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

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PRONOUNS GODDAMMIT... said:
With their coming out as trans-femme and nonbinary last year, the hate Sterling routinely received over their decade-long career, in the form of uninspired fat jokes, would evolve into lazy transphobic jokes.

“It’s interesting that there are many people who mourn me as if I died when I came out as James Stephanie Sterling,” they said, “when I feel more alive than ever.”

Sterling’s “aha!” moment came from a conversation with their husband, Phoenix, where they admitted to feeling more comfortable wearing feminine clothing while working out.

“They said, ‘I had a feeling that there was something not quite cis about you’ and that hit me like a brick,” Sterling said.

Prior to that, Sterling had been afraid to encroach on anything trans-related because they’d drilled into their head that they were a cis man, even though they didn’t feel like one. They didn’t feel like they were “allowed” to be trans. As an older millennial, they also lacked the necessary language, and didn’t know other non-binary and trans-femme people to serve as inspiration for who they wanted to be.

“After enough soul searching, I was able to allow myself to embrace that aspect of myself,” they said. “It would be my hope that if my early self would see me now, they would realize sooner that they could have had the things they were denying themselves. could have been a better person sooner, and more than anything else, could have had the time that I lost.”

The obsessive use of "They/Them" makes it seem like an ongoing dig at Jim's weight. The "better, sooner" line there is telling: Jim now appears utterly dependent on his bullshit gender crash persona for his own happiness, and almost certainly deludes himself that if only he'd done this sooner he'd look like a smoking hot teenage girl. The rest is the ususal tranny stuff about hating their own body, hating themselves, hating where they are in their lives, and confusing that with "not feeling quite cis- today..." It's by-the-numbers "Should I change my life? Too much effort, so I'll just convince myself I'm changing sexes somehow, slap on a wig, smirk, and that should cover the smoking crater of my existence..."

Didn't Chris-chan originally start wearing bras for exercise, too?
 
Now that is funny, either the writer hasn't watched a Jimquisition in years or has drank the koolaid and genuinely believes the shit Jim says. Its very clear even ignoring the whole troon coping that Jim is the same vitriolic person and might even be worse, continuing to bitch and moan about practices that have become normalised years ago or holding grudges against company CEOs for years are not the actions of someone who is 'nowhere near as angry a person'.
Looks like they're just taking all the "uwu i feel so good" tweets to actually mean something besides self-delusion and crowd pandering.
 
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The obsessive use of "They/Them" makes it seem like an ongoing dig at Jim's weight. The "better, sooner" line there is telling: Jim now appears utterly dependent on his bullshit gender crash persona for his own happiness, and almost certainly deludes himself that if only he'd done this sooner he'd look like a smoking hot teenage girl. The rest is the ususal tranny stuff about hating their own body, hating themselves, hating where they are in their lives, and confusing that with "not feeling quite cis- today..." It's by-the-numbers "Should I change my life? Too much effort, so I'll just convince myself I'm changing sexes somehow, slap on a wig, smirk, and that should cover the smoking crater of my existence..."

Didn't Chris-chan originally start wearing bras for exercise, too?
The better person statement makes a lot of sense from the context of being permenantly online/Twitter obsessed, CIS white and male is often interchangable with being problematic so trooning out is like casting away sin and being born again.
 
He’s not even hiding the fact that he still hates video games.
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Also another person called out Sterling’s gender and more NFT sperging galore:
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The butthurt is huge here. Jim, just admit that you hate video games and not most live service games are shit. The way he proclaims everything is just a lie, and his burning hatred for NFTs are funny to laugh as well. Jim, the only thing people want to tell you that you'll never be a non-binary or a female. You'll forever be a man by the bones.
 
Some of the comments are interesting on the article quite a few saying they had stopped watching for many of the reasons discussed on this thread, but don't tell Jim its just the transphobes fault remember

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The obsessive use of "They/Them" makes it seem like an ongoing dig at Jim's weight. The "better, sooner" line there is telling: Jim now appears utterly dependent on his bullshit gender crash persona for his own happiness, and almost certainly deludes himself that if only he'd done this sooner he'd look like a smoking hot teenage girl. The rest is the ususal tranny stuff about hating their own body, hating themselves, hating where they are in their lives, and confusing that with "not feeling quite cis- today..." It's by-the-numbers "Should I change my life? Too much effort, so I'll just convince myself I'm changing sexes somehow, slap on a wig, smirk, and that should cover the smoking crater of my existence..."

Didn't Chris-chan originally start wearing bras for exercise, too?
Gender dysphoria is fairly similar to anorexia and other body-image mental disorders. The common thread is a distorted and unattainable self-image. This is why, even with SRS, a lot of trans people still don't feel comfortable. They will feel like they could have the perfect look if only they could have done SRS/HRT earlier, if only society had accepted them more, maybe they had a sub-par surgeon, if only SRS were cheaper... etc. The reality is that nothing will ever be good enough because they have a fundamentally broken image of themselves and cannot ever truly actualize their delusional self-image.
 
Sterling’s “aha!” moment came from a conversation with their husband, Phoenix, where they admitted to feeling more comfortable wearing feminine clothing while working out.

“They said, ‘I had a feeling that there was something not quite cis about you’ and that hit me like a brick,” Sterling said.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
 
I really find that retarded hat to be the most offensive thing about his "gendertrash" costume.
It needs to culminate with Sterling v Kotick IBS on Killstream, being Ethan Ralph's last relevancy arc before collapsing into redneck pillhead catastrophe.

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You know, the fact that he tries to deal with being fat and ugly by doing utterly retarded things with his clothes and "hair" in a failed bid to look interesting suggests that maybe he really is a woman at heart.
 
Archive for future reference and so no one can accuse us of claiming it said anything it didn't.

This here is more evident of how slow gaming news actually is these days than anything else. Fluff pieces like this show these news sites have far too much staff.

Anyhow, to figure out some details about the author of this article I did some poking. Very little proper news to be had from Isaiah Colbert. They seem to have an interest in YouTube nonsense and tend to do a lot of "you don't need to read past the subtitle" articles.

 
The obsessive use of "They/Them" makes it seem like an ongoing dig at Jim's weight.
I was at Wal-Mart during the holidays and the cashier had one of those “They/Them” buttons on and the customer at the register made a “You’re so fat you NEED They/Them pronouns” joke and it was the first time in my life I legitimately felt like a failure because I never made that connection.
 
Something that I've been thinking about Jim recently when I've watched a couple of his videos is that on a fundamental level he's just really boring. I mean its been said a zillion times how he's endlessly banging on about the same things with no development and no real insight for years at this point, but like how he presents things... he seems to think that saying the word fuck really forcefully is still going to be causing the aging duchess's monocle to pop out in shock and awe of this unpredictable maverick who don't care who he offends while he speaks truth to power!

But there's nothing beneath that, he still sounds like a played out edgy, angry youtuber from more a decade after that kind of thing completely lost its shock value, he can't express opinions with any depth so its all just blandly saying 'Fuck NFTs, Fuck JK Rowling, Fuck the BBC, Fuck Bobby Kotick, Fuck AAA gaming, Fuck my dignity and self respect etc etc' while at best he repeats sources that talk about whatever it is he's fixated on with far more subtly and depth. He really has nothing to offer other than the edgy youtube personality.

Compare him to his old coworker Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation, he doesn't exactly have to reinvent the wheel in his internet career these days but even at his laziest he can still turn in a genuinely funny joke and bit of wordplay in most of his videos, its not completely dependent on him just getting really angry about whatever, he has some skills in writing and comedy that tend to shine through. At the very least he has interests in things like writing that seem to be reasonably successful outside of Zero Punctuation, again compare that to Jim's wrestling 'career'.

Just generally Jim feels like he's on a desperate quest to be an interesting person that people should still pay attention too, he's still blathering away on the Jimquistion every fucking week clearly trying to scrounge for whatever makes him angry enough to maybe pull some views, in this case a Galaga game nobody else cares about. He's always been a contrarian who valued shock value and clickbait for his reviews in things like Halo Wars rather than any actual attempt to evaluate whatever he's playing. He's trooned out harder than anybody else I've ever seen and in the most absurdly clown like and performative way, like can you really look at him with his fucking corset, leather gloves, wig, ruby glasses, dog collar and that fucking hat, all on top of a granny's frock and not conclude that he's completely willing to sacrifice the least bit of dignity for some extra attention. He's trying to break into pro wrestling, one of the most over the top and camp entertainment industries out there, and even in that world he's got a particularly garish and ridiculous costume and persona. He endlessly posts desperate selfies and the most inappropriate personal details, like that time when he had a picture with what looked like cum on his face and the way too much info he's given about his exclusively XY polycule. He's really gone whole hog in being a braindead 'trans activist' making the kinds of takes that would passed around TERF forums as evidence for how nuts TRAs usually are, the kind of thing where he'll swear up and down that we are in the middle of a literal genocide and that its actively dangerous for him to exist in the UK (well, it was up until last week I guess), and of course he clearly gets off on even that sort of negative attention like a lot of these activists tend to do, as if it somehow confirms his claims about his gender identity. Even the way in which he's trans pretty much says it all, this 'gendertrash' idiocy, making up his own, self deprecating gender identity in another attempt to stand out a bit more and mocking people who think he wants to present as a woman despite literally every way he presents himself nowadays. A little while ago he even admitted that he didn't want to transition to being a man or a woman, or even non-binary, he wanted to transition into being a trans person, he's in love with the idea of tranness itself because he sees that as a way to get beyond being a boring old cis white male and instead he can be the living avatar of the nobly oppressed.

But all of this in your face outrageousness quickly falls apart if you pay attention to him for a little while, there's no depth to any of this, he doesn't have anything interesting to get people to come back and watch his boring fucking videos. Its not even just about him being trans, though I will admit his clownish behaviour on that front turned me off, but then I had already stopped really paying attention to him ages ago. Somebody like Kim Justice can still make good enough work to be worth watching regardless of whether or they trooned out, with Jim the only reason to pay attention to him these days is to see how low he can go and how ridiculous he can get before he dies of a heart attack in a backalley hobo fight.
 
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The thing is that I kinda agree, videogame industry and entertaiment industry indeed gone to shit, but theirony is it happened thanks to freaks like Sterling, twitter degenerates, Kotaku "journalists" and others like them. Sterling likes to call out some random bobby kotick-s who DGAF anyway, but how about looking at your own, Jim?
It's always possible that someone is correct, but for the wrong reasons.

The industry truly is pretty shit right now, but Jim will chock that up entirely to muh lootboxes and muh microtransactions, when anyone actually invested will be able to give you a dozen other issues plaguing the industry that are far more aggressively shit.
 
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The thing is that I kinda agree, videogame industry and entertaiment industry indeed gone to shit, but theirony is it happened thanks to freaks like Sterling, twitter degenerates, Kotaku "journalists" and others like them. Sterling likes to call out some random bobby kotick-s who DGAF anyway, but how about looking at your own, Jim?
What I really dislike about Jim is that he is the gaming equivalent of the crazy guy stood on a street corner wearing a sandwich board screaming about the end of the world. He thinks this is some kind of noble endeavour to, on a weekly basis, remind everyone about the sins of the gaming industry, as if no one is aware that bad stuff or shady things happens in big companies. Shocking news!

I think it's why he's ultimately losing subscribers, his content is neither regular gaming reviews nor is it gaming news so how do you make a weekly show off that? He sets himself up to fail with his is petty vendettas and instead of realising it blames the transphobes.
 
He thinks this is some kind of noble endeavour to, on a weekly basis, remind everyone about the sins of the gaming industry, as if no one is aware that bad stuff or shady things happens in big companies. Shocking news!
Of all the things to claim about Jim, saying he "views this as a noble endeavor" is one hell of a fucking stretch lmao. His behavior is to get money from his current in-group he's hanging with and nothing more.
 
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