#Fully Ramblomatic

[felineamphibian]

I tried to write a short description, but it was hard not to go fully ramblomatic on it.

[katapotato55]

A middle aged man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 6th of November 2023 is the day this man resigned from the Escapist. Though it was 16 years ago he was given a job, it is only today that he will be given a name. What will the name of this man be?

[redlettermediathings]

Too soon.

[g4zdtechtv]

Fully Ramblomatic - Warhammer 40k: SpaceMarine II

Filled with big, chonky dudes who look like Julius Caesar being played by a concrete mixer.

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[autisticsupervillain]

Now that Zero Punctuation is over, I want to immortalize it with some of Yahtzee's best quotes. God speed you magnificent British bastard.

"Those who had the random chance of being born white in the first world are the most privileged fucking people on this unequal fucking planet and Call of Duty is just those people complaining about how hard life can be when everyone's jealous of you."

"We live in an age where mass communication has counterintuitively turned all attempts at verbal debate into a basketball game where the teams are on different courts, racking up meaningless points and throwing shit over the dividing wall. That's why the only way you can safely express your politics these days is to anonymously spend money. That's how homophobic pizza joints can mysterious aquire a million dollars in donations. So two groups of middle class people annoy each other, Hatred makes tons of money, and the world at large gives less of a toss than a quadriplegic shot putter, good night!"

"The only reason I wanted to talk about it was the depressing inditement of modern gaming it creates. Not by itself, but by Value's indifference to this waterfall of piss trickling down its legacy's nose. Twenty years ago, Half Life was a focal point in gaming's ever-growing development as an artistic medium. The next few years saw a slew of titles that combined triple A game design with genuine emotional story. But what happened between then and now?! Why are the games rewarded with triple A status and income exclusively loot box infested live service bullshit designed not to stimulate our emotions, but to numb them and hypnotize us into lab rats mindlessly pawing the button that makes treats come out while games created with love drown beneath bottom feeders like Hunt Down the Freeman as Valve themselves, once habitual founders of new eras of narrative gaming just waves them on, barely glancing up from their tax paper work. What happened to you! What happened to us!? To the people we were supposed to become!"

"Hogwarts Legacy is by every definition of the phrase, a game made by cunts. As well as very literally a game made by a cunt."

"We really need a better term for shit like Gotham Knights than 'live service'. It sounds too much like a good thing. Being alive is good and so is being serviced. We can't let the publishers control the narrative on this one, they'd call a kick in the bullocks a key entertainment reinvigoration scheme. Hmmm, how about... cunts. Games made by cunts. Evil money grubbing cunts who make soulless, emotion deading skinner boxes deliberately designed to foster addictive behavior. Demonitize me YouTube, I don't care. And neither does my editor. Probably."

"We as gaming audiences have always separated games into the worthies and the unworthies. My dichotomy is this. Games that make you feel vs games that make you numb."

*Begins review* "Undertale is a good game." *Ends review*

"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee!"

[dappercritter]

Youtube, stop trying to recommend me misogynist nerd rants because I still watch Yahtzee reviews

Besides Yahtz isn't even one of those guys

He's not quite politically correct, sure. But he's still friends with Jim (Stephanie) Sterling well after she transitioned and more importantly he complains about what's really ruining pop culture

BAD IDEAS AND SHITTY PRODUCTS FROM RICH ASSHAT COMPANIES

[not-mary-sue]

I guess I should have realised this myself but it does pain me to have confirmed that the guy who made Zero Punctuation for ten years, a well loved video game review show, doesn't see a penny of revenue since leaving The Escapist. They're all still on YouTube, but he doesn't get any of the money it generates.

[bebe-benzenheimer]

Yahtzee calling out Gaiman was not on my 2025 bingo card but the whiplash in mood after being bummed out about Val Kilmer was needed.

[sibblank]

as someone who stopped watching ZP because of the changes the changes the parent company was making, seeing it return independently owned and with none of that shit is really kind of beautiful

[yourfaveisclasspected]

YAHTZEE CROSHAW is a MAGE of RAGE!

Requested by @autisticsupervillain!

[theawesomehyperon]

This entire segment was awesome.

[emptyheadgamer]

After the escapist shit the bed and caused everyone to quit, the first episode of yahtzee's new series is out.

[velvetvexations]

seriously, read all my run-on sentences in the voice of Yahtzee, it fits

[g4zdtechtv]

Fully Ramblomatic - South of Midnight

Set in a Deep South that's all down-home folksy magical realism and has a surprising absence of Walmarts.

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[hindbodes]

[tarakaybee]

A rare opinion post from me that's about a book!

Yahtzee Croshaw (of Zero Punctuation, and now Fully Ramblomatic) recently released the third instillment in the Jacques McKeown saga, Will Leave the Galaxy for Good. I re-read the first book last year and listened the audiobook of the latter two back to back upon the release of the third. I really enjoy Yahtzee's comedy reviews, but an issue with these books and most of his others is that, despite being british myself, I'm really not a fan of the british comedy style where the main character is rude and bad things happen to him, and the side characters are annoying idiots who bad things also happen to, I find it relentlessly negative and this particular trilogy is that comedy style in spades, I like Yahtzee's comedy in his reviews but a main character who has a non-stop monologue of put-downs is exhausting.

I'm just starting to listen to Differently Morphous now, between this and Jam, I think the Yahtzee-voice characters are more tolerable when they're not the point of view characters because I immediately rooted for Alison far more in the two chapters she's been in than Not-McKeown by virtue of the fact that she feels like a character and not just an author stand-in who speaks exclusively in clever put-downs. The premise of this series, being about the evils of political correctness, put me off a bit, but I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt.