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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Also, in many cases cherry picking low showings. It's always "phasers can get stopped by packing crates" (and we'll ignore that they are dial-a-yield), not "phasers can disintegrate entire walls of solid rock". Also, a related bad fanfic trope: the idea that "realistic" military forces should...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Related, some "HFY" fics are like that. Both in being right wing and being genocidally anti-alien (and often using the "xeno" term)." Also, fics that have tags like "rational protagonist".
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    That's less an isekai problem than it is with most portrayals of clever planners in fiction. And a fair number of would-be clever planners in real life, for that matter. Except they don't have an author watching over them to make sure events run on rails for them, so their grand master plan...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    People have trouble writing people different than themselves, and children are different. And, I strongly suspect many such writers have had little contact with children since their own childhood, leaving their memory of actual child behavior fuzzy.
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    Video Games General

    Yes, it was about the size of Britain. It turns out that people do not, in fact want realism in games. They want games that "feel realistic" yes, but actually realistic? No. Reality is annoying. They shouldn't have used "crunch time", that consistently introduces bugs and general dysfunction...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    A few I've seen: In Dungeon Life, it's an interface created by the God of Order, mostly to let everyone understand the cause and effect relationship between their actions and the results. He didn't create the "System"; he just created the interlace for it, and it looks artificial because it is...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

  8. Avernus

    General chat thread

    I recall on Discord being told to add "fixup" in front of the "x" for Twitter links; no idea if that's a Discord-only thing though.
  9. Avernus

    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "When I released that genie I wished for a fire breathing dragon to ride." "Poor bastard suffocated because there wasn't any fire around."
  10. Avernus

    Wyvern - Worm AU fanfic

    Hmmm. Lisa is going to be stuck between "Wyvern is a heroine and would toss me in jail if she figures out I'm a villain" and "if Wyvern likes me enough she can totally get Coil to let me go on pain of immolation". Meanwhile Coil is "I have no choice, I have to be...nice to Wyvern. Ordering some...
  11. Avernus

    General chat thread

    Remember, men take "performance enhancing" steroids that do things like shrink their balls and cause impotence. People can get very self destructive when they are being competitive.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    No, it's not. Not even close; that argument renders the whole concept meaningless by defining every interaction as "forcible". It serves no function except as an excuse; by that logic beating a woman until half her bones are broken and she can't move then raping her is no different than sweet...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    You would have no choice in the matter. They could just combine the two; take your wallet, beat you half to death with a baseball bat for fun and make you genuinely praise them for it. You aren't even really there anymore, just whatever twisted thing they left in place to pilot your former body.
  14. Avernus

    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    That would likely be fatal. And no, "talking" is not "forcibly changing the brain through use of sound waves".
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Does it involve forcible brain surgery? Because to be even close to mind control it would have to.
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