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

[Green Kitbash]

After hearing about the Escapist banning people on their website I went ahead and checked the youtube channel. The last video was Yahtzee streaming hogwarts with some other dude and let me tell ya. Those comments have been heavily sanitized. Only gurlcock sucking allowed. It mirrors that Atomic Heart smear vid that only had like a couple hundred comments.

 

[Cod of War]

 

[Pissmaster]

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If Nick could read the room, he‘d notice that the number of people who still care about The Escapist itself could fit in a gas station bathroom.

I’m looking forward to the Youtube comments.

 

[krautkid]

The first paragraph of the transcript:

Good God Almighty, just punch a hole in your bedroom wall. Hopefully he'll actually get some blowback for this ice cold take weeks after the game's been released and generally well liked, at a point in time where even normies are seeing trannies for the horrendous creeps they are.

TERF really is just a blanket insult for any women who doesn't agree with this hive mindset that men cannot just magically become women. It means nothing to me anymore. I will literally just wear a shirt with TERF on it and not give a fuck. They try to say anything pro women is a TERF dogwhistle these days including sufferagette ribbon colours. So who cares? You don't think men can be women? MY GOD. Stop the fucking presses.

Yahtzhee used to be alright but his schtick hasn't changed in some ten years. If he's gonna gripe about how unoriginal stuff is and Rowling is a hackfraud, glass houses and all that. Especially since his own trilogy point and click games were CLEARLY inspired by Call of Cthulhu and Lovecraft. Gosh Yahtzee - a antihero protagonist stumbling upon occult/conspiracies matters inadvertently while doing antihero stuff has been done so many times before you HACKFRAUD.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Something to note about that guy is that he's rather young and a bit of a charisma vacuum. It makes you curious as to how he came to be the editor-in-chief, until you do a quick little read on the Wiki page. It's effectively a flying dutchman, and its ownership was passed around as recently as last september.

I remember trying, really trying, to watch other Escapist content, but it's verymuch like eating a dry-as-shit turkey in one sitting where the only thing to drink is a jar of molasses.

 

[God of Nothing]

TERF really is just a blanket insult for any women who doesn't agree with this hive mindset that men cannot just magically become women. It means nothing to me anymore. I will literally just wear a shirt with TERF on it and not give a fuck. They try to say anything pro women is a TERF dogwhistle these days including sufferagette ribbon colours. So who cares? You don't think men can be women? MY GOD. Stop the fucking presses.

Yahtzhee used to be alright but his schtick hasn't changed in some ten years. If he's gonna gripe about how unoriginal stuff is and Rowling is a hackfraud, glass houses and all that. Especially since his own trilogy point and click games were CLEARLY inspired by Call of Cthulhu and Lovecraft. Gosh Yahtzee - a antihero protagonist stumbling upon occult/conspiracies matters inadvertently while doing antihero stuff has been done so many times before you HACKFRAUD.

Ben's issue is he thinks he's smarter than he really is. Back when he used to do Let's Drown Out with Gabe, he'd go off on the weirdest shit. I remember two particularly bad cases being Gabe's definition of Game of the Year (for real, I am not lying), and the Fight Club one where Gabe said something about him not dealing with a childhood issue, which he then proceeded to confirm with how super personal he took it. Other than sperging like a bit of a tard, his extra credit series or whatever column is typical uppity nerd stuff. Really can't read that stuff anymore. I have no idea how he, the late Shamus Young, or that one Where-Do-They-Eat guy got their dicks sucked so hard for basic criticism anyone could've made about mainstream vidya.

Complaining about originality is a typical midwit thing. There is no such thing as originality in a sense. Billions of humans have existed and will continue to exist having the same ideas taken from either the same, similar, or different experiences. Execution is what really matters.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Thanks for the archive, didn't want to give the video a click.

I thought he'd actually say anything constructive about Rowling, but he just calls her a terf cunt (with no explanation why, since absolutely no one wants to admit she has never actually said anything serious about trannies), and argues the book is unoriginal due to a base concept of being a school for a special ability, which is beyond retarded and ignores the massive amount of fun world building the HP series had.

Considering the guy makes shit books no one reads and his entire career is being a snarky derivative of the AVGN, the amount of hypocrisy is outstanding.

He also said something like "she's holding back progress" or something along those lines.

Besides the ever-advancing march of "progressivism" being bad for just about everybody, he like everyone else conveniently forgot that she toed the line for progressive shit for the last 10+ years and made post-canon retcons like Dumbledore's homosexuality, then all that gets thrown out because she refused to call some angry crossdressers real women.

It's all so tiresome. Surely he knows himself that as soon as he says one thing against the troon menace or anything connected to them that they'll throw him under the bus, right?

 

[Pissmaster]

It's all so tiresome. Surely he knows himself that as soon as he says one thing against the troon menace or anything connected to them that they'll throw him under the bus, right?

Having a family, living in one of the most expensive places in all of the United States, and his whole line of work for the past 16 years being funny internet videos means that the second he steps out of line, he is fucked.

 

[Halmaz]

Yahtzee was one of the remaining few internet content creators I followed even to this day. Into the garbage he goes.
No sir, I'm not interested in his next mini triade about Putin, that he probably has in store. As a matter of fact I do not wish to see any of his videos ever again.

 

[Feathers McGraw]

Yahtzhee used to be alright but his schtick hasn't changed in some ten years. If he's gonna gripe about how unoriginal stuff is and Rowling is a hackfraud, glass houses and all that. Especially since his own trilogy point and click games were CLEARLY inspired by Call of Cthulhu and Lovecraft. Gosh Yahtzee - a antihero protagonist stumbling upon occult/conspiracies matters inadvertently while doing antihero stuff has been done so many times before you HACKFRAUD.

Now you mention it, he seems more than happy to create his own "works of art" based on Lovecraft's work, has reviewed multiple games based on it, and constantly mentions his love of the mythos he created. Yet he's never once begun any of those videos with an excrutiating screed about the evils of racism.

I wonder what makes troons so special?

 

[The tired cat]

Yahtzee was one of the remaining few internet content creators I followed even to this day. Into the garbage he goes.
No sir, I'm not interested in his next mini triade about Putin, that he probably has in store. As a matter of fact I do not wish to see any of his videos ever again.

Oh, I'm looking to that BS train, specially if he's gonna review Atomic Heart next.

Now you mention it, he seems more than happy to create his own "works of art" based on Lovecraft's work, has reviewed multiple games based on it, and constantly mentions his love of the mythos he created. Yet he's never once begun any of those videos with an excrutiating screed about the evils of racism.

I wonder what makes troons so special?

He actually did ramble how Lovecraft was racist and problematic in his Sinking City review.

 

[Halmaz]

specially if he's gonna review Atomic Heart next.

Yeah, that's what I've had in mind.
I'm not sure if he is even allowed to play Atomic Heart, to be honest. If he does somehow get permission from daddy Escapist, or his own wretched liberal mind, you can bet your ass, at least 3 minutes of it is gonna be a minirant about Putin and the war.
I am so sick of people conflating politics with video games. It's been what, 10 years, since gg? When can we have fun again?

 

[Fools Idol]

I don't know bros, when I saw insert current headline here on the news I thought "I can't wait to hear what my favorite video game reviewer has to say!".

 

[I-chi]

What righteous indignation, Ben? All I heard was a completely cynical, gutless, toothless plea for mercy from mentally ill men in dresses. Not that I would have had any respect if you'd meant a lick of it, but I have sincere doubts there could be anything of substance in something SO performative. When you inevitably waste another video to seethe over your comment section, we'll be happily anticipating the beginning of your spiral.

 

[ShitLurker]

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That's a bold play when your whole operation lives and dies on a smarmy brit with a fedora being popular.

I have no idea how he, the late Shamus Young, or that one Where-Do-They-Eat guy got their dicks sucked so hard for basic criticism anyone could've made about mainstream vidya.

Holy shit, I didn't know Shamus died. I forgot he even existed. And lo and behold I go to his twenty sided website and find a genderblob goblin that declares to by his child taking over the website. Christ that's depressing.

 

[Scarface1]

So, between this Nick retard banning anyone for speaking in a positive light about JKR and the troons themselves sending not only death threats but also rape threats to some women streaming the wizard game, it came to mind some very interesting observations made by Yahtzee many years ago.

The relevant part i want to focus is between 25;40 and 28;40.

That was Yahtzee in 2014, fascinating how much a man can change in 9 years, isn't it?

 

[byuu]

That was Yahtzee in 2014, fascinating how much a man can change in 9 years, isn't it?

That's what happens when you move to California.

 

[Toolbox]

So, between this Nick retard banning anyone for speaking in a positive light about JKR and the troons themselves sending not only death threats but also rape threats to some women streaming the wizard game, it came to mind some very interesting observations made by Yahtzee many years ago.

The relevant part i want to focus is between 25;40 and 28;40.

That was Yahtzee in 2014, fascinating how much a man can change in 9 years, isn't it?

Man hearing that the shirt incident with that guy on the asteroid landing team happened this long ago blasted me. I didn't even remember it being so close to when the gamergate goings on were.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

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Yes. Read the room. Go look at any mainstream coverage of the “issue”. Get out of terminally online spaces, get out of forums, get out of your Twittersphere. No one gives a shit, and anyone normal you try to explain the situation to will call you a retard.

 

[God of Nothing]

That's a bold play when your whole operation lives and dies on a smarmy brit with a fedora being popular.

Holy shit, I didn't know Shamus died. I forgot he even existed. And lo and behold I go to his twenty sided website and find a genderblob goblin that declares to by his child taking over the website. Christ that's depressing.

Yeah, his kid trooned out.