Perfect Video

Jedi QuestMaster · Post by **Jedi QuestMaster** » Thu May 13, 2010 10:37 pm

Just to let you all know... this is a Rick Roll (you've all been warned):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIEdXlVQDRk

Dwedit · Post by **Dwedit** » Fri May 14, 2010 12:04 am

Hojo_Norem · Post by **Hojo_Norem** » Fri May 14, 2010 12:23 pm

Dwedit wrote:Do not click on this link

You do realise that posting a link to TvTropes probably breaks a dozen or so worldwide conventions... and not stating that it is a link to TvTropes breaks another dozen or so.

RT-55J · Post by **RT-55J** » Fri May 14, 2010 1:50 pm

I'm practically immune to TVTropes.

(Of course, said immunity only came from ~100 hours of exposure to it.)

Post by **tepples** » Fri May 14, 2010 4:38 pm

RT-55J is on the right track. TV Tropes is a lot like Wikipedia in a sense, and immunity comes the same way. Webcomics are easier to binge on because at least you have a progress bar saying how many strips you have left before you're caught up.

DISCLAIMER: I edit both sites.

UncleSporky · Post by **UncleSporky** » Fri May 14, 2010 5:32 pm

I've probably read about 5 or 6 pages on TVTropes and I think I'm immune too. Mostly it's because there are always pages of anime references that make my eyes glaze over. It's mildly interesting that the same sort of ironic plot is used in many different works but I don't care about that time that Neko Chan said that thing to Inusuke and it was totally kawaii.

Also you can really tell how it started as an earnest effort to catalogue similar plot devices and character traits and then somewhere along the line people decided to categorize everything to the point of duplication. I don't care about the distinction between a Wall Banger and a Crowning Moment of Stupid. I get it, characters tend to do dumb things. They stretch the definition of a "trope" so far.

Post by **tepples** » Sat May 15, 2010 2:57 pm

UncleSporky wrote:I've probably read about 5 or 6 pages on TVTropes and I think I'm immune too. Mostly it's because there are always pages of anime references that make my eyes glaze over. It's mildly interesting that the same sort of ironic plot is used in many different works but I don't care about that time that Neko Chan said that thing to Inusuke and it was totally kawaii.

It appears your complaint is that "anime" examples come first. But this is only because "anime" comes before "film", "literature", and "video games" in the Latin alphabet. That's why the examples in a lot of the bigger entries are "folderized" by medium, so that you can hide all anime examples with one click.