Look at me, I'm Bitching about the Internet!

[thebitterguy]

You know, I'm fond of Tvtropes.org, for what it is. It's cute little websnark Wiki, about things that range from silly little story items to dramatic dealbreakers. Sometimes, however, you just want to have your image rights for a superhero based on you sold so you have a lot of money and can track down people on the internet and beat them.

Like everyone who contributed to the Units not to Scale trope.

Someone, at some time, should have realized that it's stupid. I mean, they do, at various points, realize that if games have all units to scale it makes it very, very difficult to play.

In fact, they bitch about this fact through the Notable Exceptions phase. Which means that someone, somewhere, must have realized this was a stupid little thing to Trope about, but thanks to the power of persistance and the average Wiki's ability to cover any topic no matter how pointless, there it remains. Feh.

And you know what I'd like them to add to the site? The ability to collapse categories. I mean, I would prefer to just fold in all the Anime references because, well, they're less than useless to me. It's just like on RPG.net: someone mentions Anime character X and I have to blink the confusion out of my eyes like I've just been cold-cocked.

Comments

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

I don't see much in the way of outright bitching, unless you consider acknowledgement of the trope to be bitching. Among other things, the site is a resource for writers and creators, whose job is to know how this stuff works, when to use it, and when not to use it.

Some pages do have foldable categories. When I find one I'll post it to you so that you can copy the code into other pages that you think need it. It's a Wiki, after all.