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PortsideDave said:
I hate to admit it but I used to find myself mindlessly clicking links and even joined tvtropes for a bit.
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I still read the articles on things after I'm done with them. It's a good way to catch little details you might've missed, or get a feel on how a fandom felt about a particular entry in a series. The problems with TV Tropes is the people who treat it not as a catalog but as a guideline, and in turn force their own narratives into tiny boxes instead of letting them breath and form naturally.

What TV Tropes really needs is a redundancy policy. At some point, simplistic works get monstrous pages because the fandoms find 80 ways to cover the same plot point. It's nauseating.
 
Odie Esty said:
I still read the articles on things after I'm done with them. It's a good way to catch little details you might've missed, or get a feel on how a fandom felt about a particular entry in a series. The problems with TV Tropes is the people who treat it not as a catalog but as a guideline, and in turn force their own narratives into tiny boxes instead of letting them breath and form naturally.

What TV Tropes really needs is a redundancy policy. At some point, simplistic works get monstrous pages because the fandoms find 80 ways to cover the same plot point. It's nauseating.
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Plus there are assholes who edit entire YMMV pages to fit their own opinions, which is unbelievably shitty.
 
PortsideDave said:
I hate to admit it but I used to find myself mindlessly clicking links and even joined tvtropes for a bit. I didn't really post much and I forgot my password. I wanted to post a link to that one gay koopa junior webcomics page but they removed it. However I found the next best thing:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/SuperMarioBros

To be honest, I really don't have a problem with fanfiction (just be aware some people won't like it). But I think super mario bros is the last thing you'd want to write fanfiction for.
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The majority of that list is composed of fangames and hacks, so it's not that spergy luckily.
 
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/XCOMEnemyUnknown

What really gets me is the sperging about the Tutorial mission (Operation: Devil's Moon). Like anyone on TVTropes is an expert in military tactics-the whole point of the tutorial is to introduce the player to the basic controls, most of the stuff like Overwatch isn't covered, and also to set the mood that these aliens are dangerous, powerful, and have access to shit we've never seen before. XCOM also has about as much connection to real world tactics as my ass has to the dark side of Europa.
 
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^^ That isn't an exageration, the pages for great books (stuff that isn't twilight, 50 shades of gray, etc) generally has much less content than the pages for kids cartoon and videogames. Just to get an idea, here are some comparisons from a 2011 vid:


This isn't bad a thing on itself of course, but TVTropes has a huge fanfic community and a lot of people go there to learn about tropes for inspiration. Since every trope page about cartoons and anime has much focus and examples, nobody knows what good writing really is and they end up creating a bunch of stupid writers that only care about making the story "Troperrific" as possible.
 
LucasSomething said:
^^ That isn't an exageration, the pages for great books (stuff that isn't twilight, 50 shades of gray, etc) generally has much less content than the pages for kids cartoon and videogames. Just to get an idea, here are some comparisons from a 2011 vid:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=odKZpAjIsgU
This isn't bad a thing on itself of course, but TVTropes has a huge fanfic community and a lot of people go there to learn about tropes for inspiration. Since every trope page about cartoons and anime has much focus and examples, nobody knows what good writing really is and they end up creating a bunch of stupid writers that only care about making the story "Troperrific" as possible.
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I get the idea these people either don't pay attention during their Creative English class or never bothered to take it.
 
In defense of tv tropes' disproportionate representation, most real literary works get their analysis published in journals or on websites, tv tropes is the only place that'll allow discourse on things like my little pony in a half serious manner. If you're writing a paper on Moby Dick, you've probably got a better place to publish it. Also most ground breaking works aren't particularly 'tropey' since they're actively breaking new ground. Also also contemporary works just get more focus since they're fresher in the minds of the writers.
 
Odie Esty said:
In defense of tv tropes' disproportionate representation, most real literary works get their analysis published in journals or on websites, tv tropes is the only place that'll allow discourse on things like my little pony in a half serious manner. If you're writing a paper on Moby Dick, you've probably got a better place to publish it. Also most ground breaking works aren't particularly 'tropey' since they're actively breaking new ground. Also also contemporary works just get more focus since they're fresher in the minds of the writers.
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Autism is a better justification, really, because Wikipedia is based on reliable secondary sources (lol), and there are lots more of those for famous dead people.
 
Completely by coincidence stumbled upon a random family sitcom page and found it had it's own shipping tab (???).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Shipping/TheThundermans

>Twincest: Arguably the most popular ship at the moment (the Fan Fiction helps the argument), the shippers call it Thundercest. Well, technically, Thundercest is like Pevencest, any of the siblings together works. Most commonly seen is definitely Max/Phoebe though.

Why there is so much love for incest on this site? (By the way, Max and Phoebe are 14 years old)
 
LucasSomething said:
Completely by coincidence stumbled upon a random family sitcom page and found it had it's own shipping tab (???).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Shipping/TheThundermans

>Twincest: Arguably the most popular ship at the moment (the Fan Fiction helps the argument), the shippers call it Thundercest. Well, technically, Thundercest is like Pevencest, any of the siblings together works. Most commonly seen is definitely Max/Phoebe though.

Why there is so much love for incest on this site? (By the way, Max and Phoebe are 14 years old)
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Find a Nickcom page, instantly get cancer.
 
LucasSomething said:
Completely by coincidence stumbled upon a random family sitcom page and found it had it's own shipping tab (???).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Shipping/TheThundermans

>Twincest: Arguably the most popular ship at the moment (the Fan Fiction helps the argument), the shippers call it Thundercest. Well, technically, Thundercest is like Pevencest, any of the siblings together works. Most commonly seen is definitely Max/Phoebe though.

Why there is so much love for incest on this site? (By the way, Max and Phoebe are 14 years old)
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That is disturbing. Back when Troper Tales and (shudder) Fetish Fuel were around, it was even worse.
 
Cynical said:
That is disturbing. Back when Troper Tales and (shudder) Fetish Fuel were around, it was even worse.
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I know, i remember wizards of waverly place having it's own unique "incest yay" tab (blergh). It was eventually moved to the fetish fuel wikia, basically proving that it's not a "trope" but a fetish for them: http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Incest_Yay:Wizards_of_Waverly_Place

Even tho incest yay shipping is still alive and well tho... Even tho it's explicitly say it's "a subpage for fan theories".
 
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