I'm fairly sure Yahtzee knows he has an enormous ego, much like myself. Usually, you acknowledge your ego problem, then go, 'oh well, not much I can do about it'.
One of the reasons why I made such an irredeemable ass of myself when I actually met Yahtzee face to face was that I, for all my powers of deduction, wasn't sure where his "I hate the world and everything in it
especially my stupid fans" persona ended and the real and probably perfectly decent human guy began. Thus, I had no idea about the right way to conduct myself and probably
should have just walked the other direction and left the poor guy in peace, except I didn't because I'm one of those complete idiots who'd rather
know I'm a creepy asshole rather then
wonder if I might be a spineless coward. Gah.
....I'd rather not dwell on that, so I'll just say I don't take the ego at face value. It's that persona that has resulted in thousands of hate-filled responses and low-ratings for GSM on his parody video "Some Punctuation" in which people miss the joke so badly it hurts:
According to Yahtzee's blog, he actually liked that video, but way more people saw the ZP video where he claimed he wanted to burn the guy's house down and so took it upon themselves to flame the guy (a devoted Yahtzee fan if ever there was one) into next week.
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you are a fucking idiotic dick-sucking wannabe.
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man yahtzee was mad
......Either that or they just wouldn't know a parody born of
pure love if one walked up and bit them in the face.
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I couldn't even finish watching this dross. Honestly, how far did you think you'd get copying a unique style and technique without all the necessary components, say, talent, and wit, and.. oh I don't know, something relevent and interesting to say beyong 'oh look how fantastic I am copying the exact style and technique of someone so much better than I am. A technique, while useful for flipping burgers, just makes you look like an abosolute TWAT on the internet. Not that it's all that hard to do.
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well now after viewing some zero punctuation i saw your piece of shit video in the side bar, the funny thing here being that i was about to comment telling you what a unoriginal cock smoker you are but it seems hundred of thousands of people have already voiced every possible insult i could conjure up to throw at you. The amusing thing here being that Yahtzee has well received and enjoyed job rambling on in his fun accent and your a 12 year old sitting in your moms house trying to sound cooler
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wow...............wow.................this is shit.
i cant believe your ripping him off and making fun of his games. its funny when originals you do it and first off dont try and make yourself seem cooler and better just because you dont swear in these videos, it turns out totally lame. And every game has floor and shit and he just made this game in his spare time and you have to be a little bitch about it and put some shit on youtube cause you are a little bitch. Come up with better ideas
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Wow. The opening song is incredibly accurate. You are a loser. You failed to get me to laugh even once at your review. And your inability to curse whatsoever left me rather despondent. Oh, and don't tell me you're using your computer to help you parody someone else. It makes your entire presentation very weak.
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STOP RIPPING OFF ZERO PUNCTUATION. It's not funny! Congrats for letting everyone on the internet know you're a poser!
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"Epic fail for plagiarism. Go die in a fire douchebag."
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"Fail video is FAIL.
Step AWAY from your computer and stab yourself in the face. Please.
The above are cut and pasted from the most recent three pages of comments on that video, which was uploaded months ago. The latest comment posted here is six days ago, so apparently flaming the hell out of this guy isn't going out of style nearly as fast as it should have.
It might have been pretend hate played up for laughs when Yahtzee said it, but it's real hate from all of those people and they think they've got official approval to do so, the wayward misguided crusaders. (Yeah I'm never going to be the person to call them out on the jerks they are, I'll leave that to those better qualified to use those words).
The internet is like the Twilight Zone, it's hard to tell what's real and what's not and if you're NOT disoriented yet then you're a stronger human being then I am. Or a psychic.
This post has been edited by DreamerM: 26 March 2008 - 11:36 PM