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Published: 2008-02-28 21:10:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2667; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 36
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This was a cartoon I did of the "real" Yahtzee when I saw him walking around the GDC.Yahtzee saw it and said "oh that's good," so it's got the genuine seal of approval!
Can't ask for much more then that.Wish I'd managed to be more articulate with the guy: I keep telling myself he's probably just a normal guy as suprised at his success as anyone else is, and there's no reason to be so nervous around him.
Then I would actually spy him someplace (not difficult since he's F-ing tall) and my brain would totally lock down into "OMG YAHTZEE" and spazz until I lost sight of him again.
So in the end, fangirlism won out. Sigh. Oh well. What can ya do?
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Haha. It's okay. I reacted the same way when I first met the Nostalgia Critic at a convention. I just....froze up. He was so cool, I was terrified. It was AWESOME. Thankfully, he turned out to be a really nice guy, which eased the tension quite a bit.
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Of course he was nice. He's from the Midwest. Everybody from the Midwest is nice. 
I suspect I have a thing for publicly humiliating those I admire.
I'm amazed people still somehow find this sketch I did on the fly two years ago.
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Hey, nice.
Yahtzee mentioned this picture on an "Australian Gamer" Podcast with Yug and Matt, I'm not sure if you've heard it...
Good picture too.
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That is awesome! I tried drawing him once, but I could never get the trilby right. It's cool that you met him and he liked your work. The "Yahtzee Seal of Approval" wow, that's a rare thing indeed, lol!
Most of the time, I thought how nervous I would be just to meet him; he seems so cool and so average, yet a few fans who've met him say he was very rude or just ignored them.
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He might have just SAID he liked it so that I'd leave him alone, but I refuse to consider it because I desperately need to believe otherwise.
I think we should give Yahtzee a break. Tough misanthropes like him usually have big hearts that they go to great lengths to protect.
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Gah!! He actually- you- wha- DAMN I'm so jealous! He liked it! And this is very good!! Wow. I'm so jealous.
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really cool pic, and i'm wondering if this was you?
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....Yeah, that was me. God help me, I'm a Scary Fan Anecdote.
My own account of the event sounds a bit different from Russ's, but I guess it doesn't matter.
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You saw him in person?
...But wait, according to this video, he never actually made a physical appearence at GDC:
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He didn't appear AT the awards ceremonies or any any ceremonies for that matter, but he did attend a few events and he could be seen walking from place to place. Like I said, his hight made him very easy to spot in a crowd.
Well, not so much walking as gliding. The guy has an anti-gravity device in his belt or something: normal human heads bob up and down when they walk, he just sort of zips forwards, sort of bringing those long legs along like an afterthought.
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LOL, I wonder if Yahtzee would mention anything like that in one of his reviews; it sounds like something he'd say.
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Naw, that was all out of MY genius brain! MINE I TELL YOU! MINE!!!! :buahahaha!:
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So he actually wears the hat? I saw him in his latest review, the Uncharted one, but he didn't have his hat on. T-T.
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To be fair, the hat wouldn't really have matched the headset he was using to record his voice.
I so applauded when he cut to live-action. I know it was to make a point about random, pointless Quick Time events interupting the flow and pacing of a game for no good reason.. and I think it was perfect, but that he thought it up at all has me in awe of the guy, he is just smarter then hell.
I was startled to see he couldn't be more then three or four years older then I am either.
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Well, he did write an article about him visiting Valve Corporation in Seattle where there are a few photos of himself.
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