Two Gamers on a Couch/Playing With

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    • Basic Trope: Exactly What It Says on the Tin Two videogamers discussing life, the universe, and everything...on The Couch
    • Played Straight: Adam and Steve are sitting on the couch having a Seinfeldian Conversation about something that isn't really Serious Business but is treated as such.
    • Exaggerated: The Seinfeldian Conversation devolves into a Cavemen Versus Astronauts Debate and several other characters get involved.
    • Justified: The Web Comic in question deals with social commentary from the standpoint of ordinary people (not experts or the like), especially that which pertains particularly to Geek types.
    • Inverted: Adam and Steve have a serious conversation.
    • Subverted: Adam and Steve are just playing videogames, but not talking to one another.
    • Double Subverted: Next panel, however, Steve asks Adam a question.
    • Parodied: Adam and Steve talk about something, then the same question is implicitly posed by Expy characters that are bacteria living on some surface in Adam and Steve's vicinity.
      • Adam and Steve keep arguing, and the next panel flashes forward to Adam and Steve as two old men with long beards, still arguing.
    • Deconstructed: Steve asks Adam a question. This throws Adam off guard and he loses.
    • Reconstructed: See "Defied"
    • Averted: Adam and Steve don't talk to one another.
    • Enforced: "Let's put two characters our Web Comic readers can relate to.
    • Lampshaded: :"So, here we are, passing another day on The Couch..."
    • Invoked: Something in the game sparks a discussion.
    • Defied: Steve knows that Adam won't appreciate his blabbering on while playing. So he decides to wait until they're finished to chat.
    • Discussed: "How come these webcomics all feature the same thing?"
    • Conversed: "Eh, only nerds read those things anyway."
    • Played For Laughs: Steve has something important to say, but Adam tries to make him wait Just One More Level.
    • Played For Drama: The conversation deals with something rather somber.
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