"Zero Punctuation" and "Dev Diary" by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw - The only thing worth watching on The Escapist

[skykiii]

- The climate back then vs now wasn't as fucking autistic when it came to politics. I'm pretty sure he had a few stabs at Dubya back in the day (and even a few at Obama) but they weren't so fucking polarizing like it seems to be now.

Not all of them, but I've been rewatching (and also have my stupid ability to remember useless shit) and two things always bugged people:

One, Yahtzee always hated Republicans. Even one of his earliest videos had a thing about Republicans lacking compassion.

But this ties in with another thing... Yahtzee used to have a hateboner against America, and would bitch about Americans being stupid at every opportunity. He even did a written essay about bad American video game box art where the TL;DR was "Americans have no artistic taste."

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Please keep seething. If that doesn't work, try malding.

(you)

 

[capitalBBustard]

I'm perfectly fine with you whining about three-second jokes that hurt your delicate feelings if you're perfectly fine with me calling you a candied faggot, so idk where you're getting the hugbox idea beyond that you keep spouting buzzwords

ZP started in 2007. This guy has been making political jabs, primarily targeted at conservatives, for fifteen years. If you're still clutching your pearls at his abortion jokes and "republicans bad," I'm gonna call you a retard and interrupt your chorus. But please, sperg right back at me about how it's totally unfair for me to call you a sensitive pussy because I dared to interrupt the kvetching
(you)

It's nice you acquiesce about you projecting your own faggotry on others. It's pretty self-evident by now. Moving on.

instead of literally just not watching his content

"Nono I don't ask for a hugbox, I just said people who don't have positive things to say should just not watch or post about it."

The fuck you think this results in, fag?

You brag about vomiting words on screen, but all our interactions shows you put no real thought into what you type. It's the unfiltered, contradictory ravings of a schizo off his meds.

The moment that Yahtzee goes full hhbomberguy and decides a ten-hour dark souls review is the perfect time to sperg for genuine minutes about how great socialism is and how orange man is bad, yeah, fuck him and I'll be in the gallery waiting to see how his estrogen moobs grow in.

Badmouthing shitlibbery is only acceptable if they make a video manifesto proclaiming allegiance to troonunism, but you can shit yourself in rage and rave about rightoids after a few people make posts on a forum.

Your obliviousness over your own shameless double standard is magnificent. Fucker, by your own standards, you'd only get to sperg out at rightoids if they start actively pushing fundie shit. Get some self awareness, bro.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

It's nice you acquiesce about you projecting your own faggotry on others. It's pretty self-evident by now. Moving on.

You seem to get really mad when someone doesn't really care about your disdain, to the point where you reply to them over the course of more than a day in the hopes that THIS TIME! you'll really get to them. You're down here in the mud with papa rich evans apologist, friend, and I look forward to you trying to deny it.

"Nono I don't ask for a hugbox, I just said people who don't have positive things to say should just not watch or post about it."

The fuck you think this results in, fag?

I think it results in people being negative about his content over shit that isn't just oversensitive pearl-clutching from the BASED! purity brigade. Like this post, or this one, both of which I know you didn't read. If you call his content stale, boring, uninspired, shit, unfunny, etc, I mean - sure, lot of that's true.

But you're doing the equivalent of complaining that you were trying to watch late night talk shows, and Colbert called republicans woman-haters. Too bad you've literally got to keep watching Colbert, even though you can't stand the political bent he's had and displayed for the last 17 years.

Badmouthing shitlibbery is only acceptable if they make a video manifesto proclaiming allegiance to troonunism, but you can shit yourself in rage and rave about rightoids after a few people make posts on a forum.

Your obliviousness over your own shameless double standard is magnificent. Fucker, by your own standards, you'd only get to sperg out at rightoids if they start actively pushing fundie shit. Get some self awareness, bro.

What a fanciful, weird world you've started living in since your first zinger didn't get the mean, offensive libtard to meekly quiet down and leave. But then, you don't sound like you interact with people outside your bubble often, so I guess it makes sense for you to keep inventing things I'm saying.

If Jontron interrupts a video to tell you for five minutes that you should vote for Bernie, if Internet Historian interrupts a video to tell you for five minutes to vote for Trump, if Limit Breakers had a break to tell me how important voting was... yes, those would make sense as complaints. Because it's a huge break from what their brand is.

You're complaining that Jeremy Hambeast talks about how he likes Trump and doesn't like woke shit. You're complaining that Stephen Crowder takes potshots at liberals in his standup. You're complaining that Null interrupts a stream about fat women to talk about how he doesn't like niggers and how the US is a dead nigger country. What were you expecting?

 

[lesser sperg]

I went to the same grammar school as this guy.

I don't watch his content.

All I know is he is listed as notable alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Sheriff_School#Notable_Old_Laurentians

 

[WULULULULU]

Politisperging aside though, he's just so predictable now

• Indie art game? YES YES GOOD GAME VERY GOOD GAME EMOTIONS AND STORY TELLING YES YES
• Oh, eccentric creator! I love your eccentric and goofy games but they're also kinda shit
• Yearly franchises? NO NO BAD GAME VERY BAD GAME VISCERALITY AND CELEBRITIES NO NO
• A game focused around multiplayer? Let me make sure for the 500th time that you know I HATE multiplayer games and especially playing with pubbies, but I'll review it anyway!
• A JRPG? Let me make sure for the 500th time that you know I HATE JRPGs, except for a few on the SNES that everybody likes

You just summarized every single video game past the 2010s. Yahtz, for all his politisperging, is just a general symptom of the whole shitshow that is the game industry.

 

[capitalBBustard]

You seem to get really mad when someone doesn't really care about your disdain, to the point where you reply to them over the course of more than a day in the hopes that THIS TIME! you'll really get to them. You're down here in the mud with papa rich evans apologist, friend, and I look forward to you trying to deny it.

I think it results in people being negative about his content over shit that isn't just oversensitive pearl-clutching from the BASED! purity brigade. Like this post, or this one, both of which I know you didn't read. If you call his content stale, boring, uninspired, shit, unfunny, etc, I mean - sure, lot of that's true.

But you're doing the equivalent of complaining that you were trying to watch late night talk shows, and Colbert called republicans woman-haters. Too bad you've literally got to keep watching Colbert, even though you can't stand the political bent he's had and displayed for the last 17 years.

What a fanciful, weird world you've started living in since your first zinger didn't get the mean, offensive libtard to meekly quiet down and leave. But then, you don't sound like you interact with people outside your bubble often, so I guess it makes sense for you to keep inventing things I'm saying.

If Jontron interrupts a video to tell you for five minutes that you should vote for Bernie, if Internet Historian interrupts a video to tell you for five minutes to vote for Trump, if Limit Breakers had a break to tell me how important voting was... yes, those would make sense as complaints. Because it's a huge break from what their brand is.

You're complaining that Jeremy Hambeast talks about how he likes Trump and doesn't like woke shit. You're complaining that Stephen Crowder takes potshots at liberals in his standup. You're complaining that Null interrupts a stream about fat women to talk about how he doesn't like niggers and how the US is a dead nigger country. What were you expecting?

What are you on about you brain rotted schizoid? This entire time I've been saying you're a dishonest butthurt shitlib projecting your dilation unto everyone else, something you can't even argue against, to which you reply by frankensteining a fanfiction about Colbert, Crowder, Trump, Bernie, Internet Historian, Null etc. together in some half demented strawman.

Take your meds. You're having a meltdown over getting a reply a day later.

"Nono, I didn't mean a hugbox, I meant a certain kind of hugbox" lol lmao

 

[Well Intentioned]

Badmouthing shitlibbery is only acceptable if they make a video manifesto proclaiming allegiance to troonunism, but you can shit yourself in rage and rave about rightoids after a few people make posts on a forum.

Your obliviousness over your own shameless double standard is magnificent. Fucker, by your own standards, you'd only get to sperg out at rightoids if they start actively pushing fundie shit. Get some self awareness, bro.

I mean, this all started cos you characterized a quick quip as 'shitlib preaching.' Preaching, to me, means going on about something at length.

Go nuts if the joke was dumb/unfunny/whatever, I don't think anyone really gives a fuck. Or Tired Cat's criticism that this is a guy who used to be far more edgier who is now clutching pearls.

But like, you're REEing over the slightest mention of something that goes against your beliefs and categorizing it as 'preaching' which is why folks are making comparisons to Jeremy Hambeast and his a-logging over identity politics or 'wokeness' or whatever.

 

[The tired cat]

You just summarized every single video game past the 2010s. Yahtz, for all his politisperging, is just a general symptom of the whole shitshow that is the game industry.

Id say less shitshow and more that the dude acts like a typical /v/ or hipster mofo. Specially whenever he goes on his huge spiels about "Vidya games used to have S0UUUULLL MAAAAN!!"

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Specially whenever he goes on his huge spiels about "Vidya games used to have S0UUUULLL MAAAAN!!"

idk, he seems to shit on retro games as well, only talking good about the C64 and shitting on the NES & Genesis.

I've never owned or played a C64, so idk what kind of "soul" those games would even have.

 

[capitalBBustard]

I mean, this all started cos you characterized a quick quip as 'shitlib preaching.' Preaching, to me, means going on about something at length.

Go nuts if the joke was dumb/unfunny/whatever, I don't think anyone really gives a fuck. Or Tired Cat's criticism that this is a guy who used to be far more edgier who is now clutching pearls.

But like, you're REEing over the slightest mention of something that goes against your beliefs and categorizing it as 'preaching' which is why folks are making comparisons to Jeremy Hambeast and his a-logging over identity politics or 'wokeness' or whatever.

Lmao, this whole thing started because rich had a multi paragraph spergout at other people for disliking the shitlib content in videos to which I gave him shit for being disingenuous and projecting his butthurt. I know you read that part, since it had the flippant usages of the word "preaching".

Somehow you turned this into me complaining about the video and "folks" (plural) making retarded comparisons. Why try to retcon what happened? It's still there for all to see, lol.

 

[Coldgrip]

Lmao, this whole thing started because rich had a multi paragraph spergout at other people for disliking the shitlib content in videos to which I gave him shit for being disingenuous and projecting his butthurt. I know you read that part, since it had the flippant usages of the word "preaching".

Somehow you turned this into me complaining about the video and "folks" (plural) making retarded comparisons. Why try to retcon what happened? It's still there for all to see, lol.

It's funny when you break it down.

"I don't like how his content is, too preachy."

"REEEEEEE Why are people complaining about something in a thread made to talk about said something! REEEEE WPM!"

I hope he learns to be less angry, he'll give himself a stroke otherwise.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Lmao, this whole thing started because rich had a multi paragraph spergout at other people for disliking the shitlib content in videos to which I gave him shit for being disingenuous and projecting his butthurt. I know you read that part, since it had the flippant usages of the word "preaching".

I was talking about the start of the two of you squabbling, my apologies for not being clear.

But the post you linked to literally talks about short quips ("you can't just consistently throw in three-second jabs for years and years of the same exact political bent" and "I really do not think he gives a shit if a two-second trump gag and a two-second abortion ruling gag gets the pearls clutched and the couches fainted upon, in the same way he doesn't care if him using the term calarts makes some trannies skip a heartbeat") and you...characterized it as 'preaching.'

Somehow you turned this into me complaining about the video and "folks" (plural) making retarded comparisons. Why try to retcon what happened? It's still there for all to see, lol.

No? As pointed out above, the post you took umbrage with was talking about the fact that he's been doing this shit for literal years and I pointed out that you were misconstruing brief jokes as 'preaching' because (presumably, I'm not certain here) it doesn't jive with your own personal political beliefs.

And yeah, 'folks' as both Rich and myself had made the comparisons.

Rich's diatribe was over the top and dumb, but people going surprised pikachu over Yahtzee making those kind of comments like it's some new thing is equally dumb. It's like realizing, in 2022, this year of our lord, that DSP is bad at video games. That's kinda part of who he has always been.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

This entire time I've been saying you're a dishonest butthurt shitlib projecting your dilation unto everyone else, something you can't even argue against, to which you reply by frankensteining a fanfiction about Colbert, Crowder, Trump, Bernie, Internet Historian, Null etc. together in some half demented strawman.

Lol, I did argue against it. You proceeded to ignore it to try to get a zinger:

I'm perfectly fine with you whining about three-second jokes that hurt your delicate feelings if you're perfectly fine with me calling you a candied faggot, so idk where you're getting the hugbox idea beyond that you keep spouting buzzwords

ZP started in 2007. This guy has been making political jabs, primarily targeted at conservatives, for fifteen years. If you're still clutching your pearls at his abortion jokes and "republicans bad," I'm gonna call you a retard and interrupt your chorus. But please, sperg right back at me about how it's totally unfair for me to call you a sensitive pussy because I dared to interrupt the kvetching

Put another way, if this was in a lolcow section and you just want to shit on him for saying liberal statements, whatever. But if you're whining that a longtime liberal continues to make little liberal quips, as if that were shocking and unexpected, yeah, I'm gonna call you an oversensitive retard - which evidently your fragile self-image can't handle.

It's less frankensteining Colbert, Crowder, et al and more you keep trying to dodge that you can't stand that someone pointed out you were whining about rain being wet. Can you grasp that metaphor, or was that one also too hard?

Take your meds. You're having a meltdown over getting a reply a day later.

"Nono, I didn't mean a hugbox, I meant a certain kind of hugbox" lol lmao

A meltdown about it? I'm pointing out that you've kept coming at me, for over a day, because I dared to say that complaining about a liberal atheist who reviews video games for a living for making three-second anti-conservative quips was maximum overqueef... in too many words for your tastes. I'm gonna bold that one so it'll be funnier when you overlook it.

In trying to insist that I'm just vivaciously furious because I type faster than your hamhands, you've kept avoiding every part of every post where I reiterate what I originally said - you're complaining about a 15-years-strong-vocal liberal making vocally liberal jokes - to try to insist that it's this that or the other and that I somehow want all conservative posters to leave the thread.

If my calling you a dumb retard for being upset that standing in the rain got your shirt wet makes you feel like I'm propagating an anti-conservative hugbox, you might just be the oversensitive pearl-clutching pussy I've called you from the first post. Hell, if someone calling you mean names in a thread makes you think that person is calling for a hugbox, you definitely are the oversensitive pearl-clutching pussy I've called you from the first post.

Here, I split out the sentences so your brain doesn't shut down to protect itself again. I spent about seven minutes on this post top to bottom, so by all means, scold me for not using that time to goon out or sperg about the Ukrainian conflict as if I had any particular insights on it or something as is properly based.

Id say less shitshow and more that the dude acts like a typical /v/ or hipster mofo. Specially whenever he goes on his huge spiels about "Vidya games used to have S0UUUULLL MAAAAN!!"

I can agree with that. When he started in 2007, he was kindof this 'outsider' character and had a certain edge to him, in a more nascent gaming culture that... frankly had a lot more experimentation in the AAA sphere. Now he's the equivalent of the kinds of people who insist music stopped with the Beatles or Zepplin or whatever.

He introduced me to some stuff that I do enjoy, like Disco Elysium (and that I've gladly sperged over and will gladly again), which is why I just sortof tolerate a lot of his tired old man takes. But you compare his No More Heroes to the NMH3 review, and it's pretty night and day.

It's funny when you break it down.

"I don't like how his content is, too preachy."

"REEEEEEE Why are people complaining about something in a thread made to talk about said something! REEEEE WPM!"

I hope he learns to be less angry, he'll give himself a stroke otherwise.

(you)

But the post you linked to literally talks about short quips ("you can't just consistently throw in three-second jabs for years and years of the same exact political bent" and "I really do not think he gives a shit if a two-second trump gag and a two-second abortion ruling gag gets the pearls clutched and the couches fainted upon, in the same way he doesn't care if him using the term calarts makes some trannies skip a heartbeat") and you...characterized it as 'preaching.'

I wouldn't assume the guy read very much of my post or yours.

 

[Coldgrip]

*Long-ass REEEEing*

Calm down, friend.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Yahtzee is a fag

 

[capitalBBustard]

I was talking about the start of the two of you squabbling, my apologies for not being clear.

But the post you linked to literally talks about short quips ("you can't just consistently throw in three-second jabs for years and years of the same exact political bent" and "I really do not think he gives a shit if a two-second trump gag and a two-second abortion ruling gag gets the pearls clutched and the couches fainted upon, in the same way he doesn't care if him using the term calarts makes some trannies skip a heartbeat") and you...characterized it as 'preaching.'

No, you were pretty clear about me starting it, because of using the word 'preaching'. It's what you wrote and it was wrong.

The quips aren't relevant since again, I was shitting on rich's sperg out, not the video. But you managed to quote sth interesting, see, you don't give a shit about him derisively characterising all the people complaining as 'pearl clutchers', even though it's about as loose a usage of the term as preaching was.

Why aren't having a go at him for it? Or better yet drop the retarded tangent, atleast that would result in a consistent standard, and then focus on what actually transpired.

No?

But like, you're REEing over the slightest mention of something that goes against your beliefs

You did. Right here.

As pointed out above, the post you took umbrage with was talking about the fact that he's been doing this shit for literal years and I pointed out that you were misconstruing brief jokes as 'preaching' because (presumably, I'm not certain here) it doesn't jive with your own personal political beliefs.

And yeah, 'folks' as both Rich and myself had made the comparisons.

Rich's diatribe was over the top and dumb, but people going surprised pikachu over Yahtzee making those kind of comments like it's some new thing is equally dumb. It's like realizing, in 2022, this year of our lord, that DSP is bad at video games. That's kinda part of who he has always been.

So the post is dumb but it doesn't matter. Even though our entire interaction is based on it, and everything I've been saying goes back to it.

And you did it again, I took umbrage with rich's disingenuous rage at others fueled and projected by very obvious anal pain, not yahtzee or his video. So I'll ask again, why are you trying to retcon what happened?

Lol, I did argue against it. You proceeded to ignore it to try to get a zinger:

Put another way, if this was in a lolcow section and you just want to shit on him for saying liberal statements, whatever. But if you're whining that a longtime liberal continues to make little liberal quips, as if that were shocking and unexpected, yeah, I'm gonna call you an oversensitive retard - which evidently your fragile self-image can't handle.

It's less frankensteining Colbert, Crowder, et al and more you keep trying to dodge that you can't stand that someone pointed out you were whining about rain being wet. Can you grasp that metaphor, or was that one also too hard?

"I argued against it" he says as he never at any point refuted what I said.

projection 1: sperging about "the thread's subject" by schizo posting an essay about rightoids when someone mentions the shitlib politics from a video, instead of literally just not posting per your own advice

projection 2: seething at rightoids being easily insulted, as you've been nonstop sperging out after some people voiced dislike of some shitlib content

you've been literally doing everything you bitch about the entire time, lmao talk about thin skin

and you're even demanding a hugbox

In the schizophrenic haze your state of mind exists, you completely forgot that I at no point bitched about any quips, I was always talking about you being an astral projecting faggot who goes off at the mildest negative mention of shitlibbery in videos, while decrying thin skinnedness.

I even showed later that you did in fact demand a hugbox, which you then try make a copout for. lol

A meltdown about it? I'm pointing out that you've kept coming at me, for over a day, because I dared to say that complaining about a liberal atheist who reviews video games for a living for making three-second anti-conservative quips was maximum overqueef... in too many words for your tastes. I'm gonna bold that one so it'll be funnier when you overlook it.

In trying to insist that I'm just vivaciously furious because I type faster than your hamhands, you've kept avoiding every part of every post where I reiterate what I originally said - you're complaining about a 15-years-strong-vocal liberal making vocally liberal jokes - to try to insist that it's this that or the other and that I somehow want all conservative posters to leave the thread.

If my calling you a dumb retard for being upset that standing in the rain got your shirt wet makes you feel like I'm propagating an anti-conservative hugbox, you might just be the oversensitive pearl-clutching pussy I've called you from the first post. Hell, if someone calling you mean names in a thread makes you think that person is calling for a hugbox, you definitely are the oversensitive pearl-clutching pussy I've called you from the first post.

Here, I split out the sentences so your brain doesn't shut down to protect itself again. I spent about seven minutes on this post top to bottom, so by all means, scold me for not using that time to goon out or sperg about the Ukrainian conflict as if I had any particular insights on it or something as is properly based.

'I'm not mad, here's 4 more paragraphs me not being mad".

 

[Well Intentioned]

Quote bug is fucking things up, but,

No, you were pretty clear about me starting it, because of using the word 'preaching'. It's what you wrote and it was wrong.

All I said is that 'this started because you characterized something as 'shitlib preaching.'' So yeah, the interaction between you started because you responded to his post (which wasn't addressing you, near as I can tell?)

Why aren't having a go at him for it?

I said it was dumb and over the top. I've also said that Yahtzee's jokes are Z-tier Stephen Colbert level jokes. I'm not sure what else you want me to be saying. I said it was REEing because you seem a lot more angry about it, and, again, because you misconstrued shit.

So I'll ask again, why are you trying to retcon what happened?

I'm not. Rich made a post mocking folks who were upset that Yahtzee is doing what has been part of his schtick since day one. You classified Yahtzee's schtick as being 'libshit preaching', over blowing what it is he actually does. I didn't say anything about your reasons for doing so, just that your phrasing wasn't accurate.

Like, your post was:

"if you complain about shitlib preaching, you're just as bad as trannies"

My read on that was that 'complaining about shitlib preaching' was 'complaining about Yahtzee's political gags.' Is that not accurate? If I've misread shit, then mb, but I don't think I'm off base here?

 

[gaystoner]

tbh the random 2 second anti-republican jokes make me laugh because of how out of character it is.

 

[Pissmaster]

Hey, remember that one time he said conservatives are pedophiles, complete with a pixelated depiction of "an underage girl's vagina"?

And that video's freely available to this day on YouTube? Yeah, that's part of the reason Yahtzee's political jabs are irritating, because he says shit that'd get just about anyone with lesser fame bumped right off. All the pixelated dicks and dildos and pussies he's had in his videos, you'd think wouldn't fly on a platform where everyone, everyone has to walk on eggshells, but somehow Yahtzee's invincible, presumably because he has no problem pushing The Message™.