Tardigrade posted:

Presumably they figured that "Out, damned spot" is quotable, and ran with it.

HapiMerchant posted:

What the actual gently caress. Who plays a kids game about just living in a town and comes away with GRIMDARK STRUGGLE AGAINST THE OPPRESSORS.

Tvtropes Pleads the Fifth: Nothing can be Nice, Ever

Hammurabi posted:

Because tropers will bend over backwards to put everything they kind of like into the pages of as many tropes as possible (but only if the trope makes it seem MATURE/EDGY/HARDCORE/BADASS - boy howdy do they love that word).

MrAristocrates posted:

It turns into weird fanfic.

MinistryofLard posted:

Getting Crap Past the Radar: Animated Films

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Speaking of video games and Japan, I could have sworn that they had cut this page a while back. Guess I was wrong!

Regalingualius posted:

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None of the Alice Soft games will ever make it in the US due to their controversial nature. AliceSoft even blocked off their website to any and all foreigners.

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Sam and Max Hit the Road has never gotten another American re-release aside from the CD-ROM re-release in 1995 (and as a pack-in in an otherwise unrelated LucasArts game, Armed & Dangerous). However, it did get a 2007 re-release in Europe, the country in which the series is critically panned.

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No importing RapeLay for you! Despite being a rather under-the-radar sandbox-style 3D-ero (a.k.a. "Hentai") game from 2006, It was imported intentionally by several American feminist organizations specifically to be offended by it — groups that are now working with far right protesters in Japan to pressure the Japanese government to ban "Abuse Games". Amazon and other importer-friendly stores have banned the sale of the game, retail markets in Japan are working at pulling it from shelves, and even the maker has purged their website of all mention of it.

The bigger catch? Much like the proposed anti-Lolicon rules that would plant an automatic R-18 rating (read: no one under 18 admitted) on certain works (thankfully, Doraemon won't be among them), the preliminary proposed regulations about "abuse games" are vague enough that they would ban about 30-40% of the ero market. A complete accident, of course.

Illusion doesn't release any of their games outside of Japan — they even have an statement on their website stating that they won't sell any game to anybody outside Japan. Many of their more mainstream Dating Sim games are actually kinda fun to play and have huge modding communities outside of Japan. Even games like RapeLay or Biko (a "stalker game") are interestingly bizarre (bizarrely interesting?) examples of that piece of Japanese culture. They have even released a couple of RPG and Brawler style H-Games. (Not to mention the company's mastery of the art of Jiggle Physics.) Regardless of title, if you want to play them, outside of travelling to Japan to buy them, you have to rely on either ambiguously legal imports or torrents to get them. In fact, you can be charged with a felony for possessing it.

Note that the last sentence applies still in a variety of countries, but not the US or Japan. Certain aspects of the game Rapelay (namely that the youngest rapeable character is supposed to be just 10, though she looks more about 16 in the game) mean the game is illegal in a number of European and even Asian (with the exception of Japan) countries. It also would have been illegal in the US if those 2 laws back in the George W Bush administration had actually stayed. However the US Supreme court struck down these laws (that amounted to "anti lolicon hentai" laws) in favor of free speech (as playing this game or others like it in fact does not actually harm anyone). While at the time of me writing this, there is no entry in Ebay for the game, it is potentially possible to purchase it on Ebay, if anyone has a copy they are selling. This also remains the only legal way (no piracy needed) to acquire a copy of the game.

Nintendo Kid posted:

Things that might vaguely be construed as "tee hee these characters are so gay".

RareAcumen posted:

TvTropes Pleads the Fifth: Everything is actually rape

AmiYumi posted:

Has THIS page been linked yet? Because holy poo poo, that is some next-level racism.

Vaginapocalypse posted:

Razorwired posted:

Yes, and somehow I knew it was going to be the fic in those images before I expanded them.

For those that weren't here. It's like Groundhog Day. Except with ninjas that literally start raping other ninjas so they can learn their ninja tricks.

BlueDude posted:

Honestly, I think ponies are a more apt comparison, given that bronies have this strange urge to "ponify" loving everything. For example:


Another thing that bugs me about the fans (and tropers in general, really) is that they seem to think that references are the height of comedy, and so everything they make must be ReferenceOverdosed and {{Troperiffic}}.


This doesn't even make sense, given the setting.

Political Whores posted:

From Wikipedia

HOOLY BOOLY posted:

more subplots=better? No wonder the loving thing is longer than 3 War and Peace's if they're trying to settle a plot thread for "every character" (except raiders because we coulden't come up with any more subplots)

Arcsquad12 posted:

What trope pages are funnier? The ones that are written arrogantly and condescending, or the ones where the tropers treat the concept like some bizarre alien artifact?

Darth Walrus posted:

Ho Yay is supposed to be for hysterical fandom bullshit, not canon gay couples or subtext. The sort of stuff the Supernatural fandom's marinated in, for instance.

Harime Nui posted:

Allow me to interject: anime, is good.

Harime Nui posted:

Anime is a rich constellation of wonders, friend.

Harime Nui posted:

I actually went trawling Writer's Block last night looking for something to poast and it was just poo poo, just poo poo, it was just insanely dull, sorry folks.