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

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Johan Schmidt said:
Yahtzees game humour is the same dry yet twee 'comedy' that every British guy thinks makes him the king of yucks.
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It's not even "original" humor. Before him, people like Charlie Brooker and his Screenwipe series has little skits of white people behind colored backgrounds, except in THOSE shows, it had actual animation.

Also any retarded monkey can do his skit as long as you follow this easy formula
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Yahtzees game humour is the same dry yet twee 'comedy' that every British guy thinks makes him the king of yucks.
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The guy at the party that has a huge repertoire of jokes.
After a few parties, they all sound the same, and you start to realize he is kind of a dick too.
 
apa gapa said:
I would also fire the guy who thought hiring Jack ''AIDSmoby'' Packard
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I don't necessarily think this was a problem in itself - but giving him his own solo show absolutely was a sign that they didn't understand what Jack's appeal is in RLM. Pairing him with Yahtzee is... is retarded. I can't think why a content manager would ever think that was a good idea, except for complete obliviousness.

Jack is a neutral tone. He's never particularly funny, but he's rarely offensive, and he rarely talks over his co-hosts. (At least, after he quit Mr Booze.) The main appeal of Jack is to offset wacky, energetic, eccentric, larger-than-life characters and ground them; he's a garnish, not a main course. Ben Croshaw is not a larger-than-life character. In streams, he's often quiet, brooding, and rarely talkative unless he has a soapbox. Jack cannot serve as his opposite, because Jack is more lively and engaging in person -- it's the exact wrong formula for Jack.

I was never particularly a fan of Pre-rec because I think the magic of RLM is in the editing, but the whole reason that show has its fans is because Jack is a good pairing with Rich, and the two have a natural chemistry: Jack is orthodox, Rich is flippant, etc. Jack's Escapist Escapades have been him trying to carry shows on his back because he genuinely is more charismatic than the rest of the Escapist cast... but he's just not the kind of personality who can really headline a show.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
I don't necessarily think this was a problem in itself - but giving him his own solo show absolutely was a sign that they didn't understand what Jack's appeal is in RLM. Pairing him with Yahtzee is... is retarded. I can't think why a content manager would ever think that was a good idea, except for complete obliviousness.

Jack is a neutral tone. He's never particularly funny, but he's rarely offensive, and he rarely talks over his co-hosts. (At least, after he quit Mr Booze.) The main appeal of Jack is to offset wacky, energetic, eccentric, larger-than-life characters and ground them; he's a garnish, not a main course. Ben Croshaw is not a larger-than-life character. In streams, he's often quiet, brooding, and rarely talkative unless he has a soapbox. Jack cannot serve as his opposite, because Jack is more lively and engaging in person -- it's the exact wrong formula for Jack.

I was never particularly a fan of Pre-rec because I think the magic of RLM is in the editing, but the whole reason that show has its fans is because Jack is a good pairing with Rich, and the two have a natural chemistry: Jack is orthodox, Rich is flippant, etc. Jack's Escapist Escapades have been him trying to carry shows on his back because he genuinely is more charismatic than the rest of the Escapist cast... but he's just not the kind of personality who can really headline a show.
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he should go back to his musical roots
 
A Game Chat post reminds me I fucking hated Yahtzee's review of Gravity Rush 2. It is the equivalent of a retard pretending to be intelligent looking at an actual piece of art and judging it as mediocre based on minor shit.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
A Game Chat post reminds me I fucking hated Yahtzee's review of Gravity Rush 2. It is the equivalent of a retard pretending to be intelligent looking at an actual piece of art and judging it as mediocre based on minor shit.
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If it started being discussed as a cult classic like Earthbound and Dark Souls, Yahtzee will do a 180 and declare it as one of the best games ever made.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
It's not even "original" humor. Before him, people like Charlie Brooker and his Screenwipe series has little skits of white people behind colored backgrounds, except in THOSE shows, it had actual animation.

Also any retarded monkey can do his skit as long as you follow this easy formula
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Where did you find this? This is a scathing parody, my friend was laughing just listening to it
 
i guess the move gave him the push to use something else...


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