Remember The Escapist? This is them now.
>>726100294>It's realWell shit.
>>726100294Gambling is legit evil
>>726100294>>726100412I'm watching the latest vid and it's just these 2 bumbling 80 IQ fools shilling slots holy fucking grim
>>726100294Yeah I sure want to escape from this bullshit
>>726100294That honestly made me feel a little sick. They were never good sure, but this is just disgusting.What the fuck happened?
>>726100294>>726100412>>726100515Oh, and they're all hitting the 10 minute mark minimum for maximum engagement
>>726100294>Remember The Escapist?The vessel for Yahtzee's content? What about them?
that's actually hilarious
>>726100294I'm actually more surprised that there are enough "big" gamble streamers that you can make clip compilations of them
>>726100294They fully knew ridding their cash cow would kill them right? Why the fuck did they do anything to actually risk him leaving, and actually go through with it? Did they think anyone actually gave a shit about their "brand identity" or whatever the fuck corpo fucks think
>>726100294A 35 year old magazine/site all collapsed because they were retarded enough to piss off their 1 cash cow
>>726100559All the actual talent left and formed second wind
>>726102312"all the talent" = 1 guy
>>726102237The corpo wanted escapist to increase the video output to unsustainable levelsThe chief editor wasn't being cooperative enough about this, so he was being let goYahtzee and others left in protest, and started their own thing with blackjack and hookers (except it's patreon and no hookers)Then it was apparently found out that this timeline of events isn't entirely truthful, but the guy who pointed it out (Frost) is a massive twat so I don't care if his feelings were hurt
Not gonna pretend otherwise, I first started coming to 4chan because it seemed like Escapist was on the way out. Still sad to see it in such a deathly state, just pull the plug already.
I thought it was this...
>>726100294they lost their best content creators like shamus young and yahtzee, what did you expect? i guess bob chipman also left but who cares
>>726100412It is. I mean look at this shit>https://youtu.be/2eNBfXb-A-Q?si=8_4LokrQ7TMo5C-XThese retards will keep clicking on The Button That Makes You Lose Money while screaming "STOP!!!" until they go bankrupt because there's a small chance that they will win money eventually this time for sureGamblers are patheticI mean I understand the rush of gambling but you can literally get it from videogames without wasting a cent. Or you can set hard limits that you will only gamble with like 50 dollars max once or twice per month, and only for funGambling addiction is a serious mental illness
>>726102443If you understand the rush of gambling you should understand that gambling 50 dollars is fucking nothing"I understand the rush of basejumping but why don't you stick to jumping 3 feet onto a mattress"
>>726102443what the fuck, I've bought stocks and got lucky gaining 3000$ in a short time, it's really nothing to get excited like a howling monkey over.
>>726102443I personally gamble only like once every one or two months, and only because eurojackpot's grand prize pot keeps increasing every time someone doesn't win it. After a certain point even just getting a few digits right more than covers the ticket purchase (like couple euros for a ticket, then you win like 10 to 20 euros).I don't expect to ever win the grand pot, but you know, I am losing money very slowly when I stick to this plan, so I don't really care.
>>726100294why the fuck has EVERY hobby-related institution fallen? EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
>>726102763women, jews, poc
>>726102443if you bet 10 times you have a good chance to make some money,if you bet 1000 times you will lose money because that is how the game is designed
>>726102763Guy in a suit doesn't know what video games are but still wants the line to go up no matter what, small but dedicated niches with moderate, sustainable profit are worthless to them because they don't show a line going up enough each financial quarter
>>726102198People addicted to gambling get a rush watching others gamble
>>726102312The only one worth a damn is Yahtzee and they all know it
>>726102763Turns out they didn't actually have unlimited money for their DEI initiatives.
>>726103338I'm not a gambling addict, and I felt my heart rate spike from watching this>>726102443
Unironiclly this was better than it was originally. Gambling shit spam is much better then SJW talking points
>>726100294Bob won.
>>726102443I realized I need to stop being an edgy fedora once I realized religion stopping retards from gambling all their money away because if you are atheist you can very easily rationalize this obvious evil. I them moved to china where people literally pray to gods for better gambling luck.
>>726102630someone please explain this, I did not get this excited from gaining exactly what they won in the first clip, they look stressed even when winning
>>726102282It's lose/lose. Escapist wasn't wrong that Nick has to go.
>>726100294I think gambling should be one of the few things that should be broadly illegal alongside murder, usury, rape, theft, willful destruction of property, etc.
>>726103523Amy is so cute
>>726102763>institutionLet's be fair here, the escapist hasn't been relevant in a decade. Last time i heard of tha place, Russ pitts was still doing those news anchor skits.
>>726103523cool it with the antisemitism
>>726103523I don't think that's possible to enforce, just like it didn't work with alcohol in probation era, but a big hammer of regulations does need to come down on online gambling
>>726100294What happened to the gamergate audience?
You need to read Addiction by DesignThese people are fucking evil
>>726103630>I don't think that's possible to enforceYou certainly can in as far as shutting down casinos
>>726102443>I know how addiction works just set yourself limits that you'll never ever break unlike millions of others before youYou sound just as dumb
>>726103630You'll never be able to eliminate it but not having hundreds of options to gamble at your fingertips on your phone would make a difference.
>>726102763Socialism.
>>726103892Gambling would not exist under socialism
>>726102763Gee, why would seed funded capitalists buying every single site in existence, consolidating them and then demanding they pivot to the lowest common denominator result in institutions failing? It's almost like this hasn't happened 10000 times before.
>>726103892>socialism is when failed magazine sells it's name and subscriber base to advertise casinos
>>726103873I think making it illegal to create bets lower than 20$ could do the trick>>726103757addicts would love their money on first bet the leave, and they wouldn't search out illegal penny bets since there is no percievable gain to doing so
>>726103716They went into internet bloodsports with E-daddy Jim medicare and Carlgon. Most of them are now on /pol/ crying about women and jews.
>>726103982why did capitalists make the main character black?
>>726102763Why the fuck is this named wojak? You dumb, STUPID motherfucker.I support the complete collapse of hobbies if it means you suffer.
>>726103780The problem isn't even casinos nowadays, or physical locationsIts the online scene, the quick and easy way to gamble away your savings, the convenient way to bet on anything from playing virtual slots to sports to whatever the fuck devils at polmarket are letting you bet onRegular casinos and such are a problem, yes, but they are also heavily regulated, monitored and if they are gone then people will either gamble in private or go to scummy basement joints openly run by organized crime, meanwhile online scene has very little regulation and is ripe with loopholes, which is why it oftentimes outrigh targets kids, CS2 crate gambling is one of those examples, but by far not the only one, and if they are gone, then that's it, you can't really make a scummy basement online casino, well you kinda can but your average person doesn't know how to access dark web
>>726103523>willful destruction of property, etc.>t. poorfag whose mad about me destroying my stuffI rather burn it then give it away to (you) people.
>>726104081The online ones are run by casinos usually but yes things like polymarket and anything that allows for grey market casinos like steam marketplace should be destroyed as well.
>>726104045Good question to actually sincerely ask yourself
>>726104056based wojak accelerationist
>>726103972...because under socialism the state can simply take its people's money without them having any say in it.If you feel, like that is the current state of your country already, then maybe you are living in a socialist state.>>726103994They got woke, went broke and now have to resort to scammy methods to make money.
>>726104025It was a rhetorical question, we all know none of them actually play video games
Were they known for anything besides Yahtzee?
>>726100412
>>726104239> ...because under socialism the state can simply take its people's money without them having any say in it.In a capitalist state they can take your money without any say as well. It's called Tariffs.
>>726104239>They got woke,That's a function of capitalism. Try not being a fucking retard for once in your life and learn what words mean.
>>726103972It will tho, so long as there is money, people will gamble, if not in the open then in their basement, or a smoky backroom of a bar run by a organized crime
Gambling is fun if you're not a poorfag
>>726104239>If you feel, like that is the current state of your country already, then maybe you are living in a socialist state.I don't, and I don't, and it isn't, but thanks for playing
>>726103375The cold take guy is good to be desu.
>>726104346Yes, so as long as capitalism persists
>>726104207because the are good people that want to make the world a better place?
>>726104182The legit online ones still run things pretty loose.On theory they are supposed to monitor things, abide by responsible gambling codes, etc but most do not give a shit.Also doesn't help that they are all based in low regulation counties.
>>726104293you just had to make it a trump jab didn't you?it's actually called taxes
>>726104270Movie Bob for a while.
>>726102763
>>726104446you are incredibly embarrassing
>>726104293The people voted for the package containing tariffs. It's not like he had been silent about those.I'm not American, and I'm not fond of the tariffs, but it doesn't look like they were blowing up in his face.>>726104305Simply because the socialists of our days keep betraying every single one of their own words, that doesn't make every single stupid shit they do a "function of capitalism".>>726104407Well, good for you. Thanks for missing the point.
>>726102763The internet packaged instant gratification to everyoneHuman beings evolved with biases for stupid and negative shitOver time the evolutionary pressure means non retarded monkeys simply don't show up on the algorithm anymore
Tried rewatching the classics a month or so ago. They didn't age well.Were we all this bitchy in the mid 2000s?
>>726100294did they get hacked or something?
>>726104671Man you're a retarded nigger shut the fuck up and read a book.
>>726104694still am
>>726104593Tariffs are taxes
>>726104423Didn't he leave them a while back
>>726104671>Thanks for missing the pointI got your "point", such as it is, you're just retarded and wrong
>>726104760but taxes aren't tariffs, but if you said taxes you couldn't have inserted you'r TDS into it
>>726104423He fucked up going directly to Second Wind, then. Everyone has been burned too many times trying one of Yahtzee's coworkers videos out of curiosity and just turning that shit off.
>>726104694
>>726104694That's funny, I find they aged a hell of a lot better than the post 2014 or so ones. The very early ones are rough but he was was the contrarian template.
>>726104694Anon look at the catalog, we are even more bitchy now
>>726104827the cycle of racial violence must be stopped
>>726102443I could never get into gambling, I'd get too anxious or pissed, plus I don't like the idea of others handling my money since I was a kid.
>>726104808you need to get your TDS checked, it seems terminal
>>726104812Stop attempting to reason with him.He is the type of guy, that would kill you over denying a male his "right" to be called a woman by you.
>>726104694His old art style and avatar were better. They were simpler and cleaner. Yes, the fedora aged rather poorly, but whatever. His new avatar looks like a fucking redditor with those glasses. And like it's trying too hard to look cool.
>>726102763They became popular, and the masses are retarded. Go find some niche community of autists. The older, the better. Some are still in their own time capsules, using emojis like o_o as if it was still the mid 2000s.
>>726102443>get given 300>immediately bet and lose it and then cry and then slam your fist on your desk so hard you bleedHow is someone this dumb
>>726104880>I could never get into gamblingGood choice anon. The house always wins.
>>726102443>>726104880I went to casino with friends once. I played, was winning $50 and then just quit and felt no desire to push it. I got a lot of vices, but I'm thankful I seem to be immune to gambling addiction.
>>726102763Videogames in general are dying, the industry has had fallen revenue year on year since 2022 and it's projected to keep falling.Millennials and Gen X are slowly dropping out of Gaming, they were the biggest gamers. Gen Z never were fully into games and were more about youtube and streaming, they are growing out of games rapidly as streaming and youtube is pivoting away from games. Gen Alpha only watches short form content and even roblox and minecraft are seeing a drop in players as younger Gen Alpha never get into games, ever.The industry is collapsing similarly to cable tv.The funny thing is that the ONLY hobby related institution that is still alive and kicking is literature. Reading is still good and the quality of books hasn't fallen at all. Highly recommended for fellow millennials as the game industry slowly disappears.
>>726104990That's called addiction, its some messed up stuff
>>726104951He just inversed it, white for black and yellow for everything else. Not much else you can do when Escapist owns the rights and you still can't draw worth a damn.
>>726102312>>726102350>>726103375How are Second Wind doing?Yahtzee still pulling in enough Patreon to keep it all going?
>>726104992I'll just settle for Balatro even if it pisses me off sometimes>>726105000I don't think I could do that. I'd probably win big and think "ok, but what if..." and it'd all go to shit
>>726104770I didn't know that. Shame. >>726104826I thought he was a good fit. Ah well.
>>726105119He'll do fine running his own shtick if he's decent, probably way better than running fifteenth fiddle to the guy who has so much of the audience attention of both groups he's in it's a running joke.
But I get it, though. It's a hard addiction to escape, especially with sports betting everywhere these days. Sports betting is a gateway drug, and the next thing you know, you're gambling the last of your savings away. Even my boomer ass coworkers have these stupid slot machines on their phones that they lose money to. You cannot start these games. They're designed to milk you dry and they use every psychological trick in the book to keep you hooked. Don't play the games. The house always wins, motherfucker.
>>726103517Its a addiction like heroin to some. A junkie will shake and sweat even as they heat up their shit in a spoon in a public toilet as if they just found the holy grail aswell
>>726100294https://youtu.be/yiPecsN-t3g?t=59How did he get away with it? It was in 2018, no less.
>>726105234Just don't get addicted, retard
>>726102443It's even worse with boomers as a casino tech, I legit wanna hang these absolute retards and their low impulse at burning their money
>>726104270Shamus Young wrote articles for them sometimes. He was a good writer
>>726104978are you shitting me right now o_o?
>>726105346The dude who turned LOTR into a comic about a tabletop group?
>>726104978Fun fact: If you press windows + . you get a list of emojis, but there's also a tab for emoticons(ﾉ*ФωФ)ﾉ
>>726105315Someone post that gambling anime screenshot strip with the guy at his deathbed or whatever, that's very much what's happening.
>>726105050People are subscribed only for him.Cold take was okay ish but he left.All other videos are literal slop. Design Delve is a pretentious crap written by a sound designer posing as a legitimate game developer.I unsubscribed the moment they uploaded some political bullshit.
>>726102198The biggest gambler on Twitch was a nepojew that shared stories about "Jewish Sex Camp".Funny that Twitch went after gambling content on their platform just days after.
>>726105493holy shit (*°▽°*)
>>726105584>The biggest gambler on Twitch was a nepojew that shared stories about "Jewish Sex Camp".I mean, that is not even a "conspiracy". Camp Harlam (Reform Judaic children's summer camp) for example used to openly state that they try to encourage Jewish kids of opposite sexes to mingle with each other to encourage Jews pairing up with other Jews instead of gentiles.
>>726105858Wait the grand conspiracy he's talking about is that teenagers like to have sex?
>>726105016I don't think videogames are failing. it's just the microtransactions that are failing, Mexican kids would rather go on TikTok than spend money on a animated weapon skin. Ages ARE getting fewer players, but just those kids
>>726100294Man this is sad.>>726100412It is. It is very evil. And the fact that's been legalized is fucking insane. Gambling is worse than alcohol or drugs.
>>726105016I'm fine with all AAA games dying, but I'm really worried about PC gaming as new generations only play shit on their phones
>>726105924Yeah im like 90% sure that's like all teens regardless of religion or ethnicity>"No but you fucking kike they're encouraging it with other Jews!"Yes that's rich coming from the group that abhors interracial marriages.
>>726105924if you're an shut in incel an idea of anyone having sex is a conspiracy. not to mention all the christian youth camps are the same thing
>>726105858the nazis did something similar, but they just picked out particularly beautiful teens and let them have sex.one of the women did an interview as a old lady and said it was the best time of her life. I assume they did more than just sex tough
>>726104978>emojis like o_oThose are called kaomoji, you fucking secondary.
>>726104840In the early days he was refreshing because he was willing to say hugely controversial things like "Maybe this new Zelda game is less than a 10/10," and also because he brought an eloquence to gaming discussion that was unusual on YouTube and seemingly gave weight to his opinions. The anger that Yahtzee would stir up among fanboys with his heretical statements in this period meant that the launch of a new ZP episode was sometimes a major internet event, with the offending review being widely linked on gaming boards to elicit emotional and defensive reactions.As you'd expect, people got used to Yahtzee's shtick after a while, and eventually even the most short-fused fanboys learned to ignore him. If a critic is witheringly negative in 99% of their writings, the negativity starts to seem meaningless. The era of Yahtzee as a controversial firebrand had come to its inevitable end, so he shifted gears, blunted his edge, and became more of a light humourist instead. He's good at it, but old fans will miss the mischief-making of the past.
>>726102649Same. I get the smallest ticket (4 rows) whenever it hits 70+ million, because if I'm going to win big it better be so big I can burn 20 million on the nearest friends and family without batting an eye. I chose the 70 threshold because the vast majority of wins happens in 1st or 2nd draw, or after it hits 70. And 4 rows because it makes no difference if I play 4 or 40 rows. The odds of winning are so infinitisimally small, I could spend the entire maximum prize pool twice over on rows and still not be guaranteed a win.
>>726106614>I can burn 20 million on the nearest friends and family without batting an eyeThat's very nice of you but that mindset is also the reason why a lot of lottery winners go broke. They quite their jobs and then start spending like they have a permanent millionaire-tier incomeThe perfect analogy I once read was that it's like giving a homeless guy $10k. He's gonna go out and spend most of it on a shitty car or something
>>726106506In general the "rage-baiting" of the early internet has died off by now. Even 4chan doesn't really use that technique anymore when creating threads as it doesn't work anymore. Notice how blacked spamming has dropped off as the engagement just isn't there anymore.The 500 layers of irony and "not taking anything seriously ever" shtick of the internet is also slowly dying as people take sincerity seriously again. Yahtzee went into this post-ironic humorist mode which is now again out of fashion.You already notice this trend with people saying the sonic the hedgehog deviant art "OC do not steel" edgy stuff is actually "based" and the classic "cringe" videos like the kids on the parking lot re-enacting Kingdom Hearts fights are now viewed positively in retrospect because internet culture is slowly turning against "cringe" and looking for sincerity again.We will probably move away from video game critics and "hot takes" and instead look more towards "positive, sincere voices".
>>726102763the escapist was always shit
>>726106726Yeah, it depends on the person, their upbringing and lifestyle how they handle a sudden influx of money. Personally? I wasn't born into a rich family, but I wasn't all that poor either. Just one step down from middleclass, I guess. But, I then started my own business, had to work real hard for a good while, almost went bankcrupt, but then made it through and have plenty of money. But that near-bankcrupcty experience (which lasted for the majority of a year, where I was penny pinching on everything, even starving myself), I learned not to take money for granted, so now that I have a decent abudance of it? I'm still spending it frugally, and trying to invest it in ways that would help me more.I don't mind borrowing some money to friends every now and then, but even in those situations I try to keep it so that it doesn't put me above the monthly spending I've set for myself on personal expenses.
>>726106726What gave you the impression that it wouldn't be a one-off thing so the people I give a shit about can clear debts/buy something nice/whatever, and the rest of the winnings wouldn't be locked down so I could live off the interests doing whatever I want?Best rags to riches to rags story I've heard was a bong that won big, quit his garbage man job and got rehired a few years later after burning everything on hookers and blow.
It's like the adult life arc. The end point in senescence and gambling.
>>726100591Isn't this "ten minute" thing out of date by now? I think the best engagement length is 18 minutes by now or something around that ballpark.
>>726100294I'm more shocked it still exists at all, since The Escapist was literally just "that site that hosts Yahtzee."
>>726105276same reason you faggots get away with it: (((They))) allow him to.
>>726106506His main problem imo is his voice gave out.I don't remember if it's his throat or lungs but he simply can't sustain his old pace. He also just mellowed a lot, which kinds of defeats the point since he was never a gamer god and the point was his exaggerations.His secondary problem is injecting current day politics instead of taking the piss, because absurd hyperbole is funny, but pointing at current headlines for a metaphor ages faster than milk AND comes off as far more insecure. Half rambunctious or however his essay series is called avoid these pitfalls because it doesn't try to be fast (which he can't anymore) and stays on topic, and they're less off-the-cuff factory chained so he actually has some points to bring up, even if it's not groundbreaking.
>>726104629Every single person re-posting this comic fails to notice that in this hypothetical scenario, they enter the picture on panel 3 at the earliest. You did not invent this hobby nor did you build it up. You were born into a world where that hobby already existed.
>>726106846>internet cultureIf there is such a thing, then it's to say whatever the fuck is on your mind without paying any heed to consequences.I think, such an environment is generally the best. That only works anonymously or pseudonymously, so you won't find it on SNS with strict connections to real-life.4chan is pretty much perfect as far as that is concerned.
>>726107450>4chan is pretty much perfect as far as that is concerned.The thing is, 4chan is fucking dogshit, so maybe that whole concept isn't so good after all.
>>726107382>Every>implyingI'm a 2nd paneler. I lurk. I don't reveal my powerlevel to anyone.t. 2004 newfag
>>726102592What would lead you to be such an adrenaline junky that you'd be base jumping in the first place?
>>726107590>4chan is fucking dogshitI don't feel like complaining.Maybe it's you, who is fucking dogshit.
>>726102763Too many people went to business school.Too many dumb whores sucked them off for it so they can have Sephora.
>>726103491Asians are also obssessed with gambling. Every single country would if you let them
>>726107590>>726107743You guys should switch to cats
>>726105050Their Patreon is over 45k a month which I think is pretty good, they also make money from a bunch of other stuff too.
>>726102763"Bloat and die"
>>726104270The white korra comics used to be published in their website.
>>726107875>half a million a year just for existing>"pretty good"
>>726107743Of course I'm dogshit. I'm on 4chan.
>>726107995Operating a company of that size is probably over twice that a year in operatng costs.
>>726102443>gacha subhumans be like
>>726106164PC gaming as a niche survived the console apocalypse that was the jump from the PS2 era to the 360 era. It will, at most, become a proper niche hobby again.
>>726100412gambling in any form should be made illegal and result in a death penalty
>>726104270Pic related. Which is now hosted on the artists own website, but there's no context so you have to know what news the strips are referencing to get many of them. They also had extra credits and movieblob.
>>726107382lmfao, speak for yourself.
>>726102763>institution
>>726104025Not even remotely, faggot. >>726103716They grew up and got real jobs. The ones still online are the failsons.
>>726100412nanny statism is cringe but i would absolutely vote for a complete and total ban on all betting in my country. i dont care how many jobs it would annihilate in the process, its pure cancer with no benefits whatsoever and should be treated as such.
>>726100294Heat death of the internet, gambling, porn , crypto scams and now AI slop
