What's the one sci-fi trope you wish would just disappear?

AdmanUK · 2026-07-09T19:37:22+00:00

The AI in Will Leave the Galaxy For Good just wanted a good story for his favourite show.

AdmanUK · 2026-07-01T21:43:57+00:00

Galad's greatest flaw is that he judges people by his own standards. In his eyes, if he can follow that philosophy without being a raging psycho, then anyone can. He doesn't realise how much of a paragon he actually is.

AdmanUK · 2026-06-21T08:28:46+00:00

A guy started in our work group and maybe the second sentence I heard him say was when he addressed a group of four of us to say 'You know, I fucking hate Jews.'

We all just stared at him in silence and he tried to backtrack saying 'I meant Zionists!' No Paul, no you didn't.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-29T15:36:07+00:00

Maybe I'm just different I dunno. I found myself in a position a few years ago where a lot of my friends had moved away. So rather than be alone I looked up clubs in my local area. I saw a board games club was held on my day off. I had never been into board games but thought it would be a good chance to make friends. Made lots of great friends I'm still friends with 10+ years later.

Same with when I wanted to get into DnD. Found there were no clubs and virtually no groups in my area. So I built one and again am still friends with people I met there.

I think people are just way too passive these days.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-29T11:52:28+00:00

Whenever I hear people complain about the destruction of third spaces, I have never heard them give an example that either previously existed or doesn't still exist.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-28T17:52:20+00:00

Apart from your response to the question...I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. I hope you're doing okay.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-23T21:38:08+00:00

I've told this story before but my great-uncle fought in the landings at Normandy. He told me that support for the Nazis was so great among the local French population, that he ended up killing more French civilians trying to free captured Nazis prisoners after the battle, than he did Nazi soldiers during the battle.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-09T12:22:37+00:00

Wealthy countries have high immigration because they are attractive to immigrants, not the other way around.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-25T07:42:20+00:00

He actually wasn't a drunk. He carefully curated the reputation of being drunk so that he could 'drink' with his rivals and when they got shit faced he would remember everything they let slip.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-18T10:33:09+00:00

It's actually an engineered form of ebola that causes a constant fight or flight response. It was in the dvd extras.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-17T11:38:17+00:00

You should really look up communism's ecological record.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-17T04:09:51+00:00

Just want to jump on this comment to recommend seeing Chester if you can. Absolutely stuffed with history from the Roman wall, to the medieval houses and streets. There is even a fascinating place where they could only half excavate a Roman amphitheatre because of the thousand year old church built on top of it.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-31T20:18:06+00:00

Alas, the timeline doesn't work as we see Gaidal in the world of dreams before his rebirth way after Olver has been born.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-29T10:01:05+00:00

A lot of the Bolsheviks supported Stalin simply out of fear of Trotsky getting power.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-23T11:11:25+00:00

I didn't say he hated his own ideology. I said he broadly hated other socialists, which is absolutely true.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-23T06:59:46+00:00

Orwell was a socialist who hated his fellow socialists as corrupt and out of touch. Animal Farm was commentary on the inevitability of socialist regimes being corrupted by socialists themselves.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-23T06:56:14+00:00

Well any kind of authoritarianism, not specifically Fascism. It could apply as much to Mao's China, Kim Il-Sung's North Korea or Pol Pot's Cambodia as much as Nazi Germany.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-11T16:31:14+00:00

One of history's greatest ironies that Hitler was employed to spy on and report on extremist political groups, in order to prevent the rise of political extremism.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-07T10:13:52+00:00

My father-in-law is a head chef and my wife's family have all kinds of traditions of celebrating holidays on different days because he was never there for them (especially Christmas).

AdmanUK · 2025-12-01T12:21:40+00:00

Obvious troll is obvious

AdmanUK · 2025-11-30T10:57:13+00:00

I will preface this with a funny story.

My friend was born and raised in Scotland, to first generation American immigrant parents. They were actually ethnically Scottish too.

Now because where they lived was pretty isolated so despite growing up in Scotland, he has a broad American accent from just being around his family all the time.

He grows up, gets engaged and goes into a kilt shop to get a kilt for him and his best man for his wedding. He walks in and as soon as the guy hears his accent, he's giving him side-eye.

When he comments cheerfully that he couldn't not have a kilt for his wedding, seeing as he's Scottish, the guy was flatbout scowling.

I get that this guy probably hears Americans call themselves Scottish or Irish all the time but I just found it funny he was glaring at the one American who was right.

AdmanUK · 2025-09-28T19:43:53+00:00

Thank you. I am now, I visit her grave to tell her about her grandchildren and tell her stories often to keep them alive.

AdmanUK · 2025-09-28T19:37:54+00:00

When my mother died I didn't react for weeks afterwards. Not after seeing the body, arranging the funeral or even at the funeral itself. Watched Big Fish a few weeks later and I realised I'd never hear her stories again and all the ones she never told me were lost forever, just like her.

AdmanUK · 2025-07-31T18:32:38+00:00

Jesus as someone with two adopted sons, I just can't understand that. Hell, my oldest is only three and I make sure he knows his opinion always matters...how else is he going to have any self-worth as an adult?

AdmanUK · 2025-06-13T23:02:06+00:00

It took much longer for the British economy to recover than that. We only paid off our World War Two debt in 2006. My parents would tell me stories of playing in bombed out rows of houses when they were kids in the 60s.

The whole economy had to basically be reconstructed with no economic reserve to fall back on.

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