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

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The tired cat said:
Willing to bet if that happens, then Yahtz just gonna end himself, he never struck me as a guy who can do middle management work, because of how much he aint a people person.
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OK, I'll add some quotes to "middle management", I mean the sort of job daddy dearest gives his crack addicted son that requires no responsibility outside of showing up at the office every once in a while.
 
The tired cat said:
Willing to bet if that happens, then Yahtz just gonna end himself, he never struck me as a guy who can do middle management work, because of how much he aint a people person.
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ShitLurker said:
OK, I'll add some quotes to "middle management", I mean the sort of job daddy dearest gives his crack addicted son that requires no responsibility outside of showing up at the office every once in a while.
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Yahtzee did a stint in data entry for a government agency (Department of Records or something). He'd probably end up going quietly nuts returning to that, but a paycheck's a paycheck.
 
Irrational Exuberance said:
Yahtzee did a stint in data entry for a government agency (Department of Records or something). He'd probably end up going quietly nuts returning to that, but a paycheck's a paycheck.
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I still think if his wife's family are as loaded as it sounds and he's managed to end up in their good graces, he shouldn't have any problem focusing on his whims. But yes, if he had to earn an honest paycheck again he'd probably go nuts, I cannot imagine how anybody goes back after 2 decades of "content creator".

On a separate though still relevant topic, catching up in MATI and I'm amazed at how I did not notice how absolutely disgusting Jim "Yatzhee's my sugar daddy" Sterling was in that podcast. Also, I had no clear opinion of Matt till that clip, now I only have utter disgust for him.
 
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Irrational Exuberance said:
Yahtzee did a stint in data entry for a government agency (Department of Records or something). He'd probably end up going quietly nuts returning to that, but a paycheck's a paycheck.
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ShitLurker said:
I still think if his wife's family are as loaded as it sounds and he's managed to end up in their good graces, he shouldn't have any problem focusing on his whims. But yes, if he had to earn an honest paycheck again he'd probably go nuts, I cannot imagine how anybody goes back after 2 decades of "content creator".

On a separate though still relevant topic, catching up in MATI and I'm amazed at how I did not notice how absolutely disgusting Jim "Yatzhee's my sugar daddy" Sterling was in that podcast. Also, I had no clear opinion of Matt till that clip, now I only have utter disgust for him.
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I recall Yahtzee acrually really loving his data entty job.
That's the thing though. Does that field even exist anymore now that everyone uses computers?
 
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Coolio55 said:
That's the thing though. Does that field even exist anymore now that everyone uses computers?
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As someome who's worked in Data Entry for years, it's a VERY computer-heavy job, so it's still a thing that is needed. It was the perfect job for introverts that wanted absolutely NOTHING to do with the other departments that were more "customer service" focused.

I say "was" because the problem is that most jobs now-a-days have downgraded that department into a minor role while attaching it to other things like reception work, which is 99.9% female role. So really, you'd want to look into a field that is heavily filled with paperwork that needs to be entered into the computer, such as the medical field, which is ALWAYS handling things like medical records, EOB's, Denials, Estimates, Medical Bills, etc... whether it's for a dentist, opthamologist, or even an IME (Independant Medical Examiner) middleman provider.

Just keep in mind that there's really no room for growth, and if there is, it's just more work tact-onto the original work you were doing before with a SLIGHT payraise if you're lucky. Data Entry is a good start if you want to work in an office job and hate talking to people on the phone, but after a few years you'd defenitely want to branch out to other stuff. The plus side is that you'll br more skilled on Outlook/Word/Adobe/Excel/PowerPoint/etc...
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
As someome who's worked in Data Entry for years, it's a VERY computer-heavy job, so it's still a thing that is needed. It was the perfect job for introverts that wanted absolutely NOTHING to do with the other departments that were more "customer service" focused.

I say "was" because the problem is that most jobs now-a-days have downgraded that department into a minor role while attaching it to other things like reception work, which is 99.9% female role. So really, you'd want to look into a field that is heavily filled with paperwork that needs to be entered into the computer, such as the medical field, which is ALWAYS handling things like medical records, EOB's, Denials, Estimates, Medical Bills, etc... whether it's for a dentist, opthamologist, or even an IME (Independant Medical Examiner) middleman provider.

Just keep in mind that there's really no room for growth, and if there is, it's just more work tact-onto the original work you were doing before with a SLIGHT payraise if you're lucky. Data Entry is a good start if you want to work in an office job and hate talking to people on the phone, but after a few years you'd defenitely want to branch out to other stuff. The plus side is that you'll br more skilled on Outlook/Word/Adobe/Excel/PowerPoint/etc...
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wtf, this sounds like a job I'd like doing (if it's not tied to anything else). I can imagine myself putting on a podcast in a background while I autopilot.

Oh god, I am just like Yahtzee Croshaw.
 
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Skylavijas said:
I can imagine myself putting on a podcast in a background while I autopilot.
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One data entry job i had was a temp job for a medical insurance company in 2016 where all i had to do was enter coupon information onto their proprietary system. Once they found out I was more skiled with the computer than the other temps they had me doing other shit like excel spreadsheet stuff. Every day i would do that while having a different GameGrumps playlist running in the background minimized with my headphones on. They truely did not give a shit as long as the work was done.

Sometimes you might get lucky like that. other times you might have a supervisor breathing down your neck every half hour because of a certain deadline that needs to be met and you couldn't do it before because there was a "clog" in the system (i.e. another department was holding the "conga line" from moving flowly due to some stupid bullshit). Data Entry work is usually at the tail-end of that "conga line" so you'll be getting shat on the most out of every other department.
 
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Not sure why there wasn't one last week, since it sounded like Yahtzee's schedule was going to be like ZP and EP never stopped.
 
Just_a_Bored_Guy said:
Not sure why there wasn't one last week
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Yahtzee had put together a ZP on Spiderman 2 for the Escapist that seemed like it was never going to be released (don't know if he was told that or just assumed) and so retooled it as an FR. Then Escapist went ahead and released it about 12hrs before the FR was due, so he canned it out of both copyright caution from similar scripts and just because he thought it served no purpose now.
 
Balr0g said:
New Rambling came out. This time it's Talos Principle 2
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Sounds like the game is crawling up it's own ass and it acts like it's deeper than it is. So I guess right on Yatzhee's wavelength.

If nobody seems to react or give a shit about your takes outside of agree/disagree in a civil manner, it could have it all swapped to mad libs conversations without changing much.
 
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ShitLurker said:
Sounds like the game is crawling up it's own ass and it acts like it's deeper than it is. So I guess right on Yatzhee's wavelength.

If nobody seems to react or give a shit about your takes outside of agree/disagree in a civil manner, it could have it all swapped to mad libs conversations without changing much.
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Someone had a few posts on it here and mentioned that the devs still gave the robots women/faggot personalities because even if everyone is a robot is should still apply to human society and modern social climate (ie, getting that sweet Blackrock money). That made me nope hard from the game, especially as the original was already full on Reddit atheist.
 
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Gravityqueen4life said:
funny how Yahtzee videos are the only thing The Escapist posted on their youtube channel in the last three weeks.
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Are they? I everything but (Fully/Semi)Ramblomatic, Adventure is Nigh and Yahtzee Tries (duh) didn't involve him.

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You can probably see how much I care about the other yahoos on the team. That one DD having a bit of playtime is just a result of me not alt-tabbing out of a game in time.
 
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