Didn't he start out independent? Dude got picked up by The Escapist, he didn't start there. He's also got some degree of side hustle writing novels, which I assume requires some degree of doing shit for himself rather than for big daddy employer.
Zero Punctuation was independent for exactly two episodes, back when Yahtzee was a broke nobody who then-recently immigrated from the UK to Australia just to see his online gf (who ended up breaking up with him). He uploaded those videos on July 2007, which back then you had to be with a YouTube Partner like Machinima to get any ad revenue. It started purely as a hobby.
As for his novels, I didn't do all that much research, but the first book that actually got published was in 2010, Mogworld, after he was already established with the Escapist and a household name. He worked with a publishing house, so any expenses would've been covered by them. Before that, he mostly dabbled in (unpaid) freeware games and webcomics.
This seems largely like filler content from Arch as we retread old ground. Most of this seems to boil down to the left projecting its own flaws on others again. Leftists complaining that popular sentiment isn't solely in lock-step with them and their opinions anymore as access journalism fades into irrelevancy. Turns out people with potato cams and a shitty snowball mic have a better read on the pulse of the gaming community and what it wants than ivory tower denizens who just want to push ideology.
2nd wind never had a chance when it was the same woke leeches that followed yahtzee to the new place
ALL journalist. No exceptions.
Other way around, Yahtzee followed them. Yahtzee's an eternal wagie and afraid of going independent.
Didn't he start out independent? Dude got picked up by The Escapist, he didn't start there. He's also got some degree of side hustle writing novels, which I assume requires some degree of doing shit for himself rather than for big daddy employer.
Zero Punctuation was independent for exactly two episodes, back when Yahtzee was a broke nobody who then-recently immigrated from the UK to Australia just to see his online gf (who ended up breaking up with him). He uploaded those videos on July 2007, which back then you had to be with a YouTube Partner like Machinima to get any ad revenue. It started purely as a hobby.
As for his novels, I didn't do all that much research, but the first book that actually got published was in 2010, Mogworld, after he was already established with the Escapist and a household name. He worked with a publishing house, so any expenses would've been covered by them. Before that, he mostly dabbled in (unpaid) freeware games and webcomics.
Sounds pretty independent to me.
An independent hobby that had no taxes or expenses to worry about, unlike the job it currently is.
But I see you're just fishing for gotchas instead of having a good-faith discussion, so I'll leave it there.
In their very first podcast they (yahtzee included) had 'Stephanie' Sterling as a guest claiming to be pregnant. It was dead on arrival.
This one is for you u/MargarineMongoose, a topical discussion.
I am ass deep in some Baldur's Gate 2 modding tonight. I will put this in the queue and get back to it later this weekend.
This seems largely like filler content from Arch as we retread old ground. Most of this seems to boil down to the left projecting its own flaws on others again. Leftists complaining that popular sentiment isn't solely in lock-step with them and their opinions anymore as access journalism fades into irrelevancy. Turns out people with potato cams and a shitty snowball mic have a better read on the pulse of the gaming community and what it wants than ivory tower denizens who just want to push ideology.