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On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the Creator/SecondWind channel that he will [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor continue Zero Punctuation]] in the form of ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'', the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th. Extra Punctuation is also set to continue in a similar manner, as "Semi Ramblomatic."

->'''Yahtzee:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you]], toffee-nosed PC Master Race shitheads! I wish I'd named you something else now, like the "PC Gaming Dickslurp-All-Stars"!

* DiscreditedMeme: [[invoked]] By the time of his ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'' review, Yahtzee had come to regret the PC Master Race meme that he had started. While he still views PC gaming as the superior option, he's grown incredibly disgusted by the [[StopHavingFunGuys gatekeeping]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe elitism]] from certain circles of the PC gaming community, to the point where he wishes that he had named them something "like the PC Gaming Dickslurp All-stars". Of course, the entire point of the meme to begin with was to mock the elitists among the PC gaming communities.

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the Creator/SecondWind channel that he will [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor continue Zero Punctuation in the form of]] ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'', the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th. Extra Punctuation is also set to continue in a similar manner, as "Semi Ramblomatic."

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the ''Second Wind'' channel that he will [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor continue Zero Punctuation in the form of]] ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'', the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th. Extra Punctuation is also set to continue in a similar manner, as "Semi Ramblomatic."

* CosmicHorrorStory: Yahtzee is a fan of the genre and has incorporated various themes from it into a lot of his own works, such as the ''Chzo Mythos'', ''Literature/DifferentlyMorphous'' and ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow''. That said, in his review of ''VideoGame/TheSinkingCity'', he points out that cosmic horror doesn't really translate to modern values, as the core philosophy of the genre - [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair mankind's futile endeavours]] [[HumansAreInsects in the face of ancient and uncaring beings]] - isn't as effective on a modern audience, who can get the same essential message just by opening any web browser. Thus, in his estimation, the genre requires a different approach to work in the modern day.

Less than a month later, he was hired by ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com The Escapist]]'', an online magazine with a big boat made of money (see the page quote), to release one of these video reviews a week. And so began ''[[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/category/zero-punctuation/ Zero Punctuation]]''. The combination of [[AccentuateTheNegative caustic]] [[BlackComedy humour]] (admittedly with occasional dashes of [[CompassionateCritic compassion]]), [[MotorMouth rapid-fire delivery]], and [[VisualPun visual gags]] made the show an instant success.

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the ''Second Wind'' channel that he will [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor continue Zero Punctuation in the form of]] ''[[WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic Fully Ramblomatic]]'', the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th. Extra Punctuation is also set to continue in a similar manner, as "Semi Ramblomatic."

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the ''Second Wind'' channel that he will [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor continue Zero Punctuation in the form of]] "Fully Ramblomatic", the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th. Extra Punctuation is also set to continue in a similar manner, as "Semi Ramblomatic."

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the ''Second Wind'' channel that he will continue Zero Punctuation in the form of "Fully Ramblomatic", the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th. Extra Punctuation is also set to continue in a similar manner, as "Semi Ramblomatic."

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the ''Second Wind'' channel that he will continue Zero Punctuation in the form of "Fully Ramblomatic", the original Pre-Escapist name of the series, with the first episode premiering on the 15th.

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews. The day following, he announced on the ''Second Wind'' channel that he will continue Zero Punctuation in the form of "Fully Ramblomatic", with the first episode premiering on the 15th.

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, The Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews.

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine alongside a slew of other Escapist video creators. While Yahtzee has promised that he will be back in some other format, the Escapist still owns the rights to Zero Punctuation, all but stating that the series is over after over 800 reviews.

Yahtzee. Also. Had. A. Follow-up. Column. Called. [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/category/v1/extra-punctuation/ "Extra Punctuation."]] In. Order. To. Explain. His. Views. And. Opinions. On. The. Game. Of. The. Week. In. Greater. Detail. [[OverlyLongGag And. Bring. Up. Points. He. Could. Not. Turn. Into. Jokes.]] The column was dormant for while, with the written version having been discontinued since 2017, but was eventually resurrected in October 2021 in the form of a video series, where his signature fast speech is toned down to a normal pace, [[DontExplainTheJoke with clearer punctuation]].

On the 7th of November of 2023, Yahtzee formally announced his resignation from Escapist Magazine, who owns the rights to Zero Punctuation.

** [[invoked]] Brings this up with ''Modern Warfare'' games is his article "What is the Matter with You People?" Aside from bringing up the reason for the above question, Yahtzee brings up that when one of the player characters was [[KilledOffForReal killed]] in a nuclear blast in the original ''Modern Warfare'', it was a well done shock. In almost every moment like that, the character will survive or somebody will rescue them, so it's especially gripping with the character's struggle to move before finally dying. In Yahtzee's opinion, the next games in the series missed what made that a powerful moment and started killing characters left and right, causing the deaths to lose impact. The infamous "No Russian" level from ''Modern Warfare 2'' - while it served the story at the time - came off as a cheap attempt to shock the players just for the sake of shocking them. By the same token, the family killed by a suicide bomber in ''Modern Warfare 3'' failed to shock in any sense, because it was expected by that point.

-->It also does the thing where it goes "[[SarcasmMode Oh look a sewer level, how original]], [[ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud roll eyes]]", and then proceeds to unironically have a sewer level, that goes on way too fucking long. ''<starts smacking the game> [[PunctuatedPounding If ya know it's bad, why are ya doing it?!]]''

* PlayerPunch: [[invoked]] ''Spec Ops: The Line''. [[TraumaCongaLine Pretty much all of it.]] To wit...
-->''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' is one of those pleasant surprises that comes along every now and again, a video game story that really got to me, giving me genuine feelings of weariness, guilt, and actual physical sickness. [[SarcasmMode Fun, fun, fun!]]

* AcceptableTargets: [[invoked]] He notes in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' that Nazis are so evil that players don't need an excuse to, say, drown one in his own piss, but the game still takes the time to make them hateable beyond that.

* MasterOfNone: [[invoked]] "Three Things, Somewhere, Quarter 4 2027" focuses on over-ambitious Kickstarter MMO projects that flop because they promise a game that lets the player "do anything" with all sorts of systems, and end up failing on all fronts. In contrast, successful games are more focused on what they want to be and deliver a better experience for it.

--> ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' is one of those pleasant surprises that comes along every now and again, a video game story that really got to me, giving me genuine feelings of weariness, guilt, and actual physical sickness. [[SarcasmMode Fun, fun, fun!]]

Yahtzee. Also. Had. A. Follow-up. Column. Called. [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/category/v1/extra-punctuation/ "Extra Punctuation."]] In. Order. To. Explain. His. Views. And. Opinions. On. The. Game. Of. The. Week. In. Greater. Detail. [[OverlyLongGag And. Bring. Up. Points. He. Could. Not. Turn. Into. Jokes.]] The column was dormant for while, with the written version having been discontinued since 2017, but was eventually resurrected in October 2021 in the form of a video series.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Yahtzee has dismissed the concept before as being for 'unemployed psychotics and Koreans', but nevertheless recognises the accompanying existence of the 'obsessive instinct' that would drive certain people to dedicate time and even money to scratch the itch that the feeling of 'completeness' brings. He cites ''VideoGameSuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'''s introduction of [[PickupHierarchy tracked level collectibles]] as the origin of what would later become the modern video game industry's exploitation of this instinct via live service games and loot boxes.

* AesopAmnesia: His ''Guide to Special Moments in Gaming History'', which is even lampshaded by the opening jingle: "Let's all laugh/at an industry/that never learns anything/tee-hee-hee!"

* EvilVsEvil: Yahtzee notes that most post-apocalyptic games have "Nutters vs. Fascists" as the factions.