Rufus T Fyrfly

Originally Posted by Tutelary

OMG, stop. Really. It's shutting down and many have argued it would stay open for years more. Ugh, you guys are still impossible. If you decide on another MMO, please do not carry over this attitude.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

As for me I guess I'll be playing GW2 from now on.

Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down

well. technically all the names will be wiped when they shut the servers down....

Originally Posted by USA America

Dev's stated they were having network issues and would be back ASAP. Two and half hours later and we still have a handful of people waiting in Pocket D 7. No word, no twitter, no post on official boards.

Originally Posted by BrandX

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Also, I'm for porting sets over to Stalkers! Especially Titan Weapons!

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

That's like telling Johnny_Butane he didn't have to complain about tanks, or GG that she didn't have to use those smileys. Dug is a thread-making force of nature.

Originally Posted by Quinch

I think it might, actually - some folks spam because that's the prevalent way of forming DFBs. If the method shifts - especially if it's more convenient - the perceived need to spam is reduced as well.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If the anti-hero is a character portrayed as the protagonist of the story but has many aspects of traditional villains, its reasonable to look at the converse of the character portrayed as the antagonist that has many aspects of traditional heroes. Ozymandias could be termed an anti-villain in Watchmen in one sense. And there is a very sharp streak of anti-villain in Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs, where the audience is almost rooting for the character in spite of his obvious evil nature, particularly at the end.

Originally Posted by Mad Grim

Well I'd assume its not literally heaven, CoH tends to avoid direct references to modern religions. Just a case of sufficiently advanced technology blah blah. I'm sure they have some sort of mastermind behind them.

I'm also sure that something will become of them. They're far too interesting to ignore.

Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl

I've drawn the ire of Arcanaville! *shudders*

This article, in particular, wasn't a list, per se (as most of Cracked is, yes). It was a writeup of why hipsters suck, an opinion I hold in high esteem.

Originally Posted by Shagster

It's not about "shoehorning pop culture into easily definable laws", it's about classifying recurring phenomena that do exist in creative media, and thus creating a useful additional specialized vocabulary for applying to the analysis and production of creative works.


Brainstorming conversation version 1:
A: "I think we might be stretching plausibility a bit on page 17 of the script."

B: "How about we hang a lampshade on it?"

A: "That could work."


Version 2:
A: "I think we might be stretching plausibility a bit on page 17 of the script."

B: "Well, maybe we could this thing... you know, it's been done before, like when one of the characters in-universe talks about how the thing that's before them is really implausible, from a in-universe perspective. And thus, we get buy-in from the audience that they are having the same perspective on the implausibility as the author, which takes a lot of the negative impact away. Or we could use some other mechanism to draw attention to the implausibility of the events beside character exposition, as long as we draw attention to it, rather than trying to sweep it under the rug..."

A: "I think I know what you are getting at..."


TVTropes simply creates a common reference point, and the shorthand vocabulary can be very useful at times.

To me, people who suggest that the classification of pop culture by TV Tropes is misguided sound a lot like people who said physicists just don't appreciate the beauty of rainbows because they go on EXPLAINING them with all this talk of photons and variable light wavelengths.