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

In ideological terms: low-information lefties don't like crypto because it's been hammered into their heads that it's bad for the environment due to how much electricity those calculations require. And you gotta save the world, y'all!
Their way of trying to explain it to normies is so fucking far off the mark as well, and show's how little they understand. Gonna go on a bit of a crypto sperg for a bit so apologies in advance.

One of the big comparisons they love to make is comparing the energy consumption of bitcoin to something like Visa. This is such a false equivalency that we're already into concave skull territory. Visa is simply a payment system. It relies on the existence of an underlying financial infrastructure, namely, the US dollar and everything that gives and maintains it's value.
Bitcoin IS its own financial infrastructure. It is it's own full monetary stack, it's ability to make payments between users on the network is only one small part of it. If you wanted to really compare Bitcoin's power drain to something you should compare it to the US dollar itself. Bitcoin's value comes from the blockchain, a shared ledger that's difficult if not impossible to tamper with. The dollar's value comes primarily from the strength of the US government. So have to calculate the energy usage of aalll the relevant federal agencies+ the federal reserve, INCLUDING the United States Military. That's a massive pillar of the dollar's value, is America's military might. And if Jim expects me to believe that the blockchain consumes more energy that the largest industrialized army in the world he's got some serious brainrot.

Second they don't understand crypto's energy mix. Crypto miners love going after what are known as "stranded energy assets" basically electricity that is being generated but not being used. This is why big mining operations got set up in China despite China's somewhat negative attitude towards crypto. The Chinese built a bunch of hydo-power stations in southern provinces that were far away from major cities, but didn't bother building the infrastructure to transport that power to anywhere it could be put to use. Miners saw this and were like aww yiss free energy, and it's renewable. Granted not all, probably not even most of the energy crypto uses is renewable, but miners definitely like to go after it when they can, even in unexpected ways. One of the more extreme examples is miners going after natural gas. Oil drilling produces methane as a byproduct, but that methane doesn't really get captured or used. Miners started setting up natural gas rigs to capture this methane and use it as fuel for their mining pools. Now this isn't totally environmentally friendly, but burning methane to produce CO2 is way better for the environment than just methane on it's own.

Then there's the issuance factor. This isn't applicable to all cryptos but for Bitcoin, which is obviously the biggest and baddest of them all, the energy consumption isn't because of transactions and fees like so many of these brainlets like to say on repeat. It's because miners for the moment make most of their money from being issued NEW Bitcoins. For those who don't know crypto at all, I'm sure you're all familiar with the "money printer go brrr" meme. Well the creator of bitcoin designed it so you don't get to just print new bitcoins for nothing, you actually have to earn it by expending resources, namely energy. This is going to be the case until the last bitcoin is mined in 2140 (it's going to take that long because the amount you get for mining blocks gets halved every 4 years)

Lastly, and this one annoys me the most, they make these fucking insane predictions about what crypto's energy consumption is going to grow to in the future using variables they cannot POSSIBLY know. Like, they're literally just pulling shit out of their ass. There's this idea that crypto miners are all lavishly wealthy, and while they do make good money, what alot of people don't know is that for the big mining pools, profit margins are actually pretty thin. Most of what they mine goes back into operating costs. Investment funds and private investment firms rarely like to fund mining operations because they're really not that profitable, if you just purely wanted to make big money on crypto you'd probably be better just trading it on an exchange. I saw one article (i think it was the new york times..?) that tried to say within the next 5-10 years the energy consumption of bitcoin could double, or grow even more than that. This is probably the single stupidest statement I've ever heard someone make about Bitcoin. Because remember, bitcoin issuance gets halved every 4 years, so miners are gonna get less per block that they mine. That means in order for miners to remain within their already thin profit margins the value of bitcoin would also have to DOUBLE every 4 years. And there is absolutely no fucking way they could know or predict that happening. There's not a soul alive who could reliably tell you whether bitcoin is going to go up or down within the next 4 months, let alone say with absolute certainty that it is going to predictable DOUBLE every 4 years.
Also worth noting one of the reasons mainstream media started cracking down harder on crypto in the last year or so is when the George Floyd shit was happening and all the big businesses were bending over backwards to support BLM, Coinbase, the biggest crypto exchange kept their mouth shut, the new york times noticed this and the CEO put out a statement basically saying the company isn't gonna commit to any political causes, instead focus on its mission of making crypto use more widespread and accessible. Globohomo's sure didn't like that. Coindesk wont donate to BLM = crypto is white suppremacy.

Final sidenote to Jim about NFT's. NFT's only make up a fraction of the transactions settled on the Ethereum blockchain. Which by itself has a much lower energy consumption than bitcoin's blockchain cause it runs on PoS. If you wanna moralize and make me panic about the oceans boiling come to me with some actual solid numbers. Otherwise pop another painkiller and cope seethe and dilate.

Okay I'm done, thank you for listening to me SNEED
 
I still don't understand crypto that well, but I know enough to know this reaction makes no sense.
It'd be like living in the late '90s and believing the Beanie Baby craze is the end of civilization as we know it, rather than just a dumb speculative bubble that you can ignore if you think it's a bad idea. Hell, at least crypto has theoretical justification for its valuation.

Is there a psychopathology that describes someone who considers every trivial thing he doesn't like as an imminent worldwide calamity? Because whatever that's called, Jim has it in spades.

Cryptocurrencies are shit for plenty of reasons you didn't even bother going over, but ok. Go to bat for the most retarded implementations of a good idea.
What about the current implementations is so bad? I don't know enough about the various currencies to understand what they're all doing wrong.
 
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Is there a psychopathology that describes someone who considers every trivial thing he doesn't like as an imminent worldwide calamity? Because whatever that's called, Jim has it in spades.
there is, the following is its listing in the mental disorders section of the WHO
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Is there a psychopathology that describes someone who considers every trivial thing he doesn't like as an imminent worldwide calamity? Because whatever that's called, Jim has it in spades.
The thing is I don't believe Jim actually believes these things are any kind of problem. I really think the only reason he's going so hard on NFTs and crypto lately is because it's the first """new""" topic he's had to complain about in literally years.

It's similar to how he doesn't actually believe the UK is shoah-ing troons, as evidenced by the fact he's planning another trip there next year, but he knows it gets him attention when he screeches about 'literal genocide'.
 
The thing is I don't believe Jim actually believes these things are any kind of problem. I really think the only reason he's going so hard on NFTs and crypto lately is because it's the first """new""" topic he's had to complain about in literally years.

It's similar to how he doesn't actually believe the UK is shoah-ing troons, as evidenced by the fact he's planning another trip there next year, but he knows it gets him attention when he screeches about 'literal genocide'.

Oh yeah, the thing that I find most interesting about Sterling is this blatant cynicism he has, and I'm not talking about his attitude towards videogames, he havent give a singular fuck about that for a while now, and we all know that he would rather do anything else than to talk about vidja, much less to play them.

No, I'm talking about how cynical Sterling is with this gender trash trend hopping bullshit. It is all fake, and he knows it. This whole shit about dress and lipstick is all pretend, kayfabe bullshit. Oh he acts indignant and self-rigthous on his videos, but he knows it is just an act, he doesn't really buy this bullshit, and has only given into because he wants attention, and wants to feel special because he is a sad sack and wants to be a part of the club.

But if push comes to shove, he will never cut his dick out.

Same with the neurodivergent shit. He found some quacks who told him what he wanted to hear, now he acts as if he has all the trendy neurological issue known to twitter, and acts as if just taking some pills is a brave thing to do. But, again, all bullshit, and in his quiet and private moments, he knows he doesn't have this shit.

Sterling is many things, but he doesn't strike me as delusional. Don't get me wrong, I think he is sincere when he wants to be seen as the "gender trash neurodivergent special person", but even he doesn't really believe that, but he is a lonley, sad fat man, probably with little to no friends, and twiiter craziness what he found to fill that hole. And by god he is trying to embrace it, even forcefull, but I don't think he is fooling anybody, more so himself, and so he gives this vibe of cynicism "I'm trying, I want to be, but I don't really am, you know it and I know it."
 
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They have to say NFTs/cryptocurrencies are destroying the planet. Because otherwise you can say stuff like "if you don't like NFTs, then just don't participate in them? Why do you care what other people do if it doesn't hurt you?"

Everyone agrees that violence is bad and should be banned, barring self-defense (though some are rethinking this post-Rittenhouse), so their goal is to stretch everything into literal violence. NFTs require energy, all forms of energy usage destroy the planet (since there's no form of energy production that exists, that they support, that creates enough cost-free energy to supply the world), destroying the planet is violence against everyone on it. Therefore, participating in NFTs is violence and needs to be banned.

Same reason anything they don't like (including supporting trans rights in an insufficient manner) can be "transphobic" and transphobia is literal violence genociding troons. Or how the rule of law is "white supremacy" upheld by violence. Or capitalism is. Or whatever else they want and want NOW. It's all the same shit to this cult. It's like they read (not really, reading is fascist) Repressive Tolerance once and have formed an entire ideology based on implementing it. (Marcuse was serious, it's not Swiftian. Also, I'm not saying Marcuse invented this or is to blame, just that he wrote the most direct case for the principle.)
 
Sooo close to a moment of self reflection there (10:45ish) and Jimmy boy shifted back into his fantasy land.
Funny. I never got the appeal of grown men playing with toys on camera.

Collecting toys is one hint less retarded than playing with them on camera, but it's not like they will raise in value (even more so in 10 or so years from now).

Maybe if you get a rare/limited edition collectible your kids may get their money back in 100 years from now, but it's not like the mass produced funkopops will be anything more than trash in 10 years from now. Even in the future, there's so many of them/so mass produced that they will be garbage. And nobody actively seeks out this shit, so they will just waste away.
 
Funny. I never got the appeal of grown men playing with toys on camera.

Collecting toys is one hint less retarded than playing with them on camera, but it's not like they will raise in value (even more so in 10 or so years from now).
I find it entertaining in a nostalgic sort of way, because a lot of the toys are from the era I grew up in, but I agree it's weird to hoard this shit as a grown man.

What I always wonder is --hypothetically speaking of course-- if Jim or any of these guys bring a woman home how do they explain it. Moreover, what do the women think when they walk into the room of a 30+ man and see Boglins and Mysterio figures all over the place.
 
What I always wonder is --hypothetically speaking of course-- if Jim or any of these guys bring a woman home how do they explain it. Moreover, what do the women think when they walk into the room of a 30+ man and see Boglins and Mysterio figures all over the place.
That's what the man-cave is for. You don't put these things all over the living room or bedroom unless you already have a girl and she's a geek as well. You shove that stuff into its own room, out of the way of "casual" visitors. Keep your autism under wraps.

It's funny, because I had a coworker, a massive Trek fan, ask me for help figuring out why he couldn't get a girlfriend. Yeah, as it turns out seeing a living room plastered in TOS posters and paraphernalia does not increase your odds of scoring unless the girl is already a trekkie.
 
Maybe if you get a rare/limited edition collectible your kids may get their money back in 100 years from now, but it's not like the mass produced funkopops will be anything more than trash in 10 years from now. Even in the future, there's so many of them/so mass produced that they will be garbage. And nobody actively seeks out this shit, so they will just waste away.
It really depends on what you collect. While Funko Pops have become the beanie babies of this generation, there is still a market for them.

There are 3 types of collectors: 1) Vintage collectors trying to recapture their childhood, 2) Brand Loyals that have been collecting since childhood and never stopped, and finally 3) The Hoarder, which buys any piece of faff for the rush of opening the box, playing with the toy for 5 minutes and throwing it in a box with all the other toys.

Vintage collecting can be expensive, but unless there is a re-issue they maintain a good amount of value since having a complete figure can be very rare.
Brand Loyals may have the holy grail of a collection, but most of it will vary wildly in quality and can easily turn into a hoard.
Jimbo is a hoarder. Random boxes of toys that have little to no meaning to them, but all the same they have to complete sets of whatever they start. Hell, this is where I see a lot of "nerdy" youtube commentators with walls completely covered in toy packaging and no feather duster in sight.

What I always wonder is --hypothetically speaking of course-- if Jim or any of these guys bring a woman home how do they explain it. Moreover, what do the women think when they walk into the room of a 30+ man and see Boglins and Mysterio figures all over the place.
Depends on the size of the collection and how well they are taken care of. If you have a small shelf that is dusted and out of the way you will have a much better chance than a room full that looks like you go in there once or twice a month to either play or add to it.
 
I'm around the same age as Jim amd owned many of the toys he has when I was a kid. I had completely forgotten any of them existed till I saw that video, I can't believe he still remembers them let alone buying them it shows he hasn't grown up from childhood. He is probably buying them cause he remembers actually being happy when he was 8 while now he's a gross troon on antidepressants
 
He's now taken up wearing a collar, is he going to come out as a furry next since being a troon wasn't enough?
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The collar is old news but I'll never stop being surprised by how little he looks like a woman, I work with a short, fat, balding old lady and even compared to her Jim looks nothing like a woman.
 
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