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

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Was the firing what caused the drama or was it a response to the drama?
the reason given by Nick is that he was fired for "not achieving goals", which reads like corpo speak for "we just want you gone". i doubt there's a good explanation. apologies for how much i keep editing into the posts, i only learned about it shortly after Yahtzee tweeted on the shxitter and it turns out it was happening a good few hours.
 
It is staggering to me that he basically created a product that kept another company afloat for years which effectively does not exist outside of his product and at the end of this he has nothing to show for it. His life's work, completely owned by another man after 15 years.
This. Yahtzee probably had enough money to buy at least some share in it. I've made my position on Howard Stern clear but he at least had the good sense to buy the rights to his back catalog in case his employer screwed him over.

The fact that Yahtzee doesn't have rights to ZP is unbelievable. If the Escapist wanted to screw him, they could also claim his way of speaking (which is obviously manipulated, as a result, even "livestreams" have a time delay) is part of ZP and have him legally disbarred from using it (which would be hilarious to watch). I mean, Lucasfilm owns Darth Vader's voice...James Earl Jones couldn't use it in other contexts, not in unofficial conventions.
 
The fact that Yahtzee doesn't have rights to ZP is unbelievable. If the Escapist wanted to screw him, they could also claim his way of speaking (which is obviously manipulated, as a result, even "livestreams" have a time delay) is part of ZP and have him legally disbarred from using it (which would be hilarious to watch). I mean, Lucasfilm owns Darth Vader's voice...James Earl Jones couldn't use it in other contexts, not in unofficial conventions.
i guess you could call it a Screw Attack.
 
Yahtzee has quit. looks like it's over for the Escapist... except they're still retaining the rights to Zero Punctuation, lol.
What could they possibly do with the IP rights for Zero Punctuation? What are they going to do, get Bob Chipman to voice it?

Actually, that sounds hilarious in a slow-motion-train-crash sort of way.
It is staggering to me that he basically created a product that kept another company afloat for years which effectively does not exist outside of his product and at the end of this he has nothing to show for it. His life's work, completely owned by another man after 15 years.
Yahtzee is getting corporate cucked.
 
get Bob Chipman to voice it
That would be amazing. They'll definitely have someone coming in to fill the role. Imagine the salt if it stays successful while Yahtzee flounders with his 5 employees. How many people do you need to make flash animation and a 10 minute script per week exactly? I expect a lawsuit, especially if they're going to keep the same format as The Escapist for future videos.
 
What do they even own, a yellow background and a stock photo of a plain man's face?

i agree with Xarpho's take - they could cite Yahtzee isn't even allowed to make content in his usual formula any more because it'd infringe on their ZP copyright. there's a potential for a real legal dumpster fire depending on what The Escapist's executives and legal team decide to do. naturally i hope it happens because i love having a chance to warm my hands whenever i can.
 
I imagine there is more there. Nick is a soy faggot who loves troon cock so chances are there is some big HR issue.

“Goals” is keeping the escapist up, which he did. I highly doubt it was some performance thing.

"Big HR issue" suggests that there's something really dark going on. Remember, the whole thing about "ChangeTheChannel" was that Mike was shielding a "sexual predator" which turned to be JewWario, who a few years prior had blown his brains out (because of the same issue) and everyone in 2014 was crying what about a great guy he was.

The big questions are:
1) What was the REAL reason Nick got fired?
2) If the real reason was scandalous (i.e. running a Discord harem of sexually confused teenage boys) was Yahtzee and the others aware of it?
 
"Big HR issue" suggests that there's something really dark going on. Remember, the whole thing about "ChangeTheChannel" was that Mike was shielding a "sexual predator" which turned to be JewWario, who a few years prior had blown his brains out (because of the same issue) and everyone in 2014 was crying what about a great guy he was.
i'll never fucking forget this shit. those motherfuckers who covered for JewWario deflected by blaming GamerGate, too. i never saved the big text wall one of those faggots dumped on reddit or wherever, but they excused themselves by saying the horrible oogaboogers would "use it against them", or their side, or whatever. the point was, they shielded a predator and used a culture war to justify it.

i also fondly remember how the second the JewWario shit came out, every single member of TGWTG or CA, whichever it was, abandoned ship without a word.
 
Only 14 months after being bought gaming superpooer Riad Chikhani's company "GAMURS group" the whole company implodes.
His latest retweet is pretty ironic too.
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Does yathzee have the drive anymore to be reborn from the ashes? I doubt that.
Guy's supposed to have a game coming out soon. Also a novel but everyone fucking does those.

All of this is pointing towards one thing: the return of Let's Drown Out. A development we can all celebrate
Do you really want to see 2023 Gabe? I certainly fucking don't.
 
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Random thought here with the biggest reaction image being trans flags. In his 2013 review of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons there was a joke that went "the gameplay is best described as single-player co-op, and I know that sounds like saying 'I'm not gay, I only suck off pre-op transsexuals' but is" (the video was reuploaded within a week with "pre-op transexuals" replaced with "pantomime dames"). The joke caused a shitshow on the Escapist's forum and it was one of my first run ins with transsexual degeneracy. I distinctly remember the abject shock I felt after I saw the dude on page 4 who claimed sucking his "girlfriend's" cock was a completely heterosexual act. Thank you Mr. Croshaw for sending me on the path that led me to this lovely farm.
 
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