You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
fighting Bill Gates, trying to save the world, here they come just in time, the Powerpuff Girls
he's probably one of the nicest rich people you could name, and he got there by his own talent (contrast Jobs who got there by aggressive marketing and abuse of patents and copyright law)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't actually have anything against Bill Gates
It just amuses me to shove people's names where they don't belong
he's probably one of the nicest rich people you could name, and he got there by his own talent (contrast Jobs who got there by aggressive marketing and abuse of patents and copyright law)
It should be noted that Gates's parents were very rich, and very influential, hence how he had access to computers in the first place.
Novus Computador would not have existed if not for Bill Gates. And La Computador would have never been able to run the internet if not for him.
Without him, I might have to have one of those lame computers that work. Ugh, no.
A computer that doesn't freeze and crash is like a door that doesn't squeak (seriously, why would you mutilate the poor door so that it opens silently? You're cutting out its tongue!) or a globe that doesn't make an ear-splitting high-pitched squeak that nobody but me can stand.
Why does nobody ever post the full version of that video?
It's even funnier this way.
No, I don't think it's anywhere near as funny.
We're slowly introduced to the absolute crap that is this masterpiece; which is nowhere near as funny as jsut starting with the drumbeat and going AND SO I CRAH SOMETAHMS WHENNAIM LAYIN IN BED TO GETTIT ALLOUT WHAT SIN MAH HEAD AYAYAYAYAAYAY!
Imagining showing someone it for the first time, it's too long an introduction.
It's like if Rick Astley had a minute and a half soliliquoy before going into the NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP song. Nuh-uh. No matter how good the soliliquoy is, even if it's better than the song itself, it ruins the effect.
By the time we get to the main song, we're inundated with it, with the idea; we get it.
We don't have a long slow waltz beginning to What Does The Fox Say, either.
Musical jokes like that require a level of immediacy; of surprise.
And kind of mean too. Like, I've been there. I frequented it for years. I made friends there. It really sucks seeing it reduced to just the worst aspects of the community.
And kind of mean too. Like, I've been there. I frequented it for years. I made friends there. It really sucks seeing it reduced to just the worst aspects of the community.
The worst aspects of the community were kind of defended without scrutiny by the people who maintained the site, so while it's true that highlighting only the worst of a community is bad (Not something that Tvtropes alone suffered from) It's not that surprising that kind of fallacy showed up for no reason.
Of course it's stereotyping. And it's breaking one of the golden rules of comedy: You don't go after the weak people. Because that's just being a dick.
Also 90% of the latest SA mock thread is goons becoming confused at things that wouldn't bother anyone who could handle the idea that tropers are not a hive mind.
You build up an image of a community, made entirely of stereotypes, and then others build up the image even further, only this time they're stereotyping the stereotypes and it just keeps going until there's not an ounce of the truth left.
You build up an image of a community, made entirely of stereotypes, and then others build up the image even further, only this time they're stereotyping the stereotypes and it just keeps going until there's not an ounce of the truth left.
Ja, that's exactly what I was trying to think but lacked the words to say.
"Kind of irritating and goonish"
What do you mean "kind of" irritating and goonish?
Ugh, I need something to restore my not-wanting-to-kill-everyone
You build up an image of a community, made entirely of stereotypes, and then others build up the image even further, only this time they're stereotyping the stereotypes and it just keeps going until there's not an ounce of the truth left.
Pretty much
I think what I would find fun about a TvT mockthread is dealing with terrible people who never get banned, finding pages for weird porn and fanfic, and the various troping behaviors the site itself is aware of, like pimping your favorite work everywhere and trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
But goons just kinda wanna get simultaneously angry about classic works having trope pages, and classic works NOT having trope pages? It's weird.
I kind of feel bad for that because he made Unreal Tournament which is game I supremely enjoy, but he also made Gears of War which is horribly unimaginative and he's kind of a tool in general
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he's a philanthropist
he's probably one of the nicest rich people you could name, and he got there by his own talent (contrast Jobs who got there by aggressive marketing and abuse of patents and copyright law)
It just amuses me to shove people's names where they don't belong
true enough
i'm not trying to advance a myth about social mobility, i just think the guy gets a weird amount of hate when he seems like a decent person
Without him, I might have to have one of those lame computers that work. Ugh, no.
A computer that doesn't freeze and crash is like a door that doesn't squeak (seriously, why would you mutilate the poor door so that it opens silently? You're cutting out its tongue!) or a globe that doesn't make an ear-splitting high-pitched squeak that nobody but me can stand.
I love that video so much.
The guy who made Watchmen. That comic inspired Comic Sans.
We're slowly introduced to the absolute crap that is this masterpiece; which is nowhere near as funny as jsut starting with the drumbeat and going AND SO I CRAH SOMETAHMS WHENNAIM LAYIN IN BED TO GETTIT ALLOUT WHAT SIN MAH HEAD AYAYAYAYAAYAY!
Imagining showing someone it for the first time, it's too long an introduction.
It's like if Rick Astley had a minute and a half soliliquoy before going into the NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP song. Nuh-uh. No matter how good the soliliquoy is, even if it's better than the song itself, it ruins the effect.
By the time we get to the main song, we're inundated with it, with the idea; we get it.
We don't have a long slow waltz beginning to What Does The Fox Say, either.
Musical jokes like that require a level of immediacy; of surprise.
it's kind of irritating and goonish
Not even that troper.
i don't remember seeing Eddie or Morven or Meta or whoever doing that.
You build up an image of a community, made entirely of stereotypes, and
then others build up the image even further, only this time they're
stereotyping the stereotypes and it just keeps going until there's not
an ounce of the truth left.
Ja, that's exactly what I was trying to think but lacked the words to say.
"Kind of irritating and goonish"
What do you mean "kind of" irritating and goonish?
Ugh, I need something to restore my not-wanting-to-kill-everyone
Awwwwright, I'm happy now. Everything is good.
PFfffft, that guy never fails to make me laugh.
I think what I would find fun about a TvT mockthread is dealing with terrible people who never get banned, finding pages for weird porn and fanfic, and the various troping behaviors the site itself is aware of, like pimping your favorite work everywhere and trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
But goons just kinda wanna get simultaneously angry about classic works having trope pages, and classic works NOT having trope pages? It's weird.