YMMV / Full Frontal Nerdity

• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Invoked and discussed from the very first strip. More specifically...
  • Lewis often plays either front-line fighters of some sort or claims a generally unjustified emphasis on Charisma that he can't live up to (or both, when playing paladins in D&D), tries to claim the leadership role (often being overruled or manipulated), and as a result of all this usually causes problems for the party or gets himself eaten.
  • Nelson leans strongly on magic-users or other weird powers and effects, such as mad science in games that don't allow magic. He also likes to use the high Intelligence scores such classes require to justify hijacking the game's plot and abusing the mechanics mercilessly.
  • Shawn is more of an overall opportunist who doesn't fall into the trope as much as the others, usually staking out whatever niche the others haven't already. In D&D this sometimes leaves him in the rogue spot.
  • Frank is always the Game Master, and is probably the most complacent of all after Lewis since the others can easily predict what he'll do within a genre, and the others can derail a game just by asking he not abuse certain cliches all over again. He still gets one over on them occasionally.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • That way, "Captain Blueblunder" here won't be tempted to ride cannonballs into battle.
  • Nelson does this when he opts to get MORE mutations when his current set prevents his character from driving.
    Nelson: Charisma isn't just a Dump Stat now, it's an offensive weapon!
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A joke of a threat from Nelson has turned into this since the Sequel Trilogy got produced.
  • In 2007 the comic suggested in Star Trek (2009) Kirk would beat the Kobayashi Maru simulation by activating the Konami Code to get God Mode. Two years later Kirk did indeed activate a God Mode cheat by hacking the simulation.
  • A comic from 2018 had Shawn finding ways to manufacture toilet paper in a game where the world was in crisis and shortages were common. Come 2020 and there was indeed a wave of trying to hoard toilet paper.

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