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** Ironically, Yahtzee moved to the United States in 2016 and as of 2019 he currently resides in San Francisco. The irony is lost on him.

* {{Eagleland}}: In his reviews, Yahtzee portrays Americans as Flavor #2, and [[AuthorTract covered all aspects of that flavor]] in the span of two reviews (''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' and ''VideoGame/{{Call of Duty 4|ModernWarfare}}''). He's had a long history of this view, though, as seen in his writings on ''Fully Ramblomatic.'' Despite his own country’s history, and the fact that he married an American.

* FiveManBand: Notes the main parts of the cast of recent ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games (Using ''VII, VIII, IX, X'' and ''XIII'' as examples), giving them names similar to the Music/SpiceGirls.
** Specifically, "Angsty Spice"[[note]]Cloud, Squall and Hope[[/note]], "Serious Spice" [[note]]Quistis, Auron and Lightning[[/note]], "Manly Spice"[[note]]Zell, Zidane and Snow[[/note]], "Ethnic Spice"[[note]]Barrett, Amarant, and Sazh[[/note]] and "the inevitable 'Kooky Spice'"[[note]]Yuffie, Rikku and Vanille[[/note]].

** In the credits of “The Most Significant Games of the 2010’s”, ''Ride to Hell'' is once again missing from the Top 10 Retrospectively Worst Games of the 2010’s, instead appearing at the very end, the game shown drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s with naught but a ? above its head.

* {{Eagleland}}: In his reviews, Yahtzee portrays Americans as Flavor #2, and [[AuthorTract covered all aspects of that flavor]] in the span of two reviews (''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' and ''VideoGame/{{Call of Duty 4|ModernWarfare}}''). He's had a long history of this view, though, as seen in his writings on ''Fully Ramblomatic.''

** Ironically, Yahtzee moved to the United States in 2016 and as of 2019 he currently resides in San Francisco.

** Kind of {{Inverted|Trope}} in his review of ''VideoGame/ManOfMedan'' where he certainly did care what happened to the player characters- he loathed them all and hoped they would all die, descrbing them as "really quite [[JerkAss spectacularly awful people]]" and having a RunningGag of the characters repeating "I powerfully deserve death" throughout the video.

* ForcedMeme: Yahtzee coined the term "Spectacle Fighter" to describe games like ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' or ''VideoGame/GodHand'', and once joked that he was determined to "shoehorn it into common parlance". It didn't really work, although plenty of other terms he's used have since achieved memetic status (as [[PressXToNotDie various tropes]] on this very wiki illustrate).

** He referenced it on his Twitter, so he at least knows of its existence.

* EpicFail: This was Yahtzee's conclusion about ''Ride to Hell'', when all was said and done. When Yahtzee cautiously commands the game to "lie down and don't move", the floor gives way underneath it. In his Top 5 of 2013, he spoke with wonderment about how the developers could have [[ShockingSwerve swapped out the DVD for an empty sleeve]] and ''still'' achieved a higher score than the actual game did.

* {{GIFT}}: Yahtzee actually cites the [[Webcomic/PennyArcade original formula]] then alters it by subtracting 'Anonymity' and 'Audience'. Or in other words, [[HumansAreBastards Normal Person = Total Fuckwad]].

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Yahtzee plays with this trope on several occasions, most notably his ''[[Franchise/GuitarHero Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock]]'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/17-Guitar-Hero-III review]], where he very specifically lists several homosexual acts (and one heterosexual act) which he is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial most certainly not doing]].

** His review of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' brought up that he named Link "Loser" as a quick joke, but found as the game continued that it actually worked pretty well with the game's portrayal of Link as an [[FailureHero unlucky, flawed, and put-upon figure]] facing a far greater threat than himself, [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold whose deeds will never be remembered.]]

--> '''Yahtzee:''' But in that case, what's all the tearing all your arms and legs off business about? Is that a metaphor for scissoring during that time of the mo-- That was the new worst thing I've ever written.

* GuiltyPleasure: Considering how critical he is of "serious" games, easily calling much of them banal, asinine, or insipid, he loves ''VideoGame/CookingMama'' and ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''. He says that despite all the criticism he gave to ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'', he can't stop playing it.
** In his Saints Row 4 review, he refers to "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" by Music/{{Aerosmith}} as "that one Aerosmith song from the ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' soundtrack that everyone seems faintly embarrassed to admit is kinda alright"

* EndingFatigue: Discussed in his [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2714-A-Shadows-Tale review]] of ''VideoGame/AShadowsTale'' ([[InsistentTerminology NOT Lost in Shadow!]]) [[invoked]]
-->''Oh, you're going to make me ''backtrack'' aren't you, you little'' bastard!

** [[HatesEveryoneEqually Not that he treats any other country with any level of courtsey]], but there ya go.

** [[HatesEveryoneEqually Not that he treats his own country of origin any nicer]], but there ya go.

--->''The thing about ''Half-Life'' is that most shooters at the time still had guns that floated 3' off the ground and gently spun like a barber's pole and nothing else ever felt so absorbingly real. So we can indirectly blame it for every monstrous thing done in the name of realism ever since, starting with its own multiplayer mod, ''VideoGame/CounterStrike,'' game of choice for the first generation of realistic military shooter gutter cunts, who’s hate-filled whims now dictate half the fucking industry.''

** His review of ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'' flashes a picture of Yahtzee (standing next to a black man) with the words NOT RACIST several times. Bonus points for using an inversion of the BlackBestFriend meme.

* EscalatingPunchline