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  • Crosses the Line Twice: He is practically a master of this type of humor, with almost all of his videos engaging in it.
    • One example is in his Gothic 2 review; he goes from jokes about peasants, monks, women, ethnic Germans, Polish migrant workers, the country of Poland, and more.
      [Claiming that Gothic 2's plot about dragons is a metaphor for Polish migrant workers] "As in one point in the story, you can willingly return to the Valley of Coal Mines, a literary reference to the barren wastelands of Poland. And the moment you do so, dragons will assault Khorinis and burn your memories to the ground. Despair will fill your character at this point, and you will be left questioning your motives. 'Why did I go back? Why didn't I stay? Sure, Lobart only paid me five Euros for picking twenty turnips, but that was enough for me to buy my Zywiec and my Camel cigarettes. I was content, I was happy. Now? Now I'll be lucky to live to firty. Most don't even last that long, down here in the popcorn mines. Hopefully, I'll be instantly caramelized by hitting a sugar vein. Some don't have that luxury. They instead get buried alive, their lungs choking on a mountain of popcorn kernels.'"
    • His experience as a doctor in Space Station 13 have to be seen to be believed.
      Several rounds later, I finally spawned as a traitor... and I had no idea what I was doing. But I wanted my first time to be special. Conveniently, an assistant comes in, bleeding all over, because he was (probably) trying to break into the armory without insulated gloves. His character sprite had maximum melanin and an afro. His roleplay-friendly name was "Muh Dick". An idiot, but a useful idiot. There were no medical staff on hand except me, so I said, "Hey, I know a little bit of surgery, let me fix you up!" I put him under general anesthetic and took out my Syndicate PDA. With this, I can discretely teleport a few traitor items into my inventory to help me achieve my objective, which in this case was murdering the Head of Security. I ordered two sets of voice-activated explosives, which trigger upon hearing the recorded code-phrase. I set this to the word most likely to be spoken by this mentally-retarded human being. Can you guess what that is? [in the video, he's typing out the N-word] I surgically opened his ass and inserted the first of the explosives. Then, I lodged the second one neatly inside his chest cavity. Closing them up, I took off the anesthetic, and began to put my plan in action. I would arm this simple-minded moron with illegal weaponry, with the hopes that Security would detain him on possession charges. I gave him all of the LSD, all the chloral hydrate syringes, and an entire spray bottle of space lube. I had expertly equipped him to be the ultimate griefing machine. Proud of my work, I gave him a hug and set him loose on the world.
      But just before he left Medical, he turned around and said, "THANKS NIGGE-" [a massive explosion tears a hole in the station] And we both exploded.
    • His description of why S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the worst game of the bunch includes a note that the "tutorial" gives you guns whose bullets travel three meters before they "enter another quantum reality and vanish forever", which is demonstrated by a bullet traveling through another reality and exiting through a portal pointed at JFK.
    • In his Company of Heroes 2 review, he mods his German units to have ahegao paint jobs on them.
    • His entire Breeders of the Nephelym review, with the gratuitous nudity blocked out via Scenery Censornote , as well as him framing the video as him speedrunning the game to get the world record. Hilariously enough, unlike his Bastard Bonds video, this one was fully sponsored.
  • Do Not Do This Cool Thing: His advice to the audience in his Space Station 13 review, right before giving several anecdotes of his own playtime that, predictably, resulted in the influx of new players he was supposedly trying to prevent.
    Sseth: If I'm being perfectly honest with you, Space Station 13 is a fantastic game, but I genuinely don't recommend you play it. Why? Because the engine it's running on is probably older than you; because the interface is a convoluted mess and only usable because me and every other autistic chimpanzee who plays this game has committed the hotkeys to muscle memory; because of the insane time investment and commitment required for you to learn a single role; and because, to be perfectly honest, the servers can't handle all of you. At best, we can handle, like, firty extra players before you grind the servers to a halt.
  • Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory: Has shades of this in his later videos. Besides his aforementioned spiel in his Gothic 2 review, he did another one in the same video concerning the three factions and the symbolism of trade unions. While he heavily uses sarcasm and satire in his videos, these moments have enough thought put into them that it can be hard to tell whether he's entirely joking or not.
    • His review of the original Deus Ex ends with a pretty thought-provoking statement:
    "Of course, Deus Ex takes a very extreme view of the future. But, you must remember that with each day we do not question or challenge our leaders, extreme becomes absurd, absurd becomes implausible, and implausible...becomes reality."
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In 2018, he makes a joke regarding how in Heroes III, the Week of Plague somehow affects the undead as well before going to a joke about pneumonia affecting the elderly and showing various images. The various images in question state how the Chinese aren't safe and the Tower town called Corona. A comment from one viewer sums it up:
  • Heartwarming Moments: His Bastard Bonds video, of all places, has a genuinely touching message from Sseth, answering why he's reviewing this game specifically (aside from humilating his sponsor):
    Sseth: Maybe, in our fear and stigmatization of homosexuality, we as men have lost something in the process: The ability to stand up for one another as friends and comrades. We're so scared of how we appear that we reduce ourselves to emotionally stunted husks. Look, I'm not here to preach, but uh, maybe if we told another homie that we genuinely care about them, maybe we would not be half as depressed and pathological as we are now. It's easy to forget yourself. I've been there many times, and every time the pit was just as empty and bottomless as it was before. In my paralysis, it is only because of the people closest to me that I can remind myself I can climb out of it. Anyway, Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Look after each other, because it makes the pain of this world, life, and existence just a little bit more bearable.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Four months to the day after Sseth uploaded his "origin story", Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest and quickly impeached out of office in a supposed coup d'état.
    Sseth: Remember to like and subscribe, and god bless Mugabe!
  • Popular with Furries: While he regularly engages in humor making fun of furriesnote , quite a bit of his viewers are furries. In spite of or maybe even because of how he almost unabashedly edits in image of cropped furry porn in almost every video, alongside a whole spiel about breeding an entire tribe of Krystals in his Songs of Conquest review, and actually reviewing Tribal Hunter of all things.
  • Moment of Awesome: During his Elden Ring review, Sseth rejected Melina's offer without realizing you need her to level up. He ended up killing both Margit and Godrick, both bosses known for picking the inexperienced and unprepared out of their teeth, at level 1...as a Wretch.
    Sseth: Miyazaki, just because I am offered the ability to talk to a woman, doesn't mean I'm going to take it.
  • Sacred Cow: Many of the games he reviews and recommends are games long time approved by the /v/ board, and its users which are rather... obsessive about the games in question.
  • Unconventional Learning Experience: His review of Amazing Cultivation Simulator also doubles as a great introduction of the Spirit Cultivation Genre.

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