Drinking Game Cleanup

The Drinking Game namespace has a problem of being used for stealth complaining. We are hoping that this cleanup can help get rid of some of the bashing.

Looking at DrinkingGame.Teen Titans Go, and there's one for when the show marathons. I feel that can go, along with the one for when there's a promo.

DrinkingGame.Sonichu is unsurprisingly awfully bashy. I’d say it can safely be cut.

Edited by jandn2014 on Sep 4th 2020 at 9:34:04 AM

Cut it.

DrinkingGame.The Room has results of tropers attempting it. Is that a remnant of when this sort of thing was allowed, or is that just idiosyncratic to the page?

Attempting what?

There's a score sheet at the bottom of that page where tropers can record how far they got. I agree that it can be removed for being borderline troper tales.

TBF, not everything on DrinkingGame.Sonichu is bashing.

There’s only like two or three things on the entire page that aren’t clearly bashing.

DrinkingGame.My Immortal also has the score sheet.

I'd like to see if I can change it to be less bashy.

Let me remind you all that Drinking Game (which is about In-Universe drinking games) and JustForFun.Drinking Game tend to attract sinkholes such as this random one:

• Fangirl: Nozomi for Reika. Seriously, try not to get tired of how often Nozomi gushes over Reika. The whole reason she joined the music school was to get close to her favorite idol.

Yikes. That sinkhole needs culling.

Update on TTG: I removed the meta examples, since they could be seen as snark/complaining.

Edited by Berrenta on Sep 4th 2020 at 7:25:28 AM

I'm going to clean up some sections of DrinkingGame.Sonic The Hedgehog, starting with (predictably) this one (TL;DR I don't think this drinking game is worth keeping, but I marked some salvageable parts):

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (oh god) cutting those last words

• Take a small sip each time you encounter a loading screen.
  • Take a slightly longer one if you're presented with a single line of dialogue afterwards, then get put into another loading screen. might be worth keeping, but maybe unnecessary.
• For that matter, just drink to the point of intoxication right away; you'll need it to tolerate the game, especially the loading screens and loads of bugs. cutting that one
• When Sonic and Elise kiss, start chugging and don't stop until it ends. No, this isn't part of the drinking game, it's just good advice. narrowing it down to "take a shot when Sonic and Elise kiss."
  • Alternatively, if you actually like the scene, take shot.
• Take a drink any time you say the game sucks. cut
• Take a drink every single time Silver says "TAKE THIS!", "IT'S NO USE!", or "THIS'LL END IT!" might be worth a rewrite.
  • Although at this point, you'd probably be dead of alcohol poisoning. cut
• Take a small sip for every glitch you encounter.
  • If said glitch is a collision glitch that leave your character stuck to something or in an awkward position, take a drink. cut
  • If said glitch results in an unavoidable death, finish your drink.
• Take a sip whenever you talk to someone and they greet you with "Hey." keep
• Take a drink whenever Princess Elise gets kidnapped. maybe keep
• Alternative drinking game: Ignore all the above rules, and just drink until this game is tolerable. cut

Edited by ccorb on Sep 5th 2020 at 7:10:51 AM

Need a second opinion on this one from DrinkingGame.Final Fantasy X:

• Have a drink when Tidus does his infamous laughing scene. Bonus points if you try to imitate his laugh yourself.

I think that can stay if it was rewritten.

Excuse me, should we be encouraging drinking games, because we don't want people to run the health risks of alcohol, including alcohol poisoning, and also some people here are under 21, the legal drinking age? Just a thought.

Edited by PrincessPandaTrope on Sep 5th 2020 at 2:43:43 PM

Most of these drinking games are used to complain about works and elements of works that they don't like. Getting drunk while bashing on works at the same time is a recipe for disaster.

I'd say DrinkingGame.My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic needs to be cut for... well, what can you expect from the only fanfic that has its own DMOS page here?

And the (thankfully, now-killed) score sheet for DrinkingGame.My Immortal had a column where tropers put their age. Some of them were underage people claiming to have used non-alcoholic beverages. A new-ish troper discovers why Troper Tales was banned...

(EDIT: Sorry, those numbers are how many chapters they got through, but still).

Edited by ccorb on Sep 5th 2020 at 4:11:53 AM

I want to take a look at DrinkingGame.TV Tropes later. I believe when I checked it before it was super outdated, and that was years ago. Plus... we don't want to encourage drunk editing.

The Drinking Game namespace is beginning to become like Troper Tales 2.0. We don't want our userbase to get drunk or even poisoned. Any thoughts on what can be done with the namespace?

Maybe start a Wiki Talk thread and discuss whether it should even exist?

That only happens once in the entire game, so it seems pointless.

Half the items on that list have nothing to do with FFX specifically and are just "take a shot whenever anything happens, ever":

• Have a shot each time you encounter an enemy when trying to go from point A to point B.

Like, seriously?

You should not be having a drink for all ONE times a scene happens. It’s a serious moment in context, too.

For memed to death works (like The Room or The Rocky Horror Picture Show) I can see it making sense as you'd take a shot for the most famous scenes ("You are tearing me APART, Lisa", "Anticip....ation", "What a story Mark", etc), but for a random scene in a work? Nah.