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Pointless Pedant said:
Medically, or just Tumblr style? Originally I would have thought there was a lot of oppression points self diagnosed autism on TV Tropes, but, having seen how pants on head exceptional they are, I now believe it's probably genuine.
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Medical.
 
From their US Politics thread:
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Remember, if you get sexually assaulted by someone, it’s your fucking fault for having the wrong beliefs you literal Nazi.
 
I love how so many of them have the upside down US flag as their avatars like fucking dramas queens.

Anyway, grabbed a few more screenshots. These people are fucking cancerous.

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ChevroletBlackboard said:
I love how so many of them have the upside down US flag as their avatars like fucking dramas queens.

Anyway, grabbed a few more screenshots. These people are fucking cancerous.

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I'm starting to wonder if using a sentence with "You do realize...right ?" shouldn't be outlawed. It has become the go-to choice for extra-smug speds.
 
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/WebOriginal
  • The Poppy Bros Sr: Admittedly, i liked that playthrough, if only because i could relate to Joel and his plight of killing everyone he's grown to love. With that said, there is one moment in his Windows 8 Destruction stream that struck a bad chord with me where he's prank calling PC Optimizer Pro. While he and the operator were arguing, he uttered out this line: "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter, and you will check your privilege, cis scum!" While it didn't sour the whole video, it was rather poor taste, especially since it spawned a meme between people who genuinely think that's what transgenders identify as.
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I just found the last bit of evidence I need to prove that this shithole of a site needs to be bombed, with no survivors.
 
REGENDarySumanai said:
I wholeheartedly agree. Humorless twats.
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Did that troper just say "transgenders?" What a scumbag, don't they know that the correct term is "trans folkx" and you're a transphobe for using the wrong term?

But seriously if they're going the whole REEE everything is transphobic angle they deserve to be under those nitpicky standards too.
 
NARPASSWORD said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/WebOriginal

I just found the last bit of evidence I need to prove that this shithole of a site needs to be bombed, with no survivors.
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I looked through that page and I found a subsection for Happy Tree Friends. One of the entries is a giant block of text with, and I shit you not, 879 words.

That is a goddamn essay for one moment in a webseries that rarely goes over 3 minutes. I'm not quoting it because it's a waste of space. And no, I didn't read it either; I'm not going to kill my brain cells just to read a condensed block of autism.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
I looked through that page and I found a subsection for Happy Tree Friends. One of the entries is a giant block of text with, and I shit you not, 879 words.

That is a goddamn essay for one moment in a webseries that rarely goes over 3 minutes. I'm not quoting it because it's a waste of space. And no, I didn't read it either; I'm not going to kill my brain cells just to read a condensed block of autism.
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then i shall do it for you
Happy Tree Friends is (in)famous for being so gory it's funny. Sometimes though, they put less emphasis on the latter, and the results are moments we wish Fliqpy would kill.
  • Melancholy Utopia: I'm a former fan of Happy Tree Friends, but even back when I liked it I couldn't stand the episode "Tongue in Cheek". The thing I often give HTF credit for is that most deaths are so absurd and logic-defying it's difficult to get offended; that most deaths are quick and painless, and if they're not, it's either not dragged on for too long or the characters aren't shown suffering too much. I can't say the same for this episode. Sniffles was never my favourite character, but this episode just took everything too far. To sum this abomination up, he invents a helmet that mind controls the holder, but surprise surprise, his arch enemies, the dreaded ants, get a hold of it and use it on him. What follows is truly brutal even for HTF standards; they force him to eat an apple with razor blades on it and use a propeller to pull his organs out of his snout. Did I mention that during all this time, he screams and cries in agony like it isn't acting? Then in the end, they use his corpse as their new home. This episode convinces me that there are lines that shouldn't ever be crossed, even for a show relying solely on gory humor. I only watched this episode once, and never plan to see it again.
  • Tommy Tiger: I was a former fan of Happy Tree Friends, but then I started to hate the show because of some certain person: Fliqpy (not Flippy, he's innocent). Now, I know many people like him, so I'm pretty much one of the only Flippy haters, but I hate him because the episode Party Animal made me realize that the writers crossed the line and Fliqpy crossed the Moral Event Horizon, going down in history as one of the most heinous animated characters of all time, top 5 easily (before you ask, no, the amount of violence doesn't bother me, the cruelty does). So here's what happened: a bloated-up Flaky's quills popped some balloons, and surprisingly he flipped-out, killing everybody except Flaky and The Mole (who, aside from being innocent, had also planned a party for him). How he murdered them is as Squick-worthy, graphic, brutal and cruel as his other murders. He gorily carves a piece off Toothy's face while the poor guy was terrified, begging him not to and whimpering like it isn't acting at all (which made me actually cry in genuine sympathy and was the final nail on HTF's coffin for me), gives Cuddles (Toothy's best friend, mind you) the piece of Toothy's face to shock him in the cruelest way possible and ties some balloons on him, getting him sliced to bits by a fan, carves Nutty like an apple, shoves Mime in a blender and rolls a barrel with Sniffles and knives in it. Seriously, Flippy in my opinion is nothing more than a torturous psychopath who kills people from little to no reason at all, and gives other bears (both fictional and real) a bad name. After some thought, I gave up on the show, because of the Flippy episodes and lack of comeuppance on Fliqpy's part (mostly). "Tongue in Cheek" is nothing- here's my nominee for the episode that goes too far even for HTF, folks: "Party Animal"! And it was one of the first times I wanted to strangle a fictional character. A final note: The reason why I wrote the Q's in Fliqpy in bold is because I want you to understand it's a Q and not a P.
  • Ferigeras: Before I begin, I'm not one to be disgusted by merely any kind of Cruel and Unusual Death this show could present, because by the show's very nature, it relies on a lot of crossing of the line... twice and I always acknowledged it as such, so unlike my fellow tropers above I don't consider even overly messy deaths to be going too far for the show's... well, "standards", as long as they stay true to the show's overly cartoonish and gory black comedy nature (although yes, just like many others I can't stand the mere sight of The Ants due to them putting Sniffles through constant Disproportionate Retribution every time they appear). That being said, however, one episode managed to give me just such a moment that I think was horribly done: "Letter Late Than Never". The premise is admittedly a fun one: Lumpy working as a mailman. Lumpy is actually one of my favorite characters this show has and while it's true that his frequent stupidity and even occasional antagonistic roles cause a lot of death and destruction, I think that he's a generally entertaining character to watch and he isn't even really safe from this show's Laser-Guided Karma either. With him having so many jobs yet messing up several of them in over-the-top fashion, an episode in which Lumpy works as something fairly commonplace like a mailman sounded like this, just your usual Lumpy-style episode. Turns out I was proven wrong in the worst way possible. And the reason for that is one single character: The Killer Turtle. This needs explanation: Just as Lumpy delivers his first mail in the episode, he discovers a doghouse with a skull sign on it, naturally fearing what would come out of it. But once it turns out to be the aforementioned turtle, Lumpy first laughs it off and then pats the turtle on the head, after which het gets his finger violently bitten. Lumpy then tries to run away but keeps tripping on one random object after another until he eventually reaches his car, where he is then mauled by the turtle, in gruesome manner. But that's just the beginning, because it turns out the turtle is out to chase down Lumpy, as it appears a second time not too long after the first scene. This time, Lumpy tries using a can of dog repellent on the turtle, but ends up spraying his own eyes by accident. He then can't see the turtle approaching him and by the time he spots it, he already gets severely mauled for the second time. Then it all comes to a head in the episode's last few minutes, where Lumpy has to climb up a mountain to reach a house he can deliver his next mail to. And this is the part that I very much consider my D Mo S of this show: Just as Lumpy exhaustedly reaches the mountain's top, that damned turtle suddenly appears infront of the house Lumpy just reached through what can only be explained by Offscreen Teleportation, after which Lumpy steps back out of fear and accidentally slips off the edge. Lumpy then falls all the way from the mountain to come crashing down to the ground, which shockingly didn't kill him. What instead happens to him is a slow and unbearable death scene easily comparable to Sniffles' death that's already been talked about above. Immediately after Lumpy ends up an immobile and bloody mess after the fall, through Offscreen Teleportation (again) the turtle immediately appears next to Lumpy, whom it now begins pulling to it while eating him whole, with the poor moose unable to defend himself whatsoever. He desperately tries reaching for the nearby dog repellant with his antler, only for it to spray on his eyes... again. The episode ends with Lumpy eaten alive with the very last shot being of the turtle spitting out one of his antlers... and burping of course. To sum up what makes this episode so bad to me: Instead of another crazy Lumpy episode with him causing lots of chaos to happen, there's actually relatively little in the way of death and injury happening to other characters by his mistakes or basically anything else for that matter (only two characters die by him through complete accident and the first death only occurs about 5 minutes in, in a 7-Minute long episode), instead subjecting Lumpy (and the viewer) to possibly the slowest, dullest and most un-cartoonish pain a single episode could ever cram in, all that caused by a slow-ass turtle that (funnily enough) only exists to slow down the episode to a painful crawl whenever it shows up, but it's the last bit that really makes this episode my least favorite in the TV series. Sniffles still objectively had the worse death in "Tongue in Cheek", but I think watching Lumpy slowly getting devoured while he is unable to do anything about it just after barely surviving a deadly fall from a mountain on top of already having suffered severe maulings before just feels like a chore. There's over-the-top black comedy gore and chaos the show usually goes with and then there's spending too much time on frustratingly dull and drawn-out suffering. This easily falls into the latter.
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btw i didnt know which one was the one you were referring to, so i grabbed them all
 
HenryKissiger said:
I also don't understand their desire to break media down into bullet points and compartmentalize every aspect of it until all context and meaning is lost.
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Because delving into actual analysis and discussing the worth of these time-tested conventions is too hard for their (allegedly) superior intellect.

Also: has anyone gone through the Values Dissonance pages yet, because that place feels like Tumblr wrote it. Here are links to values dissonance in film and in Western animation.
 
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