Sometimes i even think TVTropes itself is AwesomeButImpractical at times considering that TVTropesWillRuinYourLife...and for little productive gain.

This tropette inherited a really awesome bracelet from my favorite aunt; it's a ring of petwer charms shaped like very realistic and detailed bumblebees. Trouble is I can hardly stand to wear it because the bees' legs are always getting caught on my clothes.

This Troper thought about a sundial for his backyard... The same one that is 90% shaded for three quarters of the year by the four trees on the property.

This troper, who has serious HypeBacklash for "DwarfFortress", made a bookmark to an upload of the "Bang Install" theme, put it on his desktop, and disguised it as a shortcut to DF. Unfortunately, no one else uses his laptop, making this prank rather pointless.

Ha. I put a shutdown key on my desktop and disguised it as ''Internet Explorer''. Just to screw with the minds of whoever gets on my computer.

This troper built a small hovering RC car. It required twelve electric sockets to power all 25 fans required to keep it in the air, but it looked COOOOOLL!!!!

Please post a picture for five thousand internets, sir/ma'am.

How is it Radio Controlled ('RC') if the fans are powered by electric sockets instead of an on-board battery?

YouFailElectronicsForever. "Radio controlled" only means that it's ''controlled'' through radio waves. It says nothing about how it's ''powered''.

This troper bought a bronze hand-carved d20. It looks awesome and rustic and totally fits his D&D campaign. It would also shatter a glass table, and doesn't seem to be able to roll higher than a 15. Thinking of making a wire necklace for it, because it looks too awesome to just leave in a bag.

This troper was an AgeOfEmpires II: The Conquerors player. The game have several units which are considered AwesomeButImpractical. For example, the Korean turtle ship is the slowest and the toughest ship in the game. However, it is rarely used due to its short firing range, high production cost (200 wood and 200 gold each) and naval warfare maps are rarely used in multiplayer games.

For this troper, any "eye candy" in modern operating systems falls under this trope, as his laptop has nothing but a crappy video card.

This troper lives in Texas, where knowledge of Spanish is a rather nice thing to have (though not necessary.) During high school she was required to take a foreign language course and chose German. The reason I tell everyone is that many famous writers (Schiller, Goethe, Kafka, ''und so weiter'') were German, and I believe that works of literature should be read in their original language whenever possible. While both of these are true, the real reason I took German was because it's a pretty cool-sounding language. Even though it has no practical real-world applications in the part of the country I live in.

This troper took French instead of Russian for the same reason. She also taught herself Japanese because she thinks it's a cool language, but the worst offender is Arabic, which she, being a Jew who lives in Europe, has almost no chance or intention to ever use. Out of seven languages that she learned, the only ones that she uses are German and English, the rest are just to be able to say, "Hey, I know nine languages!"

I own a bracelet with 2 inch long pink rubber spikes on, but I find it hard to wear anywhere as I find it hard to put my jacket on when its cold, and I cant write well with it on. It looks awesome though.

The fact that they've now resumed manufacture of JP-7 means that, in theory, anyone with enough money can build their own SR-71 since the plans've been declassified for years now. The ultimate in awesome but impractical - a plane that can fly 2,194 MPH but costs more than a small country per day to maintain and burns fuel that costs the per-volume equivalent of burning rubies... And requires a Chevrolet big-block V-8 engine to start it and bursts of (highly toxic, explosive, and corrosive) rocket fuel (triethylborane) to bring the jet fuel up to its flashpoint.

This troper enjoys designing mecha that would actually funtion reasonably well in real life. Nearly all of his ideas on that subject boil down to this in the end, but the "Project Plasmathrower" weapon system really takes the cake here. Imagine being able to compress regular air, heat it up until it becomes plasma, and then use a coilgun-like device to fire it, courtesy of plasma's magnetic properties. End result: arguably the world's awesomest thermal weapon, possessing massive destructive power and, depending on the power of the coilgun, good range- ''and'' it uses no ammunition, only electricity and air. Downsides: the time necessary to heat up the air until it acquires the desirable properties kills the rate of fire, you'll melt the coilgun component in no time flat, and you need a ridiculously efficient cooling system to avoid cooking the rest of the mech.

This troper used to have a pair of jeans with buckles running down the sides. They looked rather neat, in a TooManyBelts kind of way. But whenever her arm came within two inches of the buckles, they scratched her. Every time she wore them, therefore, her arms would be covered with little shallow scratches, just enough to raise a mark. She still wore them until they were worn out, though.

You know the "proto-Justice League" on Smallville, with all the nifty hooded costumes (most notably Green Arrow)? This troper has worn a hood long enough to know it's got to be the MOST impractical headgear for a vigilante, EVER. I don't do anything resembling vigilantism, and I've still lost track of the times I've bonked my head on something or almost walked in front of a car in a parking lot because of how much a hood restricts your vision.

This troper goes to an arcade where, every Wednesday, they have a deal where you pay $12, $10, or $8 (depending on when you arrive at the arcade) and you get a card that gives you unlimited plays until the arcade closes. Unfortunately, this is impractical for this troper, who goes to said arcade mainly for ''{{DJMAX}} Technika 2'', which a. costs $1 to play otherwise and b. is popular enough that the average wait time for a turn is often as long as an hour. So if I arrive around 4 hours before the arcade closes (when the price for unlimited play drops to $8), I have to either play other games while I wait for my turns on ''Technika'' to get my money's worth, or just get regular credits so I don't waste my money.

Ramune bottles. Looks cool, but you can't close them once they're opened.

Half this troper's clothing plays this trope straight(awesome looking shirts with sewn-shut pockets, an awesome looking vest that I can't wash for fear of it shrinking and thus sees almost no wearing, handmade leather belt that doesn't quite fit etc...), the other half inverts it(jacket with 7 pockets, cargo style pants with the pockets perfectly at hand level, t shirt with pockets, hiking boots you can kick a dent in a steel door with)

This troper can recall every detail of any door he has ever touched.

Only doors?

You mean you can't recognise when a trope is being played straight? Great job. *slow clap*

That sounds like it belongs in the Troper Tales section of WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway.

This troper has five dogs. Let that speak for itself.

This troper LARPs regularly and recently discovered that being relegated to loot pack mule limits the functionality of the ranger who's entire fighting style focuses on mobility. This is especially the case when they walk on the adventure with a long katana, an equally sized mace, a slim shield about the same length, a pair of daggers for abnormal material types AND dual pistol crossbows, without really having enough of the proper belt loops to hold it all (and no way of stowing the crossbows short of dropping them).

This troper's middle school had a digital media, where kids would make and edit videos and short animations. The teacher once wondered why kids always put so much effort into their movie's credits, which were often filled with jokes of varying quality to the point where sometimes the credits took up half the movie. The practice annoyed the heck out of her, because in her eyes it wasted time and served no purpose whatsoever.