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:
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