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

[A Very Big Fish]

Well, Jim really loves the real ones as well.

Man, good job Jim. Pokemon's never been faggier.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

Lots of people saying this is copyright infringement, but Nintendo legitimately does not care so long as they see that you're small enough to be stepped on, you dont claim it's officially licensed and they aren't about to/just recently launched similar merch that could be affected in the slightest.

Jim fits the bill on all 3 counts.

It is copyright infringement, but just like stealing a chocolate bar from the dollar store is shoplifting, it only matters that it is illegal if the victimized party decides to act on it. That doesn't change the fact a crime was committed, just the question of if anything is done.

They recently launched some new Pokemon games, and have another launching sometime next year I believe, so I'd say that's more than enough to give them a case if they wanted it. Just thinking about it from the perspective of how a lawyer would frame it: Jim has barely mentioned Pokemon at all for years, but now these new games release and suddenly he just so happens to put a Pokemon shirt out?

Pokemon Legends: Arceus releases on January 28, 2022. Next month. It's also rumoured that Gen 9 will be announced and released next year, but nothing more than rumours for that.

Trademarked names of not, Nintendo doesn't give a fuck.

The thing with trademark, is if Nintendo does notice, and they don't do anything about it they lose the trademark. Poof. Gone. They lose their legal rights to their property. Trademark is "defend it or lose it". That is why you see a few hundred dumb trademark suits a year, most of them are done with the bar minimum effort to prove the holders are defending, and they fully expect the judge to say "nope, no way anyone is confusing them for you. You can keep the trademark." Or it is a case of someone trademarking a name someone else has been using for a few years resulting in "Hey, they don't actually get that trademark, the reason is we've been using that name since this date, they started here, so they don't qualify" then the courts deny a trademark and names get changed, and that's before we get into the fact trademark is scope bound, a trademark for one thing won't affect a trademark in a distinctly different scope.

An example could be a game called "Tide" and that wouldn't infringe the Tide laundry detergent trademark, because one is a game and the other is soap, no risk of confusion of brands, however if I made a game called "Assassin's Code" and did all I could to look as close to the official Assassin's Creed branding as possible, I would actually be violating trademark as someone could reasonably be confusing my product for the real thing if I was good enough at knocking it off. That is because a trademark isn't to protect your creations or ideas, that is why we have copyright, trademark protects your brand. It is so no one confuses someone else's product for your own. That's the major difference between trademark and copyright for this stuff. A lot of idiots on the internet connect trademark law to copyright law, they are two different things with different purposes, and we should predict behaviour differently for each as the legal responsibilities of each are different. Nintendo does take out smaller fan shops than Jim when trademark gets involved.

That said, all of that is moot because, no, none of these particular pokemon names are trademarked. Trademarks are a lot more complicated and formal than copyright. They are one of those things that you need to register individually.

Copyright is automatic. If I make a band called "New Zealand Agricultural Engineers From Hell" I would own the copyright for the name, my logo, the artwork I commission (And yes, if you are commissioned to make someone by someone else, the default in law means you don't own that work unless it says otherwise in your contract), and the songs I write. However I don't own the trademark for any of that. Instead I need to actually register and formalize all of that in a very specific way, and other than a logo and a name, and maybe a stage name, most of it can't be trademarked. If, for any reason, I don't properly defend what trademarks I do have, I also lose them. Trademark law is very particular. I've had to interact with it on a few cases and I still don't fully understand it.

EDIT: Oh, also decided to check over here and noticed the following policy for fan art:

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www.pokemon.com

Distribution in any form and any channels now known or in the future of derivative works based on the copyrighted property trademarks, service marks, trade names and other proprietary property (Fan Art) of The Pokémon Company International, Inc., its affiliates and licensors (Pokémon) constitutes a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license from the Fan Art's creator to Pokémon to use, transmit, copy, modify, and display Fan Art (and its derivatives) for any purpose. No further consideration or compensation of any kind will be given for any Fan Art. Fan Art creator gives up any claims that the use of the Fan Art violates any of their rights, including moral rights, privacy rights, proprietary rights publicity rights, rights to credit for material or ideas or any other right, including the right to approve the way such material is used. In no uncertain terms, does Pokémon's use of Fan Art constitute a grant to Fan Art's creator to use the Pokémon intellectual property or Fan Art beyond a personal, noncommercial home use.

Considering there is a commercial policy there, Jim might get smacked a C&D, but it is always unlikely this will do it. Nintendo is a few more dumb things away from smacking him down.

That said, this is still hypocritical of Jim, if you want to defend intellectual property rights and fight against copyright infringement, don't do it yourself. Same way you defend the rights of everyone to be a complete asshat when defending free speech. Anything less is hypocritical. Which is why I unilaterally believe in the abolishment of all human rights. Get fucked troons!

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Well, Jim really loves the real ones as well.

I don't even know how to begin to process this. I do know that only Jim could make it.

 

[Sir Joahim Browinson III]

I am gonna predict the next possible video topics Jim gonna do because I am bored:

-The Game Awards one where he is going to whine about how celebration event ignores all the bad things happened in industry.

-The video on Sony president being a kid diddler, where he, ironically, gonna judge said person for being a crepy old toad, while trying to speak as less as possible about the rest of the company, because Sony is super woke.

-Will try to leech of another local industry scandal (because of course the will be another one) while sucking up to Kotaku and Schreier.

 

[WULULULULU]

I am gonna predict the next possible video topics Jim gonna do because I am bored:

-The Game Awards one where he is going to whine about how celebration event ignores all the bad things happened in industry.

-The video on Sony president being a kid diddler, where he, ironically, gonna judge said person for being a crepy old toad, while trying to speak as less as possible about the rest of the company, because Sony is super woke.

-Will try to leech of another local industry scandal (because of course the will be another one) while sucking up to Kotaku and Schreier.

Don't forget that he will keep his lavish praise for Niggerloop in his "Best Games of 2021 list" or maybe he'll ditch it altogether.

 

[Sir Joahim Browinson III]

Don't forget that he will keep his lavish praise for Niggerloop in his "Best Games of 2021 list" or maybe he'll ditch it altogether.

I more interested in where he will put Cyberpunk 2077 since dust has settled.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I am gonna predict the next possible video topics Jim gonna do because I am bored:

-The Game Awards one where he is going to whine about how celebration event ignores all the bad things happened in industry.

-The video on Sony president being a kid diddler, where he, ironically, gonna judge said person for being a crepy old toad, while trying to speak as less as possible about the rest of the company, because Sony is super woke.

-Will try to leech of another local industry scandal (because of course the will be another one) while sucking up to Kotaku and Schreier.

I’m guessing:
‘Well chums the game award happened, there’s still sexual abuse allegations and crunch in the game industry, buy my not-pokemon shirt and come to my wrestling show! I’m trans by the way!’

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I am gonna predict the next possible video topics Jim gonna do because I am bored:

-The Game Awards one where he is going to whine about how celebration event ignores all the bad things happened in industry.

-The video on Sony president being a kid diddler, where he, ironically, gonna judge said person for being a crepy old toad, while trying to speak as less as possible about the rest of the company, because Sony is super woke.

-Will try to leech of another local industry scandal (because of course the will be another one) while sucking up to Kotaku and Schreier.

By most people's standards Sony is woke but by the standards of troons there will never be a big corporation woke enough for them. But my bet is that he'll go for the classic "capitalism bad " video complaining about how the VGAs exist for big publishers to jack each other off or some crap with the mandatory Kotick/Guillemot bashing sprinkled in.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Placing my bet on Game Awards rant video, with a side of Capitalism Baaaaaaad.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

I too will expect a Game Awards video next.

Don't forget that he will keep his lavish praise for Niggerloop in his "Best Games of 2021 list" or maybe he'll ditch it altogether.

Assuming that gets made, which I doubt.

 

[Tonberry]

Congratulations, everyone, it's been a year since Jim started chugging estrogen! He's TOTALLY happier for it and if you don't think so you're a biggit
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So this is what pure estrogen-induced bliss looks like. Seems about right.

Spoiler: Bonus lunacy from the comments

 

[Radical Goodspeed]

So this is what pure estrogen-induced bliss looks like. Seems about right.

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Spoiler: Bonus lunacy from the comments

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My first reaction is I couldn't be happier: I can see my dick and stand for more than ten minutes without breaking into a sweaty existential crisis. I feel like both of those are thoughts Jim has fairly often.

Second thought: If I did the work to sincerely transition (which we have to always act as though these mutants are making thier best efforts to pass even when they aren't) and I ended up looking like a cliche Trunchbull British matron, I'd probably just go back to wearing the suit and the bowler hat.

 

[Corn Flakes]

My first reaction is I couldn't be happier than I can see my dick and stand for more than ten minutes without breaking into a sweaty existential crisis.

Second thought: If I did the work to sincerely transition (which we have to always act as though these mutants are making thier best efforts to pass even when they aren't) and I ended up looking like a cliche Trunchbull British matron, I'd probably just go back to wearing the suit and the bowler hat.

This all really feels like the logical conclusion to the philosophy that gave us participation trophies, doesn't it? It doesn't matter how successful you are, merely "participating" already makes you a winner to the same level as the person who actually busted their chops to get to the top. So instead of giving up and living normal lives ogres like Jimbo here try to claim they're just as worthy of respect, nay, praise, as the ones who actually put in the effort.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

By most people's standards Sony is woke but by the standards of troons there will never be a big corporation woke enough for them. But my bet is that he'll go for the classic "capitalism bad " video complaining about how the VGAs exist for big publishers to jack each other off or some crap with the mandatory Kotick/Guillemot bashing sprinkled in.

It's not possible to be woke enough since the woke get clout by virtue signalling about how something is problematic and if they accept something is fine then it's basically admitting defeat.

The only way anything can be woke enough is if the creators or the people right at the top have enough minority status's and are otherwise in good favour with progressives on social media but that usually signals the company is about to take a nosedive in quality so companies can never win when they try pandering to them.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Yeah, it's kinda baffling. I was watching Noah Caldwell-Gervais, an obvious lefty that still makes decent videos, reviewing all RE games and I found it outright alien for him to argue, that RE5 was racist because it depicted a white guy (that has a black female partner)gunning down blacks, same with the depiction of african tribesmen, while in reality, the devs just thought: " there's lots of black people in africa, so we have among others black-skinned enemies." same with the inclusion of tribal enemies because there are lots of distinct tribes in africa and it would be a nice design piece for the game.

What should the game devs have done to please his larp-standards? Make Chris unable to shoot dark-skinnes people? Only let the lightskinned people mutate into enemies?

Fuck these people.

They are a cancer. They don't see people or zombies. They see skin colour.

That said, when RE5 came out I was making jokes about being able to ethically mow down niggers "because zombies."

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You ever think of fat middle aged men dressing up as women and just think wow, fuck everything, just fuck everything, it's all fucked?

"Tell me you don't umderstand crypto without saying you don't understand crypto."

He even came up with the copyright deadlock. He did a video on it where he explains how he uses two different copyrighted works to prevent the companies from getting revenue off his video.

Pretty sure his video on that was shit, info wise. 2 people claiming a video could both get a cut from the video, it just wouldm't be as big. They later implemented that if you used copywrited material, you could still take some of the money made.

 

[Oliver Onions]

He won't do a Game Awards video because he already covered the topic of games media ignoring abuse allegations so it would make no sense to do the exact same topic again so soon.

...oh wait this is Jim's thread that's exactly what he's going to do.

 

[Scarmaiden]

Jim decided to join the discussion on what his next vid will be:

Original reporting, huh, about neither studio nor a publisher. My bet is on Game Awards after all. Curious to see what's the testimonies he gathered. Hopefully it's not his butt buddy Laura Dale bitching people would call him a woman for the ninetieth time

 

[Oliver Onions]

Jim decided to join the discussion on what his next vid will be:
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Original reporting, huh, about neither studio nor a publisher. My bet is on Game Awards after all. Curious to see what's the testimonies he gathered. Hopefully it's not his butt buddy Laura Dale bitching people would call him a woman for the ninetieth time

Guessing he's referring to the ESA, since there was also news recently of I think Doug Bowser e-mailing them to discuss Activision stuff and try and encourage them to give ActiBlizz an ultimatum to get their shit together.

I'm guessing Jim's 'eye-opening insight' will be that none of these corporate bodies actually give a fuck beyond paying lip service to hot-button issues, unless there's a chance it will actually cost them money. He will, of course, expect us to be shocked and appalled by this as if it's any kind of surprise.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Can't wait for Jim to tell me about greedy corperate perverts and how we should donate to his patron, buy his merch and compliment him on how cute he looks in the wig and whatever fetish gear he's decided to wear out in public.

 

[Quixotic Man]

Jim decided to join the discussion on what his next vid will be:
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Original reporting, huh, about neither studio nor a publisher. My bet is on Game Awards after all. Curious to see what's the testimonies he gathered. Hopefully it's not his butt buddy Laura Dale bitching people would call him a woman for the ninetieth time

"Geoff Keighley doesn't even actually like Doritos! He was lying in order to make money! Capitalism is destroying us!"