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Trope-a-Day: You Rebel Scum!

Alistair Young

Alistair Young

Mar 12, 2016

You Rebel Scum!: Absolutely, if you’re caught in the act of doing something rebel-y or scummy, or somewhat more accurately for the setting, Default-y, slaverish or slavish, parasitic, dullist, base, or entropic.  You don’t have to be an authoritarian regime to enjoy a nice self-righteous epithet, after all.

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Trope: Names to Run Away From Really Fast

(Okay, so I found one more…) Names to Run Away From Really Fast: In the Imperial context alone, Imperial Hand, Fifth Directorate, and any Imperial military officer, agent, or private contractor whose House name is “Sargas” are the chief contenders. In the Worlds as a whole, Operatives of the Conclave

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Tropes Going Forward

So why is that a Trope-a-No-Longer-Day, I hear you cry? Well, because I’ve run out of pre-written ones, and the demands on my time these days are such that – especially if I want to keep prioritizing writing at all – I can’t take enough time out to go through

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Trope-a-No-Longer-Day: Creepy Cleanliness

Creepy Cleanliness: To more than a few foreign visitors, yes. As William Gibson said in Disneyland With the Death Penalty, “Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? Singapore’s airport, the Changi Airtropolis, seemed to

Nov 12, 2017

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Trope-a-Day: Real Money Trade

Real Money Trade: The problem is that it’s hard to define what qualifies as “real money” versus “game money” when the Mythic Stars MMO alone has an internal economy bigger than some respectably-sized planets. The logical consequences of this apply in full, including the follow-up to the city guards

Sep 13, 2017
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