Do we have a forum discussion thread for this? Not sure if Hide Your Pregnancy (Trivia) should be My Secret Pregnancy (Trope)...
Help with possible disambig and redirect issues!
Shouldn't this be moved as a Just for Fun article as it's a TV Tropes joke?
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Miss, not ma'am
I just want to issue a shout-out to everybody who played a part in writing this section as though real life for a video game. People are up in arms because they got fooled by a blog post saying University would be added to the The Sims 4, and now they seem to be pushing for the collegiate experience in the game to be taken more seriously than that of real life.
Now, has there been a move away from writing the section as though life is a video game, or am I misremembering things?
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Also Growing Up Sucks: But most agree it's NOT worth it. and the worst ever.
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Blind Stargazer
Are other people considered NP Cs or players? If anyone else is another player, then everyone else should be a player; life is either a single-player game with six billion NP Cs, or it's a MMORPG with six billion players.
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Animals are other living things, and animate besides, so they're other players. They just take on a different form. It's like playing Super Smash Brothers with Squirtle instead of Marth.
The information currently listed under "Random Number God" would much better belong in an entry for "Character Customization."
I'm too lazy to do this right now, and I might never get around to it.
Unholy God of Slackery
Why is this locked? I really want to add a [[note]] after the image caption that says "Those are in-game expenses!"
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A joke that took over the page. The edit requests thread is here
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"For a work that's apparently taken a damned long time to develop before release to the general public, it ought to be good."
I think there should be a note here right after "a damned long time" that says "Or six days depending on who you ask."
Should No Real Life Examples feature somewhere on the Real Life page? Or is doing that an example of No Real Life Examples in itself? If the latter is true, then that's an odd paradox.
Also, I suggest that Earth-Prime should be one of the names that directs here. We're already treated what is real as fictional by giving it its own trope page, so why not?
So couple of questions about inconsistencies (which may be prove I take this much too seriously :P):
- Are planets servers, are universes servers or are countries servers? I've seen all three used
- The term season is used interchangeably with year. But doesn't season usually apply to tv-shows rather than games?
- Are humans the only player characters? are all humans player characters? Many entries seem to contradict each other regarding this.
If you refer to the RealLife Laconic entry, you'll see that the article is supposed to be either a TV show or a video game.
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There's a bit from the "Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman" episode, "Is There a Creator" where one of the scientists puts forth the question of whether WE as humanity are simply complex, sentient characters within a gigantic video game many orders of magnitude larger in size than the data capacity of the highest-capacity hard drive of the highest-quality supercomputer as of now, being watched by GOD himself through an equally gigantic supercomputer. It's very interesting in that the idea almost matches the main article as of now.
As crazy as it might sound, what do you fellow tropers think?
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It's crossed my mind many times. I often wonder what this user thinks of me and generally come to a depressing conclusion.
I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my opinion of feminism. I just can't imagine a oppressed group not hating who is responsible. So I think we have to agree to disagree and I'm glad it was removed.
Should this page be considered as Just for Fun? This Troper can only see this page as how tropers have fun, not as a notable article.
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Now a lurker. See you at the forums.
How come theres no fridge sections?
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
In uffish thought
I'm changing the page type to work+index rather than fun+index, as that will make some of the tabs show up. It is on the Just for Fun index anyway.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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Across many real life subsections of tropes, I've noticed some examples are really vague in description, not identifying the person or date, or even location. what's up with these? Local examples from the area a troper lives in? Aow cmon!
I got my political views from reddit and that's bad
I'm delicious!
Someone's pulling No Real Life Examples on the Real Life examples page and cutting out a lot of well-written entries. Am I the only one who feels something's going wrong here?
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That "someone" is probably the Real Life section maintenance thread. Discussion and crowner votes whether a trope should have No Real Life Examples happen there.
Wait, what happened to the Crowning Moment of Awesome section?
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And the crowning moment of Heartwarming section?
Proud to be an Aspie!
Why do people link Science is Bad to Christians who don't believe in evolution?Sorry,but I get the feeling that people don't get the memo that Christians don't consider macro evolution to be valid.Christians tend to believe that evolution when used as a basis in life can lead to a more immoral world.Yes, there are other factors for the world being crummy.But it really pushes my buttons that if someone doesn't believe in evolution then they are against all science.Most christians are happy science can do stuff for the good of man. The evolutionary point of view can produce Social Darwinism which has caused tragedy in the world.And no I will not bring up the German party that will be named because I will not evoke Godwins Law. All I am saying that people just assume that evolution is true because scientists say it. Before anyone says I hate scientists, the thing is I appreciate scientists who make new technology and new discoveries to help this world.I find that this could be considered a broken aesop that people should never question the norm unless society says so.
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As a Christian, let me just point out that this anonymous poster does not represent the point of view of what Christians "tend to believe," and that it's rather insulting of him to think he can just lump all of us into what he thinks we believe.
Ignore the creationist troll, people. Obvious markers like 'macro-evolution' show that this is one very specific type of Christian.
We see today that those groups with the most genetic variance have the best chance of success, while the point of social darwinism is to REDUCE genetic variance. Also, I don't know about Nazis in general but to say Hitler was evolutionist is a half-truth. He believed that the Aryans were created specially by God and everyone else evolved from monkeys. Also evolution as a basis in life? This is science, not philosophy. Evolution is an OBSERVATION, not a recommendation. Also, if microevolution can happen, why not macroevolution which is just lots of microevolution?
I'm a Troper!!!
Why would any deity create something and not give it the ability to make itself better? That doesn't make any sense.
tilkau
Re: Quantum Physics:
This is not a case of You Fail Logic Forever. Quantum Physics is about (effectively) all particles in a universe being entangled, and the effect this creates (observation changes the thing being observed). One of the implications this has (if it's strictly true) is that the universe is definitively deterministic (in a copy of this universe, everyone would make exactly the same decisions, etc). In that sense, it *guarantees* the reliable applicability of logical principles, provided you use appropriate scientific methods to isolate the factors you are investigating.
Something that is merely counter-intuitive doesn't seem like it can fall under You Fail Logic Forever, either. In that case, things that people say in real life which seem totally wrong but turn out correct (and soundly based) would have to also fall under You Fail Logic Forever; (that kind of situation tends to occur when one person's understanding of the given field is several levels above the other)
If there is a trope about predestination, Quantum Physics could fit under that. There Are No Coincidences ?
hmm, arguably it's more of the case that Logic fails at Quantum Physics (in the real world, there is nothing so simple as a linear causative chain. QP research has demonstrated this holds true even for ridiculously 'simple' events.)
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I think it might be a case of confusion between Logical Fallacies and Mind Screw.
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Teejay
Would it violate the rule of cautious editing judgment if I add serial killers as an example of complete monsters?
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Afraid so. Long story short, real life examples of complete monsters aren't allowed on its page. We can't objectively say whether a real life person has a sufficient Freudian Excuse for their actions or what line has to be crossed to render their redemption impossible, and it just opens a slippery slope for less extreme, and more controversial, examples of CM's to be nattered in over time.
If it's not on the page already, maybe you can use Axe-Crazy for them?
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Hmmm. When you put it that way, Axe Crazy seems more appropriate. Thanks.
What.
That does raise a question: is it even possible for someone to BE a Complete Monster?
Why does it seem that this article has a "Life is a game" style?
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Equivalent Exchange: Isn't it subverted by the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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Nah, that falls under the term too. Equivalent Exchange means that "another thing of equal or greater value must be given up". The Second Law just makes it "of greater value".
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It's Like Arguing on the Internet
Kastorr
I(not so recently) edited Misaimed Fandom to get rid of all the conflicting political positions, for a simplified version that didn't openly mock a lot of people's views and beliefs.
I don't even know.
Why are there no video examples for real life? Is there an unspoken rule forbidding it?