Bobby_ebooks

edited 2013-03-31 11:55:45 in General
Justice is a desired g9al, 6ut I hardly think we can 6e said t9 have attained anything 9f the kind whilst sentiments such as that expressed 6y Lee up there are still running rampant in 9ur s9ciety. While 9ne can hardly supp9se him t9 6e capa6le 9f c9nceiving 9f the intense levels 9f distress such remarks are pr9ne t9 inducing, there can surely 6e n9 questi9n 6ut that this 9nly makes it all the m9re imperative that such privileged individuals as himself 6e called 9ut f9r their unsav9ury attitudes 6ef9re they cause further harm, and t9 this end it is 9ur s9lemn duty t9 address them, thr9ugh the medium 9f frank, 9pen discussi9n, until the af9rementi9ned individuals 6ec9me aware 9f having 6een in err9r (and furtherm9re 9f the deleteri9us injury which the err9r in questi9n inflicts up9n 9ur lives and disc9urse), and strive t9 make amends, n9t 9nly 6y way 9f sincere and hum6le ap9l9gy 6ut als9 6y a full and diligent c9mmitment t9 the discipline 9f Pr96lematics. I am under n9 illusi9n that such c9nversi9ns happen 9vernight, 6ut it is my fervent h9pe that Lee, and 9thers pr9ne t9 similarly c9m6ative m9des 9f th9ught, can 6e 6r9ught ar9und 6y a detailed illuminati9n 9f the elements 9f their mindsets which are pr96lematic, laying 6are the underlying privileges and misc9ncepti9ns, prefera6ly expressed in the m9st l9quaci9us and circuml9cut9ry language achieva6le.
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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I'm not sure, but I think that's a bannable offence. I'll have to consult the secret rulebook.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    >when it hits you that everyone else had some kind of excuse but you're just the weirdo who likes a mediocre cartoon for little girls
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Bob, may I ask what exactly you do consider to be civil?  Cause I haven't seen you be dickish.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    My Bloody Valentine — Blown a Wish
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    My Bloody Valentine — Blown a Wish
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ I'm not complaining about that. I was given champagne and sandwiches.

    ^ It should be, shouldn't it? I think Ian and me are desensitised.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    It does appear to have been created with the Central Avenue demographic primarily in mind.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Bob is talking to the viewpoint character, a parallel world version of Alice. This Alice has just found out about an accident which Bob caused which he has just admitted to (a wham scene in itself). Alice has accepted that it wasn't really Bob's fault, but wonders why Bob didn't tell her parallel self about it, who might have been able to stop the accident from happening. Bob delivers this line in response, implying that the other Alice died trying to stop the accident. She has been dead for the whole story, and Bob had misled Alice into believing otherwise.

    If you want to battle, I suggest you check your clock. Your demise is coming up and I want your man to watch.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    This is IJAM. A. Not B, A. The letter before B. Alphabet, starts with an A. Much like the word "alphabet". Not a B, a B for bugs. An A. For alphabet. Or awes. Or possibly amuses. Either way.

    Either way, not this board. Locking.
  • 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
    More like Bobby_gbooks am I right
  • [[quoteblock]]This is IJAM. A. Not B, A. The letter before B. Alphabet, starts with an
    A. Much like the word "alphabet". Not a B, a B for bugs. An A. For
    alphabet. Or awes. Or possibly amuses. Either way.

    Either way, not this board. Locking.[[/quoteblock]]

    Haha, oh wow.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    @ Motor: Looney Toons was never a forum regular. He took a lengthy break from editing, but has since returned.

    Not sure what you mean about the promoting.

    By "council", I assume you mean 5P? Short answer: we're getting rid of porn and paedoshit, and Discar, Martello, Catalogue, Komodin and Triple Elation are the tropers who have agreed to do it. Long answer: full explanation.

    @ Inhopeless and Tomu: YOU CAN'T MAKE ME ok i have no idea why i'm still up
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Tachyon said:

    >when it hits you that everyone else had some kind of excuse but you're just the weirdo who likes a mediocre cartoon for little girls

    Oh man, I'm a weirdo who likes a lot of mediocre cartoons

    *points to hoard of Cadpig and Spot avatars*
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Nobody on the staff thinks Sailor Moon is child pornography. We have stated this enough times. This is the last time I am going to condescend to make a statement of this nature.

    As for taking Death Of The Author as a philosophical position, I'm afraid you're just going to have to live with the reality that TV Tropes holds no such philosophy and is not going to privilege the approach in the way you would like us to.

    I wrote that post above because I am sick of this derailing and I am telling you all to stop. If you find that offensive, too bad; we have rules and we have to enforce them. I find this attitude of combating policy at every step pretty offensive, myself.
  • edited 2013-09-26 18:25:35
    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 love how you're responding to that HERE instead of in its original context
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ In fairness, that was Yeah Bro's sockpuppet again, and he turned out not to be a goon at the time (he's one now though).

    Nobody cares about this so I'm not sure why I posted but yeah.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    It refers to the entire recommendations. It doesn't pertain to the content of the recommended fics, only the information on this site, but the fanfic recs section itself is not supposed to be in any sense prurient.
    Just because a trope has a prominent/popular/widely-known Fetish Fuel aspect is no reason for discriminating against it by considering stern clean-up and curating insufficient of a solution to the problem from the get-go.
    Then rest assured that I have no intention of doing that.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    @ Black Humor: What do you mean by subjective, if not the condition of existing in the mind?

    @ Trotzky: That's the physical process by which human beings experience love. Love itself is abstract.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    There is definitely a line of thought which sees this wiki's purpose as being in some sense academic. Wikipedia can have pages on terrible things without them being read as an endorsement because they use a suitably neutral tone and print any information so long as it meets their verifiability criteria. When criticisms of something controversial or widely despised are verifiable, those are one of the first things they add to their articles.

    Our intent is evidently less scholarly (we are not a formal encyclopaedia, and this is supposed to be fun), and so is our tone. But the are definitely tropers who see this site as being academic and detached from its subject matter, and I think that goes back to before the no negativity rule was introduced, which was a time when the site demographics leaned somewhat older, and troping did feel like a more neutral dispassionate exercise back then, I'd say.

    The problem is that this is not the reality. The reality is that articles are written by tropers and, since we cannot possibly catalogue every random work on the Internet due to their sheer quantity, the ones that do get catalogued may be assumed to be reflective of tropers' interests, particularly when they cannot present negative critical views of their subject matter. Having a page on something is not always intended as an endorsement, but it certainly comes across that way.

    ^ Interesting idea. I like it. Not a substitute for rules on what to link, but a good general precaution.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I didn't know that, but according to Wikipedia, yes.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    This is not an IJBM about Hype Backlash per se.  This is about an aspect of Hype Backlash that I see regularly, find annoying, but rarely see complained about, namely the whole "Well I wouldn't mind it if the fans would shut up about it for a few seconds and stop rubbing it in my face" thing.

    I mean, nobody accuses people who regularly reference Thomas Pynchon or Robert Anton Wilson or Kamen Rider of doing anything so extreme or in such hyperbolic, slightly insulting terms, because it's only one or two people doing it.  But if somebody references Touhou or MS Paint Adventures regularly - neither of which is exactly a mainstream interest or one which anybody would be likely to follow unless they had genuinely found it to be to their tastes - apparently they're "rubbing it in your face" and "won't shut up about it"?

    The double standard there JBM.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    social interaction
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Sorry to hear it.

    About something in particular?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    @ Artemis: And for free you still get a free changeable, customizable avatar hosted on-site, which is very reasonable by the standards of most forums, is it not?

    @ Marq: Because the majority of tropers don't have more than 40 avatars, and 40 avatars is still quite a lot considering they're free and hosted on-site.

    I like Best Of's idea for pinning avatars.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Yes, they are.

    I find it a little irritating when people insist, in all seriousness, that the villains were more good than the good guys, but can't back it up without ignoring elements of the actual premise presented to us.  I know I've been kind of a broken record about this, but I'd say that Avatar was a case in point; a lot of people say that they were rooting for Colonel Quaritch because the Na'vi were dicks.  And the Na'vi kinda were dicks, but Quaritch was a particularly obnoxious flat villain with unsubtle colonial connotations.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I don't believe many of the people I hear stereotyping the place have ever met anyone actually from Texas, much less been there.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Why hello there, He-Man!~
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Kexruct said:

    Peach let's herself get captured out of boredom, IIRC

    ...since when? She certainly doesn't seem happy about it.

    In any case that sure is a weak justification.
    Kexruct said:

    Zelda is slightly less capable than Link. She is usually only captured in the recent games when caught off guard.

    You seem to be missing the point. The fact is, regardless of how capable she might be, in practice, she gets caught off guard, in the vast majority of the games, and consequently she gets captured (or otherwise disempowered), and needs rescuing.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i declare page 2271 to be a shitty page.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    No, ludicrously ludicrously.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    "Bigger than I want it to be".
  • edited 2013-09-26 19:31:27
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I don't hate Asia, I don't have the slightest problem with you liking Japan, Japanese, Mukokuseki or the Tales series, and I am certainly not trying to take your interest in Asia away from you. I think you're being rather childish about this.

    I repeat my question, what "people" am I like? You said "people like Bobby". Who am I like?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    IMPACT IS SUPERIOR
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Gah, which is it?

    Fuck it, Googling.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    are Dragonlance bad
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    exclusive attraction to breasts is called mazophilia, and is a common partialism
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    from this we can conclude that Slenderman is the superior species
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I am 20. I can honestly say I have never been potholed to or described as Moe before. ^_^;
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Wiki words exist for a reason!
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    No, and I'll be sending a suitcase packed with exploding muffins your way.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I prefer arguing to war, and tea and scones to arguing.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Think of it like a kind of parasitic alien. It's not a good analogy, but it sounds cool.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Also, ceilings are not walls.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I can see why it might appeal on a rational level, but I wouldn't have said sexy, no.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    by my supercreative reading of Paedoshit no Fapfapfap it's neither pornographic nor sexual
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Hooked it.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Paedoshit no Fapfapfap
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Anonus said:

    Paedoshit no Fapfapfap


  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    No breasts/scrotum on that last post. Shit just got real.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Threadhopped from page one, j'ai douze ans et qu'est-ce?
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