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People would survive most horror movies if they remembered two things: Reach is everythin (you don't want the monster to grab you), so get a polearm-like object. Second thing: Avoid any and all things that put the group at risk of an ambush.
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
Space Opera. Maybe.
Actually, I'd kind of like to have my own Sitcom.
Tomu@If you have your own sitcom I am joining you as your next door neighbor who you have a Foe Yay with.
I don't think so Joy. You don't have enough of a confrontational attitude. If there was to be any foeyay, it'd probably be with Major Tom. Which actually works really well, since
A.) We're both named Tom and
B.) I tend not to get along with other people named Tom.
Of course, the Foe Yay element would also imply Ho Yay but hey, whatever cranks up those ratings!
My Sitcom would probably be some kind of cross between The Big Bang Theory and Fraiser.
Tomu@I was thinking consevative,sassy black woman neighbor who harbors a sorta of a crush on you despite the fact you are liberal.*Blush*
Well, that's understandable-after all, I do have a million hit points and maximum charisma!
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Pagad, I'm not talking about genre conventions, I'm talking about meta-standards.
In Space Opera, a spaceship is going to be either boxy (human) or shiny and streamlined (aliens, or, Star Trek). Plot Armor is not a genre convention, it is an authorial tool to make things simple and cheat reality. We're making the genre reality here, so there is no Plot Armor...
Tomu scores for the win. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
edited 1st Sep '11 4:54:30 PM by USAF713
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I meant that the obvious hero of the piece, whether horror or space opera, is identified as such by genre conventions.
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.
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And Plot Armor is not a genre convention. It is a universal idea for fiction. We're talking about making fiction reality.
Plus, who said you'd be the hero of the plot? You're in the genre—which is basically a setting. Nobody said the eventual plot, if any, would revolve around you. 
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Not saying it is, but it's genre conventions that give characters Plot Armour in the first place.
Well, quite, but I imagine that those who want to be in a horror piece are envisioning themselves as the lead rather than an expendable redshirt bumped off in the first half hour.
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No, it's the narrative that gives a character Plot Armor. Remember, reality doesn't make such distinctions, and this is a fiction-as-reality exercise.
Also, why not? Perhaps you could defy Standard Redshirt Procedure. Conventions are guidelines, not rules.
I'd prefer to be in a Sitcom, where there's more routine, and less physical conflict, and I can be an uptight, cynical Jerkass and nobody will care about my lack of Character Development because they'll be used to things always being the same. I'd opt for a Work Com or some other variety of sitcom where the characters are acquaintances with no apparent family members in the main cast.
Tongpu would definitely be a rival character to me in my sitcom ;P
No, I would not be in the same setting as any of you.
Laaaaaaame
Slay foes with bow and arrow
As an alternative to Horror, some kind of High Fantasy world composed entirely out of floating continents.
Student Eternal
An Unmasqued World Urban Fantasy, heavy on the Friendly Neighborhood Vampires, light on the terrors from beyond human comprehension. Preferably with magic powers for everybody.
Or a Pulp Two-Fisted Tales Diesel Punk / Raygun Gothic Super Hero Retro Universe, where old-school heroics and daring-do can make a difference, closer to the Silver Age wackiness than this Darker and Edgier crap in comics today, mostly to see how Troperiffic life would be.
I'd accept a Space Opera if we were advanced enough to actually make it to other worlds in less than a generation, or if the physics were closer to the softer side (Space Is Big and all that).
...I guess I'm just not a fan of any laws of physics, huh?
edited 1st Sep '11 10:22:28 PM by Carbonek13
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. - Moondog
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Yes. It's a genre, not a plot. There is no single storyline, there is whatever happens in the setting. And nobody is going to be the "main character" of reality all the time, except for a very technical, subjective value of "main character" and "reality" that is irrelevant in the large scale.
You might have adventures, surely. But the setting won't revolve around you.
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If it doesn't revolve around someone, then it's not a sitcom ;P
In other words, your definition of living in that genre is meaningless :P
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A sitcom is basically life, but funnier. So, from your perspective, the plot revolves around you, because there is no plot. It is simply life... but more dramatic.
I did note that whole "subjective reality" thing to be present...
But, a sitcom doesn't happen in a vacuum. There is a whole world out there. The Law Of Conservationof Detail just says that we don't get to see it. Imagine a whole world, where everyone has a "plot" that revolves around their lives, and you're limited only to your own because it's now reality.
This is a fun thought experiment, remember.
Sitcoms are an experience of solipsism.
Not entirely sure what you're getting at, here. If we're throwing out the genre conventions, then Genre Savvy or not you're going to stand as much a chance of being eaten by the gribbly monster as having your spaceship blown away from under your feet.
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.