Tag Archive | TV Tropes
TV Tropes Monday: Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.24: Project in Depth-Kiss Me Twice ——- Man vs. Nature Man vs. Society Man vs. Fate These are the elements at the heart of the Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate. The trope’s page gives us several points along the scale, but I’ll concentrate on the essence […]
Weekend Roundup: June 9-15
Tweet of the Day: We Have Always Been Fighting This Fight ——- A crazy week for gamer and tech geeks. Two of the three major game console manufacturers announced the next generation machines and the reaction was…mixed. We gamers are passionate about our hobby just like any other fandom. Expect the intensity of advertising, […]
TV Tropes Monday: Translation Microbes
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.23: Microcasting ——- If you need a quick explanation why everybody, be they aliens, angels or ancient Romans out of time, speak perfect English (or the story chosen language) then this is it. It could be a device, spell or effect of the environment. Often the trope avoids rare […]
TV Tropes: Mass Effect/AEC From T – W
Tweet of the Day: Crossroads: The Difficulty of Police Procedural Speculative Fiction ——- So here is the final installment of tropes found in the Mass Effect: After Earth Chronicles series. As always, this post contains spoilers for the Mass Effect series and the After Earth Chronicles Terminus Campaign. Feel free to check out the story […]
TV Tropes: Mass Effect/AEC From Q-S
Tweet of the Day: Damn Fine Coffee ——– More Mass Effect: After Earth Chronicles tropes for you. Boilerplate disclaimer, the following post contains spoilers for ME/AEC and the Mass Effect series in general. If you haven’t read it yet, feel free to read it here, then come back and see if the tropes fit the […]
Weekend Roundup: May 26 – June 1
Tweet of the Day: Crossroads: “Speculative” Literary Fiction and SF/F Techniques ——– Tropes, tropes everywhere! A week full of tropes. I love tropes, I really do and it shows. So, if you noticed a pattern of sorts below, you have been warned: Sun: TV Tropes- Mass Effect/AEC From A-D Mon: TV Tropes Monday- Combat Pragmatist […]
TV Tropes: Mass Effect/AEC L-P
Tweet of the Day: An Irish Ditty ——– We now move on to the next part of the tropes seen and used in After Earth Chronicles. As always, this page contains spoilers for the Mass Effect series as well as the story linked above. Go ahead and read the story if you don’t want to […]
Lessons from the Aether: Tropes vs. Instances and Aggregates
Tweet of the Day: Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Reveals an Ugly Truth ——– I’ve discussed Anita Sarkeesian’s work before, usually on my Space for Rent posts, but after seeing both the latest video in her series and reading the article linked to above (see Tweet of the Day), I think we can extract […]
TV Tropes: Mass Effect/After Earth Chronicles E-K
Tweet of the Day: Gamers make it clear to Sony they want a DRM-free PS4 ——- The “troping” continues! As always, remember that this list contains spoilers so if anything here piques your interest but you don’t want to be spoiled feel free to check out the stories here and drop a comment below. But […]
TV Tropes Monday: Combat Pragmatist
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.21: What the Avengers Did Right ——– The Combat Pragmatist knows there is not place for second place, when second place is death. He will shoot the man welding a gun, push somebody under a truck or kick them in the nuts. He fights dirty because he doesn’t believe […]
