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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In the ''VideoGame/RoboCopRogueCity'' review, Yahtzee describes a "suffocatingly pointless side-quest where [=RoboCop=] goes around, getting everyone to sign a 'Get Well Soon' card, and that's not the facetious exaggerated example it sounds like."
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** In contrast to the simple white-hatted avatar from ''Zero Punctuation'', Yahtzee's avatar here ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt. Characters in general also have circles around their usual [[BlackBeadEyes dot eyes]], making them more googly-looking.

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** In contrast to the simple white-hatted avatar from ''Zero Punctuation'', Yahtzee's avatar here ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt. Characters in general also have circles around their usual [[BlackBeadEyes dot eyes]], eyes]] with a bridge between them, making them more googly-looking.it look like they're all wearing glasses.
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* AntiClimax: {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' video "The Difficulty Paradox", highlighting a conundrum of certain games (especially those with RPGElements) having to balance between rewarding players with a sense of progression and presenting ever-increasing challenges in the form of a difficulty curve. Yahtzee posits that while the two do cancel each other out in theory ([[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject making a game easier vs. making a game harder]]), it ''is'' possible to reach an equilibrium by way of a game rewarding players with new options and forms of expression vs. new challenges that force them to think their way around new scenarios. Yahtzee finds that modern AAA games (with his specific example being ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedMirage'') have an issue with both, where challenges neither adequately ramp up and options/"innovations" are really just ways to ''skip'' the gameplay loop entirely, leaving games feeling bland and unrewarding by the end. Yahtzee semi-jokingly blames this kind of direction as being the result of higher-ups who think players just want to reach the end of the game faster instead of actually ''playing'' and enjoying it.

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* AntiClimax: {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' video "The Difficulty Paradox", highlighting a conundrum of certain games (especially those with RPGElements) having to balance between rewarding players with a sense of progression and presenting ever-increasing challenges in the form of a difficulty curve. Yahtzee posits that while the two do cancel each other out in theory ([[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject making a game easier vs. making a game harder]]), it ''is'' possible to reach an equilibrium by way of a game rewarding players with new options and forms of expression vs. new challenges that force them to think their way around new scenarios. Yahtzee finds that many modern AAA games (with his specific example being ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedMirage'') have an issue with both, where challenges neither adequately ramp up and options/"innovations" are really just ways to ''skip'' the gameplay loop entirely, entirely (citing with ''Mirage'' and its [[GameBreaker game-breaking]][[invoked]] ability to automatically stab four enemies at once with impunity as an example), leaving games feeling bland and unrewarding by the end. Yahtzee semi-jokingly blames this kind of direction as being the result of higher-ups who think players just want get enjoyment from simply wanting to reach the end of the game faster instead of actually ''playing'' and enjoying it.
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* AntiClimax: {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' video "The Difficulty Paradox", highlighting a conundrum of certain games (especially those with RPGElements) having to balance between rewarding players with a sense of progression and presenting ever-increasing challenges in the form of a difficulty curve. Yahtzee posits that while the two do cancel each other out in theory ([[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject making a game easier vs. making a game harder]]), it ''is'' possible to reach an equilibrium by way of a game rewarding players with new options and forms of expression vs. new challenges that force them to think their way around new scenarios. Yahtzee finds that modern AAA games (with his specific example being ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedMirage'') have an issue with both, where challenges neither adequately ramp up and options/"innovations" are really just ways to ''skip'' the gameplay loop entirely, leaving games feeling bland and unrewarding by the end. Yahtzee semi-jokingly blames this kind of direction as being the result of higher-ups who think players just want to reach the end of the game faster instead of actually ''playing'' and enjoying it.

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** During ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' videos, whenever he makes references to his previous reviews and video essays, he avoids namedropping them and instead simply refers to them as "ZP" and "EP".
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-->-- '''Yahtzee''' [[https://youtu.be/iyGhI_JVOZI?si=fBO_hfSDeBRWbeiM&t=322 discusses his move to Second Wind]]

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-->-- '''Yahtzee''' [[https://youtu.be/iyGhI_JVOZI?si=fBO_hfSDeBRWbeiM&t=322 be/iyGhI_JVOZI?&t=322 discusses his move to Second Wind]]
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* ClarkKenting: Yahtzee and all other humans wear glasses and diffetent shoes. In yahtzee's case, a different hat as well.

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* ClarkKenting: Yahtzee and all other humans wear glasses and diffetent different shoes. In yahtzee's Yahtzee's case, he's got a different hat as well.
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* ClarkKenting: Yahtzee and all other humans wear glasses and diffetent shoes. In yahtzee's case, a different hat as well.
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->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. [[ProtectionFromEditors There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now.]]"''

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->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. [[ProtectionFromEditors There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now.]]"''"''
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->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now."''

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->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. [[ProtectionFromEditors There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now."'']]"''

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* WritingAroundTrademarks: Yahtzee put a lot of the video's design aesthetic and writing style into making it clear this is a continuation of his old show without actually ''mentioning'' his old show due to The Escapist keeping the rights to it.
** Whereas he uses a variety of colors for the background, he notably avoids using yellow.
** He uses round-bodied, pointy-limbed black creatures to represent nonhuman enemies, but they're based on his dog Toffee rather than being the imps.
** Humans are represented with simple floaty-limb stick figures with boots, but they're all wearing round-toe boots instead of pointed ones as well as universally wearing glasses that make their eyes look bigger. Yahtzee himself is wearing mostly black, including his hat, and has a pair of squared off glasses.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: Yahtzee ended his first video saying that he can now do anything he wants, while smoking a severed hand. This was originally supposed to be a bong, but he was told that Youtube would react badly to it and had to change it, and so settled for a LiteralMetaphor irony.

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* BitingTheHandHumor: Yahtzee ended his first video saying that he can now do anything he wants, while smoking a severed hand.arm. This was originally supposed to be a bong, but he was told that Youtube would react badly to it and had to change it, and so settled for a LiteralMetaphor irony.
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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at Website/TheEscapist, [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.

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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at Website/TheEscapist, [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], series and the name of his original website[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.
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* MythologyGag: ''Fully Ramblomatic'' is the title of Yahtzee's blog and was the title of the pre-Escapist reviews that later became ''Zero Punctuation''.
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-->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now."''

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-->''"But, ->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now."''
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of the background changes depending on which aspect of the game Yahtzee is currently discussing, with beige for plot/setting, blue for gameplay, etc.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of the background changes from the default red depending on which aspect of the game Yahtzee is currently discussing, with beige for plot/setting, blue for gameplay, etc.

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-->''"But, you know, talking about prostate cancer makes me think about how ephemeral life is, and how transitory the things we take for granted can be. Look at me. Two weeks ago I was making a series called Zero Punctuation for a site called The Escapist, and that's all changed now. We've moved on to Second Wind, where we can be 100% creator-owned and independently funded. There's all kinds of cuntery we can get away with now."''
-->-- '''Yahtzee''' [[https://youtu.be/iyGhI_JVOZI?si=fBO_hfSDeBRWbeiM&t=322 discusses his move to Second Wind]]



The series premiered on November 15th, 2023, with ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII'' being the first game reviewed, with a companion series called ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' filling ''Extra Punctuation'''s former role.

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The series premiered on November 15th, 2023, with ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII'' being the first game reviewed, with and a companion series called ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' filling ''Extra Punctuation'''s former role.
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* ArtEvolution: In contrast to the simple white-hatted avatar from ''Zero Punctuation'', Yahtzee's avatar here ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt.

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In contrast to the simple white-hatted avatar from ''Zero Punctuation'', Yahtzee's avatar here ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt.shirt. Characters in general also have circles around their usual [[BlackBeadEyes dot eyes]], making them more googly-looking.
** Backgrounds from ''Zero Punctuation'' tended to be primarily just plain yellow or blue, whereas here, not only do the backgrounds come in red, green, and others, they also feature various background textures with technological motifs (gears, pipes, circuits, etc.)
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* ArtEvolution: The Yahtzee avatar ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt.

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* ArtEvolution: The Yahtzee In contrast to the simple white-hatted avatar from ''Zero Punctuation'', Yahtzee's avatar here ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt.
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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.

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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', Website/TheEscapist, [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.
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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.

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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.
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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show, a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.

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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity along with most of the rest of the staff when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show, show on Second Wind, a new gaming channel founded by the former Escapist staff, with a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.
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* ArtEvolution: The Yahtzee avatar ends up getting a more detailed hat, glasses, and a slightly unbuttoned shirt.



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of the background changes depending on which aspect of the game Yatzhee is currently discussing, with beige for plot/setting, blue for gameplay, etc.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of the background changes depending on which aspect of the game Yatzhee Yahtzee is currently discussing, with beige for plot/setting, blue for gameplay, etc.
* ProductionThrowback: The ''Alan Wake II'' review contains a reference to the events that resulted in the retool of ''Zero Punctuation'' into ''FR'': as Yahtzee quips about the game world having a sense of reality "as reliable and permanent as a career in corporate tech journalism", a hand appears from the sky and proclaims "we expect you to meet certain targets". Nick Calandra, the then-editor-in-chief of The Escapist, was fired for, [[https://twitter.com/nickjcal/status/1721641044398219579 in his own words]], "'not achieving goals' that were never properly set out for us", and Yahtzee quit the Escapist in response.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: Yahtzee ended his first video saying that he can now do anything he wants, while smoking a severed hand. This was originally supposed to be a bong, but he was told that Youtube would react badly to it and had to change it, and so settled for a LiteralMetaphor irony.
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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show, a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic'', continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.

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After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show, a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic'', Ramblomatic''[[note]]Which just so happens to be the the original, pre-Escapist name for the series[[/note]], continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of the background changes depending on which aspect of the game Yatzhee is currently discussing, with beige for plot/setting, blue for gameplay, etc.
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''[[caption-width-right:350: Yahtzee Croshaw's thing that is a review show, named after [[http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/ Yahtzee Croshaw's thing that is a website]].]]''

After 16 years of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' at ''The Escapist'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] left the site out of solidarity when editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired, marking the end of the series. However, Yahtzee soon confirmed that this was not the end of his reviewing career, as he would continue his work on a new show, a CreatorDrivenSuccessor called ''Fully Ramblomatic'', continuing to bring viewers the insightful, snarky, and curse-filled style they have enjoyed for years.

The series premiered on November 15th, 2023, with ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII'' being the first game reviewed, with a companion series called ''Semi-Ramblomatic'' filling ''Extra Punctuation'''s former role.

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!!''Fully Ramblomatic'' provides examples of the following tropes:

*CanineCompanion: Yahtzee's avatar is joined by an avatar of his dog Toffee, as a replacement for the imps.

*TakeThat: At one point in the ''Alan Wake II'' review, Yahtzee states that the game world has a sense of reality "as reliable and permanent as a career in corporate tech journalism".

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