Mitchz95
Since: Feb, 2015
Jun 3rd 2019 at 3:14:48 PM
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It's the fact that sci-fi writers frequently fall back on using the same handful of star names when there's literally infinite room to come up with their own. Stock Dinosaurs is kind of the same thing.
Dratewka
Since: Sep, 2018
Jun 4th 2019 at 11:09:45 PM
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No offense, but it feels like something that belongs to Useful Notes at best. It's another Cone of Shame, something that isn't even a proper trope, but got green-lighted anyway.
Mitchz95
Since: Feb, 2015
Jun 5th 2019 at 11:16:26 AM
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I respectfully disagree. Sci-fi writers constantly using the same handful of names when they don't have to, and when newly-invented names would do just as well, is absolutely a trope. The Useful Notes option was mentioned in the TLP discussion
, but Stock Dinosaurs was deemed an acceptable precedent.
What's exactly the point of this trope?
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