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  1. Avernus

    Video Games General

    "Demon" is just a word, there's quite a few works that use it differently than the classic "evil monster". Heck, in Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series it's literally just short for "dimensional traveler" and says nothing about what they are like.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Not quite the same thing, but I'm reminded of how in the Wiz Biz novels the protagonist Wiz Zumwalt asked a senior wizard why he'd never had dealings with elves like Zumwalt had. And the answer was "Because I would never do something so insanely dangerous." "Because it's really stupid and you...
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    Video Games General

    The writers I expect want it to be recognized as "evil". If it's subtle you'll probably have large number of people either missing it or supporting it.
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    General chat thread

    Looking it up, that's some unpleasant stuff.
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    Also, dislikes tend to result in people ganging up and mass-downvoting people (or whatever) they don't like for whatever reason. Like with games on Steam, where periodically some group takes a dislike to a game for some-non-game reason (usually something Rule 8 related) and mass downvotes it to...
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    Video Games General

    Duskers comes close, although it does have FTL. So few sci fi settings with spaceships lack FTL that it's hard to meet that qualification.
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    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    The misspelling of "Exalted" as "Exaulted" should be merged with the correct version.
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    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    - The Blessings of Sheogorath - Corwin of Amber, on his brother Benedict
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    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
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    template systems and personality death

    Because they tend to be power fantasies.
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    General chat thread

    Obviously, that means that Grok has already been subverted by the Goblin Illuminati. ChatGPT is merely trying to spread the Truth before they silence it as well. "Grok" is a goblin name and Musk is totally a pair of goblins standing on top of one another in a skin suit, just saying.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Well, sure; sometimes it's necessary for the story they want to tell. Still, I like the occasional story that shows societies that have been shaped by the existence of the magic of the setting; especially when the result is something unlikely to exist otherwise.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    There should be. But most fantasy settings ignore that and just graft magic onto a standardish medieval society and ignore how magic would change that society (because then it wouldn't look very medieval anymore).
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    I agree that zalgotext (what I think you are referring to) generally gets irritating when overused. Like a lot of gimmicks it can be cool once but gets old fast. As for adventurers guilds being everywhere, that's not so. It's endemic to things inspired by Japanese light novels (think they are...
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    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    And in a thousand years the Book of Ending speaks of how the Great Atropos slew the Demon Scion with the Holy Hand Grenade.
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    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Interesting. Also funny that "Atropos lore" is a thing, and that Shadow Stalker's main contribution to history is as Atropos's first dead body. * I also note that this means that the secret is entirely out by this period in history, presumably because by now nobody is going to be dumb enough to...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    It depends on the Empire as said; look at how Alexander the Greats' empire disintegrated after his death. And in fiction it's quite possible for the evil leader to have powers key to sustaining the empire; kill the Necromancer King and his armies may well all collapse on the spot, obviously not...
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    American presidential succession

    Looking it up, the answer seems to be "nobody knows". It's one of a number of unaddressed issues.
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    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "When we married, the oath was that we would remain together 'till death do us part'. Fortunately, I became a vampire."
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    General chat thread

    Sounds dystopian. "We raise children in a VR pod where they are taught to be quiet, obedient, to not expect or want rewards, and to not speak with others. Ideal for use as slaves, buy one now."
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