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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ [four-bar generic metal introduction] The difficult thing about doing a review—excuse me, article—about Ben cue-giant-sarcastic-air-quotes-here “YAHTZEE” Croshaw is keeping the bullshit separate from the horseshit separate from the shit no one cares bugger-all about. In less profane terms, my initial problem can be summed up in one word: organization. As in, “how do I organize an article about Ben I’m-the-world’s-biggest-ass-hat ‘YAHTZEE’ Croshaw?” Luckily for me, after giving the problem about eight seconds of thought (which is a fuck of a lot more thought than “YAHTZEE” puts into any of his Zero Punctuation reviews, I’ll tell you that much) I came up with my solution: I would do the article in the style of one of his Zero Punctuation reviews, i.e., enumerate all the flaws of said subject with more self-righteous gusto than a Jewish mother-in-law, paying near-zero attention to things so trifling as “organization” or “sentence structure,” all the while throwing in more needless surrealistic allusions to profane out-of-place fucking bullshit than a Dragon Ball Z super-fusion between Thomas Pynchon and Eric Idle. Yes, I did just make a DBZ reference, and, no, I do not forgive myself for it. Anyway, here goes:
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