YMMV / Acts of Gord

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The Gord is willing to physically harm people he could clearly restrain over video games worth about five dollars. Is it justified because they're stealing from him, or is this Disproportionate Retribution? He also has rather toxic attitudes towards welfare recipients, though in this case it's suggested that his ire is directed towards people who spend their welfare checks on video games instead of food or rent. Finally, there's the page where Gord outright doxxes one of the thieves, encouraging readers to call the phone number and be an ass. Nowadays, that isn't the act of a Heroic Comedic Sociopath, it's just straight up villainy.
• Moral Event Horizon: The whole Apocalypse Book. To make it short: Landlord's Agent has been pocketing money, and blaming the rent shortage on the Gord's store. Gord is overseas at the time he learns this, having left the store in the care of the Guardian. But the Guardian helps the Agent seize the assets of the store. This leads to some of the Gord's friends breaking into his own store and stripping the entire place clear of everything, so the Agent and Guardian get nothing and lose their jobs. And, if they attempt to report Gord to the police, they would eventually have to explain the massive fraud they were about to commit versus the technically illegal theft.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While it's obvious that Gord is Surrounded by Idiots, the way he treats some of his customers (if he truly isn't embellishing things) doesn't exactly win him any favours.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Gord's constant use of the word "retard" wouldn't fly in the 2020s, in comparison to the late 90s-early 2000s that the store was open during.
  • He flat out doxxed one of the thieves and encouraged readers to call the phone number. In the early 2000s, this was somewhat of a comedic moment. In the 2020s? Cyber-harassment is far less "funny".