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Replicant Sasquatch said:
What do these idiots think Doug's prickly, tasteless personality is an intentional gag? Like do they actually think he's making some kind of meta statement about internet critics?
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Pretty much. Every time somebody comes up and criticizes Doug his minions come up and are all "DOUG AND THE NC ARE DIFFERENT CHARACTER. THE NC IS JUST AN ACT!!"

No, honey, no. NC is just Doug's excuse to allow himself to scream like a sped without people giving him weird looks.
 
friedshrimp said:
Pretty much. Every time somebody comes up and criticizes Doug his minions come up and are all "DOUG AND THE NC ARE DIFFERENT CHARACTER. THE NC IS JUST AN ACT!!"

No, honey, no. NC is just Doug's excuse to allow himself to scream like a sped without people giving him weird looks.
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Bit of a powerlevel, but I remember showing his review of Rock-a-Doodle to my sister and she stopped watching and when I insisted it was a character and he wasn't serious (this was back when I was young and stupid enough to be watching him in the first place), she responded, "That doesn't give him an excuse to be an asshole."

Looking back, she was pretty much right.
 
Lol, look at this TvTropes autist whine about RedLetterMedia:

“I cancelled my Patreon to RLM specifically because they decided after years of being an escapism from politics and the real world they were going to become political. It's painful to be looking at VHS tapes from the 80s and 90s and then being suddenly reminded that 2016 is a thing. It doesn't even matter how subtle it is. I don't think the entire cast of RLM said has said "Obama" once on camera.

Jessi has a dominating presence over Mike, who's supposed to be deadpan. Their relationship is very strongly presented through body language and it's super fucking uncomfortable. She also has an annoying laugh. Josh also has an annoying laugh. Rich Evans tops out my annoying laugh tolerance by himself. When Rich and Josh/Jessi are laughing in unison, it is physically painful to listen to.”
 
Sperg said:
How can you go this far on a TVTropes thread that talks about entry pimping without talking about the Whateley Universe?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhateleyUniverse

According to its Laconic page, it's apparently a series about "Transgendered X-Men as written by H.P. Lovecraft".
I remember seeing it quite a bit when I first discovered the site a couple of years. It seems like there are still quite a lot of examples cluttering the trope pages. I wasn't even near the forums because it didn't really caught my attention until I read this thread, though.
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The whole thing is just some MtF transgender fetish shit with a superhero dressing on it, no big surprise its bigger than the pages on Shakespeare's works. People magically change genders (against their will) when they get superpowers from what little I read.
 
Chris did nothing wrong said:
Lol, look at this TvTropes autist whine about RedLetterMedia:

“I cancelled my Patreon to RLM specifically because they decided after years of being an escapism from politics and the real world they were going to become political. It's painful to be looking at VHS tapes from the 80s and 90s and then being suddenly reminded that 2016 is a thing. It doesn't even matter how subtle it is. I don't think the entire cast of RLM said has said "Obama" once on camera.
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I-I'm lost. Is this some Trump thing?
 
friedshrimp said:
I-I'm lost. Is this some Trump thing?
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Mike said a basic fact or some shit: "Trump is our president". It's apparently enough to make OP rage like a Clinton-bot. They should put trigger warnings before each episode.

Steamboat_Bill said:
Seemingly someone at TV Tropes has stolen from Null.
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Joshua Conner Moon is our Rich Evans if you really think about it.
 
Girlfriend-free Boy said:
The whole thing is just some MtF transgender fetish shit with a superhero dressing on it, no big surprise its bigger than the pages on Shakespeare's works. People magically change genders (against their will) when they get superpowers from what little I read.
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Even tropers were getting sick of it:
You know what really bugs me? The obscene amount of Entry Pimping this series gets.
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It seems like they wanted to see some kind of story about superheroes and generic "awesomeness" that these internet works usually entail. Instead, you get a weird gender change fetish setting.
 
Sperg said:
I agree with you on a lot of stuff, but I think we should have spoilered our spergings. I was merely a lurker a few days ago and I'm still trying to learn, so I'm sorry for that TL;DR I wrote that could've been delivered better. I still stand by what I said, though.

Back to the topic, I find it sad that this site techincally did not exist during the Troper Tales era of TVTropes. The Brilliant But Lazy and Insufferable Genius sections were my personal favorites because of all the unwarranted arrogance tropers seemed to have and their overestimation of their intelligence. In the latter page, there is an archived example of someone saying that he was an asshole, but he was a genius because he managed to figure out sex:

The archive in question: https://web.archive.org/web/2010040...iki/pmwiki.php/TroperTales/InsufferableGenius
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1.) what does process of elimination have to do with sex?

2.) this guy is posting on TV Tropes about how he's an "insufferable genius" (I'm sure only the first word applies). So he's obviously a perma-virgin.
 
Darwin Watterson said:
1.) what does process of elimination have to do with sex?

2.) this guy is posting on TV Tropes about how he's an "insufferable genius" (I'm sure only the first word applies). So he's obviously a perma-virgin.
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"Insufferable genius" sounds like another word for "mom said people make fun of me because I'm smart and they're jealous".
 
Zamasu said:
"Insufferable genius" sounds like another word for "mom said people make fun of me because I'm smart and they're jealous".
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It's actually more like "I always get good grades and my teachers tell me I'm doing fine, so I must be an uber genius".
 
Alright so this one has been bothering me for a while. There's a trope called Esoteric Happy Ending.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EsotericHappyEnding

Basically, the idea is that the ending is supposed to be happy but instead comes off a lot darker, either due to botched execution or the troper looking far too deeply into it and seeing something there that there really wasn't, take your pick.

Even then I don't think some tropers really understand the idea behind it, especially with this example involving God of War III.
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How can the ending to God of War III even be considered a happy ending? Especially when said ending involves the main character destroying the world and attempting suicide?

Or Hell, what about this example with Max Payne 2? You know, the game that basically ends with everyone but Max dying? Again, how can this be considered happy in any way in the first place?
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I don't think tropers know what "esoteric" means.

I'm surprised there is no reference to ponies on that page, given the show is so deep and its messages so esoteric.

Obligatory misinterpretations:
The last movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 ends in a forced triumphant cry of the high strings and the brass, suggesting one such trope.
  • Not only that, but as conductor Michael Tilson Thomas notes, he slips in a few zingers into the final "rejoicing" flourishes. When the music reaches major chords played by the brass, Shostakovich signals a conventional ending — but, we find out a moment later that, instead of keeping put in that resting chord, Shostakovich keeps pushing the brass section higher and higher into minor registers, before lurching heavily into a tacked on ending.
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OK, the nature of Shostakovich's 5th has been and will forever be subject to debates, but the piece clearly doesn't fit TVT's definition of the term "Esoteric Happy Ending" ("Only the author thinks their happy ending is happy."), because Shostakovich himself pointed out that it is not supposed to be happy.
 
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Baldur's Gait said:
Alright so this one has been bothering me for a while. There's a trope called Esoteric Happy Ending.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EsotericHappyEnding

Basically, the idea is that the ending is supposed to be happy but instead comes off a lot darker, either due to botched execution or the troper looking far too deeply into it and seeing something there that there really wasn't, take your pick.

Even then I don't think some tropers really understand the idea behind it, especially with this example involving God of War III.
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How can the ending to God of War III even be considered a happy ending? Especially when said ending involves the main character destroying the world and attempting suicide?

Or Hell, what about this example with Max Payne 2? You know, the game that basically ends with everyone but Max dying? Again, how can this be considered happy in any way in the first place?
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Because Hope is free for humanity and they'll survive to create our world.

...Gods, we're fucked.
 
Found this little gem on the Lord of the Rings' YMMV page.

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I mean, diversity isn't a bad idea in the first place, but i wouldn't be surprised if this is another "FUCK TRUMP! ACCEPT REFUGEES YOU STUPID WHITE PEOPLE!" post.

And ironically these people only complain about xenophobia when it's "white" countries not accepting muslims or mexicans or anything else. I'm sure if the opposite were to happen- i.e. white europeans immigrating to Asia or South America, SJWs would be complaining about "go back to your country and stop colonizing strong POC lands you evil mayo".
 
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