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[Abraham_uk]

It's not the tropes you use, it's the execution.

 

Even the "overused" "damsel in distress" trope can be exciting if done right.

[Remix-General Aetius]

I'm an american expat in the middle east and the aussies are always telling my husband and I that americans are "too polite". It doesn't help that I grew up in the southeastern US where manners are a big deal. I hold doors, let people over in traffic even when they try to run me over, say please and thank you and generally drive the aussies up the wall. It's ingrained habit though. *shrugs* There's a lot I have to adapt to with other people's cultures here. If my over politeness is the worst thing people have to adapt to about my culture, that's awesome!

 

I love the south-east but I hate the homophobia. I definitely wouldn't want to be anywhere near there if I come out. they actually wanted to segregate the bathrooms according to sexuality in Tennessee.

 

if I was Sluggard, that's where I'd start my harvesting.

[SardaukarElite]

Politicians are universally corrupt and / or incompetent.

[maia0407]

I love the south-east but I hate the homophobia. I definitely wouldn't want to be anywhere near there if I come out. they actually wanted to segregate the bathrooms according to sexuality in Tennessee.

 

if I was Sluggard, that's where I'd start my harvesting.

Oh, no doubt there. The southeast is beautiful and has some of the friendliest, and passive aggressive, people you will find anywhere. It's also backwards on most social issues and far too religious. When we return to the states, we're moving to the northeast so I guess I'll miss the harvesting!

[mat_mark]

Two words: Gainax Ending

[BabyPuncher]

Oh It's also backwards on most social issues and far too religious.

 

Whereas the rest of the western world is merely steeped in hypocrisy about that sort of thing. Like BioWare, for instance.

[Remix-General Aetius]

Oh, no doubt there. The southeast is beautiful and has some of the friendliest, and passive aggressive, people you will find anywhere. It's also backwards on most social issues and far too religious. When we return to the states, we're moving to the northeast so I guess I'll miss the harvesting!

 

it's actually quite sad because they're indeed as friendly as it gets, lovely people......until you bring up you're gay. I remember watching the Willis Family and I thought "wow what a beautiful family, it'd be cool to be part of a clan like that" and then I remembered they're smack right down in the middle of Homophobia country. major turn-off, I can assure you.

[maia0407]

it's actually quite sad because they're indeed as friendly as it gets, lovely people......until you bring up you're gay. I remember watching the Willis Family and I thought "wow what a beautiful family, it'd be cool to be part of a clan like that" and then I remembered they're smack right down in the middle of Homophobia country. major turn-off, I can assure you.

You can find havens in the south, like Asheville NC, but, yeah, living in the south as anything other than straight, white and protestant can be difficult.

[Remix-General Aetius]

living in the south as anything other than straight, white and protestant can be difficult.

 

unless you're Sluggard! or at least a biotic. who would be stupid enough to pick on you in either case?

[Vanilka]

The protagonist is some sort of special snowflake chosen one that was predestined to do the thing. Or somebody who grows from absolute zero to hero in a ridiculous amount of time, even surpasses their mentor in no time, just because they're special like that. (Seen these way too many times.) Personally, I prefer protagonists that work(ed) and suffer(ed) for it.

 

Deus ex machina. No. NO. NO. I know it can't be helped sometimes, but at least make it subtle. It's hardly satisfying when some magical object or being does the work for you.

[SpiritMuse]

I was gonna mention the trope where the male and female main characters inevitably fall in love with each other but then I realized that that is going to be entirely in our hands.

[Helios969]

yeah but it's done more naturally. a shining example is the X Factor. watch a UK episode and then a US episode. the difference is glaringly obvious. the US version is over-dramatized and awfully theatrical compared to the UK one which is more "real".

Or maybe it's just that we've all been conditioned to think our particular way of doing things is better...

[Gileadan]

No, I say "don't thank me yet, wait till you get my bill". it ALWAYS makes people double-take. "are you serious??".

 

"Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me."

 

It's outright depressing how many puzzled looks that gets me.

[Undead Han]

Humans are special.

 

The single worst trope in all of Science Fiction. 

[Donk]

The word "trope" makes me want to sh*t nuggets.

[Rappeldrache]

Two points Bioware is notorious:

 

- Horrible hair

(please make normal haircuts!! and normal hair)

 

- Mess up with the (personal destiny of the) Hero at the end and giving NO choice what happen to him / her. Bashing the hero in further games.

(I want A FEW CHOICES what could happen to my character, depending on my decisions during the game (and there should be a possibility for a tragic end & for a happy end). And I don't want that Bioware mess up with my decisions, my hero in further games.)

[Donk]

Two points Bioware is notorious:

 

- Horrible hair

(please make normal haircuts!! and normal hair)

 

- Mess up with the (personal destiny of the) Hero at the end and giving NO choice what happen to him / her. Bashing the hero in further games.

(I want A FEW CHOICES what could happen to my character, depending on my decisions during the game (and there should be a possibility for a tragic end & for a happy end). And I don't want that Bioware mess up with my decisions, my hero in further games.)

 

Always the hair.

[Gileadan]

- All those attractive people that are somehow still single as if they were just waiting for the protagonist to come along

- The protagonist being the new kid on the block...and then gets pushed into a position of leadership anyway

[Sir George Parr]

Magical healing gentleman sausage.

[Donk]

Magical healing gentleman sausage.

 

Wot.

[mickey111]

hate is a strong word, but

 

You know how Meredith from DAII thought she was the solution to all Kirkwalls problems? She was a very passionate believer in the "evil" of magic, but she seemed sane and level headed enough to not become obsessive. 10 years later she goes absolutely crazy over the mage rebellion and all the damage they cause to her chantry and goes into full on psychotic-fanatic-magic-user-scum-must-be-exterminated-from-my-planet mode, but oh no, it turns out it wasn't the warring and the fanaticism that drove her to madness, it was lyrium all along!

 

Bioware, why would you that? Why? why the fu-

do not do that again, ever. Had a good thing going before wimping out on it with the lyrium.  

[Undead Han]

Wot.

 

Kek.

 

I think he's referring to Mass Effect 2. People joked about Male Shep having therapy penis, by solving all Jack's problems through sweet, sweet, love....

[Remix-General Aetius]

Kek.

 

I think he's referring to Mass Effect 2. People joked about Male Shep having therapy penis, by solving all Jack's problems through sweet, sweet, love....

 

Kasumi needing to remind Shepard to tone down Jack's biotic amp during zug-zug is NOT an indication of sweet tender luuuuvin.

[Shinobu]

Ninjas (Kai Leng, Kasumi), evil corporate asians (Jeong), good girl asians (Emily Wong, Samantha Traynor), corporate samurai (Maeko Matsuo). Basically anything that smacks of 80's cyberpunk. I'd rather have characters who could be any race but who happen to be asian (Samesh Bhatia, Fai Dan).

 

Black men as absentee fathers, sexual predators or promiscuous players. Jacob and his father were treated abominably.

 

Bioware is progressive, but I think the writers are subject to subconscious stereotyping, which isn't their fault. Instead of coming up with the race of the character at the start, it would be better to define the character's personality and story arc and assign race (and sex) randomly at the end. Otherwise you get characters that either are stereotypes or are attempts to play against stereotype. It would also avoid the awkward peppering of "ethnic language" in the script for no reason. ("Anoleus-sama" , mentions of Vega's abuela).

[BabyPuncher]

Bioware is progressive, but I think the writers are subject to subconscious stereotyping, which isn't their fault. Instead of coming up with the race of the character at the start, it would be better to define the character's personality and story arc and assign race (and sex) randomly at the end.

 

How about no.

 

Assigning sex in particular randomly would be moronic.