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Baldur's Gait said:
Real talk, the Dethroning Moment of Suck pages are largely why I stopped going to TV Tropes. Those pages are just unbridled autism and a lot of the tropers writing them seem to have a stick up their ass. Tropers have an awful habit of taking everything too seriously, but nowhere is it more evident than those Dethroning pages.
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The idea that there's ever one single little thing that completely ruins something is such a completely autistic concept that it naturally attracts turbo-autists. Jumping the Shark (a non-troper idea) is the slightly less autistic version, but that generally is just more of a moment when something that was already in decline finally passed the point of no return.
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
Tropers getting triggered by commercials: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/Advertising

Can't even pick my favorites, it's all gold.
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Here's a fun game, take any troper name, use Ctrl-F, and find how many entries they've written on that page alone. My favorite is fluffything, who wrote 12 entries on this page, probably way more than any of the other tropers on there (this guy shows up on most of these DMoS pages too, he really needs to calm down).
 
Baldur's Gait said:
Here's a fun game, take any troper name, use Ctrl-F, and find how many entries they've written on that page alone. My favorite is fluffything, who wrote 12 entries on this page, probably way more than any of the other tropers on there (this guy shows up on most of these DMoS pages too, he really needs to calm down).
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Mine (of course) is Animeking1108.
 
AnOminous said:
The idea that there's ever one single little thing that completely ruins something is such a completely autistic concept that it naturally attracts turbo-autists. Jumping the Shark (a non-troper idea) is the slightly less autistic version, but that generally is just more of a moment when something that was already in decline finally passed the point of no return.
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I've heard "jumping the shark" used by people who weren't remotely autistic and had never heard of TV Tropes. Tropers don't use the term much because they have to have their own long-winded CWCism for it.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
Here's a fun game, take any troper name, use Ctrl-F, and find how many entries they've written on that page alone. My favorite is fluffything, who wrote 12 entries on this page, probably way more than any of the other tropers on there (this guy shows up on most of these DMoS pages too, he really needs to calm down).
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If you check out most DMOS pages you'll notice it's the same people over and over again always complaining or bitching or needing to add unnecessary info to another post. They seriously need to calm down.
 
friedshrimp said:
If you check out most DMOS pages you'll notice it's the same people over and over again always complaining or bitching or needing to add unnecessary info to another post. They seriously need to calm down.
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So basically a small, bitchy cabal with sphincters so tightly clinched, you could feed them coal and get diamonds.
 
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What needs to happen to you that you start cataloguing this?
 
AnOminous said:
IRL example tropes instantly turn into distilled autism.
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Tragically, because a lot of good trope pages are wasted by not having real life examples.
Piga Dgrifm said:
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What needs to happen to you that you start cataloguing this?
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A faint touch of the 'tismo and a lot of spare time.


I actually think cataloging some things serves a valid purpose (cataloging the tropes present in Journey to the West, for example). But rugrats? I think just make copies of the episodes for archiving purposes and leave it at that...
 
friedshrimp said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceCharacterMeanActor

Apparently TVTropes is too high-brow to indulge in some celebrity gossip.
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Yet it's not too high-brow to gush about celebs and/or discuss their off-screen personalities in a less blatantly "negative" way:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunnyCharacterBoringActor

It's such a lame double standard too, since the Mean Character Nice Actor page in particular is filled with the same sort of unsubstantiated autism that the Nice Character Mean Actor page would have. Like, "this celeb 'is known' to be polite in real life and 'comes off' as decent in interviews" tells me nothing of substance.

I think, theoretically, if users were only permitted to describe examples which have received major notoriety/press, then these tropes could be interesting to catalog, but the trouble is there doesn't seem to be any real way to implement that, so bullshit is allowed to seep through.
 
AnOminous said:
Wait wat no that is not true. Nothing TV is improved by transfiguring it into reality.
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What I mean is that if the website is really going to stand as some sort of pinnacle of archiving tropes, they should in some cases also be archiving real life events.

And I don't mean "memeing and acting like real life is a show and talking about how WWII suffered from arc fatigue," but actually explaining certain incidents that happened in Hollywood history recently and representing many sides of the argument.

Of course they do this with stuff from before the 60s, but I can understand why they wouldn't want even more controversy/autism.
 
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