Metal Gear Solid, of course, popularised the stealth concept in 1998, introducing millions of gamers to the basic conventions of this then formative genre.
The dominance in America today of the 24-hour cable news networks and the Internet, the sheer size of the country, the basic conventions of public discourse, not to mention that the only two major parties have, or at least feign having, a desire to court the political center, all tend to mitigate against the sort of propaganda that one can now find in Europe.
I've written before about growing up with touch interfaces, and how the next generation of users will be comfortable moving beyond the basic conventions that most of us are just getting used to.
The novel that most challenges the basic conventions of fiction is Marina Warner's The Leto Bundle, which is sometimes hard to assemble in the mind but has long stretches of sheer narrative bliss.
If anything about Trump is still surprising at this point, it is how openly and brazenly he has flouted the basic conventions of American leadership ― and all while Republicans sit quietly by, pretending he's not also upending longstanding conservative principles.
"The basic convention of offsetting made a lot more sense when it came to the exchange of goods and services," said Tom Selling, publisher of The Accounting Onion, a Web site about accounting.
It is not until 1958, and the triumphant debut of Christopher Lee in the part, that the basic convention is made current.
He elaborates by noting that "Alan Moore's realism... performs a kenosis towards comic book history... [which] does not ennoble and empower his characters... Rather, it sends a wave of disruption back through superhero history... devalue[ing] one of the basic superhero conventions by placing his masked crime fighters in a realistic world".
Question 1 tests the students' knowledge of basic conventions in fly genetics and nomenclature, and question 2 assesses their ability to match genotypes to phenotypes provided as fly pictograms.
