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* [[New Rules as the Plot Demands]]: Usually averted since no one can figure out what the plot is. Though [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|some events]] make you wonder...
== O ==
* [[Obvious Beta]]: The Moon. Developed from the Earth's Alpha Build source code, and still lacking flora, fauna or even a basic atmosphere when the Beta Testers arrived to try it out. [[Gravity Screw|The weak gravity]], however, proved popular and was retained as a [[Good Bad Bug]]. Despite its popularity the only way to reach this zone is down to having a very specific skill set and armour list and by grinding rep with the appropriate space guilds. Even then you have to hope that the quest itself will pop up in your play time, it
** For quite a while now, a few players have been considering Mars to be this. Recent discovery of leftover code that showed it had successfully run the water module advances this theory.
** Any modeling of the Earth's surface from billions of years ago when it was still [[Lethal Lava Land]] will look like this.
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]: This page.
** End of the world predictions.
== P ==
* [[Pacifist Run]]: This is the default option, see [[
* [[Path of Most Resistance]]: Claimed to be the best way to succeed. Played straight if you needed to get into a highly technical position or rely heavily on ability, but subverted by those who manage to bluff or use other means to gain status.
* [[People Sit on Chairs]]: One of the few places that this trope makes sense to list because everyone literally does in some form or fashion, or the closest thing to it where chairs do not exist in the form most associate with the definition of "chair".
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* [[Player Versus Player]]: Between the "Law/Crime", "Wimps/Bullies<ref>Who have earned the universal [[Fan Nickname]] of "Douchebag"</ref>", and opposing "Military" class tree players. Technically any player can engage, but it's not a very good idea.
** Special rules for [[Player Versus Player]] contests exist in minigames known as Boxing, Wrestling, and Ultimate Fighting. The advantage of these is that there's no penalty for engaging in them, and they do not cause death (most of the time)
** The entire world is one big [[Player Versus Environment]] zone unless you are either doing one of the above or in a designated [[
** The 'Lawsuit' minigame is a good choice for players who want nonviolent [[
** And of course, there are other forms of nonviolent [[
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Averted
* [[Platform Hell]]: If you want to see other people experience it, ''[[Ninja Warrior]]''. If you want to experience it yourself, go for a tough hike or try to climb a mountain. Be careful, though; this minigame gives you only one life, and no continues unless you're lucky enough for a Mountain Rescue player to be in the area.
** However, if you have a distress beacon item, you get a generally high chance (depending on local conditions) of getting an additional continue, but you have to restart the entire minigame.
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* [[Polluted Wasteland]]: Many industrial areas and several cities count, particularly during the Industrial Revolution.
** While still common in less developed game areas, the nicer places over time have had house rules to prevent it or reduce it implemented to some greater or lesser degree.
*** Except that the rules patches just move the level somewhere else, rather than actually fixing the underlying problem.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Played straight loads of times.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Influential characters from early seasons [[Vindicated by History|can have a surprising influence on later plotlines even after they die]]. The [[Doomed Moral Victor]] from the Rise of Rome storyline is now (arguably) the ''posthumous main character''. [[The Chessmaster]] from the Arabia arc and the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] from the Bo Tree arc have been almost as influential, and even the [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Mad Scientist]] from the Restoration Arc (and his later counterparts in the World War I and World War II storylines) is still considered important.
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* [[Press X to Not Die]]: No on-screen indicators, and it doesn't always show up. All you got is your instincts.
* [[Prestige Class]]: "Doctor", "Lawyer", "President".
** [[
** YMMV on "Movie Star", depending on what you want out of a class.
* [[Prequel]]: "Real Life Prehistoric".
* [[The Promised Land]]: Users on third-world country servers view first-world servers as such, and try to do anything to switch over. For some, switching over brings them better gameplay, but for others, life doesn't improve that much. In the late 19th century edition of Real Life, many players tried to switch over to the United States server. How well it worked out for them varied from player to player.
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* [[Redemption Equals Sex]]: Reportedly played straight in many ancient religions, averted in most cases today. Still played straight in Tantric yoga and a few [[New Age]] cults.
** Also frequently played straight in everyday life. Make-up sex is often an example.
** Reportedly both played straight and subverted by those rock stars and heavy metal artists who don't opt for [[Redemption Equals Death]].
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: ''Any'' work you can think of is somehow encountered here.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Oh, so many, many examples...
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** "The jury will disregard that and the statement will be stricken from the record."
** "History is [[Written by the Winners]]."
** Sometimes rumoured to be used on a much wider level, leading almost all characters to miss or forget [[Obvious Rule Patch]]ing. Retroactive [[Morphic Resonance]] and the [[w:Mandela effect|Mandela effect]] are two of the more popular hypotheses, but those who believe them tend to be seen as [[Cloudcuckooland]]ers.
* [[Retro Gaming]]: There are tribes that live as their ancient ancestors did. Others occasionally indulge in [[Retro Gaming]] to temporarily escape their otherwise contemporary lifestyles by attending Renaissance Fairs or partaking in Civil War re-enactments.
** A few players take it to extremes by spending days on side-quests without any equipment other than a camera and whatever they can craft in a wilderness location.
* [[The Reveal]]: The Earth is round! Hitler was building death camps!
**
* [[Right Behind Me]]: The downfall of any player who makes a habit of badmouthing others behind their backs.
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: Capybaras.
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*** Actually, [[Science Marches On|rabbits aren't rodents.]] They're lagomorphs.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Partially subverted by the obsessive emphasis on consistent physics, chemistry, biology, etc.--much of which turns out to be incredibly cool in itself. Of course, this serves to make the true [[Badass|badasses]] look even better.
* [[Rule of Fun]]: Subverted. [[Guitar Hero|Learning to play guitar]] takes months of lessons and practice, [[First-Person Shooter|shooting up friends]] [[Killed Off for Real|kills them for real]] and is a criminal offense<ref>(paintball, however, is perfectly legal)</ref>, [[Shoot'Em Up|fighter jets]] have far more controls than an 8-way stick and "fire" and "bomb" buttons and can only move forward, [[Tetris|making whole lines of blocks doesn't make them vanish]], and [[Sports Game|sports]] take lots of practice, require you to be in great athletic shape, and can cause more serious injuries than worn-out thumbs.
** "Practice" can only be done by grinding - gems cannot be used to up-skill, and the few effective potions have detrimental effects on other stats.
** On the other hand this is the only reason we engage in leisure activities that don't benefit us in any concrete way.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: As demonstrated by the Comedian and Cartoonist classes, among others.
* [[Rules Lawyer]]: The "lawyer" prestige class is half of the [[Trope Namer]] for this. They, along with legislators and various other characters, have this as their class specialty. Some other characters just take up this ability as a hobby. This ability invokes YMMV among quite a few players; the player consensus seems to suggest that it's an annoying but necessary part of the game.
* [[Rule 34]]: To the point where Real Life porn is a major industry. It's
** Several groups exist to oppose it, often citing examples from the darker side of the industry.
== S ==
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* [[Series Fauxnale]]: The fans seem intent to believe the finale is nigh every few seasons:
** The Great War arc (later known as World War I) was advertised as "the war to end all wars". Ninety seasons later, war episodes are as common as ever.
** Some of the "Crazy Street Person" classes [[The End Is Nigh (trope)|advertise it rather more frequently]].
** The Y2K storyline also served up some [[Red Herring|red herrings]].
** The date 6/6/06. There were people who actually bet on [[The End of the World as We Know It|whether we would survive]]. Does anyone else wonder how the believers [[Fridge Logic|were supposed to collect their money]]?
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* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: Antarctica, Siberia, the local ski resort... all there. Greenland, but not Iceland. Ironic, no?
* [[The Slow Path]]: Generally played straight due to the "entropy" attribute in the game code that enforces this by default for all living things and even most inanimate objects. There have been attempts to change this via reverse engineering the source code, though results have been very limited.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Loads. Archimedes (Classical); DaVinci (Renaissance); Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Leibniz (1600's); Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Werner Von Braun ('20s, '30s, '40s and '50s); Bill Gates ('80s, early '90s); Stephen Hawking (1970s-early 2000s).
* [[Somewhere a Herpetologist Is Crying]]: There is an [[Urban Legends|Urban Legend]] wherein a woman keeps waking up to discover her husband's pet python is stretching itself out alongside her in bed. She calls a herpetologist to ask about the behavior, and he tells her "[[Don't Ask, Just Run|Get out of the house now!]]" (is that a [[Stock Phrase]]?): The python, he tells her, was measuring her up in preparation to eat her.
** Sadly, most wildlife-rehabilitation facilities have had to treat turtles with cracked shells, whom some idiot tried to remove from their "little house" in ignorance of the fact that the shell is part of the animal's skeleton. A case of [[Television Is Trying to Kill Us|Television Is Trying To Kill Turtles]] in action.
** Horned lizards are often called "horned toad," "horny toad", "horned frog" etc etc etc due to their similarity to the given amphibians but they are actually lizards. To make things more confusing, their scientific name, Phrynosoma, evidently means "toad-bodied" so...
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* [[Timed Mission]]: Each human has, on average, 66.12 years to live. This time limit can be extended if you're healthy enough. Unfortunately, it's also [[Luck-Based Mission|luck based]], as your time limit can be drastically reduced depending on where your character lives; for example, a character based in Africa is likely to have a lower time limit than one in Europe. Sometimes your character's time limit is unexpectedly ended by [[YASD|just plain unfair things]], like being hit by a car.
* [[Time for Plan B]]: Because Plan A doesn't always go off without a hitch, having a decent backup plan in reserve is a good idea.
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|Tokyo is Japan]]: Very common when anyone discusses the Japan server. Even residents of the Japan server tend to do this, simply because Tokyo is one of the largest areas of contiguous political and geographical influence on said server.
* [[Toilet Humour]]: One of the first styles of humor many players encounter as well as being the [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKUA14785120080731 oldest known type of comedy.]
* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: Money, especially amongst the upper classes.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: So many ways...
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: In many locations you will get non-standard game over mentioned above if you start killing people in broad daylight. There are many notable subversions of it.
* [[Video Game Tutorial]]: Although most [[Player Character|PCs]] don't have conscious memory, these are the first few years of play. Depending on what your character's homeland is, the School levels will be this as well.
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: Laws don't stop people from doing bad or completely stupid things. In fact, the Darwin Awards exist to reward blatant violations. Also most of Quantum Physics and Relativity -- evidently, the Universe doesn't bother about complying to the common sense of those insignificant little humans on their tiny pale blue bit of dust called Earth.
* [[The Virus]]: Way too many to count; some of them are also [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Some of these tend to be [[Game Breaking Bug|Game Breaking Bugs]] that lead to many a [[Downer Ending]].
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** It's surprising how many dictators had strange [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|phobias]]. For example, [[Adolf Hitler]] was afraid of cats. This was never [[Exploited]], though.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: [[Subverted]] in the Libyan portion of the Arab Spring arc. The rebels started out unable to agree on the simplest things, but quickly worked out that they needed to pull together to get anything done, put their differences aside, and kicked Gadaffi out.
* [[We Cannot Go on Without You]]: If you own a business or have a partnership, you dying or becoming incapacitated can result in the end of the business. Also, a lot of bands have broken up because of the death, incapacitation, or retirement of a single member.
* [[Welcome to Corneria]]: Many people-oriented jobs, such as serving fast food or selling tickets at movies, involve several [[Stock Phrases]].
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
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** Korea and Vietnam have been getting more prominence since their war arcs ended (or put on hiatus in Korea's case). And India's becoming extremely popular these days.
*** Lima, Peru has a Chinatown of its own called the "barrio chino" or, in English, "Chinese neighbourhood".
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