Card Shark & POSTAL: Brain Damaged (Zero Punctuation) 

Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee-hee-hee

Oh ho ho, are we talking about the infamous indie dev Robert Pelloni?

@@Thenameless1 Yessir.

huh, never heard of this guy till now. and i will probably forget about him in a few days.

I’ll be honest, I have no fucking idea how Yugioh is played and the weird ass rules they present in the anime do not help.

@@Randomyoutuber-4831 Don't you know that Pot of Greed lets you draw two more cards?

@@garr_inc isn’t that card banned in tournament play?

My first thought as well

@@Randomyoutuber-4831 many of the OG cards from the anime are banned in tournaments for being totally broken.

Could you imagine buying a game on steam and it said "Thank you for your purchase, your tracking number is ********************" Wait.... What?

Not everyone has access to the internet.

You can't even imagine physical media? Maybe that says something about your imagination

@@BigStarRealFamous The point This guy.

@@hi5dude2 oh please elucidate me on this great point

Agreed, the last mission, while really enjoyable, shed light on the missed opportunity to keep expanding. I suspect they just wanted to keep the game as accessible as possible. As much as I liked the game I don't see any reason to ever go back to it after finishing it.

Yeah I really enjoyed having to improvise on the fly in situations like going up against that other painter cheater - having to counter-cheat and detect cheating would be a great way of upping the ante in a sequel of some kind

As a Scalie, I rag on furries like its Nintendo vs Sega all over again so there is truth in this.

To this day, furry masks creep the everloving fuck out me

Kids in VR Chat for sure, if you ever see a furrie/scalie enter a public world then prepare for the chaos.

@@mikehab7453 As they should, considering the person inside the suit would most likely r*pe your dog.

@@mikehab7453 well I mean, it does looks uncanny

that’s not ironic, Alannis

@@johnathonsteeel6922 that's funny because it's true

And politics. Seriously, we’ve basically run out of things to satire and mock.

You can have the game be about putting a gay caharacter in a otherwise age appropriate kids cartoon, that seems to be the only thing moral guardians care about anymore.

@@nopenope2550 running with scissors is, or at least they were. It feels like they lost a bit of their bite since the good old days of postal 2.

@@nopenope2550 I would say the problem is more that the people who try to tear them down kind of suck at satire for any purpose. Whether due to corporate gutless risk-aversion playing edgy, or speaking and at best appeal to their own stagnant "radical" societal bubble (with such stagnation, radicalness, and insularity predating filters even). Lets call these 'suits' and 'fanatics' respectively. The suits try to say as little as possible while saying as much as possible using the politician strategy to cover broad bases. Generally better off as a target but satire there has gotten stale if you were alive and aware enough to see it even half a decade ago. Rockstar's "satire" has become just a funhouse mirror of caricatures soaked in nihilism which makes everything look dingy. The sort of lazy sour grapes nihilism which is used to justify not getting off the couch to do the dishes or get a job. The fanatics have their own niche assumptions which get outsiders staring at them instead of laughing with them. Humor is more likely to come from laughing at them or their own inadvertent absurdism to those outside the bubble. Like if you were do a satire by accountants and brokers mocking the poor general public understanding of what financial derivatives are. At worst the fanatics look like depraved loons. "Oh look at all of the heathens and heretics who need to burn!"

@@Randomyoutuber-4831 there's plenty; it's just all on the other side of the isle now.

Hitler and Roosenvelt dueling as the final deciding factor who wins ww2

@@aaronb6379 dude imagine d-day and as everyone leaves the crafts they start playing for their life

What's funny is they made a Yugioh game where the War of the Roses was fought with cards

@@jm221 elaborate

@@skeletonking2501 It was called Duelists of the Roses for ps2 and you could side with either Yugi's Yorkists or Kaiba's Lancastrans. It didn't play like the actual card game it was more like a board game but it still used the cards

she's actually an r&b singer now.

I was in high school when the conventions were a thing.

I felt it

Yeah... I feel you. That one stung.

@@theBlindDeafMute not only that, she’s uh… she’s actually pretty fuckin good at it? You heard that song she did with bbno$? That one just warmed my fuckin heart tbh, glad to see she’s doing well!!

I recommend to play Lobotomy Corp first, as Library of Ruina is a sequel, and you most likely will not get the full story

Listen here bucko, Culdcept was an amazing goddamn series

@@joanpratsserra9350 There's no way Yahtzee would play Lobotomy Corp, it's a pathologic style game. In that part of the enjoyment of the game is suffering.

The only things I know about library of runia is that there’s a library and like, guests when defeated get turned into books which add to your power(?), and someone made a video called like “the only hod(?) I know for real” featuring a character from it along with that song from metal gear

@@yumyum366 I thought Yahtzee likes soulslikes for that exact reason though

Blood is certainly the civilised man's FPS, at points it's a bit like chess with dynamite

Picked up Blood somewhere in 2008, and boy oh boy, this game truly is ageless: it was a blast to play even with eye-scorching pixelated graphic. Never forgot how gargoyles quickly upped the level of paranoia by appearing when you thought that it was just a statue.

​@@thriller2910 no juvenile irreverence and obscenity there, just cultist gentlemen and pyrotechnique aficionados having a productive exchange of ideas.

Postal 2 was the one where you can use cats as silencers.

Weaksauce

That said, a game where you have to cheat to be able to beat enemies that have special powers that give them a leg up on you, would be pretty interesting.

Still as far as boomer shooters go it plays way better than it has any right to.

Yes, as an American who agreed with every word, it hurt in a good way.

Postal 1 had a school shooting ending.

@@CERTAIND00M as another fellow American, I’ve learned to just silently take the L whenever possible.

@@TheSkaOreo To quote the Onion... *"'No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens*

Card games appear to have hit the European nobility in the early modern era like a mass extinction event.

The great thing about card games is that they can do all sorts of calculations, shuffling, etc. that would turn a manual game into a slog.

Cards are also "modularized design" approach with some of the same virtues and sins as infamous quick time events and press x to do y prompts. Namely that they separate most of the visual work from the gameplay. It is no wonder that they tempt designers in team based efforts as they make the division so easy in comparison. "Make controls for a barbarian on an enraged killing rampage that is fun an engaging." is a harder problem than just "Make a system for animating a barbarian on a killing rampage that produces a good spectacle and doesn't need to be hand-tailored to every last calculation.

@@NedInYaHead Slay the Spire is making a board game version of itself and my first thought was "I hope they aren't just copying the game because having to manually calculate everything would be extremely tedious". I love StS but it works because the game can keep track of all the buffs, enemy health etc. for you.

I think the real reason it stays a card game is because we've all done this before - mario kart. It was basically a 'card' game where you randomly 'draw' cards by hitting the powerups, and do what you will with them. Doing it in realtime is cool, to a point, but it also gets to the point where it's just a party game that you know relies on RNG The really important part is the deckbuilding itself, imo; no other game genre lets you choose your movesets so completely. Personally I like card games because I can build the deck while sober, and then play it while drunk and still do well if it's built well - success generally relies on forward planning in deckbuilding, not spur of the moment reflexes, and only a little on the strategy for any given game

@@NedInYaHead Implying card games aren't already a slog.

What do you mean the memes won't still be trendy by the time the game is done?!

Especially nowadays cause most "meme" dies within like 2 weeks

@@simjc1212 yeah, remember the grub hub memes or the mr incredible memes? And how quickly they blew right by? Memes are like the shortest lived form of culture.

@@simjc1212 I don't know, man. I made another lame Morbius joke and only got stabbed in one eye.

@@simjc1212 The lucky ones die in 2 weeks.

WHAT??

To anyone reading this comment: Play Library of Ruina it's really, really good

It was certainly a pleasant surprise, but I don't think yahtzee would enjoy it too much. Although I could see him enjoying Lobotomy Corporation

@@MantaRain it has the authentic janky charm he generally seems to be a fan of

@@kittyshippercavegirl Play Lobotomy Corporation 100% first, LoR is much more enjoyable if you know LC.

That was the last place I expected it

Haven’t watched ZP in a while but man Yahtzee has still got it, he writes jokes better than American late night shows where they hire entire rooms of people to write jokes

@@sams7068 It's because most of those shows do the same thing AAA studios keep trying to do, appeal to the broadest possible consumer base at the cost of being actually good.

Ironically, I don't know who most of the celebrities that Yahtzee references in his videos are, but I do know who Rebecca Black is.

@@watchfulwanderer6443 why do you care if something becomes mainstream?

You can't be re-elected if you fix the problems you promised to fix when you got elected in the first place. Really feels like it should be the other way around...

That song came out TEN YEARS AGO. 🙃

Literally never heard of her, what happened?

I like that idea, basically a panic button for a game that recharges via collectibals.

Terraria has that. A quick buff button that just uses all your buff potions

That sounds like it could be an interesting, convenient mechanic. To me, it might be funny if after a certain point you just ended up keeling over from too many buffs at once, effectively poisoning yourself because you hoarded. That seems a bit mean without any way to prevent it without using it preemptively though, especially since trying to grant some way to dilute it would either get back into the same issue you're trying to avoid or, worse, devolve into a dreaded crafting system.

Sounds like a fast way to accidentally blow your rocket launcher you were saving for the boss.

Take a game like DOOM where more generic power ups could drop while fighting and hide more unique/powerful ones around exploration segments. It could add a little layer of decision making like do you use frequently to help with each battle, or save up to wreck a boss, or use as a movement speed boost to speed run through the exploration segments. It could be balanced around like frequent enough boss/big boy situations to force either weaker frequent boosts or delete one boss and fight the next not so powered up.

Yeah, the cameo in the video immediately gave me the "VIA BRAZIL NUMERO UNO, CAMPEO DE MUNDO" feeling

@@Hero_Puddle Every time I hear that I remember someone citing crime statistics and when Brazil was number 1 in one of them just.... "VIA BRAZIL NUMERO UNO!" But yes. That is a total mood and Library of Ruina is the best card battler I will not debate anyone on this.

@@imranicanovic1154 The meme originated from covid deaths

@@Hero_Puddle Aahh. So I misremebered, but hey good to be reminded. Tragic, yet funny.

I wholeheartedly agree that he should review the two, but I feel like he would like lobotomy more since it's probably the most unique "monster management sim" type thing I've ever seen, let alone how it does "boss fights" and the such in such an original way that totally works with the gameplay loop in a way he'd love

"I came..."

Anyone up for a childrens card game?

@@gelu_4499 IT'S TIME TO DDDDDDDDUEL

Even with how unfunny Postal 2 and 4 can be (shame they never made a 3rd), I respect Postal for being 100%, Postal. They feel like games Running with Scissors genuinely love and giggle at, filled with over the top crass humor and in-jokes that only 18 year veterans of RWS can possibly get. As weird as it sounds, Postal is always so earnest, always trying to be exactly what it wants to be. The insanse Arizona people think peeing to put out fires and early 2000s arab sterotypes is hilarious, so by god, they are going to put them in the game come hell or high water. Another small fact I love is that Postal 2 had that "its only as violent as you make it" shtick. You could rather easily just go to the store, wait in line, buy milk and go home. There is never a moment where violence is required. Grabbing a machete and seeing how many piles of limbs you can stack is an entirely player driven decision. The lack of that in Postal 4 is a great weakness I find. Responding to the minor inconvince of a long line with blistering violence is what makes Postal 2 so loveable to this day.

@@DACopperhead2 Exactly, it's a series that knows exactly what it is and it rolls with it, and it's all in the name of good natured fun.

It's a good stress reliever with a strong fan base and down to earth developers

@@rab1df0x It really is a good stress reliever. It helps that MOST of the NPCS area just awful and react in silly, not realistic ways to horrific violence. But its how the developers act that sticks with me. Openly admiting that they messed up Postal 3 and pleading for people to not buy it, goign so far as to make a brand new expansion for Postal 2 afterwards. It feels like they are just having a blast with their franchise. Its funny that Postal 1 had a kind of nuanced commentary on excessive violence in games, at least the original did. Then they made Postal 2 and said "You know whats funny? Urine."

@@InfernalMonsoon Its something that I think works because it feels like the GAME thinks its funny. Yahtzee has gone after a lot of comedy games for their sterile corporate humor, and a lot of those examples feel like, yeah no one is laughing. The game isn't laughing, the devs aren't laughing, and by god you aren't. But even when Postal 2 makes me roll my eyes, I can hear the keeling laughter of Vince Desi and it feels really genuine.

I'd say it's successfully sticking it to the man if you manage to offend both sides, which wouldn't be at all hard to do if you're the type that doesn't fit into either camp. The problem is that all the high-level challengers do totally fit one side. Which makes sense, unfortunately. It's a lot easier to stand up to the might of one side when the might of the other will back you up. But that doesn't mean there aren't quiet both-side nihilists out there.

This might be more of a reflection of a change in us than in the world. "The Man" and "The System" were probably always more a product of our own childish disinterest in the intricacies of political discourse than of the various parties and factions being in agreement on things. Postal was always vaguely Anarcho-Libertarian, but benefited from its target audience caring less about ideology and more about pissing off (and on) anyone over 40.

All your talk and the replies you have received are overthinking it. The System is still the enemy, but it's all pervasive now. You can't rebel against it because they have it all... the games, the media, the social media. If you rebel, they destroy you, if not with fists and bullets then with financial ruin via social media. They have recruited the stupid via social media and manipulated it all until... yes, you can have a voice that doesn't conform, but if you dare to do so, the consequences are fatal. But not literally fatal, so it's socially acceptable. And to you, specifically, Thomas Mulholland, what the fuck is wrong with Anarcho-Libertarian? That's a label, and as such invalid, but as labels go it's one of the few that would actually give people some dignity and agency going forward.

So glad TFS made this exact joke already in JoJo in X Minutes. Made me laugh for like 10 minutes.

Sounds about right. It’s easier to hop online and let a computer set up the deck than gather at a friend’s house, lugging a box of cards, and set everything up yourself.

It also allows for a much broader range of mechanics that would be completely infeasible on an actual tabletop.

@@MrNoPro like what? I’m genuinely curious.

​@@Randomyoutuber-4831 Its a matter or scale and convenience often. Hearthstone has decks centered around cards with semi-random outcomes, or which give you different random cards, which'd require you to get out a dice or coin to flip every time you play any card in that deck, rather than letting the computer handle it. Or cards that make a lot of duplicates of your good cards and put them on the board or shuffle them into your deck, something difficult to do unless you actually have a lot of copies of said very good cards, or you place down a blank card and ''pretend' it's duplicated, something which becomes more troublesome to keep track off the more times you duplicate various cards. Hearthstone monster cards also have dynamic hp, which having that be tracked by a computer is just such a blessing, especially with how many health buffs and damaging spells which whittle away at monster hp get thrown around throughout matches.

@@Randomyoutuber-4831 consider this, you are playing magic the gathering and your enemy plays a card that does one damage to a random enemy, the chance that you have a dice that has an equal amount to the amount of enemy cards is very low, meanwhile in an online version it just is played and the random damage is dealt

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kfVsfOSbJY0.html Ancient RU-vid lore. Fortunately one of the most benign of the 'infamous videos'

if memory serves thats the chick that made that stupid repetitive song about it being Friday and how after friday its saturday and then sunday because people dont know the order of the week or something

To elaborate, she was a teen girl whose parents paid for a producer to make a (low budget) music video starring her in 2011 that was bad in the way you would expect from an inexperienced amateur, but because she was a teen girl on the internet who went viral, everyone decided to relentlessly bully her about it, too. Positive follow up: despite what she went through, she did end up becoming a professional music artist, even remixing the Friday music video 10 years later. The genre she does is called hyper-pop, I think, and it's not for everyone, but she looks like she's having fun.

@@seanrooney1553 I hated that song when I saw it back then but why did people bully a young teen for making a crap song? That's depressing but it's good to here she's doing better.

@@seanrooney1553 Wasn't there also a song about not being able to figure out which seat of a car to sit in? or was that part of the Friday song?

We don't need YHWH (that shiftless, psychotic, non-existent shitrag of a deity), the corpos are more than capable of suppressing public outrage and popular sentiment by beating everyone involved with large sacks of money, like they always do. And indie games? What's the point of a moral crusade when everyone just goes "Where can I find this awful nasty piece of filth, again? I've looked everywhere and nobody seems to have a copy, as it should be of course, but I'm not sure this is the best use of our time"

“Yo, man. Leave Me outta this.” - God

Just wait until the next school shooting happens and blame it on The Last Of Us 2

Lol who cares if some politician blames games for stuff, it’s not like anything will ever come out of it. No one will impede on the games industry and no one will ever do anything about the actual issues so just grow up and realize that

She collaborating with Dorian Electra did seem to make her more out there style wise. I like 'Personal'.

Just like The Last Of Us 2

Just like The Last Of Us 2

Just like The Last Of Us 2

@@uria3679 Thanks, I got it. You didn't really need to reiterate.

@@uria3679 anime pfp says what

Furries are exclusively weebs and nerds and we should hate on all of those

I had the thoughts about Lobotomy Corp, then I remember that Lobotomy Corp is full of jank, has a dating sim style cut-scenes with a meh art style and takes it time to hit you over the head with all the meltdowns and stuff. Then I remember that LoR's main appeal is the character and world building from Lobotomy Corp and feel like it's absolutely a shot in the dark. I'm just happy that it even crossed his mind.

@@Hero_Puddle Honestly, fair play to skip out on LobCorp for a ZP. But I do think LoR deserves a shot. Maybe for one of the release drought seasons. Here's to hoping.

@@he2875 yeah sure, the main thing about LoR is that it has been heavily de-jankified. But even then, my eyes lit up like a christmas tree because the studio who managed to JUST make it with a game (albeit a brilliant one) now had its own art style and fancy intro music video. I found it cool with all the sephira reveals, explorations of the abnormality and E.G.O and the greater world exploration. I feel like the best way to get into LoR is to already love LC.

What happened to him?

@@iris_ofthestorm4260 covid

@@-neurasthenie- - Oh. Thanks for the clarification!

Postal 4 is pretty good, they actually did a thing where they brought all the voice actors from the previous games and the movies and recorded all of the Postal Dude’s lines with each of them so the player could select what they sound like. Which is pretty cool.

Postal 4 is just not there yet despite being considered out of early access. But the devs seem to be doing good work and have a promising future for that game.

@@Ender-im5ez considering they brought back all the original voice actors from previous postal installments (Rick Hunter, Corey Cruise, and Zack Ward) and re-recorded the postal dude’s lines with each of them purely so the player can select what the dude sounds like. It’s clear the devs put their fans first, so there is indeed hope.

Just now gets Covid but he’s always had no taste