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:::Whether or not it's a "reference," the first thing I thought when I heard it was "oh, that's a weird phrasing that Strong Bad's used before, but I can't remember where."  It would be nice to be able to go to the Wiki page for the toon and find out what I was half-remembering, because there's no other way for me to find out without watching everything on the site over again.  (It's not like you can Google "I'm [adjective] Strong Bad."
:::Whether or not it's a "reference," the first thing I thought when I heard it was "oh, that's a weird phrasing that Strong Bad's used before, but I can't remember where."  It would be nice to be able to go to the Wiki page for the toon and find out what I was half-remembering, because there's no other way for me to find out without watching everything on the site over again.  (It's not like you can Google "I'm [adjective] Strong Bad."
::::All right. My beef with this kind of thing is that if there's no solid proof that it's a "reference" (and there very seldom *is*; as I said, words are words, and there're really only so many ways of saying certain things), then there's no reason to state in the fun facts so matter-of-factly that it *is* one. Also, "that's the first thing I thought of when I heard/saw that" is a weak argument; the first thing that popped into *my* head when Strong Bad said "Soma" a few SBEMails ago was the main character from the Castlevania "Sorrow" series, but in context, and considering it appears to be a common, multi-use word, there was no actual reason for me to believe that's what he was referring to, so it would have been foolish for me to attempt to note it. -{{User:YK/sig}} 00:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
::::All right. My beef with this kind of thing is that if there's no solid proof that it's a "reference" (and there very seldom *is*; as I said, words are words, and there're really only so many ways of saying certain things), then there's no reason to state in the fun facts so matter-of-factly that it *is* one. Also, "that's the first thing I thought of when I heard/saw that" is a weak argument; the first thing that popped into *my* head when Strong Bad said "Soma" a few SBEMails ago was the main character from the Castlevania "Sorrow" series, but in context, and considering it appears to be a common, multi-use word, there was no actual reason for me to believe that's what he was referring to, so it would have been foolish for me to attempt to note it. -{{User:YK/sig}} 00:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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:::::Yes, "that's the first thing that popped into my head" is a weak argument for a reference, but that's not what I'm saying.  My point is that this site is a compendium of useful/interesting H*R-related information.  If something on the site reminded me of something in a Castlevania game, I wouldn't think, "Oh, I'll find out what it is on HRWiki," because HRWiki isn't a site about Castlevania.  But if something on the site reminded me of *something else on the site*, I'd think that HRWiki would be the first place to look to find out what it was.  Especially because there's no other way to find out, as I pointed out above.  I realize that TBC are likely not "referring" to the line in [[unnatural]] in the usual sense of the word "refer," but it would be nice to point out the connection *somehow*, even if we don't call it a "reference."  Refusing to include that information detracts from the wiki and makes it less useful.  The wiki ultimately exists for its users, not its creators and administrators, right?
 
Then what do you propose?  Tbc said in an interview that they do a ton of references (and that they use the wiki to do them.  I think it is a reference.  When i first saw the toon i thought wow i heard that before so i searched the wiki for Appostrophe flinger and said its from unnatural
Then what do you propose?  Tbc said in an interview that they do a ton of references (and that they use the wiki to do them.  I think it is a reference.  When i first saw the toon i thought wow i heard that before so i searched the wiki for Appostrophe flinger and said its from unnatural

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