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What are your most hated sci-fi/fantasy tropes? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a few:

Chosen ones, fate, destiny, &c. When you get down to it, a story with these themes is one where a single person or handful of people is ontologically, cosmically better and more important than everyone else. It's eerily similar to that right-wing meme about how "most people are just NPCs" (though I disliked the trope before that meme ever took off).
Way too much importance being given to bloodlines by the narrative (note, this is different from them being given importance by characters or societies in the story).
All of the good characters are handsome and beautiful, while all of the evil characters are ugly and disfigured (with the possible exception of a femme fatale or two).
Races that are inherently, unchangeably evil down to the last individual regardless of upbringing, society, or material circumstances.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think in the OG version of the game, cyberpsychosis was canonically all the fucking ads loaded into your cyberware morphing into malware that drives you insane the more stuff you install

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

drives you insane the more stuff you install

This is smartphones basically

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd go insane too if my robot eyes showed me ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

sneaking through a corporation's 100 story maximum story business tower/fortress using every augment and skillsoft to get through multiple levels of security

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