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{{quote|'''Kuvo:''' "Wait. So he killed off all the [[Final Fantasy X|Ronso?]] [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|He actually did something useful!]]"<br />
'''Topikal:''' "Yeah, I know. I actually like him a little better now."<br />
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'''Kuvo:''' He's still an asshole. }}
[http://www.tippingforties.com Tipping Forties] [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=736 was] a group of young gentlemen in Arizona that enjoy the drink.
They also enjoyed making [[Let's Play|Let's Plays]].
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* [[Fable II]] [http://tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=29 [link]]
* [[Final Fantasy X 2]] [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=30 [link]]
* [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=13 Grab Bag], where they play various shorter, single-session games.
They also do a [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=27 weekly Podcast].
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** It got so bad that {{spoiler|they ''started over'' with the old format. And Marvelis [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|bailed out]], so it's even more like the original FFX run.}}
*** Ryan admits this in the final ''so what did we learn'' of the Final Fantasy X-2 LP - and rather graciously takes full credit for the whole situation.
* [[Big No]]: Alex made several as bandunk used his warp block in [[Mario Party]] to overtake him and [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=247 got the star.]
** Ryo lets out a [[Big No]] in the first episode of their Shenmue LP, which is lampshaded by Benson.
{{quote|'''Benson:''' "Damn, that was a big no!"}}
* [[Book Ends]]: Final Fantasy X was their first LP, its sequel was their final one.
* [[Broken Streak]]: They managed 90 videos of not using [[The Scrappy|Presea]] until a [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=219 scripted event] forced them to. Needless to say they were crushed.
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Bandunk is always the most noticeably drunk at the end of each session.
** Ryan seems to have taken to being the most noticably drunk in the ''middle'' of a session, although this may just be because of his drink choice.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
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** No love/hate for Raiden either? Repeated wishes for his death all throughout the Let's Play didn't really give the impression that they liked him. It doesn't help that the 40s enjoy logic, while Raiden makes literally none.
** For [[Fallout: New Vegas]], none of the Forties like Cass, due to her not being interesting to them. Benson also hates Boone, and calls for his death more than once.
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: The end of the life of their copy of Final Fantasy X-2 after they all unanimously agreed it was one of the worst games they had ever done a Let's Play of.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: [http://tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=459 Episode 56] of the Fallout: New Vegas LP. Because bandunk was playing [[LA Noire]] at the time, he kept holding down the R2 button in NV, thinking it'd make him move faster.
** The friggin' X-button in ''Final Fantasy X-2''...
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The ending of the Mario Party 5 LP.
* [[Drinking Game]]: For some LPs, words are chosen for the crew to drink on, and each week a few are picked by the SA forums.
** During their Metal Gear Solid 4 LP, they drank everytime a character said "Nanomachines", "Patriots" or "La Li Lu Le Lo".
** For the Tales Of Symphonia LP, the drinking words were "Regeneration" and "Mana". Sometimes [[Magnificent Bastard|someone]] who was playing two hours before the crew would tell them to drink on the word "world" and "Cruxis".
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* [[Drunken Song]]: Done very commonly, most notably by bandunk. ''[[Elton John|It seems to me...he lived his life like a candle in the wind.]]''
** "TRYIN' TO CATCH ME RIDING DIRTY. TRYIN' TO CATCH ME RIDING DIRTY"
** They've also challenged fans to make a collection of every drunken song they've ever done. Considering how often they sing and how many videos they have (5 videos a week nearly every week for about a year and a half at this writing, with little to no [[Schedule Slip]]), it would be quite the challenge.
* [[Easter Egg]]: How they hint at new LP's nowadays. They'll hide images in the programming of their website that give small hints, leading the thread to hunt and guess.
* [[Ending Fatigue]]: By the end of [[Tales of Symphonia]] everyone just wanted it to end and started to hate it more as the LP went on.
** Also Final Fantasy X-2 (with each episode as it went on finding more hate and something similar to depression) and To a degree Fable II.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: They love [[Shenmue|Tom.]] He reminds them of [[The Room|someone they love.]]
* [[Every Episode Ending]]: [[An Aesop|So]] [[Broken Aesop|what]] did [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|we]] [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|learn]] [[Central Theme|today?]]
* [[Fan Art]]: They've generated quite from the SA forums, ranging from [[MS Paint]] humor to actually decent pieces to even music. Check the [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/ffx/ LP Archive] of [[Final Fantasy X|FFX]] for a good amount of it.
** And [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=70 on three] [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=208 unhappy] [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=721 occasions], a [[Fanfic]].
* [[Fan Nickname]]: More than a few.
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** [[The Smart Guy]]: bandunk
** [[The Chick]]: Bandunk's Wife (or Benson's Girlfriend)
* [[Flanderization]]: Drinking has become a more and more important gimmick as the Forties have advanced. In the begining they were hecklers who occasionally had a few and now they have drinking games and are verging on cirrhosis. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Not that anyone's complaining.]]
** This reached its crowning point for the [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]] LP, where drinking conditions were basically what you were watching it for. When they played [[Shenmue]], they didn't use them at all, so they can get back to their roots. Curiously, they seemed to drink even more without the conditions.
*** This Trope has now been reversed in near enough it's entirety. The T40's haven't used their ''what are we drinking'' catchphrase in years and with the exception of the final episode celebrations they rarely get as blind drunk as they used to - in fact they've potentially changed so much you could near enough apply the [[Early Installment Weirdness]] Trope to them.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]:
** '''{{color|maroon|Sanguine:}}''' Benson (topiKal)
** '''{{color|orange|Choleric:}}''' Ryan (Kuvo)
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* [[Gag Sub]]: Done [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=251 here] with ''[[Kamen Rider Black RX]]'' for a competition (they tied for first). Features [[Special Guest]] Minifoo.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Ryan likes to sneak in references, like [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|ancient dentistry]] and [[Resident Evil|Jill sandwiches]], to see if he can get them past Benson, who hates those.
* [[Griefer]]: Everyone at every possible moment in [[New Super Mario Bros Wii]], which is par for the course.
** Also one of the things that has some [[Something Awful|Goons]] to complaining that the [[Freelance Astronauts]] have already LP'd the game in much the same fashion. Seeing as it was [[Freelance Astronauts|Maxwell Adams]] himself who asked them to LP the game, it seems some people [[Misaimed Fandom|just want something to complain about]].
* [[Hard-Drinking Tropes]]: And how.
** Taken to its logical conclusion in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', where they manage to get ''the protagonist'' addicted to alcohol eight episodes in.
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=145 Napdunk.]
** [[Hurricane of Puns]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=155 A Tad Mad at Bad Rad.]
* [[Is It Something You Eat?]]?
{{quote|'''Benson:''' *Slaps a guard with the same face texture as [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Dr. Doak]].* <br />
'''bandunk:''' "Ya [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key{{=}}274 chopped Doak!]" <br />
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* [[My Nayme Is]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=208 Octagon], apparently.
* [[Musical Episode]]: What episode 17 of the [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]] LP became at the 17 minute mark.
* [[Naming Conventions]]: The first video of an LP is named The [x]ing Game. For instance, [[Final Fantasy X]]'s first episode is named [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=7 The Crying Game] [[The Crying Game|(yes, that one)]].
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: From Shenmue: [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=308 "HEY MISTER!!!"]
* [[Non-Action Snarker]]: bandunk tends not to play, at least in [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|MGS4]] and [[Final Fantasy X|FFX]], choosing rather just to lampshade and snark at-will. At one point he just hands his controller to Bandunk's Wife to get her to play Raine so he could take a [[Accidental Pun|rain check.]]
** Unprecedently broken for the New Vegas LP, in which bandunk takes the wheel. He's not particularly good at it.
{{quote|'''Alex:''' "bandunk's pretty sad that he died to a gecko." }}
* [[Now That's Using Your Teeth]]: ''[[Memetic Mutation|Solid Snake catches bullets with his teeth?]]''
* [[Once Per Episode]]: Many of the videos end with bandunk being [[Lost in Transmission|cut off mid-sentence]].
** "WHY WON'T ANYONE LET ME TALK?!"
** "So what's everyone drinking today?"
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* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: While most of the gang has taken to going by their real names, Michael still tends to be called bandunk.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: By the end of the Tales Of Symphonia LP, everyone except bandunk would start groaning and trying to make Benson stop when he did Genis and Noishe impressions.
* [[PC vs. Console]]: Alex (and to a lesser extent Ryan) dislikes consoles, namely first/third-person shooters. Enter the New Vegas LP on a [[PlayStation 3]].
* [[Robot Girl]]: The Forties turned [[Tales of Symphonia|Presea]] into this, even though she's just an [[Emotionless Girl]] in canon.
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: What the [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]] LP is based around. At the start of every mission they would impose a [[Audience Participation|fan-submitted restriction]] on the player.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Averted hard. After getting their save-file in [[Shenmue]] corrupted, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Kuvo sat down and played the entire game up to that point again]]; it took him six hours to get back to where they left off. The recap is found [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=329 here].
* [[Serious Business]] / [[Stop Having Fun Guy]]: Alex, especially seen during the Mario Party LP.
** Everyone in the New Super Mario Bros LP.
* [[Shaving Is Science]]: Invoked in [[Shenmue]] for a joke involving Ryo cutting himself while shaving.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Very common, especially to [[Legends of the Hidden Temple]], [[Short Circuit]] and [[Star Fox 64]].
** This bit from Fable 2, when the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|Spire]] is first introduced:
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'''Bandunk:''' "I feel like I'm playing flOw."<br />
'''Alex''': "...We all made different references." }}
* [[The Show Must Go On]]: See [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]. Lost or defective recordings, broken equipment, or corrupted save files have yet to stop them from their surprisingly good schedule track record.
* [[Silent Partner]]: Silent Roommate. Sort of.
{{quote|'''Ryan:''' "What do you think of this game Silent Roommate?
'''Silent Roommate''' "..." }}
* [[Slash Fic]]: During the FFX LP, the guys would read slash fiction about the characters to pass the time during the boring to watch temples. One written by a fan even managed to name an episode. See [[Unusual Euphemism]].
** Recently taken back into practice for the [[Tales of Symphonia]] LP. Apparently the [[Metal Gear Solid]] ones were all "too creepy."
{{quote|'''bandunk:''' They're all creepy! All of them.}}
** Episodes featuring [[Slash Fic]]:
*** [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=14 Barthello: Shakespearean Tragedy]
*** [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=26 Suddenly Close Nipples]
*** [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=70 Vulnerable Brown Cave]
*** [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=164 (Why Can't We Be) Friends with Benefits]
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** Silent Roommate is starting to not be so silent.
*** Alex used to be [[Ascended Extra|"Kuvo's Roommate."]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|Perhaps the same future for Silent Roommate?]]
*** The threads have liked Benson's Girlfriend, almost like a [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].
** Stealtly Asian, AKA [[The Everyman|Matt Smith]].
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: Every episode each member has to give one.
* [[A Tankard of Moose Urine]]: For the [[Cooking Mama]] Mother's Day special, the boys drank what their mothers normally do. Unfortunately for some, this involved drinking Sambuca, which they hated.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In their FFX LP, Kuvo explicitly states that "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUEuH0m4Ig#t=18m20s Final Fantasy X-2 is a terrible game and we will never play it.]" [[Oh Crap|It wound up being their final LP.]]
* [[Title Drop]]: Done in reverse; the Forties, after saying a particularly funny or ridiculous quote, will often mention that that will be the title of the video. Most of the time, it does.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Many times the T40s team will get lost (mostly in Tales of Symphonia), and end up in a place where they don't need to be ''at all'' and will spend a good twenty minutes there before realizing they need to be somewhere else. This is particularly infuriating when ''it is blatantly stated where the next important location is in the dialogue.'' This is a good source of rage to those who are familiar with the game.
** Best shown in the episode [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=158 Unbeweavable] where they talked to every single NPC in the city... except the one they had to.
*** Although to be perfectly fair, the Forties often do this as a result of being very, very drunk, thanks to their sadistic viewers. The above video is also the best example of ''that'', too.
** During ''[[Final Fantasy X 2]]'' the group is fighting a trio of Blue Orbs. Assuming [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|Blue means ice]] (when it actually means water), they try fire magic. When that doesn't work, the group doesn't know what to do, despite the fact the Orbs constantly cast water spells. They died two or three times in that one fight. Even after finally winning, one of them complains about fire not working.
* [[Total Party Kill]]: [http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/58/1598.33/ What happens when Bandunk takes the reins.]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2. The Forties are certainly not very nice to each other. Of course, that's part of the fun.
** Notably in their New Super Mario Bros. Wii LP, where they all deliberately try to fuck over each other any chance they get, but they still laugh about it.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Seen frequently in Fugitive Hunter and a drinking condition in [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]].
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] during Fugitive Hunter by Benson when he pointed out that you couldn't hit them when they rolled, but they couldn't hit you either so it was pointless.
{{quote|'''Benson:''' He John Woo'd!}}
** Seen even MORE frequently in their [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]] let's play. They even made a drinking game where the current person playing has to drink every time an enemy action rolls.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Marvelis is showing a lot of this in Fable II. Fallout: New Vegas also had quite a bit of this.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The aptly named [http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/61/ Fuck Bandunk], by both the other Forties and [[Something Awful|the thread]].
** A bit of a [[Running Gag]], too; just replace Bandunk with the name of whoever's massively screwed up that episode.
* [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=88 Dreb Ja Vu,] a rerecorded episode of [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]] because Ryan forgot to check to see if they were recording. Curiously enough, they posted the [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=256 audio] because Benson felt the story about [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|clowns]] had merit.
** [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=211 The Sheena Shuffle,] where half an episode of commentary was lost due to dead batteries.
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** During Final Fantasy X-2, Kuvo's beaten-up [[PlayStation 2]] would crash the game every time they got a game over.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: [http://tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=422 Bandunk decides to play the game his own way.]
** To elaborate, one accidental trip to H&H Tools lead [[Non-Action Guy|Bandunk]] to formulate the happenings in the video above, much to everyone's surprise.
{{quote|''Bandunk'': Hi! I win! Yaay!}}
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