"I have seen the future of the digital humanities--and it is full of hope! It is also full of many happy afternoons spent following hyperlinks into fascinating, and extremely nerdy, cultural niches. Let me explain... "

http://arcade.stanford.edu/tvtropesorg-f...humanities

TV Tropes no longer has any hold over me; I have conquered it. Every trope page has been read. I can look at any random bit of hyperlinked text and know, from context alone, the exact title of the trope it is linking to.

This is the power that distraction and not-wanting-to-study bring! Hahahahaha, bow before your new god!

Be careful with Tv Tropes, if you start reading it, you may never stop. That's why I recommend reading this page first:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...inYourLife

And (not) following the links at the bottom.

I've never understood why Tropes is so addictive for many people. I find it thoroughly uninteresting. Maybe it's because I don't care about celebrities and never watched much TV growing up.

I don't get it - is it just a media studies wiki? Looks as boring as a boring owl that just became professor of the Boring department at Oxford university.

There's a lot of different stuff. Maybe you'll be more interested in the article about Japanese pronouns:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...sePronouns

Eikyu Wrote:There's a lot of different stuff. Maybe you'll be more interested in the article about Japanese pronouns:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...sePronouns

Yes, I certainly was more interested in that. OK so it's a wiki about media studies which also has loads of stuff about anime, which makes it interesting and not tedious. I don't really watch or like normal TV, but anime I like. There are loads of good articles on anime phenomena on there. I retract my former boredom.

Eikyu Wrote:There's a lot of different stuff. Maybe you'll be more interested in the article about Japanese pronouns:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...sePronouns

There are a few pronouns I've never seen before on there, but the page as a whole gets a meh from me because it's basically just an index of anime characters and full of bad information like:

Quote:Watakushi
わたくし An old or ultra-formal term, often used in anime by characters who are either profusely polite, or somewhat old-fashioned, particularly swordswomen in modern-era shows.

There's a girl I used to go to class with who refers to herself as 僕 all. the. time.
Maybe it's just me, but I die a little inside every time I hear this.

Just wanted to point out that even though it is called TVtropes it deals with many more kinds of media, including radio, webcomics, games, literature and such.
The first time I got there someone had linked me to this page http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...ameCliches (or something like that).
It seemed relevant to my interests so I went through the first part of the list, only to realize that I had opened some dozens of new tabs before reaching the end. Each one of these tabs spawned more and more pages, to the point that I had to stop myself after a while and just close the damned thing. Probably 3-4 hours had passed already.
Needless to say I tried to stay away from it after that time.

What's wrong with using ぼく?

”What's wrong with using ぼく?”
ぼく／僕 is used mainly by boys.

Eikyu Wrote:What's wrong with using ぼく?

Apart from the fact that she's female and sounds like a small boy/anime character?

Evil_Dragon Wrote:

Eikyu Wrote:What's wrong with using ぼく?

Apart from the fact that she's female and sounds like a small boy/anime character?

I think you're blowing gendered language out of proportion. Relax, live a little. Leave that attitude to old Japanese men. ;p

Edit: Stupid lag gave me a missed typo.

nest0r Wrote:

Evil_Dragon Wrote:

Eikyu Wrote:What's wrong with using ぼく?

Apart from the fact that she's female and sounds like a small boy/anime character?

I think you're blowing gendered language out of proportoin. Relax, live a little. Leave that attitude to old Japanese men. ;p

Git off my lawn!

Nah, it just sounds a little.. off..