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

[God of Nothing]

Non-Yahtzee numbers might have been bad, but still better than Rooster Teeth, and somehow that zombie is still shambling along.

Rooster Teeth's fall is catastrophic in comparison.

 

[Ghostse]

Maybe it's just me that finds her voice to be annoyingly shrill. Like a pitchfork on a chalkboard.

I'm not saying she's VA quality or should start an ASMR channel or whatever, but I've heard worse, shriller bitches. She barely ticks above "normal". Again, I'm not sitting through more than a minute of unscripted out of character Yahtzee and his cockholster to find if there is any true earrape gold, so if you want to time stamp me I'll listen but otherwise just going from the first minute + a couple random skips, I've heard shriller at the grocery store. and from your mom in the backseat. BOOM.

Non-Yahtzee numbers might have been bad, but still better than Rooster Teeth, and somehow that zombie is still shambling along.

Rooster Teeth, AKA Cockbite you corpo-cucked trollsremorse pieces of spineless amphibian shit trying to Year Zero, was more diversified and has WB backing keeping it afloat as a place to park connected nepotites to keep them employeed to please their relatives, but out of the way at a lower per-head cost.
But mainly they had more than one thing on offer, RvB, PedoLesbian Melodrama, Achievement hunter, weird parasocial streams vs. I couldn't even tell you what Escapist offers other than ZP.

 

[apa gapa]

The Escapist is a corporation? It's a failed website that finally reached its sinking ship phase. Trying to spin it as "capitalism bad" is just reaching, especially as YoungYea is infamous for fellating actual corporations. Was the initial firing even explained? Could just as easily being the guy was a sex pest, which is the norm in these gaming journos.

I would also fire the guy who thought hiring Jack ''AIDSmoby'' Packard and rehiring moviebob was a good idea

 

[Dandelions]

Funny little coincidence...
https://forums.escapistmagazine.com...parent-company-again-but-its-all-good.288156/ (A)

 

[PeggieBigCock]

What are the chances of Yahtzee suing for the rights to ZP? It’s his baby entirely

 

[SiccDicc]

What are the chances of Yahtzee suing for the rights to ZP? It’s his baby entirely

He'd be destroyed. As he should be if the contract is what I think it is. It's the equivalent of signing away parenting rights and then deciding you want the kid back because he's profitable in some fashion.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

What are the chances of Yahtzee suing for the rights to ZP? It’s his baby entirely

Close to none.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Does he even need to? The Escapist can't use it. It'd be like eating radioactive waste to try and skin Yahtzees brand, and put it on some new guy.

 

[johnny dollars]

I honestly can't watch ZP because I can't only watch just one. They are really good.

I dp think that after 2016, he lost some of his edge. His jokes seem less offensive, and he bought into TDS. I think he removed a few jokes from videos for being too mean to troons or something.

Still, he makes mostly really good videos. I hope he somehow gets the rights back. Though, he'll probably just make similar videos with a different art-style. I don't think the Escapist owns making short, fast-talking video game reviews.

 

[SBG]

After 15 years of talking shit of other (better) games and all the cash and clout he got I would expect something better than a game most on newgrounds would give it 2 stars.

Critics are often bad at making the products they criticize, whether it's movies or video games or restaurants or whatever. Lot of their skillset lay in being entertaining when criticizing something, which doesn't necessarily lend itself to being a creator in the medium.

 

[Ser Prize]

Chris-Chan reference at 3:48


He didn't like it before, for completely reasonable reasons, and then he did a complete 180 after it blew up. That shattered my trust in his recommendations.

It showed just how malleable to public opinion he was. As I said, like an NPC.

 

[Coolio55]

Critics are often bad at making the products they criticize, whether it's movies or video games or restaurants or whatever. Lot of their skillset lay in being entertaining when criticizing something, which doesn't necessarily lend itself to being a creator in the medium.

Speaking-of. Yahtzee's "Ego Review" series is really fucking good but maybe not so much if you aren't interested in writing or making games.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Her voice can raise the dead.

Holy crap did she just sound like the most stereotypical Californian valley girl.

Considering she treat's him like a trophy husband and is supportive of whatever faggy endeavors he undertakes and she's a real delightful woman. i'd take that over the usual overweight or trans women that are usually available to game reviewers. Also people here are acting like Australian is a better accent on women.

 

[Ventrue]

When I first seen Zero Punctuation it was featured on G4's Xplay the review was Army of Two found it amusing and I watched his videos till 2020. The last time I watched a ZP video was his review of Hogwarts Legacy to see how he would cover it do to the impotent progressive outrage surrounding the game.

He mentioned long ago that he would spend only a few hours playing a game then write a review and he would produce 2 or 3 videos ahead of schedule so he could meet other commitments. Which is why nobody should look at him as a credible source for an opinion on the quality of a video game.

I watched a couple of streams he did with his wife, they were okay to watch if you are trying to sleep. His wife seemed nice and supportive I got the impression she was his wrangler, during one stream when he would joke around she would smile complement him and rub his back similar to a mother with a disabled child.

Yahtzee will do fine with his father-in-law's money and ZP 2.0. I doubt his books or his games would be enough to support himself especially if he is living in California. I am curious as to why he left The Escapist, if its because of Nick Calandra then that is not the best reason to leave.

Second Wind will be a failure if not because of the views it will be about the money. If Nick Calandra is already censoring comments that is a good start to sink all future prospects and if Yahtzee is not getting the lions share then Ben will just leave.

 

[Spitz]

I'm not saying she's VA quality or should start an ASMR channel or whatever, but I've heard worse, shriller bitches. She barely ticks above "normal". Again, I'm not sitting through more than a minute of unscripted out of character Yahtzee and his cockholster to find if there is any true earrape gold, so if you want to time stamp me I'll listen but otherwise just going from the first minute + a couple random skips, I've heard shriller at the grocery store.

The first minute was enough to get a sample. Her voice doesn't change much aside from a few key inflections and her laugh. I'd never heard a voice like that, until Californians started moving to my area, but that was just recently.

and from your mom in the backseat. BOOM.

Necrophilia, huh? Good luck with that.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

during one stream when he would joke around she would smile complement him and rub his back

got to see that.

Californians started moving to my area,

Maybe i'm just the only person here not into trannies but sweet high pitched feminine voices that are barely reproduceable by men is pretty attractive and it probably correlates hard that rich white Californians with the resources and intelligence to flee the state might have voices like that, I'd take that over a loud midwestern whine like Roseanne. i've heard plenty of women in my area who's voice sounds like they grew up in an area where people had to learn to talk over fist fights and accordions.

 

[ShitLurker]

I really dont get the corporate greed part. Their numbers were bad, so they took an axe to this, could have they gone about it better? Sure I wont disagree. But this wasnt some evil-handle bar moustache twirling thing, it was to work off the costs of stuff thats losing you cash.

It's standard libshit retarded conditioning kicking in. "Those greedy fucks and their whole negative 500 bucks they managed to get as benefits after tallying up the costs!". It's obvious the Escapist is not profitable even in the "keep the lights on" sort of way and they are just scrambling to try anything except admitting it's dead (or the fired guy was a sex pest). It's the reason why I know Second Wind will be a failure as well, it has the exact same issues, with the added negative that it can't use a recognized brand and back catalog to pad things out while it starts (and still has a sex pest if that was the reason). They can all be super friends all they want, but if it doesn't translate to even minimum wage for all of those involved, it's stupid and pointless, specially when Yatzhee's operation could be kept by himself and 2 other people.

Critics are often bad at making the products they criticize, whether it's movies or video games or restaurants or whatever. Lot of their skillset lay in being entertaining when criticizing something, which doesn't necessarily lend itself to being a creator in the medium.

Pretty much, that you can pinpoint where something fucked up doesn't mean you can do better. Stack on top of that that Yatzhee has a "very particular" taste in games which is basically oh so clever narrative experiences that don't fall under walking simulators but don't go much more beyond that. I swear, all of those mystery games like Nancy Drew would be his favorite shit ever if it had his brand of humor and some "clever" mechanical moments and an artsy fartsy aesthetic. So he is dammed to be niche from the outset since he will only want to do things that appeal to him.

 

[Donuteater]

Pretty much, that you can pinpoint where something fucked up doesn't mean you can do better. Stack on top of that that Yatzhee has a "very particular" taste in games which is basically oh so clever narrative experiences that don't fall under walking simulators but don't go much more beyond that. I swear, all of those mystery games like Nancy Drew would be his favorite shit ever if it had his brand of humor and some "clever" mechanical moments and an artsy fartsy aesthetic. So he is dammed to be niche from the outset since he will only want to do things that appeal to him.

Adventure games. Yahtzee likes adventure games. That's what it boils down to. And to be fair, he also made some quite good adventure games.

 

[The tired cat]

Adventure games. Yahtzee likes adventure games. That's what it boils down to. And to be fair, he also made some quite good adventure games.

I mean, they're alright adventure games. But it's nothing grand that suddenly makes this guy know all the ins and outs of the video game scene, which seems is what he loves seeing himself as

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Yahtzees game humour is the same dry yet twee 'comedy' that every British guy thinks makes him the king of yucks.