Rebecca Mayes Muses: Love Song for Yahtzee

[Pegghead]

Who knows, maybe this shall finally penetrate mr Yahtzees tough skin and rejuvenate his little heart.

A very nice tribute to a very nice video series.

 

[okogamashii]

That was really great but now I simply must see what yathzee has to say about this I mean I am itching.

I really enjoyed this song, and i'm sure Yahtzee will too.

He sure has a mean way of expressing it.

http://twitter.com/YahtzeeCroshaw

But then again, that's just him being himself.

Oh he did see it. I noticed that he hates everyone. I really get tired of that speil. Why can't there be a smart opinionated person that doesn't hate everyone?

Because when you are smart and opinionated, you tend to realize how awful the rest of the world is, would be my guess.

 

[Dobs141]

Loved this. A lot.

Pants-on-head offended was my favorite as well

 

[Earthmonger]

You know, I have the odd feeling that Yahtzee is very turned on by this. Excellent first move towards a long-distance relationship.

 

[Danallighieri]

That is one awesome song

 

[Luk3us]

Wow, that was awesome! ^_^

 

[AngryPuppy]

@YahtzeeCroshaw you might not be misogynist but in my eyes you are making sexism/homophobia socially acceptable.

Twitter is getting interesting. I'm really REALLY not sure if this is a "joke" or not now. At first I thought it was, but now... well, now it's just creepy after reading their Twitters.

 

[Oktanas]

And here I was thinking you forgot to make this song.
Great song

 

[1080bitgamer]

Damn...

 

[Edward Heffner]

i think they should agree to disagree and make up they are opposites and it may sound weird but they could be good for eachother

 

[AyrSuppli]

Made my day. But, all your songs have that indie rock feel. This one could've used at least another spoonful of hope and a cup of happy, tone-wise.

 

[AnonymouZero]

i lul at all the hate. but an artist must have already gotten used to that on their way to become one... so yeah.

good song, i liked it and lul'd and... yeah... just like the mindless masses, hope to see a response from zp. xD

who knows, maybe you would go and have some coffee and discover he ain't all that... or viceversa? gasp, no, NEVER!

 

[f0re1gn]

I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's original and, well, has potential. The verses is probably what I didn't like the most - the chorus was much better.

But I doubt Rebecca will read ALL of this.. but who knows +))

 

[MaltesePigeon]

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As children, we all went to school and drew horrible pictures. Pictures of Santa Clause where he and the reindeer are the same height. Pictures of our families where everyone was literally smiling from ear to ear, though they did not have ears. And an American favorite, the Thanksgiving's Day hand turkey.

Now when we brought these things home to our parents they would smile and say what wonderful works of art they were. Because they had to.

And that's where they just put Yahtzee. He's going to have to rip on it some because that's what he does. But if his response doesn't come out more positive then negative then it's just bad for the site.

That said, I believe Yahtzee owns a bar, and I doubt they will be playing this song there.

Check his twitterfeed. He responded to it.

And so it begins. He denigrates himself on twitter, "I hate everyone." She replies that he is sexist/homophobic. Then asks, "do you write songs?"

He will twit(no not tweet, twit), "Have you ever written a book or programmed a game?" So much drama, this is better than Days of Our Lives or General Hospital (I think those soap operas still exist). Welcome to the escapist version of TGWG: crossovers.

 

[IsraelRocks]

That said, I believe Yahtzee owns a bar, and I doubt they will be playing this song there.

right, another stop on my post-graduation trip to AUS

 

[Pandageddon]

I've been a fan of Rebecca Mayes since she first came on the Escapist. Her songs are smart, multi-layered, cultured, and, by far my favorite aspect, deeply observant about games as an emerging art form and what they [the games] imply about our society.

So it goes without saying I love this song! It's one of her best ones (I liked "take me back to the 80s" best myself), and tackles a subject that seems impossible to review: Yahtzee! (Where did he get that nickname anyway?)

That being said, I am NOT pleased with the amount of flak she's getting for this song (and I know she's getting a lot of love too!). As an unpleasable cynical curmudgeon myself, I love me some Yahtzee as well. He's extremely funny, and he's fighting for the good guys! But just like Ms. Mayes, I find myself grinding my teeth every time he casts his ire at the finer sex. I know he does it ironically, as his EP post about Wet clearly states, but it's still undermining women and makes sexism seem socially acceptable. So yes, her disappointment for his sexism, even though it's false, is valid.

To me it seems like she's sure getting a lot of flak for having the audacity to be woman (She shouldn't be on the Escapist! RAWR RAWR), and it's not fair. In the game industry, women are hugely outnumbered, and they're easy targets. I for one am proud that there exists a female game critic as intelligent, observant, funny, and talented as Ms. Mayes. It helps that she has dreamy eyes, but that's beside the point.

And the idea that she's doing it for attention? If you have been watching her videos (chances are, you, the haters, have not), you'd know she's been preparing for this for months. Also, if you read her blog (You don't do that either, haters) she's getting plenty of attention in her home country in the UK, in newspapers and TV and such, and she doesn't even know what to do with it.

Anyway, great job Rebecca, I can't wait to see the response. It was ten times better than I thought would be, and I thought it was going to be great! As a cynical, negative, pessimistic, feminist MALE, I salute you!

I'm a long term Yahzee fan. I'm also a woman, and a feminist.

If Rebecca wants to call anyone misogynist it should be the industry. Some of the points in Rebecca's song are spot on, but I don't think Yahzee is in any way, shape or form a misogynist. He ragged on Ruby from Wet, because she is a bloody atrocious character, and a completely fair target. He's taken the piss out of plenty of boneheaded male characters too.

Fact is, the number of decent female protagonists in games are few and far between and it's incredibly frustrating. I want to play cool women but unless the game is an RPG where I can create my own character it's very rare that I get the opportunity. Women in games are portrayed 90% of the time as either a convenient kidnap or murder victim (God of War, Alan Wake, every Mario game ever), or big-titted, oversexualised bitchy bimbos (Wet, Bayonetta) the rest of the time. The only franchise where there's a female playable character that's in any way cool is Tomb Raider- and I don't play those because Lara handles like a shopping trolley. I think the last non-RPG game I actually played with a lead female character that didn't make me want to scoop my eyes out was Silent Hill 3.

There are a couple of games with intriguing female support characters like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Silent Hill 2 but they're rare as hen's teeth. There are plenty of us girl gamers out here who are fed up of playing jar-head space marines and psychos like Kratos. We'd like representation that amounts to more than a witch in a catsuit made of hair. For example, I love Red Dead Redemption, but I would have loved it ever more if I could have played as a Calamity Jane style female gunslinger.

The homophobia thing is mind-boggling as well. Has Rebecca never played any online games? Been called a fa**ot and then had her corpse tea-bagged? It's already "socially acceptable" to be homophobic in the gaming community. Ever seen a gay or bisexual male lead character in a mainstream game?

I think Rebecca has more worthy targets for her ire than Yahzee. That said, the amount of crap she's getting from mouth-breathing Zero Punctuation fans is proving her point.

 

[Sageeth]

@YahtzeeCroshaw you might not be misogynist but in my eyes you are making sexism/homophobia socially acceptable.

Twitter is getting interesting. I'm really REALLY not sure if this is a "joke" or not now. At first I thought it was, but now... well, now it's just creepy after reading their Twitters.

Comments made that one towards Yahtzee are so idiotic. Do people really think that jokes make actual prejudice socially acceptable? Maybe the rest of the world is just so uptight and sensitive.