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It's sorely out of date. Any volunteers? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheAgeOfDecadence
I'm not getting stuck in TVTropes dungeon again! It took me one hour to get outta there yesterday! I still don't have myself intirely together, some of myself is still scattered.
Pages upon pages, tropes upon tropes, links upon links, examples upon examples, all accumulating endelessely in my browser tabs, forever and forever, amem! To be gazed and read, to be gazed and read, TO READ AND GAZE AND GAZE AND READ THE MORE I GAZE THE MORE I READ THE MORE I READ THE MORE I GAZE MORE MORE MORE GAZEWS MORE READ MORE GAZE! Ia ia! Anhagabauê!
As awful as TVTropes has gotten, […]
There was at least a time when we had Outer Limits and Twilight Zone twists instead of whatever stupid anime names they have now.There was a time when it wasn't awful?
As awful as TVTropes has gotten, […]
There was a time when it wasn't awful?
As I was reading your post, I realized I had four TVTropes tabs open in my browser...I'm not getting stuck in TVTropes dungeon again! It took me one hour to get outta there yesterday! I still don't have myself intirely together, some of myself is still scattered.
Pages upon pages, tropes upon tropes, links upon links, examples upon examples, all accumulating endelessely in my browser tabs, forever and forever, amem!
Now, now, there was a time when it was a prestigious environment for discussion of media!
...Maybe it was always a different kind of shit...
?As I was reading your post, I realized I had four TVTropes tabs open in my browser...I'm not getting stuck in TVTropes dungeon again! It took me one hour to get outta there yesterday! I still don't have myself intirely together, some of myself is still scattered.
Pages upon pages, tropes upon tropes, links upon links, examples upon examples, all accumulating endelessely in my browser tabs, forever and forever, amem!
What exactly is so horrible about TVTropes besides this:
In fact, I believe that they edit out any sort of thought on main pages that might be derisive of a particular work.
it's pretty fucking telling that TVTropes has a huge list of Games, Anime, and certain TV shows that they're obsessed with and barely a fucking peep about literature. Well, that's because people who've bothered to read a decent book at some point in their lives cringe when they see this shit. I know I do, and I'm not particularly well-read.
I don't know. For me it's just opening it and a few hours later suddenly discovering that there's a lot of pages open. I don't know how it works.What exactly is so horrible about TVTropes besides this:
Oh man, TVTropes is fucking terrible. A big issue would be that it's completely uncritical at all - okay, I'm not denying that EdgyDex can have its problems, but I prefer this to a list of completely saccharine bullshit about how your Mass Effect romance was a "Tear Jerker". In fact, I believe that they edit out any sort of thought on main pages that might be derisive of a particular work.
So there's really no analysis - they just have a list of "tropes" that they make up, (which to be fair, can be kinda fun at times, and archetypes do exist), but then they try to make everything fit into that box instead of looking at things holistically and within the greater context of a particular work of art. It becomes this dick-measuring contest of "how can I pigeonhole as many 'tropes' into one thing that I like as possible?" rather than trying to gain an understanding of something.
It's much more reasonable than the usual SJW stuff, though.Occasionally you can also see a certain SJW vibe rearing itsuglyunconventionally beautiful head, particularly under stuff like "Unfortunate Implications", the vast majority of which is written up by people looking to be offended by something.
Oh God:It's a haven for "quirky" people with "nerdy" interests who are "OMG so awkward" but in reality just as boring as any other cunt. Probably even more boring actually - I rather like talking to people on the subway, and they can probably hold a conversation on a topic that isn't Dr. Who. I mean, it's pretty fucking telling that TVTropes has a huge list of Games, Anime, and certain TV shows that they're obsessed with and barely a fucking peep about literature. Well, that's because people who've bothered to read a decent book at some point in their lives cringe when they see this shit. I know I do, and I'm not particularly well-read.
show us yer tropes
I don't know. For me it's just opening it and a few hours later suddenly discovering that there's a lot of pages open. I don't know how it works.
Also, gain an understanding of something?
Anyway, how would you define "well-read"? And what is a "decent book" and how would "decent books" occupy a lot of space at such place?
Yeah, I read the Game Breaker pages too.It is also occasionally the most efficient one-stop source of information/discussion on specific games whose finer details might be spread across various fora threads.