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Only 3.3 million in two weeks? Psh, I get more views than that.

I find it amazing that anyone can make that statement sincerely. Then again it must be easy to ignore reality in your TGWTG circlejerk.
 
Sergeant Politeness said:
So I've been playing through GTA San Andreas again. TV Tropes has these "your mileage may vary" pages where all the opinionated autism is supposed to go, not that it ever stops them. San Andreas' YMMV page is just baffling, though. There's a lot of focus on CJ (your player character) being portrayed as a good guy and it not meshing with the rest of the game; in particular, they single out Deconstruction (a really forgettable and kinda dumb San Fierro mission) as being "cruel":

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Thing is, this isn't even close to the cruelest mission the game has you do. The mission right before it has you killing a valet, stealing a car and planting drugs in it to ruin the DA's career. Why? He was told to do it. There was a few early game missions for OG Loc where you had to steal Madd Dogg's rhymebook and drown his manager to ruin his career. CJ is told to kill on tons of missions, you rob four banks, you're encouraged to jack cars, and CJ calls himself an asshole in some of his pedestrian dialogue. Where does the game portray him as a good guy?

At least Deconstruction has a point; they catcalled his sister and said she looked like a hooker, so he fucks them up using the tools he has at hand. A dick thing to do, sure, but find me a good guy in any GTA game. Also, it's so ridiculous, you can't find it the least bit chilling.
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Did these guys look at that one LP of GTA that went 'oh my character is a pretty nice guy even if he's also a bastard, and this one action is him snapping for in-character reasons', and decide to make that fact or something?
 
A Random said:
Did these guys look at that one LP of GTA that went 'oh my character is a pretty nice guy even if he's also a bastard, and this one action is him snapping for in-character reasons', and decide to make that fact or something?
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This is a site that encourages know-it-all autistic behavior just because you like the Nostalgia Critic. They don't enjoy media so much as they enjoy very specific talking heads talking about media. I really wouldn't be surprised.

The fact that they mention Deconstruction (again, not a prominent mission) sounds like they're at least decently familiar with the game, but if that's the case, they should know CJ is not a good guy. Regardless of how you feel about his family man routine he does at times, he's still a gangbanger who will murder for personal gain.
 
BR55 said:
Speaking of Tropes and Real Life. If you value your sanity don't ever visit Their 2010s or "Useful Notes" 2010s pages. Why? Well if you do you will be treated to TV Tropes :autism: and Social Justice filled attempts to explain current events and trends. It only gets worse when they start assigning Tropes to this decades events and trends. By the way Yes they do cover politics and it is just as much of an :autism: and SJW Cluster Fuck as you would imagine.
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I recently read that. It's quite depressing to see this SocJus crap seep in.

I mean, just check the YMMV page for Ghostbusters 2016. It was different a year ago...
 
So I watched The Princess Bride for the first time, recently, and I decided to read the TV Tropes article on it. This is from the Wild Mass Guess section:
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Got to cram leftist propaganda into literally everything.
 
BlueSpark said:
So I watched The Princess Bride for the first time, recently, and I decided to read the TV Tropes article on it. This is from the Wild Mass Guess section:
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Got to cram leftist propaganda into literally everything.
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It's what happens when the pop culture police declares all fiction is political (ie exactly what you said, leftist ideas are shoehorned into everything)
 
The wild man guessing pages should be taken down completely since they're just a way for anyone to say any theory they can imagine.The Sopranos is actually about 'insert any theory here,any theory' doesn't matter how absurd it is.It might be fun to speculate as a joke about some pop culture but taking it too seriously gets annoying.
 
TV Tropes is basically like a special ed class taught by the pants-shitters. It's not a big surprise that Wld Mass Guessing is so bad
 
BlueSpark said:
So I watched The Princess Bride for the first time, recently, and I decided to read the TV Tropes article on it. This is from the Wild Mass Guess section:
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Got to cram leftist propaganda into literally everything.
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But Inigo was a Spaniard himself, so that whole "woke theory" goes out the window.

(Why do I bet this is a white savior from the USA who's never been to the third world? I'd love to see this asshole live in actual Venezuela or Pakistan).
 
Seeing how TV Tropes tries to pass things as "fridge horror", there's one that overthinks the gender of the player character from the recent South Park games.
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Much as how the troper can think the player character's gender being wrong has unfortunate implications, said troper should realize its a video game and that the developers more than likely didn't really consider the idea of switching genders, not when they had more important things to work on than just giving one a paper doll to work with. One could also roll their eyes at the first one being fridge horror. It's just Cartman ripping on Kyle for being Jewish, not really much of a "fridge horror" thing.
 
c-no said:
Seeing how TV Tropes tries to pass things as "fridge horror", there's one that overthinks the gender of the player character from the recent South Park games.
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Much as how the troper can think the player character's gender being wrong has unfortunate implications, said troper should realize its a video game and that the developers more than likely didn't really consider the idea of switching genders, not when they had more important things to work on than just giving one a paper doll to work with. One could also roll their eyes at the first one being fridge horror. It's just Cartman ripping on Kyle for being Jewish, not really much of a "fridge horror" thing.
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They also don't take into account the main character's aggressive lack of fucks to give. It's one thing to misgender a fragile snowflake who gets triggered by vaguely swastika-shaped construction symbols, it's another to do so to a character whose reaction after getting an anal probe by extraterrestrials is to go back to playing make-believe with their friends the next morning.

I remember seeing an article where Mat and Trey considered making the character's gender choosable, but by the time they had thought of that, they had already invested too much into the game already under the assumption that the game would star a boy.

One of my big beefs with the Fridge Horror stuff is that they try to get into the heads of the people they are looking into. Often times making them just look hypersensitive.
 
TV Tropes does not have an entry on Social Justice Warrior (quelle surprise); the closest they have to that concept is something called Soap Box Sadie. Naturally, tropers devolves this concept into "any instance where characters stand on a soap box" so that they can get their favorite waifu on that page:

In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Pinkie Pie has an ability to predict the future that Twilight Sparkle can't seem to explain rationally. When Pinkie asks what the difference is between her ability and Twilight's magic, Twilight stands on a literal soapbox and lectures Pinkie on how magic is practiced and codified, while her "Pinkie Sense" is random and unexplainable. However, by the end of the episode, Twilight learns that just because you can't explain something doesn't mean it's not real, as she's forced by experience to concede that Pinkie's powers are real.
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And of course tropers misunderstands Calvin and Hobbes, as usual:

Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes is a mild example, in that he can get very passionate about various issues (usually environmental), but since his worldview is still that of a six-year-old, the narrative doesn't mind showing him to be just as naive as he is well-meaning. Also spoofed when when Calvin retrieves a small, cardboard soap box to stand on so he can "harangue the multitudes."
Hobbes "You'd probably be more impressive if you tried using the soap."
Calvin: "Let me know if you see any multitudes."​
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No, Calvin is too cynical to believe in "issues", and he is never passionate about anything except his own welfare (and to be fair this applies to many SJWs too). Any "well-meaning" arguments he uses as a wedge will be discarded in the next strip.
 
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Eh the Calvin and Hobbes one is almost on the mark. Calvin did consistently get distressed when he found piles of garbage or evidence of deforestation.

But it was more of a cynical frustration than actual pontificating.
 
SuperSheep said:
One of my big beefs with the Fridge Horror stuff is that they try to get into the heads of the people they are looking into. Often times making them just look hypersensitive.
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Fridge Horror is even more autistic than so-called Nightmare Fuel, because it's actually dedicated to shit that is only remotely possible to be horrified by if you autistically overthink absolutely everything.
 
I remember the real life fridge horror page (It is gone, like the real life nightmare fuel page) that somebody said if reincarnation was real and you could get reincarnated as a bug or a concentration camp prisoner. Doesn't sound that bad right?

Then beneath that there was an entry that said (paraphrased) "Or you could be a pampered puppy in the living room".
 
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