Apparently TVTropes really CAN ruin your life

[metalhead467]

It is the electronic equivalent of crack cocaine.

Yeah but crack will eventually kill you.

TVTropes just keeps you clicking.

Forever.

Never granting you the sweet mercy of the embrace of death.

Unless you forget to eat.

 

[CrysisMcGee]

letseee....Cracked.com did that to me. I SPENT 3 solid days reading every damn article on that website. Wikipedia.org does it too me all the time. This site does it a bit as well.

So I guess my record would be 72 hours straight on cracked.com, including eating and sleeping. Didn't have a job at the time.

Also somebodies personal blog I found highly entertaining. Spent a log time reading the whole thing. http://cannibalcuisine.blogspot.com/

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

I don't get the big deal about that website, I find it excruciatingly boring.
I feel like the only one who feels that way whenever I mention it.

 

[Brad Shepard]

i dont see hte humor, i found 1 funny, the one about the guy trying to get hte girl and she ends up going with the asshole, and thats it.

 

[Jandau]

That site is a freaking Black Hole from which nothing can escape! Thankfully, after months of exposure, I've managed to develop a bit of a resistance since I've seen most of the Trope articles and usually go there just to look up whatever show I'm watching at the time. But it still calls to me...

 

[nokelso]

Like Wikipedia, or those damn videogame wikis, I know more about Fallout 3 than I should because of those.

Exactly this.
I know a bit too much Halo lingo now and I don't know how I feel about it.

 

[grimsprice]

Um never been there...honestly have no idea what it really is. Dont really care.

You really should. This page was my first time, and trust me, its totally worth clicking on.

This is a math equation that calculates the accuracy of bad guys in movies.

AND IT WORKS.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy

Ah no!!!! i link it myself and ended up at Schrodingers Fu. Realizing that i had 5 tabs open. Must resist urge!!!!

 

[Chrissyluky]

I've never gone =/ don't have the time to get addicted to something else xD.

 

[Disaster Button]

TvTropes has stolen my soul.

I once spent about 8 solid hours on it never with less than 3 tabs open at once.

 

[Uberjoe19]

What the fuck how can you people spend so much time on that site?!
The articles are okay, but Jesus, 10 hours?

I can't get away because they just have so damn many articles it keeps you clicking. Also, the articles tend to be rather humorously named.

 

[RJ Dalton]

I'd like to dispute that on the grounds of being a false-positive. Wikipedia is for the users and by the users, so it is not a haven for completely-factual data. Some things will corrolate and some things will be wonky dubious horseshit.

TvTropes, however, seems to be rather ironic and funny.

That's why I said you have to be careful with wikipedia.

 

[jjcobra]

I think you should look at this link that is definitly not TVtropes [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife]

The site is a nice place to find information and I spent about 2 days on it a while ago looking at everything that Neon Genesis Evangelion had a Trope of. It'll waste away your life, yes, but think of the knowledge you'll attain!

You, sir, have deceived me! I just clicked the link, then BAM. It took me a full minute to pry myself from that site. It just draws you in and doesn't let go....

It is the electronic equivalent of crack cocaine.

An eerily appropriate metaphor.

Well at the bottom of the page it links to another page saying TVTropes is a gateway drug.
Oooooh drugs. Nomnomnomnomnom. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug]

 

[Droa]

so dam true, I don't remember how many tabs I had up at one time but I know I had to open up a new window a few times :S

the picture at the top of tvtropes will ruin your life page pretty much says it all

 

[BlackWidower]

Maybe someone should compile a TVTropes book.

 

[Dok Zombie]

Tv Tropes and The Escapist are the reason it takes me so long to write an essay...

 

[Dr. wonderful]

89 hours...just on troper tales.

Oh my Lord. Was that a continuous visit or did you sleep and do work while idling on the site?

It was 89 hours straight.

That was 2 weeks...during the snow storm of 2010... I had the chance to surf for porn but...I saw an article for CMOA and it...snowballed from there.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Maybe someone should compile a TVTropes book.

Impossible....due to the fact it will take the author 16 hours to put down one letter.

 

[Eggsnham]

Like Wikipedia, or those damn videogame wikis, I know more about Fallout 3 than I should because of those.

Exactly this.
I know a bit too much Halo lingo now and I don't know how I feel about it.

Ah yes, I visited there when I was going through my Halo phase, I now know how an elite mates.. It isn't pretty.

 

[AvsJoe]

Longest: 17 hours.
Current: 13 hours.

Seriously, right now I'm taking a sleep break. I have 4 tabs open right now, two of which involve the high octane nightmare fuel pages.

Final tab read and closed. Total time: a little over 16 hours, just shy of my record.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

I really don't get this attraction to TV tropes, I look at something for about 5 seconds and then click away from it, is it because I don't watch TV you reckon?