Current Events > Zero Puntuations Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's view on sex and his celibacy.

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So you agree that having sex would be painful if you were that heavily injured, but you still call it 'taking advantage'? I thought it was fairly clear that Janine was the instigator. She's on top, look. I considered making it seem closer to a sexual assault than anything consensual but that weirded me out even more.

Fact is, this is me trying to do something disturbing without realising that I'm the only one it disturbs. I've come to develop a weird aversion to sex. I've never been really sold on it. It's possible I have some hangups from a few things from my past, but these days I'm pretty much celibate (and it's not for want of female (or even male) attention, thank you very much, I mean, I own a bar, for christ's sake). I don't think it's immoral, or anything. I just find it a bit gross. This may be linked to the fact that I hate kids and the thought of having any of my own makes me want to stick a gun in my mouth.

The sex scene was intended to be grotesque, not in any way titillating. It's about characters succumbing to something animalistic as they lose their grip on reality. It's an expression of Janine's descent into madness (consider how she's behaving immediately afterwards), and another torture device to pile onto Theo. In case it's not been obvious enough so far, the theme of 6 Days is the Blessed Agonies, and how a comparatively short period of experiencing them is enough to turn Theo, the ultimate everyman, into something to Chzo's liking. And the sex thing is part of it. It's just plain physically painful but he's doing it because it's what Janine wants, and she's completely and utterly doomed.

But I understand that most people don't see sex the same way I do, so the intention might have been lost. I defend the concept, but not so much the execution. Doing it again, I probably would make Janine overtly rape him. At least that's got the shock value. And lose the text. Or at least change it to something like "AAAAAAAAAA FUCKING HELL GET OFF AAAAAAAA"



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Context is he made a video game where an incredibly injured man with a broken neck had sex with a chick and then she died instantly afterwards.

He got a lot of flack and confusion for the scene and this was his explanation.
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Yahtzee makes decent weekly review videos, but every instance I've ever seen of him outside of that very specific format was cringe worthy. His guest appearance on Total Biscuit's podcast was just... awful.
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s0nicfan posted...

Yahtzee makes decent weekly review videos, but every instance I've ever seen of him outside of that very specific format was cringe worthy. His guest appearance on Total Biscuit's podcast was just... awful.

I haven't seen that (although sad to hear it because TB has openly wanted him as a guest for years) but his own Let's Play series with Gabe is fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4qvmUQDGg

At least if you're into the "2 men in their 30s play video games and bicker/moan" thing which I am.

Was really sad they stopped doing it.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I haven't seen that (although sad to hear it because TB has openly wanted him as a guest for years) but his own Let's Play series with Gabe is fantastic:

Paging through, I think it's because he was still he primary driver of the conversation, so he could keep it in his comfort zone. With the TB appearance I think there were just too many people talking about too many things and he kind of shut down.
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s0nicfan posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

I haven't seen that (although sad to hear it because TB has openly wanted him as a guest for years) but his own Let's Play series with Gabe is fantastic:

Paging through, I think it's because he was still he primary driver of the conversation, so he could keep it in his comfort zone. With the TB appearance I think there were just too many people talking about too many things and he kind of shut down.

You're probably right.
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