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3	[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD6VugMZKRhSyzWEWA9W2fg SsethTzeentach]] is a Youtube content creator and gamer who has been active since late 2007. Although he started his career with posting ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' videos, he deviated from this niche by making his ''[[{{VideoGame/MightAndMagic}} Might and Magic VI]]'' review in 2014. Meme-laden and humorously edited {{review}}s of games has since become his main videos on his channel, although many of said games that he reviews are enjoyed by him to the point that he is willing to passionately recommend them to his viewers and goes as far as to give installation advice and his personal game keys. In his early 2019 review of ''{{VideoGame/Dwarf Fortress}}'', he declared that he had left his medical job so that he could work full time on his Youtube channel.
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5	The humor in his videos has frequently been described as something originating from [[{{Website/FourChan}} 4chan]], having made [[BlackComedy jokes and satirical potshots against most of the controversial groups of people in the world]]. He has called himself a {{Man Child}} on several occasions and many of his videos have [[{{Main/CrossesTheLineTwice}} crossed the line at least twice.]] Indeed, many of his early videos are crammed with so many cropped and edited NSFW images, [[{{Main/FreezeFrameBonus}} freeze frames]], and memes straight from /v/ that it's not unexpected for multiple viewings to be needed in order to spot all of the jokes and references.
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7	Some of his reviews such as ''{{VideoGame/Kenshi}}'', ''{{VideoGame/Space Station 13}}'', and ''{{VideoGame/Starsector}}'' have brought [[ColbertBump large amounts of new players]] flocking towards their forums and games, and has gotten to the point where some of the developers have explicitly acknowledged him. For example, the developers of ''Videogame/{{Synthetik}}'' put a special weapon in the game named after him.
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9	[[folder:List of games covered in upload order]]
10	* ''[[VideoGame/{{MightAndMagic}} Might and Magic VI]]'' (2014, re-reviewed Mar 22, 2021)
11	* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' (Nov 14, 2015)
12	* ''VisualNovel/{{Nekopara}}'' (Nov 29, 2015)
13	* ''VideoGame/{{Insurgency}}'' (Mar 24, 2016)
14	* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' (Sep 18, 2016)
15	* ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' (Sep 23, 2016)
16	* ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' (Aug 1, 2017)
17	* ''[[VideoGame/{{MightAndMagic}} Might and Magic VII]]'' (Aug 6, 2017)
18	* ''VideoGame/{{Factorio}}'' (Aug 27, 2017)
19	* ''Kamidori Alchemy Meister'' - NSFW
20	* ''Honey Select'' - NSFW
21	* ''[[VideoGame/{{MightAndMagic}} Might and Magic VIII]]'' (Oct 9, 2017)
22	* ''[[VideoGame/{{MightAndMagic}} Might and Magic IX]]'' (Oct 28, 2017)
23	* ''VideoGame/{{Elex}}'' (Nov 10, 2017)
24	* ''[[VideoGame/{{MountAndBlade}} Mount and Blade: Warband]]'' (Dec 21, 2017)
25	* ''[[VideoGame/{{HeroesOfMightAndMagic}} Heroes of Might and Magic III]]'' (Jan 20, 2018)
26	* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}'' (Feb 11, 2018)
27	* ''VideoGame/DarkMessiah'' (Mar 10, 2018)
28	* ''[[VideoGame/{{HeroesOfMightAndMagic}} Heroes of Might and Magic IV]]'' (Mar 31, 2018)
29	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' (Apr 28, 2018)
30	* ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'' (May 30, 2018)
31	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Gothic}} Gothic II]]'' (Jun 30, 2018)
32	* ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'' (Jul 20, 2018)
33	* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' (Sep 5, 2018) Bonus: ''Literature/RoadsidePicnic''
34	* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' (Sep 22, 2018)
35	* ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' (Oct 28, 2018)
36	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' (Nov 18, 2018)
37	* ''VideoGame/LordsOfMagic'' (Dec 5, 2018)
38	* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' (Jan 27, 2019)
39	* ''VideoGame/{{Kenshi}}'' (Feb 26, 2019)
40	* ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' (Mar 17, 2019)
41	* ''VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom'' (Mar 31, 2019)
42	* ''VideoGame/GuardiansOfEmber'' (Apr 25, 2019)
43	* ''VideoGame/GodHand'' (May 6, 2019)
44	* ''[[VideoGame/{{HeroesOfMightAndMagic}} Heroes of Might and Magic II]]'' (May 23, 2019)
45	* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' (Jun 13, 2019)
46	* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' (Jul 5, 2019)
47	* ''VideoGame/{{Starsector}}'' (Aug 2, 2019)
48	* ''VideoGame/{{Underrail}}'' (Sep 8, 2019)
49	* ''[[VideoGame/{{CrusaderKings}} Crusader Kings 2]]'' (Oct 13, 2019)
50	* ''Evenicle'' - NSFW (Nov 9, 2019)
51	* ''[[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Heroes of Might and Magic V]]'' (Dec 15, 2019, reuploaded Feb 13, 2020)
52	* ''VideoGame/{{SYNTHETIK}}'' (Jan 31, 2020)
53	* ''VideoGame/NeoScavenger'' (Mar 3, 2020)
54	* ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilationKingdoms'' (April 11, 2020)
55	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} Wizardry 8]]'' (May 8, 2020)
56	* ''VideoGame/{{Outward}}'' (June 12, 2020)
57	* ''VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale'' (July 3, 2020)
58	* ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'' (September 7, 2020)
59	* ''VideoGame/CavesOfQud'' (October 22, 2020)
60	* ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}[=/=][[VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}} Caesar 3]]'' (December 27, 2020)
61	* ''VideoGame/TheNations'' (February 14, 2021)
62	* ''VideoGame/AmazingCultivationSimulator'' (July 23, 2021)
63	* ''VideoGame/{{Highfleet}}'' (November 25, 2021)
64	* ''[[VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense Bloons TD 6]]'' (February 24, 2022)
65	* ''Videogame/EldenRing'' (April 4, 2022)
66	* ''[[Videogame/CompanyOfHeroes Company of Heroes 2]]'' (May 6, 2022)
67	* ''VideoGame/SongsOfConquest'' (June 30th, 2022)
68	* ''VideoGame/SpaceWarlordOrganTradingSimulator'' (July 29, 2022)
69	* ''VideoGame/TribalHunter'' (August 24, 2022)
70	* ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' (October 21, 2022)
71	* ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders'' (November 24, 2022)
72	* ''VideoGame/BastardBonds'' (December 23, 2022)
73	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' (originally uploaded on February 13, 2023. Later re-uploaded on March 18, 2023.)
74	* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'' (February 18, 2023)
75	* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce5'' (March 10, 2023)
76	* ''VideoGame/HardspaceShipbreaker'' (April 17, 2023)
77	* ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'' (July 11, 2023)
78	* ''Breeders of the Nephelym'' - NSFW (September 29, 2023)
79	* ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}'' (October 27, 2023)
80	* ''VideoGame/{{Quasimorph}}'' (November 30, 2023)
81	* ''VideoGame/TheMatchlessKungfu'' (February 2, 2024)
82	* ''VideoGame/DungeonSiegeII'' (along with ''[[VideoGame/{{Dizzy}} Fantastic Dizzy]]'') (February 23, 2024)
83	* ''VideoGame/SongOfSyx'' (April 16, 2024)
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86	!! Today, I'll be providing the following tropes:
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88	* AbortedArc: Invoked in his ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' review showing that the game has embodied the spirit of Creator/GeorgeRRMartin with the myriad of quests that go nowhere, along with his own TakeThat to GRRM having yet to finish writing ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
89	* AccentuateTheNegative:
90	** Subverted. While Sseth is quick to mock any shortcomings of the games he plays or tell wildly inaccurate details on their overarching plots, he generally has nothing but glowing praise to give for the games he recommends in general, which wildly range from high-profile games like ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' to outright middle-shelf games to even NSFW games. As a general rule, Sseth usually likes to stay on the positive side when talking about games.
91	** A notable case of this being played straight and averting his usual positivity is ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}'', which Sseth under no uncertain terms states the only way he can see the game being good is wiping the slate clean. Even when sarcastically praising the game, he's made clear his vehement dislike for the game's story and gameplay, though he notes later on in the video that he isn't even mad about the game by itself, he's mad he paid $100 dollars for such a mediocre experience.
92	* AintTooProudToBeg: Takes a moment out of his ''Warthunder'' review to reveal that he was given a press pass key to the game that allowed him access to all its units and features, which is why he's been dragging his heels in actually making the video for it. Also, he begs the developers to let him keep said press pass.
93	* AlmightyJanitor: In his ''Space Station 13'' video, Sseth shows that the most dangerous thing for a bunch of incompetent cultists is a crewmate that knows how to do his job right. Bonus points for that crewmate actually being a janitor, who singlehandedly knocked all the cultists down with his mop and soapy water and safely ran away to call security.
94	* TheAllegedComputer:
95	** Whatever computer Sseth is currently using in a review is rarely ever portrayed in a positive light when seen or mentioned. His laptop in particular is about a decade or two behind planet Earth, covered in a bizarre combination of old stickers and exposed hardware, and in such a poor state of disrepair that Sseth classifies it an improvised ''taser'' device in his ''VideoGame/{{Underrail}}'' review. Its condition only gets worse in later reviews.
96	--->'''Sseth:''' To keep it working I ripped out the thermal sensor, which means if I flip it over I can reliably cook eggs on the surface."
97	** The laptop's temporary replacement in Sseth's ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilationKingdoms'' review, which he dubs "I Have No Case and I Must Scream", is an even more extreme example, being nothing more than some loose parts wired together lacking so much as a power button, requiring that pins be shorted on the motherboard with a screwdriver to turn the computer on instead.
98	* AmbiguouslyBi: An early running gag in the channel was Sseth's love for feminine men, and his repeated use of out of context gay pornography as comedy material. That said, much of his commissioned pornography features women in carnal situations, and thanks to being exposed to the nymphs and similarly nubile feminine "creatures" in ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders'', he came to the realization that being gay was going to be an uphill battle, one that he's "still losing" to this day. Considering how irreverent the man is, how much of his shitposting can be an indication of Sseth's actual sexuality is debatable at best.
99	* AuthorAppeal:
100	** Sseth has a very obvious bias for [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox games]] which feature [[ItemCrafting crafting mechanics (especially with an economy to profit with)]] and [[RelationshipValues have faction and relationship-based gameplay]], especially [[Main/FourX 4X games]]. In particular, he loves to [[GameBreaker hilariously break them]] or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential to doom the game world into becoming a cesspool of endless suffering and death]].
101	** He also mainly reviews PC games, with the only exceptions being ''Fable'' (which he played on PC anyways) and ''God Hand'' (which he also played on PC through an emulator). ''God Hand'' also doubles as the only non-RPG, Strategy or FPS game he’s reviewed.
102	* BaitAndSwitch: His review of ''VideoGame/DungeonSiegeII'' is initially presented as one of ''[[VideoGame/{{Dizzy}} Fantastic Dizzy]]'', and after 3 minutes Sseth remarks there's nothing stopping him from putting two reviews together for extra video time.
103	* BatmanGambit: In a story he shares in the ''Space Station 13'' review, Sseth attempts to weaponize a griefer by sneakily planting a large bomb on the [[AssShove griefer's ass]] to be activated when he says the n-word, banking on him being arrested by Sseth's target (The head of Security) and calling him the n-word in the process. Said griefer turns around and thanks Sseth [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by calling him the n-word]].
104	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In his review of ''The Nations'', he jokingly said he made the video of a game his mother enjoyed in case she ever figures out what he's been doing with his time instead of working in finance. Fast forward to 2021 and it turns out the reason he went on a hiatus for a few months is because he accidentally doxxed himself which caused his parents to find out that he was making shitposting reviews instead of still being in medical school, so his internet was cut off while he smoothed things over with them.
105	* BitingTheHandHumor:
106	** Sseth's portrayal of his patreon subscribers (which he dubs, "The Merchants' Guild") is normally negatively played for laughs, being portrayed in the ''VideoGame/{{Highfleet}}'' review by a short clip of soapy chimpanzees slapping each other and as "either a crossdresser, a trap, or transitioning into a trap" in the ''Evenicle'' review.
107	** His ads dip into this as well, depending on the product they'll get potshots at their consumers, the product itself and the occasional controversy. Downplayed with VPN ads in that he's entirely honest in saying you're ''probably'' gonna use them to pirate stuff, watch region-locked content and dodge whatever data throttles your internet provider will try to put on you for it all (all true, but legally dubious at ''best'' and nothing VPN providers would brag about openly even if they want to).
108	* BlackComedy: The usual results of granting him VideoGameCrueltyPotential. Or him just playing the game.
109	%%* {{Blaxploitation}}: Relentlessly parodied in his guide for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZ1gmZ2DlI Jungle]] [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends Lucian.]]
110	* BoomerangBigot: He has made numerous jokes about jewish stereotypes, such as referring to his patreon supports as "The Merchant's Guild", but would later reveal that he's actually a German Ashkenazi Jew. Of course it's all PlayedForLaughs.
111	-->(From his ''Crusader Kings 2'' review) "Borrow money from the Jews, consider paying them back, keep it instead by expelling the Jews from your country. Don't feel bad about it, we've been expelled so often, you ''really'' won't hurt our feelings if you do it again.
112	* BrokeTheRatingScale: Sseth rarely gives out a quantifiable score for his games. He occasionally gives a game a 10/10, but anything else is "a (very) high score" or some abstract measurement using something from the game, including "[[VideoGame/{{Kenshi}} 250 Wheatstraws/the insane fucking range of Blood Spiders]]", "[[VideoGame/DeusEx ecselent[sic]/however many children [he] tased during [his] playthrough]]", and "[[VideoGame/TotalAnnihilationKingdoms The studio filed for bankruptcy shortly after its release/10]]". Or he'll plainly admit the score is arbitrary.
113	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Despite his ComedicShotacon tendencies, Sseth also seems to have a thing for the occasional BigBeautifulWoman. His favorite leader in ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'' is Jenestra Omalfi'Meos of the Lumeris, whom he affectionately refers to as "big tiddy fish mommy".
114	-->"[...] But, I don't care. Because, big tiddy fish mommy is going to buy the galaxy, and I'm going to help her."
115	* CallBack: The end of his ''Heroes of Might and Magic II'' video has him bring up a fan who sent him a keyboard "optimized" (read: with every key but "R" removed) if he ever wanted to try playing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi0TIoL3yhw Spawn Karthus]] ever again.
116	* TheCameo:
117	** Ever since fans started speculating him to be the SplitPersonality of WebVideo/MandaloreGaming, both Sseth and Mandy have been making cameo appearances in each other's reviews.
118	** [[https://youtu.be/yG9g2byXR2c His re-review of Might and Magic VI]] has Paul Anthony Romero, the composer for the NWC Might and magic games (Including the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games.), make a brief appearance at the beginning, and say a variation of Sseth's catchphrase.
119	--> '''Sseth:''' He made, like, nine takes of this intro. Bless your autism.
120	* CharacterCatchphrase: Every video starts with "Hey hey, people, Sseth here!"
121	%%* ChildSoldiers: He claims to be one in his origin story.
122	* ComedicShotacon: Sseth regularly exploits the comedic value of his attraction to [[DudeLooksLikeALady "traps"]], and he's [[HasAType damn specific about his preferences too]], having used images of [[Literature/FateApocrypha Astolfo]], [[Manga/BlendS Hideri Kanzaki]], as well as [[Literature/ReZero Felix Argyle]] -- the last of which he even has a full-sized hug pillow of, [[ImplausibleDeniability which he bought solely for a video, of course.]] As it turns out, [[MundaneUtility it's pretty good]] [[NotTheIntendedUse as a neck pillow.]] As of his ''VideoGame/CavesOfQud'' review, he's seemingly gotten pillows of all three.
123	* CouldSayItBut: At the end of his ''Rise of Legends'' review, he states that the game can't be conveniently purchased anywhere and while he can't officially post a link to a torrent, he also states that if someone in his comments section does does just that and it gets upvoted to the top then there's not much he can do about it.
124	* ConfucianConfusion: One of his friends slips into this when playing ''Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom'' to explain the concept of BuxomBeautyStandard.
125	-->"Confucius says: big tits with no ass will fill your hands, but big ass with no tits will fill your heart"
126	* CorruptedCharacterCopy: After hiring on a crew to help him make his videos, he explains that they have their own [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo "Mystery Machine"]]. But instead of catching criminals with their van, they [[DeadlyEuphemism "make people disappear."]]
127	* CrapsackWorld: According to his ''VideoGame/{{Outward}}'' video, ''Quebec'' of all places has become one if these, having split off from the rest of Canada, and simply getting a voice actor into a safe city is a life-threatening venture requiring mercenary bodyguards.
128	--> "You're not gonna survive the first deadzone without a paramilitary escort."
129	* CulturalCringe: His earlier non-League videos tended to feature Sseth and his friends mocking various internet subcultures, including dating websites and sex toy reviewers.
130	* CursedWithAwesome: In his ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', he pointed out that God's punishment for Cain killing his brother and having the audacity to lie about it was to give Cain superpowers. However, Sseth points out that the true punishment was giving Cain the ability to sire immortal children, and watch for eternity as his progeny kills each other out of the fear of death.
131	-->"Cain, for crimes against your creator, and your fellow man, I sentence you to immortality. I am also giving you superspeed, and super strength. You can also turn invisible. Would you like to Polymorph as well? Sometimes I like to turn into a burning bush and scare the shit out of Moses."
132	* DeadDrop: How Sseth publicly offers to share a (as in, singular) copy of ''Crusaders King 2'' with all the requisite DLC vis-a-vis a semi-concealed flash drive in South East London.
133	* DeadpanSnarker: Sseth's voice is a flat, monotonous baritone with very scant emotes. Even when he's being particularly snarky or sarcastic, his voice barely changes.
134	* DigitalAvatar: Both he and his fanbase portray him as a Ugandan Warlord named Mbeke, using the picture of Congolese Lieutenant Kongolo Nadiane, taken from an [[https://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/africa/2012/07/24151.html Al Jazeera article]] about soldiers serving the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His Youtube profile pic is Bobby Kotick, the current [=CEO=] of Creator/{{Activision}}.
135	* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: Deliberately invoked, either [[CrackIsCheaper due to inordinately high pricing of certain games and[=/=]or their ludicrously large DLC selection]] (e.g. ''Endless Space 2''), or because the games he's covering have been rendered {{Abandonware}} due to the publishers going out of business. As a result, Sseth occasionally includes links to his own DRM-free copies of games he reviews in the description. His [=ExpressVPN=] ad in the ''Videogame/TribalHunter'' video is damn near entirely about how it lets him pirate games in peace without his internet provider catching on and getting pissed about it.
136	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
137	** Before settling on making comedic reviews, Sseth dabbled in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' videos, reading strange things on the internet and just footage of him screwing around with his friends on online games.
138	** His ''Might and Magic VI'' review has some humor in it, but for the most part is incredibly serious.
139	** It wasn’t until his ''Elona'' review that he started videos with his iconic “Hey Hey people, Sseth here”, and Avatar.
140	** He's toned down his edgy humor ever since his ''Morrowind'' video, which is where he first became popular. While he hasn't ''completely'' eliminated telling racy jokes, his humor is now more based around exaggerated and grandiose statements mixed with depraved subject matter.
141	* EnforcedPlug: His review of a mediocre [=MMO=] named ''Guardians of Ember'', which was later revealed to have been made to fund commissions for Rule34 of Olivia for his ''VideoGame/GodHand'' review.
142	* EveryoneHasStandards:
143	** While Sseth has never had a problem with porn or violence, he easily admitted to finding the brutal (and fully voice acted) rape, dismemberment, and vore of ''Evenicle'' to be sickening.
144	-->'''Sseth''': I must... explain something to you that I can't stress enough, this game is not for the faint of heart... I've... [[BrainBleach seen some shit.]]
145	** He's also admitted to finding the death rattles in ''Crusader Kings 2'' to be disturbing.
146	** He states that while the flowers in ''Tribal Hunter'' can cause you to spawn Slimes that are a good source of XP, the ForceFeeding animation that you have to witness is a bit too much for him to want to exploit this too much.
147	--->''I ''don't'' think it's an exploit; it's an intentional form of torture. Everything you gain is outweighted by everything you lose. Namely, the ability to close your eyes ''ever again'' without that image '''[[BrainBleach burned into your skull]]'''.''
148	** On an amusing note, Sseth recounted a game of ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' he played with WebVideo/MandaloreGaming on one of his streams in which Mandalore successfully gaslit an entire free-for-all game so bad that Sseth and their group of friends had permanently ''banned'' free-for-all matches among themselves (when Mandalore is around) to prevent him from doing that in the future.
149	* EsotericHappyEnding: [[invoked]] In his review of ''VideoGame/HardspaceShipbreaker'', he considers the game's resolution to the Union plot to be this. [[spoiler: The middle managers are demoted, [[MegaCorp LYNX]] eliminates the slavery clause from workers' contracts and Space Congress outlaws cloning, though the Shipbreakers lobby to keep their right to create clones. The corporate bigwigs responsible [[KarmaHoudini get off scott-free and continue to make a profit.]] The working conditions are the same and nothing has changed to keep humanity out of ever growing poverty.]]
150	* TheFaceless: The most we see of Sseth are his hands while recording himself walking around his flat.
151	* FanHater: Sseth isn't especially fond of ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}'' players, since they have such poor taste and little engagement they let Bethesda get away with utter laziness.
152	-->'''Sseth:''' But [quality] doesn't matter, because Bethesda spits out a game every few years for her target audience: ''Dads''. I get it. You have two kids, you're in your mid-thirties, and you have time for exactly three games a year. I don't judge, we're all busy. But ''this'' game is immune to criticism, because the people you're arguing with don't have that much time or investment. They see a crater, [[MundaneObjectAmazement they soy-pog]], and then they leave. That's why, if somebody defends this game, don't give them a hard time. They have it hard enough already, between [[DomesticAbuse beating their spouse]] ''and'' their children. And they still say man can't multitask...
153	* FantasticRacism: Dislikes elves, gnomes, furries, and foot fetishists.
154	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
155	** His ''VideoGame/{{Kenshi}}'' review ended with a parody of ''VideoGame/GodHand'' a few months before it got its own review.
156	** When he says "more things to come", one of the several of clips playing normally is from the game he's currently finishing a review of.
157	* FreezeFrameBonus: A ''lot''. A lot of his older videos especially will spam the screen with memes, screengrabs, cropped NSFW images, and other vaguely related shit. You'll need to pause frequently to see them all.
158	* GreedyJew: {{Parodied\|Trope}} with his Patreon account: he named his Patrons on the site as the 'Merchants' Guild' and has links on his videos where fans can 'give him shekels' (donate). When his Morrowind review got copyright striked, he revealed that he is a German Ashkenazi Jew. An earlier outro song he used was even the Hava Nagila, perhaps one of the most traditionally-Jewish songs out there. Not to mention this is the stereotype he references the most with his Jewish jokes, [[SelfDeprecation sometimes at his own expense.]]
159	-->(From his Starsector review) "Most of your time, as with real life, will be spent figuring out how to make as much money as possible. You can see why I love this game. ''[[BoomerangBigot It runs in my blood.]]''"
160	* GameBreaker: Encourages such tactics to be invoked in any RPG that has them. Indeed, he seems to be under the impression that you aren't a ''true'' master of the game until you can not only abuse the most broken units and strategies, but prove "your bullshit strategy beats your opponent's bullshit strategy."
161	-->''([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ow5lGFju1c on]] [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]])'' The custom spellmaking, in particular, can be abused to make some disgusting spells, such as the ability to camouflage yourself perfectly 100% for 1 millisecond and steal something right in front of the merchant but just because they couldn't see you physically taking the object, they can't establish causality.
162	* HasAType: Outside of his (possibly joking) enjoyment of feminine men and inflation porn, Sseth seems to greatly prefer large-scale, incredibly complex [[StrategyGame Strategy]] and {{Simulation Game}}s, specifically ones that offer him chances to engage in depravity and tell interesting stories. Examples of this include ''Starsector'', ''Dwarf Fortress'', ''Endless Space 2'', ''Space Station 13'' and more. While Sseth doesn't limit himself to just these games, they are by far the ones he reviews the most.
163	* HiddenDepths:
164	** Sseth revealed in his [=DLive=] stream that he actually is a trained medical professional who branched off into pharmaceutical research with a master's degree in cancer immunology, specifically immunotherapy. He ended up leaving the profession out of disgust over the overly corporate nature of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. He even dedicated a rather long stream on [=DLive=] to a mostly serious talk on the nature of his work in medicine and his many gripes on how counterproductive the industry could be when it came to helping people. Here he is doing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRVQWfqjms&t=4241s lecture on cancer immunology]].
165	** Despite the jokes he makes about being obsessed with money, he's very firm about his backers getting what they pay for, and feels its important to make stuff how he wants it to be. During a brief period where he was busy with another job, he temporarily stopped receiving patreon support because he wasn't making videos and felt it was wrong to be paid for not producing content, and once, his sponsor told him to adjust his script in a way that ran against how he wanted the video to be, so he refused and rejected the sponsor to stay true to his video.
166	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: On his first-ever run as a traitor in ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'', Sseth attempted to assassinate the chief of security by surgically implanting bombs in a foul-mouthed newbie player, voice-activated by saying the N-word. Sseth gifted his unwitting suicide bomber with dozens of illegal items and sent him on his way, intending him to cause chaos and be arrested by security... only for the newbie to turn around at the last moment and thank him while using the trigger slur. The resulting explosion vaporized the both of them and destroyed the medical bay.
167	* HypocriticalHumor: Late in his ''Space Station 13'' video, he warns viewers that those who play Security roles tend to fall prey to Fascistic and Bigoted tendencies that lead them to abuse their authority. ''Earlier'' in that same video, Sseth told a story about how he abused his authority as a Security officer to oppress and exterminate homosexual furry players.
168	* InsaneTrollLogic: Used to describe why he doesn't have evac pods on his ships in his ''Highfleet'' review.
169	-->"Think about it. The ''Titanic'' would have never crashed if it had no life vessels. If the passengers had no option for retreat, they'd plug the hole with their bloated carcasses and save the day."
170	* {{Irony}}: Despite gleefully parodying the GreedyJew stereotype and being a self professed money obsessed manchild, Sseth's purported reasons for leaving his "respectable" job in medicine was due to the [[EveryoneHasStandards overly corporate, greedy and callous nature of working in his field]].
171	* KlingonPromotion: One of his characters in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'''s adventure mode was a kobold that managed to kill the king. To his surprise, [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the guards barely even cared]], and promptly made him king. He spent the rest of the game telling people that he killed the previous king, [[CassandraTruth which nobody believed]].
172	* ManlyGay: Sseth's content will sometimes feature very sneaky references to [[BaraGenre Gachimuchi]]. As of late, he's seemingly dropped all pretenses, however, and started featuring them prominently, not unlike how WebVideo/MandaloreGaming used to. In fact, this only further fuels the fire for those that believe Sseth is Mandalore's SplitPersonality.
173	* NoodleImplements: According to his origin story, young Sseth created an [=NVidia=] graphics card out of some lemons and coal bits he found in the garbage dump.
174	* NoodleIncident: He implies that he offended a ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' server in some manner, which resulted in some of their members having semen delivered to his mailbox.
175	* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: During an attempt to play ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'', the Black Death struck Europe and Sseth decided to barricade himself in his royal estate to avoid the pandemic. Once the estate ran out of food, Sseth resorted to killing and eating members of his court, followed by luring outsiders into the court to be eaten as well. After murdering dozens of people this way, Sseth discovered that the plague -- despite spreading across the entirety of Europe -- [[AllForNothing never actually touched any of the regions he still controlled.]]
176	* OminousVisualGlitch: Sseth has been using this trope more as of his recent videos such as his reviews on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hAnvqyfFiM Guardian of Ember]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqpulP1hLo Starsector]].
177	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His channel description reads simply: "I do it for the money!"
178	* OurGnomesAreWeirder: In his view, gnomes are AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters motivated solely by avarice and malice.
179	-->'''Seth:''' It is no exaggeration or hyperbole that all evils of the world are endorsed and committed by gnomes. A gnome feels [[LackOfEmpathy no empathy]], [[TheUnfettered no remorse]], [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous no common humanity]] that separates us from simple beasts. The only "love" a gnome can feel, if you dare describe it so, [[MoneyFetish is that for money]]. A gnome would sooner sell his own ''mother'' for a pouch of silvers than do a single good deed in his entire gaping hole of an existence.
180	* PlotTumor: Sseth considers the whole storyline about Unionizing to be one of these in his ''Videogame/HardspaceShipbreaker'' review, growing to be something that utterly baffles him about a game he considers to have a 99% enjoyable gameplay loop otherwise. His reasons are the characters barging in constantly while he's just trying to play, his personal preference to "exist within the system" of dystopian settings scrounging for scraps of human contact rather than try to fight the power, and his opinion that the game's setting is such a bleak, hypercapitalist CrapsackWorld thanks to the company owning you ''and'' your clones that it's basically "''Videogame/CrueltySquad'' [[SensoryAbuse except I can actually see]]".
181	* RapidFireComedy: The jokes in Sseth's videos fly by at a dizzying pace, with most of them consisting of hilarious {{Freeze Frame Bonus}}es that mean that, unless you literally pause and rewind your way through his videos, you might catch maybe 10% of them in one viewing.
182	* RefugeInAudacity: Used frequently in his videos alongside CrossesTheLineTwice, but a particularly noteworthy example that was played for laughs was in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ2r2ZFTaWk God Hand]] review. After stating that you could emulate the game on PC since you couldn't buy it from the developers anymore as they had gone on to form Platinum Games, he spoke as a viewer inquiring whether he pirated the game or not. He then proceeded to dodge the question by announcing that he had funded over $1,000 worth of ''God Hand'' [[RuleThirtyFour porn]] using his sponsorship money.
183	* RichesToRags: Happened to Sseth's family in real life. His ancestors were wealthy German Jews living in Tsarist Russia. HilarityEnsued when the Bolsheviks took over and deported them to Central Asia. What's left of his ancestral estate was then reduced to a dirty pig farm.
184	* RunningGag: After years of making videos, he's bound to have at least a few.
185	** There is a running gag in the fandom that Sseth is the SplitPersonality of fellow videogame reviewer WebVideo/MandaloreGaming, akin to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Mandalore being the "sane" half who dominates when he's on medication, and Sseth, being Hyde, emerges whenever he doesn't take his pills and wants to talk about something NSFW. The most unifying aspect of both, which fans have noticed, is their love of [[BaraGenre Gachimuchi]] culture. Both are aware of this, and Sseth briefly "turns into" Mandalore at the very beginning of his ''Evenicle'' review. Eventually, in his ''Wizardry 8'' review, Sseth imported Mandalore's avatar into the game as one of the party members, and referenced the joke by putting the subtitle "Mandalore has gone insane!" underneath Sseth's own character.
186	** He often uses (barely) safe-for-work clips from gay porn that (barely) have relevance to the topic he's currently talking about as ([[RuleOfThree barely]]) amusing background.
187	** Him reviewing games that feature drug smuggling and organ harvesting are more than a little common, having shown how practicing [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord 'non-consensual organ arbitrage']] is very profitable in ''{{VideoGame/Rimworld}}'' and how transporting hashish to the United Cities is a great way to earn fat stacks of cash in ''{{VideoGame/Kenshi}}''. His ''{{VideoGame/Starsector}}'' review featured him heavily using both illegal trades and provided a crossover third example.
188	** Using the [[TradeSnark trademark symbol]] (™) in his video titles, can be seen in several of his newer reviews; examples include his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ow5lGFju1c Morrowind review]] (A Moon-Sugar Fortified Experience™), his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjugsyOKNvg STALKER review]] (Soviet Survival Simulator™), his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC5niDwkaV8 Deus Ex review]] (Stop Globalists™ \| Tase Children™), and his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ2r2ZFTaWk God Hand]] review (Beat Thugs™ \| Demons™ \| Women™).
189	** Sseth pronouncing words with 'th' as 'f'. Examples are him saying 'firty' instead of thirty, and 'eefur wind' instead of ether wind.
190	** Sseth pretending to be a former child soldier from a unit called the Trouser Snake in Congo. An African soldier is his avatar for this reason.
191	** Not explaining the mechanics of a game, usually saying something to the effect of "I don't have time to explain" or "It's so simple, I don't have to explain it". Usually this is followed up with him providing some kind of build or guide for it that he made, and the instructions usually look unclear or confusing.
192	** Using images and clips of ''League of Legends'' streamer [=tyler1=] to depict low-intelligence characters or races in certain games.
193	* {{Scanlation}}: Once did a comedic reading of a pornographic Dōjinshi translated into stereotypically-[[UsefulNotes/AustralianSlang Australian]] English.
194	* SelfDeprecation: He makes liberal use of the GreedyJew stereotype while being Jewish himself and at points questions the judgement of people that decide to give him money for his videos.
195	* SellOut: Prefaces his defunct Established Titles sponsorship video as him becoming one of these, so his audience of "porn-addicted males on the internet" shouldn't feel bad that it fell through. He's still proud enough of the advert to show it at the end of his ''VideoGame/BastardBonds'', video regardless, especially since it was created with the help of his new development team.
196	* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: In his ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'' episode, Sseth talks about how when he was younger during a trip in Latin America, he found a bootleg video game store. For $5 US dollars, he bought ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' burnt on a blank CD, a copy of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' in Russian which he finished despite not knowing the language, a Russian version of ''VideoGame/SeriousSamTheSecondEncounter'' which ended up being malware, and what he thought was ''VideoGame/RiseOfNations'' but was instead ''Rise of Legends.''
197	* SincerityMode: Sseth occasionally slips into it, some notable moments include:
198	** When he examines why is it he still have fond memories of the janky mess that is ''Total Anihilation: Kingdoms''.
199	** When speaking about his ritalin addiction and the difficulties he has in going sober in the ''War Thunder'' review.
200	** When wrapping up ''Bastard Bonds'' he mentions one of the reasons he covers the game ([[TakeThat aside from humiliating the sponsors that ditched him]]) is that he believes that societal fear and stigmatization of homosexuality has led men to find it hard to openly form close emotional platonic friendships with each other, leading to emotional stunting.
201	---> '''Sseth''': Look, I'm not here to preach, but maybe if each of us told another homie that we genuinely cared about them, maybe we would not be half as depressed and pathologic as we are right now. Its easy to forget yourself, I've been there many times and... and each time the pit is just as empty and bottomless as it was before, in my paralysis, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments it is only because of the people closest to me that I remind myself that I can climb out of it]].
202	** Similarly, when wrapping up his ''Starfield'' review, after almost ''12 straight minutes'' of utterly ''ripping the game to shreds'', all the way to the point of saying the only way modders can "fix" it is ''wiping it clean and making something else''; he drops the jokes and gets surprisingly somber and serious as he explains why he's so vicious and angry with the game.
203	---> '''Sseth''': Look, I figured it out. I know why I'm ''so angry.'' I'm not angry at the game, ''it's not even that bad.'' I'm angry because ''[[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition I paid a hundred bucks for it.]]'' [[Creator/ToddHoward The King of the Chess Club]] has done it again. Each time I tell myself, ''[[Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim "No, not]]'' ''[[Videogame/Fallout4 this]]'' ''[[Videogame/Fallout76 time"]]''. But I already know, [[MemeticMutation Todd's gonna tell me lies.]] ''[[MemeticMutation Tell me sweet little lies.]]'' And each time...''I listen.''
204	* SophisticatedAsHell: Part of his comedy comes from his extensive vocabulary contrasting with the silliness he covers. Considering how well read he is and his level of education, it might not be intentional.
205	* ShoutOut: He opens his reviews of ''Bloons TD 6'' with a spoof of Patrick Bateman's opening monologue from ''Film/AmericanPsycho''. Sseth's version involves significantly more hard drugs than Bateman's.
206	* ShownTheirWork: Many of Sseth's reviews go beyond recapping the mechanics and story, showcasing events from multiple playthroughs, meta strategies, known bugs and community memes. Some of them feature a screenshot of hundred of hours of playtime on Steam and scrolling through wiki articles.
207	* SlowerThanASnail: In ''NEO Scavenger'', he encounters an unconscious dying man and decides to sneak up on him very slowly to steal his stuff. He failed to notice that he was going so slowly that ''two whole days'' had passed and he wasn't even halfway there when his target managed to recover and leave.
208	* StylisticSuck: Sseth's gags usually include very crude Photoshop jobs to replace a subject with a meme or person of interest. Failing that, he will just slap the images he wants on top of whatever's going on. The slapdash nature of these has a charm of its own.
209	* TakeThat: In his origin story video, a dying man bequeaths his Alienware Gaming rig to Seth, using his last words to mourn that "it has only brought (his) family ruin".
210	* TakeThatAudience:
211	** Regularly adds videos of apes doing silly things in the background when referring to the audience in general.
212	** Americans, Africans, Asians, black people, white people, the Polish, the Russians, Germans ([[SelfDeprecation which is where he was born and spent his childhood]]), communists, capitalists, anarcho-capitalists, the elderly, furries, Jewish people ([[SelfDeprecation he himself is Jewish]])... It's safe to say that if you breathe he's made fun of one group or another that you belong to.
213	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His review of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEFuOsEey9M Might And Magic IX]]'' starts with "Sooner or later we had to do it, this is it. [[INeedAFreakingDrink This is where I start drinking"]].
214	* UnusualEuphemism: Uses them for comedic effect, among them:
215	** Postnatal Abortion
216	** Non-Consensual organ arbitrage
217	** His description of the sex scenes in ''Evenicle'' is made entirely with "Bowling Balls", "Sausages" and "pizza delivery men".
218	** Moral relativism for psychopathy.
219	* VerbalTic: Pronounces "th" sounds as an "f", as in "firty" instead of "thirty".
220	** Also "Gimme a sec" during his streams.
221	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: If Sseth covers a game that allows for some kind of profitable and/or cathartic atrocity to be committed, you can bet he will commit it while showcasing the game. His most preferred one is organ-harvesting.
222	* WesternTerrorists: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0vgZOSC4U The Strange Case of Dr. Jafari and Mr. Hyde]] sees Sseth threatened by "notorious imams" [[Series/WorldPeace Sam Hyde]] and [[WebVideo/JonTron Jon Jafari]].
223	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His "Congolese" accent has been described as "a Canadian imitating a Chinese man imitating an African" in the comments section for his origin story.
224	* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: Sseth attributes his charm to being a former healthcare professional who has to articulate specific things to patients.
225	* WouldHurtAChild: Played for laughs. If a game has, and allows you to hurt, children, you can bet your money on Sseth openly trying to kill at least three of them per review.
226	* YouDontWantToKnow: In the ''VideoGame/HardspaceShipbreaker'' review, after explaining the [[BodyHorror actual effects of extremely lowered pressure on the human body]]:
227	-->'''Seth:''' What's that? You want to know what happens when the pressure gets too high? (''the background mentions the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin Byford Dolphin incident]]'') ''No''. No, you don't.

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