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I find myself unironically using the given trope names when referring to tropes and I don't know whether it's okay or whether I should kill myself before it spreads.
 
Vrakks said:
I find myself unironically using the given trope names when referring to tropes and I don't know whether it's okay or whether I should kill myself before it spreads.
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I just know the one time irl I said some trope at a family gathering some younger relative said "SOMEONE has been on TV Tropes lately" and 12 year olds laughed at me. None of the adults got it but I've never done it since.
 
The only trope names I've ever said out loud are ones that are actual phrases, like uncanny valley.
 
fishercat said:
The only trope names I've ever said out loud are ones that are actual phrases, like uncanny valley.
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You probably also used it in its correct context, you dirty pleb.

Only true Superior Future beings use TV Tropes terms as inaccurately and precisely as possible.
 
AnOminous said:
I just know the one time irl I said some trope at a family gathering some younger relative said "SOMEONE has been on TV Tropes lately" and 12 year olds laughed at me. None of the adults got it but I've never done it since.
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I'm surprised you didn't kill yourself to regain your honour because lord knows that's what I would've done in that situation.
 
fishercat said:
The only trope names I've ever said out loud are ones that are actual phrases, like uncanny valley.
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Most people who know that phrase don't associate it with TV Tropes, though. I first heard the uncanny valley mentioned in a talk on robotics in school, and none of us knew what TV Tropes was then.

Fortunately, we never got lectured on "big lipped alligator moments".
 
friedshrimp said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatHappenedToTheMouse

Some of these examples are just nitpicking nonsense.
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I always love going through these and finding examples that don't even follow the trope. There's this one for example.
MOTHER 3 gives us the Egg of Light. Early on, you retrieve it from the Osohe Castle, without its purpose explained. Then, while you're escaping the castle, you lose it, and only find it a few chapters later...at which point it never affects anything again. Its purpose is eventually explained in a late-game spoiler, but it's never used for that purpose.
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Now I haven't gotten that far in Mother 3, so I'd rather not have it spoiled, but if they find it and it's actually explained what it is, then it's not an example of the trope now is it? I mean even if it never affects anything again, its purpose is still explained, right? So it hasn't been forgotten, it's just downplayed.

Or this one from Grand Theft Auto III.
In Grand Theft Auto III Donald Love just disappears. He does get brief appearances in both 80s Vice City and 90s Liberty City, but these take place chronologically before GTA3 (2001).
  • The last mission you "do" for him—Donald's Disappearance—is only for the purpose of showing you that he's gone
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If the whole purpose of the trope is that the story just forgets about it, then this doesn't count. Yeah there's no explanation, but at least the game outright says he disappears instead of forgetting him outright.
 
Dork Age: Ever since the channel got rid of Moose A. Moose in 2012, and launched Nick Mom, many parents and teens who watched the older shows when they were little believe that the channel has gone downhill. Nick Mom eventually went defunct in 2015, but things haven't been improving since then. The channel has adopted a habit of not making any shows of real educational value since 2015, with many, if not all of their shows claiming to teach "social skills" but doing so poorly, as they are really only made to sell toys. The channel tends to screw over shows that don't make monster ratings, similar to it's parent channel, and show blatant favoritism to the following shows: Paw Patrol, Shimmer and Shine, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Rusty Rivets, Bubble Guppies, Team Umizoomi, Nella The Princess Knight, Sunny Day, Peppa Pig, and Mutt And Stuff. They also air Kuu Kuu Harajuku, a show that is NOT suitable for preschoolers at all, and to rub more salt to the wound, THEY DIDN'T HONOR BLUE'S CLUES ON IT'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2016 IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM.
  • Not even the Noggin app was immune. It is an app dedicated to streaming classic Nick Jr. shows, but they have recently added Blaze, Umizoomi, Guppies, and even former network darling Dora the Explorer, all of which are, save for Dora, are technically not classic shows. They also have Robot and Monster on the app, which is not a classic nor a show for preschoolers in the first place.)
  • Nowadays, Nick Jr is seen as the Butt-Monkey of the "Little Three" (Nick Jr, Disney Junior, and PBS Kids), due to all the shows that Nick Jr shows favoritism towards are of very little substance: talking down to children, and only existing to sell toys, while Disney Junior and PBS Kids put more effort into their content than ever before in The New '10s, creating critically acclaimed and commercially successful shows that are actually good for kids: Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, The Lion Guard, Elena of Avalor, Puppy Dog Pals, Vampirina, Wild Kratts, Odd Squad, Nature Cat, and Ready Jet Go!. Even Arthur and Sesame Street, PBS' Long-Runners are redeeming themselves after going through brief series rot.
  • And now Nick Jr is planning to air Regal Academy, of all shows.
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oh my god who the hell cares
 
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From Robot Chicken's YMMV.

The joke is old and wasn't even aimed at her, but for some reason it's still "mean spirited".
 
friedshrimp said:
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From Robot Chicken's YMMV.

The joke is old and wasn't even aimed at her, but for some reason it's still "mean spirited".
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It doesn't even make any sense. Padme was Leia's mom, and she died after giving birth to Leia, who is still alive. Debbie Reynolds died after Carrie Fisher died and she pretty much died of a broken heart over that. The circumstances are completely different and the troper is reaching really fucking hard to try and make this seem mean.
 
To TV Tropes, it doesn't matter if whatever shit they spew out makes any sense or not, just as long as they're contributing in the campaign against MEAN-SPIRITED HUMORtm
 
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