Line #246 Characters/Retsupurae


1	Here's a character sheet for Retsupurae, including the duo themselves, guestsupuraeyers, subjects, and alternative characterizations. Note that these tropes concern the personalities and characters as described on this show, not on other channels or works.
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3	%% Work In Progress.
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
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7	[[folder:The Duo]]
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9	!!LetsPlay/{{Diabetus}}
10	* DeadpanSnarker: Speaks with a stoic voice while making wisecracks. Also there's [[http://ask.fm/Diabetus/answer/41184831632 his answer from a question asked to him on [=Ask.fm=]:]]
11	-->'''Anonymous question:''' If you could have one superpower what would it be?\
12	'''Diabetus:''' Functional pancreas.
13	** Indeed, many of his most well-liked answers on the aforementioned page evoke this trope. [[http://ask.fm/Diabetus/best Check 'em out!]].
14	* DeepSouth: Hails from Alabama and his heritage is a recurring subject of jokes.
15	* LargeHam: Far less often than slowbeef, but he has his moments. Especially when he decides to do the "Ridley voice".
16	* ManOfAThousandVoices: He's pretty good at imitating other characters in wrongpuraes, and does such a good imitation of [[{{VideoGame/Harvester}} The Sergeant at Arms]] that he's able to trick slowbeef into thinking it was actual dialog a few times.
17	* MeaningfulName: He actually IS diabetic.
18	* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to slowbeef's red.
19	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: People often write his name with an extra "'''e'''" (Dia'''bee'''tus) due to how it's pronounced.
20	* TheStoic: Something ''really'' silly has to happen to make him lose his calm and sarcastic behavior.
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22	!!LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}}
23	* AllLowercaseLetters: His moniker.
24	* {{Angrish}}: slowbeef will occasionally get into this mode if something particularly ridiculous happens.
25	* BerserkButton: Not always, but doesn't shy away from expressing his fury if someone makes a bad LP of a game he likes a lot, such as Snatcher or Contra 3: The Alien Wars.
26	* DeadpanSnarker: Naturally. He however, is prone to more critical, cynical commentaries than Diabetus.
27	* HiddenDepths: slowbeef may come across as a short-tempered person with a bit of {{Jerkass}} tendencies, but he did take down several videos when the person riffed asked him politely. He all, but flat out said that the reason they're not doings as many retsupuraes as before is because they are concerned about people hassling the ones they riffed. [[note]]There's also the fact people they riff now tend to make copyright claims and slowbeef is also worried about their channel on Website/YouTube getting banned for that. There's also the extra hassle that until a copyright strike is dealt with slowbeef ''cannot'' upload videos longer than 15 minutes.[[/note]]
28	* LargeHam: Often gets loud whenever something amuses him or annoys him.
29	* TheLeader: Since he runs the channel.
30	* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Diabetus' blue.
31	* TookALevelInKindness: Compared to his earlier retsupuraes, where his commentary would be more acidic and filled with F-Bombs, slowbeef has grown to be considerably more tolerant and less angry than he used to be.
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33	[[/folder]]
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35	[[folder:Guests]]
36
37	!![=AllShamNoWow=]
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39	!!Cherrydoom
40
41	!!Chip Cheezum
42
43	!!Dave_O
44	* TheStoner
45
46	!!General Ironicus
47
48	!!Khad
49
50	!!Lowtax
51
52	!!Mr. DJB
53	* EvilBrit Not evil, but definitely snarky.
54
55	!![=Pr0teus=]
56	* RedOniBlueOni: Compared to other guests, he's definitely the Red compared to Dave_O's Blue (or pretty much everyone else, for that matter)
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58	!!LetsPlay/ProtonJon
59	* ButtMonkey: Most of his appearances have the duo making fun of him for doing an LP of ''Notte Luminosa'', whose creator faked cancer to get people to play his game.
60	* TheCameo: The priests that hold the trials in ''Sonic 06'' look like him, which leads to obvious jokes.
61	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Inverted with regards to LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys; Jon is treated with the most respect out of the trio while LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} and LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun are treated as hanger-ons.
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63	!![=PsychedelicEyeball=]
64	* FunnyForeigner: He's Quebecois.
65
66	!![=ShadowZiggy=]
67
68	!!Shmorky
69	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Shmorky's appearances in Retsupurae were from before their hormone therapy.
70	* LargeHam
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72	!![=TieTuesday=]
73	* AnimalMotif: As his icon and several pieces of fanart show, he loves dogs.
74	* DeadpanSnarker: He is fond of doing this:
75	-->''(sees lava in Real Horror Stories)'' Oh, no, [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Sauron]] fell over.
76	* LargeHam: Is very jovial in spite of his overall sarcastic and ironic mannerisms.
77	* SarcasmMode: ''Relishes'' in this, even more than other [=RPers=]. This is at extreme levels during his playthroughs of ''Putt-Putt''.
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79	!![=VoidBurger=]
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81	[[/folder]]
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83	[[folder:Retsupurae Subjects]]
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85	!!LetsPlay/BillyMC
86	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Often does his [=LPs=] alongside [=TheLimePopscile=].
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88	!!Cornshaq
89	* MotorMouth: He was under a time limit (Youtube's) to finish the game as quickly as possible and possibly spoke even quicker. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadAss He almost beat it.]]
90
91	!!LetsPlay/ElectricalBeast
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93	!![=JacobMC=]
94	* TheAce: The duo often see him as this and AlwaysSomeoneBetter than Billy.
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96	!!Joshey
97	* TheEeyore: A depressive let's player that even has the duo feeling sorry for him, leading to them urging their followers to give him encouragement.
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99	!!Lijik
100
101	!![=MuscleBomber2021=]
102	* CaptainObvious: He tends to make... Uneventful commentaries.
103	--> You see those red things right down there that look like time bombs? [[ShapedLikeItself Well yeah, those are time bombs.]]
104	* LargeHam
105	* LovableJock: Beef and Beet seem to think of him as this.
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107	!!Quadraxis14
108
109	!![=QueenieZ=]
110	The Let's Player of a rather infamous ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' playthrough.
111	* TheChewToy: Became one after the riffing of her playthrough, with Retsupurae followers bullying her. The duo weren't amused.
112	* LargeHam
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114	[[/folder]]
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116	[[folder:Wrongpurae]]
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118	!!Deimos
119	* LargeHam MAAAM!
120	* MyBelovedSmother: MAM!
121
122	!!Mike Dawson
123	* CatchPhrase: "Did you kill Rita?"
124	* TheChewToy: Everybody hates Mike, and Slowbeef and Diabetus love to make fun of him for practically everything he does.
125	* LoserProtagonist: Painfully so, especially in ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII''.
126	* [[invoked]]TheScrappy: On top of being one to them, the duo notes that almost everyone in the game world hates him as well.
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128	!!Eike Kusch
129	The main character of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny''.
130	* ButtMonkey: He dies to a ridiculous amount of things. [[spoiler: Ending C pretty much cements him as downright unlucky.]]
131	* ComplexityAddiction: The duo repeatedly lampshade that he could have taken simpler ways to save himself. They are in complete disbelief in particular when [[spoiler: he disguises himself as a juggler to tell his past self to get protection - in the form of a ''frying pan'' - when he could have skipped the first part altogether.]]
132	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Dies ''a lot'', often in pretty stupid ways, too.
133	* IdiotHero: Not exactly the smartest protagonist, much to Slowbeef and Diabetus' amusement.
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135	!!John Hopkins FBI
136	The main character of the titular game.
137	* CatchPhrase: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere "I have to go."]]
138	* [[invoked]]DesignatedHero: The commentators note that he's arguably done just as much, if not more damage than the villains and is completely incompetent as a hero.
139	* FailedASpotCheck: The longplayer actively attempts to thwart [[spoiler: Samantha's death]] by getting Hopkins to check the target [[spoiler: she's stuck behind]]. Hopkins claims that there's nothing there.
140	* IWorkAlone: Mr. DJB speculates that the reason why he goes after Bernie on his own is because getting the rest of the force involved would lead to an investigation over all the stuff Hopkins stole.
141	* IdiotHero: Willingly follows the instructions of a terrorist and falls for an obvious twist - a twist that the player controlling him ''actively attempts to thwart'' no less.
142	* KleptomaniacHero: Slowbeef and Mr. DJB think that he's a bit too much of one, even by adventure game standards.
143	* PoliceAreUseless: He allows the bank robbers to get away from the scene - after killing several hostages no less - and continually proves that he's incompetent, which makes the commentators wonder if he's only being kept on the force for his one genuinely good case.
144	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Aside from his CatchPhrase, Hopkins also attempts to resign from the force and Mr. DJB and Slowbeef interpret the island section of the game to be him giving up and going on vacation.
145	--> '''Slowbeef (as Hopkins)''': I give up! I just want to play Game in the mountains and be happy!
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147	!!Bernie Berckson
148	The main villain of ''VideoGame/HopkinsFBI''.
149	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When he starts gloating over [[spoiler: tricking Hopkins into killing Samantha]], Mr. DJB and Slowbeef actually agree that it's pretty hilarious.
150	* ImpossibleThief: More like Impossible Killer. Mr. DJB notes that his methods of killing and hiding people is fast and absurd.
151	-->'''Mr.DJB''': This is the most effective killer in the goddamn world.
152	* WickedCultured: A pretty quick and talented sculptor on top of everything.
153
154	!!John Parker
155	The main character of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheComet'', who is prone to doing rather silly things.
156	* TheComicallySerious: Does completely silly antics like [[spoiler: somehow flying with wax wings]] while keeping a completely straight face.
157	* CowardlyLion: The duo characterizes him to be easily frightened [[spoiler: after he fainted looking at a constellation]] but he's still willing to take on the forces of Cthulhu.
158	* HollywoodHeartAttack: After he has a heart attack by looking at a spooky constellation, Diabetus is quick to give him a "HHHRRGH!" every time anything mildly startling happens.
159	* LameComeback: Is rather bad at doing insults.
160	* ShipTease: After characterizing the character Jugg as a StalkerWithACrush for Parker, the duo are genuinely pleased when Parker states [[spoiler: he's getting revenge for Jugg]].
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162	!!Jugg
163	One of the characters from ''Shadow of the Comet'', reinterpreted to be a StalkerWithACrush for Parker.
164	* DirtyOldMan: Some of his flirts with Parker head into this direction.
165	* [[invoked]]EnsembleDarkhorse: The duo seem to like him and continue voice acting him [[spoiler: long after his death]] and are genuinely pleased when [[spoiler: Parker deals with Narackamus in his name]].
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167	%%!!Mooky
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169	!!Prizm
170	One of the boss characters from ''VideoGame/TattooAssassins'', immediately embraced by the duo due to a vague resemblance to [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra Crystal Boy]].
171	* JokeCharacter: He can be destroyed just by being touched a few times.
172	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Barely even got ''twenty seconds'' of screen time.
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174	!!Edward Carnby
175	The main character of the first three ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'' games.
176	* ChristmasEpisode: Dresses up as Santa Claus for a good part of the [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2 second game]].
177	* DrunkenMaster: With drinking flasks being the method of healing, he gets characterized as this pretty fast.
178	* OnlySaneMan: His constant drinking could be interpreted to be his reaction to the game's events.
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180	!!Mike's Friend
181	The unseen main character of the ''Car Escape'' series.
182	* BerserkButton: Near the end of the 11th part, he finally has enough of the puzzles and [[PercussiveMaintenance simply smashes a safe open]].
183	* ButtMonkey: Thrown into some conspiracy where he repeatedly gets locked into places, especially the titular cars.
184	* {{Engrish}}: More of a fault of the translator's than his.
185	* JumpedAtTheCall: Readily decides to join [[spoiler: the police in the drug wars led by Heidenberg.]]
186	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Somehow knows magic in the ninth game.
187	* NoNameGiven: Winds up getting called Mike's Friend in the absence of an actual name.
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189	!!Alexander Morris
190	The main character of ''Dracula Unleashed''; not to be confused with [[Videogame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow Prince Alexander]].
191	* FailureHero: He fails to save a lot of characters, usually due to the below trope.
192	* GenreBlind: Is remarkably blind to the completely obvious clues that someone is a vampire and has an inability to catch on to what's happening in the plot.
193	* IdiotHero: See above.
194	* PsychoKnifeNut: Has no problem threatening people with a knife, which the narration exaggerates.
195	* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: He tends to fall asleep on guard duty, which screws over the other characters.
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197	!!Brent Halligan
198	The protagonist, for lack of a better term, of ''Mystery of the Druids''.
199	* CluelessDetective: For lack of a better term. His best idea of following a clue is to blindly believe in a local superstition regarding an ancient mausoleum, [[ItMakesSenseInContext and throw salt at it.]]
200	* [[invoked]]DesignatedHero: Despite him being a detective working at Scotland Yard, he not only has an awful sense of logic, but a profound disregard for the law. This can be best demonstrated when he poisons a homeless man with laboratory alcohol,[[note]]Laboratory ethanol in any significant quantity can cause anything from ataxia to ''death'', and he gave the man a fair bit[[/note]] (granted, Halligan had just survived drinking a bunch of it) in order to get his spare change for a phone call. While he does [[WhatTheHellHero get scolded for it from Chief Inspector Miller]], [[KarmaHoudini he doesn't really suffer any major consequences.]] The Retsupurae crew, however, give him all kinds of shit.
201	* IdiotHero: '''In spades.''' He pulls a lot of insane leaps of logic throughout the game. This ranges from not knowing what "Initiation" means to [[spoiler: hiding a MacGuffin on a ship when he simply could store it on his person, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero thus leading it to be stolen.]]]]
202	* PoliceAreUseless: Barely [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Halligan; while he is an absolute moron, he still manages to make progress in the story. A better application would be for half of his colleagues in Scotland Yard; Detective Landry is a rude prick who got an innocent man executed,[[note]]And he ''still'' thinks the dead man was guilty, even after another murder happens.[[/note]] while Chief Inspector Miller is a PointyHairedBoss that deliberately gets in the way of Halligan's case.
203	** Though it's shown that he is ''personally responsible'' for making the entire police force wade through a ridiculous amount of red-tape, having tried to get an arrest warrant for Prince Charles after the death of Diana as a joke, and wasted tons of department resources meaning that they now have to fill out a form and get the Chief Inspector to sign it to simply get stuff like ''scissors''.
204	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: ''Nobody'' in Scotland Yard likes him, treating him as an imbecile and a slob barely worthy of the badge. Not that they're wrong.
205	* WhatTheHellHero: Upon hearing that Halligan poisoned a homeless person to get his spare change, Chief Inspector Miller calls him out for it.
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207	!!Jack Orlando
208	The apparent hero of ''Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure''. Somehow manages to be ''even worse'' than Halligan.
209	* [[invoked]]DesignatedHero: Let's see... beating a man up to steal his crank, using homophobic slurs, being racist, and loads of other pleasant things. Where Halligan was generally just an idiot, Orlando is simply a ''horrible person''. Halligan gave a homeless man laboratory alcohol (that he himself had survived drinking) in order to steal his money, Orlando ''beat up'' a homeless man to get some rope. By the end, the Goons actually wanted him to get arrested, and say they at least thought Halligan was something of a loveable goof at times.
210	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Uses homophobic slurs and believes the world would be better off without Chinese laundries.
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212	[[/folder]]
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214	[[folder:Retsufrashes]]
215	!!Ted Harthrup
216	One of the main characters of the ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'' series.
217	* ArcWelding: The duo reinterpret the Ted that appears in ''Sir Basil Pike'' to be the same Ted in ''Ambition'', and that he still secretly holds his psychotic tendencies.
218	* MadBomber: The duo continually maintains that he is crazy, in spite of the game's claims that [[spoiler: he's actually sane.]]
219	* NeverMyFault: The duo note that the series takes this approach toward Ted, blatantly trying to apologize for his actions and blaming them on others even when he's blatantly in control. Ted himself further blames Bridget and/or evil forces for his own actions.
220	* WithFriendsLikeThese: They point out that Ted repeatedly threatens people that are the least bit close to him.
221
222	!!Duke Crabtree
223	One of the main characters of the ''Ambition'' series.
224	* TheChewtoy: Pinstripe Hourglass really likes taking the options that hurt him.
225	* HypercompetentSidekick: He succeeds at getting information the protagonist can't get and is accomplished at being a marriage counselor.
226	* ManChild: Gets characterized as such due to his voice.
227	** BunnyEarsLawyer: On top of saying weird phrases and this trope, he's still one of the most competent characters in the series.
228	** PsychopathicManChild: After [[spoiler:being revealed to be a terrorist.]]
229	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Slowbeef and Diabetus speculate that he's being controlled by the green light that appears [[spoiler:most of the time when he kills the protagonist]].
230	* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Because I'm a terrorist!"]] It was probably meant to be dramatic but the delivery of the line sent the duo and fanbase into hysterics.
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232	[[/folder]]
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234	[[folder:Crappy Pastas and Other]]
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236	!!George "[=NAVGaTR=]" Wood
237	Actually two people. George Wood was the host of a small video game review show called ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'' and [=NAVGaTR=] is simply a Website/YouTube channel that happened to archive them; this gets clarified from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' and onward.
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239	* CloudCuckooLander: Aside from his "great game ideas", much of his commentary is outlandish at best.
240	* CrazyJealousGuy: They speculate that he's a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Rinoa]] fanboy, and that his negative assessments of Squall, Zell, and the game in general are out of spite.
241	* DirtyOldMan: The Retsupurae Live 2016 panel showcases a game show that George Wood held where they joked he was going to sexually harass the boy contestant as a prize. [[spoiler:The uploader of the video ends up creating horrible implications by blurring the screen while the two go backstage.]]
242	** Then there's the weird out-of-nowhere segment of his wrestling game review in George Wood's WWE Dream Matchup where he compliments the game for making it possible to set a match between 'three fat black ladies and one skinny white turd', whose footage just keeps going after he finishes talking and ends up taking ''the majority of the video's total run time''. Makes it hard to imagine that as anything but his fetish.
243	* DisneyDeath: The 2016 Retsupurae panel briefly shows a video that claims that George Wood is deceased, though Diabetus affirms that he's alive (at the time).
244	* DrivenToSuicide: George Wood declares that he'll do this if ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' doesn't have voice acting, which prompts bafflement and concern from them; they hilariously note the [[invoked]]HilariousInHindsight in that voice acting only came a game after.
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246	!!Paul "Gally [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Banish/Vanish]] Gregman" Eiding
247	On the one hand, [[Creator/PaulEiding a voice actor]] well-known for voiceover roles like [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Perceptor]] and [[VideoGame/MetalGear Colonel Roy Campbell]]. [[ActorRoleConfusion On the other]], a [[SpaceX space-bounty hunter]] who likes booze and is [[VideoGame/EvilZone on the job to stop a powerful entity]]. It's hard to tell the two apart.
248	* ActorAllusion: The intermission during which the duo had to re-sync their audio was accompanied by music from [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty within Arsenal Gear]].
249	* TheAlcoholic:
250	-->'''Gregman:''' So... howdy! Sorry about last week. I like booze!\
251	'''Diabetus:''' Paul Eiding [[IsThisThingStillOn didn't know he was being recorded at this point.]]
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253	!!John Jenkins
254	The subject of three Kickstarters Nonstarters: one for "Busco Quadnary" (binary on base 4 instead of base 2, which will make programming twice as fast), one for his take on unified field theory (which he came about [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext while playing an online game and trying to convert his opponents to Christianity]]), and one to write a movie script for "the black Film/JamesBond".
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256	* BerserkButton: Repreatedly hits slowbeef's, with his ignorance of how computers actually work.
257	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His actions and attempted kickstarters are bizarre, to say the least.
258	* InsaneTrollLogic: It's safe to say that merely introducing a kickstarter for a 4-dimensional operating system is the ''least'' nonsensical thing he's rambled about.

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