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Okay, some random crap about Disney XD ads... And George Floyd?

 

[Gorillion others]

Okay, some random crap about Disney XD ads... And George Floyd?
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The kind of reach that won't just dislocate your arm, but tear the whole limb off.

 

[Moral Decay]

Okay, some random crap about Disney XD ads... And George Floyd?
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How the fuck is "they played this ad twice in one commercial break" even a trope to begin with?

 

[Valstrax]

How the fuck is "they played this ad twice in one commercial break" even a trope to begin with?

I'll tell you...

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Small Reference Pools is yet another plagued entry where fringest of the fringe indulge in their grievance about being not acknowledged by normies.

Behold, for I bring you cancer.

For those special occasions, it's always a bottle of champagne (which technically must always be French, even though people seem to think it exists in all countries). Nobody ever thinks of Spanish cava or Italian spumante when discussing sparkling wine.

Pirates come in three flavors: Blackbeard, Black Bart, and Captain Jack Sparrow. They don't do anything remotely related to piracy for the most part

The only operating system is Windows, or Mac OS X. Go a bit further and you'll find GNU, though people will call it "Linux" and "open source". Even within that community, other historical and important operating systems (Genera, TENEX, ITS, WAITS) are forgotten in favor of UNIX. Which is hilariously wrong, since Linux is an OS kernel, and very few run GNU/HURD (the actual GNU kernel). For that matter, did you forget VMS? CP/M? Or the BSDs? Given that ITS was limited to PDP-6 and PDP-10 computers in MIT, it's not surprising that it's largely forgotten. Unix could and does run on a greater variety of systems than the Lisp machines for Genera or the mainframe-class PDP machines that TENEX, ITS and WAITS could run on. Also, you can add Multics and OS/360 to important historical operating systems that are forgotten within most communitie

Hurricanes? Well, we've got Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and, err... that's about it. And far as typhoons are concerned, only Haiyan exists in worldwide consciousness

Undermining other tropers points

• The only earthquake in history was the one in Haiti.
  • Or, if you know that tsunamis come from earthquakes, you can add the Indian Ocean and Japan earthquakes.
  • Or that one in San Francisco? A long time ago? (1906 to be precise)
  • Loma Prieta 1989 (the World Series one) and Oakland 1994 might be mentioned, especially in works set in that area.
  • Possibly the one along the New Madrid fault line in 1812, but only if you're in the American Midwest.

• The only volcanoes to have erupted are Mount Saint Helens and possibly Vesuvius.
  • The one volcano in Iceland that no one is (or ever will be) able to pronounce or spell correctly.
  • The Pelé Mountain in La Réunion. Because a whole city being wiped out in relatively-modern times is scary.
  • Krakatoa, which is west of Java.
  • It may be acknowledged that there are active volcanoes in Hawaii, but their individual names probably won't be mentioned.
  • For a while in the 90s, they trusted people to be familiar with Mount Pinatubo, but not so much anymore.

What does this even have to do with fiction, anyway?

All pistols are either Glocks or "Colt .45s", all shotguns are just "shotguns", all submachine guns are Uzis, all rifles are AK-47s, all mounted machine guns are either miniguns or ".50 cals", and all explosives are "Bazookas". This even happens with people who do know a thing or two about guns - any M4 seen without the distinctive carry handle and/or an aftermarket front sight will be immediately assumed to be an HK416, for instance.

This person is getting banned and memory-holed as soon as I click 'post reply'

The only school shootings to ever happen were Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and Stoneman Douglas. Teenage shootings also apparently began in the late 1990s; no one remembers, say, the McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California, in 1984. Only white kids do school shootings, by the way

This person is on a watchlist, and also to be banned and memory-holed

Discussed in religious terms by Irish comedian Dara O'Briain in one of his stand-up routines; he discusses how after making jokes about Catholics and Protestants in many of his routines, he'd be approached by religious people who'd lambast him for being "too scared" to instead make jokes about Muslims. O'Briain pointed out that the actual reason was that not only did he not actually know anything about Muslims, but most of his intended audience probably didn't either, so even if he were to research and write a devastating take-down of Islam, most of his audience wouldn't get it.

LOL.

LMFAO even

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematical theorist, is pretty well known to some Baby Boomers who remember his appearance in the Classic Disney Short Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. And they might also recall from that cartoon that the pentagram was originally the symbol of the Pythagorean secret society, not a sign of Satan.

Mandatory 'christians are bad'

Also, who doesn't know who Pythagoras is? Do these people really believe is only known by boomer Disney autists?

The 'Countries and Cities' section is grossly outdated at best.

Afghanistan: Kandahar, which was occupied by American troops in 2001 made at least one city in the country more noticeable in popular culture. Also the capital Kabul. After the slew of terror attacks and the tumultuous US military withdrawal of 2020–21, its notoriety has been ingrained in the memories of the global audience for decades, and no doubt will it stay that way for decades to come.

What else is there to know about fucking Afghanistan if you're not an ethnographer?

Austria: Best known for Vienna, city of the Waltz, coffee, the Wiener oboe and Vienna sausages. The only other locations worth namedropping are the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald), Tyrol (known for Tyrolean hats, music and Tyrolean sex comedies), Braunau (for Hitler) the Alps and Salzburg, home of The Sound of Music and birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And if Tyrol and Carinthia are ever portrayed, it's because of the Alps, where everybody yodels and wears lederhosen. Bonus points if they mention the Grossglockner

I'm sorry I haven't learned by memory every region and district of Austria.

Belgium: If it's mentioned at all it will be because NATO has its headquarters in Brussels, a city where the Atomium and Manneken Pis can be seen and nothing else. Antwerp and Bruges may get mentioned, but that's really pushing it. History buffs know it solely for Waterloo (defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte), Ypres (World War I) and the Ardennes (World War II). Culinary experts know it for Belgian waffles, Belgian fries, Belgian chocolate and Brussels sprouts.

We also know it because of comics, pedophiles and @Lidl Drip , you dum-dum

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, bringing in view Christ the Redeemer Statue, the Carnival and Copacabana Beach. The favelas are another notorious location in Rio, but the government wants you to forget and ignore this problem. Rio is still more famous than the capital city of Brasília, or the largest city and main financial center of São Paulo. Every other square meter of the country is either wild rainforest or newly-decimated landscape that used to be rainforest.

Brasilia is boring and I wouldn't have sex with it. Sao Paulo is far from being obscure.

• Bosnia. Sarajevo, best known for the mid '90s siege and "Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24". Also known is Srebrenica, for the July 1995 massacre.
• Cambodia: Phnom Penh, if people are able to pronounce the name. Best known for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Also, Angkor Wat.

What else is there to know unless you live there or you're academically focused on the area?

Canada is Toronto and Quebec. Montreal, for those old enough to remember the 1976 Summer Olympics; Calgary, for those who remember the 1988 Winter Olympics; or Edmonton, because Wayne Gretzky rose to fame there. Vancouver and some other city in Ontario, if you're lucky. Winnipeg because it sounds funny (I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!)

False, we also know Canada as a suicidal, woke-enforced bitch slave to cuck England and subsequently currently under pajeet occupation.

The Caribbean will only be resorts and locals who are always stoned Rastafarians. The women will be dakr-skinned hotties. If you're lucky, it will be a crime-infested slum full of illegal drugs and gangs. The only country portrayed will be Jamaica, or maybe The Bahamas.

What else is there to know? Also, are you telling me people, especially Americans, have never heard of Cuba?

Chile: Santiago, but only to people who don't outright think you're referring to a hot pepper, instead of a country.

We are also aware of the Helicopters.

• France: Paris, just for the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre, of course. You might get a reference to the Moulin Rouge, Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre, Champs-Élysées, Pont Neuf, the Sorbonne, Place Concorde, Versailles, Place Vendôme, Père Lachaise and the Notre Dame in there too. The Bois de Boulogne may get a shout-out; said park contains the Roland Garros tennis complex (home to the French Open) and the Longchamp horse racing track.
  • The rest of France will usually be Provence, though Bretagne (to show some cliffs), Reims (for the cathedral), Bordeaux (for the wine), Bayeux (for the tapestry), the Mont Saint-Michel, Arles (because of Vincent van Gogh), Dijon (for the mustard), Cannes (for the Film Festival), Avignon (because of the song Sur Le Pont d'Avignon), Le Mans (for the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race), Rouen (made famous by Joan of Arc), Alsace (for the sauerkraut and sausages and Strasbourg's cathedral) Marseille and Nice could get a small reference if you're lucky. If you're Catholic or know anything about Catholicism, you'll know a bit about Lourdes where they have holy water that magically cures people.note The Tour de France may get a shout-out.

France is one of the most over-analyzed countries in the world, and one of the few countries apart from the US and England, whose culture is well known by most of the world's population. This entry is kinda preposterous.

Also, it is mostly known now for being full of turbo nigger faggot muslim pajeet mutants.

Germany: Berlin, but it only exists as a location in spy thrillers and because of a wall that is no longer there. The only other memorable location is the Brandenburger Tor and the Berlin cabaret. Other German cities that foreigners might remember are Munich (only during Oktoberfest. It may ring a bell to sport fans, because during the 1972 Olympic Games, a bunch of Israeli competitors were murdered.), Hamburg (birth place of the hamburger, and also briefly the home base of The Beatles), Frankfurt (Frankfurter sausages), Cologne (for its perfume), Bremen (The Bremen Town Musicians) may also receive a mention. In fairy tales only, the Black Forest will make an appearance.

No painters?

• The United States is to many foreigners a toss between New York City (because it is treated as Everytown, America in movies and TV shows and instantly recognizable thanks to the Statue of Liberty, skyscrapers, Central Park, Broadway, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center (pre-2001), the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, the UN Headquarters and Brooklyn Bridge), Washington, D.C. (home of The White House, Capitol, The Pentagon, Washington Monument, and Lincoln Memorial), Hollywood and a large Southwest area which can be described as Cowboy Countryand is usually labeled to be in Texas, yeehaw!
  • Other American locations that have gained enough international fame to be referenced:
    • Alabama: The songs Oh Susanna and Sweet Home Alabama.
    • Alaska: A permafrost-laden tundra. Anchorage and Fairbanks are the only cities in the state, Juneau apparently doesn't exist. Nome may get a mention for the 1925 serum run, which was led by the heroic Balto (Togo doesn't exist), though in more modern times it's the home base of Bering Sea Gold. Dutch Harbor/Unalaska is notable only as the home port for Deadliest Catch.
    • California: Los Angeles (Hollywood), San Francisco (Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge) and Disneyland. If you're lucky, you'll have heard of the Silicon Valley region, known as the technology capital of the world where tech giants Apple, Google, and Facebook are headquartered, but do not expect anyone to acknowledge that San Jose (the most populous city in Northern California, even more so than SF) exists, let alone know the way to it.note
    • Colorado: Home of Denver (the mile-high city), its suburbs of Columbine and Aurora (which gave us two deadly shootings), and Colorado Springs (for the US Air Force Academy).
    • Connecticut: Best known for Hartford (the capital), New Haven (for Yale), Stamford (for WWE), and Newtown (for the school shooting).
    • Florida: Disney World, Miami, Cape Canaveral, the Everglades, the MTV Spring Breaks, and men who get on the news, usually named "Florida Man".
    • Georgia: Georgia on My Mind. Home of Atlanta. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is filmed here.
    • Hawaii: Honolulu will be the sole city known.
    • Illinois: Most famous for Chicago, where all the 1920s and 1930s gangsters hung out.
    • Indiana: Location of the Indianapolis 500 race.
    • Kansas: May bring up associations with the song Kansas City, the black-and-white scenes in The Wizard of Oz and as the home state of Clark Kent.
    • Kentucky: Louisville (and the Kentucky Derby), Fort Knox and home of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Abe Lincoln was born here.
    • Louisiana: New Orleans and the jazz center of the world.
    • Massachusetts: Known for Plymouth Rock, where the Mayflower landed in 1620, and Boston, where there was a Tea Party which led to the American War of Independence. Inside the USA it's also known for the Salem witch hunts.
    • Michigan: Detroit, the motor city, and Flint, the city with a water problem.
    • Missouri: Bookworms know it as the setting of many Mark Twain novels. Home of St. Louis and (the larger) Kansas City. Ferguson has now become a household name due to the 2014 racial riots.
    • Nevada: Not every foreigner may know about Nevada, but they have all heard of Las Vegas, aka gamblers' paradise.
    • New Jersey: Many in the Middle East and South Asia know about it from the large immigrant diasporas from their countries in New Jersey; it is thus known as "the part of America where my cousin/uncle/niece/dad's college roommate lives". Iranians in particular are reputed to regard the Garden State as a kind of paradise. Home of Bruce Springsteen, the Jersey Shore, Atlantic City, and Danny DeVito.
    • New Mexico: Either confused with Mexico or known for Roswell, where UFOs never landed. Albuquerque, best known for Bugs Bunny, Breaking Bad, and "Weird Al" Yankovic, is there.
    • South Dakota: Again foreigners might not know the state, but they will recognize Mount Rushmore.
    • Tennessee: Elvis Presley fans know it for Graceland (his Memphis mansion), blues fans for Memphis, country fans for Nashville, science buffs for Oak Ridge.
    • Texas: Super-sized everything, cowboys, Dallas, Houston (we have a problem), NASA, and the Alamo.
    • Utah: Salt Lake City, best known for being Mormon country.

Small reference pools indeed.

• Colonials/Explorers: Will often be regarded as heroes in the West. To the colonized countries themselves quite some of these explorers are actually considered to be people who brutally ravaged their lands and took away their independence. Every Western country has a tendency to sugarcoat his own candidates for the title of atrocious colonistand finger point at other countries for being more fit for that title. (Spain has arguably gotten the worst of it, since they had a good head start on every other European power except Portugal, and so naturally had the opportunity to subdue millions more natives.) With that in mind some notorious examples:
  • Conquistadores: Hernán Cortés (usually spelled Cortez) and Francisco Pizarro are the most famous ones, with a tendency to see Pizarro as the worst one —if the author is not under the belief that "Cortés" was the only conquistador ever.
  • British colonialists are limited to the settlers of the American colonies, Captain James Cook, and Cecil Rhodes. The last one is more known for the Rhodes Scholarship than his impact on Africa, however.

Whatever the hell this is?

This is not even Small Reference Pools!

Also, every Western country has a tendency to compete his own candidates for the title of atrocious colonist and finger point at other countries for being less fit for that title. Europeans and European adjacents are always bickering about why they're more evil, white privileged and therefore deserving of being genocided than the others.

Every country will put extra focus on its own national history. The West has a very Eurocentric view of its historical past and will often just quickly glance over civilizations in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, unless they happen to be of interest to their own national history.

I'm sure knowing about the History of the melanesian people is of utmost relevance to the Romanians.

• The United Kingdom will put its focus on Boadicea's defense against the Romans, Hadrian's Wall, the Picts, the Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, King Canute, Alfred the Great, William The Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings, Wat Tyler, King John signing the Magna Charta, The Hundred Years War, Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, The Gunpowder Plot, English Civil War, the beheading of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell becoming Lord Protector, Charles II, the Great Fire of 1666, Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, Queen Victoria and Victorian Britain (which only consists of industrialisation and exploitation of child workers), the British army during World War I and World War II (the Blitz, Battle of Britain in particular), Winston Churchill, and Elizabeth II. If the history of the rest of the British Isles is ever mentioned then it will probably consist of Scotland during William Wallace's invasion and not much else if you're from outside the Isles. However Irish and Northern Irish history gets expanded somewhat — but even then only to English occupation, the Easter Rising (if you're lucky) and The Troubles.

Is this even small reference pools?

• The Golden Age of Hollywood: The introduction of sound in 1927 led to a period of Glamour to give many people some escapism. Whenever Hollywood is referenced in pop culture it's usually during this era, with many references to icons like Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Bela Lugosi, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, Boris Karloff, Busby Berkeley, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Jean Harlow, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Durante, George Burns, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Johnny Weissmuller, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Spencer Tracy, Peter Lorre, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland, The Little Rascals, The Three Stooges, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Claudette Colbert, and naturally Walt Disney's creation Mickey Mouse. If a specific film needs to be referenced it will be King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane or Casablanca.

• The '50s: A happy carefree time, at least that is the view that many sitcoms and movies have given us. All adult men are a Standard '50s Father who wears slippers, fedoras and smokes a pipe. All adult women are smiling apron-clad housewives. Their children will be girls in poodle skirts, playing with hula hoops or early Barbie dolls or cute freckle faced boys with slingshots in their pockets and read comic books on the sly. Or, if they are teenagers, they will be teddy boys, Greaser Delinquents, a Badass Biker or a Beatnik reading Playboy on the sly. They drive a Cool Car with RetroRockets to eat at McDonald's or watch a monster B-movie at a Drive-In Theater. But, most importantly, they will listen to Rock & Roll, Doo-wop, R&B or Rockabilly on a transistor radio or a jukebox, especially Bill Haley & His Comets, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. Jonas Salk developing the first polio vaccine, The Space Race and the launch of the first Sputnik are the most important scientific breakthroughs. Other happy events are Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay being the first men on top of Mount Everest, Elizabeth II being crowned, the opening of Disneyland, the establishment of The European Union and the marriage between Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly. The Beat Generation, early television shows like I Love Lucy, Bonanza and The Twilight Zone, free jazz and abstract expressionism are the cultural highlights. Bettie Page, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Brigitte Bardot, Jayne Mansfield, Sophia Loren, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Playboy lead the sexual revolution. In popular culture there will be far less focus on the anti-communist witch hunts , The Korean War, the fear of the bomb, the first nuclear power plants being built, the Soviet oppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Fidel Castro turning Cuba into a Communist state and the rise of the Afro-American civil rights movement under Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

The '60s: A revolutionary time, where all kinds of minorities (youngsters, college students, blacks, women, gays, colonial countries,...) demand equal rights, freedom of speech and the end of old-fashioned, conformist and repressive values. The Generation Gap between adults and youngsters becomes more prominent. All teenagers are left-wing hippies who wear flowers in their hair, drive around in a Hippie Van and want to travel to California or Katmandu to join a commune. Or if they are black they will wear an afro and listen to Motown. They will all support the Civil Rights Movement and protest against The Vietnam War. The men are either a Scooter-Riding Mod, a snappin' beatnik or a peace loving', long bearded hippie wearing Cool Shades playing guitar. That is if they aren't sent off under conscription to Vietnam to die in a pointless war against the Vietcong. (Veterans who come back maimed, drug-addicted or with PTSD or mental illness is seen in The '70s.) All women are Granola Girls who may wear a Beehive Hairdo and a miniskirt or a long "granny" skirt and peasant blouse. Since the contraceptive pill has made its entry and hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and marijuana reach the mainstream everybody will engage in Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Expect many hippies to be The Stoner or Erudite Stoner searching for a Higher Understanding Through Drugs. The music is usually the most celebrated part of this era, with great Rock, Surf Rock, Folk Music, Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Funk being made by bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and The Doors as the most iconic examples. Expect a reference to the Woodstock festival too. Underground Comics, Spaghetti Western, Spy Drama, French New Wave and Pop Art are the prime artistic movements. South Asian culture is very popular, with Ravi Shankar and the Hare Krishna movement as prime examples. Mankind brings the first man (Yuri Gagarin) and woman (Valentina Tereshkova) in space and the first one on the moon: Neil Armstrong. Muhammad Ali becomes boxing's world heavyweight champion. Also namedrop some slogans like: "Make Love Not War", "Black Power!", "Ban the Bomb", "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30", "Flower Power" and "Turn on, Tune In and Drop Out". In fact, most people forget the less fun things going on, like the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guevara and Robert F. Kennedy, The Vietnam War, Mao Zedong's "Cultural" Revolution, the Soviet Union suppressing the Prague Spring, Greece becoming a fascist dictatorship for five years, Libya putting Muammar Gaddafi in charge for more than 40 years, many young people getting brainwashed in religious cults with the Charles Manson murders as a prime example, endless race riots in the US, The Troubles in Ireland, and many colonies in Africa finally becoming independent, only to fall into civil war or dictatorships afterward. The 60s ended at the Altamont rock concert where a black man was killed by the Hells Angels while (or because) The Rolling Stones played "Sympathy for the Devil"

Small reference pools, everybody.

• All Marxism is a crude pastiche of Leninism, Stalinism, and/or Maoism. Meanwhile Luxemburgism, Left Communism, Marxist Humanism, Council Communism, Eurocommunism, Trotskyism, Democratic Socialism, and all the other various forms, many quite vehemently against the tendencies that began with Lenin, don't exist. If you tell people (especially in the US) about them, they refuse to believe they are any different from Leninists, Stalinists, etc. Lenin himself is often mixed up with Stalin. In truth, Lenin's policy differed strikingly from Stalin's and Lenin fiercely opposed Stalin's line in his final years, telling his supporters to get rid of Stalin as the man was starting to scare him. After Lenin's death, then again, Stalin loved to imply that he and Lenin had been great friends.

Nobody cares?

• It's ironic that "fascist" is synonymous with "racist" since Mussolini's movement didn't have an explicitly racist ideology. Mussolini didn't even believe in Hitler's ethnic cleansing since the Italian dictator felt that non-European peoples should be conquered and "converted" to European culture (which made his ideas little different from 19th century imperialists); it was Hitler who introduced the ideas of racist ideology, ethnic cleansing/extermination, and enslavement. Franco's fascist government (particularly the diplomatic service) didn't share the Nazis' racial ideologies, though Franco himself didn't mind them too much either. Franco was okay with serving them, such as by cataloging the Jews in Spain on Hitler's orders, but on the other hand, he was fine with his government's resources being used to protect or evacuate Jews in Nazi-occupied countries (much to the chagrin of the Nazis) as well. In the end, tens of thousands of Jews escaped Nazi Europe through Spain.

This person is getting banned and memory holed.

• Socrates drank hemlock and died. Also he knew that he knew nothing. He definitely didn't come up with the Socratic method (known in some circles under the bizarre name "sea-lioning").

• American Presidents:
  • George Washington: Has golden/wooden teeth (which he had neither), chopped down a cherry tree (which he never did), couldn't tell a lie (yeah, right), father of the USA. On the quarter and $1 bill.
  • John Adams: Signed the Declaration of Independence before becoming president and was obnoxious and disliked.
  • Thomas Jefferson: Did a lot of important stuff that most people don't remember. On the nickel and the $2.
  • James Madison: Signed the Constitution, got us through the War of 1812.
  • James Monroe: Had a "doctrine".
  • John Quincy Adams: Son of John Adams. Allegedly "stole" the election from Jackson. Had sideburns.
  • Andrew Jackson: Revolution general known for establishing national banks and hostility towards Indians. On the $20.
  • Martin Van Buren: Was Dutch. Had pointy hair sticking out of his sides.
  • William Henry Harrison: Died after thirty days in office. Apparently didn't have a political career beforehand.
  • John Tyler: First to become president after another's death.
  • James K. Polk: President who fought the Mexican-American War and got Texas. And more than half of Mexico's former territory.note
  • Zachary Taylor: Died from eating rotten cherries.
  • Millard Fillmore: Took over from Taylor. Didn't do much else other than admit California and ignore the slavery issue.
  • Franklin Pierce: Continued to worsen the slavery issue.
  • James Buchanan: President who failed to stop the nation's split.
  • Abraham Lincoln: Had a beard, a high hat, born in a log cabinnote , shot in a theater, Civil War, held a four score and seven years ago speech at Gettysburg. On the penny and $5.
  • Andrew Johnson: President following Lincoln, was impeached and nearly thrown out of office.
  • Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War general who had a corrupt presidency. On the $50.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes: Won by one vote. First to use a telephone.
  • James Garfield: Got shot and killed a few months after taking office. Shares his name with a cartoon cat.
  • Chester A. Arthur: Replaced Garfield, most elegantly-dressed president.
  • Grover Cleveland: Served two non-consecutive terms.
  • Benjamin Harrison: The guy sandwiched between Cleveland's two terms.
  • Grover Cleveland: Served two non-consecutive terms.
  • William McKinley: Former namesake of a mountain. Best known as the guy whose assassination led to the presidency of...
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Hunter who believed in carrying a big stick, turned the country into a global superpower, had a mustache, teddy bears were named after him.
  • William Howard Taft: He was the heaviest President of all time, and so fat he got stuck in the White House bathtub.note
  • Woodrow Wilson: President during World War I, his wife secretly ran the country after he had a stroke.
  • Warren G. Harding: Highly corrupt president who died in office.
  • Calvin Coolidge: Never said anything, ever.
  • Herbert Hoover: Single-handedly caused the Great Depression. Has a dam named after him.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Wheelchair user during World War II who said we had nothing to fear but fear itself. Held fireside chats on the radio. On the dime.
  • Harry Truman: Bombed Japan. Defeated Dewey.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Ike", former WWII general who got the nation through the height of the Cold War and the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Created highways. Used to be on the $1 coin.
  • John F. Kennedy: Went to bed with Marilyn Monroe, claimed to be a Berliner (not a jelly donut), had a missile crisis in Cuba and was shot while riding in a car by someone we still haven't identified properly. On the half-dollar.
  • Lyndon Johnson: Passed civil rights and welfare laws but got the USA deep into the Vietnam War.
  • Richard Nixon: Made V-signs with his hands, was not a crook, and got caught trying to cover up a burglary in the Watergate hotel, but was pardoned and now lives on as a head in a jar in the year 3000.
  • Gerald Ford: Only non-elected president in US history. Fell down a lot and pardoned Nixon.
  • Jimmy Carter: Peanut farmer who failed to get hostages out of Iran, until the day Reagan was inaugurated. Wimp who was attacked by a swimming rabbit. Did "malaise" speech (which didn't mention the word "malaise"). Has risen to much greater stature in his post-presidency for his humanitarian work.
  • Ronald Reagan: Will mention Nancy at some point, forget what he was talking about, fall asleep, say Tear down this wall, nuke the USSR or say "Well". Interesting case too of someone whose political career has overshadowed his movie career.
  • George H. W. Bush: Said "read my lips, no new taxes", Gulf War, enemy of Homer Simpson.
  • Bill Clinton: Did nothing for eight years but play saxophones & have an affair with an intern. And he didn't inhale. And his wife was the real president and she ran again in 2008 and 2016.
  • George W. Bush: A dumb Manchild who got rid of Saddam, but plunged the USA into an endless war in Iraq.
  • Barack Obama: First black American president. Getting universal healthcare (dubbed as "Obamacare") and getting rid of bin Laden, all the while getting constantly obstructed by Republicans.
  • Donald Trump: A billionaire businessman who writes a lot on Twitter. That's all we'll say about him for now.
  • Joe Biden: The current president, had the biggest amount of votes, delivered millions of vaccines, promises to work on infrastructure, used to have a stuttering problem, and is always sleepy. That's all we'll say about him for now, too.
  • There are over 40 presidents to date, but which ones will be mentioned in pop culture? At the very least, Washington, Lincoln, the current one, and the previous three or four at any moment in time. Jefferson,note the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan are also likely to come up. If you need more, you'll likely get Adams, Madison, Jackson, Grant, Wilson, and everyone from Truman on. The others... not really.

It's not SPR if it's all of them

Male Wholesome Crossdresser characters? Bridget and Astolfo are the only such characters ever made.

Fethishes? The only fetish that exists is getting spanked by someone wearing black leather.

Because of fucking course!

 

[Brain Power]

An actor going "I wanted to coom and hired this tranny whore and it gave me the big succ, trans rights!" is not the "haha gotcha bigot chud" you think it is...


Did yongyea add this? Always making himself look more important than he is


It's not that it's rap, it's that it's nigger mumble rap in a game about Japan and the song is horrendous.

Spoiler: compare

Katatoki (Gaiden):

Bushido (Kenzan):

(Oh fuck you youtube!)

 

[LightDragonman1]

You know how nearly everyone dislikes The Acolyte, with the latest episode being especially bad? Well TV Tropes doesn't. In fact, they seem to be fans of it.

 

[Gorillion others]

You know how nearly everyone dislikes The Acolyte, with the latest episode being especially bad? Well TV Tropes doesn't. In fact, they seem to be fans of it.

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They likely can't dislike it because that would look bad to whoever is bankrolling them now. Gotta keep a positive attitude for the corporate suits. And also because they don't want to invite any unwanted attention from dissent. I'm trying my level best to avoid even a glimpse of the text. Put it under spoilers because the last time I read their "opinions" I had to sit down and stare at a wall, hypnotizing myself to forget whatever the fuck it was they wrote.

It took me twenty minutes. It was that bad.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

You know how nearly everyone dislikes The Acolyte, with the latest episode being especially bad? Well TV Tropes doesn't. In fact, they seem to be fans of it.

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It's been known for years they love awful media and people

 

[Ensok]

In a vacuum what KnownUnknown is saying is correct. It's not "bad writing" if something is unclear or a mystery at first and then explained later. Things that look like plotholes or retcons may actually be on purpose and have a perfectly reasonable explanation. The problem is that people, viewers, fans, are no longer willing to give the benefit of the doubt and wait for that explanation. They've been burned by shoddy writing and bad shows too much. Now when people see a "plothole" or inconsistency they immediately get angry because they know that it's unlikely that it will be explained or justified. Such as Ki-Adi-Mundi's appearance in the show among other things. This is not a Star Wars problem, it's a wider media problem. People have lost faith in the writers.

 

[Flexo]

In a vacuum what KnownUnknown is saying is correct. It's not "bad writing" if something is unclear or a mystery at first and then explained later. Things that look like plotholes or retcons may actually be on purpose and have a perfectly reasonable explanation. The problem is that people, viewers, fans, are no longer willing to give the benefit of the doubt and wait for that explanation. They've been burned by shoddy writing and bad shows too much. Now when people see a "plothole" or inconsistency they immediately get angry because they know that it's unlikely that it will be explained or justified. Such as Ki-Adi-Mundi's appearance in the show among other things. This is not a Star Wars problem, it's a wider media problem. People have lost faith in the writers.

Exactly this. It's also frustration that in a penultimate episode with a flashback that is SUPPOSED to be answering questions it "leaves more questions."

Like you said the posters aren't wrong in principle, what they don't seem to understand is too many are burned out on watching stuff which kept "promising" answers but then never delivers. Lost traumatized an entire generation of audiences with blue balls.

 

[The Cunting Death]

It's been known for years they love awful media and people

I mean they are awful people who consume awful media so you're not far off.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Why is literal gay porn allowed?

 

[WULULULULU]

Why is literal gay porn allowed?

Its worse: shota porn.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Why is literal gay porn allowed?

Its worse: shota porn.

Gross, camp-themed preteen porn is international (I saw some published as a book, shared by normie women...still hope I am not on the list for looking the "interesting" book title up)

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Its worse: shota porn.

 

[NerdShamer]

Gross, camp-themed preteen porn is international (I saw some published as a book, shared by normie women...still hope I am not on the list for looking the "interesting" book title up)

They also have an page for an game that has (mostly) gay shota porn that are also furries.

Really makes you wonder what would have happened if we dropped an third nuke, back then.

 

[The Cunting Death]

So porn is allowed if it involves faggotry?

Wow, so this is what "the right side of history" is?

 

[Throng of Titans]

So porn is allowed if it involves faggotry?

Wow, so this is what "the right side of history" is?

Is it allowed, or has it just evaded notice?

I'd check the discussion pages to see if they talked about the artistic merits that mean a gay porn game should be allowed to stay up, but they have since locked them to unregistered users.

 

[NerdShamer]

Is it allowed, or has it just evaded notice?

Technically, it's an little bit of both; provided that nobody brings it up.