Best wishes to Yahtzee

[multicast]

Locusts? Naw we got those already.... But god spared queensland and sent the little blighters to Victoria. They're not quite in Plauge proportions but there are a LOT of them.

 

[misslarnie]

Cooktown is NOWHERE near the top of queensland. Go get a map. Better yet, drive from cooktown to seisha and then tell me how long it took you.

 

[Raioken18]

I think this whole disaster could have been avoided if we took Yahtzee out to the cyclone and had him talk in the opposite direction of the wind. The sheer force of both Yahtzee talking and a cyclonic wind would either cancel eachother out or form a super cyclone...

...What would we call it? The Yahtzee Yasi Cyclone?

 

[Dark Knifer]

He lives in Brisbane, way south of the cyclone and the floods there have subsided and on the way to recovering. Let's just say best wishes to those who are actually affected by the cyclone alright?

 

[Casual Shinji]

The first time I heard this on the news I actually thought they said "hurricane Yahtzee".

Australia does seem to get a lot of shit these days from the weather gods. Let's hope this hurricane doesn't take Mr. Croshaw, aswell as anyone else from Downunder, to the merry old land of Oz.

 

[TheBlueRabbit]

I think this whole disaster could have been avoided if we took Yahtzee out to the cyclone and had him talk in the opposite direction of the wind. The sheer force of both Yahtzee talking and a cyclonic wind would either cancel eachother out or form a super cyclone...

That would cause a rip in the fabric of space. That having been said, it still would be cool to see.


OT: I'm not going to bother reposting it but that jellyfish from earlier in the post scared the hell out of me. I hope the peoples of my favorite island nation are ok so they can get back to dealing with the wildlife instead.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I like the guy, but he's a minor internet celebrity, not the Australian Prime Minister. Seriously, people...

sigh... Julia gillard being in a cyclone... i can only dream. she is moving games like cod up to R18!! what the hell! and just to remind you all Australia doesn't get R18.

 

[Trogdor1138]

So screw the rest of our State then? Nice dude...

Anyways, so you know, he doesn't live where it's hitting, he's only about an hour away from me. My thoughts are with the citizens to the north.

 

[CrystalShadow]

At the risk of saying what's been said 500 times already, Yahtzee will be fine.

He's in Brisbane. And while that was hit with flooding, this Cyclone is much further north. My Aunt informs me that my Grandmother (Who lives in Noosa on the sunshine coast - north of Brisbane) is perfectly fine.

Brisbane won't even notice this.

Cairns however...

Well, if this is the worst cyclone ever to hit Australia, let me just point out that I used to live in Darwin.

As such, I'm quite familiar with the history surrounding Cyclone Tracy.

Let me tell you, there was nothing left of Darwin after Cyclone tracy had passed through.
There's all of maybe 3 or 4 buildings that survived it in any shape or form.

If this is worse, I really fear for anything in the path of this cyclone.

Yeah, but the building code for all of Australia changed after Tracey.

Have you seen the varitable Pilboxes that everyone in Walagi, Wagaman, Leanyer etc (ie. some of Darwin's older suburbs) live in?

Queensland isn't as good, they've got a lot of Queenslander style houses (Funny that...) which aren't as good but would still hold up against tracy.

I think you'll find Cairns faired pretty well. Innisvale and Cardwell not so much.

Well, of course, I'm fairly certain Darwin was rebuilt with a bit more thought to the building code, but some of the constructions still don't look that strong even today.

However, I will concede that with better construction techniques, there's probably less damage. Which is just as well, because something like this levelling a large town isn't such a fun thought.

 

[Memor-X]

Yahtezz will be fine, Brisbane wasn't in Yasi's path and even if it was, it wouldn't rcive that much damage unless the Yasi's Eye wasn't though.

first floods, now Anthony and Yasi, i think with mother nature of the Elementals are telling everyone in Queensland to get lost and out of the state, i live south-west Victoria, while Yasi was blowing crap away, we was in bloody hot weather, it's been raining hard but the humidity is making things hot and sticky (not to mention C.C won't boot up today), Yahtzee is lucky to have the wet weather, it's nice and cool

still, on the subject of cyclones, Yasi may not be the last, summer's not finished and don't cyclones normally come in during winter?, then again i don't know much about the weather apart from the fact it's stopping my family having a garage sale and me making money to get SwapMagic and .Hack//G.U

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

the country is filled with animals like this
http://www.todaysworld.com.au/images/giant-jellyfish1.jpg
<spoiler=helpful graph>http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/Australia2.jpg
I'm surprised that Yahtzee has be able to survive this long.

Great image, could I please have the website because that is just so perfect and funny. According to my sister we have a part of the cyclone hitting us down in Victoria, I've got to say, I have never felt my house shake so much. Although I'm sure Yahtzee is okay, isn't it a bit unfair to just wish one individual the best because he makes you laugh about games? How about all of Australia or maybe just Queensland.

PS: Stuff Silent Hill and Amnesia: The Dark Decent, we need a freaking survival horror about the mutated Australian out back at night. We already have 3 foot long, glow in the dark, blue Earth Worms, just make them larger and we will already have a terrifying game experience.

 

[Squidwogdog]

He is based in my town of brisbane so he will be fine, Yasi only effected north queensland towns like Cairns and Cooktown. the worst thing he has to worry about is hot and record breakingly humid wheather.

 

[adderseal]

It's not pronounced exactly like Yahtzee. Yasi...say it with me, Yar-sea...YAR-SEA.

Surely it's closer to "Yazzie"?

Belive me, it's Yar-sea.

But I don't see an 'r' ANYWHERE...

There is a 'b' in plumber and we don't say that. You have to trust me, you say it 'Yar-sea'

YARRR-SEA... hmmm... wouldnt pirates just say sea? I don't think that what they sea 99.99% of the time would warrant a yarrr
Edit: That pun actually was unintentional. damn misspelling

It's pronounced like the dice game Yahtzee. That is to say, YAT-ZEE.

 

[Orsoeus]

The man got the ability to talk at the speed of light, he doesn't need best wishes from the likes of us.

My thoughts excatly

 

[Pugnate]

Its Cairns thats being hit the worst! I'm so lucky being tucked away in New Zealand. Seriously Australia is being hit so hard with natural disasters and all Christchurch (nz) got is a 7.1 earthquake. Is that all you got mother nature?

Interestingly enough, my aunt (who was born here in the UK) emigrated to Auckland some years ago and now lives in Christchurch. She's a nurse at a mental clinic, and she was actually there in the middle of the earthquake. Fortunately she and her family were fine, but she had to help get all the patients out and to safety in case of aftershocks and such...

Anyway, regarding the OP, I give my sympathies and whatnot to all of Australia, and all of Queensland, not just Yahtzee, but of course I give them to Yahtzee as well. However, I'm just curious as to why people feel the need to post threads like this when at the end of the day, Yahtzee is a man. A late-twenties English man with a very fast voice and a sarcastic sense of humour. Nothing more. Fine, we all agree he's awesome, but does he really need fanboys and stalker-ish actions like this? Really? I like the guy, but he's a minor internet celebrity, not the Australian Prime Minister. Seriously, people...

You think my giving my best wishes to a journalist who writes for this website, because he lives in a city which was facing its worst natural disaster in 30 years is staklerish?

That's a bit extreme, isn't it?

I am not even a massive fan of his reviews. Stop painting with such a broad brush. Yeesh.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

It freezes in Texas, cyclones and flooding affect Australia, next I suppose you'll be telling me the UK gets sunshine. Crazy weather lately.