Yahtzee's Not a Jerk, Just Baffled

[Willwillwritehiswill]

I don't get how anyone could handle fans... famous people put so much out there (yahtzee only being e-famous, but still his videos are watched millions of times) people thing they can be all chummy. It'd freak me out too. Lucky for me i've no discernable talent.

 

[v3n0mat3]

That's Yahtzee! *studio audience laughter, applause as credit reels appear on screen*

 

[chronobreak]

You're forgetting his earliest vidoes, which I first found on Youtube (that place where anyone can put there BS up), where it had nothing to do with fans and all to do with his opinion.

The fact that people agree, or find him hilarious, is and has a been a bonus.

Right, but I don't see what that has to do with anything now, we are well beyond that point, and he's now cemented himself as a notable critic. Added to that, I'm sure he didn't put those early videos on youtube just so he could sit and watch them himself. Same thing with bands, you are not going to record a demo just so you can sit in your room and listen to it.

If he posted a video of him trying to shoot an elephant gun and falling over backwards, I would say that's just a funniest home video thing, no big deal, but when you share a piece of yourself, even an opinion, I think it's a different beast. You know from the get-go that people are either going to agree with you, or disagree with you, maybe he just wasn't ready for the amount of people that liked his opinion.

 

[thousandfaces]

Ben and yahtzee are 2 different people.

 

[PyroZombie]

I don't blame him for not understanding people.

I have a growing hate for the newer generation, and I'm wondering why I bother being nice to them by NOT throwing bricks at them, or take screwdrivers to them in the shoulder blade, curse my humanity.

Though i must say this, while i don't understand people, the "Imp" Ink would not be a bad idea on your ass, maybe left shoulder.

 

[Scrythe]

I can imagine the horror on Yahtzee's face if he ever catches one of his fans camping out in his front yard or something.

Or worse, someone with all kinds of creepy memorabilia of him, ranging from his toenail clippings, to various articles of his garbage, to a blow-up doll in his image...

Which brings me to my question: What are the gun laws in Aussieland?

 

[theunreliablecritic]

thank you for clearing his name susan arendt

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Yahtzee's no jerk to people just game developers and as "fans" go i understand why would act the way he does. Imagine someone random just popping up to ya and going 'oh i love you' and derpy derpy doo

 

[blaze96]

Yea I never really understood the whole fan talking to person they never met thing. I can understand saying Hi, waving, or nodding but running up and talking like you personally know him has got to be creepy.

 

[Undeadpope]

I get tattoos of just about anything which servers are a nice memory.

The sims Diamond
Team fortress 2 stuff.
my pets.
Edit:Rugrats,some peoples can find that quite disturbing

I just think tattoo are good way of remembering things aloud,ZP border lines a significance in my life so a ZP tattoo is in consideration(but only just now)



Anyway,they best way to get someone to listen is to be nasty to them,if you get pickles in your burger when you did'nt want it,you march up to them and shout them a new ass(?)they'll have learned there lesson and you get a whole new burger without pickles and a free side of fries to go with,win/win.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Yea i get pissed when people ask for my autograph, pretty dam repetitive.

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

He's had this whole "I hate humanity" persona for years, even way before he started doing Zero Punctuation. It's modelled on the presentation style of Screenwipe host Charlie Brooker, a man Yahtzee deeply admires.

 

[LaBambaMan]

It's one thing to be a fan, to like something, to enjoy a product or what-have-you. It's a totally different thing to be a fan-boy and be utterly obsessed with whatever(like being a hardcore Trekkie or the guy who goes to BotCon every year because he believes Transformers to be the one true giant robot series of all time), and that's when it gets creepy.

 

[TalonsOfWar]

fans just got to bacl off him for a while

 

[Saskwach]

You know, I hate to come off as all fanboyish because I'm not. I like ZP and agree with lots of what he says. But I have the same attitude to a lot of things as he does; I don't copy his attitude.
As with many things so with this, except from the other side. I'm incredibly uncomfortable talking to in-the-flesh people who are somehow related to things I like. I don't get signatures at sci-fi conventions. I don't try to talk to the actors of my favourite shows. I like the show and I like these peoples' work, but talking to them feels like a forced relationship in which everyone's smiling and trying to pretend they like each other. In other words, what Yahtzee feels as an object of fandom, I feel as a fan.

 

[ssgt splatter]

If I ever met him I'd just say I love your videos keep it up.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

people can do weird, interesting, scary, stupid, and amazing things at times, fans can get more and more into the Baffling as time goes on

 

[MR.Spartacus]

I hate it when people act like they know me. The worst part is they probably do know me and I've just completely forgotten they ever existed. I'm bad like that but back on topic even If I'm a fan of something someone's done I still don't act like I know them.