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Yahtzee Croshaw - Hatfall: The Official Zero Punctuation Hat-Putting On Simulator (Hatters Gonna Hat Edition)

Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has a Ryu Number of 4 3.

(CORRECTION: Per @dorkshove and @blasteg, Gandhi's presence in the Hearts of Iron games gives Yahtzee a shorter Ryu Number.)

(CORRECTION 2: An earlier version of this image incorrectly labeled the link between Gandhi and Ryu. Thank you to @zerphses for the correction.)

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One of the minigames in Hatfall is a dating sim parody where you date a hat.

To get more hats, you see.

As part of the dating minigame, you can choose to take Hat-chan to, uh,

mhm. And when there, you quickly rattle off a bunch of pertinent information about Spandau Prison and its inmates like Rudolf Hess, which you, as the player, know so much about because

uh huh.

Right.

[lookinggoodinplaid]

I've had the same opinion of Yahtzee's show Zero Punctuation as I do with many other YouTube reviewers: good entertainment, not the best at comprehensive, nuanced criticism, like Jacob Geller or Noah Caldwell-Gervais. But I still respect the man for making something so consistently entertaining since 2007 and for his (admittedly necessary) harsh stance on the AAA industry. Resigning in solidarity after his co-workers being unjustly fired greatly increased that respect.

[thedarknesslord]

it hurts....

Happy “IT HURTS” Day, Chzo fans!

Still feel sorry for John though.

[booksandwords]

It's like I've eaten spam a few times from a few popular brands and in a few serving suggestions, and found I'm not really keen on spam, 'cos it's salty and slimy and looks like something you might find in the alien queen's litter box. But I've found myself in a world that's completely obsessed with spam. People spend their entire lives in pursuit of spam. Every single advert on TV sells their product by placing it alongside spam. Movies have to work in at least one spam scene to reach the broadest audience. People break up and get divorced because they don't exchange enough spam. Soldiers are given time out to go have some spam. Low-risk prisoners are given spam visiting rights. People die for spam. Entire economies have been based around spam. Selling spam is the world's oldest profession. The lack of spam has been linked to mental disorders. The only thing getting teenagers through difficult puberty is the thought of one day getting to have spam of their very own. And when I explain to people that I'm not that into spam they tell me I must be some kind of hopeless cissy girl, or that I just haven't found the right spam yet. It feels like when a theist says "I'll pray for you." Or when a parent of some hideous mewling womb dropping says "You'll understand when you have one of your own." Quite infuriating. It's just tinned meat, guys. But on the other hand, as a white middle-class anglo-saxon male between the ages of 18 and 35, it's fun to be in a minority for once. Finally I've got my very own thing I can get offended at. This must be why gay chaps always seem to be having such a good time.

Inflexual, Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw

This was Yachzee when talking about his own experience of celibacy. But for an Ace this just lands so well, this is so accurate.

[magenta-racer]

I played Chzo Mythos games a while ago with @bigroms. I loved it! Trilby is my favorite character. I also liked his interactions with Siobhan on Trilby's Notes. Guess it's a shipping fanart lol. It's also something for upcoming Valentine's Day.

[rejectedembers]

Cinder or Tinder: Mogworld

Good day or good evening! Today we will be taking a look at Mogworld by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. This was the book I was reading before I got into Vicious, the first book to be completed from my reading list. Best known for his video game review series Zero Punctuation as part of The Escapist e-magazine, Yahtzee has been involved in several creative endeavours, including video game creation (such as the Rob Blanc Trilogy and the Chzo Mythos games). Mogworld is his first novel.

Brief warning: mild spoilers ahead.

Mogworld tells the story of Jim, a mage-in-training who has been brought back as an undead corpse by a necromancer sixty years after his death. But not all is doom and gloom as Jim and the rest of the undead take up comfortable jobs as the necromancer’s minions fending off the castle from adventurers. One day, however, angels descend and begin deleting everything in the area, and only three undead, Jim, Meryl, and a priest, manage to escape. In the outside world, they discover that no one can die and no one can be born, much to Jim’s chagrin as he has been attempting to return to his eternal slumber for months. This sets them on their quest to find a way to end the Infusion so Jim can finally die and stay dead, discovering a much, much deeper secret about the world they live in along the way.

Mogworld is one of the funniest stories I’ve read in a long time. Croshaw’s sarcastic, dark humour really shines through and is executed perfectly with just the right amount of wit. Characters, even minor ones, are distinct and real, and you very easily find yourself wanting to see them succeed, no matter how ridiculous their goals may be. The plot plays somewhat of a secondary role, and I do find it gets rather muddled closer to the end, but the mystery and eventual reveal is well built-up. 

In the end, Mogworld was a lot of fun and made me surprisingly emotional; I laughed, I gasped, and I even almost cried. Mogworld definitely gets the cinder rating.

Favourite quote: “I’d rather be a protagonist,” I said.

[mostleemorethansmut]

But I would say it's definately worth taking about. After all, if a man previously of fluctuating but basically stable health suddenly suffered a massive coronary as all his arms and legs flew off; his doctor would probably want to talk about it

Yahtzee Benjamin Croshaw

[mostleemorethansmut]

We live in an age where mass communication has counter-intuitively turned all attempts at verbal debate into a basketball game where teams are on different courts and stand around the basket racking up meaningless points and throwing shit over the dividing wall

Benjamin Yatzee Croshaw