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Salix Babylonika · 2012-01-16 02:30:10

what exactly am I looking at here again.

Viani · 2012-01-16 02:32:04

I have to ask myself....am I unhappy with TV Tropes?

√ Minecraft thread still active
√ TF2 thread still active
√ People still like Strawberry Panic Fanfic
√ I still fix the Elfen Lied wiki page.
√ Nobody actively trolls, attacks or talks shit about me
√ Troper Tales is gone

No, I like TV Tropes.

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:32:48

Eddie appears to be getting his wish. :/

Salix Babylonika · 2012-01-16 02:34:48

okay that was petty, nevermind.

WELL IT'S ABOUT TIME I BE HITTIN' THE OLD DUSTY TRAIL.

*goes to sleep*

Tachyon · 2012-01-16 02:36:10

It rather matters to me, since most of the people who make that place fun seem to have lost or to be losing interest. :/

Salix Babylonika · 2012-01-16 02:38:38

*shrug*

If there wasn't so much drama, I wouldn't have left, personally. Can't speak for anyone else.

It got to the point where it was stressing me out far more than was healthy (I have quite literally lost sleep over some stuff on there), and I don't want that anymore. I left for my own reasons, not anyone else's (especially not, to, as some people have suggested, emotionally blackmail the posters there).

I imagine that others, similarly, left for their own reasons.

Anonus · 2012-01-16 02:38:45

^^Sometimes I feel kind of bad for you, honestly. I feel that leaving the place is in my best interest, but you have to stay behind and watch your friends slowly scatter away...

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:41:29

Basically, the place is no longer fun. At all. It is Unfun. It sucks fun out of the surrounding area.

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 02:42:14

The saddest part about all the people leaving is it's a self-perpetuating cycle. You get the people like me and AU who see that most of the people they liked have moved on to posting elsewhere, and they leave as well.

PlutoniumFist · 2012-01-16 02:42:54

It can still be fun! I haven't left!

...

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:44:06

(*Has No Clue Who You Are*)

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 02:44:49

^ and also ^^^^

Tachyon · 2012-01-16 02:46:22

Anonus, if you think that leaving TVT is in your best interest, please don't stick around on my behalf. I can talk to you here just fine.

PlutoniumFist · 2012-01-16 02:46:27

That's how it goes, I guess.

Anonus · 2012-01-16 02:47:08

Thanks then, Fourier.

Also PlutoniumFist is Seamus.

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 02:47:50

Oh.

Name sounds familiar, and yet...

Post stalking commence!

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 02:49:32

A few weeks ago (I think) Naney was talking about quitting TVT, and he said that if he quit then Bunny would quit and if Bunny quit I would quit.

And that's exactly what happened...

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 02:50:19

Has AU quit yet?

Wait, already know the answer to that, because you're him and he's you so duh, right?

Anonus · 2012-01-16 02:51:16

99%. I figure Idler is pleasant to talk to and he thinks it's fine there so I should stay to PM with him.

Beholder · 2012-01-16 02:51:38

The saddest part about all the people leaving is it's a
self-perpetuating cycle. You get the people like me and AU who see that
most of the people they liked have moved on to posting elsewhere, and
they leave as well.

It might be, but it's not like people have any duty to stay if the place is no longer fun for them.

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:51:40

I haven't quit yet. I need to write a big huge fucking wall of text and dump it in Absent People.

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 02:52:29

Post it in Writer's Block first, get some critique on it, then dump it in Absent People.

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 02:53:16

I figure Idler is pleasant to talk to and he thinks it's fine there so I should stay to PM with him.

I should probably do the same.

The other people I was worried about were Bunny and Naney. I have Bunny on Gmail now, and Naney is here, so...

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:54:28

I need to make a giant list of all the bull I need to call people out on....

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 02:55:19

OOH, OOH, PUT ME IN THERE PLZ I NEED TO BE CALLED OUT

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:56:42

But you're way cool.

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 02:58:29

Well, can you make up something to call me out on?

Also, thanks. :D

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 02:59:04

Sure.

Anonus · 2012-01-16 03:00:06

Well, if you did want to dump a giant ragequit post in there (which I advise against), most of the people there now probably don't remember Midnight Velvet.

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 03:04:08

True. :/

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 03:04:25

Which is what makes it so much fun. Give them something to wonder about.

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 03:06:01

While I don't condone huge ragequit posts (mostly for the sake of people like Fourier who have to deal with the fallout), I can totally understand why someone might want to do it. It would probably feel cathartic to unleash all that frustration at once.

Anonus · 2012-01-16 03:06:07

Well, that and don't even know who she is.

PlutoniumFist · 2012-01-16 03:06:36

To my knowledge VM, we never spoke on TVT. We never typed at each other either.

I can only assume that since Naney didn't recognize my two-line posting style and propensity for using rippling musclemen as avatars he hates me.

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 03:07:17

I hate few. You seem cool.

Anonus · 2012-01-16 03:07:38

He is.

millercross · 2012-01-16 03:08:44

>People not recognizing Seamus

fuck you guys, we can't be friends if you do shit like this

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 03:09:43

^ It's not even like he's trying to hide it...

Viani · 2012-01-16 03:10:35

I am lying.

I am not content with how TVT is now.

I can go all "oh, DIBAF" on it and pretend I don't care but...

...it frustrates the fuck out of me how tangled, disorientated and atrophic the place is getting. Everyone I had fun with is either leaving, going insane or turning into an asshole. Many of my favorite posters quit and went to SA and IJBM2, to the point where I can never follow them.

I feel guilty for being banned from IJBM2 now. Shitposting can only be so fun until you find that everyone you enjoyed is not there. It's feeling more empty and empty as time passes.

It's 1:10 am.

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 03:10:56

Okay Juan, can't be friends. Sorry.

I do remember you though, Plutoniumus.

^That blows.

millercross · 2012-01-16 03:11:59

Yeah, he still walks around being all Seamus and shit and I'm like "Dude, he's being Seamus" and people are like "Seawho" and I'm like "Seamus, man" and then they're like "heheh, Seaman" and then I'm like "Why the fuck am I typing in the heap at 3 AM, I should sleep before I embarass myself" and they're like "Too little too late :3"

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 03:13:24

Ok, might as well throw this out there:

I keep worrying that I'm part of the problem with TVTropes.

millercross · 2012-01-16 03:13:34

Okay Juan, can't be friends. Sorry.

we can still be boy and girlfriends. :33

...it frustrates the fuck out of me how tangled, disorientated and atrophic the place is getting. Everyone I had fun with is either leaving, going insane or turning into an asshole. Many of my favorite posters quit and went to SA and IJBM2, to the point where I can never follow them.

dude

i'm still there

i hate it, but i am there.

you have no reason whatsoever for looking at other sites

PlutoniumFist · 2012-01-16 03:14:36

My heart of nice

It's melting

jimmy gimme my pills

Thanks guys.

To be somewhat on topic: I'm sticking around because, really, I feel this will end soon enough. Never have I seen a site so self-conscious as TVT though.

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 03:14:38

@ CA; Wat.

Beholder · 2012-01-16 03:15:19

Heh, by now I know for sure that, according to preferences of most people, I am part of the problem. Or was, anyway

Manly McMacho · 2012-01-16 03:15:23

Juan: Nah, sorry, I have a new boyfriend. Isn't that right [insert name here]?

CA: What

Beholder(ess): Pffft, no you are not / wasn't.

Princess Alice · 2012-01-16 03:16:03

Well I keep hearing about how Yack Fest is a "hugbox" or something and how that's terrible and I often enjoy posting there so obviously I'm part of the problem right

Obā-san · 2012-01-16 03:16:53

The Hugbox has to do with no one ever being called out for being stupid / nasty.

Viani · 2012-01-16 03:17:22

I'm like, super butthurt that I can't have a normal conversation with you juan without having to play the tsundere card.

and that I get emotional talking to you at all.

I can't admit that I get my feelings hurt by you when you mock me, because that's stupid and I need to get over it. But I can say that you going "oh silly simple vorpy" about things I am trying to be serious about is very tsuntsun.

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