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* [[Brown Note]]: A good part of Episode 3 revolves around a Brown Note.

* [[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]]!

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

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Pavlov...so very very much.

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

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** OMG Easter Egg!

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Partially implemented: attack techniques and forums beyond the lowest levels have psychological types, weaknesses, and resistances. While there isn't a specific "X beats Y beats Z beats X" in place, classes end up specializing to various degree in some types of psychological attack. This makes some classes better against specific fora.

* [[Emo Teen]]: The [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Emo Kid]] class. Attacks tend to emphasize bitching about other people in their life, how their hair/tattoo/scars make them unique, and generally complaining about how much their life sucks.

* [[Emo Teen]]: The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Emo Kid]] class. Attacks tend to emphasize bitching about other people in their life, how their hair/tattoo/scars make them unique, and generally complaining about how much their life sucks.

* [[Fantasy Character Classes]]: Camwhores [[The Medic|can heal themselves]], Emo Kids were [[Game Breaker|once so powerful that they had to be nerfed]] and [[The Berserker|deal higher damage with their class-specific attacks as they lose Ego]], and Hackers have more equipment slots than any other class while having to [[Vancian Magic|plan out their attacks to account for cooldown timers]]. Trolls and Permanoobs rely mainly on [[Mighty Glacier|trying to endure as many hits as possible]] as long as their drug supplies hold out. Hell, most Troll equipment emphasizes defense over offense.

* [[Featureless Protagonist]]: As is appropriate for a game about forums.

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* [[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?

* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong ~~With~~ That]]: A type of E-Peen

* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong with That]]: A type of E-Peen

* [[Player Versus Player]]: The independent INCIT and forumbuilder tools, and Domination, which is based on your in-game exploits and how well you perform in the other two.

* [[Powers As Programs]]: Including literal "Program Files".

* [[Powers as Programs]]: Including literal "Program Files".

* [[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]].

* [[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]].

** Now including one to this very wiki, with the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|TvTripes.org]] forum. You're welcome.

* [[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

* [[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.

* [[Talk to Everyone]]: The <s>best</s> way to get new missions.

* [[Talking the Monster To Death]]: {{spoiler|How you ultimately dispatch Purifyingselector88 in Episode 3, and potentially how you deal with Shallow, depending on your alignment.}}

* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: {{spoiler|How you ultimately dispatch Purifyingselector88 in Episode 3, and potentially how you deal with Shallow, depending on your alignment.}}

* [[This Loser Is You]]: A [[Zig Zagging Trope]]. Sure, you're a fat, pathetic [[Basement Dweller]] who spends his non-pwning hours jerking it to bizarrely deviant porn, but you're also the only person in this whole [[Crapsack World]] other than Shallow Esophagus and maaaaaybe the FBO to have an ounce of intelligence, sanity, or common sense. And given your penchant for sarcasm and mockery, the whole "basement dweller" thing could well be an elaborate joke on your part (as Shallow comments at the start of Episode 3).

* [[This Loser Is You]]: A [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]. Sure, you're a fat, pathetic [[Basement Dweller]] who spends his non-pwning hours jerking it to bizarrely deviant porn, but you're also the only person in this whole [[Crapsack World]] other than Shallow Esophagus and maaaaaybe the FBO to have an ounce of intelligence, sanity, or common sense. And given your penchant for sarcasm and mockery, the whole "basement dweller" thing could well be an elaborate joke on your part (as Shallow comments at the start of Episode 3).

* [[Troll]]: One of the character classes.

* [[Too Soon]]: The Troll ability "Threat Level: Red" involves making fake terrorist threats.

* [[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.

* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: In Episode 3, the fights against {{spoiler|Nordstrom and Purifyingselector88}}. They don't have ludicrous amounts of health for no good reason, [[Talking the Monster To Death|despite being dispatched by other means]]. You eventually have to beat a thread with half a million health.

* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: In Episode 3, the fights against {{spoiler|Nordstrom and Purifyingselector88}}. They don't have ludicrous amounts of health for no good reason, [[Talking the Monster to Death|despite being dispatched by other means]]. You eventually have to beat a thread with half a million health.