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

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Frost responding to Marty’s claim that there was no outside pressure to give positive reviews on certain games:
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However it’s marked as “paid promotion” so it doesn’t seem quite like frost is suggesting.
 
He's scared. A massive fucking pussy. He needs someone to shoulder the responsibilities that come with running and advertising your content on the net.
That's how i see it, too. He seems to me like he rather wants to be in a employer - employee relationship where he just needs to do his videos and that's it, i see that as the reason why he stayed so long with The Escapist. Scared, insecure or both.
 
That's how i see it, too. He seems to me like he rather wants to be in a employer - employee relationship where he just needs to do his videos and that's it, i see that as the reason why he stayed so long with The Escapist. Scared, insecure or both.

There are some people whose personalities prevent them from being self-employed. It's not out of laziness or stupidity, it's just a personality thing. In fact, one thing with self-employed people is that they often run into conflict of "doing the actual work" and "running a business" which is where partnerships come into play, where the "businessman" and "worker" have equal shares but do vastly different work.

Second Wind doesn't need anyone else besides Nick (the "business" side) and Yahtzee (the "talent" side). Everyone else is either talentless hangers-on or decent content creators who shouldn't stand by and watch Nick and Yahtzee vacuum up the Patreon dollars.
 
There are some people whose personalities prevent them from being self-employed. It's not out of laziness or stupidity, it's just a personality thing. In fact, one thing with self-employed people is that they often run into conflict of "doing the actual work" and "running a business" which is where partnerships come into play, where the "businessman" and "worker" have equal shares but do vastly different work.
Oh, i am absolutely with you here, i think Yahtzee is smart enough to be aware of his limitations and i don't think there's anything wrong with just wanting to do your job and clock out after it's done, so to speak. Seen it with people IRL. I haven't followed the Second Wind situation but from what i am reading here it sounds like it's the exact same shit as with The Escapist, he's the only pull and everyone else might as well not exist.
 
BTW Yahtzee is getting "roasted" in the comments for not knowing that a carabiner clip is apparently some obscure lesbian thing.

I think that just sums up modern pop culture. You can imply that people are watching TV to see sexy girls but they have to be lesbians or else it's objectifying and toxic.
 
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So in the latest ZP he shills for manscaped of all things at the end. I guess they really are hard up for cash if they are doing bottom of the barrel trash like that now.

 
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So in the latest ZP he shills for manscaped of all things at the end. I guess they really are hard up for cash if they are doing bottom of the barrel trash like that now.

Huh, can I say "called it" cause a few pages back mentioned how "Can you imagine these guys trying to sell X product"
 
So in the latest ZP he shills for manscaped of all things at the end. I guess they really are hard up for cash if they are doing bottom of the barrel trash like that now.

I consider Manscaped to be the bottom tier of youtube advertising in how demeaning it is. Only worse things are sex related products.

Sure showed The Escapist who's boss.
 
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