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Baldur's Gait said:
I skimmed through it. Thankfully they didn't try troping it (thank God) but the page is still full of stupid. For instance...



Nooo, really?

Then they have a section of works that reference the Holocaust, which isn't bad by itself, but since the categories are in alphabetical order it means the comics section is one of the first ones seen. And the longest description is the one talking about Magneto.



The only other piece of work that gets nearly this much attention is the comic called Judenhass, which is apparently a comic essay about the Holocaust. Movies like Schindler's List, The Pianist, and Sophie's Choice don't even get a sentence.
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And Maus, a comic entirely about the Holocaust, just gets a mention.

Think about that and what it means about their priorities...
 
iafiv said:
I never knew the war on terror is a trend like some kind of fashion.Who knew?
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"The War on X" is so overused, future generations will unearth our pop culture and assume it means 'A Minor Inconvenience.'
 
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/VideoGames
  • SenorCornholio: I am easily one of the biggest The Legend of Zelda nuts out there; unless it's the CD-i games, you'll see me being absolutely proud to own most of the Zelda series...with one small exception: The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes. Now, they can freely get away with making the story an Excuse Plot that largely focuses on comedy; said comedy reminds me a bit of EarthBound and I like that. What instead kept me from wanting to progress was the fact that the game outright required friends to 100% the game, and even then they'd have to have perfect coordination together; if you played by yourself, you'd have to resort to using Doppels which...well, when you find yourself unable to complete the second world, it's telling, then, how tedious of a process it was. So after a good long time of not touching the game, I decided to look up some game footage to see what I was missing, and not only did the game seem to not get better with its gameplay (in fact it got worse), but the story itself actually left me disappointed. For reference: the Witch of Drablands, Lady Maud, cursed Princess Styla (totally not Zelda) with a bland and hideous gimp suit all because she hated the way she dressed. That by itself is a pretty petty reason to curse someone, but whatever; another femaleantagonist in the Zelda series is welcome...unless your name happens to be Lady Maud. I know I'm not supposed to talk about entire characters, but this, is not, a character. This is a driving force for the plot, and nothing more. When you actually meet her, she reveals to have absolutely no threatening charm to her, thus wasting the idea for a vile witch in a lighthearted game. Now, I'm not saying she should be necessarily complex; several villains, including many incarnations of Ganondorf himself, fall under Card-Carrying Villain status quite often, but I was at least hoping she'd be at least a little bit of a threat. This old hag is not imposing like Ganondorf, Onox, or Demise, she's not clever like Veran, Vaati, or Cia, and she's not entertaining like Zant or Ghirahim; she's pretty much the equivalent of that one annoying old neighbor across the street who thinks she's hot stuff but really just annoys everyone surrounding her. On top of that, your first encounter with her has her siccing her "pets" on you in a Boss Rush, thus showing she has no intentions of proving her worth. And the Final Boss fight against her just seems so slow and uninspired, it's a wonder she even counts as a villain. She's so ineffectual that the king at the end of the game doesn't even press any serious charges for her crimes. Give the likes of Yuga credit: at least he did something in the story aside from kick it off, and had several excellent boss fights to boot. That, and EarthBound had Giygas. With Maud however, the crimes she's committed would only really offend two groups: the people of Hytopia, and Rarity. Other than that, this villain just plain sucks.
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There's so much whine in this, and yet the thing that sticks out the most to me is the pony reference the manchild just did.
 
NARPASSWORD said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/VideoGames

There's so much whine in this, and yet the thing that sticks out the most to me is the pony reference the manchild just did.
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I like how the person says they aren't supposed to talk about characters, only to justify breaking the rule by saying "This, is not, a character" (nice misuse of commas there BTW) and proceeding to complain about the character.

Also the best part is when he says the game requires friends to play. The way he words it makes it seem he doesn't have friends and the game's reminding him of it.
 
NARPASSWORD said:
There's so much whine in this, and yet the thing that sticks out the most to me is the pony reference the manchild just did.
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"Dethroning Moment" is a sewer even by tropes standards. I thought they'd deleted it.
 
thought i'd mention this here too. tvtrope's support team is shit. for some unknown reason, i go there one day and find out my account was banned. i dont even know what i said that would warrant a ban. they didnt even tell me what i did. so i sent the support email an email asking why i was banned. several times. several months ago. im still waiting for a reply. after a while i gave up and tried making another account. then i encountered another problem: apparently im not registered in their system, so i try to register. the email i have is already in use. i try to do a password reset. says the email isnt verified yet. tvtropes never sent me an email to verify the account though. wtf tvtropes.
 
Frankly I always found their "I'll delete everything you say" attitude kinda fascist in the long run. Yeah, some people do post awful things to be trolls, but I often see genuine comments being deleted because apparently they're too "mean-spirited" or they criticize a movie/show outside of the obvious "this is sexist/racist" SJW crap. So much for freedom of opinion...
 
  • The last episode of King of the Hill ends with Bobby finally finding a hobby that pleases Hank. He got a chance to find himself, but still on his father's terms. When the writers go out of their way to avoid a father either accepting his son for who he is or disowning him for having conflicting interests, you should know just how badly they've been on Daddy's side from beginning to end. And this is just the series finale; there were other episodes that didn't end any differently.
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FUCK YOU, DAD
 
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Found this on the Paper Towns page. Like most of that trope's examples, it's an extremely subjective entry. I'm 101% sure the "2015 controversy" is just a convenient excuse for virtue-signaling. If nothing of note had happened in 2015 (and I've been hearing people REEEEE about the Confederate flag for two decades so I don't see why 2015 was special) he would have found another reason to shit on it.
 
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