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** The ''Season of Mystery'' made Josh go into this at the end.

* [[The Alcoholic]]: The original Reginald Cuftbert, during ''Fallout 3'', succeeded at picking up addictions to practically every habit-forming substance in the Capital Wasteland. Appropriately, 'addiction to new substance' became one of the parts of their [[Drinking Game]].

*** It's even sillier than that: due to a quirk of the game's addiction system, you can't actually be addicted to "alcohol". Cuftbert instead gets addicted ''to whiskey specifically''. He later picks up addictions to scotch (a specific type of whiskey!), beer and wine.<ref>It's actually just an interface bug. The addiction is listed as alcohol in the Pip-Boy, and reacts to any alcohol consumed.</ref>

* [[Ascended Meme]]: During a rousing session of ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'''s "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Run Over Pedestrians With Your Horse]]" minigame (troper's warning: Said minigame [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|may not exist outside of Josh's demented imagination]]), Rutskarn began singing [[They Might Be Giants]]' "Older", a reference to Shamus' famous "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQrC_C6SexI Rollercoaster Bowling]" video.

* [[Berserk Button]]:

** [[Idiot Plot|Idiot Plots]] and Railroading pisses them the hell off, with [[Bethesda]] earning a special place for ''Fallout 3''.

** Mentions of Little Lamplight.

** The incinerator in ''New Vegas'' that Josh lugs around for no reason whatsoever.

** They generally don't like it when characters spare the villains for incredibly weak reasons other than "It'd be wrong to kill them" or simply not take the initiative to kill the villain standing in front of them. Shamus was particularly upset about how in Honest Hearts the option to tell Graham to simply execute Salt-Upon-Wounds wasn't immediately available without a perk (though it turns out [[Failed a Spot Check|he just missed it]]).

* [[Big No]]: Mumbles is... quite upset when she realizes she called Triple H Triple X by mistake.

** Also Shamus during the Probing Questions special.

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Shamus. They occasionally mock this by referring to him as a curmudgeon who hates all games.

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Chris "Campster" Franklin, creator of [http://www.youtube.com/user/Campster "Errant Signal"] as guest commentator for ''[[Deus Ex Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]''.

** Not to mention his favourite weapon; the perpetually burning Shishkebab. How anyone manages to stay stealthy with a [[Flaming Sword]] is anybody's guess, but Reginald does it somehow.

** ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' is already Highly Visible Ninja: The Game, but Josh's extremely unsubtle play style and confusion with the controls sure as heck doesn't improve matters. Much lampshading on how tearing off a few posters compensates for his misadventures abound.

** That and killing Veronica for the hell of it after killing off her entire family. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] in general is a major part of the series.

** He also makes sure to go out of his way to try and emotionally crush Wayne Haas in Human Revolution in a way that still lets him progress with the game.

** Defied in ''Human Revolutions'' where Josh outright refused to pick the 'everyone dies' ending because it made no sense (well, marginally less sense than the other ending options) even as the others were egging him on to do so.

* [[Kill Him Already]]: They will usually say this when the protagonist simply stands there and lets the villain talk.

** And Mordin. Josh in particular seems to have a lot of respect for him.

** Josh also ends up saving the companions in ''Dead Money'' just because he likes the characters. He also sticks with House for a surprising amount of time before finally killing him (ironically right after House gives the order to exterminate the Brotherhood of Steel, something that Josh would've gladly done out of his own volition).

* [[Railroading]]: The group's arch-nemesis, and one of the quickest things they will point out. The most frustrating example being Shepard being forced to work with Cerberus in ''ME2'' despite the fact that Shepard is a [[Sole Survivor]] of one of their "Rogue Cells".

** A quest in ''New Vegas'' involved going into the headquarters of Caesar's Legion. They killed Caesar and every living human in the camp. Mr. House says while it will hurt the Legion in the long term it's not going to keep them from participating in the final battle, to groans from the quartet. However, as a commenter pointed out, [[Klingon Promotion|this sort of thing]] [[Shown Their Work|was fairly typical]] for the Romans and it's justified and lampshaded in-game by several characters.

** Apparently, all it takes for Christine to trust Reginald is to chase him around the Sierra Madre casino while unloading many, many buckshots into his ass. Thank goodness for [[Good Bad Bugs]].

* [[Uriah Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Sarah Lyons}} in ''Fallout 3''. {{spoiler|Miranda and Jacob}} in ''Mass Effect 2''.

 

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