[derefr]

In practice, though, most of the "settled" pages ended up looking a lot like TVTropes. Basically, c2 is/was "Software Engineering Tropes."

[shagie]

Elsewhere on the net, there are two sites that convention mandated a warning flag for fear of clicking the rest of the afternoon following interesting things. TVTropes... and C2.

[labster]

In my fork of TV Tropes, All The Tropes, I explicitly compare software patterns to entertainment tropes, as they're essentially the same thing.