October 18, 2009

TV Tropes -- Useful Notes

DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK. It'll cost you several hours. I followed a link from my refers and it had a link to the History of English, which was fascinating. So when I reached the bottom I saw that it was part of a section called "Useful Notes" and went up to it. Big mistake.

There was an article about military weapons. There was a page about Mark Twain. There was a page about Yagyu Jubei. Oh, dear; is it after midnight already?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 11:03 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment
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1 All ur hours are belong to us.  Sigh.

Posted by: Standing in the Shadows at October 19, 2009 04:25 AM (OFALy)

2 CURSES!!!! I just lost 2 hours to that stupid link (and it's subsequent link-links). Did you not realize, good Sir, that "DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK" is irresistable bait to some of us (much like NSFW), and would result in the ruthless yanking away of several hours of our lives? You should put "DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK... OR ELSE." Then we would be properly discouraged.

Posted by: dkallen99 at October 19, 2009 07:25 AM (1PFDl)

3 "I can quit whenever I want; I just don't want to, yet!"

-j

Posted by: J Greely at October 19, 2009 08:14 AM (2XtN5)

4 xkcd even have a comic on this very subject.  Once you start, you just cannot stop.

Posted by: BigFire at October 19, 2009 08:25 AM (Kwn4z)

5 I dunno, the material does not seem to hold my attention. Some of the anime tropes were amusing, but this is just random.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 19, 2009 09:32 AM (/ppBw)

6 Try looking up any anime title...  and follow the links.

Posted by: BigFire at October 19, 2009 10:19 AM (Kwn4z)

7 Ohhhhh BigFire, you are one devious rascal. But fortunately, I have already SEEN all the good xkcd comics. For sure. Without question.... But I better go back and check just to make sure. AHHHHH.

Posted by: dkallen99 at October 19, 2009 10:26 AM (1PFDl)

8 'Good XKCD comic'.  Isn't that redundant? 

Posted by: metaphysician at October 19, 2009 10:41 AM (vM63Z)

9 You are in a maze of twisty links, all different.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 19, 2009 11:17 AM (+rSRq)

10 . . .oh lord, your making me imagine a text adventure game set in TVTropes Land. . .

Posted by: metaphysician at October 19, 2009 11:30 AM (vM63Z)

11 "It is dark.  You may be eaten by a trope."

I escaped after only half an hour... this time.

Posted by: BigD at October 19, 2009 11:54 AM (LjWr8)

12

Somehow, the appeal of TV Tropes lost its hold on me for the session whenever I get to "Upper Class Twit" and see someone put G.W.'s name in it, or when I see the gratitious slam against Jim Inhofe in "Older than They Think" because Al Gore apparently was not the first one to believe in the delusion that man-made CO2 is creating global warming...As if the age of hypothesis was suppose to prove its validity (In which case, Thomas Malthus would have been proven long ago.).

C.T.

Posted by: cxt217 at October 19, 2009 12:14 PM (6bt9e)

13 You are in a maze of twisty links, all different.
>say yoho

Posted by: Standing in the Shadows at October 19, 2009 03:01 PM (M/2AP)

14 Whew!  Escaped after 30 minutes.  And with a winner of a line (under Western Europe):  "Well I guess it wouldn't work to call them Lesbonian."

Posted by: ubu at October 19, 2009 04:48 PM (wBJhP)

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