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

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I do think this is his honest opinion, because he could have easily ignored the game and never review it, or do a review, without addressing any of the drama. He has done stuff like this before, I doubt Escapist forced his hand.
He was always huffing his own farts, but at least he used to mask his shitty opinions with somewhat funny humor. Now that he moved to California, the shitlib brainrot has really set in and he just can't help himself anymore.
 
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ShitLurker said:
Jesus fuck, your kid troons out and your heart decides "yep, I'm done" what a fucking way to go. Though I assume he was an absolute cuck about his kid ruining itself.
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Not sure if it was before or after he died. I heard it from /tg/ of all places. Freaking weird. But that's the fate of game journos, I guess.
 
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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.

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.
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Shamus was always a favorite of mine. I've been following his blog since like 2012. His programming posts were always interesting and his opinions were always so reasonable and well articulated.
I was genuinely saddened to hear he passed away. He always seemed like such a great guy. A real loss for the people around him.
 
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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? 🤔
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I've heard a lot of leftos say that one thing that makes Rowling's case different is she's still alive and actively making works and using her platform and blah blah blah.

This guy for example. Especially that skit at the end is just kinda wow.
This youtuber has a character called "Terence" whose whole shtick is that he's a proud Ravenclaw and firmly connected to the HP universe and its clearly a deep part of his history... and yet because JK said a few dubiously-mean things, literally he's giving it all up and throwing away his wands. That Dominic sees this as a reasonable thing for people to do at all is just rather telling. Of course he wound up never using Terence again because even he realized that a Terence divorced from Harry Potter is basically an all-new character
 
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That's what happens when you move to California.
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Why? Is it something in the water supply there?

Nah, that's dumb. It's not California, it's all of America. The USA is embroiled in an inescapable culture war.

A far more reasonable explanation is that Yahtzee mellowed out after marrying and having kids (his reviews have gotten much less scathing over time), and at the same time he got plugged into the identity matrix which passes for "politics" in America. He was temperamentally inclined to side with Team Blue, so that's what he did.

The worst part is how America, being the world's leading exporter of culture, is also exporting their diseased conception of "politics" to other countries. I'm not talking only about the spread of "woke ideology", but also "anti-woke ideology", and the neverending shitstorm between both sides which drowns out everything else under a constant cacophony of minute bullshit. I even have a friend who seems to care more about whatever stupid controversy is gripping social media at the moment (gas stoves was the most recent one, I think) than the actual goings on of his own country. It's ridiculous. And dangerous.
 
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That was Yahtzee in 2014, fascinating how much a man can change in 9 years, isn't it?
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Check out how he was back in 2004:


Particularly this unrelated tangent from a rant about how much he hates emojis (or "smileys" as they were called back then) :

They bring to mind those teenage girls in blisteringly irritating American teen 'comedies' who prance around like they're the queens of fucking Sheba just because their doting parents bought them two and a half square feet of material from Next for seventeen hundred dollars American. The kind of girl I want to kidnap and force-feed McDonalds extra value meals to twice a day for a month. If you took every dick that has passed the lips of some hogtied anime girl in every appropriate image and piece of fiction on the internet and stitched them all together into some colossal, planet-destroying superdick, that's what I want to see these girls raped with.
 
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Cyclonus said:
Check out how he was back in 2004:


Particularly this unrelated tangent from a rant about how much he hates emojis (or "smileys" as they were called back then) :

They bring to mind those teenage girls in blisteringly irritating American teen 'comedies' who prance around like they're the queens of fucking Sheba just because their doting parents bought them two and a half square feet of material from Next for seventeen hundred dollars American. The kind of girl I want to kidnap and force-feed McDonalds extra value meals to twice a day for a month. If you took every dick that has passed the lips of some hogtied anime girl in every appropriate image and piece of fiction on the internet and stitched them all together into some colossal, planet-destroying superdick, that's what I want to see these girls raped with.
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I did notice some incel inclinations about him while wathcing his Let's Drown Out series,nothing too serious but i could tell he realy wanted a woman in his life, i'm not that surprised he was like this when he was even younger.
Just goes to show that behind every libtard there is a raging sex fiend.
 
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And extremely beneficial to corporate and political grifters alike, which is why it's so eagerly imported and cultivated. I'd like to say it's a fad on its way out, because both of America's partisans have reached levels of absurdity and wholesale self-obliviousness that you don't expect of adults, but there's really not an incentive for its exit. Rewards go to people who play to the neverending slurry - social, financial, political, whatever.

For example, on the airwaves lately, there's talk about how 'the tide is turning against the woke!" regarding ESG shit, fostered in part by politicians levying punishments against municipalities and business entities that move away from fossil energy. It's red meat for the anti-woke crowd... and it's also complete nonsense. Sanctions levied by the Biden admin against China regarding semiconductors a few months back have led to tit-for-tat trade disputes which have made it much, much harder for American producers of green energy to get access to components or finished products that are necessary for 'green' alternatives. When it comes to solar inputs, China has an absurd concentration of the market's ability to produce them - and a big concentration of their raw materials as well.

ESG is losing steam because the big picture has turned against it, but by the time it reaches the average dipshit's attention span, those details have been completely stripped and it's either a rallying cry against wokeness or a clarion call to be more woke. Everything gets simplified and subsumed - the world's so simple a dropout can get it!

This all ties back to Yahtzee in that he's not an especially egregious example of one side of this tendency. He's pretty mundane, really - and that's the issue. Woke comedy (and anti-woke comedy) is rarely good, mostly paeans to the choir's righteousness and inevitable victory, but it's still possible to be enjoyable. The HL review's issue isn't that he's sided with the it's ma'ams of the world, because he's clearly signaled before that he's down with the clowns (but won't fuck one); it's that it's not even remotely funny. The latter half is by-the-books, fine enough, and the first half is a religious sermon from a dogged fedora-tipper.
 
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Spending a fourth of your video angrily calling JKR a cunt over and over again comes across as rather tone deaf. Especially for a creator that considers themselves a little bit transgressive and pretends to be witty/edgy.

Its not even that he sided with the troons instead of JKR or staying neutral, its that there was no wit about the whole thing.

He just spends 2 minutes calling her a cunt nonstop with no real jokes, comedy or subversion then going on with the review. I don't want to validate the terfs on the farms because they're all retarded, but ben genuinely came across as misogynistic on this one considering JKR's room temperature takes.

What about her do you think makes her a cunt Ben? Wanting women's only rape shelters? Thinking women and men are different?

But we all know there's no real reason or thought behind it. Ben is just parroting what he heard everyone else say without putting any real research or thought into it, which does more damage to his credibiliy than anything up to this day in my view.
 
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Alabama Gamer said:
Hey, Will Save the Galaxy for Food was decent.
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I mean. Yes it would be when you crib your entire style from Douglas Adams and Terry Prachett.

He can sit and gob on about originality but the dude is a low tier version of both those writers. To the point even his book covers were close to the Discworld Paul Kidby ones.

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Spending a fourth of your video angrily calling JKR a cunt over and over again comes across as rather tone deaf. Especially for a creator that considers themselves a little bit transgressive and pretends to be witty/edgy.

Its not even that he sided with the troons instead of JKR or staying neutral, its that there was no wit about the whole thing.

He just spends 2 minutes calling her a cunt nonstop with no real jokes, comedy or subversion then going on with the review. I don't want to validate the terfs on the farms because they're all retarded, but ben genuinely came across as misogynistic on this one considering JKR's room temperature takes.

What about her do you think makes her a cunt Ben? Wanting women's only rape shelters? Thinking women and men are different?

But we all know there's no real reason or thought behind it. Ben is just parroting what he heard everyone else say without putting any real research or thought into it, which does more damage to his credibiliy than anything up to this day in my view.
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I mean. Bingo. It is absolute women hate from Yahtzee and its weird to me that a bunch of dudes who are self proclaimed feminist will sit there and call JKR bitch and cunt and other gendered slurs because she doesn't agree men can put on skirts and call themselves women. (Which she didn't even say. She's just for sex based spaces. Like most normal people...)

We live in clown world. Men are screaming over actual women telling us to accept other men as women 'because they feel like it' and no shadow of any doubt, these dudes fail to understand why women have a problem with this.
 
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I mean. Yes it would be when you crib your entire style from Douglas Adams and Terry Prachett.

He can sit and gob on about originality but the dude is a low tier version of both those writers. To the point even his book covers were close to the Discworld Paul Kidby ones.
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I cannot remember where I read it from, but Yahtzee did say that he wants to be next Terry Pratchet or Douglas Adams with his books
 
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