Some Punctuation: The Art of Theft

By: Derek Yu

On: November 23rd, 2007

UPDATE: I DID NOT MAKE THIS VIDEO, KOTAKU. FUCKING NUMBNUTS. –DEREK

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(Thanks Dracko! Via The Gamer’s Quarter forums)

Posted in Community, Videos

moi

DON’T TASE ME BRO!

OOOPS FORGOT TO PUT ON ENGLISH ACCENT

DOINT TAISE ME BRAU!
GSM

Hey, Derek! Do you remember the Click Comedy Commentary where I compared Chaos Gate and Eternal Daughter? That was also me!
NPSCT

DOINT TAISE ME BRAU!

Oh how witty! The secret of gay English humor is revealed! It’s all about accent!
Shinji16

Wow… I did not imagine this entry on TIGSource turning into such a bitch fest. Time to jump in then…

If you’re having problems understanding him, have your hearing checked. He’s not that fast. Then again I drink Bawlz to calm me down before I go to bed (seriously).

Also, I think it’s a good parody. He’s done this in his spare time, mainly for fun, and it has a lot of effort behind it. It’s not perfect, but then again what is?

What I think is horrible is the fact that people here are commenting one word responses like “shit” thinking that is a valid response. If you’re going to take the effort to click ‘submit’ at least make it constructive.
Gr.Viper

The other difference between SP and ZP, apart from the language, is that Yahtzee generally tries to complete the game or at least let viewers know, where he got bored enough to abandon it completely.
But here we can figure out that it’s been first couple of levels, one new skill etc. Yeah, the parody is mostly aimed at style but… the author missed the bloody Z/X smashing mini-game which could be developed into a perfect Yahtzee-style nostalgic footnote
Jad

The difference is that where Zero Punctation is a series of witty reviews, Some Punctation is a one-shot parody of Zero Punctation made with no other intent than creating some lulz. And the bashing people obviously didn’t get shit :D
eobet

Absolutely wonderful. I didn’t get this Trilby game at all (from a gameplay perspective).
pkt-zer0

_the author missed the bloody Z/X smashing mini-game which could be developed into a perfect Yahtzee-style nostalgic footnote_

What.
Lim-Dul

C’mon guys – I love Zero Punctuation but this spoof is really good – appreciate it for what it is – a spoof. The author obviously likes ZP as well since otherwise he wouldn’t bother to make a parody so truthful to the original.

Have you spotted the “parodiusly” and “unwitingly”. Spellcheck for the win! :-D

Yahtzee used misspelled words for comic effect but never in the intro or outro. =)
Angelstein

WTF is HE saying?! It’s just one l-o-n-g five minute slurfest. I can’t really say if it was funny or not, seeing as I barely understood a word he was saying. It done my head in though.

Re-do it for Christ’s sake! It’s no good if you sound like a slobbering drunk on speed.

Yahtzee never skips a syllable. He speaks way faster but still manages to be word perfect.

10 outa 10 for effort, but 1 outa 10 for execution mate.
risujin

He could talk a bit clearer, but it’s priceless to see Yahtzee’s own game reviewed Zero Punctuation style!

Awesome. :D
King-N

Well done, I enjoyed it.
Sko

What are you people talking about? The voice might’ve been a bit sloppy at the beginning, but otherwise this is a great parody. It captured Yahtzee’s style perfectly.. sans the accent.
a russian

Hmm, i see, so Derek is a fucking numbnut. Not that its news to anyone who talked to the guy.

I mean I think I read that right? I dunno. I usually get confused trying to read things.

Like this one time my mom told me to get a ?????? from the corner store and instead I brought the corner store to the ??????! WTF?

Maybe one of these days I’ll figure it out. Until then, wish me luck! I think I need it… :
Neon

I didn’t really enjoy Trilby so this was pretty good. Not to mention the pretty spot on impression of yahtzee’s reviews.
HIVmaster AIDS

A cute parody but would have been better tackled by someone who:

a. can talk fast and (and this is the important part) clearly.
b. can construct a joke
c. doesn’t have the voice of stereotypical nerds in 80’s sitcoms

Man, I love AIDS. Anyone want to make out with me to get it? :)
Raffles

While the real Zero Punctuation videos had a fast narration, this one tries so hard to speak quickly like that it irritates me beyond being able to focus on what you are saying. Also, it’s not funny.
Raffles

Oh by the way, was that Fat Rab at the end there? He’d be rolling in his Fray Bentos to see this. TEEEEEEEEEAM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bbUwigey4Do Pashons

As if anyone needed any more proof that Derek really is a fucking dumbnut, but he just keeps throwing it at us.

Wait was I supposed to say numbnut?

Cause clearly the only person that works on this site is Derek right?

Man, I hate Derek. I hate Derek so much. That’s what makes me so lovable.
Skyleak

Ugh Oh! KOTAKU strike force assemble!!
Radix

A minute or so of slurred speech and swallowed phonemes in I stopped it. I could understand what he was saying, but nothing is funny when you have to struggle to understand some fucker that doesn’t open his mouth to speak.
Zaph

I thought it was pretty good. It emulates the Yahtzee-style fairly well.
Not especially hilarious though.
Xander

I thought it was pretty well done aswell. Ultimately it’s a parody, and never intended to COMPLETELY emulate Yahtzee’s style, basically because if everyone could do it then it wouldn’t be special. It was a nice effort at least and a decent idea.
ZombiePixel

Pretty good parody that could have used some more practice on the narration. The animation is spot on, in fact a bit better than Zero Punctuation’s. Not LOL material so much as “Hmmm, that’s amusing”.
Garo

A parody of a parody… how creative :/
God

Zero Funny.
mehoi

now i can’t read any of these comments without the voice in my head reading really fast
Adam Atomic

I’m assuming the vast majority of the dumpers and trolls are from Kotaku or something, because this does NOT strike me as a classic Tigersauce response to somebody’s creative efforts.

Tigersauce is not for whiny pussies who post pissy comments and take dumps on people who actually bothered to CREATE something. All you 13 year olds and 22 year olds with 13 year old social skills can go right on back to your other games blogs and rant about which console is the b3st. No need to pollute the tigersauce with your own special brand of Mentally Fucking Retarded.

GSM, congrats on a well-made parody that made me smile!
Derek

You know what they say… “those who can’t create, critique.”

And yes, a quick ip check shows us that most of these whiny pussies are new posters! :D
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Wow. These Kotaku readers come off as fairly retarded, don’t they?

I’m disappointed, but not surprised.
Si

Derek, but in order to create you need to critique your own work and others in order to learn from their mistakes and progress.
Gr.Viper

What’s this “Ko-ta-ku” thing?
Derek

Si: “If I can’t create then I must critique” does not imply that “if I can create then I must not critique.” ;)
Si

Fair dooooos
MK

some dude said if your English his accent is easier to understand, incase some Americans call themselves English then his statement is true.

because the dude has an English accent, and is speaking in English, me being English English, means it was easier for me to understand.

if I were American English then I suppose it wouldn’t of been that easy, but Americans dont understand a lot of things.

I thought it was good, not LMAO funny but it has its Lolz.
why dont you guys try to criticise Yahtzee, its near impossible :P
IndieJoJo

Kotaku or no, all you dipshits who are actually -bashing- GSM’s flawed but wonderful homage to Yahtzee:

FIND A NEW HOBBY.
Si

I do, and this isn’t a hobby, it’s criticism to help GSM make a better video in the future. Jesus.
IndieJoJo

Si,

Constructive criticism is fine. I don’t see you bashing the guy. I was referring to torchedEarth, Pyrrhon, the poser posting as ‘Yahtzee’, Ted, et al.

Some other people on here are being a bit harsh, but at least they’re offering some feedback on some level or another.
Ilia Chentsov

So, some of you think that Kotaku readers and indie game developers (aka indie game site readers) are two altogether different groups?
Radix

Constructive nothing; this isn’t his blog, this is a whatever this is. We’re commenting on the news item.
dillweed

BOOOOOOOOOOORING.

Try something original. Or at least something you are capable of.
Gr.Viper

What if someone makes “Full Stop”?
Green background, blue female main charachter with mohawk, who enjoys the game close to and beyond the point of drooling, posing bugs as revolutionary features, and absolutely digging even options menu. Throw in pink angels instead of imps and English… well, cockney accent should do fine.
moi

In the hierarchy of lower life forms, I rank Kotaku members below GameFaq-ers and 4Chan-ers.
DISCUSS
Joseph

That was funny. I was entertained.
to err is human

This would be really funny!

IF… there was actually some humor inserted in various areas of the “review”. Maybe the vid maker should have taken hints from the original.

Strange as well that sometimes he speaks quick and sometimes slow…
Ultra annoying stereo typical white voice, has to be added. A pain to watch and an even bigger pain to listen to.

No idea why this was made. Could have been good if it was a parody on Yahtzee’s reviews… but for it to be a parody it’d have to be funny or contain some humor. Which it doesn’t.
As it stands it just looks like a pointless Yahtzee rip-off which is a chore to watch.

I take it this is some dude who had his favorite game (Halo 3 maybe?) bashed by Yahtzee?
Skyleak

Wow only heard that for the past 94 posts. What an ORIGINAL comment.
sir

Just don’t do this again, alright?
haowan

I like skag.
Phizzy

This guy should apologise for not being able to talk or make funnies.
haowan

You should apologise for being a crack whore.