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5065534 No.5065534 [Reply] [Original]

So how informative is this website? I mean, like, really?

>> No.5065544
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5065544

So how informative is this website? I mean, like, really?

>> No.5065549

>>5065544
Not even a little bit.

>> No.5065564

>>5065534
It's a comprehensive encylopedia of the horrors of autism.

It attempts to find common themes between media, but instead devolves into "I SAW THE THING THAT'S THE THING LOOK EVERYONE THE THING IS HAPPENING"

It also encourages severe laziness by encouraging people to spam the same words over and fucking over to the point where you have to wonder if they legitimately have tourettes.

>This Deconstruction was fun but the Gary Stu's Heel Face Turn was such a Funny Aneurysm Moment that my Suspension of Disbelief please shoot me in the head so I never breed

>> No.5065566
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5065566

So how informative is this website? I mean, like, really?

>> No.5065576
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5065576

So how informative is this website? I mean, like, really?

>> No.5065579

>>5065534
They nerfed it. But what they kept is still kinda good.

>> No.5065583

>>5065579
>They nerfed it

And for good reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1CjwjLQoc

>> No.5065738

>>5065534

Not really, its full of autistic plebs who make /r9k/ look well-adjusted.

Their writing style and incestuous inside jokes are really dull to read, they have no real wit or insight into things, unlike us patricians here.

>> No.5065809

I was told by a gushing friend some years back that by reading this site it would ruin all movies and TV shows for me forever.

I then immediately got lost reading the thing for hours and hours before pulling myself out.

It hasn't ruined anything for me at all. My friend was a lying cunt.

It's really just trivia. If you like trivia or just like trivia about a specific film it's not too bad, but it's not really going to give you any insights into narrative structure. Just read your Joseph Campbell like everyone else.

>> No.5065842

>>5065583
Oh god, did the people reading these also write them? It's like everyone I avoided being associated with in high school.

>> No.5065935

>>5065842
other than the personal blogesque postings I think its pretty enjoyable and accurate

>> No.5065949

>>5065809
>Just read your Joseph Campbell like everyone else.
You know it's 2014, right? You know that structuralism is as dead now as it gets? Read some Derrida already.

>> No.5065971

>>5065534
if you have a brain and read fairly often it is redundant bullshit, watse of time

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5066003

>>5065583
>And for good reason.

Bullshit! They managed to remove Real Life examples from Putting on the Reich:

bit ly/1veqMkU

>The uniforms of several state police forces were explicitly based on the uniforms of Tsarist or Prussian officials. This was a policy adopted in the Gilded Age, in the hope that this would make the recent immigrants from Eastern Europe have more respect for the police. Prussia and Tsarist Russia were militarist and authoritarian regimes, so...

>> No.5066013

>>5065842
No, they're mocking them obviously by reading them in stupid voices

>> No.5066138

its stupid theyve invented a whole new language for things we already had words for

basically if you are too stupid to read aristotle you read tvtropes

>> No.5066169

>>5065583
oh god I'm catching autism through the video

>> No.5066184

>>5065544
Most of it's garbage but the things they say about OP are 100% true.
you'd have to be a real asshole to spend time there though

>> No.5066187

>>5065534

I was a TA in a highschool English class and the students kept citing tvtropes on their fucking essays.

>> No.5066193

There ratio of good content to garbage isn't great but there's a lot of funny stuff on there. I like the Xanatos Gambit/Indy Ploy. I hear the forums are awful.

>> No.5066287

>>5065949
>dead
>rediscovered
>supplanted
>dead
>rediscovered
>supplanted

It's like you don't even into history.

>> No.5066324

>>5065534
it's rather misleading in terms of rhetoric (starting from the point where they completely misunderstand what a trope is) and criticism (hundreds of stupid "reviews" and "analysis" of media have been fueled by the articles on the site) but i suppose it's somewhat interesting as a phenomenon of collection and archiving of pop culture items under the terms of similarity and recognition.