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Positron said:
If Troper's Tales were any indication, quite a lot of them consider themselves to be geniuses, MovieBob style.

Although this has got to be a lie; TV Tropes is very quick to ban people:
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The genius stuff I agree they do a lot. It's the ladies' man stuff that makes me think it's made up. MovieBob doesn't claim to be Casanova.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
The genius stuff I agree they do a lot. It's the ladies' man stuff that makes me think it's made up. MovieBob doesn't claim to be Casanova.
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This is why something like Poe's Law exists on the Internet. In some cases, a parody can be or unfortunately becomes indistinguishable from that which it parodies when the original examples are honestly that insane. It's why Reddit includes an 'I Am Very Smart' category - we hope people don't make these statements out of any amount of sincerity, knowing how ridiculous it sounds, but some Tropers just aren't that self-aware.
 
Krieger said:
This is why something like Poe's Law exists on the Internet. In some cases, a parody can be or unfortunately becomes indistinguishable from that which it parodies when the original examples are honestly that insane. It's why Reddit includes an 'I Am Very Smart' category - we hope people don't make these statements out of any amount of sincerity, knowing how ridiculous it sounds, but some Tropers just aren't that self-aware.
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This is more like I Am Very Sexy, though.
 
  • Midori Shoujo Tsubaki, the animated adaptation of Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, is an anime so bad it's even banned in Japan, the government also forbidding its international distribution. (Clearly, a few smuggled copies survived.) This horrific anime was written, directed, and produced by one man, who also animated the entire thing, simply because he couldn't find a studio willing to produce an anime with such blatant images of pedophilia and child abuse. The plot (if you can call it that) is about a ten-year-old girl whose parents are brutally murdered, and then used as a Sex Slave by a sadistic circus sideshow, tortured by one of them who wants her for himself, turned just as evil as they are, and ends with her brutally murdering the rest of the cast to avenge his death. Along the way, there's also cruelty to animals, cannibalism, and necrophilia. (To give one an idea of how disturbing it is, web-critic Phantom Strider called it "the Holocaust of anime" and not only said the worst anime of all time, but the worst animation period, and for him that's saying a lot.)
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"the Holocaust of anime"
 
Uncanny Valley said:
"the Holocaust of anime"
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What I like about this description is how that last sentence conveys nothing to someone unfamiliar with web critics and if anything will probably turn them off someone like Strider.

Assuming I knew nothing about Strider, why should I care that some Internet jagoff compares it to the Holocaust? In what way does that give me an idea about how bad it is if I neither care nor know about Strider? And why should I watch him considering his inflammatory comparison of some disgusting anime to one of the worst genocides in recent human history?

I mean hell, why have that last sentence at all? The description itself is already disturbing as it is and anybody who's reading it already has an idea of how disturbing it is. The only reason that sentence exists that I can think of is because the guy writing this is a Strider fanboy who wants to shoehorn him into the description so other autists can watch him too.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
What I like about this description is how that last sentence conveys nothing to someone unfamiliar with web critics and if anything will probably turn them off someone like Strider.
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If I know nothing about Strider (and I don't). I'd just assume him to be someone like MovieBob who exaggerates some mundane things as his generation's Nam or 9/11.
 
Really says a lot about the TV Tropes userbase that they'll freak the fuck out about a horror movie using gore and pedophilia for shock value, and then proceed to bloat every other page with references to Fallout: Equestria and My Little Sister Can't Be This Good At Giving Blowjobs!
 
So Doug and Lindsay are not allowed to say autism jokes but Stridass can make Holocaust comparisons.

Oy vey.
 
Uncanny Valley said:
"the Holocaust of anime"
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Quite apart from the outrageous trivialisation of genocide, I don't know why people think being banned in Japan means more than being banned in the United States. A Serbian Film showed uncut in the United States, and included the fictional rape of a baby. The only banned cartoons in the United States are obscene likenesses of real children, hence the drama in the Shadman thread when it turned out he'd done that. Since there's no suggestion the child in this cartoon represented a real person, it wouldn't have run afoul of US law, regardless of how disgusting it is.
 
Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses has never been screened uncensored in Japan (which probably has more to do with its political allegory than the sex), although it is one of the cinematic classics and has been regularly screened uncut every where in the world.
 
web-critic Phantom Strider called it "the Holocaust of anime"

Alright, how Autistic is this Strider guy?

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Positron said:
Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses has never been screened uncensored in Japan (which probably has more to do with its political allegory than the sex), although it is one of the cinematic classics and has been regularly screened uncut every where in the world.
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There's no way that showed in Saudi Arabia, and I doubt there's much interest in the Central African Republic.
 
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