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* [[Four Point Scale]]: Averted -- Their review system is deliberately balanced to include all spectrum of games and to be as helpful as possible. They have condemned the use of most other scales because of the tendency for most games to fall into the same ranking.

** Near the end of Sessler's tenure on the show, they introduced half-star ratings because they felt they were giving too many perfect scores.

* [[Gamer Chick]]: Morgan Webb; since the show's beginning she's been accused of being chosen just to be eye candy and not really a gaming fan, despite her never ending insistence to the contrary.

* [[A God Am I]]: Who is this "Bob" of which you speak. I am Thor-Axe the Impaler.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Parodied in universe. A skit had Sessler tackling problems in the form of an RPG random encounter, in one of which the enemy was a bouncer at a club, and Adam's attack was to say, "Behold my celebrity," (which fails).

* [[Sour Prude]]: Webb can come off as this fairly often, despite her rather obvious role as [[Ms. Fanservice]]. She once called a game "softcore porn" because it featured the female main character in a bikini for awhile.

* [[Take That, Audience!]]: The show's received [[Internet Backdraft|a lot of flak]] for blatant unprofessionalism with their reveal of the Viewer's Choice for 2011, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'', implying they think it won due to the fanbase's anger at them not nominating ''Skyward Sword'' for Game of the Year. See the offender in all of its glory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9x6mN7C3gU here.]

* [[This Is Sparta]] - Several examples, though far less [[Large Ham|hammy]] than the actual quote itself from ''[[300]]'':