From a bazinga-rich family member, the kind that likes to dangle money at the poors by making them try to jump through hoops and otherwise kiss his ass, and otherwise pretend to be a "philanthropist" while not actually giving any actual money to the poors:
"I hate how game companies pander to lazy people with shit hardware! I have a cutting edge battlestation in my man cave and almost no game comes close to using its full potential!" :wojak-nooo:
Remembering how Crysis: Warhead's preset graphic options were split in like "Amateur, Enthusiast, Gamer" categories.
Someone needs to do a deep dive on the PC Master Race bullshit, it's largely gone now but it had a weird fucking stranglehold for a while there
:sicko-zoomer: :the-doohickey: :so-true: :the-doohickey: :freeze-gamer:
In its original context, Zero Punctuation was from the start mocking the idea as hyperbole but then :reddit-logo: ran with it because satire is dead and rotting and spreads disease.
I got a soft spot for Zero Punctuation but if you run a video series where the whole schtick is basically angry pessimistic gamer guy, even back then you shoulda figured this would not turn out well given your audience
This is my youtube series on the origins of the roman salute, why are all my fans nazis type deal
I get the feeling that Yahtzee does ZP purely to pay the bills now and all of his actual creative energy goes into his other content that barely gets 1/10th the views.
Agree, especially his novels and indie games. He’s also said before how he completely ignores comments about ZP now and just says what he wants to say/his editor approves and moves on. In one of the most recent episodes he talked about when the Escapist nearly went under and fired basically everyone except him and they tried to get him to also be an editor and he basically said “Fuck no I have very little responsibility and like it that way” which I absolutely respect.
On his podcast and in ZP he occasionally says things like “we’re living in a capitalist hellscape” and other leftisty things, so while I don’t think he’s super politically engaged he seems to generally be on the correct side of things.
It's a phenomenon of the mid-2000s marching on like a fucked up video version of a cronenberg monster at this point
Didn't he make a Metroidvania about a poacher with a shotgun who falls down a hole into a fantasy world?
Yeah, it was called Poacher
The trilby, all along, was an unheeded warning. :heated-gamer-moment:
An ex co-worker of mine had the theory that you can graph the decline of any given community by the number of young men wearing hats (excluding baseball caps and snapbacks, the old timey ones) and I think he's on to something
this is anti-i'm-going-bald-and-i-am-terrified-by-it violence
I did ask him about this because there was a lot of downtime on that job and he said any community that'd judge males based on male pattern baldness was inclined to go full shit eventually anyways
That's a weird theory that I'm actually intrigued by. Does it include Tim Pool knitwear?
In the summer, yes. Hats were excluded if used for necessity (like a beanie could be) or if they were a trendy fashion item (like snapbacks and basecaps).
Why is that an exception? :lea-why:
Back then they were in style so hard like every 3rd guy was wearing them. Didn't really make a good signifier, it'd be like judging a community on the basis of people wearing t-shirts
If I had to distill it I'd say his argument was any community featuring loads of young men wearing unnecessary headwear that isn't currently in style was bound to be shit and I don't think he's wrong
That is a compelling argument, and looking around, it seems to have some plausibility.
I've not found a single case where he's been wrong honestly, does hinge a lot on the "young men" part of it though
If I remember right I think he said on a podcast episode something along the lines of how he regrets that joke because of how the audience ran with it and he should’ve anticipated that
But that’s a vague memory of a podcast I listened to at some random point in the last year, so may not be accurate. All I really remember is that the meme was mentioned, and not positively