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* OpeningTheSandbox: When your PlayerCharacter reaches the age of majority (18 in most servers), the game cuts you loose to do pretty much whatever you want. Of course, this also means you lose the safety nets being a minor provides, so tread carefully.
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** American "barcade" businesses often go with an aesthetic that captures the look and feel of 1980s arcades, featuring refurbished arcade cabinets from the 20th century and newer arcade games designed to capture the look and feel of them.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Used occasionally, but frequently subverted when the character who attempts this is punished for their actions.
** Non-violent protesters believe this and are something of a TropeCodifier here.
** Non-violent protesters believe this and are something of a TropeCodifier here.
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** Used occasionally, but frequently subverted when the character who attempts this is punished for their actions.
** Non-violent protesters believe this and are something of a TropeCodifier here.
** Used occasionally, but frequently subverted when the character who attempts this is punished for their actions.
** Non-violent protesters believe this and are something of a TropeCodifier here.
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** This is a staple of the "Retail" level. At any time, someone can walk into the store and need your assistance.
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** Players with certain flavours of the Autism trait tend to do this without realising it.
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* SanityMeter: A truly elusive game mechanic that's difficult to completely understand for even the highest leveled of players in the appropriate specialist sections of the Doctor class, and the effects of the meter are notoriously difficult to downright impossible to relieve. Sometimes players are afflicted with moderate to debilitating penalties right as soon as they start the game, sometimes they gain the immediate effects from traumatizing incidents [[note]]one well-known example is particularly long or brutal [=PvP=] matches[[/note]], and sometimes the effects are gradually built up through a whole game's worth of playing. Resistance to how quickly the meter fills will vary between players, where two players can experience the same horror and only one of them will feel the mental aftereffects while the other will remain mostly unfazed. The effects of the sudden debuff vary wildly too, which include but are not limited to vivid nightmares while resting, and a massive penalty to the characters' Fear Resistance and/or losing most of the control over the characters' actions when placed in similar situations.
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* SanityMeter: A truly elusive game mechanic that's difficult to completely understand for even the highest leveled of players in the appropriate specialist sections of the Doctor class, and the effects of the meter are notoriously difficult to downright impossible to relieve. Sometimes players are afflicted with moderate to debilitating penalties right as soon as they start the game, sometimes they gain the immediate effects from traumatizing incidents [[note]]one well-known example is particularly long or brutal [=PvP=] matches[[/note]], and sometimes the effects are gradually built up through a whole game's worth of playing. Resistance to how quickly the meter fills will vary between players, where two players can experience the same horror and only one of them will feel the mental aftereffects while the other will remain mostly unfazed. The effects of the sudden debuff vary wildly too, too depending on which version one is afflicted with, which include but are not limited to vivid nightmares while resting, and a massive penalty to the characters' Fear Resistance and/or losing most of the control over the characters' actions when placed in similar situations.situations, and in extreme cases, the player may feel a compulsion to manually delete their save file. This happens often enough that there are multiple player classes dedicated to relieving the issues caused, to varying degrees of success.
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* PushPolling:
** ''[=PiQ's=]'' (replacement for ''Newtype USA''): An article regarding fans' opinions on their new format. The fact that it was called the "Cheese and Whine Party" pretty much guaranteed that anyone who didn't like it wasn't exactly going to get much sympathy.
** Happens all the time on Website/{{Wikipedia}}. Many people seem to think they can change the (nebulous) rules and force all other editors to do what they say, simply by holding a small biased poll on the matter. One of the more famous ones was a policy proposal to ''outlaw sarcasm''.
** Google Docs offers a surprisingly long survey, and the bulk of the questions are asking whether the user is aware of such-and-such feature. It seems it's at least as much about making the surveyed users aware of those features than it's about gauging how many people are using them, which could presumably be accomplished without a survey since Google Docs runs on Google's own servers.
** Any Twitter poll that says "RT for yes, fave/like for no". Since only one of those options is a signal boost, and people generally follow people whose opinions they share to some extent, you can bet more potential "yes" voters are going to see this than "no" voters.
** There was a famous RealLife example to show how people will sign any petition if it's worded the right way. People were asked to sign a petition to ban the substance [[http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp dihydrogen monoxide]] -- used in industry with almost no regulations, used by various kinds of criminals, capable of killing humans and other animals, able to corrode iron... Of course, anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry should know what molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. [[note]] Unfortunately, there really is a pressure group that actually does want to ban water -- and yes, they do call it water -- because they were so disgusted with the Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax that they wanted to "teach them a lesson". They are very militant and very ''very'' angry. [[/note]]
** One infamous push poll was created by Karl Rove while working to get UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush nominated for president over John [=McCain=]. "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John [=McCain=] for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"[[note]]This was also connected with pictures of [=McCain=] with his adopted daughter Bridget, who was born in Bangladesh and thus has dark South Asian skin.[[/note]] Other polls implied that he was homosexual and that he was mentally deranged because of his captivity in Vietnam. Theoretically this is a moot point, because he didn't -- but the poll put the idea in people's heads, without ''technically'' making a provably false accusation.
** Moral philosophers do this on purpose, and it is amazing how they can completely change someone's answer to the most fundamental questions of life by changing only the way exactly the same question is phrased. Which is why education is important in the first place.
** When Kay Hagan was running against Elizabeth Dole for a North Carolina U.S. Senate seat, potential voters received calls from a company that was taking a poll. One of the questions is, "Would it affect your vote to know that Kay Hagan is associating with and taking money from atheists?" This question and some others like it soon made it clear that the "polling company" was not legitimate, but was only asking questions to raise doubts about Hagan. Dole's campaign also ran a TV ad implying that Hagan, who was a former Sunday school teacher, was an atheist. By the way, Dole lost the election.
* Backfired for Republican Minnesota state representative Eric Lucero, who created an online poll in 2020 reading "It was recently reported Gov. Walz is considering a unilateral edict with a stroke of his pen to mandate masks upon everybody across Minnesota. Do you support Gov. Walz continuing to usurp the Legislative Branch, violate the Constitution, and create his own laws as an unchecked king?" Despite the incredibly biased wording, 69% of respondents on Facebook and 91.7% on Twitter voted "Yes, I do."
** A rumored RealLife example that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union. The politicians interested in splitting the Union polled the general public with the question "Do you want to be independent?" Obviously, nobody is going to answer "no".
** In the Netherlands, right-wing politician Geert Wilders was put on trial for using this trope to incite hate speech during one of his campaign rallies. During the rally, he asked his followers if they wanted "More or less Moroccans" in the Netherlands, to which most chanted "Less!". Wilders then stated "We'll take care of that, then.", which caused thousands of people to press charges against him for discriminatory statements. The public proscecutor decided to take the case and Wilders was eventually charged with "hate speech and inciting discrimination" at the court case. He, nevertheless, did not get punished by the court and later walked back on his words, stating he only meant the "criminal" fraction of Moroccans during his rally speech.
** ''[=PiQ's=]'' (replacement for ''Newtype USA''): An article regarding fans' opinions on their new format. The fact that it was called the "Cheese and Whine Party" pretty much guaranteed that anyone who didn't like it wasn't exactly going to get much sympathy.
** Happens all the time on Website/{{Wikipedia}}. Many people seem to think they can change the (nebulous) rules and force all other editors to do what they say, simply by holding a small biased poll on the matter. One of the more famous ones was a policy proposal to ''outlaw sarcasm''.
** Google Docs offers a surprisingly long survey, and the bulk of the questions are asking whether the user is aware of such-and-such feature. It seems it's at least as much about making the surveyed users aware of those features than it's about gauging how many people are using them, which could presumably be accomplished without a survey since Google Docs runs on Google's own servers.
** Any Twitter poll that says "RT for yes, fave/like for no". Since only one of those options is a signal boost, and people generally follow people whose opinions they share to some extent, you can bet more potential "yes" voters are going to see this than "no" voters.
** There was a famous RealLife example to show how people will sign any petition if it's worded the right way. People were asked to sign a petition to ban the substance [[http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp dihydrogen monoxide]] -- used in industry with almost no regulations, used by various kinds of criminals, capable of killing humans and other animals, able to corrode iron... Of course, anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry should know what molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. [[note]] Unfortunately, there really is a pressure group that actually does want to ban water -- and yes, they do call it water -- because they were so disgusted with the Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax that they wanted to "teach them a lesson". They are very militant and very ''very'' angry. [[/note]]
** One infamous push poll was created by Karl Rove while working to get UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush nominated for president over John [=McCain=]. "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John [=McCain=] for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"[[note]]This was also connected with pictures of [=McCain=] with his adopted daughter Bridget, who was born in Bangladesh and thus has dark South Asian skin.[[/note]] Other polls implied that he was homosexual and that he was mentally deranged because of his captivity in Vietnam. Theoretically this is a moot point, because he didn't -- but the poll put the idea in people's heads, without ''technically'' making a provably false accusation.
** Moral philosophers do this on purpose, and it is amazing how they can completely change someone's answer to the most fundamental questions of life by changing only the way exactly the same question is phrased. Which is why education is important in the first place.
** When Kay Hagan was running against Elizabeth Dole for a North Carolina U.S. Senate seat, potential voters received calls from a company that was taking a poll. One of the questions is, "Would it affect your vote to know that Kay Hagan is associating with and taking money from atheists?" This question and some others like it soon made it clear that the "polling company" was not legitimate, but was only asking questions to raise doubts about Hagan. Dole's campaign also ran a TV ad implying that Hagan, who was a former Sunday school teacher, was an atheist. By the way, Dole lost the election.
* Backfired for Republican Minnesota state representative Eric Lucero, who created an online poll in 2020 reading "It was recently reported Gov. Walz is considering a unilateral edict with a stroke of his pen to mandate masks upon everybody across Minnesota. Do you support Gov. Walz continuing to usurp the Legislative Branch, violate the Constitution, and create his own laws as an unchecked king?" Despite the incredibly biased wording, 69% of respondents on Facebook and 91.7% on Twitter voted "Yes, I do."
** A rumored RealLife example that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union. The politicians interested in splitting the Union polled the general public with the question "Do you want to be independent?" Obviously, nobody is going to answer "no".
** In the Netherlands, right-wing politician Geert Wilders was put on trial for using this trope to incite hate speech during one of his campaign rallies. During the rally, he asked his followers if they wanted "More or less Moroccans" in the Netherlands, to which most chanted "Less!". Wilders then stated "We'll take care of that, then.", which caused thousands of people to press charges against him for discriminatory statements. The public proscecutor decided to take the case and Wilders was eventually charged with "hate speech and inciting discrimination" at the court case. He, nevertheless, did not get punished by the court and later walked back on his words, stating he only meant the "criminal" fraction of Moroccans during his rally speech.
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** Type -1: Babies, small children, fairly old people, people with serious physical or mental handicaps, most animals, almost all plants, fungus, many microorganisms.
** Type 0: Most people, particularly large trees.
** Type 1: Athletes, soldiers, martial artists, police, firefighters, stuntmen, certain kinds of circus freaks, large predators like lions, tigers, and alligators, other very aggressive animals like elephants.
** Type 2: Robots, cyborgs with ''really'' good prosthetics, computers with sufficiently advanced A.I., humans with scale-breaking intelligence of all kinds, people enhanced through clothes somehow[[note]]Seriously, think about it. For example, surviving sub-zero temperatures is a superhuman ability, which anyone can manage if they're bundled up enough[[/note]], humans piloting tanks, jets, or any other vehicle with destructive capabilities.
** Type 4: Diseases in general, thermonuclear weapons, and any other weapons of mass destruction.
** Type 5: The human race collectively.
** Type -1: Babies, small children, fairly old people, people with serious physical or mental handicaps, most animals, almost all plants, fungus, many microorganisms.
** Type 0: Most people, particularly large trees.
** Type 1: Athletes, soldiers, martial artists, police, firefighters, stuntmen, certain kinds of circus freaks, large predators like lions, tigers, and alligators, other very aggressive animals like elephants.
** Type 2: Robots, cyborgs with ''really'' good prosthetics, computers with sufficiently advanced A.I., humans with scale-breaking intelligence of all kinds, people enhanced through clothes somehow[[note]]Seriously, think about it. For example, surviving sub-zero temperatures is a superhuman ability, which anyone can manage if they're bundled up enough[[/note]], humans piloting tanks, jets, or any other vehicle with destructive capabilities.
** Type 4: Diseases in general, thermonuclear weapons, and any other weapons of mass destruction.
** Type 5: The human race collectively.
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** An electromagnetic field is used to communicate and get positional information from a specialized pen whose nib sensor is also pressure-sensitive for controlling brush width, opacity, tilt, and rotation. This is used by all sorts of tactile devices, including [[UsefulNotes/GeneralGamingGamepads gamepads]] like the [[UsefulNotes/OtherSegaSystems Sega Pico]].
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** Google once did a survey of passersby in Times Square to see how many knew what a browser was. Very few did. It was so amusing that they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ posted it on YouTube]] where it proved popular.
** Child reporters on Germany's public broadcasting channel ARD once asked members of parliament and other politicians about the internet. Among the most infamous responses was the minister of justice's reply to what browser she uses: "Brauser? Remind me again, what's a Brauser?".
** Google once did a survey of passersby in Times Square to see how many knew what a browser was. Very few did. It was so amusing that they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ posted it on YouTube]] where it proved popular.
** Child reporters on Germany's public broadcasting channel ARD once asked members of parliament and other politicians about the internet. Among the most infamous responses was the minister of justice's reply to what browser she uses: "Brauser? Remind me again, what's a Brauser?".
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* OnlyUsefulAsToiletPaper:
** The transience of news is recognised in the proverb: "Today's headline is tomorrow's fish&chip wrapper."
** Subverted by Creator/MarvelComics, who actually printed a short ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''/''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' story on novelty toilet paper in 1979. Many years later, for AprilFoolsDay 2023, they republished it as a {{webcomic}}.
** Rudolph Louis (music critic for the ''Muchner Neuste Nachrichten'') wrote an uncomplimentary review of one of composer Max Reger's works. Reger wrote to Louis:
-->I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.
** Count [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Khvostov Dmitry Khvostov]] self-published his poetry because publishing houses refused to. There's a Russian story claiming [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Krylov Ivan Krylov]] was once in dire need of ''something'' for wiping purposes while outside, and was "saved" when the count drove past with some copies of his latest book.
** During WWI in Tanzania, the isolated German colonial army used obsolete documents (maps, letters, etc.) as toilet paper. An eccentric British intelligence officer dug up their latrines to retrieve a wide variety of useful, if outdated, information.
** Supposedly, Creator/JRRTolkien was once given a gift by a fan of a cup with the writing on the One Ring inscribed on it. He didn't understand why anyone would [[MisaimedFandom give him something based on such an evil artifact]], so he decided to just use it as an ashtray.
** Following the infamous "Pine Tar" incident involving George Brett using too much of the stuff on a bat, and Major League Baseball saying the "spirit" of the rule was not broken, then New York Yankees manager Billy Martin quipped "The Major League Baseball rulebook is only useful if you go out deer hunting and run out of toilet paper!"
** The transience of news is recognised in the proverb: "Today's headline is tomorrow's fish&chip wrapper."
** Subverted by Creator/MarvelComics, who actually printed a short ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''/''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' story on novelty toilet paper in 1979. Many years later, for AprilFoolsDay 2023, they republished it as a {{webcomic}}.
** Rudolph Louis (music critic for the ''Muchner Neuste Nachrichten'') wrote an uncomplimentary review of one of composer Max Reger's works. Reger wrote to Louis:
-->I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.
** Count [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Khvostov Dmitry Khvostov]] self-published his poetry because publishing houses refused to. There's a Russian story claiming [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Krylov Ivan Krylov]] was once in dire need of ''something'' for wiping purposes while outside, and was "saved" when the count drove past with some copies of his latest book.
** During WWI in Tanzania, the isolated German colonial army used obsolete documents (maps, letters, etc.) as toilet paper. An eccentric British intelligence officer dug up their latrines to retrieve a wide variety of useful, if outdated, information.
** Supposedly, Creator/JRRTolkien was once given a gift by a fan of a cup with the writing on the One Ring inscribed on it. He didn't understand why anyone would [[MisaimedFandom give him something based on such an evil artifact]], so he decided to just use it as an ashtray.
** Following the infamous "Pine Tar" incident involving George Brett using too much of the stuff on a bat, and Major League Baseball saying the "spirit" of the rule was not broken, then New York Yankees manager Billy Martin quipped "The Major League Baseball rulebook is only useful if you go out deer hunting and run out of toilet paper!"
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* NoOffButton: Certain devices that rely on chemical reactions obviously can't be easily shut down once the reaction starts, unless you have control over the access to the reactants themselves.
** Solid fuel rocket motors are perhaps one of the more consequential devices not to have an off button. Compare with liquid fueled rockets which can be both throttled and shut down by controlling the propellant flow, a solid fuel motor will burn at a predetermined rate until all the fuel is used up. In the case of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster]] this severely limited the shuttle abort modes meaning the crew was basically stuck until the boosters had burnt out no matter what might start to go wrong.
*** Doubly a problem when nuclear warheads are attached to solid fueled rockets, although a SelfDestructMechanism can be employed.
** Likewise hand grenades. When the lever is released, the spring-loaded striker strikes the primer, igniting the fuse. When it burns through to the explosive charge, Boom!
*** This holds true for most other fuse-detonated explosives too, unless the fuse is sufficiently long that you can safely cut it or yank it out.
** Solid fuel rocket motors are perhaps one of the more consequential devices not to have an off button. Compare with liquid fueled rockets which can be both throttled and shut down by controlling the propellant flow, a solid fuel motor will burn at a predetermined rate until all the fuel is used up. In the case of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster]] this severely limited the shuttle abort modes meaning the crew was basically stuck until the boosters had burnt out no matter what might start to go wrong.
*** Doubly a problem when nuclear warheads are attached to solid fueled rockets, although a SelfDestructMechanism can be employed.
** Likewise hand grenades. When the lever is released, the spring-loaded striker strikes the primer, igniting the fuse. When it burns through to the explosive charge, Boom!
*** This holds true for most other fuse-detonated explosives too, unless the fuse is sufficiently long that you can safely cut it or yank it out.
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** Consumer-level video editing programs such as iMovie and Windows Movie Maker have their share of effects that make things look brown ("Sepia"), old (old reel marks), or even very old (choppy action and faded borders). Of course, these are abused by amateur video makers.
*** Effects like those are even ''built into'' some camcorders; Sony's Digital-8 decks are a good example, as are some flash and DVD-based cameras. Needless to say, people who do serious video work tend to recommend not using them under any circumstances and doing all that sort of thing in postproduction.
*** Ditto for digital cameras, which very often include options to take pictures in sepia and/or in black-and-white.
*** Digital filtering programs such as Instagram [[http://gizmodo.com/5827521/150000000-fake-vintage-photos-are-now-on-instagram achieve similar effects with still photography]].
** "Vintage" T-shirts for sale at retail stores. Brand-new shirts deliberately faded and cracked to look like they're 30 years old. Pre-ripped jeans also count.
** Certain slot machines (mainly those manufactured by IGT) are still being made with mechanical reels and levers to pull, even though they're all run by computers now and these are no longer required. Many people prefer these for a more authentic experience. Even in Minnesota, where mechanical reels are not allowed, the video versions of these same games are still built with levers. Sadly, machines that dispense payout in coins/tokens (instead of tickets) are much rarer, if not extinct.
** Computers and laptops built with false-wooden frames, buttons, and similar accessories are fairly popular among various groups, particularly steampunk.
*** Along those lines is a remake of the Commodore 64. It has the same shell but with modern hardware and operating system. But it also includes a Commodore 64 emulator for the full experience.
** Various architectural styles like Neoclassicism or Gothic Revival. Amusingly, the latter was a reaction to the former: Neoclassicism was seen as "Enlightenment" and "liberal" (in the old sense), so Romantics and (old-sense) conservatives [[StartMyOwn invented their own revival]] to counter it, drawing RomanticismVersusEnlightenment into the field of architecture in the ugliest (except for the buildings, ''all'' of which were beautiful) possible way. The debate didn't end until the Bauhaus-educated German Modernists, driven from UsefulNotes/NaziGermany for being "degenerate" (or worse, Jewish) came out of nowhere to destroy them both. (The Soviet Vkhutemas was doing much the same thing, but since they were DirtyCommunists they were ignored in the West).
** Many alleys of Budapest's Inner City were redesigned to look 19th century, complete with lamp posts that look like gas lanterns.
** The goal of the Margaret Bridge's reconstruction was explicitly to restore the bridge to its 1936 design.
** Reliced musical instruments. Fender is particularly guilty of releasing guitars and basses that are purposely beaten and aged in the factory that look like they have 50 years worth of abuse on them. This is also the entire business model of Nash guitars, which are really beat up Fender copies for about twice the price of new Fenders. Needless to say there is quite a bit of [[BrokenBase contention amongst guitarists]] as to whether this is an affordable alternative to vintage instruments that can run up to $70,000 a piece or if they are bought by posers who want their guitars to look worn without actually putting the work into having a guitar get that beat up through touring and playing constantly.
*** There's also another aspect to this. From the 50s to the 70s all instruments used nitrocellulose lacquer, but as it was rather hazardous, polyurethane is the standard finish today. Nitro is very "fragile" and easily comes off and ages very nicely (fading, yellowing and so on). This is why real vintage guitars have a special sort of relic to them. Polyester on the other hand is very hard and thick, has no real aging and hardly ever comes off, which makes getting a played in feeling with many modern guitars is close to impossible. It's thick and goopy and dampens the sound, but protects the instrument and offers a wider selection of colors. Polyurethane is somewhere between nitro and polyester -- only a little bit thicker than nitro so it doesn't kill your harmonics, but with durability and color choices comparable to polyester. It still doesn't age quite the same, and opinions vary as to whether that's good or bad. Still, it's generally considered an acceptable compromise.
*** On the subject of musical instruments, there's also been a movement in classical music called "historical performance practice" which is exactly what it sounds like - to use certain styles of instruments and vocal techniques to perform early music works as they would have sounded at the time of their premieres. When instrumentalists aren't playing on actual older instruments (like those of the various Cremona violin makers in the 17th century), they build new ones with the style and sound of older ones.
** Doritos re-released three chip flavors (Taco, Sour Cream & Onion, and Salsa Rio) that they discontinued in the 1970s or 80s in 2012, and put them in bags made to look like the bag design from that era as well. In Canada, they reissued the discontinued Ketchup flavor for a while in early 2015.
** Part of Harley-Davidson's appeal is in motorcycles that resemble those from the old days, particularly those from the Forties and Fifties, but with modern conveniences added such as the Softail rear suspension made to look like the rigid frames of yore. Add to the fact that the engines used on Big Twins aren't really that far removed from the original Knucklehead of 1936; the Twin Cam is an all-new design, but it's still conceptually similar.
** Enthusiasts either install or fabricate accessories to make their bikes more vintage looking, e.g. a FLD Dyna Switchback[[note]]Which was already intended to be reminiscent of late 50s Duo Glides[[/note]] customised to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLy5Fnwujk more closely resemble]] a late 50s to 60s FL, or build a [[https://www2.vtwinmfg.com/home reproduction]] bike that is practically identical to the original vintage models, save for more modern materials and production methods.
** Though more subtle than most, there has traditionally been a lot of demand for "film look" coming from digital video cameras, to the point of making things like 24p frame rates standard even on relatively low-end camcorders. The adoption of DSLR cameras like the Canon 5DmkII specifically aimed to duplicate the DepthOfField effects film cameras traditionally give by using standard interchangeable lenses and large image sensors; the jury is still out as to whether "film look" has been truly achieved for The Rest of Us, or if its proponents have created a new, unique DSLR look.
** Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback use cane sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup found in modern soft drinks (in countries where the latter has replaced sugar). They also feature vintage brand logos on the packaging.
** The UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} Space Needle celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2012. As part of the celebration, the whole thing was painted the "only in the 60's" shade of "Galaxy Gold" paint that it was during the 1962 World's Fair.
** In the 1990s, UsefulNotes/McDonalds built several locations in the style of their earliest restaurants. Many of these had only walk-up service, just like the earliest ones.
** A few years ago a bunch of breakfast cereals, such as Frosted Flakes and Lucky Charms, went retro by selling them in their much older box designs.
** The [[https://randyregier.com/portfolio art of Randy Regier]] consists of authentically crafted vintage/Atomic Age toys, complete with the occasional aging, packaging, printed media and shopfront setups, that range from high quality (i.e. "[=The ToyGantic=]" and "Go Fast Daddy-0"), to intentionally shoddy (i.e. the John Manshaft line and "Electric Man Waiting for a Train Set") and absurd (i.e. the "Blazing Sun Model" and "Tardy the Manpony").
** It's fairly common in Indonesian to intentionally write using the spelling pre-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Indonesian_Spelling_System EYD]] to give an old, Dutch-occupation era feel (even though the EYD was released in 1972, more than 20 years after the Dutch surrendered). For example, the Dutch restaurant specializing in Indonesian cuisine called "Tempo Doeloe" (roughly translated to "past" or "the good old days") -- the proper spelling is actually "Tempo Dulu".
** There seem to be literally dozens of applications for adding a rotary phone dial to a smartphone.
** ''8mm'' is a app that simulates Super 8 8mm analog home movie effects for use on iPhone camera videos. Celebrities such as Music/HilaryDuff and Music/SelenaGomez have (according to WordOfGod) used it for effect on Instagram videos.
** Many airlines have at least one plane in their fleet painted in a retro livery. Either one from the airline, or from an airline that has been amalgamated into the current brand that the airline owns the rights to. American Airlines for example has several planes in their 1960s livery, US Air has liveries from Pacific Southwest Air (PSA), Allegheny and Piedmont (all defunct), and British Airways has painted one plane in 1970s livery with plain "British" logo on the fuselage.
** Also a common practice with railroads:
*** Union Pacific led the way, ordering a number of [[https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/heritage/index.htm heritage engines]] representing railroads they acquired, complementing the authentically historical locomotives and railway cars UP also maintains. [[note]]The Union Pacific paint scheme itself is an aversion, having been used with no significant modifications since the 1940s. The logo goes even farther, having undergone only [[https://www.up.com/heritage/history/uplogo/index.htm minor alterations]] since ''1887''![[/note]]
*** The Norfolk Southern Railroad went all out, ordering twenty [[http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en/news/norfolk-southernsheritagelocomotives.html heritage units]] painted in the liveries of predecessor railroads, such as the Central of Georgia, Erie, Norfolk and Western, Penn Central, and Wabash.
*** UsefulNotes/{{Amtrak}} also introduced liveries in 2011 for its 40th anniversary that resembled its 1970s and 1980s paint schemes.
*** Canadian Pacific joined in in 2019, ordering freight diesels in its 1950s-era [[https://twitter.com/CanadianPacific/status/1173648554180538368 tuscan and grey]] paint scheme.
*** In October 2020, Canadian National introduced heritage liveries of their own, with a rebuilt freight locomotive displaying their pre-1960 livery, and newer locomotives painted in the liveries of railroads that were acquired by Canadian National; including Grand Trunk Western, BC Rail, and Illinois Central.[[note]]Of course, authentic liveries for those acquired railroads are still used on a number of older locomotives and freight cars in Canadian National's fleet.[[/note]]
** [[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/60074/wizard-of-oz-the/ This review]] of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' on the CED format, written in 2013 from the point of view of a 1981 reviewer who took on the then-new CED release from MGM/CBS Home Video.
** A number of toy and model kit manufacturers over the years have released older items in current packaging, designed to remind one of the old packaging. Hot Wheels Redliners are still available in some places, Matchbox once released a series of diecasts in modern blister packaging but with a little box similar to their oldest form of packaging included, and Round 2 Models, who own a few of the older brand names of model kits known to older Americans, often use the original box art for kits first released in the 1960s, unless there are legal issues to work around (such as losing the licence for ''Series/TheMunsters'' while still being allowed to sell the kits of the cars). One problem with that is that the kits haven't been re-tooled since they first came out, such that the tooling is as old as the hills. Another example is the reproduction lithographed tinplate toys currently being released solely for the collector's market.
** You can still have a house built in older styles from the 19th century onwards; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_%28architecture%29 Queenslanders]], for example, are still being built, albeit with current materials and techniques, and are available in many styles echoing the older styles, including Victorian, Federation, Edwardian, and Ashgrovian (a 20th-century style adapted from American California bungalows.)
** Gentrification or renovation of large urban areas can lead to large-scale renewal of some of the oldest parts of a city, as the place is done up to attract people with fresh paint, unbroken windows, and verandahs and awnings overhanging the footpath that no longer look like they're going to collapse on top of you when you walk under them, and to celebrate the history of the area. Some of these can go a bit far in their presentation, as they are given extra atmosphere by means some might consider an excessive amount of faux-historical packaging, such as [[http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/Street-Buildings-in-Townsville-550593820 Flinders]] [[http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/View-of-Flinders-Street-Townsville-551317217 Street East]] (second picture sepiatoned in [=GiMP=]) in Townsville, Queensland; the road is designed to make horse-like clopping sounds when cars are driven along the street.
** The British electronics store Maplin is selling a reproduction UsefulNotes/{{ZXSpectrum}}, with in-built bluetooth 3.0 and HDMI television compatibility. It looks exactly the same as the original 48K version.
** Many old towns in Europe were either entirely leveled or significantly damaged by bombings in World War II. While some were redesigned in the then modern "car friendly" style (now widely decried as an abomination against urbanism), some were then or have been since rebuilt in the original style, more or less faithfully. One of the best known is probably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche Frauenkirche]] in Dresden that was rebuilt faithfully except for the weird placement of the original stones (distinguished by their blackened appearance which is neither due to fire or pollution, but owed to age) -- in 2005. However, infill development in those neighborhoods is also often also built "in the original style" which may or may not work, but is often vastly preferred to some "hyper modern" glass palace in the midst of buildings centuries old.
** Several boutique car companies, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(automobile) Excalibur]] from the 1960s to the 1990s built small numbers of "neo-classic" cars, mimicking designs from the 1920s and 1930s.
** The Morgan Motor Company in the UK, which ''never stopped'' making cars that way. One such model, the 4/4, was first released in [[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24143/lot/133/?category=list 1936]] and ceased production in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_4/4#/media/File:2011_Morgan_4-4_1.6_Litre_front.jpg 2019]]''.
*** Volume car makers had this phase in the late 1990s and early 2000s: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_SSR Chevrolet SSR]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro_(fifth_generation) 5th-generation Camaro]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_C3#First_generation_(FC/FN;_2002) 1st-generation Citroen C3]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Challenger#Third_generation_(2008–present) 3rd-generation Dodge Challenger]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500_(2007) New Fiat 500]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(fifth_generation) 5th-generation Ford Mustang]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Thunderbird_(eleventh_generation) 11th-generation Thunderbird]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_RX-8 Mazda RX-8]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hatch New Mini]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Prowler Plymouth Prowler]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_New_Beetle VW New Beetle]].
*** A new trend in kitchen appliances is retro ascetics. It helps that some designs have have been incrementally improved since the 30s, and "retrofying" them means adding back decorative artistic elements that have been removed over the years. For example most toasters are built in a chrome bubbly shape because its ancestors were in Art Deco Streamline Moderne style. It also doesn't hurt that the 50s and 60s saw the peak advertising for home appliances in most places.
** The whole ''Keep Calm And...'' meme, with the memetic introduction set underneath a generic crown, is based on a typeface font ''Gill MS'', first devised in the early part of the 20th century as an official font for public signage provided by the London Underground. This was widely adopted by British government institutions and the stark, spare, lines of Gill MS are now absolutely, iconically, linked to British government publications in TheForties and the "stiff upper lip" ethos of [=WW2=].
** It is fairly common for well-known food and drink brands to offer some kind of product that is heavily inspired by its classic recipe and presentation.
*** Pepsi in the United States and Canada has 'Pepsi-Cola Made with Real Sugar', which as the name suggests is made with cane and beet sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup that became ubiquitous in American sodas in the 1980's.
*** Walkers crisps in the UK have a 'Salt and Shake' flavor, which are completely plain crisps that come with a separate sachet of salt that you are intended to use by pouring it into the bag and shaking it, which is how packets of crisps were sold before 'Ready Salted' packets became popular.
** Some affiliates of Creator/{{MeTV}} will - in keeping with the network's classic television theme - use variations of older station logos such as Dayton, OH's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIO-TV#/media/File:MeTV_whio_logo.png WHIO]] and Norfolk, VA's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVEC#/media/File:Me-TV_WVEC.png WVEC]].
** Consumer-level video editing programs such as iMovie and Windows Movie Maker have their share of effects that make things look brown ("Sepia"), old (old reel marks), or even very old (choppy action and faded borders). Of course, these are abused by amateur video makers.
*** Effects like those are even ''built into'' some camcorders; Sony's Digital-8 decks are a good example, as are some flash and DVD-based cameras. Needless to say, people who do serious video work tend to recommend not using them under any circumstances and doing all that sort of thing in postproduction.
*** Ditto for digital cameras, which very often include options to take pictures in sepia and/or in black-and-white.
*** Digital filtering programs such as Instagram [[http://gizmodo.com/5827521/150000000-fake-vintage-photos-are-now-on-instagram achieve similar effects with still photography]].
** "Vintage" T-shirts for sale at retail stores. Brand-new shirts deliberately faded and cracked to look like they're 30 years old. Pre-ripped jeans also count.
** Certain slot machines (mainly those manufactured by IGT) are still being made with mechanical reels and levers to pull, even though they're all run by computers now and these are no longer required. Many people prefer these for a more authentic experience. Even in Minnesota, where mechanical reels are not allowed, the video versions of these same games are still built with levers. Sadly, machines that dispense payout in coins/tokens (instead of tickets) are much rarer, if not extinct.
** Computers and laptops built with false-wooden frames, buttons, and similar accessories are fairly popular among various groups, particularly steampunk.
*** Along those lines is a remake of the Commodore 64. It has the same shell but with modern hardware and operating system. But it also includes a Commodore 64 emulator for the full experience.
** Various architectural styles like Neoclassicism or Gothic Revival. Amusingly, the latter was a reaction to the former: Neoclassicism was seen as "Enlightenment" and "liberal" (in the old sense), so Romantics and (old-sense) conservatives [[StartMyOwn invented their own revival]] to counter it, drawing RomanticismVersusEnlightenment into the field of architecture in the ugliest (except for the buildings, ''all'' of which were beautiful) possible way. The debate didn't end until the Bauhaus-educated German Modernists, driven from UsefulNotes/NaziGermany for being "degenerate" (or worse, Jewish) came out of nowhere to destroy them both. (The Soviet Vkhutemas was doing much the same thing, but since they were DirtyCommunists they were ignored in the West).
** Many alleys of Budapest's Inner City were redesigned to look 19th century, complete with lamp posts that look like gas lanterns.
** The goal of the Margaret Bridge's reconstruction was explicitly to restore the bridge to its 1936 design.
** Reliced musical instruments. Fender is particularly guilty of releasing guitars and basses that are purposely beaten and aged in the factory that look like they have 50 years worth of abuse on them. This is also the entire business model of Nash guitars, which are really beat up Fender copies for about twice the price of new Fenders. Needless to say there is quite a bit of [[BrokenBase contention amongst guitarists]] as to whether this is an affordable alternative to vintage instruments that can run up to $70,000 a piece or if they are bought by posers who want their guitars to look worn without actually putting the work into having a guitar get that beat up through touring and playing constantly.
*** There's also another aspect to this. From the 50s to the 70s all instruments used nitrocellulose lacquer, but as it was rather hazardous, polyurethane is the standard finish today. Nitro is very "fragile" and easily comes off and ages very nicely (fading, yellowing and so on). This is why real vintage guitars have a special sort of relic to them. Polyester on the other hand is very hard and thick, has no real aging and hardly ever comes off, which makes getting a played in feeling with many modern guitars is close to impossible. It's thick and goopy and dampens the sound, but protects the instrument and offers a wider selection of colors. Polyurethane is somewhere between nitro and polyester -- only a little bit thicker than nitro so it doesn't kill your harmonics, but with durability and color choices comparable to polyester. It still doesn't age quite the same, and opinions vary as to whether that's good or bad. Still, it's generally considered an acceptable compromise.
*** On the subject of musical instruments, there's also been a movement in classical music called "historical performance practice" which is exactly what it sounds like - to use certain styles of instruments and vocal techniques to perform early music works as they would have sounded at the time of their premieres. When instrumentalists aren't playing on actual older instruments (like those of the various Cremona violin makers in the 17th century), they build new ones with the style and sound of older ones.
** Doritos re-released three chip flavors (Taco, Sour Cream & Onion, and Salsa Rio) that they discontinued in the 1970s or 80s in 2012, and put them in bags made to look like the bag design from that era as well. In Canada, they reissued the discontinued Ketchup flavor for a while in early 2015.
** Part of Harley-Davidson's appeal is in motorcycles that resemble those from the old days, particularly those from the Forties and Fifties, but with modern conveniences added such as the Softail rear suspension made to look like the rigid frames of yore. Add to the fact that the engines used on Big Twins aren't really that far removed from the original Knucklehead of 1936; the Twin Cam is an all-new design, but it's still conceptually similar.
** Enthusiasts either install or fabricate accessories to make their bikes more vintage looking, e.g. a FLD Dyna Switchback[[note]]Which was already intended to be reminiscent of late 50s Duo Glides[[/note]] customised to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLy5Fnwujk more closely resemble]] a late 50s to 60s FL, or build a [[https://www2.vtwinmfg.com/home reproduction]] bike that is practically identical to the original vintage models, save for more modern materials and production methods.
** Though more subtle than most, there has traditionally been a lot of demand for "film look" coming from digital video cameras, to the point of making things like 24p frame rates standard even on relatively low-end camcorders. The adoption of DSLR cameras like the Canon 5DmkII specifically aimed to duplicate the DepthOfField effects film cameras traditionally give by using standard interchangeable lenses and large image sensors; the jury is still out as to whether "film look" has been truly achieved for The Rest of Us, or if its proponents have created a new, unique DSLR look.
** Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback use cane sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup found in modern soft drinks (in countries where the latter has replaced sugar). They also feature vintage brand logos on the packaging.
** The UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} Space Needle celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2012. As part of the celebration, the whole thing was painted the "only in the 60's" shade of "Galaxy Gold" paint that it was during the 1962 World's Fair.
** In the 1990s, UsefulNotes/McDonalds built several locations in the style of their earliest restaurants. Many of these had only walk-up service, just like the earliest ones.
** A few years ago a bunch of breakfast cereals, such as Frosted Flakes and Lucky Charms, went retro by selling them in their much older box designs.
** The [[https://randyregier.com/portfolio art of Randy Regier]] consists of authentically crafted vintage/Atomic Age toys, complete with the occasional aging, packaging, printed media and shopfront setups, that range from high quality (i.e. "[=The ToyGantic=]" and "Go Fast Daddy-0"), to intentionally shoddy (i.e. the John Manshaft line and "Electric Man Waiting for a Train Set") and absurd (i.e. the "Blazing Sun Model" and "Tardy the Manpony").
** It's fairly common in Indonesian to intentionally write using the spelling pre-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Indonesian_Spelling_System EYD]] to give an old, Dutch-occupation era feel (even though the EYD was released in 1972, more than 20 years after the Dutch surrendered). For example, the Dutch restaurant specializing in Indonesian cuisine called "Tempo Doeloe" (roughly translated to "past" or "the good old days") -- the proper spelling is actually "Tempo Dulu".
** There seem to be literally dozens of applications for adding a rotary phone dial to a smartphone.
** ''8mm'' is a app that simulates Super 8 8mm analog home movie effects for use on iPhone camera videos. Celebrities such as Music/HilaryDuff and Music/SelenaGomez have (according to WordOfGod) used it for effect on Instagram videos.
** Many airlines have at least one plane in their fleet painted in a retro livery. Either one from the airline, or from an airline that has been amalgamated into the current brand that the airline owns the rights to. American Airlines for example has several planes in their 1960s livery, US Air has liveries from Pacific Southwest Air (PSA), Allegheny and Piedmont (all defunct), and British Airways has painted one plane in 1970s livery with plain "British" logo on the fuselage.
** Also a common practice with railroads:
*** Union Pacific led the way, ordering a number of [[https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/heritage/index.htm heritage engines]] representing railroads they acquired, complementing the authentically historical locomotives and railway cars UP also maintains. [[note]]The Union Pacific paint scheme itself is an aversion, having been used with no significant modifications since the 1940s. The logo goes even farther, having undergone only [[https://www.up.com/heritage/history/uplogo/index.htm minor alterations]] since ''1887''![[/note]]
*** The Norfolk Southern Railroad went all out, ordering twenty [[http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en/news/norfolk-southernsheritagelocomotives.html heritage units]] painted in the liveries of predecessor railroads, such as the Central of Georgia, Erie, Norfolk and Western, Penn Central, and Wabash.
*** UsefulNotes/{{Amtrak}} also introduced liveries in 2011 for its 40th anniversary that resembled its 1970s and 1980s paint schemes.
*** Canadian Pacific joined in in 2019, ordering freight diesels in its 1950s-era [[https://twitter.com/CanadianPacific/status/1173648554180538368 tuscan and grey]] paint scheme.
*** In October 2020, Canadian National introduced heritage liveries of their own, with a rebuilt freight locomotive displaying their pre-1960 livery, and newer locomotives painted in the liveries of railroads that were acquired by Canadian National; including Grand Trunk Western, BC Rail, and Illinois Central.[[note]]Of course, authentic liveries for those acquired railroads are still used on a number of older locomotives and freight cars in Canadian National's fleet.[[/note]]
** [[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/60074/wizard-of-oz-the/ This review]] of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' on the CED format, written in 2013 from the point of view of a 1981 reviewer who took on the then-new CED release from MGM/CBS Home Video.
** A number of toy and model kit manufacturers over the years have released older items in current packaging, designed to remind one of the old packaging. Hot Wheels Redliners are still available in some places, Matchbox once released a series of diecasts in modern blister packaging but with a little box similar to their oldest form of packaging included, and Round 2 Models, who own a few of the older brand names of model kits known to older Americans, often use the original box art for kits first released in the 1960s, unless there are legal issues to work around (such as losing the licence for ''Series/TheMunsters'' while still being allowed to sell the kits of the cars). One problem with that is that the kits haven't been re-tooled since they first came out, such that the tooling is as old as the hills. Another example is the reproduction lithographed tinplate toys currently being released solely for the collector's market.
** You can still have a house built in older styles from the 19th century onwards; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_%28architecture%29 Queenslanders]], for example, are still being built, albeit with current materials and techniques, and are available in many styles echoing the older styles, including Victorian, Federation, Edwardian, and Ashgrovian (a 20th-century style adapted from American California bungalows.)
** Gentrification or renovation of large urban areas can lead to large-scale renewal of some of the oldest parts of a city, as the place is done up to attract people with fresh paint, unbroken windows, and verandahs and awnings overhanging the footpath that no longer look like they're going to collapse on top of you when you walk under them, and to celebrate the history of the area. Some of these can go a bit far in their presentation, as they are given extra atmosphere by means some might consider an excessive amount of faux-historical packaging, such as [[http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/Street-Buildings-in-Townsville-550593820 Flinders]] [[http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/View-of-Flinders-Street-Townsville-551317217 Street East]] (second picture sepiatoned in [=GiMP=]) in Townsville, Queensland; the road is designed to make horse-like clopping sounds when cars are driven along the street.
** The British electronics store Maplin is selling a reproduction UsefulNotes/{{ZXSpectrum}}, with in-built bluetooth 3.0 and HDMI television compatibility. It looks exactly the same as the original 48K version.
** Many old towns in Europe were either entirely leveled or significantly damaged by bombings in World War II. While some were redesigned in the then modern "car friendly" style (now widely decried as an abomination against urbanism), some were then or have been since rebuilt in the original style, more or less faithfully. One of the best known is probably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche Frauenkirche]] in Dresden that was rebuilt faithfully except for the weird placement of the original stones (distinguished by their blackened appearance which is neither due to fire or pollution, but owed to age) -- in 2005. However, infill development in those neighborhoods is also often also built "in the original style" which may or may not work, but is often vastly preferred to some "hyper modern" glass palace in the midst of buildings centuries old.
** Several boutique car companies, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(automobile) Excalibur]] from the 1960s to the 1990s built small numbers of "neo-classic" cars, mimicking designs from the 1920s and 1930s.
** The Morgan Motor Company in the UK, which ''never stopped'' making cars that way. One such model, the 4/4, was first released in [[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24143/lot/133/?category=list 1936]] and ceased production in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_4/4#/media/File:2011_Morgan_4-4_1.6_Litre_front.jpg 2019]]''.
*** Volume car makers had this phase in the late 1990s and early 2000s: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_SSR Chevrolet SSR]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro_(fifth_generation) 5th-generation Camaro]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_C3#First_generation_(FC/FN;_2002) 1st-generation Citroen C3]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Challenger#Third_generation_(2008–present) 3rd-generation Dodge Challenger]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500_(2007) New Fiat 500]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(fifth_generation) 5th-generation Ford Mustang]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Thunderbird_(eleventh_generation) 11th-generation Thunderbird]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_RX-8 Mazda RX-8]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hatch New Mini]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Prowler Plymouth Prowler]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_New_Beetle VW New Beetle]].
*** A new trend in kitchen appliances is retro ascetics. It helps that some designs have have been incrementally improved since the 30s, and "retrofying" them means adding back decorative artistic elements that have been removed over the years. For example most toasters are built in a chrome bubbly shape because its ancestors were in Art Deco Streamline Moderne style. It also doesn't hurt that the 50s and 60s saw the peak advertising for home appliances in most places.
** The whole ''Keep Calm And...'' meme, with the memetic introduction set underneath a generic crown, is based on a typeface font ''Gill MS'', first devised in the early part of the 20th century as an official font for public signage provided by the London Underground. This was widely adopted by British government institutions and the stark, spare, lines of Gill MS are now absolutely, iconically, linked to British government publications in TheForties and the "stiff upper lip" ethos of [=WW2=].
** It is fairly common for well-known food and drink brands to offer some kind of product that is heavily inspired by its classic recipe and presentation.
*** Pepsi in the United States and Canada has 'Pepsi-Cola Made with Real Sugar', which as the name suggests is made with cane and beet sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup that became ubiquitous in American sodas in the 1980's.
*** Walkers crisps in the UK have a 'Salt and Shake' flavor, which are completely plain crisps that come with a separate sachet of salt that you are intended to use by pouring it into the bag and shaking it, which is how packets of crisps were sold before 'Ready Salted' packets became popular.
** Some affiliates of Creator/{{MeTV}} will - in keeping with the network's classic television theme - use variations of older station logos such as Dayton, OH's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIO-TV#/media/File:MeTV_whio_logo.png WHIO]] and Norfolk, VA's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVEC#/media/File:Me-TV_WVEC.png WVEC]].
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** Linux installations typically show much more. In the old days, starting was so slow that the text could be read and technically oriented users often actually understood it. Watching someone use VI or Emacs can also be quite confusing, and using the text console can often lead to a screen full of confusing text.
** Mac OSX does that too, if asked politely. The point is that in case the machine hangs, the last few lines can give some clue about the problem.
** Also, the user base for these computers tends to consist of people who specifically ''dislike'' having information hidden from them, and who at least like the idea that they can customize things. Since the text is being generated anyway (for log files), echoing it to the screen is the most direct and modifiable form of display.
** It's also helpful when the computer stops for no apparent reason. By showing the last thing the computer did, and the more knowledgeable will know the next thing it was going to do, one can determine the area where the problem occurred.
** Linux installations typically show much more. In the old days, starting was so slow that the text could be read and technically oriented users often actually understood it. Watching someone use VI or Emacs can also be quite confusing, and using the text console can often lead to a screen full of confusing text.
** Mac OSX does that too, if asked politely. The point is that in case the machine hangs, the last few lines can give some clue about the problem.
** Also, the user base for these computers tends to consist of people who specifically ''dislike'' having information hidden from them, and who at least like the idea that they can customize things. Since the text is being generated anyway (for log files), echoing it to the screen is the most direct and modifiable form of display.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}}: Its assimilation as truly legal, Government-regulated currency is a slowly-going process because of the lack of proper technology and channels. The users' anonymity is particularly hard to track and even harder to enact accountability over.
* Creator/{{NBC}}: Olympic broadcasts are a textbook example. They are often Live but Delayed by many, many hours (around 16 hours for the Beijing opening ceremonies) until the American prime time when the most advertising dollars are. NBC recently persuaded the International Olympic Committee to schedule more popular events live at times more acceptable to Americans to avoid spoilers, but even then the east-west time zone delay means that half the country is spoiled thanks to the news. Finding other methods to watch the Olympics is becoming increasingly common among fans, such as watching the Olympics from other countries or from sponsored websites.
* ''WebVideo/TrashTaste'': Usually brought up when {{convers|ed}}ing the evolution of the Japanese popular culture industry. Episode 13's discussion on anime/manga media piracy suggests this is what is really at play; that traditional business metrics of a show/series' success (i.e., [[MerchandiseDriven DVD sales and merchandising]]) are slowly becoming less accurate. Hence, pirate streaming might indeed cause the spread and awareness of a show, but it may not automatically translate to sales (which is what matters). However, such a divide causes a massive wedge between anime production companies, legal streamers (like paywalled {{Creator/Netflix}} and {{Website/Crunchyroll}}), and international anime communities. In turn, it is precisely companies who try to provide accessible yet legal alternatives online (such as Kadokawa through Bookwalker--for manga at least) who are managing to bridge this gap.
* UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}}: Its assimilation as truly legal, Government-regulated currency is a slowly-going process because of the lack of proper technology and channels. The users' anonymity is particularly hard to track and even harder to enact accountability over.
* Creator/{{NBC}}: Olympic broadcasts are a textbook example. They are often Live but Delayed by many, many hours (around 16 hours for the Beijing opening ceremonies) until the American prime time when the most advertising dollars are. NBC recently persuaded the International Olympic Committee to schedule more popular events live at times more acceptable to Americans to avoid spoilers, but even then the east-west time zone delay means that half the country is spoiled thanks to the news. Finding other methods to watch the Olympics is becoming increasingly common among fans, such as watching the Olympics from other countries or from sponsored websites.
* ''WebVideo/TrashTaste'': Usually brought up when {{convers|ed}}ing the evolution of the Japanese popular culture industry. Episode 13's discussion on anime/manga media piracy suggests this is what is really at play; that traditional business metrics of a show/series' success (i.e., [[MerchandiseDriven DVD sales and merchandising]]) are slowly becoming less accurate. Hence, pirate streaming might indeed cause the spread and awareness of a show, but it may not automatically translate to sales (which is what matters). However, such a divide causes a massive wedge between anime production companies, legal streamers (like paywalled {{Creator/Netflix}} and {{Website/Crunchyroll}}), and international anime communities. In turn, it is precisely companies who try to provide accessible yet legal alternatives online (such as Kadokawa through Bookwalker--for manga at least) who are managing to bridge this gap.
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* PowderGag: As anyone who has gotten careless while baking can testify, this trope is very much possible, even if the results are usually milder and the ensuing cloud smaller. In fact, this applies to more powders than just flour --dust from spring cleaning or construction sites and finely-coarse ash also produce similar effects.
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* ScoringPoints: Many classes in schools and colleges use points to determine your grades. Also, credit scores.
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* ScoringPoints: ScoringPoints:
** Many classes in schools and colleges use points to determine your grades. Also, credit scores.
** Many classes in schools and colleges use points to determine your grades. Also, credit scores.
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* ScreechingStop: This is true on certain surfaces with certain types of brake shoes.
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* ObituaryMontage: The US Sunday morning news programs, like ''This Week'', have montages of notable deaths during the past seven days.
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** The US Sunday morning news programs, like ''This Week'', have montages of notable deaths during the past sevendays.days.
** The major news magazines, ''Time'', ''People'' and so forth, have weekly sections under such headings as "Milestones" or some similar name, and one of the listings will include brief biographies of notable people who passed away during the week covered, with major figures getting their own stories.
** At the end of the year, the magazines will devote an entire section to people who died during the past year. Some, like ''People'', will publish special issues, offering feature-length stories of the most notable people and full-page tributes to those not quite as prominent. ''People'' also takes it a step further, including not just pop culture personalities but servicemen and women who died in the line of duty (usually, the Middle East) from the end of December of the previous year to the week of deadline for the year-end issue (usually, the middle of the current December).
** The US Sunday morning news programs, like ''This Week'', have montages of notable deaths during the past seven
** The major news magazines, ''Time'', ''People'' and so forth, have weekly sections under such headings as "Milestones" or some similar name, and one of the listings will include brief biographies of notable people who passed away during the week covered, with major figures getting their own stories.
** At the end of the year, the magazines will devote an entire section to people who died during the past year. Some, like ''People'', will publish special issues, offering feature-length stories of the most notable people and full-page tributes to those not quite as prominent. ''People'' also takes it a step further, including not just pop culture personalities but servicemen and women who died in the line of duty (usually, the Middle East) from the end of December of the previous year to the week of deadline for the year-end issue (usually, the middle of the current December).
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* PressXToNotDie: No on-screen indicators, and it doesn't always show up. All you got is your instincts.
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* PressXToNotDie: No on-screen indicators, and it doesn't always show up. All you you've got is your instincts.instincts.
* PressureSensitiveInterface:
* Notes played on the piano are louder when the keys are pressed hard, and quieter when they are pressed more lightly. This is a great improvement over earlier instruments such as the harpsichord. This sensitivity is also built into modern electric keyboards.
* It's a common way of expressing frustration. Say you're in a hurry and you're trying to cross the street, and you pushed the button to cross, but the crosswalk light isn't changing. It's not uncommon in this circumstance to futilely press the button over and over. Similarly, if you click/double-click something on a computer and nothing happens, you'll be sorely tempted to do it again, even though this may just slow the action down further. People playing fighting games start mashing the buttons harder as they get more desperate, even when it's just an ordinary digital button and they're only destroying the controller.
* Sometimes, buttons that have become worn or dirty ''do'' need a second attempt with a bit more force in order to close the contact, which is why elevator controls and the like usually light up and/or sound a tone to signal the fact that they've been activated.
* All British pedestrian crossings have an indicator that lights when the button is pressed (on older versions, it's an illuminated WAIT sign, and on newer versions a red light). People still press the button repeatedly.
** Irish crossings have the light too. But sometimes no light means "no signal" and light means "signal received"; sometimes it's dim light: no signal, bright light: signal received; and sometimes it's permanently a dim light. So people press it over anyway.
* Some crosswalks at intersections that have been converted back to pure timer operation have their buttons disconnected, and pressing does nothing. People are already used to waiting, so nobody notices any difference.
* On at least one computer system, pressing buttons repeatedly will make it realize that you're impatient, and it will speed up. The system was designed to give programs that interacted with the user a higher priority than background processes that didn't. Pressing random keys during a long calculation would make it treat the task as interactive, so the calculation finished sooner.
** A lot of PC GUI applications scroll this way. If you drag to select text or pixels, and your pointer leaves the scrollable part of the window, the will slowly start to scroll. Some apps scroll faster if the user moves the mouse because they scroll one unit per "event", and the mouse sends an event every time it has moved one or more pixels since the display was last updated.
** Some poorly written applications on old cooperative multi-tasked computers would do their processing only in response to OS messages. Meaning, the processing would go faster if you wiggled the mouse, slammed on the keyboard, or otherwise did something to make the OS send more messages than usual. This could happen in Mac Classic applications and 16-bit Windows applications.
* Some car remotes do react to multiple presses, for instance, 3 presses of "lock" will start the engine.
* "Close door" lift buttons are a special case.
** If the lift is not in operator mode, the button has no effect. The lift doors don't close any quicker, but you feel as if you're in control.
** If the lift is in operator mode (which requires a key), the buttons give you total control. The doors remain open until you select a floor or close them. You can even override the doors and leave them open as you travel.
* This is actually a function in many graphics programs (like Photoshop) when using a tablet: The stylus is pressure sensitive, and the mark you create is either bigger or more opaque --or both-- depending on how hard you press down (and the "brush" you're using). You can even adjust your pressure on the fly, so you can make a thick-to-thin line or a transparent-to-opaque brush stroke.
* Electro-Magnetic Resonance technology for touch screens:
** An electromagnetic field is used to communicate and get positional information from a specialized pen whose nib sensor is also pressure-sensitive for controlling brush width, opacity, tilt, and rotation. This is used by all sorts of tactile devices, including [[UsefulNotes/GeneralGamingGamepads gamepads]] like the [[UsefulNotes/OtherSegaSystems Sega Pico]].
** The 6th through 7th generations of iPhones have 3D Touch, in which lightly holding or firmly pressing on the touchscreen can access alternate functions. Later iPhones would ditch this in favor of going back to simple binary touch.
* The [[https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keyboard Keystone keyboard]] is an effort at this, featuring customizable analog keys. For example, one can configure the keyboard to send lower-case letters when tapping lightly and upper-case letters when pressing firmly.
* In firearms, "progressive" or "staged" triggers allow different rates of fire depending on how hard the trigger is pulled. A light pull fires a single shot, while a heavier pull fires [[MoreDakka full-auto]].
* PressureSensitiveInterface:
* Notes played on the piano are louder when the keys are pressed hard, and quieter when they are pressed more lightly. This is a great improvement over earlier instruments such as the harpsichord. This sensitivity is also built into modern electric keyboards.
* It's a common way of expressing frustration. Say you're in a hurry and you're trying to cross the street, and you pushed the button to cross, but the crosswalk light isn't changing. It's not uncommon in this circumstance to futilely press the button over and over. Similarly, if you click/double-click something on a computer and nothing happens, you'll be sorely tempted to do it again, even though this may just slow the action down further. People playing fighting games start mashing the buttons harder as they get more desperate, even when it's just an ordinary digital button and they're only destroying the controller.
* Sometimes, buttons that have become worn or dirty ''do'' need a second attempt with a bit more force in order to close the contact, which is why elevator controls and the like usually light up and/or sound a tone to signal the fact that they've been activated.
* All British pedestrian crossings have an indicator that lights when the button is pressed (on older versions, it's an illuminated WAIT sign, and on newer versions a red light). People still press the button repeatedly.
** Irish crossings have the light too. But sometimes no light means "no signal" and light means "signal received"; sometimes it's dim light: no signal, bright light: signal received; and sometimes it's permanently a dim light. So people press it over anyway.
* Some crosswalks at intersections that have been converted back to pure timer operation have their buttons disconnected, and pressing does nothing. People are already used to waiting, so nobody notices any difference.
* On at least one computer system, pressing buttons repeatedly will make it realize that you're impatient, and it will speed up. The system was designed to give programs that interacted with the user a higher priority than background processes that didn't. Pressing random keys during a long calculation would make it treat the task as interactive, so the calculation finished sooner.
** A lot of PC GUI applications scroll this way. If you drag to select text or pixels, and your pointer leaves the scrollable part of the window, the will slowly start to scroll. Some apps scroll faster if the user moves the mouse because they scroll one unit per "event", and the mouse sends an event every time it has moved one or more pixels since the display was last updated.
** Some poorly written applications on old cooperative multi-tasked computers would do their processing only in response to OS messages. Meaning, the processing would go faster if you wiggled the mouse, slammed on the keyboard, or otherwise did something to make the OS send more messages than usual. This could happen in Mac Classic applications and 16-bit Windows applications.
* Some car remotes do react to multiple presses, for instance, 3 presses of "lock" will start the engine.
* "Close door" lift buttons are a special case.
** If the lift is not in operator mode, the button has no effect. The lift doors don't close any quicker, but you feel as if you're in control.
** If the lift is in operator mode (which requires a key), the buttons give you total control. The doors remain open until you select a floor or close them. You can even override the doors and leave them open as you travel.
* This is actually a function in many graphics programs (like Photoshop) when using a tablet: The stylus is pressure sensitive, and the mark you create is either bigger or more opaque --or both-- depending on how hard you press down (and the "brush" you're using). You can even adjust your pressure on the fly, so you can make a thick-to-thin line or a transparent-to-opaque brush stroke.
* Electro-Magnetic Resonance technology for touch screens:
** An electromagnetic field is used to communicate and get positional information from a specialized pen whose nib sensor is also pressure-sensitive for controlling brush width, opacity, tilt, and rotation. This is used by all sorts of tactile devices, including [[UsefulNotes/GeneralGamingGamepads gamepads]] like the [[UsefulNotes/OtherSegaSystems Sega Pico]].
** The 6th through 7th generations of iPhones have 3D Touch, in which lightly holding or firmly pressing on the touchscreen can access alternate functions. Later iPhones would ditch this in favor of going back to simple binary touch.
* The [[https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keyboard Keystone keyboard]] is an effort at this, featuring customizable analog keys. For example, one can configure the keyboard to send lower-case letters when tapping lightly and upper-case letters when pressing firmly.
* In firearms, "progressive" or "staged" triggers allow different rates of fire depending on how hard the trigger is pulled. A light pull fires a single shot, while a heavier pull fires [[MoreDakka full-auto]].
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English These words.]]
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Black holes, most notably.
* NervousWreck / NervesOfSteel: Fears are autoassigned at birth, however some fears are more common than others. Common fears include snakes, spiders, the dark (for children), heights, fire and death. In addition, life experiences can add or remove fears. This means that some characters are more easily afraid than others. Other characters will remain calm in many situations, [[FaceDeathWithDignity including their own death.]]
* NervousWreck / NervesOfSteel: Fears are autoassigned at birth, however some fears are more common than others. Common fears include snakes, spiders, the dark (for children), heights, fire and death. In addition, life experiences can add or remove fears. This means that some characters are more easily afraid than others. Other characters will remain calm in many situations, [[FaceDeathWithDignity including their own death.]]
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** For hundreds of seasons now, every season has featured many of the same celebrations as the previous ones. Traditionally, every season ends with a big celebration, though different servers [[{{fandiscontinuity}} disagree on when exactly a season ends and the next one begins]].
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** For hundreds of seasons now, every season has featured many of the same celebrations as the previous ones. Traditionally, every season ends with a big celebration, though different servers [[{{fandiscontinuity}} [[FanDiscontinuity disagree on when exactly a season ends and the next one begins]].
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* OneHitPointWonder: Some would have you believe a given member of the human race is extremely fragile when a decent variety of single attacks,[[ChunkySalsaRule some worse than others]], are bound to kill them in one strike. Also subverted because humans are tougher than they look - enough decades of time, though, eats up HP something fierce. Also, modern weaponry has made humans [[InstantDeathBullet one-hit kills]], and it would take a much longer time to bring one down with just the hands. Good old-fashioned luck plus modern medicine (particularly the advancement in Trauma medicine) plus some curious biology means this trope is Justified, Played Straight, Averted, Zigzagged, Invoked, Enforced, Subverted, and even Parodied. Occasionally with the same person, and rarely, ''all in one incident''. Warfare is a particularly fickle mod that allows for all of these to happen at the same time.
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* OneHitPointWonder: Some would have you believe a given member of the human race is extremely fragile when a decent variety of single attacks,[[ChunkySalsaRule some worse than others]], are bound to kill them in one strike. Also subverted because humans are tougher than they look - -- enough decades of time, though, eats up HP something fierce. Also, modern weaponry has made humans [[InstantDeathBullet one-hit kills]], and it would take a much longer time to bring one down with just the hands. Good old-fashioned luck plus modern medicine (particularly the advancement in Trauma medicine) plus some curious biology means this trope is Justified, Played Straight, Averted, Zigzagged, Invoked, Enforced, Subverted, and even Parodied. Occasionally with the same person, and rarely, ''all in one incident''. Warfare is a particularly fickle mod that allows for all of these to happen at the same time.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. This is one of the primary differences between the Female and Male character types.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. This is one of the primary differences between the Female and Male character types.Happens to most AFAB characters eventually.
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* PacifistRun: This is the default option, and you can often suffer massive penalties for straying from this path (ranging from being temporarily banned from the server to immediate player character death).
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* PacifistRun: This is the default option, and you can often suffer massive penalties for straying from this path (ranging from being temporarily banned from the server to immediate player character death). That said, certain character classes, such as Soldier and Police, are allowed to use lethal force without serious penalties in particular situations. At the same time, however, many players disagree on what exactly those situations should be, with some even arguing that it should never be allowed or that such character classes should be banned.
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** The Moon. Developed from the Earth's Alpha Build source code, and still lacking flora, fauna, or even a basic atmosphere when the Beta Testers arrived to try it out. [[GravityScrew The weak gravity]], however, proved popular and was retained as a GoodBadBug. Despite its popularity, the only way to reach this zone is down to having a very specific skillset and armor list and by grinding rep with the appropriate space guilds. Even then you have to hope that the quest itself will pop up in your playtime, it's been nearly 40 years since the last lucky players were able to select that quest. It's been rumored that some of the devs are beta testing new faction-specific vehicles and equipment to make this zone more available to casual players as well as the hardcore crowd.
** For quite a while now, a few players have been considering Mars to be this. A recent discovery of leftover code that showed it had successfully run the water module advances this theory, but people are still deciding if Mars was a finished product that dried up a long time ago, an abandoned project, or just another dead world. Fanfiction from astronomer-based players speculated that it was populated, but the tech tree has expanded to show that this isn't the case.
** Any modeling of the Earth's surface from billions of years ago when it was still LethalLavaLand will look like this.
** Venus. The same size as Earth, with similar surface gravity, and overall chemical constituents, but someone screwed up the atmosphere coding and nobody has released a patch for it, yet. Fanfiction and long-term players are hoping to fix it themselves, sometime in the far future.
** The Moon. Developed from the Earth's Alpha Build source code, and still lacking flora, fauna, or even a basic atmosphere when the Beta Testers arrived to try it out. [[GravityScrew The weak gravity]], however, proved popular and was retained as a GoodBadBug. Despite its popularity, the only way to reach this zone is down to having a very specific skillset and armor list and by grinding rep with the appropriate space guilds. Even then you have to hope that the quest itself will pop up in your playtime, it's been nearly 40 years since the last lucky players were able to select that quest. It's been rumored that some of the devs are beta testing new faction-specific vehicles and equipment to make this zone more available to casual players as well as the hardcore crowd.
** For quite a while now, a few players have been considering Mars to be this. A recent discovery of leftover code that showed it had successfully run the water module advances this theory, but people are still deciding if Mars was a finished product that dried up a long time ago, an abandoned project, or just another dead world. Fanfiction from astronomer-based players speculated that it was populated, but the tech tree has expanded to show that this isn't the case.
** Any modeling of the Earth's surface from billions of years ago when it was still LethalLavaLand will look like this.
** Venus. The same size as Earth, with similar surface gravity, and overall chemical constituents, but someone screwed up the atmosphere coding and nobody has released a patch for it, yet. Fanfiction and long-term players are hoping to fix it themselves, sometime in the far future.
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* TheRival: There's always someone in a person's life making it harder (or to put it in a positive context, much more interesting).
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The more a country's name sounds like the personification of an ideal, the more likely it is to be the opposite.
** The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, The People's Republic of China, and The Democratic Republic Of The Congo are all good examples.
** The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, The People's Republic of China, and The Democratic Republic Of The Congo are all good examples.
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The more a country's name sounds like the personification of an ideal, the more likely it is to be the opposite.
**opposite. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, The the People's Republic of China, and The the Democratic Republic Of The of the Congo are all good examples.
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** If you were good, you go to the NewGamePlus in FluffyCloudHeaven, but if you were bad you go to FireAndBrimstoneHell. Where the dividing line is believed to be varies--some believe that only really evil people go to hell, others believe that only characters with IncorruptiblePurePureness get heaven. Still other schools of thought hold that whether or not you go to Heaven or Hell is inherently out of your control, so your actions mean nothing. Many ancient religions also had a third level in-between the other two.
*** In another variation, one major belief system teaches that there is a FluffyCloudHeaven but no FireAndBrimstoneHell. In this belief system, the player is required to play and pass one last level to reach Heaven. If they do not pass the level, they must continue playing that level indefinetely until they achieve a satisfactory score.
*** In another variation, one major belief system teaches that there is a FluffyCloudHeaven but no FireAndBrimstoneHell. In this belief system, the player is required to play and pass one last level to reach Heaven. If they do not pass the level, they must continue playing that level indefinetely until they achieve a satisfactory score.
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** If you were good, you go to the NewGamePlus in FluffyCloudHeaven, but if you were bad you go to FireAndBrimstoneHell. Where the dividing line is believed to be varies--some varies -- some believe that only really evil people go to hell, others believe that only characters with IncorruptiblePurePureness get heaven. Still other schools of thought hold that whether or not you go to Heaven or Hell is inherently out of your control, so your actions mean nothing. Many ancient religions also had a third level in-between the other two.
***two. In another variation, one major belief system teaches that there is a FluffyCloudHeaven but no FireAndBrimstoneHell. In this belief system, the player is required to play and pass one last level to reach Heaven. If they do not pass the level, they must continue playing that level indefinetely until they achieve a satisfactory score.
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* PlatformHell: If you want to see other people experience it, ''Series/NinjaWarrior''. If you want to experience it yourself, go for a tough hike or try to climb a mountain. Be careful, though; this minigame gives you only one life, and no one continues unless you're lucky enough for a Mountain Rescue player to be in the area.
** However, if you have a distress beacon item, you get a generally high chance (depending on local conditions) of getting an additional continue, but you have to restart the entire minigame.
** However, if you have a distress beacon item, you get a generally high chance (depending on local conditions) of getting an additional continue, but you have to restart the entire minigame.
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* PlatformHell: If you want to see other people experience it, ''Series/NinjaWarrior''. If you want to experience it yourself, go for a tough hike or try to climb a mountain. Be careful, though; this minigame gives you only one life, and no one continues unless you're lucky enough for a Mountain Rescue player to be in the area. \n** However, if you have a distress beacon item, you get a generally high chance (depending on local conditions) of getting an additional continue, but you have to restart the entire minigame.
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* PutOnABus: Lots of people lose track of friends and relatives. Many find themselves put on a bus, too.
** Commonly [[InvokedTrope invoked]] with [[LiteralMinded bus tickets]].
** Commonly [[InvokedTrope invoked]] with [[LiteralMinded bus tickets]].
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* PutOnABus: Lots of people lose track of friends and relatives. Many find themselves put on a bus, too.
**too. Commonly [[InvokedTrope invoked]] {{invoked|Trope}} with [[LiteralMinded bus tickets]].
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* QuicksandBox: [[invoked]] In some cases, it's easy - you simply need to survive by collecting food. In some cases, it's hard because of the expansive nature and you can't guarantee that a certain path will result in food. In extreme cases, you have to plan ten years with little guidance on what should be done.
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* QuicksandBox: [[invoked]] In some cases, it's easy - -- you simply need to survive by collecting food. In some cases, it's hard because of the expansive nature and you can't guarantee that a certain path will result in food. In extreme cases, you have to plan ten years with little guidance on what should be done.
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* RainAura: Go somewhere that's at once miserably hot and horridly humid. Stir in one (1) cloudburst. Observe the steam rising from the pavement. Repeat as necessary.
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** And including extinct animals, we have plesiosaurs and similar creatures like the ichthyosaur and mosasaur, and {{Megalodon}}, a prehistoric shark the size of a whale. Its modern counterpart may be the Whale Shark, which is thankfully nonaggressive and feeds on plankton.
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** And including extinct animals, we have plesiosaurs and similar creatures like the ichthyosaur and mosasaur, and {{Megalodon}}, megalodon, a prehistoric shark the size of a whale. Its modern counterpart may be the Whale Shark, which is thankfully nonaggressive and feeds on plankton.
