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

[AirdropShitposts]

I didn't know that she was modelled after a real person.

The concept art for Aloy was done by Loish. For anyone unfamiliar, Loish draws pretty girl art that is extremely popular, and I'd guess her fans are largely female. So it's interesting that the character turned off women for being too attractive, because the concept art is very much in Loish's style and isn't dolled up in any unrealistic way, so I wonder what Guerilla did during character development to make Aloy off-putting to women.

I should note that I have not actually seen any women (who are not suddenly very interested in this dispute to prove how much they hate the capital-G Gamers) say they are turned off from the series due to Aloy being too attractive, only men or trans women claiming this is the case in line with Sony's PR. I was facetiously repeating this theory to make fun of it. I did see a couple women on Twitter lament the changes, but indifference seemed more prominent as long as they didn't make the game play any worse or anything.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

He's still wearing the fucking dog collar even when it's covered up by that frumpy dress/sweater.

I don't know if I should be impressed at his level of commitment or disgusted because that probably means he never takes it off and it's filthy.

For Jim I'm curious why he's wearing the collar. Is it BDSM or is it to hide his Adam's apple? Which kink? As Jim is absolutely an AGP and a troon, this is absolutely a kink either way.

BDSM day/public collars (what you wear "outside the bedroom") are usually discreet, made out of very easy to wash and immediately put back on materials that don't show filth or tarnish, and kept to low surface area so they aren't soaking up your sweat and oils, nor really getting dirty. They are symbolic jewelry, worn round the clock except when bathing, when they are exchanged for a play collar (a collar that's actually intended to be worn during BDSM play), or when any jewelry would be inappropriate regardless of its purpose or meaning. The entire purpose of a day collar is so that the average person barely notices it, and if they do they don't know it's meaning, and only those "in the know" would understand what it is, it's typically not even a literal collar, but instead a thin cord necklace tight enough to reference a collar or a bracelet worn around the wrist or ankle.

Yet Jim has a literal collar on that's very noticeable and the first thought I have is it's a BDSM thing. It's failing the usual polite goal of a day collar to be symbolic, yet discreet. As something noticeable like his dog collar is considered by many to be bringing kink into public and therefore many scenes would call it rude at the minimum, and a violation of public consent more common than not. If this is a BDSM thing this is basically public exhibitionism, which most scenes actually condemn.

However, the thing is Jim is an enby troon, and troons often favour Adam's apple covering clothing, or stuff that draws the eye just slightly away from it. A broad dog collar could do that. Though if that was the purpose you'd think he'd tighten it so it sat higher and covered something or at least wasn't hidden by his clothing, but Jim's a lazy incompetent twat, so I could see him failing to figure out how that shit works and assumes wearing it under his shirt is enough.

 

[The Best Pet Reptile?]

Actually watched the video for once. Wow, he's just constantly seething at everything, no matter what he talks about it's just unpleasant to listen to. Must be really happy with his life. Anyway, this bit:

"I was assigned male at birth and I've got curves that make many cis women jealous. [...] Stephanie has the most honest hips in games media. [...] I'm a flawless bitch."

This is really funny to me, because whenever he gets called out on his twitter selfies for not passing he goes "uh I'm not trying to look like a woman, I'm non-binary!!!" and then you get this pure cope.

From cope to seethe again, the bit where he goes "you're so boring, you're so mediocre, you're so easy to dunk on" is very transparent. Why make a 12 minute video seething about it then? Obviously the low-hanging fruit you cherry picked for the video are retarded takes, but they still got you seething.

And the bit where he goes into extreme detail about Alloy taking a shit from her "dilated anus" (wow, we got a genuine cope, seethe, dilate!) was pretty uncomfortable, not because I don't think women shit (which I think is the point he's trying to make about Gamers here) but because I think Jim Sterling is a degenerate sex pervert and probably had a boner writing that.

 

[Corn Flakes]

For Jim I'm curious why he's wearing the collar. Is it BDSM or is it to hide his Adam's apple? Which kink? As Jim is absolutely an AGP and a troon, this is absolutely a kink either way.

BDSM day/public collars (what you wear "outside the bedroom") are usually discreet, made out of very easy to wash and immediately put back on materials that don't show filth or tarnish, and kept to low surface area so they aren't soaking up your sweat and oils, nor really getting dirty. They are symbolic jewelry, worn round the clock except when bathing, when they are exchanged for a play collar (a collar that's actually intended to be worn during BDSM play), or when any jewelry would be inappropriate regardless of its purpose or meaning. The entire purpose of a day collar is so that the average person barely notices it, and if they do they don't know it's meaning, and only those "in the know" would understand what it is, it's typically not even a literal collar, but instead a thin cord necklace tight enough to reference a collar or a bracelet worn around the wrist or ankle.

Yet Jim has a literal collar on that's very noticeable and the first thought I have is it's a BDSM thing. It's failing the usual polite goal of a day collar to be symbolic, yet discreet. As something noticeable like his dog collar is considered by many to be bringing kink into public and therefore many scenes would call it rude at the minimum, and a violation of public consent more common than not. If this is a BDSM thing this is basically public exhibitionism, which most scenes actually condemn.

However, the thing is Jim is an enby troon, and troons often favour Adam's apple covering clothing, or stuff that draws the eye just slightly away from it. A broad dog collar could do that. Though if that was the purpose you'd think he'd tighten it so it sat higher and covered something or at least wasn't hidden by his clothing, but Jim's a lazy incompetent twat, so I could see him failing to figure out how that shit works and assumes wearing it under his shirt is enough.

I did not expect to be learning BDSM etiquette this early in the morning, so... thanks for that, I guess?

It was a useful writeup but I think the actual point is just that Jim has a humiliation fetish and he gets a kick out of making other people uncomfortable. The collar is just part of the open degenerate persona he's been cultivating. The Jim Sterling we knew is no more. He is more Twitter than man now.

 

[BaconBoobs]

I didn't know that she was modelled after a real person.

The concept art for Aloy was done by Loish. For anyone unfamiliar, Loish draws pretty girl art that is extremely popular, and I'd guess her fans are largely female. So it's interesting that the character turned off women for being too attractive, because the concept art is very much in Loish's style and isn't dolled up in any unrealistic way, so I wonder what Guerilla did during character development to make Aloy off-putting to women.

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Women do not want to play as frumpy and dull characters in their games as most of them are frumpy and dull in real life. Take 2B from Nier as an example, women love her. Do you know why? It is the female power fantasy in the same way a character like Dante from Devil May Cry is a male power fantasy.

Aloy is not only frumpy and dull the character is also up her own ass.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

And the bit where he goes into extreme detail about Alloy taking a shit from her "dilated anus" (wow, we got a genuine cope, seethe, dilate!) was pretty uncomfortable, not because I don't think women shit (which I think is the point he's trying to make about Gamers here) but because I think Jim Sterling is a degenerate sex pervert and probably had a boner writing that.

The whole bit at the end about how Aloy must shit is exactly the kind of thing is drives people away from him and he doesn't realise it. I think Jim is getting to the point where he's driven off most people who don't care for his trooning and now with this fetish stuff he's going to start driving off the normie 'trans ally' subs.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Women do not want to play as frumpy and dull characters in their games as most of them are frumpy and dull in real life. Take 2B from Nier as an example, women love her. Do you know why? It is the female power fantasy in the same way a character like Dante from Devil May Cry is a male power fantasy.

Aloy is not only frumpy and dull the character is also up her own ass.

You just have to look at cosplay or halloween costumes to see what designs women like.

Whenever you meet these lolcows in real life at a comic convention or wherever or just see a photo of them in the wild it quickly becomes obvious why they hate normal beauty standards - They’re usually shockingly overweight, like it’s obvious Jim is overweight but I bet he looks even more corpulent in person.

 

[indigoisviolet]

I'd like to believe Jim is joking about his "curves" but these days, who can tell?

He certainly appears unable to spot the most obvious Fake Outrage Marketing, which the rest of us use as a warning that the game is fucked beyond belief and the publisher is trying to invent an excuse to trot past the investors again.

 

[Bolo]

The concept art for Aloy was done by Loish. For anyone unfamiliar, Loish draws pretty girl art that is extremely popular, and I'd guess her fans are largely female.

Pretty girls is all Loish draws. I saw her in a artist alley once, and it was mostly women around her table to buy stuff. Personally, I don't care much about her work, not my cup, but it is also pretty clear on why she is popular, people like to see pretty girls, it is in the very word, attractive, as in, it attracts.

And make no mistake, in original Horizon Zero Dawn Aloy was very much intended to be a pretty girl. I do remember quite a bit of promotional screen caps featuring a lot of midriffs:

Now why the devs changed Aloy's face and overall aproach to her looks for the sequel (I think they said she also aged), I don't know and I don't care.

Therse Horizon games are such a generic nothing that I'm still kinda surprised to see people talking about them, I guess that's the big promo push Sony always gives to their exclusives, but even so, Horizon Zero dawn should sell well, but was memory holed in record time that it now sells for 9 bucks on the PSN.

Still, one thing I sort agree with gender blob here, I also find silly people complaining about how this character looks, and all the permutations this conversation has (SJWs and all that jazz), but I'm not gonna go "sigh, I'm sooooo tired of culture wars", because I'm not tired of culture wars, because I don't take part on them, so whatever for me, make Aloy look like Rosie O'Donnell for all I care.

but one thing that I do find funny in Sterling's video was that he tried to get the high ground by saying that the critics of Aloy's new look are tired and boring, while giving the same argument and come backs from 2014 "You never seen a real woman before" "You just like to jerk off to anime don't you?" and blah blah blah, incel this, incel that. Even that blazé attitude he does is also played out.

I guess I do feel a bit for the ones that genuinely liked Aloy and how she looked, again, people like pretty girls and the original game has made very much clear that Aloy was a good looking protagonist having adventures with machine animals, there was no intention of portraiting Aloy as "realistic", because, again, the setting is about having adventures in a machine animal world.

And now if Guerrilla Games wanted to change Aloy's looks just to fit within a discourse that judges you on a basis of how "progressive" you are, that's kinda shitty because it show more concern about peer perception rather than having visual identity on it's own.

Well, that was a lot of words said for a game no one will remember 5 months from now.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Therse Horizon games are such a generic nothing that I'm still kinda surprised to see people talking about them, I guess that's the big promo push Sony always gives to their exclusives, but even so, Horizon Zero dawn should sell well, but was memory holed in record time that it now sells for 9 bucks on the PSN.

See, the really cynical part of this whole "controversy" is that no one would have said a peep about the new Horizon game if the developers hadn't fed Aloy nothing but pop-tarts and cheeseburgers for a month and then bragged about it, saying they wanted to be "progressive". The game was flying completely under everybody's radar, there was very little hype due to how the first game made a splash and vanished, and only now it's being talked about. Negatively.

They say "all publicity is good publicity", but I'm not sure how well that's going to work for the developers. A lot of people bought into the first game because it featured a cute redhead doing badass things (always a reliable niche, as Red Sonja will attest). A lot of these people won't be buying the new one, and no matter how hard to you pander to them the woke crowd aren't reliable customers when it comes to non-mobile games.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I didn't know that she was modelled after a real person.

The concept art for Aloy was done by Loish. For anyone unfamiliar, Loish draws pretty girl art that is extremely popular, and I'd guess her fans are largely female. So it's interesting that the character turned off women for being too attractive, because the concept art is very much in Loish's style and isn't dolled up in any unrealistic way, so I wonder what Guerilla did during character development to make Aloy off-putting to women.

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Loish is a crappy artist honestly, personal opinion, but you are right about her drawing things that young girls find appealing. Pretty idealized characters always do well, maybe less overtly sexual than the ones drawn for male coded media.

But even with "fan service" type characters troons and wokies get it wrong. The My Hero Academia girls are all super popular characters among girls despite being constantly criticized as fan service for the male gaze and shit like that, which is kinda true, they are used as coom bait, but the girls also have powers and personalities quirks that a young girl might find appealing and connect with, thats the point of power fantasies, people want to be as cool, pretty, stronk and smort as the heroes even if they are shy fatties in real life.

And really, who the hell wants to feel ugly in their escapist media? having to play as ugly troons and fat women in your videogames is demoralizing , people play stuff generally to have fun and feel good.

 

[filthyfrench]

Oh brother. Not another "Gamers(TM) are horny buggers!" episode

Oh, no no no no no. I am not going to be lectured by some godless fat faggot troon about sexual decency and temperance, thank you very much. I've been happily married for 12 years with 2 kids, he's only fucked his doppelganger manatee in a purple wig who cheated on him for a black rhino dick and now lives in his glitter swamp playing pro wrestler. I have more insight in this situation by default and I say ugly people need to get off media.

Making aloy look like a wildebeast will not and shall not make trannies and landwhales attractive to men. They are animals that should be hunted for sport, not viable sexual partners because their only understanding of love is cheese (fatty patty) and kid diddling (trannies).

Seriously, they keep saying they dont believe in Rousseaus theories but everything they do is by-the-books french secular humanism. "All landwhales are hot yet everywhere they live they are fat and men will not have sex with them".

 

[BaconBoobs]

You just have to look at cosplay or halloween costumes to see what designs women like.

Whenever you meet these lolcows in real life at a comic convention or wherever or just see a photo of them in the wild it quickly becomes obvious why they hate normal beauty standards - They’re usually shockingly overweight, like it’s obvious Jim is overweight but I bet he looks even more corpulent in person.

The amount of women that cosplay as Morrigan from Darkstalkers outnumber the amount of humans that have actually played Darkstalkers. I had to explain to one girl at a Halloween party dressed as her that no Morrigan is not Welsh she is Scottish. This blows Jim's logic out of the water as they are even attracted to characters they know nothing about. Character looks hot they want to dress as her, that simple. No woman on earth wants to dress as fat, cucked, terminally online, twice fired dude in a dress.

 

[Small Ball]

2k dropped in 2 days. Been a while since that happened

 

[Bolo]

Loish is a crappy artist honestly, personal opinion, but you are right about her drawing things that young girls find appealing. Pretty idealized characters always do well, maybe less overtly sexual than the ones drawn for male coded media.

Well, she draws the same thing over and over again, the same pretty girl design with some little variety to eyes shapes, in that disney/Anime amalgam european style. Credit to where it's due, Loish managed to grasp a look of her own, you look at one of her girls and you can say it's her's, in the sea of internet artists, being able to do that is no small feat.

However, anything else about her art is rather generic, whenever she tries do do enviroments or other types of compositions, it comes across unispired, you know, that bland competency that you see on a very good art student from a over priced school. She knows how light work, scale, perspective and all that, but aside from her girls, anything else she works on doesn't seem to have a personality.

Don't quite agree Loish is crappy, but I'll say her art is rather dull, in the way young talent once it settles for a confort zone becomes dull. Worth mentioning that she hit big with popularity in her early 20's, and since then never had to struggle to make her work spread.

I would say its a shame, but Loish is doing fine for herself and seems like she draws what she likes and people like her work, so good for her.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Loish managed to grasp a look of her own, you look at one of her girls and you can say it's her's, in the sea of internet artists, being able to do that is no small feat

i dunno, to me looks the same as any other of the countless first year art school girls swiping Glenn Keane. She has the very safest artstyle for social media: "Disney princess with some anime influence" and she doesn't even do anything interesting with that either.

I am not singling her out though , most of the ultra popular artists on social media are doing the same thing subject wise "pretty girl in Marvel/Disney/RiotGames-ish style just hanging out" because it is tried and tested to work, even novices who can barely draw get popular quicker mimicking it because people like conventionally atractive characters that look familiar, is an instinctual shortcut for appeal that has zero to do with politics or anything like that, is just aesthetics.

If fat people or ugly trannies were really so beautiful the demand for deathfat jim sterling lookalike protagonist would be so high , all companies would have no other choice than to make all their waifus, brooding action heroes and femme fatales like that, instead that stuff tanks to the bottom of the ocean and only flies on certain internet hugboxes and among politically charged critics.

 

[Bolo]

If fat people or ugly trannies were really so beautiful the demand for deathfat jim sterling lookalike protagonist would be so high , all companies would have no other choice than to make all their waifus, brooding action heroes and femme fatales like that, instead that stuff tanks to the bottom of the ocean and only flies on certain internet hugboxes and among politically charged critics.

That would be the dream for a lot of these companies and studios around mainstream media.

There is this weird balancing act going on in western media right now. The current year politics dictates that a more "realistic" (meaning uglier) approach to aesthetics and beauty standarts should be the way, not to mention the idea of representation of a variety of body shapes, sexualities, genders et etc etc, all for the progressive good of inclusion and normalization.

However, there still a small problem, people still are attracted to atractive people and conventional beauty standards, and yes, most people are also attracted to hetorosexuals. Put all the pronouns you want in your bio and fly all the flags, it won't matter when in the end what they really consume is the pretty boy anime meets pretty girl anime.

If all the representation and "challenges" to beauty conventions were really profitable, like I said, that would be the dream, these studios would have all the progressive points for good PR on social media with the guarantee of profit return moneywise, win win.

But shit doesn't work that way, so the mainstream "consoom" media has to skirt around their own paramenters of being a "good" curent year progressive by putting diversity and other topics around it, but in the end, the attractive, white, heterosexuals are still front and center, because it is a product and they have to sell it.

That's why i have this weird admiration for the Persona games. I haven't played 5, nor I think I will play these games anytime soon, but looking at the games, characters, visual design and overall presentation, these games just don't give a singular fuck, it all about being good looking and looking cool, it is shameless pandering to what their audience likes and I'm sure people can make an argument to the dephs of characters and stories, but regardless, the way the persona series presents itself at first glance in all to make it the most attractive in every possible way, in the "we look good and we look cool, and you want to be like us" sort of way.

And that sells.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

That would be the dream for a lot of these companies and studios around mainstream media.

There is this weird balancing act going on in western media right now. The current year politics dictactes that a more "realistic" (meaning uglier) approach to aesthetics and beauty standarts should be the way, not to mention the idea of representation of a variety of body shapes, sexualities, genders et etc etc, all for the progressive good of inclusion and normalization.

However, there still a small problem, people still are attracted to atractive people and conventional beauty standards, and yes, most people are also attracted to hetorosexuals. Put all the pronouns you want in your bio and fly all the flags, it won't matter when in the end what they really consume is the pretty boy anime meets pretty girl anime.

I all the representation and "challenges" to beauty conventions were really profitable, like I said, that would be the dream, these studious would have all the progressive points for good PR on social media with the garentee of profit return moneywise, win win.

But shit doesn't work that way, so the mainstream "consoom" media has to skirt around their own paramenters of being a "good" curent year progressive by putting diversity and other topics around it, but in the end, the attractive, white, heterosexuals are still front and center, because it is a product and they have to sell it.

That's why i have this weird admiration for the Persona games. I haven't played 5, nor I think I will play these games anytime soon, but looking at the games, characters, visual design and overall presentation, these games just don't give a singular fuck, it all about being good looking and looking cool, it is shameless pandering to what their audience likes and I'm sure people can make an argument to the dephs of characters and stories, but regardless, the way the persona series presents itself at first glance in all to make it the most attractive in every possible way, in the "we look good and we look cool, and you want to be like us" sort of way.

And that sells.

The compromise is you can in fact have a very varied cast of characters, not everything has to be like a korean MMO were literally every character model is literally the same since they only use one canon. Persona is a good example because fans will connect with characters based on their fashion style, backstory and personality, even when they are all atractive there's still variety for each to choose from. Inclusion the way is being forced by the wokies is very unapealing, why would a kid in a wheelchair need to play an elf thats also on a wheelchair on his DnD campaign? would the nerdy kid who plays nintendo feel better if Mario had bad acne just like him? very shallow thinking, media is made with more broad strokes and universal appeal in mind, the nerdy kid might connect better with a hero character that is also nerdy and shy or whatever and they can have their own idealized version of themselves rather than to be reminded even on their fantasy videogame that life is mundane, sad and ugly but i guess a small minority are people like Jim who would prefer everything was just as mundane , sad and ugly as him.

The most succesful thing Big Corpo can do with pandering is making protagonist of diferent races that are still canonically atractive, that would actually sell because of how international the markets are for mainstream media nowadays and changing demographics of consumers. But no way in hell the chinese, latinos indians would want gay uggos heavily featured in their entertainment lol, 98% of the world population is not into that, so Moana or Raya or whatever will still look conventionally pretty and cash karma points for doing the same but different.

 

[Toxinophile]

With the way he gushes about the game you'd think he was paid to suck Nintendo's cock. Jim doesn't even mention the graphics like all the other cynical reviewers do. He seems genuinely enthralled by the new Pokemon game.

Good on him for feeling happy I guess. Lord knows he's been snarky and miserable in so many of his previous videos

 

[Moja Zemlja]

With the way he gushes about the game you'd think he was paid to suck Nintendo's cock. Jim doesn't even mention the graphics like all the other cynical reviewers do. He seems genuinely enthralled by the new Pokemon game.

Good on him for feeling happy I guess. Lord knows he's been snarky and miserable in so many of his previous videos

Good for him enjoying video games but man this is 10 minutes of him talking about three points which you can sum up with a sentence. Less menus good, open world good, only one version good.