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- South Park
- In the episode "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the kids are playing like they are characters in The Lord of the Rings, but Cartman then makes fun of kids who are playing like they are in Harry Potter.
No, Cartman is definitely making fun of the others for playing Harry Potter. You're thinking of the bit earlier, when one of the kids shows up to the LOTR bit wearing a stormtrooper helmet.
At this point this topic has been reduced to diegetic examples. There is however, enough material in the real world that it should be discussed somewhere, if not here. (The V:TM pen-and-paper / LARP disparity and the RPG / SCA / Renfaire triad are each worthy of mention.) Should one start a Geek Heirarchy:Useful Notes?
Pro Evolution Soccer? I haven't met a person who played PES in years. Isn't the Madden equivalent in non-American countries FIFA? Because it sure as hell is here.
I lobbed in a slight change to the tabletop section, since it's not quite so one-sided. Generally, the D&D players look down on the Vt M players as a bunch of depressive mopey goths who should play a real game. The Vt M players, on the other hand, see the D&D players as a bunch of immature children who could stand to try an actual story in their games instead of pointless dungeon crawls. (They save their greatest venom, however, for Hackmaster players — At least those playing D&D 3rd or 4th are playing a more or less decent system, is the feeling.)
Since I'm more in the Vt M crowd myself, I admit there could be a little bias. But it's certainly not true that Vt M players consider themselves more nerdy than D&D, they consider themselves superior.
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What? I think you might have posted this on the wrong page. Or you wrote in past tense when you meant future tense. If the latter, could you point out the typo, and I can fix it myself?
Also, the word in that context should be "respective", not "respectable", which you still spelled wrong.
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Ok...who fucked up the English orthography? Last time I knew standart had a T on the end.
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Wait, you thought the word was spelled other than it was?
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I think we can all agree that Chris-chan is the rock bottom of the internet totem pole. Furries casually make fun of him, and many make up the trolling effort. Mainly putting this here because someone's editing the page right now and I gotta get to bed.
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Bashing someone you don't like is not what this trope is about. So we cannot all agree.
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Could I get a vote on trope definition please?
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