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scamtank posted:Literally the first plot thing from Final Fantasy 7. I expected better from these people. You must be new to TVTropes, then. Everything eventually connects to Final Fantasy 7 there. Or something written by Joss Whedon. Their ideal fictional work would probably be Final Fantasy 7 as written by Joss Whedon.
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DStecks posted:Is anybody here actually prepared to explain what the original definition of deconstruction is? Considering Derrida could never actually give a coherent definition (to the point that Michel Foucault accused him of being deliberately abstruse so as to deflect all criticism), it's pretty much whatever you want it to be. He did claim there were things that deconstruction wasn't, and pretty much every use of the term on TV Tropes falls into that category. So there is that. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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TV Tropes can be summed up in four words: cargo cult media criticism.
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The only actual Nightmare Fuel involving My Little Pony is the (unintended) audience.
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Apple Tree posted:If you're scared of five-year-old girls, you lose the right to poke fun at tropers' fears. I really should've been more specific.
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Apple Tree posted:Why the change, do you know? Because Fast Eddie is a sad, insane man who can dish it out but not take it.
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Oct 9, 2013 12:10
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Cruel and Unusual posted:The Remains of the Day is a goddamned masterpiece that unfolds beautifully and devastatingly. Read it someday. The movie version starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson is also really good. What's exceptionally pathetic is that the Onion A/V Club writer who came up with the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" (which is a loving stupid term, incidentally) used Holly Golightly as one of his examples. Right actress, wrong character. Classic TV Tropes. So close, yet so far.
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The closest I can think of is "archetype". Which doesn't entirely fit. Honestly I think the best way is to say that when someone uses the same characters over and over they're just "[best known example of the character type] with the serial numbers filed off".
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Oct 18, 2013 23:37
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And don't forget that Deboss Approved™ timeless classic: the Animorphs cycle.
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Reminder that Project Horizons is fanfic based off of My Little Pony/Fallout 3 fanfic. Also it's full of rape and pissing and making GBS threads with a lot more rape on the top. I know this because a sample was posted in an earlier TV Tropes thread and I will never ever be able to forget what it contained.
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Saint Drogo posted:It finally happened. Someone out-TVtropes'd TVtropes. It feels like I just went through the stargate from 2001.
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I don't know if you guys found this yet, but Dozerfleet also wrote a detailed trope page for a movie about that old QBasic game with the gorillas.
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Antivehicular posted:Apparently Revenge of the Nerds happens. Dang! Yeah, I'm starting to wish I had done video production in college instead of history.
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Nov 10, 2013 10:42
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Dr Pepper posted:If TVtropes was a more self aware site, I'd call that page a joke. I think it was written when they still allowed jokes and the crazy hugboxers haven't gotten to it yet.
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Nov 16, 2013 08:30
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It's worth noting that the Marx Brothers couldn't make The Nostalgia Critic funny.
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Fuego Fish posted:A better example might be the first season of Parks & Rec, as compared to every other season. Yeah, that's what "Early Installment Weirdness" is supposed to mean, but Tropers can't keep their own tropes straight 90% of the time.
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Nov 27, 2013 02:33
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Pinball posted:Apparently Paul of Tarsus is a Deadpan Snarker, the story of David killing Philistines falls under the 'Twenty Bear Asses' trope, and the Bible has no chauvinism or misogyny in it whatsoever. In fairness, Saul telling David to bring back dozens of foreskins is pretty much the definition of a fetch quest.
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MisterBibs posted:Hopefully I didn't miss it being said, but didn't Orwell himself say that the "The last part was written in past tense, meaning BB is eventually defeated" thing bullshit? If Orwell did say this then Thomas Pynchon sure messed up when he wrote his foreward to 1984 a few years back.
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Minus Green posted:"The Great American Snuff Film" Creepy, yeah, but I'm still going to steal that title if I ever write a review essay of Twilight Zone: The Movie
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I almost feel sorry for the Tropers who have to deal with Spoonful.
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vaguely posted:That poo poo is longer than my goddamn PhD thesis. Mine too. God loving drat it.
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Gimnbo posted:Your PhD thesis probably wasn't written by 50 obsessive spergs though. No, just one.  EDIT: Oh gently caress you.
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Swan Oat posted:Wait, The Lion King Adventures is just fanfic? What the gently caress? You don't need to sneak in adult jokes or whatever because there's nobody who would conceivably even want to stop you from writing whatever dumb poo poo you wanted. This is the worst thing. Everything is worthy of inclusion on TV Tropes. What's depressing is that the "no notability" poo poo was originally supposed to mean something like "don't worry about adding citations for a random episode of some show you remember from 1987 that featured a guy hiding in a phone booth or whatever". Of course this quickly spiraled into everyone adding their unwritten slashfic to every page on the site because tropers are horrible people.
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Little Blackfly posted:Have you seen what passes for discussion of cinema on here? Christ.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Speaking of 40k, and of mixing up nerd bullshit with real literature... I think something in my brain just shorted out reading this. If Orwell was still around he'd probably skip trying to write something in response to this and just go straight to shooting them in the face.
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BlueDude posted:As for content, remember Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers? What the gently caress? No, nevermind, I don't want to know.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:So you're saying "pony torture/rape porn" is an interesting concept? It's interesting in the same way a train wreck full of on-fire dead babies covered in hummus is interesting. At some level you're curious about how it got to that point.
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Oct 10, 2014 11:45
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Loki_XLII posted:I own a paperback of Dune. It's not really thick at all. Or at least not big. Yeah, you're not gonna get a concussion from it unless it was fired out of a cannon.
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Ootrek posted:i thought the tvtropes threads were so bad that they weren't allowed to exist anymore. They were exiled to PYF and even they found them awful.
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Dabir posted:Ahem. Ahem. Utter human garbage.
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:most sf authors are kind of really racist That reminds me that I really ought to read The Iron Dream one of these days.
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