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by **MrBlack** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:13 pm

I saw two bald eagles hunting in my backyard yesterday. Very cool.

by **IvCNuB4** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:14 pm

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:I got back on the regular cigarettes for a year and a half since my old ecig was destroyed on the plane ride out here.

I'll bet TSA thought it was a mini-stun gun

by **Chesscub** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:28 pm

MrBlack wrote:I saw two bald eagles hunting in my backyard yesterday. Very cool.

Hopefully they weren't hunting you.

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:08 pm

IvCNuB4 wrote:
I'll bet TSA thought it was a mini-stun gun

It did look like what I imagine the remote control for a bomb looks like.

by **Muppetesque** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:12 pm

Point of clarification - do memes count as tropes?

by **Herald** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:31 pm

Muppetesque wrote:Point of clarification - do memes count as tropes?

If so, Jude should threadkick himself because of that tired thread title.

by **Black_Orchid** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:40 pm

Years ago when we painted the exterior of our in-laws house, the cat had gotten outside because someone left the back door open. I noticed paw prints leading around the front of the house, down the sidewalk, through the back door, up the hallway, and on to the bed. There she was freaking out with drying light blue paint all over her. She walked around shaking her paws for a week. :lol:

by **ReturnoftheMack** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:59 pm

You know what I hate about the trope site? It went too far.

EVERYTHING is a trope now even with the flimsiest of reasoning.

by **Herald** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:09 pm

ReturnoftheMack wrote:You know what I hate about the trope site? It went too far.

EVERYTHING is a trope now even with the flimsiest of reasoning.

"We also didn't invent the notion of finding and cataloging as many tropes as humanly possible or the idea of all media being formed around the same set of core tropes. A perusal of our Books on Trope page and the works linked there will show you that people have been identifying and discussing patterns in media for centuries. The first troper on record was, in fact, Aristotle. Yes, THAT Aristotle."

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:16 pm

Herald wrote:
"We also didn't invent the notion of finding and cataloging as many tropes as humanly possible or the idea of all media being formed around the same set of core tropes. A perusal of our Books on Trope page and the works linked there will show you that people have been identifying and discussing patterns in media for centuries. The first troper on record was, in fact, Aristotle. Yes, THAT Aristotle."

I'm going to rule that posting quotes from TVTropes is just as bad as linking to them, so I'm going to have to ask you to stop that lest I report you for troping in a no trope zone.

by **ReturnoftheMack** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:16 pm

Yes, patterns do exist, but a lot of those pages see similarities in things that are big time stretches.

by **Herald** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:20 pm

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:
I'm going to rule that posting quotes from TVTropes is just as bad as linking to them

And that would be incorrect, since I am not performing "the act of hyperlinking text in an argument with a link to a web page on the site TVTropes.org". You should have thought more deeply about that rule before you made it in the first place.

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:22 pm

Herald wrote:
And that would be incorrect, since I am not performing "the act of hyperlinking text in an argument with a link to a web page on the site TVTropes.org". You should have thought more deeply about that rule before you made it in the first place.

It is an intentional attempt to get around the rules on a technicality. That won't be permissible in this thread. This is serious business. No troping.

by **Lord Simian** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:24 pm

Herald wrote:
And that would be incorrect, since I am not performing "the act of hyperlinking text in an argument with a link to a web page on the site TVTropes.org". You should have thought more deeply about that rule before you made it in the first place.

Man's got himself a point, Jude. You took it upon yourself to specifically define troping, I'm going to have to rule that since copy/pasting isn't mentioned in your definition, it doesn't count as troping.

It DOES however constitute plagairism, lacking any citations, I suppose.... :twisted:

by **Herald** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:24 pm

ReturnoftheMack wrote:Yes, patterns do exist, but a lot of those pages see similarities in things that are big time stretches.

Those "stretches" that actually don't work at all generally get corrected in due time.
(It's Wiki Magic; we don't have to explain it!)

Others can be considered a natural outgrowth of the tropes in question, as creators attempt to play with the patterns and thus, the audience's expectations.