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

[Pissmaster]

On this week's episode of Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee gets preachy about the Coronavirus quarantine, and compares those who go outside anyway to World of Warcraft trolls with a story about something Blizzard overlooked one day in 2005.

You're, uh, about 2 months late, Yahtz.

World of Warcraft: The Corrupted Blood Incident - Zero Punctuation

This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee Croshaw recounts the Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft and recounts the lessons (not) learned.

www.escapistmagazine.com

 

[The tired cat]

Im kinda surprised nobody here linked to the vid where he tried to argue for the Epic store. Now, its fair to say from the start of the video they said they flipped a coin and Yahtzee got the role of defender, even so he couldnt bring one good argument in Epics favor. All he had was "oh steam dont curate their games", and he says this when Epic gets such "gems" as Rune 2, Close to the Sun, the Predator game, World War Z and Sinking City.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

On this week's episode of Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee gets preachy about the Coronavirus quarantine, and compares those who go outside anyway to World of Warcraft trolls with a story about something Blizzard overlooked one day in 2005.

You're, uh, about 2 months late, Yahtz.

World of Warcraft: The Corrupted Blood Incident - Zero Punctuation

This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee Croshaw recounts the Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft and recounts the lessons (not) learned.

www.escapistmagazine.com

Does Yahtzee still have a gaming bar to bankrupt during the quarantine?

 

[The tired cat]

Does Yahtzee still have a gaming bar to bankrupt during the quarantine?

Oh that went bankrupt YEARS ago. Apparently the 1st went tits up because of the prices, while the 2nd location got into a controversy about serving actual alcohol and then went tits up because they didn't get that much clientele.

 

[Pissmaster]

Does Yahtzee still have a gaming bar to bankrupt during the quarantine?

'Eeeeyyyy, good timing, today's the 5th anniversary of Mana Bar closing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana_Bar

 

[Lonely Grave]

Mana Bar died because it tried to be a bar - I remember the one in Melbourne was located smack in the middle of a nightclub street and it did not do much daytime trading, which denied a lot of casual players a chance to actually play the free consoles. When it did open at night, it played obnoxiously loud music like every other club in the street, had incredibly restrictive and disjointed interior spaces, and poor staffing. Everything that drove real gamers away from it and drew in the nerdchic trenders like flies to a pile of dung.

I know of one successor cafe/bar in the south-east whose owner had watched the fall of Mana Bar very closely - he opened it primarily as a cafe with long day trading hours and later worked up night operations, and is now doing a much better job than what Yahtzee could have ever hoped for.

 

[The tired cat]

Ya know, I still consider Bens attempt into a live reviews being a funnier failure. I do wish that pilot still existed, because man was it a treasure of a huge ego. Aside from that every sketch they had was just repeating the same jokes that didnt work the 1st time, Ben kinda had this face off "Why am I here? Why did I think this was a good idea...?"

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Watched the WOW episode on Youtube and it's as forced as humanely possible. Literally "if you go outside you will kill your grandma".

 

[HumanHive]

Watched the WOW episode on Youtube and it's as forced as humanely possible. Literally "if you go outside you will kill your grandma".

It's the new religion. "Quarentineism". Doesn't matter if you live in an area with almost zero infections (I do), stay inside or you go to science denier hell along with the flat earthers.

 

[Pissmaster]

Kinda surprised it's not ratio'd, looks like the comments are going along with him, but then again I guess that's The Escapist's general audience for you. Whatever, I dropped a dislike anyway. Preachy Yahtzee is worst Yahtzee.

 

[The tired cat]

Kinda surprised it's not ratio'd, looks like the comments are going along with him, but then again I guess that's The Escapist's general audience for you. Whatever, I dropped a dislike anyway. Preachy Yahtzee is worst Yahtzee.

Ofcourse his comment section goes along with him, I've RARELY seen his fans disagree with him, and when there's a rare moment of someone doing it the other fans just dogpile and go "Yer just made he made fun of your fav game!!" or some other shit.

Speaking of which, a new video about his old "Triple games are a bloated walking corpse. Watch me suck off some indies!" he said as he decided to review Ion Fury and Void Bastards..nice choice, games from several years back.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Latest season of Dev Diary is out - he's going be working on "Space Game" starting with the title.

One interesting revelation Yahtzee makes is that until the Dev Diaries, he wasn't comfortable with for loops, using instead equivalent but more verbose while loops. Now, I'm no Donald Knuth or John Carmarck, but this really puzzles me. A big part of my intro programming course was for loops, and I'm sure every generic "Learn to Code for Small Children and Unemployed Journalists" will also cover for loops extensively as well. How can somebody programming for years, even in an amateur manner, with being confortable with for loops?

 

[Profilmenn]

How can somebody programming for years, even in an amateur manner, with being confortable with for loops?

I only have the barest experience with programming (mostly self-taught C++, the most "advanced" program I wrote was a shit pong clone a few years ago), but is there a reason to use "for" loops over "while" loops? Because I've only ever really used "while" loops. I'm mainly asking because I'd like to know if/when I should be using one or the other.

 

[An Account]

I only have the barest experience with programming (mostly self-taught C++, the most "advanced" program I wrote was a shit pong clone a few years ago), but is there a reason to use "for" loops over "while" loops? Because I've only ever really used "while" loops. I'm mainly asking because I'd like to know if/when I should be using one or the other.

I like using for loops to iterate through things like strings, arrays, vectors, etc.

// print contents of a vector
for(int i = 0; i < cppVector.size(); i++)
{
    cout<<cppVector[i]<<endl;
}

Is a lot more concise and (imo) readable than

// print contents of a vector
int i = 0;

while(i < cppVector.size())
{
    cout<<cppVector[i]<<endl;
    i++;
}

 

[whatever I feel like]

Im kinda surprised nobody here linked to the vid where he tried to argue for the Epic store. Now, its fair to say from the start of the video they said they flipped a coin and Yahtzee got the role of defender, even so he couldnt bring one good argument in Epics favor. All he had was "oh steam dont curate their games", and he says this when Epic gets such "gems" as Rune 2, Close to the Sun, the Predator game, World War Z and Sinking City.

He might have had few arguments but he did a monumentally better job than Jack, who doesn't even know why it is that his side of the argument even exists and spent most of the video avoiding the point. Needless to say, both are actually a-okay with purchased exclusivity and say so in the podcast.

 

[The tired cat]

He might have had few arguments but he did a monumentally better job than Jack, who doesn't even know why it is that his side of the argument even exists and spent most of the video avoiding the point. Needless to say, both are actually a-okay with purchased exclusivity and say so in the podcast.

Ye no, all his response boiled down to a mocking fashion and either went to "oh well think of the poor devs" or "Well, steam doesn't curate their games. AN frankly who needs all these things that steam does". Naturally, they would be fine with it. Both of them are dickweeds, and either argument will boil down too "think of the poor devs!", "Steam is a monopolist/competition is good" or some other bullshit.

 

[Maamtis]

Watched the WOW episode on Youtube and it's as forced as humanely possible. Literally "if you go outside you will kill your grandma".

I stopped watching after Yahtzee make the exact same Trump joke 2 weeks in a row (seemed like a shark jump moment to me) but it really does seem moving to San Fran, getting married and having a kid has changed him and not for the better.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I like using for loops to iterate through things like strings, arrays, vectors, etc.

// print contents of a vector
for(int i = 0; i < cppVector.size(); i++)
{
    cout<<cppVector[i]<<endl;
}

Is a lot more concise and (imo) readable than

// print contents of a vector
int i = 0;

while(i < cppVector.size())
{
    cout<<cppVector[i]<<endl;
    i++;
}

Not really significant (and probably already done by compilers), but always use ++i rather than i++ since the latter creates a new instance rather than return the current instance. As for 'while' (pun unintended) it really depends on what you want to do. 'for' depends on iterating over a single object and limits you with its size (and can be problematic if the object changes size during the process). While you can do a lot more in a while loop, including the old and reliable "while (1)" and just break inside it. Plus do while is also pretty useful.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I stopped watching after Yahtzee make the exact same Trump joke 2 weeks in a row (seemed like a shark jump moment to me) but it really does seem moving to San Fran, getting married and having a kid has changed him and not for the better.

Well the actual argument is that paying to make a game for your system is good, paying for a game already being made to not come out on a competitor's system is bad. It is taking something away instead of creating something. And the only way for consumers to have a say is if they don't buy the bad thing, just like they shouldn't pay for microtransactions. But this doesn't come up at all.

 

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I stopped watching after Yahtzee make the exact same Trump joke 2 weeks in a row (seemed like a shark jump moment to me) but it really does seem moving to San Fran, getting married and having a kid has changed him and not for the better.

I've been watching him for a decade now out of force of habit and I think his political jokes are more "both sides suck" than they were 5-6 years ago when it was almost exclusively "bash the Republicans, conservative talking points, and Australian politicians". It's honestly surprising how few anti-Trump jokes there are considering his political views, like you'd think ZP would be full TDS since 2016. Whatever the reason for that is, he's a good enough writer to not take the low-hanging TDS fruit for his jokes like all the TV comedy writers and comedians in general.