You know what? Screw it! This is the last time we ever talk about this. Do whatever you want, because I am never reading this. Don't ever contact me about it again.
Because it's STUPID!!!-Jake, concluding
this argument about Parasitic Trio (untitled at the time) that we had three years ago, before we reconciled a year later. Got his permission to quote him, because nothing describes how I feel about TV Tropes & Idioms right now any better.
So, let's take a look at that otherwise worthy website's faults, one by one, before exploring the one that really takes the cake (nothing to do with my birthday):
1) Whenever I try to look at any given page's edit history nowadays, the site directs me instead to that of the homepage, and I have to type the name of the trope in question into the URL manually.
2)
Sadist Show: Why is it that, unlike with other categories, most of the Western Animation examples on the main page have only a title, while there are a few American cartoons in the discussion page that each have a full-out description
there?
3) Nightmare Fuel: To begin with, this was supposed to cover only accidentally scary stuff, but then people started to add intentionally scary stuff. So what do the moderators do? First, create a page called Nightmare Fuel Unleaded to cater to the latter, and then rename that trope "High Octane Nightmare Fuel". Naturally, a lot of Tropers,
myself included, only took that to mean the difference between averagely scary stuff and stuff scary enough to warrant an M- or R-rating, both being still intentional. The mods' solution, before
finally creating a page to let you choose between accidental and intentional? Change the "regular" NF page to "Accidental Nightmare Fuel". The result? The word "accidental" ends up appearing in lots on inappropriate places, and still, the mods blame everyone who simply wrote "Nightmare Fuel" to begin with for not reading the rules. Hello! To most of us, that would've been redundant, because the majority of us assume Nightmare Fuel to be self-explanatory already.
3)
Complete Monster: The definition is someone who has no redeeming qualities, who commits a series of deeds heinous by the settings' standards and not played for laughs, is reviled, feared, or detested by most, has no good intentions
even if they claim to, and would make for an epic
Wall Banger if he were to redeem himself for any reason at all.
And yet, there's one character listed under the
Cartoon Network subpage of the trope's Western Animation page, who clearly does not belong there. Seriously, that teacher from Tiny Toon Adventure, who one time sucked the silliness out of all its inhabitants? That whole thing was played for laughs, and she, in fact, had found credible redemption at the end of that episode. There is no way she belongs up there with the likes of Hopper, Lotso, the Coachman, Reda, Fuku, Luca Blight, Grand Moff Tarkin, Johan Liebert, Myotismon/Vamdemon, Akihiro Kurata, Ghetsis Harmonia, Dr. Robotnik (the SatAM version),
Raker the Jackal, Precia Testarossa, Dr. Weil, the Joker, Griggs Kodai, or Eddy's brother. Too bad that particular page is locked. I left a note in that page's discussion board a short while ago, and to this day, I still haven't gotten any responses.
4)
So Bad It's Horrible: Consensus for or against Sonic the Hedgehog (the 2006 game) dictates that it not be listed under that trope's Video Games section. The reason? Shadow isn't such a Wangst machine like he was in Shadow the Hedgehog, thus giving the game at least one redeeming quality (besides the soundtrack, which admittedly
does kick ass). Right... I've never played it myself, and I know the trope isn't for Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, but that game has so many bad reviews (with not enough good ones to balance it out), what with its sloppy controls and camera angle, excessive loading times, and plot-induced stupidity, that it's page-quote is "...insufficient" instead of anything from in-universe.
5)
Dying Like Animals and
Television Is Trying To Kill Us: The former used to have a list of animal motifs for how different people would respond to a crisis, which was pruned of any number of worthy examples right before I discovered it (and now the list is gone completely). The latter was an index itself listing different tropes and how they could be deadly to anyone assuming that they work the same way in real life as in fiction, which had various tropes deleted that I thought fit the list perfectly. Everything that's still there lacks the details they used to have. I've stopped visiting them respectively ever since.
6)
(Crowning) Moment of Awesome: Haven't checked Crowning Moment of Funny or Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, but why, not only is it just called "Moment of Awesome", does it not have the same guidelines of Dethroning Moment of Suck? Why are real-life examples and double-moments allowed there, but not in DMoS?
Ready for the big one?
Here it is! For whatever reason, the mods have placed a ban on any kind of emphasis. They've explicitly stated, no allcaps, bold, or italicized text. That's all they said at first, but after I added "Use asterisks if you have to emphasize something" (which I'll admit was a mistake), someone was ordered to delete that part of it and suspend me, and even outright stated in the Western Animation page's edit history that the whole point was to ban emphasis on anything. How utterly hypocritical! I thought the whole point of the website was to not be restricted to the formal way of writing in Wikipedia, and yet, the mods expect us to practically speak in a robotic monotone. Someone in the discussion board said that emphasis was being overused, but isn't that part of the whole point of TV Tropes?
From what I've been told when I discussed it with the mods, it's even been discussed among them, and is even listed in How Not To Write An Entry. If the mods agreed on it, I doubt any number of regular members will be able to sway them. So, I think this might be the last time I explore anything on the site. And what better way to go out on a bang than by bypassing my suspension (with a different username) and entering this dick move as the site's DMoS (under
Web Original; my new name is DMXrated, but due to the way the site formats text, it will appear instead as "DM Xrated", if it's even still there or unless I change it to all-lowercase). And yes, I'm aware that it will probably be deleted as both a real-life example
and for bypassing a suspension (with obvious evidence), but I honestly don't give two fucks.
The aforementioned exceptions will likely be if I need to make a reference to something, if I would like to create a page for something that doesn't have one yet (or to add examples from the given work into other pages), or for certain fun ones such as Hilarious In Hindsight and its family of tropes. Other than that, TV Tropes can just damn well fall apart for all I care.
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