Allow me to ruin your life.

So anyway, before I discuss anything else I figure I should introduce my readers to my source of reference. It'll save a lot of time on explanations in my future posts.

Since I first created this blog, I discovered a site called Television Tropes and Idioms. As the frontpage says, it's the net's biggest archive of writing conventions, stereotypes, tricks and devices. It's also a database of not only countless works of fiction that use these tropes, from TV series to movies to anime to video games to books to music, but also creators involved in these and non-fiction topics such as politics, sports, countries and famous historical figures and events. So it's a database to rival Wikipedia, at least in certain areas, but what makes it so addictive is that There Is No Such Thing As Notability. Basically, anything interesting enough to go on there is wanted, there is none of the stuffy formality or organization of Wikipedia and you're free to invent new tropes for the archive as long as you can cite enough examples of it to prove it actually exists. I myself was the original inventor of the Stupid Sacrifice page (inspired by a particularly stupid example from Gantz). Anyway, the reason I'm showing this to you now is because I'm going to make a lot of references to tropes when discussing stuff in the future, so it's better to make sure you know what the hell I'm talking about in advance: whenever I Post Something With All Capitals Like This it's usually a trope name. Like Fan Dumb, Crowning Moment Of Awesome, Tonight Someone Dies, or Impaled With Extreme Prejudice. There, that should be enough to get you started.

So why the title? Because TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. Seriously, they even have a page dedicated to that very concept (getting meta there)! Reading the endless examples and getting Wikitreed (my name for what they call a Wiki Walk) is worse than on Wikipedia itself. Sorry in advance for consuming the rest of your life, but... to be honest I regret nothing. I consider TV Tropes to be essential knowledge for anyone who wants to be interesting and in any event it's my favourite website bar none. So enjoy it as much as you can.

Just... try to get to bed before 4 in the morning.

So just in brief: what am I doing at the moment? Would you believe playing Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil? Yeah, I know it's old. Does the fact that I'm playing it even though I have more recent games to play suggest anything to you? How about that it's good? Yeah. HELL yeah. Double-barelled shotgun, I love you. I'll go into it in more detail another day.