" at this point because he thinks that's how people who are actually in the military talk. Didn't he also try to argue that a man with a sword would be able to defeat a man with a gun already pointed at them? And then then Martello, who was actually in the military, called him out on his bullshit? What happened to Martello anyways? I think I saw him migrate over here after he got fed up with playing Devil's Advocate against the Porn defenders.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Didn't he also try to argue that a man with a sword would be able to defeat a man with a gun already pointed at them? And then then Martello, who was actually in the military, called him out on his bullshit? Hanging out in GIP, I believe.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Didn't he also try to argue that a man with a sword would be able to defeat a man with a gun already pointed at them? And then then Martello, who was actually in the military, called him out on his bullshit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw6dlv9rwVE
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Arcsquad12 posted:Didn't he also try to argue that a man with a sword would be able to defeat a man with a gun already pointed at them? And then then Martello, who was actually in the military, called him out on his bullshit? Found the thread. Major Tom was there, but didn't actually say all that much; the main person arguing with Martello was a troper I don't recognize called Exelixi, who felt that swords were superior to guns and had only fallen out of fashion because of "logistics". There was this infamous exchange, though: Martello posted:I mean, it really comes down to this. Do you really think, that even at a distance of six feet or so, a highly-trained swordsman could close that distance and hit me with a killing blow, before I can squeeze the trigger on my rifle? Major Tom posted:^ Yes. Martello posted:This from the guy who never actually got into the Army, let alone participated in actual combat. I was asking Exelixi, who at least claims to be a trained swordsman. Thanks for the input, though. Major Tom posted:With all due respect sir none, I actually made it into the Army. Not finishing training was not my choice. They ordered me out and like a good soldier I followed orders. The best part is that the entire thread was just someone asking how to justify his demon-hunting sorcerer-slaying proud primitive alien hero using a sword instead of a gun, so any number of simple answers exist (e.g. "Demons are bulletproof, not swordproof", "It's a magic space-sword, shut up", "He's trained his whole life with a sword, he's never touched a gun in his life"). But no, the only solution is to prove that swords are always the best and guns suck.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 00:37 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Found the thread. Major Tom was there, but didn't actually say all that much; the main person arguing with Martello was a troper I don't recognize called Exelixi, who felt that swords were superior to guns and had only fallen out of fashion because of "logistics". I've mentioned it before, I'm sure it won't be the last time, this is the same site where someone sincerely asked whether it was possible to karate-chop someone's head off. Like whether if you got the angle or the speed right, you could take your hand and slice a dude. When presented with the physical logistics that plainly said "No" he kept coming back with "Well what if there was [convoluted condition]" Dude just really wanted to slap-chop some heads.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 00:41 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Found the thread. Major Tom was there, but didn't actually say all that much; the main person arguing with Martello was a troper I don't recognize called Exelixi, who felt that swords were superior to guns and had only fallen out of fashion because of "logistics". Didn't they have this argument in It's Always Sunny?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 01:37 |
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Swan Oat posted:Didn't they have this argument in It's Always Sunny? Yeah, it was on the season nine episode "Gun Fever: Still Too Hot" (and someone posted the promo to the episode).
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 03:12 |
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Does anyone have the post from the guy who didn't know how to have his hero win a battle because it wouldn't be realistic for the hero to have a fourth health potion in his pack, given his poor family?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 03:41 |
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sweeperbravo posted:The middle East is a desert.... duh... didn't you ever watch The Mummy? So they live in a desert and yet can somehow produce enough water to make towns' worth of mud? If that's the case, fighting sounds like the stupid course of action: we may have nukes, but they've got miracles.
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sweeperbravo posted:I've mentioned it before, I'm sure it won't be the last time, this is the same site where someone sincerely asked whether it was possible to karate-chop someone's head off. Like whether if you got the angle or the speed right, you could take your hand and slice a dude. When presented with the physical logistics that plainly said "No" he kept coming back with "Well what if there was [convoluted condition]" Dude just really wanted to slap-chop some heads. It's also the site where a guy boasted of "self-teaching himself to be a master swordsman" (with a broom handle) despite having "no training beyond a crapton of anime", and went on to explain how he was teaching his brother to use "small, nodachi-sized weapons".
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 09:59 |
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BKPR posted:Does anyone have the post from the guy who didn't know how to have his hero win a battle because it wouldn't be realistic for the hero to have a fourth health potion in his pack, given his poor family? You forgot the bit where his girlfriend was a guaranteed drop from the boss monster.
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BKPR posted:Does anyone have the post from the guy who didn't know how to have his hero win a battle because it wouldn't be realistic for the hero to have a fourth health potion in his pack, given his poor family? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3569947&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post419449456 Puppy Dog Grinder 6870 posted:So, at the end of Issue One of my current story, the main character has been injured by various fights with Mooks and also a Giant Space Flea From Nowhere. He then gets into a fight with the Big Bad (of issue one). My problem is that the main character doesn't have enough health potions to recover enough health to win this last fight. Furthermore, it's absolutely vital for the plot of future Issues that he win this fight, because he gets his Yandere girlfriend as a Random Drop at the end of the fight, completing the Battle Couple. So how should I fix the discrepancy?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 10:07 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Major Tom's stated position on the Middle East was "nuke it all to glass, down to the last mud hovel". Did you know Endless Conflict can only be found on the Darthwiki? Everything redirects over there. I've never looked at it before, but it looks like someone has been vandalising it. Or was he attempting humor?
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Darth TNT posted:Did you know Endless Conflict can only be found on the Darthwiki? Everything redirects over there. I've never looked at it before, but it looks like someone has been vandalising it. Or was he attempting humor?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 10:46 |
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Metal Loaf posted:It's also the site where a guy boasted of "self-teaching himself to be a master swordsman" (with a broom handle) despite having "no training beyond a crapton of anime", and went on to explain how he was teaching his brother to use "small, nodachi-sized weapons". For those not familiar with Japanese sword names, by the way, a nodachi/odachi is freaking enormous. The blade alone is about three feet long, and they also have pretty long handles (about another foot) to allow for better grip/leverage. Besides the ceremonial use, they were used for things like fighting from horseback, cleaving through armored people (plural, at once), and according to one questionably-accurate source I heard, against cavalry as they could cleave through horses (and their riders). Given their ridiculous length, though, they probably weren't really used much since they'd be even harder to forge than a normal sword and a spear would be better for most purposes anyway. They were seriously impractical, if neat in theory. Basically, these are real-life giant anime swords; some samurai literally had other people help them draw these things because they were too loving big to quickly unsheathe on one's own. It is about as far from a small sword as you can get. TVT's master swordsman here has no idea what the gently caress he's talking about. It'd be unsurprising but Japanophilia is usually one of the few areas they at least manage to be generally accurate about.
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Roland Jones posted:cleaving through armored people (plural, at once) Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Mar 19, 2014 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Well, of course. This is, after all, a Japanese sword. Well, there's also the fact that Japanese armor was kind of crap (leather or crappy metal, and really, all Japanese metalwork was made of poor-quality metal; that's actually why katanas and such were forged how they were, making something useful out of that poo poo was hard), and again, these things were ridiculously large. Again, about three feet of blade and a handle so large your hands were nearly a foot from each other; there's some serious leverage there. Almost no one actually used these things because between the difficulty of making them, how easy it was to damage or break a sword that big (especially one made out of lovely metal), and just how hard to use they were, it really wasn't worth it. Though, yeah, Japanese swords were sharp as hell. Brittle, made of crap metal, and way too hard to forge for what you got, but really, really sharp. Which was the whole point of how they were made, really. Edit: Whoops, getting off-topic though. This is only tangentially relevant to TVT. Though given their Japan/katana fetishism I wonder how they'd react if they got told these things, how katanas (while admittedly expertly made) were pretty crap and were mainly useful because the armor they had to cut through was equally crap and a great deal of their importance was basically as symbols of being a rich fucker from the noble class. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Mar 19, 2014 |
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In the past few days, I've learned a few things. First, I learned who the real-world Fast Eddie is. Then I stumbled into this thread and found that the founder of TVTropes chose to name himself after this person. I've never read any of these threads, and didn't realize how deep the TVTropes scumhole went or that they even had a forum, let alone what was in it. But suddenly, the picture becomes very clear.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 11:47 |
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a hero posted:Name: Daniel Braddock, 2nd Commander of the 317th. also a hero posted:• Name: Miles Lanefordt Sounds rather generic, also doesn't seem like the enemy is much of a threat.
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XboxPants posted:In the past few days, I've learned a few things. First, I learned who the real-world Fast Eddie is. Then I stumbled into this thread and found that the founder of TVTropes chose to name himself after this person. (He got it as a race car driver before the war, but flying is what he's remembered for.) Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Mar 19, 2014 |
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Darth TNT posted:Sounds rather generic, also doesn't seem like the enemy is much of a threat. Scrolling past that on a mobile is an amazing experience (I stopped actually reading it after the first paragraph). Is there an actual story that goes along with that encyclopaedic tone or is this the guy's entire output?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 12:39 |
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Pierson posted:Scrolling past that on a mobile is an amazing experience (I stopped actually reading it after the first paragraph). Is there an actual story that goes along with that encyclopaedic tone or is this the guy's entire output? You should know the answer to this by now. Tropers are defined by the works they haven't yet published. Or written. Or done more than think about on the bus.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 12:44 |
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Soulcleaver posted:Literal Nazis are the only real-life villains allowed on TV Tropes. Still technically against the rules, but not even the most depraved Troper is going to defend Josef Mengele. One of the previous threads had a Troper Tale I will never, ever be able to forget, in which a This Troper was turned on by a history class's descriptions of Mengele's experiments. I don't think they actually defended him, but still. Maybe now I I've shared that I can forget it? Regalingualius posted:You realize you just provided the set-up for someone to prove you horribly, horribly wrong, right?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 12:51 |
I know there was at least one troper tale where the guy said he thought the holocaust was only wrong because it was too expensive, and Hitler would have been in the right if he hadn't wasted all that money on gas.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 12:55 |
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Darth TNT posted:Sounds rather generic, also doesn't seem like the enemy is much of a threat. Oh yeah, that guy. Some of his stuff was posted earlier in the thread too. I can't figure out if it's an unwritten story or some half-baked Mutants and Masterminds campaign. Either way I like that one of the first things he wants you to know about him is that he's a diagnosed sociopath.
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Roland Jones posted:Basically, these are real-life giant anime swords; some samurai literally had other people help them draw these things because they were too loving big to quickly unsheathe on one's own. It is about as far from a small sword as you can get. TVT's master swordsman here has no idea what the gently caress he's talking about. It'd be unsurprising but Japanophilia is usually one of the few areas they at least manage to be generally accurate about. Heh, I actually went and did a Google search for "troper tales dual wielding" and the third result was a post I made about fifty pages ago where I posted the same thing. Here it is again: Troper Tales/Dual Wielding posted:No formal training beyond watching a crapton of anime, but I've trained both myself and my younger brother (who is surprisingly skilled for a six year old...he uses that size to his advantage) to swordfight. I taught him basic tactics, and allowed him to develop his own style. We currently differ, as he uses a full blown broomstick(I don't let him near the actual models...), and I counter with my shorter, nodachi-sized weapons. Very simple tactic, though effective, really. Parry, thrust. Win. I can't help it; this is probably my second favourite Troper Tale I've read. As I believe I mentioned last time I posted it, I'm not sure whether I like "No formal training beyond watching a crapton of anime" or "I counter with my shorter, nodachi-sized weapons" better.
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Metal Loaf posted:Heh, I actually went and did a Google search for "troper tales dual wielding" and the third result was a post I made about fifty pages ago where I posted the same thing. Here it is again: I'm not sure which would be more pathetic: if this troper tale were STDH, or if this guy actually did "train" himself how to sword fight by watching a crap ton of anime.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 19:40 |
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Pierson posted:Scrolling past that on a mobile is an amazing experience (I stopped actually reading it after the first paragraph). Is there an actual story that goes along with that encyclopaedic tone or is this the guy's entire output? Is your finger ok?
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 19:45 |
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Finisher1 posted:I'm not sure which would be more pathetic: if this troper tale were STDH, or if this guy actually did "train" himself how to sword fight by watching a crap ton of anime.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I'd think that ostensibly losing to a six-year-old would be the most shameful part in either context. Based on my fencing club, small children are loving vicious in combat. They're sort of random, have no sense of self-preservation, you feel bad about hitting them, and you don't want to use full force in case you send them flying and their dad who's about three times your weight and has been fencing for years takes offence. And some of them think they're Jack Sparrow. I fought some kid who was almost tying himself in knots spinning around and things like that. Fortunately, we were scoring on the honour system than with the competition set up, or he would have tangled himself in the wires. (It's only a small club - they don't really have enough members to split people up in practice - you duel whomever's free)
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 20:37 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Heh, I actually went and did a Google search for "troper tales dual wielding" and the third result was a post I made about fifty pages ago where I posted the same thing. Here it is again:
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 20:45 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I'd think that ostensibly losing to a six-year-old would be the most shameful part in either context. Not as shameful as going all-out to beat a six-year-old.
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LordZoric posted:Oh yeah, that guy. Some of his stuff was posted earlier in the thread too. I can't figure out if it's an unwritten story or some half-baked Mutants and Masterminds campaign. Either way I like that one of the first things he wants you to know about him is that he's a diagnosed sociopath. Oh. NickTheSwing. I quoted him back a few pages ago about some ridiculous villain in his story. This guy, who Hammurabi was nice enough to draw: He's the most prolific poster in the "Villain Critique" thread, sometimes posting several character ideas on one page. I'm pretty sure that the heroes posted above are in the same story as Adrigath, titled New Dawn. Wacky universe. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Darthwiki/NewDawn William Bear fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 19, 2014 |
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Darth TNT posted:Sounds rather generic, also doesn't seem like the enemy is much of a threat. For a while I thought "that's a nice enough character description, he's a little bland but he's not a pile of weeaboo cliche", and then the tropes list started and
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 21:02 |
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That second guy is a poorly adapted Space Marine librarian, I think. It seems like all these elaborate powerful heroes and villains are made less for whatever story they want to right and more for having something big and powerful they can throw around in all their roleplaying threads. So with their villains having weaknesses only related to the protagonists in their never written stories, they can feel free to do whatever they want in their roleplays while being shielded from being called out on whatever they get up to in it. Or maybe they just think having a more genre savvy character automatically makes it a better one.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 21:10 |
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LordZoric posted:Oh yeah, that guy. Some of his stuff was posted earlier in the thread too. I can't figure out if it's an unwritten story or some half-baked Mutants and Masterminds campaign. Either way I like that one of the first things he wants you to know about him is that he's a diagnosed sociopath. quote:The Sociopath: A diagnosed sociopath, I was usually prone to blame my own problems on other people, I lack empathy (this part is slowly being dealt with), I find it difficult to form complex emotional bonds beyond a certain point, and I have some talent in emotional manipulation. However, I recognize this problem exists for me, mainly because its caused me a lot of trouble growing up. quote:Lack of Empathy: Par the course. If there is a significant fraction of actual sociopaths or people who want to be, I think that would explain a lot of tvtropes.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 21:33 |
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Metal Loaf posted:As I believe I mentioned last time I posted it, I'm not sure whether I like "No formal training beyond watching a crapton of anime" or "I counter with my shorter, nodachi-sized weapons" better. "Shorter, nodachi-sized weapons" is my favorite, because I always love it when the anime obsessed lot reveals just how little they actually know about the Japanese language and Japan. Odachi are loving huge swords, and dude almost certainly was thinking something more along the size of a kodachi or wakizashi.
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# ? Mar 19, 2014 21:51 |