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

[Book Thief]

What is interesting to me is unlike 90% of the "woke" guys who used to say slurs he to my knowledge never apologized for it.

He did end up writing an Extra Punctuation regarding the "transphobic joke" he made in the original cut of his review of Brothers/Papers Please, and the joke ended up being rewritten from "I'm not gay, I only suck off pre-op transsexuals," to, "I'm not gay, I only suck off pantomime dames."

I suspect, though, that the image was latched onto because it was more visible, and the actual problematic remark was one from earlier in the video along the lines of “‘Co-op single player’ is like saying ‘I’m not gay, I only suck off pre-op transsexuals'”. And that one I do regret, in retrospect. It was supposed to be a joke about cognitive dissonance, that a man in denial about being gay would seek out things with penises attached that aren’t necessarily men, but I realise now that this was a poor choice of words, because some people who identify as female have cocks. Lord knows I have nothing to gain from enforcing gender roles, ‘cos I don’t like cars OR football. I should probably have gone for something like ‘I’m not gay, I only suck off pantomime dames.’

So I apologise for my lazy wording. I regret the fact that it got in the way of the intended message, which was that Papers, Please is really neat and you should check it out, however transphobic its fictional evil dictatorship may be.

 

[p1138]

I don't know your age, but even just keeping all the data back then would have been a pain in the ass, not to mention that a lot of those old games really didn't play nice with screen capturing software. I recommend watching Accursed Farms videos (the Stop Killing Games guy) where plenty of games has him tackle bizarre glitches and crashes due to the recording software.

You mean the data he would need to be keeping for all of the footage to edit into the video? That he was shooting at maybe 720p?If he could do this for a game like FF8(unless he paid someone to play it with a character named Emo Git, which I doubt. But then again maybe he had Bennett play it named as Meg Ryan?) which is a fairly long game compared to something like Bayou Billy, so clearly he had the means to do it.

He eventually did after he realized it was easier than making videos, but the tech was still not there. I do recommend some of his long plays, especially the SWAT 4 ones.

No he didn't. He streamed SWAT 4 9 years ago in 2016(which he only did for 2 days and didn't finish it), his lets play of it started in 2009. The last couple of SWAT 4 missions that are re-uploads on his youtube channel, those got re-uploaded in 2013.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

You mean the data he would need to be keeping for all of the footage to edit into the video? That he was shooting at maybe 720p?If he could do this for a game like FF8(unless he paid someone to play it with a character named Emo Git, which I doubt. But then again maybe he had Bennett play it named as Meg Ryan?) which is a fairly long game compared to something like Bayou Billy, so clearly he had the means to do it.


No he didn't. He streamed SWAT 4 9 years ago in 2016(which he only did for 2 days and didn't finish it), his lets play of it started in 2009. The last couple of SWAT 4 missions that are re-uploads on his youtube channel, those got re-uploaded in 2013.

We have a whole thread on Spoony here.

👓 TGWTG Thread 'The Spoony One / Spoony / Noah Antwiler and Rachel Baker / @RaeAngel07'

Apr 21, 2013

(Keep in mind, this won't go through his entire history. This will go over the important bits or otherwise this would be a very long article. I won't mention the relationships such as Scarlett and April unless you guys really want me to, because this is supposed to be focused purely on Spoony)

Noah Antwiler, known as the SpoonyOne, is (or rather, was) a video game reviewer, movie critic and a D&D storyteller. Hailing from Mesa AZ (Now IL), Spoony started out on youtube in it's early days, usually playing difficult or shitty games such as Robin Hood

Or Bayou Billy...

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[p1138]

We have a whole thread on Spoony here.

Yeah, I'm aware. I'm not the one who asked for clarification about a singular mention of him or decided to try and defend his honor.

 

[Jonny Greenwood]

Did anyone uncover anything about the Nick/Frost situation?

It was a prime retard fight, sure, but at the time and to this day I believe neither of them so I have no idea what actually happened

 

[grump]

Company that took control of the Escapist, among others, after Yatzhee's departure has been deindexed by Google. Not that this is any surprise to anyone who has seen their recent 'content' but they had turned their companies including the Escapist into AI mills complete with AI staff with fake AI profiles and pictures churning out what are presumably AI articles. So some of the post Yatzhee articles that were linked from here. Mostly SJW ragebait, might have very well been AI written. As opposed to the possibly genuine SJW slop over at Second Wind. They've done a deep scrub of their channels somewhat surprisingly removing years worth of what looked like real gambling videos. But it doesn't matter. Only Google is allowed to push AI Slop even though they got away with it until they were probably reported several times over.

 

[Jonny Greenwood]

Company that took control of the Escapist, among others, after Yatzhee's departure has been deindexed by Google. Not that this is any surprise to anyone who has seen their recent 'content' but they had turned their companies including the Escapist into AI mills complete with AI staff with fake AI profiles and pictures churning out what are presumably AI articles. So some of the post Yatzhee articles that were linked from here. Mostly SJW ragebait, might have very well been AI written. As opposed to the possibly genuine SJW slop over at Second Wind. They've done a deep scrub of their channels somewhat surprisingly removing years worth of what looked like real gambling videos. But it doesn't matter. Only Google is allowed to push AI Slop even though they got away with it until they were probably reported several times over.

This is the kind of stuff that makes it hard to believe Frost's side of the story

Considering everything that happened after The Escapist's new owners fired Nick, his claim of "actually Nick lied to us and the new owners were cool" looks more and more retarded every day

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Since this is pretty much a general Yahtzee thread anyway, here's the first video on his personal YouTube channel in yonks to actually discuss his writing and do a bit of a Q&A on his space hobo series.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Since this is pretty much a general Yahtzee thread anyway, here's the first video on his personal YouTube channel in yonks to actually discuss his writing and do a bit of a Q&A on his space hobo series.

Did he always have a bad case of nu-male/soyface? I mean, it's just a thumbnail and probably overacted for comic effect but I don't think I can pull it off without looking like some sort of MrBeast-meets-Jared Loughner psycho. Is it genetic or learned behavior?

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Did he always have a bad case of nu-male/soyface? I mean, it's just a thumbnail and probably overacted for comic effect but I don't think I can pull it off without looking like some sort of MrBeast-meets-Jared Loughner psycho. Is it genetic or learned behavior?

That sure is some kind of question. Decide for yourself, I guess?

 

[The tired cat]

Did he always have a bad case of nu-male/soyface? I mean, it's just a thumbnail and probably overacted for comic effect but I don't think I can pull it off without looking like some sort of MrBeast-meets-Jared Loughner psycho. Is it genetic or learned behavior?

Guy never looked natural on camera, even during his Escapist/Gaming Bar/Failed TV show he always looked awkward.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Guy never looked natural on camera, even during his Escapist/Gaming Bar/Failed TV show he always looked awkward.

To be fair, he did say he had a (possibly self-diagnosed) anxiety disorder and also thought he was asexual for a time.

 

[The tired cat]

Hipster in mid life crysis complains about not having fun with games anymore.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Since this is pretty much a general Yahtzee thread anyway, here's the first video on his personal YouTube channel in yonks to actually discuss his writing and do a bit of a Q&A on his space hobo series.

If nothing else his title naming scheme was at least a little bit clever.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Hipster in mid life crysis complains about not having fun with games anymore.

Subjected myself to it, it's literally this meme unironically

And somehow cramming TWO Trump rants into it.

He even goes against toxic positivity only to end up belittling and insulting the one guy that doesn't lick his boots in the comment section. Weird his toxic positivity rant doesn't talk about the tranny shooter game he said was okay and nearly cancelled for it.

Obviously it can't be that Yahtzee comes to his reviews with massive bias beforehand, and cares more about posting to social media than improving in the game. Also it can't possibly be that he compares games to old classics that have inch thick nostalgia goggles.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Hipster in mid life crysis complains about not having fun with games anymore.

Yeah, right around 40 is when you start not liking video games as much and instead really get into repair shit. Being like "Ohhhhh boy~ Today I get to put in a NEW shower head FUCK YEAH~~ ARGHHH IM GONNA MATCH THE TILE SET NIGGA~"

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Yeah, right around 40 is when you start not liking video games as much and instead really get into repair shit. Being like "Ohhhhh boy~ Today I get to put in a NEW shower head FUCK YEAH~~ ARGHHH IM GONNA MATCH THE TILE SET NIGGA~"

You know, there's a video game about exactly that.

 

[TowinKarz]

Yeah, right around 40 is when you start not liking video games as much and instead really get into repair shit. Being like "Ohhhhh boy~ Today I get to put in a NEW shower head FUCK YEAH~~ ARGHHH IM GONNA MATCH THE TILE SET NIGGA~"

No shit, that's about when I started to feel really icky and out-of-place if I wore a T-shirt, a plain one, let alone one that advertised something "teh funnay!" on it.


At some point? Don't you get tired of watching and want to start doing?

Don't you stop craving simulated warfare and want to do something that actually produces real world results? Even if it's just a chicken casserole?

 

[DeadwastePrime]

the older you get the more you realize the game you actually want to play isnt call of duty but lawnmower simulator

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

No shit, that's about when I started to feel really icky and out-of-place if I wore a T-shirt, a plain one, let alone one that advertised something "teh funnay!" on it.


At some point? Don't you get tired of watching and want to start doing?

Don't you stop craving simulated warfare and want to do something that actually produces real world results? Even if it's just a chicken casserole?

Sure enough, but there are people out there who after a long day of performing dull and repetitive tasks for others, just want to come home and perform dull and repetitive tasks for themselves.

Hence, the "Dad Game".