Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

[marisa #]

You know, years ago I worked with Conrad, he was frankly a normal person who happened to be leaning left and he still is mostly normal and sane I think, he's just surrounded by way crazier people. I sometimes think he misses Jim and doesn't like this new Stephanie person in his old friend's meat suit. Jim clearly has changed for the worse, and Conrad feels very much like he's just towing a line and enjoys working with a friend whose becoming ever more miserable and self destructive. I expect him to snap soon. LKD is a bad influence on that show, and Conrad seems to me like he's wanting to pursue things.

His reaction sounds similar to, pretty much every poster here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/losing-people-to-transgenderism-support-thread.85329/

Troons, not even once.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I could give less of a fuck about pokemon cards, pokemon cards are not videogames. Fuck Genshin Impact, the chinks who made it and all of this gacha/F2P shit, make a proper fucking game. I'm not gonna change my viewpoints just because some tranny I don't like has them as well.

How you personally feel about it is irrelevant, my point is anyone going on a moral crusade about one while completely ignoring the other is an easily led dipshit.

I don't give a fuck about Pokemon Cards or Genshin Impact because there are a million other games to occupy my time, but the time I did spend with GI was fine; the gacha element is completely overblown by histrionic retards.

 

[Decoy St. Chum]

my point is anyone going on a moral crusade about one while completely ignoring the other is an easily led dipshit.

Whataboutism.

How you personally feel about it is irrelevant

proceeds to describe how he personally felt about GI while dissing people who didn't personally felt the same

Where do I learn this power?

You aren't an enlightened intellectual for not spending money on Genshin btw, millions of poorfags like you attract real payers, who will spend thousands like DSP and get every waifu/picture of a wrestler they want while you do menial work and pretend that it's a game. No company will ever give you anything for free*, you easily led dipshit, let alone a chinky one.

 

[Oliver Onions]

You aren't an enlightened intellectual for not spending money on Genshin btw, millions of poorfags like you attract real payers, who will spend thousands like DSP and get every waifu/picture of a wrestler they want while you do menial work and pretend that it's a game. No company will ever give you anything for free*, you easily led dipshit, let alone a chinky one.

Okay retard, enjoy your autistic hate boner against a game nobody forces you to play; the rest of us don't give a fuck.

Your spergy 'STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE' rants sound exactly like Jim btw, so well done.

 

[Noebel]

I could give less of a fuck about pokemon cards, pokemon cards are not videogames. Fuck Genshin Impact, the chinks who made it and all of this gacha/F2P shit, make a proper fucking game. I'm not gonna change my viewpoints just because some tranny I don't like has them as well.

For now Genshin is the closest to a proper game from all modern mobile games, that are not downgraded versions of something pre-existing from PC or ported old games. All will win, if this trend would continue.
As for Jims desposition on that game, thing is: we don't know. I can't remember any jims videos on the topic, despite game being prominently featured in the common internet discource both back then and now. Why didn't Jim mentioned this gaming news worthy subject is what I'm interested in.

Since we brought up collectible cards, these have a clear advantage over gacha games: cards can be traded between people, while in gacha games one can only throw more money at it.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

@Prince Vegeta The easiest way I've found to shut up all these gacha-hating, pearl-clutching faggots is to ask them where the fuck they were while Pokemon cards were a thing for the last 20 years.

Pokemon Cards are the exact same thing as gacha games and yet there was never a moral panic over MUH IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN stealing from their parents to go buy them, or poor, frail gambling addicts re-mortgaging their house, wife and kids to buy 1,000 boxes off Amazon. The only reason they're not demanding regulation for Pokemon Cards is because a fat fuck in a bad wig hasn't told them they need to be freaking out about people buying Pokemon cards.

Well, actually that's not quite true: Jim did make a video about Pokemon cards, yet curiously not once did he make the obvious connection to their gacha model; almost as if he knew doing so would reveal him for the blinkered retard he is.

Probably because kids never lost thousands in one go with Pokemon cards as they have done with online game purchases. Also, Pokemon hasn't really been popular in over a decade. The only cards that are worth anything are the older first generation stuff. Unopened boxes will cost you more than the cards inside even if you managed to pull a Charizard. Yu-Gi-Oh is even worse off because they keep reprinting expensive cards and dropping their value even more. There's one thing that physical medium has over electronic medium is that a physical medium will have a higher value over time because it's not so easily destroyed. The company could go out of business and the physical product is still there. If an online product's company goes out of business the servers shut down and you lose everything. It's a similar argument people have with physical games over getting games on Steam.

 

[Decoy St. Chum]

As for Jims desposition on that game, thing is: we don't know. I can't remember any jims videos on the topic, despite game being prominently featured in the common internet discource both back then and now.

I'd assume he's not a big fan since it's not much different from other F2P mobile games.

Why didn't Jim mentioned this gaming news worthy subject is what I'm interested in.

Probably because even he knows that criticizing it right now is a PR nightmare. I mean, I got people seething and deflecting for shitting on it here, the troons who still watch Jim probably play it a lot.

Okay retard, enjoy your autistic hate boner against a game nobody forces you to play; the rest of us don't give a fuck.

Your spergy 'STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE' rants sound exactly like Jim btw, so well done.

It was you who got mad about negative coverage of it because you thought it's 2% better than normal gachashit trash and then brought up Pokemon cards for no reason.

You like it, i get it, but some people don't and there are valid reasons to not like it; that's no reason to autistically throw every buzzword out your pocket and pretend that everyone in the world agrees with you and the only people who don't are depressed drug-addicted British granny trannies.

I'm gonna stop stirring up shit now, thanks for reading my blog.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Probably because kids never lost thousands in one go with Pokemon cards as they have done with online game purchases.

How do you know? Because no one turned it into a moral panic? I'm willing to bet there have been plenty of instances of kids buying boxes of Pokemon cards or other dumb shit off Amazon, spending hundreds or thousands of dollars with their parent's credit card, just as there have been with gacha games.

In either case, that's the parent's fault, nobody else's. It's like pointing to drunk drivers as a reason why none of us should be allowed private vehicles.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

How do you know? Because no one turned it into a moral panic? I'm willing to bet there have been plenty of instances of kids buying boxes of Pokemon cards or other dumb shit off Amazon, spending hundreds or thousands of dollars with their parent's credit card, just as there have been with gacha games.

In either case, that's the parent's fault, nobody else's. It's like pointing to drunk drivers as a reason why none of us should be allowed private vehicles.

It's a major IP, someone would have talked about it. Maybe take some time to think things through before you post. Otherwise you look as stupid as Decoy and Jim.

 

[Oliver Onions]

It's a major IP, someone would have talked about it. Maybe take some time to think things through before you post. Otherwise you look as stupid as Decoy and Jim.

So in other words you have no idea and are just assuming it's never happened.

I'm not trying to start shit with you like that other retard, your response was well thought out and compelling, but the fact remains whether it's Pokemon Cards, gacha games or dragon dildos, if a kid is spending thousands on anything online then that's the parent's fault.

This is how every moral panic goes, parents wanna blame everyone but themselves for their incompetence.

 

[Marche]

You know, years ago I worked with Conrad, he was frankly a normal person who happened to be leaning left and he still is mostly normal and sane I think, he's just surrounded by way crazier people. I sometimes think he misses Jim and doesn't like this new Stephanie person in his old friend's meat suit. Jim clearly has changed for the worse, and Conrad feels very much like he's just towing a line and enjoys working with a friend whose becoming ever more miserable and self destructive. I expect him to snap soon. LKD is a bad influence on that show, and Conrad seems to me like he's wanting to pursue things.

This does make me wonder how Totalbiscuit would be like if he was still around, Last I remember he was flatout fed up of LKDs shit and since then he has only got far far worse.
Who can really know I suppose but Id like to think at some point he would stop enabling it and being fwends with Jim.

 

[Noebel]

I'd assume he's not a big fan since it's not much different from other F2P mobile games.

It actually has gameplay. 3rd person, considerable world to fuck around, real time combat centered around switching your characters around and combining their abilities. I'd say it would be an okay-ish game if it cost money, but for a free game it's good. Getting a specific character can cost considerable $, but that's stupid, as in almost everything can be done with characters you get for free. Also, it feels like somebody cared in the process of making that game.

Probably because even he knows that criticizing it right now is a PR nightmare. I mean, I got people seething and deflecting for shitting on it here, the troons who still watch Jim probably play it a lot.

Which Jims activity right now isn't a PR nightmare anyway? He was able to give 7/10 to Zelda, and I see no problems with criticising this one. And now would be the best time for it, since devs are apparently being stingy on free shit for their anniversary, and are also doing some questionable gamedesign choices with new characters for some time. But that is if Jim ever needs some legitimate criticism points. There were also a few twiter outrages, one about tribal goblin enemies doing a tribal dance that seemed to be borrowed from some native american tribal dance(also that we have to bonk these guys quite frequent, while nobody gave a fuck that players also have to kill lots of russians, who are conducting some kind of gay ops all around the world Tom Clancy style and attack on sight), and one about a darker-skinned characters being described as menacing while being dressed as a member of Kiss.

So in other words you have no idea and are just assuming it's never happened.

Being a physical good it has more steps of acquisition and would be cancelable most of the time, I believe. I know Walmart(or some other of these shops) stopped selling pokemon cards, because some lads started shooting at the parking lot over a booster box, but they were definetly adults.

 

[Kevin Grumbles]

Schools have been banning bringing Pokemon cards, and by extension all types of trading cards, to school for years. Sometimes due to just rules about toys and distractions, more often due to fights breaking out on playgrounds and school busses due to bad/regretted trades or cards being stolen, and in a few cases from kids getting massively ripped off on trades bringing very valuable cards and them getting traded for garbage or someone ruining the card handling it roughly when the kid handed it over to someone else to show them.

Anecdotal side tangent...

Spoiler

All of these things have happened at schools near me both when I was attending and even the current school year, despite just starting. A younger relative of mine has cards he is 100% blocked from even bringing to the playground after school due to concerns over some other kid taking it out of it's hard sleeve and messing it up after a 50$ card got bent in half. My neighbors kids aren't even allowed to have any at all due to how crazy the rest of the kids are about their trading obsession, their parents don't want them getting involved due to a fight having already broken out over "scam/fake cards" allegedly being traded around.

Media was all over this crap early on when TCGs were getting big, especially when the Pokemon craze was really new as well, but they've moved on whining about gacha games for the obvious reason of "I never check my bank account because I'm a retard and suddenly I couldn't pay my bills!" being a more attention grabbing headline.

 

[Decoy St. Chum]

Which Jims activity right now isn't a PR nightmare anyway? He was able to give 7/10 to Zelda, and I see no problems with criticising this one. And now would be the best time for it, since devs are apparently being stingy on free shit for their anniversary, and are also doing some questionable gamedesign choices with new characters for some time. But that is if Jim ever needs some legitimate criticism points.

Genshin is not hated enough by the audience he wants to have. He can shit on CoD and Ubisoft shit because he can excuse it by thinking that mostly "da toxic gaymerzzzz" play it. He's a contrarian, he has an audience of contrarians, but pointing out the hypocrisy of contrarians by a contrarians is dividing by zero. Just as how you won't see Jim arguing against transitioning 3-year-olds you won't see this, partly because he's too busy being obsessed with the TRIPLE AYYYYY as well.

I'm not trying to start shit with you like that other retard

You're the only one who's retarded here, my fault is being too brazen about calling you out.
That being said Anonymus Fluhre explained the difference between the two pretty well, even if he leaned into your pivot, but i guess you have to give retards a treat for them to start listening.

 

[RodgerDodger]

@Prince Vegeta The easiest way I've found to shut up all these gacha-hating, pearl-clutching faggots is to ask them where the fuck they were while Pokemon cards were a thing for the last 20 years.

Pokemon Cards are the exact same thing as gacha games and yet there was never a moral panic over MUH IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN stealing from their parents to go buy them, or poor, frail gambling addicts re-mortgaging their house, wife and kids to buy 1,000 boxes off Amazon. The only reason they're not demanding regulation for Pokemon Cards is because a fat fuck in a bad wig hasn't told them they need to be freaking out about people buying Pokemon cards.

Well, actually that's not quite true: Jim did make a video about Pokemon cards, yet curiously not once did he make the obvious connection to their gacha model; almost as if he knew doing so would reveal him for the blinkered retard he is.

I’ll just leave this here

 

[Robomorons]

Jesus, these thumbnails are getting harder to look at. This has to be the worst one by far. And he brought along that twink of his with a hate boner for the Persona franchise.

 

[The Emperor Skeksis]

Jesus, these thumbnails are getting harder to look at. This has to be the worst one by far. And he brought along that twink of his with a hate boner for the Persona franchise.

Is Jim wearing a slave collar now? I'm not sure if that's what it is, Kevin Gibes has one but it looks different.

 

[Maurice Caine]

Is Jim wearing a slave collar now? I'm not sure if that's what it is, Kevin Gibes has one but it looks different.
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how can these faggots ruin the plaid shirt, a staple of the 1950s

 

[Oliver Onions]

That smug 'your supervisor will be hearing about this' grin in the thumbnail is definitely a new level of cuntishness for Jimmy.

As for the JQ: I am legitimately impressed he's actually managed to make the leap that microtransactions are ableism, because spastics and addicts can't control themselves and not buy them.

By that logic, Jim, everything about video games --all entertainment media, in fact-- is an accesibility issue, because it's all designed to make you want to consume it as quickly and as frequently as possible. You're gonna have to pluck out your eyes like Sam Neil in Event Horizon to escape the capitalist bastards this time, old chum.

 

[ShimmyHolmes]

how can these faggots ruin the plaid shirt, a staple of the 1950s

Airsofters already did that dude. Just type "airsoft cringe" into Google Images. It's a trip.

Anyway, given that we're already surely in agreement that microtransactions are absolute cancer, and given that the gaming industry likes to appear "woke," I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that Jim is less bothered about the "accessibility" than he's letting on, and is just playing into the industry's virtue-signalling in order to call them hypocrites. It's not gonna have much effect obviously, but... at the end of the day, Jim has called himself a consumer rights advocate on a number of occasions, and whatever else we might feel about him, his videos are never not still about that.

This must've been a slow news day for him.