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

[frap]

Cunt really isn't a tabboo anymore unless you're talking to your mum, and even then she's probably cackling to a facebook video of that fat tosser ricky gervais calling people cunts in his current show. It definitely isn't considered a gendered slur and it never has been as far as I remember. Women seem to get much more annoyed by being called a bitch even, or 'shrill'. I can't imagine some retard tourist getting in a fight for calling some chav a cunt that they wouldn't of had if they'd called them a bastard, dickhead or some imported jamaican insult either. It literally means nothing these days when all of our 'funny' media consists of rakes calling each other cunts. He's a right cunt. Let's get cunted. I just twisted my cunting ankle.

What you're saying applies to the UK and Australia.

Yahtzee's been living in the US for years now, where cunt is considered a gendered slur.

 

[skykiii]

If we're doing the kiwi thing of creating a profile for him, here's a tidbit; he's had "issues" with sex and sexuality for awhile - at least since 2007 when he released 6 Days a Sacrifice, which included a sex scene that seemed kind of forced for the sake of the plot (one of the characters had a broken neck); when a Let's Play of his series was made in 2010 on the Something Awful forums, he dropped by to give some commentary - and some insight into where his mind was at the time (select quotes posted here, full text on the page at the bottom).

Honestly what bothers me about that is the part where he says he hates kids. I dunno why but whenever I see someone say they hate kids it usually sets off red flags to me, like everyone who says that is somehow a degenerate or a predator waiting to happen (paradoxical as that might sound).

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Honestly what bothers me about that is the part where he says he hates kids. I dunno why but whenever I see someone say they hate kids it usually sets off red flags to me, like everyone who says that is somehow a degenerate or a predator waiting to happen (paradoxical as that might sound).

i mean that opinion seems to have changed since he has child now

 

[skykiii]

i mean that opinion seems to have changed since he has child now

I would hope so. Admittedly hating children tends to be common among people 15-25 for whatever reason, but then they start to mellow out.

Let's cross our fingers that he doesn't start abusing the kid.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

What you're saying applies to the UK and Australia.

Yahtzee's been living in the US for years now, where cunt is considered a gendered slur.

Calling a woman a cunt in the UK can result in laughter yes, or a fucking punch in the face. The fact it's literally hit or miss depending on situation shows it's not considered all out accepted or professional speech and Ben knows this. He chose to use this word deliberately for this.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

You guys arent exactly seeing the forest for the trees. An emotionally stunted gamer calling a woman a cunt repeatedly for two minutes based off of politics he can barely describe and constructing a narrative around it is probably not exactly the kind of guy who's marching in pink pussy hats regardless on whether the insult is gendered or not. Like thats the thing, I remember hearing this in Cumtown, these formerly edgy blokes contort themselves to be safer because they were only willing to be offensive when there wasnt any consequences. Now theyll bottle up their emotions because they dont want to get fired, which comes out as a screed against a woman that they see as not letting them have what they want which is total ideological domination

That being said who cares shits boring

 

[keyring-]

What you're saying applies to the UK and Australia.

Yahtzee's been living in the US for years now, where cunt is considered a gendered slur.

He's making online content clearly leaning into le british cynic persona. His content barely revolves around where he lives, I don't think you'd know he even lived in Australia if not for the moaning about import costs and censorship. He's the same guy, he's talking about a british woman, to mostly the same audience, he's not physically going to restuarants, refusing to tip and calling them cunts. Expecting him to act according to American sensibilities for online content is retarded, especially when they're the really gay ones.

Just think you should focus on troonaid drinking message if that's your problem instead of clutching your pearls about 'sexist slurs', especially when we all know deep down that women are retarded anyway.

 

[frap]

He's making online content clearly leaning into le british cynic persona. His content barely revolves around where he lives, I don't think you'd know he even lived in Australia if not for the moaning about import costs and censorship. He's the same guy, he's talking about a british woman, to mostly the same audience, he's not physically going to restuarants, refusing to tip and calling them cunts. Expecting him to act according to American sensibilities for online content is retarded, especially when they're the really gay ones.

Just think you should focus on troonaid drinking message if that's your problem instead of clutching your pearls about 'sexist slurs', especially when we all know deep down that women are retarded anyway.

Pointing out your retarded error isn’t clutching pearls. I don’t give a fuck about the word cunt, along with faggot, nigger, kike, etc.

Yahtzee’s whining about JKR was way over the top, out of place and beyond his usual level of struggle session when reviewing a game by ‘problematic person of the week’. It’s also completely inconsistent with his previous online persona. He knew exactly what he was doing.

 

[keyring-]

Pointing out your retarded error isn’t clutching pearls. I don’t give a fuck about the word cunt, along with faggot, nigger, kike, etc.

Yahtzee’s whining about JKR was way over the top, out of place and beyond his usual level of struggle session when reviewing a game by ‘problematic person of the week’. It’s also completely inconsistent with his previous online persona. He knew exactly what he was doing.

fine. but there are dozens of people in this thread who expressing how uncomfortable they are, or or smug about the supposed hypocrisy. Someone's even complaining that he's not respecting muh ukraine enough with in last video. I think tranny drama has broke people's brains a bit.

 

[Radion_Godiva]

Yahtzee’s whining about JKR was way over the top, out of place and beyond his usual level of struggle session when reviewing a game by ‘problematic person of the week’. It’s also completely inconsistent with his previous online persona. He knew exactly what he was doing.

The faggot used the words "systemic transphobia", what a retard.

 

[Ambidextype]

It ain't that surprising to me that the most of the western celebrities will aim for the path of the least resistance, and that includes e-celebs. The more I got redpilled, the more I realised, most of them don't have any integrity left and are pussies. It's even funnier to see who are taking the side of troons would have mocked and laughed at the those people before they transitioned to female because most of the troons would have been bitter incels.

After realising this, I came to detest most of the e-celebs. Only handful of them still choose to have integrity because they largely keep their politics in check like AVGN or Northernlion. But I expected Yahtzee to eventually go full woke, if Jim Sterling and Moviebob went insane, it was only a matter of time. It was pretty obvious with former where he leaned even though he attempted to be apolitical. I may go far as well to say, any contributing people that came from The Escapist share the same political views in general.

 

[ABE LINN COHN]

It ain't that surprising to me that the most of the western celebrities will aim for the path of the least resistance, and that includes e-celebs. The more I got redpilled, the more I realised, most of them don't have any integrity left and are pussies. It's even funnier to see who are taking the side of troons would have mocked and laughed at the those people before they transitioned to female because most of the troons would have been bitter incels.

After realising this, I came to detest most of the e-celebs. Only handful of them still choose to have integrity because they largely keep their politics in check like AVGN or Northernlion. But I expected Yahtzee to eventually go full woke, if Jim Sterling and Moviebob went insane, it was only a matter of time. It was pretty obvious with former where he leaned even though he attempted to be apolitical. I may go far as well to say, any contributing people that came from The Escapist share the same political views in general.

Gradually I began to hate them.

 

[Pissmaster]

After realising this, I came to detest most of the e-celebs. Only handful of them still choose to have integrity because they largely keep their politics in check like AVGN or Northernlion. But I expected Yahtzee to eventually go full woke, if Jim Sterling and Moviebob went insane, it was only a matter of time. It was pretty obvious with former where he leaned even though he attempted to be apolitical. I may go far as well to say, any contributing people that came from The Escapist share the same political views in general.

For what it's worth, AVGN's a lefty, but only really because his wife is a staunch lefty and he's mentally retarded and just sort of goes along with whatever she says, as revealed in his autobiography. He'd be apolitical if left alone.

Another YouTuber that keeps his politics in tow is Ashens. He associates with crazy lefties like Nerdcubed and Paul Gannon, but keeps his politics on the down low. I've been watching him forever and I still have no clue how he votes, and I'm glad I don't know.

Yahtzee's integrity's been shot for years, anyway. Remember how he did a 180 on Dark Souls? His opinions are always gonna reflect whatever the hivemind says.

 

[Gondolindrim]

The faggot used the words "systemic transphobia", what a retard.

I really hate how Trannies and their allies like to co-opt terms used to refer to actual social issues like racism. There is no such thing as "systemic transphobia" that's just the general uneasy feeling you get from having to deal with someone who is a clearly a man pretending to be a woman, or worse a woman who mutilated herself so she can pretend to be a boy.

 

[IrishGuy088]

I haven't watched Zero Punctuation in an extremely long time. Actually I can't even give you a proper guess... so at least a decade or something. So has Yahtzee been making his weekly videos and otherwise not making waves this entire time? Every time I see this thread bumped I think "ah, Zero Punctuation is finally imploding" but then there is never a featured thread afterwards about his show imploding.

Is this guy just doing his thing and being a dick and making his money and living his life? Or is he a brain addled retard like the rest of them?

 

[ShitLurker]

Gradually I began to hate them.

Cool it with the antisemitism goy!

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Honestly what bothers me about that is the part where he says he hates kids. I dunno why but whenever I see someone say they hate kids it usually sets off red flags to me, like everyone who says that is somehow a degenerate or a predator waiting to happen (paradoxical as that might sound).

Do you hold the same world view and opinions you did 15 years ago?

 

[skykiii]

His opinions are always gonna reflect whatever the hivemind says.

To be fair, he is an insect.

Do you hold the same world view and opinions you did 15 years ago?

Good point, I completely overlooked that his statement about hating kids was made a long time ago.

 

[GNU Hurder]

What you're saying applies to the UK and Australia.

Yahtzee's been living in the US for years now, where cunt is considered a gendered slur.

Joe Ressington got fired from podcasting company Jupiter Broadcasting (then owned by A Cloud Guru via Linux Academy acquisition) for saying cunt in an off air conversation. Ironically, ACG was founded by two Aussie brothers.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

I haven't watched his content in a while because I noticed the trend he started taking like most of these hardass content creators who were plentiful in the late 2000s and early 2010s. When the political climate started leaning more left and sensibilities had to be minded Yahtzee was one of the ones I noticed who became more watered down. One of my personal favorite videos of his was his responses to Smash Bros fans even if I like the game but you don't see this with him anymore because his review style seemed to be getting less critical and more of trying not to overtly upset people unless it's an incredible easy target.