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{{quote|''"In this insane world, it is you. You are that line."''|'''[[Opening Narration]], on Lorrex Kobol (aegisMason)'''}}
''[[A Complete Waste of Time]]'' is an [[MS Paint Adventures|MS Paint Fan Adventure]] by clandestineTechie, centering on a group of sixteen trolls as they play a game called [[Absurdly High Stakes Game|META]]. What was originally supposed to be just a simple game session mutates into something very complex and trying on everyone as relationships are made and broken, another set of aliens is discovered, and of course everyone wastes each other's time.
Notable for impressive storytelling and worldbuilding, and for not being just another [[Homestuck
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131124232052/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37178-A-Complete-Waste-of-Time-Thread-2-Cerana-Cover-evidence Latest forum thread]
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* [http://mspafa.wikia.com/wiki/A_Complete_Waste_of_Time MSPFA Wiki entry]
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Not to be confused with [[Pointless Waste of Time]].
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* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]: META. For starters, it determines players by examining the server player's friends list. If anyone from that list hasn't installed the game within one day after the server starts, ''they die''. {{spoiler|This ends up causing a mass [[Depopulation Bomb]] of Seconia, as virtually everyone therein is connected to its natural network, and thus is connected to everyone else.}}
** While in game, you can accidentally murder your conscience, which leaves you incapable of moral decisions.
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The trolls are for the most part given normal first names (e.g. Rick, Noel, Vera), with a few exceptions (Cerana, Lorrex, ''Graves''). And then there are the ithicans, whose psychenyms include such adjectives as Virulent or Virtuistic.
* [[Agent Mulder]] / [[Occult Detective]]: Hans aspires to be one.
* [[Alchemy Is Magic]]: Alchemy plays an important part in the story; the trolls (and two ithicans) are denoted by alchemical symbols, and like in ''[[
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Moira.
* [[The Archer]]: Felis.
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*** Their moon phases are 2*4=8 days long. There are 24 days in a "trilunar gyration". There are 24 TGs in a year, and ithicans survive roughly 24 years.
*** There was also 2 groups of 4 ithicans that played in their session.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Plato's introduction almost directly mentions this trope.
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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Rick's right arm. Also the ithicans, who are born without them and thus must create limbs from plants or metal, although the latter is considered heretical.
* [[Author Appeal]]: clandestineTechie loves peace lilies. He ''[
* [[Author Avatar]]: cT shows up in the [?] segments as a fully-dressed ithican (ironically the ithicans themselves [[Exposed Extraterrestrials|have no concept of clothing]]).
* [[Awesomeness Meter]]: It's not whether you achieve goals in META, but rather ''how'' you achieve them.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Moira, in the doomed alpha timeline.}}
* [[Badass Arm
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Noel tries one to {{spoiler|assist in Moira's suicide, since she claimed that if she made it back alive she wouldn't trust anyone anymore. It of course fails since Graves realizes what was happening with her after having a change of heart.}}
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Unified, a wreck of an ithican who just killed Pliable Paeans, goes on a nihilistic rant about how the ithicans are doomed and that they should just die instead of prolonging their "suffering". Just as he plans on killing the other survivors for clinging on to hope, Virtuistic comes out of nowhere and caves in his skull with [[Shock and Awe|electricity]].}}
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* [[Character Filibuster]]: Cerana, in text!
* [[Cool Airship]]: {{spoiler|Chad manages to snag one in the Alpha session.}}
* [[Cluster F
* [[Culture Clash]]: Ithicans are a peaceful, nature-loving people. Trolls conquer everything in their path.
** Ithicans are [
** Permanent does not understand the troll's [[Cluster F
** Cerana teaches the ithicans {{spoiler|that are struggling to survive on their troll-desecrated planet}} the concept of inside vs. outside
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** Subverted: Viridian is an outcast among the trolls, but falls in love with ithican culture.
* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: Felis
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* [[Electronic Eyes]]: Lyanne.
* [[Exposed Extraterrestrials]]: As a general rule of thumb, ithicans don't wear clothes. They are sometimes shown wearing armor in META, but it is probably for the stats.
* [[Final Boss]]: [
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: A slight case; Philanian dreamselves and +devas speak with "ph" instead of "f", while Mizanian dreamselves and -devas speak with "z"s for "s"s. This is on top of each troll's normal quirk.
* [[Fun
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Rick, though he intentionally makes his objects breakable so that he always has something to occupy his time.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Spoofed. Rick was originally going to be named [
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Rick, if only a little. He had already played Sburb with a few others, so he knew just about what to expect in META.
* [[God Guise]]: The trolls inadvertently play the part of "moon elders" to the ithicans at one point in their history. While some are nice, others [[Stop Worshipping Me!|don't really care]] about the godly business, and some (Lyanne in particular) [[A God Am I|absolutely enjoy]] [[Jerkass Gods|tormenting]] the poor aliens.
* [[Go
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: The Devas serve this function to all META players.
* [[Good Wings, Evil Wings]]: Comes with the [[Karma Meter]].
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Future Graves give [
* [[Heads
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: The trolls, as is the [[Interactive Comic]] standard.
** Ithicans come up with ''their own'' names on their first birthday.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Milo has one when he finds out he can't cast spells like he claimed he could. A more serious case is {{spoiler|Moira's emotional breakdown and attempted suicide after Graves calls her out on being a hypocrite}}.
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* [[Horse of a Different Color]] / [[Bond Creatures]]: The Survivor class has this as a special ability, and they can choose from one of four Denizens, each allied with an element:
** [[Giant Flyer|SKY ALBATROSS]], Denizen of Air, who [[Mons|will help fight alongside her master]]. In one of Noel's prophecies, Felis has tamed her and was riding her.
** [[
** [[Sand Worm|DUST WURM]], Denizen of Earth, who can help find places and objects. [
** And finally, [[Turtle Power|GENESIS SHELL]], Denizen of Fire, who can [[Ultimate Blacksmith|forge damn well anything]]. Felis has found and woken him up in the Alpha timeline, and seeks his help in repairing the timeline.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: Rick's shotgun [
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: Virulent Panacea and Permanent Venom end up staying in the game-world of META as the Queen of Philan and the King of Mizan, respectively. It was for the better they didn't return to [[Just Before the End|an Alternia-conquered and later abandoned Seconia]].
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Lyanne finds herself confronted by a {{spoiler|[[Black and White Insanity|crazed]] Moira}} and tries to snap {{spoiler|her}} out of it.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Graves. {{spoiler|Especially when [[I Taste Delicious|he eats his past self]].}}
* [[Instant Web Hit]]: In-Universe: Joan is this because of a combination of being a Nautical Aristocrat and having an ECLECTIC TASTE IN MUSIC. However, she doesn't revel in her popularity that much.
* [[Interface Screw]]: Eventually, the screen starts to glitch out at certain points, with messages from Permanent and Virulent appearing and overriding the [[Second Person Narration]]. Apparently, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|fast-forwarding and playing the tape has done a number on its integrity]].
* [[Invisibility]]: Camille has this power, which helps when she goes assassinating.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: [
* [[I Work Alone]]: Permanent, once he becomes the King of Mizan.
* [[Jerkass]]:
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*** {{spoiler|The gods' parents also do not blink at annihilating gods that fail META}}
* [[Karma Meter]]
* [[Kill Steal]]: For all the effort Camille put into sacking a monster, Layla simply [
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Virulent had to kill the previous Queen of Philan to achieve that status. The same could be said for Permanent and the previous ruler of Mizan.
* [[Letters 2 Numbers]]: Rick's typing quirk consists of him replacing the first letter of a word with a numeral (from zero to ten) whose initial phoneme(s) most closely resembles the word's. {{color|#ff8000|
* [[Madness Mantra]]: chronicConflagration has several: "{{color|#0040A0|
* [[Mask Power]]: Gabe always has a mask on, without exception.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** Philan and Mizan [[Fridge Brilliance|are short for "philanthropy" and "mi[s]anthropy" respectively]].
** Virulent Panacea's surname refers to the ''panacea'' (her element, gold) that was the secondary goal of alchemists, behind [[Immortality]].
* [[
* [[Mind Screw]]: If you can't get used to the very non-linear story format this adventure employs, expect to be confused about what events are happening when and why.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: [http://mspfanventures.com/?s=99&p=728 Let's go back to] [http://mspfanventures.com/?s=99&p=201the less depressing couple]
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* [[Neat Freak]]: Syd.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: {{spoiler|Unified, after returning to a ruined Seconia.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Sure, Lyanne. [
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]] / [[Sinister Silhouettes]]: {{spoiler|Moira}} shows up at one point, about to put {{spoiler|an axe}} into [
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Played for drama. When someone stops using their typing quirks, it means they have become serious about something (e.g. {{spoiler|an [[Ascended Demon]] Future Graves forgiving Moira for all the times she killed him, alpha Lorrex regretting playing META, Lyanne confronting an [[Ax Crazy]] Moira, the group chat over the destruction of the alpha/beta sessions (with appropriate lampshading), etc.}}).
* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: Cerana [http://nixshadow.com/mspfa/?s=99&p=355 temporarily becomes one] after encountering Steelmolar.
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Lyanne.
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Professional Killer]]: Gabe and Camille.
* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: +Moira [
* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: The ithicans who use metal for their [[Artificial Limbs|limbs]] can transform those limbs into sharp bladed weaponry.
* [[Shipper
* [[Shock and Awe]]: All ithicans store enough electical energy in their systems to be able to easily sculpt metal; that is to say, their energy output is about half of a lightning bolt's. {{spoiler|It's also the reason that VP looked intimidating to Lyanne the first time they met; VP's immense output was confusing her scanners so that she appeared infinitely leveled when really she was only Level 100}}.
* [[Shout
* [[Sidequest]]: The Pilferer class was specifically made for these kinds of quests.
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Seconia is always in a rainforest-like state {{spoiler|until the core dies in the META wipe, which causes Autumn to happen for the first time ever.}}
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* [[Space Compression]]: Camille exploits this trope to get across her homeworld faster. Unfortunately, she also runs into [[Random Encounters]].
* [[Strange Syntax Speaker]]: Milo mixes up his verb conjugations (and some plurals) for his typing quirk.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: After the result of the above [[Heads
* [[Talk to Everyone]]: [[Invoked]] with the Entertainer Class. They can gain information from [[NPC|NPCs]] that no other class can.
* [[Terrified of Germs]]: Syd.
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* [[Third Person Person]]: Moira usually chats like this, unless she puts her text between parentheses (((like so))).
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]:
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* [[Time Paradox]]: Graves causes this when [
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Moira.
* [[Title Drop]]: To the point of it being a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Touch of Death]]: Gabe's power, which he has to wear special gloves to contain.
* [[Trolling Creator]]: When a command admits that it never read [[Info Dump|the recap of the last three acts]], thereby making cT's efforts [[Running Gag|A Complete Waste]] [[Title Drop|Of Time]], [http://nixshadow.com/mspfa/?s=99&p=523 he decides to get even], by introducing,... [http://nixshadow.com/mspfa/?s=99&p=524 A Lousy Expenditure] [[What Do You Mean
** Also, >cT: Recap Act 5. {{spoiler|In [[Wingdinglish|Ithican script]]. He later gives us a transcribed version.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: {{spoiler|Lyanne confronts the god of the Troll's META session and uses her CURSE powers to search through his memories. She discovers META was a test given to gods by their parents to decide if they are fit for their duties. The trolls' session god decided that civilizations should be tested, not gods, and wished to reverse the process, putting him in charge.}}
* [[Wingdinglish]]: There are various phrases written not with the Latin alphabet but instead with the flowy cipher-script of the ithicans. Decoding those passages will enrich your experience. {{spoiler|Especially when reading the (handwritten) Act 5 recap.}}
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