@miguelpergamon @EricIndiana
There’s a page in #TVTropes about it
“When the audience hears accordion music, it sets the stage for adventures with sailors and pirates on the high seas”
(This says most pirate media is set in the 1830s. I don’t know about that. Errol Flynn’s Captain blood is in 1685)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccordionToMostSailors
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#pirates #accordion #movies
I'll miss the forum, because it's genuinely one of the most decent and rational communities on the Internet (thanks to strong, active moderation). Right at the start of the whole Bayonetta 3 fiasco, tropers were pointing out strange things about the situation, which were ultimately borne out when it turned out Hellena Taylor was lying. It sucks to lose that.
thank you for reading
23/23
And with the whole WatchMojo integration, TVTropes will become yet another site shilling streaming services instead of showing fun connections between media. TVTropes has long aimed for (at times excessive) positivity, but WatchMojo will absolutely do a Grimace and make them promote new shows.
So yeah. I'm done.
22/23
TVTropes has an option to pay $20 a month for no ads. Honestly not a bad deal, but it's a bit odd to pay a company for something I can get for free that applies to multiple sites. Oh, and it's only available to tropers, becaue like social media companies, they're trying to nickel and dime their existing users.
21/23
Back in the day, Fast Eddie floated the idea of a karma system, and the mer suggeestion was so overwhelmingly unpopular that he deleted the thread. [The new owners introduced a full-on karma system last year] (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15374859790A10773600&page=149#comment-3711) to try and boost ~engagement~, because they want to turn TVTropes into social media (like what happened with Wikia).
20/23
Which is a problem, because porn has tropes, and those are worth documenting.
It also means TVTropes can't link to #Oglaf or the works of #GisèleLagacé if they're too racy, instead having to awkwardly refer to strips by their publication date.
That was bad enough, but the corporate owners are running the site into the ground.
19/23
Revenue. That's always the issue.
Fast Eddie brought ads to TVTropes because the site is expensive to host and he was paying for it out of his own pocket. But advertising is ALWAYS a [deal with the devil](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DealWithTheDevil). Advertisers mostly don't want to be associated with porn, so porn tropes are out. I don't mean pornographic images, I mean TVTropes can't even describe porn.
18/23
But to come back to an earlier point, the reason everybody liked and to this day respects Fast Eddie is he was a member of the community who interacted and chatted with people every day on the forum.
The corporate owners aren't like that. Kory does (often good!) technical stuff and some moderation, the others just do their office jobs and try to increase revenue.
17/23
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