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I hope Croshaw takes this as an opportunity to expand his horizons. He's a funny, clever guy who has been beating the same drum for years. Zero Punctuation got old a decade ago but he kept wheeling it out week after week like a comfort blanket.

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I think this is a weird take. He found his groove, had a strong popular following, and enriched the lives of two generations of gamers. This is more of a positive legacy than most of us can hope for cranking out JavaScript for advertising companies throughout our prime years.

And as others note, he has hobbies and moderately successful side projects outside this envelope.

He's been doing game dev off and on and is currently working on Starstruck Vagabond [1], so he might spend more time on that. He's also written quite a few books.

edit: He and some other former Escapist crew are doing something, and their Patreon leaked [2]

[1] https://yzcroshaw.itch.io/starstruck [2] https://www.patreon.com/SecondWindGroup

He also used to run two nerd bars in Australia, and has been involved in countless other endeavours.

That's cool, I wasn't aware of his books. I am more talking about his video content, I would love to see him do some funny videos that don't follow the mould of ZP.

His audiobooks are his best content, no joke. They're fast paced, funny, clever and action packed. Both his main book series are worth getting into.

He's a better writer than many famous authors, and narrates his own books as well.

Seconded. The first Star Pilot audiobook is excellent. And of course read by him and he has a lot of experience in delivering entertaining spoken content.

I thought he was pretty solid in "Extra Punctuation". It was a nice change of pace to hear him gush about Undertale or muse about narrative in games instead of his usual routine.

I'm not sure what else you want the guy to do.

He has multiple video series, a live stream and about six novels i can name.

Meh tired of that mentality, we need more people who get good at their job and keep doing it well.

Getting good at your job and doing it well doesn't mean doing the exact same thing for 20 years. Many of the best musicians had multiple "eras" where their styles changed dramatically.

Give him a segment on Last Week Tonight.

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