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GethN7 said:
You wouldn't be far off.

My friend Brent Laabs wrote a blog post basically agreeing that's a pretty valid way of putting it in many respects.

Troping Considered Harmful

My wiki sucks. Actually, it isn't just All The Tropes ; TV Tropes sucks too. I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm open to cr...
blog.brentlaabs.com blog.brentlaabs.com

tl;dr: Troping is inherent autism, and it many ways our critics are right to point out it looks fruitless and stupid.
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Brent is not wrong on any part of this, even if the article itself is half a decade old. In five years, many things have changed, but a single website hasn't. A single sentence on why this thread even exists.
 
Someone has obsessive compulsive disorder on The Simpsons side of TV Tropes. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnintentionallyUnsympathetic/TheSimpsons

I remembered there is someone or a group of people who outright hate Lisa Simpson but cannot shut the fuck up about it, and there are many hairsplitters who are willing to die over making Frank Grimes the martyred hero of Homer's Enemy on its own page.

I also remembered there was a part dedicated to Bart Simpson, but that got erased. As if the brat can't be an unlikable piece of shit in some episodes?
 
GethN7 said:
tl;dr: Troping is inherent autism, and it many ways our critics are right to point out it looks fruitless and stupid.
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I think the saddest part might be that a catalog of tropes is supposed to just be a tool for would-be writers and maybe, though doubtful, something for curious people. Some people might want to learn what's say "foreshadowing" and read some examples. There is some value on that.

What actually happens is that you get a bunch of obsessed nerds adding "tropes" to My little pony or whatever they want to rant "trope" that day like, say, how "transphobic" the latest Marvel movie is. No, seriously. My little pony has more content on tv tropes than all Shakespeare plays combined.

I mean, if you joined the site to learn about writing, but you just end up adding "tropes" all day, all while, unironically, ranting about how the works of Nietzche apply to My little pony, that's just sad.

If you just want to talk about how much you love ponies or whatever, by that point, you would be better just writing a blog instead of pretending you're doing something meaningful by adding tropes and shoehorning it everywhere 24/7. At least you would get writing credits for it. It's just a huge waste of time.

I just don't get it.
 
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Get a load of this.

I had a History professor (he was teaching a literature class related to history), and for our presentations, he told us to include a section on what tropes were used in the relevant book.

This one faggot came in and literally read off a list of tropes, verbatim, for TV Tropes, and he seemed proud of it to boot.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
This one faggot came in and literally read off a list of tropes, verbatim, for TV Tropes, and he seemed proud of it to boot.
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I can picture it going something like this:

The adventures of Tom Sawyer:

"ho hay: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry fin clearly loved to hang out, therefore, they were in love with each other. The author obviously intended them to be a couple, a scene in a chapter in the book heavily implied they kissed each other."
 
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I think this person's posts are supposed to be a joke, but it's funny that you can't tell because most DMoS entries are equally stupid
 
jellycar said:
Troper Tales were very lulzworthy. I wonder why they got rid of it?
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NerdShamer said:
Because even FE has a sense of shame.
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When it attracted the sort of "holy shit, look at these crazy faggots" attention to the point it was not easily ignorable (thanks CrazyGogg's "This Troper" series for exposing just how much weird, creepy autism could be found in the average TT in large part), that's when the TVT admins realized what sort of cancer they had given birth to and decided to give it some massive chemo.

Some of the autism was a lot of "this shit never happened" knob polishing, and a lot of it was inane confessions to embarrassing things no sane person should admit to.

I believe the straws that broke the camel's back was all the sex kinks and potentially criminal things tropers were willing to admit to without any discretion.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Get a load of this.

I had a History professor (he was teaching a literature class related to history), and for our presentations, he told us to include a section on what tropes were used in the relevant book.

This one faggot came in and literally read off a list of tropes, verbatim, for TV Tropes, and he seemed proud of it to boot.
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If it weren't for the fact that your professor probably wasn't familiar with Tvtropes I bet that guy probably would have gotten an F. Just like those lazy bastards who get busted for copy-pasting things off Wikipedia.
 
Ilikeoreos said:
If it weren't for the fact that your professor probably wasn't familiar with Tvtropes I bet that guy probably would have gotten an F. Just like those lazy bastards who get busted for copy-pasting things off Wikipedia.
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Funny enough, it was an Honors class too, which makes the quality of his work even more shameful.

Honors students are the biggest faggots on campus, can't stand to be around them.
 
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