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Oct 6, 2013 06:19
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This sort of thing frustrates me. These Tropers would spout so much about Lovecraft and Starcraft and TV soaps yet somehow they are too lazy to actually experience these things. And yet they can get nearly every fact wrong, fail to understand the most basic of themes and yet still proclaim themselves as wise. I thought that spergs research the poo poo out of their pointless things. Tropers are even too lazy to get part down.
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Dec 15, 2013 04:17
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As someone who's pretty much playing Monster Girl Quest as penance for a prank gone wrong, I assure you, it is as bad as you think it is. A porn game based on chicks raping you, no wonder tropers flock to this like flies on poo poo.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:59
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Wait, I actually know this one! All three tropes which could just be summarized by "Unreliable Narrator". But they have already have that! http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnreliableNarrator It's basically based on the idea that the Narrator is lying to you, used to great effect in Lolita and Fight Club. And they somehow mess this up by not just having all of these lumped into one trope that already exists in literary media. It's not about being "naive" or "deceiving", the whole point is that the narrator is not one to trust, so we receive his biases and must discern what is truth and what is a lie. But who am I kidding, these are the guys who sincerely believe every lie that drips from Humbert's gaping maw, never questioning a drat thing.
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Apr 26, 2014 02:59
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Seravadon posted:Wait what? To take a man's cheese is to take his very soul.
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May 21, 2014 22:03
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Don Gato posted:Didn't something like that happen to every troper goons thought was a good one? Annebeeche seemed to come out okay. I haven't heard from her since her "Ye olde english translator" thread but I think she didn't melt down like Dionysus.
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May 23, 2014 16:03
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Either way they're not allowed to talk about their troper experiences, as per the rules. Shame, it was kind of fun hearing TvTropes implode like a failing government firsthand.
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May 23, 2014 16:10
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Penny Paper posted:Is that Troper Bingo card still around? Or can we make a new one? It's even more inane when they've stated over and over that they'll be "academic", even though "Tropers happy about something" is just that. There's nothing to analyze nor is it part of fiction. Circlejerkers about a goddamn pony cartoon. posted:
G1? Transformer lingo? Phrasing everything like a question? Obnoxious? Why do you say that? I'd post more, but no joke my laptop is literally scrolling upwards everytime I'm trying to read this thing.
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May 28, 2014 22:37
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Well, they're right within the context of the monologue. It actually is treated as being a totally good thing and not at all horrible. The text actually describes it as "a good rape." TvTropes Pleads the Fifth: It's Not the Tropers' Fault This Time
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May 29, 2014 02:02
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Wales Grey posted:Wiki vandalism like this is pretty pointless, it'll just get reverted. If they were brighter, they'd introduce wrong or hurtful information first and then have a number of alternate accounts vandalize the page via other IPs. Why did you say that? Fast Eddie's now going to (continue to) believe that we're trying to destroy his "precious academic site for intellectuals." In all seriousness I have to sympathize with that guy. Too bad his actions are just going to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.
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Jun 2, 2014 00:16
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Wait, ponies with XCOM? Why? The gently caress do ponies have anything to do with an alien invasion simulator? I know it's probably minor compared to the rest, but why? Why can't you Bronies just like something and not try to stitch everything together like a demented Dr. Frankenstein?
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Jun 3, 2014 17:38
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Lottery of Babylon posted:
I hate you. No, I'm just, agh  . There was a discussion in the XCOM thread about a game where XCOM fights the forces of hell. Is this it? Even though I find it funny XCOM wouldn't just gut the talking quadrepeds seeing as that's what XCOM does. But nope, everything is for bronies. Ponies for the gods of
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Jun 3, 2014 21:09
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Purple Prose: A term used for passages that are extravagant for it's own sake. How can TvTropes take a simple negative term and twist it around?quote:There are times within the life of any teller of tales in which they are faced with a situation most dire: the writing, while not lacking in such delightful virtues as a sturdy coherent plot or rich characterization, is supremely dry and uninteresting to read. Of course, by doing just that? What better example than do so do themselves. It's not like anyone just wants a clear cut answer for your definition, like say Wikipedia.
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Jun 7, 2014 00:03
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Nothing wrong with writing the purple prose page in purple prose. You can't fool me with your book smarts and your big words. Short and simple is the best prose style.
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Jun 7, 2014 01:31
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Love is crazy, full of chemicals and feelings. So mix crazy people with crazy love and anime. What do you get? Yanderes.TvTropes posted:The word "yandere", a term that blossomed in moe fandom, refers to a character who is crazy about someone else...often literally and violently. Despite the anime-inspired name, this type of character is much, much older than that, as one of the earliest examples is the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar (Inanna). This is why you don't stick your dick in crazy.
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Jun 7, 2014 17:53
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NobbytheSheep posted:Did the MLP:FIM military wank fic people make a reference to the Balkan wars? They did, didn't they? And the Falklands. Sorry, my mistake. Foalklands. Conservative bronies man. Also it's them tryng to make a children's show DARK AND GRITTY.
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Jun 7, 2014 22:01
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Bronies are like chefs who always put their favorite spices on everything, even on things where it doesn't belong. Like chili powder on shaved ice or a bucket of cumen in chicken soup. Grim/dark with ponies is like blending a pizza with an apple pie, spread over diced pigs feet, and served with coke.
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Jun 7, 2014 23:20
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Lotto, why do you keep showing us these monstrosities? These horribly written passages, thousands of words that serve only to make banal fanfic. Clashing themes that don't even work plot-wise, character-wise or at least have anything worth while. Jeez it's like fishing with dynamite when mixing tropers with bronies.
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Jun 8, 2014 02:32
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HorseRenoir posted:How do you even explain this to other people? "Sorry dad, I got the computer infected with a virus looking for pregnant My Little Pony fanfic!" That implies that they're not social misfits, incapable of speaking outside the lens of a Tv show.
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Jun 8, 2014 05:09
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Plus he was against the traditions of the time, which was kind of taboo in a country so hard set in its ways.
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Jun 10, 2014 03:54
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Punting posted:How so? What sort of things did he oppose? Actually kind of curious, I've never heard anything about him being any sort of iconoclast, just generically mean and ambitious. His dad committed seppuku for Oda's general laziness. This led to many things such as killing a bunch of invading monks who had religious immunity in the country, aiding peasantry, and most notably known for his love of firearms. I'm not completely sure but he also wanted to create a rational society for the public. I'm not the best to explain this, the Civ 5 thread is better at explaining just how little he cares for the cultures of the time. I still don't know how tropers would be against a guy who in our culture would be like the guys who wrote the Declaration of Independence other than "For nippon".
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Jun 10, 2014 04:59
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Tardigrade posted:While breaking my scroll-thumb trying to flick past page 150, I noticed the recurring reference to the Ahuizotl, an Aztec mythological creature. The page's history is a mildly amusing tale of bronies inserting a Pop Culture section and then getting it deleted. Over and over again. Thank you Wikipedia for simply saying, get the gently caress out bronies, no one wants you in our Aztec folklore.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:22
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Xander77 posted:I can't find it at the moment, but someone on That Guy With the Glasses made a joke about a movie like Anastasia Disney-fying the Holocaust. And there's a page for that movie on tvtropes. With tropes, characters, "Tearjerking moments" and all. I don't believe that souls exist, but if they did, I think mine just died a little.
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Jun 13, 2014 18:57
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Penny Paper posted:Meaning what exactly? An all inclusive hugbox where everyone likes each other based on something they watched. TvTropes takes it further by making so you don't even have to actually watch the things they're talking about, all with labels scattered around to make things seem busy and thoughtful.
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Jun 16, 2014 16:59
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TvTropes posted:Blue and Orange Morality
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Jun 28, 2014 21:37
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Ninjasaurus posted:Not pictured: a My Little Pony avatar. You spoke too soon. Either way I find it hilarious that he hasn't considered all problems of Misandry resulted from the self imposed restrictions of the patriarchy. Basically it's the guys' fault for their own darn problems but nope, got to blame it on the women.
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Jun 30, 2014 15:32
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There is some truth that characters could redeem themselves when offing another character. An easy one was when Dearth Vader killed Palpatine to save Luke. But usually that requires things like a change of heart, or sacrificing themselves for the heroes. Usually it ends with them dead but it can be done. On another note it doesn't make sense in logic form. If A >= Good and B >= Bad, then A + A = more Good and B + B = more Bad. If killing a rapist is "good" (I'm not going to even get into that can of worms) and the person killing is bad, then A + B != 0 or Good because the murder would have to be valued greater than the badness of the killer. And since most troper style villains are genocidal anime stereotypes a murder of one bad guy is not greater then the deaths of innocent lives. So a troper would think that killing a rapist is an act that would make a villain a better character as if murdering another guy wipes the slate clean of all his crimes, as if it didn't matter, like bad comic book writers.
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Jul 5, 2014 15:20
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Last time I checked elements on the periodic table only combine, change, or decompose based on specific requirements and properties of said elements. So especially here you cannot expect plutonium to be melted with iron and have that somehow crap out gold. And even here they're a bunch of lazy cocks because who uses a number for the initials of a frakking elemental group. Even with combined compounds you still have to list the electrobonds for every element and they can't even do that right. I sucked at chemistry in high school and even I know that no way in hell the "Avatar Compound" could be possible, hell they don't even list the individual elements used in the show. And the best thing is, not a single classical form of lit to be seen. No Shakespeare, Poe, Dickens, Orwell, Stoker or at the very least if you're desperate a Peter Palahnuik novel. This is perfect, a science based on connections and tropers don't understand, gee I wonder why?
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Jul 6, 2014 15:21
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I still like the treehouse horror stories. Even the newer ones I found to be enjoyable. Still no gonna check that on TvTropes. You may have ruined the Simpsons for me but not on this, I draw the line.
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Jul 12, 2014 06:31
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Tiberius Thyben posted:TvTropes: it's not unreasonable to assume they are sex slaves TvTropes: Everything Is A Sexual Subversion
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Jul 14, 2014 06:53
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Khazar-khum posted:When the only topic is sex? I would pay so much just to see their disgusted faces when they actually talk about their fetishes face to face.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:22
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Don Gato posted:I dunno, maybe they'd actually try to go through with what they're saying? Then they are more ballsy than I imagined. At least we can't say that they're virgins anymore 
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Jul 14, 2014 07:48
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wouldn't even begin to scratch the tip of the iceberg then.
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Ninjasaurus posted:Destroy anime and arrest weeaboos/otakus. It's the only way to be sure. But that means destroying any chance of more JoJo. Do you really want to deprive the world of fabulous?
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Jul 16, 2014 05:00
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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:Trap music (also known as Neo-crunk) is a rather polarizing style of hip-hop and electronic music that has gained large popularity over 2012 and 2013. Trap music is a started as an emergent style in southern rap that is characterized by spare beats, sharp snare hits, deep bass notes and simple rhymes about gangster cliches (this isn't a diss at the genres expense mind you, the lyrical aspects are not of much importance to the genre since the main appeal is the beat and vibe the song generates, so lyrics are often simple as a result). All of this creates a dark, slightly abrasive, and hedonistic vibe. While the Ur Examples are from different parts of the southern United States, the major players of trap music such as Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame, T.I. And Young Jeezy are all from Atlanta, and many newcomers to the genre are also from Atlanta. Many Hip-hopheads were against the genre, claiming it's simple lyrics are boneheaded and just dumb club music, while defenders state that the simplicity is the reason why it is such dumb fun. However the genre did catch on with many, namely EDM Musicians who have created a much more dancier instrumental songs. Another group that caught on were the up-and-coming rappers from Chicago, who created drill music, a style that emphasizes the violence on the streets of Chiraq and put a face to the issues that previous conscious Chicago rappers talked about. Wikipedia would like their passage back.
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Jul 18, 2014 15:59
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Earlier Babylon shown the thread how tropers can gently caress up XCOM. Since they can't even understand simple videogame plots, I got to looking on their Nightmare Fuel page.quote:Remember those Mutons and how they're supposed to be the front line troops for the invaders? They can take some serious punishment, soaking bullets to the face, to say nothing of their elite counterparts. Now, let's go to South America's continent bonus, "We Have Ways", which allows all interrogations and autopsies to be completed immediately. Just what are they doing to the Mutons to make them talk so fast? quote:The Terror missions. You hear screams and panicking in the background while you're attempting to rescue an isolated group of civilians, who are being picked off one by one by aliens. They're also probably going to be the first time you'll meet the Chryssalids. Huh? They killed a civilian, you say? What!? THE CIVILIAN IT KILLED CAME BACK TO LIFE!? quote:The Sectopods have a long range, and it's possible that it can hit you without you being aware of its existence, because its attack range is greater than its sight range. Your first encounter with a Sectopod would most likely involve a giant loving laser coming out of nowhere. quote:The tutorial, if you played the first game when you see the soldier in the warehouse, you just know he is gonna frag you, and there is nothing you can do to keep yourself from dying. quote:Ethereals. Sectoids and Sectoid Commanders can pull off some pretty nasty psionic moves. With Ethereals, this is all they do. One Ethereal, and your squad goes from a highly disciplined team armed with high-tech weaponry to a terrified group, cowering from psionic attacks and the weapons of their own comrades suffering from the effects of Mind Rape. quote:The News Ticker in the Situation room will paint a very grim and bleak picture if you're doing poorly against the aliens. quote:One of the Vendor Trash that you can collect after capturing the alien base is the "Alien Food", a nutritious slurry eaten by the aliens. The description reveals that the soup contains unmistakable traces of human DNA. With that in mind, just think about what happens to all the civilians that gets abducted, or the unpleasant implications on what will happen to the body of your fallen soldiers if you are unable to retrieve them due to the mission being aborted. quote:Site Recon. It's a Council Mission in Enemy Within where the team is dispatched to investigate a distress signal from a Canadian fishing village. The regular military rescuers have gone silent. You land at the village and start to progress through it. Then, zombies start popping up. This looks bad, because where there's zombies, there's Chryssalids. You push through the village, to find a wrecked whaling ship, where the sharks and a captured whale are being used to incubate an army of Chryssalids. And more and more are getting birthed every round. Central makes it clear that you've only got one option: fight through the horde of Chryssalids to activate the boat's transponder so XCOM can direct an airstrike to wipe out the entire village. Then, once you've managed to pull that off, Chryssalids start pouring out of the whale-hive, and you've got to make a mad dash back to the landing site before either the airstrike wipes you out, or the Chryssalids catch up.... And the one they find most terrifying, otherworldly horrors, callousness of combat troops? Nope it's making your guys into goddamn Space Marines. quote:While the surgery isn't shown, MEC Troopers giving up their arms and legs, along what appear to other parts of their body, is horrifying to picture even if it is voluntary. quote:The worst thing about the MEC Troopers is that, unlike Space Marine Dreadnoughts or Protoss Dragoons/Immortals, it's not just critically wounded soldiers getting put into mechanical suits so that they can keep on serving. Instead, MEC Troopers are men and women that voluntarily amputate their own perfectly fine limbs and replace their organs with machines, just so they can have better combat effectiveness. It is both heroic and scary at the same time. quote:Also, their voices. MEC Troopers speak in a borderline Creepy Monotone with a filter effect that makes their voices sound computer synthesized. Makes you wonder how much of their humanity they traded for an arm-mounted flamethrower. quote:
quote:It's worth mentioning that, most likely to audio clip limitations, Zhang maintains his regular voice even after being turned into a MEC trooper. If viewed from the right angle, this can come off as a Crowning Moment Of Awesome and Heroic Willpower quote:While the description is probably meant to be hopeful, the fact that the base augments (the skeletal limbs that the MEC Trooper wears while not in an MEC) are intended to "hopefully" allow the soldier to return to a normal life if XCOM wins the war, is kind of frightening. It's a case of technology and necessity outpacing long-term considerations: MEC Troopers will never be human again, and it shows. quote:MEC Troopers are unable to be deployed onto the battlefield without their actual MECs, even though they always have a set of arms and legs available. The given reason for this is that the cybernetic arms and legs made for off-duty hours aren't agile enough to be used. Think about that for a moment. Normal humans can certainly go off into battle, but MEC soldiers without their suits can't. As powerful as the suit may be, a MEC Trooper is even less capable than a normal human without it. quote:Though do bear in mind that the Base Augments are made using regular steel, circuitry and batteries. Considering what the Alien Alloys and Elerium do for all your other tech, it's not hard to imagine biologically-par augments being made. Hell, by the time you're done with levelling and Foundry projects, the actual giant hulking robot suits have roughly the same dexterity, speed and combat options as your flesh-and-blood soldiers. quote:Let's think about this from the alien mooks' perspective, shall we? So your leaders tell you to forcibly uplift a primitive race known as humans. Pah, easy you say. These primitive apes are still using ballistics weaponry and they haven't even figured out practical spaceflight yet. So you send out the Sectoids to start abducting. And then, out of nowhere, a squad of four of these humans shows up and slaughters your advance guard (assuming you didn't play the tutorial). Okay, you think. We'll send in the Thin Men, Floaters, Mutons, and Chryssalids. They get slaughtered. Then, your spacecraft start getting shot down by this same mysterious group of humans. Now, the rumors have started among the rank and file of a horrific creature known only as "Doctor Vahlen," who will capture you, place you in a glass pod, and stick probes into your brain to gain information on you! And THEN, this same group of humans, having turned your own weapons against you, breaches your base and utterly slaughters everyone inside. They never leave any survivors, and they always take the corpses to their horrific underground base to be dissected and used as weapons. So you start bringing out the bigger guns: Sectoid Commanders, Muton Berserkers, Muton Elites, Sectopods, Cyberdisks, more powerful spacecraft, the works. They're all slaughtered, even when you attack their base. And those psionics that gave you a massive edge early in the invasion? The humans have them too, and they'll use them, chortling horrifically while they do it. You think you have it bad? Try being a platoon of Thin Men or Sectoids on a Council mission going up against a squad of Colonels and Majors. The end of the game tells you that.
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Jul 22, 2014 22:42
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System Metternich posted:Man, no kidding. To be fair to tropers, subjects concerning teenagers coming to terms with their sexuality are rather touchy and complicated.
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Jul 26, 2014 16:48
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FrozenVent posted:What would a T+ cup even look like anyway?  Conservatively speaking.
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Aug 4, 2014 17:21
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Spalec posted:A google search for T cup bra led me to this: That looks like something Madonna or Lady GaGa would wear.
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Aug 4, 2014 17:28
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tacodaemon posted:How fortuitously timed for Venn's birthday! I think Venn never intended to make his charts for discussing grossly disproportionate honkers . But still, 3 months to learn how to fit bras? That's comparable to suit fitting as far as I know. Oh what would I do for a goon to open a tell thread on that.
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Burkion posted:Knowing how hazardous those size of breasts are to human beings? The only people I know to date to ruin boobs for me are goons pointing out that sometimes big is too big, and tropers saying "yours is as big as your head, no, we need to go bigger". Now it's just one more reason to not like Tropers.
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