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• Weekend Roundup: May 5-11

  
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  Tweet of the Day: On Characterization… ——– You may have noticed a bit of a schedule slip. I’m putting WWW back in its old time slot on Thursdays. The whole game design thing has taken far more time and energy than I thought. Great mental exercise and all but it takes a lot of time. I’m planning to ...
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• EnderThinkingIt: And it’s “Braaaaahm” by a nose

  
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  If you missed it, the Ender’s Game trailer hit yesterday: Last week, I made some predictions (and laid some odds) revolving around certain “Trailer Tropes.” Let’s see how I did: SIGHTS Bullet time (3:2 against) – PUSH We’ll call this one a push. There’s definitely some slo-mo in the Battle Room ...
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• Game Changers

  
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  Welcome to Game Changers, the show that takes video game tropes and tests them out on a real world scope.
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• Is Pepper Potts No Longer the "Damsel in Distress" in Iron Man 3?

  
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  Written by Megan Kearns | Warning: Lots of spoilers ahead! Superhero films often exhibit assertive, outspoken femalecharacters. Yet they often simultaneously objectify women’s bodies, reduce themto ancillary love interests or perpetuate gender stereotypes. So when I heardthat Pepper Potts would have a more ...
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• The Tropes I Like

  
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  I cannot bear the Magic Baby.  You know the Magic Baby, right?  It’s when a character in a book (or a movie, or a television show) suddenly becomes pregnant, often without benefit of any sort of bow-chicka-wow-wow beforehand.  The resulting baby usually grows up within a few hours or days, displaying ...
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• Oblivious Hollywood and Its New Movie Oblivion

  
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  Written by Rachel Redfern Tom Cruise’s latest movie, Oblivion , is exactly that, a movie about Tom Cruise; upon watching, it felt as though any other character had been thrown in as an after-thought, which obviously denied them of any personality or importance to the plot. This of course leaves ...
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• TV Tropes Monday: Pirates

  
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  Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.18: Blocking ——- This trope concentrates on the Spanish Main and the Age of Sail, but piracy has been a mainstay of sea trade since humans took boats into rivers and seas. I suggest that if you are interested in having pirates in your story, you look deeper and father ...
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• EnderThinkingIt: Teaser Trailer Tropes

  
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  Welcome to EnderThinkingIt, where we subject (one particular part of) the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn’t (but in this case definitely does) deserve. Ender’s Game is one of my all-time favorite books. I first read it when I was 11 or 12, and have read it (at least) once a year ...
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• The Soapbox: My lore problem

  
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  Filed under: Fantasy , Lore , MMO Industry , Opinion , Roleplaying , Humor , The Soapbox , Miscellaneous , MMORPG "In the distant forests of Elquen, a dark evil stirs. Marrowgore the Unhunter, imprisoned for a thousand years in Cauldron Lake by the Eye of Sondrak, has broken free. Now, he and his evil ...
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• TV Tropes Monday: Deal with the Devil

  
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  Tweet of the Day: The Duck Sanctuary at no. 17 ——- This trope is  as old as…the Devil himself. The deal can be with a demon, godling, wizard, or Da’ Devil himself.  A imple trade, your soul for whatever your heart desires, just sign on the dotted line, don’t mind the blood. This is a plot and ...
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• Cliffhangers

  
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  Today Id like to talk about Cliffhangers. Ive been reading Dean Wesley Smiths mini-series about ghost writing a 70,000 word novel in 10 days. (And hes doing it! Its day 9 and he has less than 8,000 words to go.) One thing Dean has talked about are cliffhangers. He doesnt outline--hes not saying writers shouldnt, ...
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• Weekend Roundup: April 21-27

  
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    Tweet of the Day: The Littlest PA: A Story of a Middle Child ——- Good news everybody! Ahem, I am now the newest contributor to Koobismo.com ( link to first article here ) a game fan sight made by fans and game designers alike. I sent a couple of game related re-prints to them and I am working on ...
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• Tropes vs. Women in Videogames: a Review

  
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  It’s been nearly a year now since Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency launched her Kickstarter campaign for a planned video series about the portrayal of women in videogames The post Tropes vs. Women in Videogames: a Review appeared first on Bag of Games .
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• TV Tropes Monday: Defector from Decadence

  
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  Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 18b – Bullet ——- The Defector from Decadence is a character who abandons the dark side not because he has suddenly turned good but because the values of his former compatriots don’t match his own. A writer can use this trope to add both narrative and ...
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• The 20 Most Memorable “Marijuana Episodes” in TV History

  
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  We’ve mentioned them before- the classic TV tropes that we’ve all come to know and love. Nestled among the “visit from the in-laws”, “loss of a job” and “keep the bad grades a secret” episodes of 70s, 80s and 90s television was the marijuana episode. How each show tackled the subject varied greatly- ...
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• TV Tropes Monday: Hotter and Sexier

  
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  Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.15:  Narrative Rhythm ——- Want to show that your work is for grown ups, move it Premium Cable and show more tits and ass. Welcome to Hotter and Sexier -land with more serving of T&A per minute than anywhere else. Not a bad thing, unless you equate maturity with sex. ...
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• Johnny’s Five – Five Tactics For Mind Controlled PCs

  
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  My last article was about the trope of mind controlled characters. Reading through the comments and seeing the many diverse options and attitudes towards mind controlled PCs, I can realize where there are narrative moments where it can work but that it is still a very tricky subject. So here are 5 tactics I wrote up ...
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• Weekend Rounup: April 7th-13th

  
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    Tweet of the Day: Crashing the Party: Women in SF and Fantasy Month ——- I screwed up again! Another week full of filler. Truth be told, I’m juggling several projects (to be announce later). That means less brain space for the blog. A shame to since I really want to get back to WWW. But alas… Sun: ...
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• Every Romantic Comedy Ever (almost)

  
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  The cool guys at Pleated Jeans have made a perfect Rom Com mash-up. Basically saying what Ive said for years, that the romantic comedy tropes while a little addictive, are ultimately insulting, unrealistic and just ridiculous. (The main exception being When Harry Met Sally, which is a perfect movie. Fact.) This ...
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