The Escapist is now
officially dead. All staff has been sacked and it will now post only AI generated slop. If SecondFart's situation wasn't so pathetic and dire, I'd call that a win for Yahtzee. But he's on the chopping block.
It's an interesting situation to be in, where companies like the escapist were able to exist and thrive in a gaming market easily 10 times smaller than it is now. Yet now when multiple games a year have 9 figure budgets these people couldn't figure out how to keep a company of 20 people making minimum wage afloat.
Yahtzee says "He’s got sounding intelligent confused with actually being intelligent” which is just him describing himself. He's a deeply insecure pseudointellectual twat that belittles other people to feel smug and superior about himself. I think quite a bit of it stems from the fact he dropped out of secondary school to be a NEET and Gabe was college educated which made Yahtzee feel insecure.
One of the biggest tells of a pseudo intellectual usually is just how much they talk about IQ, and how much they cope about 'X' thing not correlating to actual intelligence.
We can even go with the example he used to show how wrong he is.
There's a thought experiment where the question asked is "How many words would it take to describe the color red to a blind person?"
The blind person has been blind their whole life, they don't even know what "color" is.
The first thing someone might say to them is, "Well think of the feeling of something hot on your hand, that's sort of like what the color red is", and while this makes sense to people who've been able to associate red with heat, a blind person's mind would never have made the association.
Theoretically though, there could be a set amount of words that when said could get a blind person to understand what the color red is.
Now if you were going to bet on who is more likely to figure that out, would you choose someone who sounds intelligent, or someone who says their intelligent?
