Bowl-full-of-names
"Parts of Annihilation Score can be read as an attempt to deconstruct superhero tropes, as well as the presentation of superpowered individuals by media, via Reality Ensues. It does explore the varying (by country) social contracts involved in police and emergency services work and the role of questionably trained people in it, as well as the constraints involved in attempting to create a publicly credible "superteam" for national consumption. That said, the concept already conflicts enough with the cynical and nihilistic nature of the series' setting that its conclusions don't apply (well) to the main genre."
Belongs under YMMV or somewhere, not in the main trope page, I think?
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Isn't it The Laundry Files? Let's change the trope name.
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Bowl-full-of-names
"saving throw versus shiny..."
Certainly doesn't need to be quoted twice (and differently, at that- 2d8 in one instance, 3d8 in another?...) - on the same page (once in the trope Role-Playing Terms, once under "Shoutouts". Choose _one_, certainly (and get the quote right)?
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Never Trust
Anyone else think Bob Howard's name is a Shout-Out to Robert E. Howard (nicknamed "Two Gun Bob" by his pen pal Lavecraft)
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I don't. That sounds far too much like a coincidence/apophenia to me.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Equuoid pretty much confirms it, so it doesn't sound like a coincidence at all.
Put that under Word of God, then.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It's obviously a shout-out to Lovecraft &co., but are you claiming it to be specifically related to the 'Two-Gun Bob' nickname? Given that Bob is, most of the time or at least by preference, 'No-<strike>Sheds</strike>Guns Howard'....
No, and it's not "obviously" a Shout-Out.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Partner of Redundancy Partner
Has Stross declared the various R.P.G. materials to be canonical (or not)? If they're not, we should note where an item is derived solely from them, e. g. GENOA FRACTAL if I'm not mistaken.
perhaps move the tropes that are for individual books into folders for each books for ease of reading and spoilers (so only the spoilers for that work have to be hidden
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