Magic Ampersand/Playing With

Basic Trope: A fictional tabletop RPG with a "These & Those" name structure.
 * Straight: Sandy and his friends get together to play Servers & Spambots, a version of D&D set in cyberspace.
 * Exaggerated: The game is titled "Caves & Serpents".
 * Justified: The game is a deliberate Shout-Out to Dungeons & Dragons.
 * Inverted: The game is called "Neither Dungeons nor Dragons".
 * Subverted: "What's the game called, Servers & Spambots?" "No, don't be silly..."
 * Double Subverted: "...we played that last week. This week's Caverns & Crabs week!"
 * Parodied: The tabletop game is called Basements & Lizards, and the first game we see the characters play actually features those things.
 * Deconstructed: New player Mark is repulsed by the downturn in creativity tabletop games have taken, and leaves the group the same day he joins.
 * Reconstructed: ...But he rejoins immediately when he realizes that it doesn't matter how creative a game is, as long as it's fun. And it is.
 * Zig Zagged: The tabletop game is called Servers and Spambots, but the system is very different from D&D. However, Bob tries to play like a Lawful Stupid D&D character anyway. But he gets killed by a Killer Game Master.
 * Averted: The tabletop game has an original title.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "Servers & Spambots? Does everyone follow that stupid naming structure nowadays?"
 * Invoked: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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