[ SECRET POST #2576 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Bioware's attempt to write in political metaphors into game mechanics based on min/maxing your reputation gains (and absurdly juxtaposed with game designs where you create political change through mass homicide). DA2's attempt to deal with discrimination and terrorist probably scarred me for their treatment of extra-judicial rendition in The Old Republic.

Similarly, breaking the narrative to insert a political screed. Take Chalker's Dancing Gods where a character is introduced with a rant rant about divorce law, and then comes back a few chapters later with a rant about income tax. Similarly, De Camp's Rogue Queen suffers a bit by the overbearing "alien culture discovers 20th century monogamy" dialogues.

Magic power escalation, or for that matter, magic systems rather than magical conflicts. Character starts off popping light bulbs and ends up god.

Coitus interruptus, especially when it's done on television to put relationship development into a hell of characters acting stupid for the sake of putting the romance on the high-competition weeks.

(Side rant: movies on network television. A few years ago I found myself in a hell of trying to watch the original Rear Window with carefully developed pacing chopped into bits by adds for reality shows.)

Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

That's not the only problem with watching movies on TV... the first time I saw Mallrats was on basic cable, and because of what they felt they needed to cut for time and/or content, for the longest time the bit with the chocolate-covered pretzels made no sense to me because they edited out whatsisname sticking his hand down his pants before shaking hands with the guy.