Zero Punctuation: April Fools

[Therumancer]

I think the main joke is that Yahtzee was talking slowly and completly deadpan.

A better April fools might have been a positive review of an obviously bad game, like a movie tie in. However doubt Yahtzee was willing to go that low for a bad joke.

Do not forget the "Duke Nukem Forever" review which apparently was one of his more popular performances.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Oh bloody hell... what are they teaching you kids in school these days? Certainly not Keats, by the sound of things. How is that an erotic novel?

Gahhhhhhhhh.

Yeah, sorry, that would be me thinking of another thing.

That thing being School Days.
That thing I'm writing a review of in my spare time (I.e. right now.)

...Yeah. My bad.

I was actually responding to the first reply, apparently I hit 'reply' instead of 'quote'... long day.

 

[Hazy]

Oh bloody hell... what are they teaching you kids in school these days? Certainly not Keats, by the sound of things. How is that an erotic novel?

Gahhhhhhhhh.

Yeah, sorry, that would be me thinking of another thing.

That thing being School Days.
That thing I'm writing a review of in my spare time (I.e. right now.)

...Yeah. My bad.

I was actually responding to the first reply, apparently I hit 'reply' instead of 'quote'... long day.

Nah, it's all good.

As evidenced by my slip up, I'm in the same boat as you.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Where was it hidden? i had no idea

wait what? where was this hidden? haha

Part-way through an episode of Game Dogs

That would probably explain why no one found it.

So much win!

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

Erm, that was... interesting... his voice was also rather unsettling.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

I saw it. It was pretty funny to me seeing a video of him act so calm while reading.

 

[Dan Shive]

It suddenly came up in the latest episode of Game Dogs and may have been elsewhere. This is just it on its own, but it has been randomly inserted in other places on the site, hence the April Fools.

And I may not be the first to point that out, but many posts are many and I wanted to be sure at least one post brought to light what the crap this was about.

 

[Octopusesgarden]

At first I thought that it was him reading an extract from his book Mogworld

 

[pantsgamer]

... what?

 

[Jandau]

W... T... F... ?

 

[Treblaine]

Definitely one of the better Aprils fools.

 

[Delock]

Ah, the April Fools Day joke is that the thread for it is full of confused fans rather than "Great review!"'s.


(Yes, I already know it's that he's reading slowly as opposed to his normal fast, curse filled ranting)

 

[Jared]

Hehe. Remember seeing it. Odd seeing him so calm lol

 

[Voodoomancer]

Yahtzee talking slowly?

o.0

eerie...

 

[Caiti Voltaire]

Yahtzee's inner emo comes to the surface.

 

[Huffman_D]

i have to disagree with you yahtzee there, i think there was plenty of depth in that there game, you just didn't bother looking for it like you usually don't

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

What does it mean? Seriously...

 

[Mokagogo]

Wow -- if Yahtzee's intention was to make April Fools of most of the posters on this thread, he certainly succeeded. How about Google Is Your Friend, and that was an excerpt from 'Ode on Melancholy' by Keats? You know, that dead English poet? They made a crappy movie about his love life recently?

I like to imagine Yahtzee used this opportunity to try and introduce you to something other than games. And the results are in: 80% of you are incapable of handling it. Great.

The poem suggests that when your weariness and sorrow is such that you would want to take your own life, instead feast your eyes and senses upon what is beautiful, and revel in its fading, and in the transience of all things. That in the midst of the bad, you hold to the good, and yet recognise that all of it will pass.


"if thy mistress some rich anger shows,
Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,
And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.

She dwells with Beauty -- Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:
Ay, in the very temple of Delight,
Veiled Melancholy has her sovereign shrine".

 

[Thijsterhaar]

The funny thing is that he actually uses punctuation!