Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Zero Punctuation) 

I already pay for RU-vid Red so, no.

@@riobux3018 Meaning you're violently allergic to ads.

The link to the teespring store does not work.

@@riobux3018 If you're that bothered you should have got Adblock.

@@Suryp Sorry about that! Sorted: teespring.com/stores/the-escapist-store

It is? Time has ceased to have any meaning here in the ninth circle of - er, my house.

It is wednesday my dudes.

Oh my fucking god its Wensday, tomorrow is my mom's birthday fuck

@@JorgeLopez-jd8ds May the odds be ever in your favour

Or Thursday, if you live in the other side of the planet.

Would you call your wife a nutter?

I didn't even notice. That's so romantic

"Awkwardly looks around the room"

how to send a comment a weak before the video release?

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Big OOF moment.

Omfg I just got the joke lmao

Someone going to have to enlighten me on this so I get it lol...

@@GawainW It's based on the belief that European settlers gave Native Americans blankets deliberately infected with smallpox when they realized they had no immunity so they could clear the land of natives. It likely wasn't deliberate, since the diseases often spread ahead of Europeans and they didn't really understand how it spread.

I laughed too hard at that one

@@Sorcerers_Apprentice Its part of Canadian education, our governemnt remembers it and doesn't try to hide it. Cuz well, the great lakes region was really fucking nice but it survived the accidental plague wave, so we did it with feeling the second time.

Mr. Croshaw. ;)

36 at am and 33 at pm. I didn’t even know they went that low

@@Danndy_ mine is currently 22

Wait a sec how is this comment from a week ago when this episode was just released?

@@alexanerose4820 It wasn't just released. The videos have always been released on youtube a week after they are put up on The Escapist and likely now you get early access if you have youtube's premium service that Yahtzee was shilling for at the beginning of the video.

Yeah, I wish that was still the case. The sequel game lost all sense of gravitas for me. Not going into a four page rant now, but "T H E D O O M S L A Y E R" isn't special or cool anymore. He's just another Master Chief now. Change my mind, comment section, if you can.

@@Andri474 I agree with you, tbh. All that background lore was quite dumb imo

Andri474 Master Chief on steroids. Or something more juicy than steroids.

​@@Andri474 1.Doom isn't meant to be taken seriously at least not enough to warrant using googled Latin words when "solemnity (which is basically the modern English version of gravitas btw) would have been enough and not be pointlessly convoluted for the sake of it." 2. coolness is subjective so while you dont think Doom Slayer is cool others like myself still think a space marine killing demons over the death of his pet bunny Daisy is pretty much the peak of what makes a FPS character cool to me. 3 Hes special because Doom Slayer is actually a 90s geek, if you look around the doom fortress you can find things like an old dos PC for playing classic doom which implies Doom Slayer is a gamer, he collects Toys and vinyl records showing his other hobbies. so far I don't think many other FPS characters show such a geeky side, even Gorden Freeman acts like a typical mute soldier. In 2016 his lava death animation is a terminator reference, sure its mostly a joke from the Devs but this builds up Doom guy into being a 90s action hero with a less obvious geek side to him.

@@ariesthefool To partially use yahtzee's words: It's pander. What I'm not sure is what kind of pander. The good kind, that eats the bamboo and has sex once in a while or the sad kind?

Thats how yahtzee junior and junior junior were born.

top tier reference

He's the voice actor for all his audiobooks.

Andrew Whiting well, I mean it is basically his channel. He plays the games, writes the reviews, and records himself talking about it. Idk about the visuals though

+WangChungN7 "It's basically his channel" *When we need to remind ourselves that The Escapist allegedly produces non-Croshaw content.

2 things: 1 since when is she his wife? 2 I'd like it if she was drawn with a fedora, like him.

@@macmcskullface1004 don't get me wrong, I've seen her in some of the streams but I don't watch them often enough to follow his life, also he's a father now? wow

@@CRSB00 I think he alluded to in his review of murdered soul suspect

A real Tom nook move

@@CRSB00 A fedora with a pink bow on it to help people identify genders.

I caught an STD! It burns, oh God, it burns!

you forgot the black bass, did you know its the most metal of all the fish?

I caught hermit crab! I think it wants to be alone

I caught a black bass! It's the most metal of all fish! I caught a black bass! It's the most metal of all fish! I caught a black bass! It's the most metal of all fish! I caught a black bass! It's the most metal of all fish! I caught a black bass! It's the most metal of all fish! I caught a tire! I sure am tired of that!

@@waterdamagedtextbook9858 sea bass are ocean fish, and black bass are river fish. You won't catch them in the same spot.

The dolphin fetish has returned, I noticed.

*cue laughter of class of 8yos in a schoolbus teetering on the edge of a cliff*

@@ceruleanvoice3538 That was a great episode; satirising the clip show format.

BA DUM TSSS

And they’re INTEREST FREE.

How?

@@WoodlandDrake by giving people an incentive to give them money.

I'd be more inclined to give them money if they stopped suporting moviebob. You know, they guy who was sad covid didn't exclusively kill trump supporters. That guy.

@@appliedatoms7066 He's at his best when he just happily nerds out about stuff and sometimes talks video games. Unfortunately his preference is for getting political and easily results in people not following him to his own channel when he isn't uploading on here. When he first came back there were plenty of comments making it clear that nobody really cared much for Bob, but then those people got bored of going back each week and now his comment section is mainly supporters, making the Escapist think that having him back is a good thing. We'll just have to put up with him in the background until the next crisis (financial, political or dystopian). Chances are we'll see either financial or political collapse worldwide within the next couple of years so won't be too long of a wait.

@@LuizAlexPhoenix Just go to his twitter the dude is a madman reading his tweets actually hurt

Steal? More like tactical acquisition

I don't even bother trying to make money with turantulas. I have only ever caught one and that was barely.

Just came out of scorpion season on my end and oh boy are those things nerve-wracking to catch!

@@patricklukcy13 They are not that hard to catch IMO. Either hold A (or is it B?, whatever, the button to use the net) and walk closer, release the button the moment it tries to attack. Or: Get out the net and make the tarantula run after you. Outrun it by holding the run button to create some distance, then turn around and catch it as soon as it gets close enough.

@@anousenic honestly they are too Much a pain in the ass. Not worth the time to catch. I have one for my museum and I'm good.

In all of April making a tarantula island manually was more of a drag then in march due to giant water bugs

I wouldn't even buy the weed. I'd just buy brisket. Brisket is fucking good.

The website's video player was a bit awkward. That's why I like watching it on RU-vid.

I pay the escapist plus to se videos a week early on RU-vid so I don't have to go to the website.

RU-vid is way more convenient

E1craZ4life easily

If this years games were so bad/mediocre that animal crossing makes it to top fives, I think this will be the year that I give up on game developers as a whole

@@ThisAdamGuy That's where I'd put my money. If the only real change to formula is island development (and shitting on player 2), then I don't think this game can be called anything besides "more of the same, and this one comes with an orange slice."

@@hackcubit9663 I'm not sure island development qualifies as something you could call "the only thing they changed". As someone who's played every mainline Animal Crossing game, New Horizons is to the series what Breath of the Wild was to Zelda (also played almost every 3d Zelda lmao).

@@kyledavies7055 k.

Or is it enthusiasm leaking through a veil of sarcasm?

@@ayior Why can't it be 'both'?? ;D

That's a very Yahtzee similie right there

Damn son

I've been aware of you purely through comments for at least 3 years now and would like to thank you for your ever omnipresence.

The game is satanic

MrStrange Just because you kill the demons doesn’t make it anti-satanic. You use enchanted weapons and magic powers, which is divination, and a sin. I recommend reading the book of Deuteronomy.

Chris Stephenson Guns and a fucking chainsaw are enchanted weapons? Ok? I don't know what you've been smoking to think that. You could make a case for the Crucible but even that is hard to belive

@@blastofo _The game is satanic_ Hey now! That isn't a very nice thing to say about Animal Crossing...

Could be from American Gods as well.

@@tunnar79 or, you know, actual African folklore

@@InverseAgonist african people in America? Preposterous ;p

Those Joy cons don't last long. Stick drift is awful if you're into dead cells.

Do u get that icon on other vids or just escapist ones?

You mean they didn't have it from the start????

So she played it for a day?

Get one of those delicate electronics cleaner spray things, it should help. Helped with mine, it's most likely just a dirt thing.

Except Nintendo didn’t screw it up due to their own hubris.

@@ForestDa1865 They also developed it too, not just publish. I think it's the only time Nintendo looked at someone else's IP and went "Yeah, let's take a crack at that."

@@ForestDa1865 i remeber that being good

Well until the next animal crossing

I'm embarrassed to admit I laughed at that.

@@MikeJBeebe You should be embarassed if you didnt laugh at it.

@Joe Average Oh Yahtzee has always been eager to call out / satirize all kids of societal inequality, which I for one find super refreshing on a platform like youtube.

I mean he's not wrong!

As one of less than 10 black people in my neighborhood, I felt that shit. And it was fucking hilarious.

And with a disease that has been eradicated as well.

Can someone explain the joke?

It works for this outbreak too, so yes, you can say "too soon".

@@qionsaber2870 Colonists used to infect native populations in America with smallpox by giving them infected blankets

Nobody is going to acknowledge that intentional infection via blanket is a myth like Washington and the cherry tree? Don't argue about it, just use a search engine to see.

Allegedly it killed a lot of people, in fact.

Married, with a small dog and (brace yourself) a baby.

@@Ward1706 Oh, I heard they were expecting before, boy or a girl?

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Little Girl I think. That seems to be the consensus.

The little dog died in a accident.

The original quote was "Those who break Nooks' law, go back to the House of Pain", until the totally-not-a-racoon-totalitarian-regimes flunkies "advised" the writers to "keep it schtumm, see? Nyerrrr"

this comment should be pinned lol

Makes sense when they're all animal people

But unlike literally everyone in history, he doesn't enforce them, or demand interest.

@@nullpoint3346 So essentially he's a light weight Mr. House from Fallout New Vegas

@@ArcturusOTE Ah, but time doesn't properly flow in those games.

It's inevitable as long as Tom Nook is involved

Ditto. That one and Moonlighter were popular with mine.

they make content for us and pay for such privilege, lol.

I thought it was more along the lines of drug addiction. You don't like the stuff but you still do because you're chasing that fleeting high.

@@slicedtopieces the simillar comparison he did put on Stardew Valley I guess. And for having zero experience of playing neither, I can't say what is the difference

Kind of like how he always insults anime in extremely informed and specific ways that only someone who spent a lot of time watching it could pull off

@@slicedtopieces didn't he literally compare animal crossing to drugs in a previous video?

Me and my girlfriend kinda do the same. I liked it for the first two weeks but got bored and have completely dropped it since but my gf has put a ton of hours into it, yet insists she doesn't like it, its just a way to waste time. She's constantly aggravated with the terraforming-tool thing and I don't know how to tell her she can stop. Meanwhile I'm having a great time with Doom Eternal and FF7.

Which one? The only one I can think of that got popular enough to be used in an add would be Pepper, but that's not a song I can imagine next to a Nintendo product.

An early 90s one where they tried to out-edge sega. It was called play it loud or something.

I immediately looked it up. That is the most 90s ad I've ever seen. I've never seen that ad before, yet I felt huge amounts of nostalgia.

gay space communism when? (unironically btw)

@@americantoastman7296 never, we're going to burn on hellhole earth before any of us are living in space or even get socialism to be popular across the world. You're probably too much of a pussy bitch to do anything violent anyways, so stfu and log off

AmericanToastman Not soon enough.

Pseudo Lain Don’t be a dick.

I don't know who Bob is but I think we all know that Yahtzee is a cynical bastard who doesn't give a fuck

I think it’s because bob (whom I am very fond of) can occasionally come across as a bit lecturing while Yahtzee hides it under a bunch of snark.

Because Bob has become more preachy than televangelist. His opinion will cleanse all the unenlightened swine to a truly progressive and accepting way of thinking that will better all humynkind. Whereas Yahtzee is a snarky bastard who acknowledges his opinion is his own and he doesn't need to convert anyone to have the same opinions as him. I don't know when or where it happened, but I find Bob pretty unbearably pretentious nowadays.

People get offended when yoy word true things as facts and not jokes on the internet lol

@@Wayte13 Not really. There are plenty of reasons to criticize capitalism, but there are also good and bad ways (and places) to do it.

Same... I love hentai, but fuck I also hate it sometimes.

Oh god I pray for you brother

it was porn wasnt it

If it exists, there is pr0n of it. Eh, I've found some good stuff thanks to pr0n before, I don't really see it as a big deal.