The most stereotypical or generic thing you have ever seen or heard.

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300lb. Samoan

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Modern rap/R&B music is as generic as it gets, in my opinion. It sounds like there's a machine somewhere that produces "hits" and hands them out to performers. Other kinds of mainstream music also suffer from this to a degree, but rap/R&B (or whatever they call it nowadays) takes the cake.
It's not so much 'like a machine' as it is a real program... It's called Fruity Loops. You can blame Fruity Loops for Soulja Boy, all his knock-offs, and the entire R&B/pop-music market for most of Africa - no joke, I've listened to what's popular there and it's all made with the same cut-rate drum-machine tones and rhythms.

As far as games stereotypes, I have to agree with people on Space Marines - it's just a lame excuse to have recharging health and guns that look like Nerf rejects.
 

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Most genric thing I have ever heard...hmm a packaged boy band like TakeThat or indi band Like Razorlight and to a degree Pendulum a generic Drum n bass outfit!
 

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Slightly off-topic but the worst stereotype for me is when I go in a game shop and because I'm female I get asked, are you okay? As if i'm part of some weird sub-species that shouldn't play games and has merely got lost. Or, who has only ventured in to get a present for a friend or family member who's a guy.

Unless, of course, guys who work in games shops are socially retarded and are just delighted to see even the most repulsive of girls.
 

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The protagonist who can carry hundreds of pounds of inventory and is still as agile as an olympic athlete.

Rich white suberban "thug" kids with epileptic seizure causing car accessories and subwoofers that you can hear 8 blocks away. Walking around their yuppie outdoor mall with their pants sagging below their boxers, low enough to expose the skin on the back of their legs.

When I snap I plan to weld a rusty metal (spiked) cow catcher to my Kia and watch them run whilst looking over their shoulders in terror struggling to keep their pants up, only to splash blood and mangled limbs on my windshield and be purged from existence.

Don't judge me.
 

Osloq

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Nothing is more generic for me than people trying to act like they are part of a subculture or they are different when they are instead just fitting in with the mainstream. Where I am, if you're young, you're either a lad, an emo, a metro, a jock or a nerd. That's it.

Games wise I find that the stereotype of all powerful protagonists have an idyllic childhood, without causing any sort of damage anytime, annoying. Surely if you have the power to conjure massive waves of fire that'd show up at some point when you have a fight or you cut yourself after falling off a fence.
 

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From everyday life, my friends ex once told her "The only good thing women were for were to be chained to the kitchen sink." I wouldn't gratify the deluded bastard to lash out. I silently ignored him and thought of amusing was to chop his balls off.
 

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300lb. Samoan said:
It's not so much 'like a machine' as it is a real program... It's called Fruity Loops. You can blame Fruity Loops for Soulja Boy, all his knock-offs, and the entire R&B/pop-music market for most of Africa - no joke, I've listened to what's popular there and it's all made with the same cut-rate drum-machine tones and rhythms.
You can't even say Fruity Loops is the problem. You can make great beats like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv0zFvMN6hU], or you can make crap like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZ3R9-Z0EM]. It depends on the person using it.

I'd say blame the record labels that push the bullshit out there.
 

300lb. Samoan

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300lb. Samoan said:
You can't even say Fruity Loops is the problem. You can make great beats like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv0zFvMN6hU], or you can make crap like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZ3R9-Z0EM]. It depends on the person using it.

I'd say blame the record labels that push the bullshit out there.
OK, true that. But those guys (is it Little Brother? or is it someone else's remix of Little Brother?) obviously are putting a lot more into it, you can hear some SOUL in that track. There's just a bad trend of music technology that is making it easy for people to do the MINIMUM and somehow outshine those who are putting their all into it. A track like laffy taffy: I could load a sequencer, piss all over my keyboard, quantize the whole mess and copy the best two bars into Fruity Loops and still come out with a track at least as good. But you're right - it's the labels that are authenticating this bullshit by capitalizing on it, they're the bigger problem.

Which brings us a classic stereotype/generalization: record labels fucking up the music industry!
 

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Stereo-typical?

The young, 16ish year-old secretly adopted male who grew up a woodcutter/farmer/poor boy who slowly learns that he's the son or descendant of some greater, more powerful/rich family who slowly but awkwardly becomes the great hero that saves the world from some great menace
They also used this in the Bible.
I know. I would have said "carpenter" but I wanted stay away from making obvious comments about religion.
 

ManiacalZManiac

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All Oklahomans are hicks, live on a farm, have cows, raise crops, and marry their cousins.

Now, me, I strongly disagree. I am Oklahoman, I am not a hick by any fucking means, no cows, no crops, and HELL no to marrying cousins.
 

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Melancholy_Ocelot said:
Rich white suberban "thug" kids with epileptic seizure causing car accessories and subwoofers that you can hear 8 blocks away. Walking around their yuppie outdoor mall with their pants sagging below their boxers, low enough to expose the skin on the back of their legs.

When I snap I plan to weld a rusty metal (spiked) cow catcher to my Kia and watch them run whilst looking over their shoulders in terror struggling to keep their pants up, only to splash blood and mangled limbs on my windshield and be purged from existence.

Don't judge me.
I judge you to be AWESOME!
 

AngloDoom

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That every single kind of secret organisation, good or mad, military or research, comes from America; sometimes they spread themselves over other countries but it's always America. I want a game set somewhere beside America that doesn't involve eventually blowing it up and killing most of the populous.
 

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Aliens always resembling humans but with slight changes, like skin color or shape of head.

Oh and anyone no matter with their experience in any fighting becoming expert after picking up a pistol or other weapon for the first time. (think Kingdom Hearts, Half Life etc.)
 

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Before we start, I'm from California; and I look the stereotypical blonde/blue eyes female.
I went to New York in 8th grade and was talking to a few local boys and I remember one asking, "So you surf right? What it like? Is it fun?"
Was so annoying, I wanted to slap him or hit him over the head with a surfboard.
I can't even surf for gods sake >.> I tried and made a fool of myself.. D= It's harder than it looks!!!
 

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Most recently, Rico from Killzone 2 - now I like Killzone, but that character is perhaps the most concentrated version of the "black-seargent" stereotype - hilariously over-the-top gruff voice acting, inappropriate and exaggerated use of slang and swear words, incredibly aggressive, and of course, he's got to wield a big machine gun as his weapon, because we can't have a subtle black character in a war game now can we?

The most stereotypical thing I've EVER seen in my life would have to be crocodile dundee and the film "Australia" - I can tell you right now, Australia isn't like that anymore. It used to be, FIFTY YEARS AGO, but now it's pretty much just another version of any reasonably modern nation. In the outback, it's still a bit "dundee-ish", but if you went to the cities you could mistake it for US.