TV Tropes meta thread

If you go in the music section, you will find mostly metalheads, aspiring electronica musicians, and hipsters. Almost no one tolerates pop music.

Or hip hop, or R&B for that matter. I would say that a good 60% of the R&B artist trope pages I've seen were created in the last year.

That is too true. There's so much music even that I'm still surprised no one has made a page for, or other pages for musicians that get barely any attention on here but are pretty well-known.

Nah man. Some people could have legit reasons, there's no need to generalize.

Anyways I noticed that people on the forums are mostly pretty chill.

I've noticed that this place doesn't exist.

We're all part of a social experiment being run by NASA. Only NASA is a front to DARPA, DARPA for the NSA, the NSA for the CIA, the CIA for NASA again and NASA for Kellogs.

On the 21st of June of a certain specific year when the planets allign, this place will reveal its true form and wake up all the manchurian agents it's kept since they joined. Even the ones that are dead, since they will simply rise from the grave.

From here on out, Kellogs, via NASA, via the CIA, via the NSA, via DARPA, via NASA, via TV Tropes, will begin a campaign of collecting all the loose change from people whose pants have holes in their pockets.

The point of this experiment is to determine the amount of pants with holes in their pockets and the annual loss of money worldwide from fallen coins.

The actual point of this experiment, however, will be to determine whether or not Kellogs can use 5 different covers in order to run a social experiment, all of this leading to their new facebook-based marketing campaign.

Except Facebook, as a front for Virgin mobile, will use the data from the Kellogs incident and all the coins to fund their own brand of viral advertisement and breakfast cereal.

All according to Ray William Johnson's plan to take over the breakfast cereal AND the advertisement world, which he will then use as a passing joke in the 1000th episode of his web series'.

X, don't you know that it's impolite to smoke the good stuff and not share?

That's what they want you to think.

x4 i ment people on the beyond the lampshade

x3 no fair.

edited 2nd Apr '13 3:30:57 AM by chagen36

As far as I can tell, everyone here is - with a decent amount of certainty - similar to what they say they are IRL.

Dammit X, where'd you learn what the plot of the next Deus Ex game is going to be?

The point still stands.

Yeah, much as I love this site (even if I don't always act like it), I know there are plenty of reasons someone could hate it, reasons I won't get into.

edited 1st Apr '13 10:22:04 PM by 0dd1

I confess it's sometimes very frustrating to have to hold back on the offensive/off-colour humour, because the folks here are wont to be upset by it. The last community I was a part of was OK with it, but for the mod who had to obey some pretty strict rules handed down by Warner Bros. (It was an official site thing for a WB property.) He would nerf/delete posts, much as the mods here do, but for really silly reasons. It got so bad that some of us actually jumped ship to a new board. Before the fan community changed hands, though, it was awesome. The mod would sometimes step in if we got a bit too raunchy, but he was pretty good-humoured about it and we all liked him.

Damn. That sounds a bit draconian.

Yeah, honestly, that does get to me sometimes how here at times something that you would think would be construed as a joke, or at least something intended even as lighthearted, if snarky, could lead to your ass being thumped, but I guess it's better to be oversensitive than to have incoherent anarchy. Those kinds of forums are just a mess.

Still, I do wish people here sometimes could learn to detach and take a joke. But, then, I guess one can't really help what one finds offensive.

edited 1st Apr '13 11:03:20 PM by 0dd1

Yup.

Also that mod seems pretty chill. What happened to him?

edited 1st Apr '13 11:18:58 PM by Bookyangel2438

People can get a little... Overzealous when describing themselves with tropes.

Now don't get me wrong, it's not a particularly bad thing, it's just whenever someone describes themselves as Brilliant, but Lazy or tells people Beware the Nice Ones regarding themselves, I get Troper Tales flashbacks. They're coming out of the trees, man! They're coming out of the trees!

The works with small, yet very strong fanbases, tend to have the most natter, though, really, it goes without saying, no?

Yeah. Tooting your own horn, a bit.

edited 2nd Apr '13 2:23:57 AM by Alma

Depends how seriously you take defining yourself with tropes.

They're made for fictional material more than reality, so as far as I'm concerned, it's a big joke in the first place.

I suppose it comes down to whether you actually believe it or not. I've got Brilliant, but Lazy, but it's for shits n' giggles.

If I actually considered myself 'Brilliant', I'd figure I would have done something amazing with my life by now.

-waves, smacks your ass again and then disappears in a puff of liquor fumes -

BANZAI!!!

@Top Oh certainly, and there's a considerable difference between doing it in a tongue-in-cheek way and the SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE LOVE ME GODDAMIT way. Thankfully, the second kind is quite rare nowadays.

Well, I DO consider myself Brilliant, but Lazy, only I actually mean it as a flaw, the way it's supposed to be interpreted—not as "I'm a kooky, lovable hipster" or some kind of badge of pride. I never finish anything, and I hate that about myself. I can't focus on things, I can't write anything longer than a few pages... Hell, it's probably the reason I never finished school and will never have any sort of job I actually want.

Guys, if you're Brilliant, but Lazy, that's a bad thing. I can appreciate wanting to "own" a personality flaw and turn it into something positive, but... Yeah. It doesn't absolve you of responsibility or anything.

edited 2nd Apr '13 2:43:04 AM by Alma

What she said. I got sick of being Brilliant, but Lazy a couple of years ago, and I kinda regret the fact that it took that long to set in. Do something with your intelligence or it doesn't count for shit.

Indeed, Brilliant, but Lazy is more a problem than anything else.

I'd actually say I fall into it a little bit with that appropriate spin on it. I fear completion, so I oft simply do not complete things I know I could.

It's no good.

edited 2nd Apr '13 2:46:17 AM by TopographicOcean

I'm almost certain I could conquer my crippling need to procrastinate... Eh, balls to it, I'll do it later.