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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 17, 2023 3:04:33 GMT
I find his review style ABOUT AS FUNNY AS BEING SLAPPED REPEATEDLY ACROSS THE FACE WITH A GIANT GREEN DILDO!!!
Edit: Hi, new page!
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Post by simple on Sept 17, 2023 8:14:57 GMT
He’s a sardonic jerk and the whole hat schtick is really twattish, but Zero Punctuation is still my go to for game reviews purely because he usually has a point and can make it in under 4 minutes. But bin the hat, Yahtz. The fedora has been corrupted by right-wing misogynists anyway. Yeah beneath the jokes and his general grumpy persona when it gets down to a lot of his opinions about what he enjoys in games/gameplay itself are very similar to my own so I still watch them too |
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Post by rawshark on Sept 17, 2023 8:25:09 GMT
It’s a trilby, you rubes. …And his game series was even called Trilby: The Art of Theft. Urgh, I should have known that. Trilby tipper has a nice alliterative ring to it though. |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 17, 2023 9:38:17 GMT
I don't watch Zero Punctuation these days, but I don't particularly dislike Yahtzee - I just found that his shtick had worn thin.
If I had to pick between YouTubers whose stuff I used to enjoy, I'd probably rather watch him than, say, Jim Sterling or Angry Joe.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 17, 2023 9:45:18 GMT
Does anyone else find it weird putting them in the same breath as the word celebrity?
I mean they’re no Howard from the Halifax ads…
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Post by aubergine on Sept 17, 2023 15:09:01 GMT
Zero punctuation was never good again after he stopped using music he didn’t have the rights to. About twenty years ago I think it was.
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Post by retro74 on Sept 17, 2023 15:14:12 GMT
Does anyone else find it weird putting them in the same breath as the word celebrity? I mean they’re no Howard from the Halifax ads… I don’t know who they are so tend to agree. Everything I know about them is from EG / FG |
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Post by Danno on Sept 17, 2023 15:28:39 GMT
It's 'cause we're oooooooold
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Post by rawshark on Sept 17, 2023 15:45:16 GMT
I mean obviously EG/FG was/is a secret celebrity hangout. It’s just everyone is under a pseudonym. I have a strong suspicion Jambo is Abs from 5ive.
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Post by 😎 on Sept 17, 2023 15:51:25 GMT
Yahtzee was actually on the EG forums briefly. I knew him before he was internet famous on the HotU forums and think I dragged him and a couple of others over.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 17, 2023 16:17:04 GMT
I imagine a lot of kids look up to YouTubers and TikTok wankers way more than film stars or whatever these days
There's drama and gossip channels and everything
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 17, 2023 16:17:40 GMT
And sex offenders
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Post by simple on Sept 17, 2023 16:52:55 GMT
There must be so many youtubers who’ve taken advantage of their status. Especially with their audience being generally so young and the relationship being so much more parasocial than when we would fancy Ace off of Doctor Who as kids. Its like they’d almost be pre-groomed by how much they felt they ‘know’ the personality already.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 17, 2023 16:57:37 GMT
Yeah, there's already plenty of stories about it. Even the advertising/influencer side of it is gross
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Post by Blue_Mike on Sept 17, 2023 17:17:59 GMT
I do wish they'd try to make aspirational figures out of people with actual, decent fucking life skills and a modicum of intelligence about them, rather than
"Hey kids, fit in with your friends by spending an ever increasing amount of money year after year on a new, slightly different shirt with a bloke's name written across the back of it who kicks a ball around a field a bit and has never done a days' hard graft in his fucking life and may well be a bit rapey because why else is there a super injunction" |
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Post by rawshark on Sept 17, 2023 20:59:12 GMT
Well all the talk of 00s filth on the other thread reminded me of a young KSI going round EGX around that time shoving his microphone into promo girls tits. National treasure.
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Post by Danno on Sept 17, 2023 21:35:35 GMT
Think he got banned for that at least?
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Post by geefe on Sept 18, 2023 8:19:47 GMT
Yes. It did quite the damage to his career.
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Post by Danno on Sept 18, 2023 8:30:36 GMT
Being a cuntstick has absolutely no bearing on your career, as long as your career is gurning to the masses from a screen.
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Post by geefe on Sept 18, 2023 9:29:13 GMT
/woosh
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 18, 2023 9:48:04 GMT
People in glass houses... |
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 21, 2023 12:38:50 GMT
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Post by cubby on Oct 21, 2023 12:42:11 GMT
It's been a while since I've thought about Staind.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 4, 2024 23:13:25 GMT
Dino Stamatopoulos ("Starburns" from Community)
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Post by cubby on Jan 4, 2024 23:16:57 GMT
His name is Alex!
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Post by rawshark on Jan 4, 2024 23:18:54 GMT
Dino Stamatopoulos ("Starburns" from Community) Huh? Haven’t given him an ounce of thought for about a decade. Is he being a nob? |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 4, 2024 23:35:32 GMT
Dino Stamatopoulos ("Starburns" from Community) Huh? Haven’t given him an ounce of thought for about a decade. Is he being a nob? I don't know what his current status is, but I just saw an old video of him on an Adult Swim panel at a Comic-Con where people from multiple shows were on. Seth Green was there for Robot Chicken, Stamatopoulos was there for Moral Orel, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick were there for Venture Bros, etc.
He was drinking vodka disguised as a water bottle throughout the thing, becoming abusive towards the crowd and towards the other guys on the panel, culminating in him verbally abusing Doc Hammer over his appearance (the guy has a birthmark that causes his hair to naturally grow two-tone blonde and black, and for some reason Stamatopolous has some kind of bizarre anger issue about hair dyes?) and almost starting a physical fight with him. Hammer at the time had almost lost his voice and was sick as a dog, and weighs about as much as a helium balloon normally anyway. Events culminating in Stamatopolous eventually screaming "FUCK YOU" into a microphone towards the crowd and getting "escorted" out.
Also, he got cast alongside Kathryn Hahn in something, and at a dinner where they were getting to know each other, she mentioned that her brother was a recovering heroin addict and that she'd worked with Philip Seymour Hoffman shortly before his death from heroin overdose. Stamatopoulos for some reason thinks an appropriate, and apparently entirely serious, reply is something along the lines of "You know that's funny, I just tried heroin for the first time the other day". Needless to say, he was recast with someone less cunty.
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Post by rawshark on Jan 4, 2024 23:50:39 GMT
Well that’s probably why we haven’t seen him lately.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2024 23:54:51 GMT
I never knew he did anything BUT Community.
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Post by cubby on Jan 6, 2024 11:31:57 GMT
Well thankfully he was the only problematic person involved in Community.
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