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So you're browsing through the Internet when a shadowy figure contacts you with the offer of a mysterious power: pwnage. By either being really whiny, flirtatious, annoying, or 1337, you can utterly destroy internet forums and send their occupants off to go cry in their blogs. Soon enough, the money and fame start rolling in, but then so too do the shady organizations, freaks, perverts, and weirdos who want your help.

 

 

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* [[Allegedly Free Game]]: You have to pay to unlock Episode II, and presumably any subsequent episodes. You do get to keep playing the community forums and Episode I forums, though, as long as you don't open the notice that your fictional ISP account has been suspended following Episode I's conclusion.

** You can still continue playing- just sentrillion something and play through the Internet Court scene. You still won't be able to access the Episode II forums, but everything else will be reactivated.

** Stalker Central and [[Engrish]] Ressons also get this treatment fairly early in the third episode.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Pretty much everyone you troll is a [[Jerkass]] or [[Too Dumb to Live]]. Or both.

* [[But Thou Must!]]: At the start, one of the possible answers to the question "Are you interested?" is "Not really, but I understand the game won't really continue otherwise." The other answers are answers in the affirmative to the question.

* [[Call a Hit Point a Smeerp]]: It's '''Ego''', not [[Hit Points]]!

* [[Cherry Tapping]]: As a Re-Re/Permanoob, you literally bring down forums by posting pictures of cats and hamsters.

* [[Church of Happyology]]: The church of [[Dragonball Z|Saiyan]]tology. Episode 2 players can even find themselves on the business end of a Dianetics diatribe.

* [[Cosmetic Award]]: E-Peen

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Run out of Ego and you die, presumably in some sort of messy manner as the Game Over picture shows ample amounts of blood on your mouse.

* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The player character definitely qualifies.

* [[Global Currency]]: Flezz, a currency specifically developed for seamless purchases over the Internet.

* [[Hit Points]]: Ego serves as this, complete with [[Critical Existence Failure]] when it hits zero. Anything above that, you can fight perfectly the same as if it was full, [[The Berserker|or even better if you're an Emo Kid]].

* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: Down as many drinks, eat as many pills, and inject as many syringes you want, they all work instantaneously and can be used almost indefinitely, limited only by how many you bought before battle.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Played straight, subverted singly AND doubly, and just plain toyed around with in every which way with the Bad Joke-a-palooza attack.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Re-res and Permanoobs may generally be weaker than other classes, but since they don't have a mana bar of some sort, they can use their more advanced attacks indefinitely.

* [[Life Meter]]: Your [[Hit Points|Ego]] is in convenient bar form to the right of your attack list.

* [[Mana Meter]]: All classes except Re-Res and Permanoobs have some sort of secondary meter in combat that's used for most of their attacks, displayed under your [[Life Meter]].

* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Punny Name]]: Rather than being an anarchist [[Image Boards|Anonymous-type]], is Shallow Esophagus actually working for [[The Man]] and playing you, or playing the system from inside? Given the name "[[wikipedia:Deep Throat|Shallow Esophagus]]", what do you expect?

* [[Shock Site]]: Another troll ability, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]...{{spoiler|only subverted in that the pictures are innocuous and are a play on words of real shock sites. A goat for goatse, meat being rotated on a spit for meatspin, etc.}}. Not to mention '''tub'''mail. Some shock sites are also mentioned during your conversations with {{spoiler|Great Aunt Geraldine}}, giving you the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|choice of telling them to avoid the site, or to go ahead and visit]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: All the time. You can easily spot pop culture references and obviously internet culture references. But one of the more obvious examples of this trope is the Internet Court minigame, where you take up the guise of [[Phoenix Wright|Tucson Lepht]].

* [[Standard Status Effects]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|AdHominem]] is poison, problems with the line are like stop/sleep/silence/frozen, and DVORAK is confusion

* [[Stone Wall]]: The final fight in Episode 3 is against a thread with 500,000 health, compared to the usual 15,000 a single endgame thread has. Cue battle of attrition.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: Junk is given to you by strangers when you pwn forums. It has no use, but it can be sold and is your main source of income.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: A number of choices during the game, including but not limited to: driving someone to suicide, killing {{spoiler|Nordstrom}} by making him shit himself to death, and being a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Big Fat Meanie-Head-Face-Pants]]. You heartless bastard.

 

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