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

[PyrrhicRustle]

>tranny complaining about people not having chill
Good one

 

[Moja Zemlja]

The Twitter censors that trannies often cry to came for one them. Naturally, Jim immediately whining about how people who make fun of him for being an AGP freak aren't banned on sight-
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Its incredibly ironic that Jim Sterling of all people is complaining about people saying mean things on the internet, his shitck for the longest time was being an edgy cunt and what brought him real notoriety was having a slap fight with Digital Homocide.

Holy shit, no fugly pic of himself this week on the thumbnail?

He fucked up his IRL footage so instead you get some dumb intro/outro.

 

[Gloria From Pokemon Sword]

Gran Turismo 7 something or other:

You should have just put a YongYea video on the topic instead and just said it was the newest Jimquisition.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The Twitter censors that trannies often cry to came for one them. Naturally, Jim immediately whining about how people who make fun of him for being an AGP freak aren't banned on sight-
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Yes Jim, there's absolutely nothing controversial about a man suddenly becoming national champion in a sport after he started competing against women instead of other men.

In other non-controversial news, I have found myself winning significantly more boxing matches since I decided I'm only going to fight children.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

You should have just put a YongYea video on the topic instead and just said it was the newest Jimquisition.

Could've just posted one of his many, many videos complaining about microtransactions and you wouldn't be the wiser.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

You should have just put a YongYea video on the topic instead and just said it was the newest Jimquisition.

Say whatever I will about Yong being boring, at least he just gets to the fucking point - least the last time I actually watched his shit anyway. Sure, guy stretches his videos for ad rev, but that’s the Youtube Grift, everyone does it.

 

[Keavy Rain]

I can maybe see TheRightOpinion doing a piece if Jim ever does something really stupid that catapults him into the public eye, but ultimately I think the youtube views will dry up and he'll just retreat to Twitter to bitch about transphobia and beg for money.

If this theoretical TRO video is as bad as the Blaire White with the constant need to virtue signal about how “I’m not like this evil, vile person. I’m one of the good ones!” I’ll beat that smug faggot like I’m some unholy combination of Ike Turner and Joe Jackson.

 

[Altera]

I think this video well represents a constant issue with his format, that the stuff he covers in videos is almost never relevent when the video comes out. GT7 has been out for just over three weeks and these issues have been there since the launch so it feels like he's just going for low hanging fruit he knows he can use to push out a video using the same tired old script but with the name of the game and dev swapped out.

To be Moderately fair, jims been blacklisted from all review copies by almost every company. Which is more a reflection of why game journalism is a joke than himself. I agree that if you're late by weeks because you supposedly actually finished the game and have genuine insight, your review should cover issues that normal jounos missed in their easy mode 2 hour playtime review. But hes only equally as shitty not more shitty than all the other youtube game journos.

 

[Computer Guardian]

Gran Turismo 7 something or other:

Why the fuck did he try and mimic the Cars look in the cheepest way possible?

 

[Moja Zemlja]

To be Moderately fair, jims been blacklisted from all review copies by almost every company. Which is more a reflection of why game journalism is a joke than himself. I agree that if you're late by weeks because you supposedly actually finished the game and have genuine insight, your review should cover issues that normal jounos missed in their easy mode 2 hour playtime review. But hes only equally as shitty not more shitty than all the other youtube game journos.

I wouldn't shit on someone for being late to the party with a review because they didn't get early access copies or they wanted to finish the game but thats not the case here, I doubt he's even played GT7. The fact is that he doesn't see himself as a game journo and that he talks about video games in his Jimquisition episodes seems almost like he's obliged to mention them so he can keep on the people on the edge of dropping off. Here is what he describes JQ as on his Patreon (YT says roughly the same thing)



I'm waiting for the day he goes all in and becomes a breadtuber.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Say whatever I will about Yong being boring, at least he just gets to the fucking point - least the last time I actually watched his shit anyway. Sure, guy stretches his videos for ad rev, but that’s the Youtube Grift, everyone does it.

I unsubbed from channels like Yong and ReviewTechUSA cause I got tired of my feed being full of a dozen videos on the same story week to week, but I will say in their favour they're usually updating an ongoing story with each video, even if the core topic is the same. That's how actual news --and the YouTube grift-- works, so I get it, I just prefer to get all my news collected in a daily round-up like my boy Spawnwave does.

Jim doesn't do either of those things. He literally just repeats the exact same boilerplate arguments over and over with no developments or insight; you could find and replace the name of any given game/company with another in his script and nobody would notice.

Instead of bitching at his 'transphobic' audience, Jim needs to ask himself: What incentive is there for people to watch his content? What's his USP?

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Where Gone Home unironically deserves credit is it's recreation of a house circa 1995, they really captured a lot of details, sometimes real subtle ones, that brought back memories myself.

It was done realistically rather than in a cheaper nostalgia way, like for example the fact that the sister owns a SNES, which is what I was playing in 1995, than a then brand new PlayStation which would have been a lot less likely.

And some of the general atmosphere was neat, like the storm warning on the TV.

As soon as I realized where the story was going though I was meh on that though and I never played any of the other walking simulators because the novelty wore off fast.

Gone home really isn't as horrible as the people who hated it on /v/ made it out to be imo. For a 3-4 hour interactive fiction "game" it's fine. The story isn't anything mind blowing but it's passable and like you said the atmosphere is well done and I really enjoy the soundtrack. They nail the mid 90s American home very well. The game dev's clearly put time and effort into making it and that shows. I think if it had been marketed as what it was, a short story driven game and sold for a lower price it would have been fine.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

The Twitter censors that trannies often cry to came for one them. Naturally, Jim immediately whining about how people who make fun of him for being an AGP freak aren't banned on sight-
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It's automated you dummy. Twitter only steps in when you appeal. The URL literally could have triggered this.

 

[Bush King]

Gone home really isn't as horrible as the people who hated it on /v/ made it out to be imo. For a 3-4 hour interactive fiction "game" it's fine. The story isn't anything mind blowing but it's passable and like you said the atmosphere is well done and I really enjoy the soundtrack. They nail the mid 90s American home very well. The game dev's clearly put time and effort into making it and that shows. I think if it had been marketed as what it was, a short story driven game and sold for a lower price it would have been fine.

People trashed that game because the only reason we heard about it was that it made good political fodder for the likes of Kotaku et al. It was a barely passable first-year student film equivalent that got 9/10s. When so much of the talk and praise surrounding any piece of media is meta and not about the product itself (eg: if someone gave a 1/10 to a Russian game for obvious reasons today) people will swing in the opposite direction when it turns out the product itself is actually just meh.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Instead of bitching at his 'transphobic' audience, Jim needs to ask himself: What incentive is there for people to watch his content? What's his USP?

I think for people like Jimbo they see themselves as the plucky underdog now they’ve trooned out and his identity matters more than the content he produces since it provides more status in his social circle.

I bet he’d rather make a video that annoys groups he doesn’t like than a video that gets a lot of views from general audiences.

 

[indigoisviolet]

The Twitter censors that trannies often cry to came for one them. Naturally, Jim immediately whining about how people who make fun of him for being an AGP freak aren't banned on sight-
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I'm sorry, how soon was this fat cunt's "transition"? You can tell a man who genuinely hates women as opposed to just grumbling about silly bints: they use the prefix cis- to describe them.

Chris did this: he trooned out and instantly adopted all the batshit political lingo as if it was part of his new costume.

This is insanity unfolding in real time. This is why they burnt those books in a huge bonfire.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I think for people like Jimbo they see themselves as the plucky underdog now they’ve trooned out and his identity matters more than the content he produces since it provides more status in his social circle.

I bet he’d rather make a video that annoys groups he doesn’t like than a video that gets a lot of views from general audiences.

It's also an easy way to deflect criticism. "Oh, you wouldn't be saying that if I was still a cis man!" No, we all thought you were shit ten years ago, Sterling.

 

[McSchlomo]

It's also an easy way to deflect criticism. "Oh, you wouldn't be saying that if I was still a cis man!" No, we all thought you were shit ten years ago, Sterling.

You know what? I actually didn't. 10 years ago (or whenever), there was a time where he made entertaining videos. Yes, it was mostly shitting on bad games on steam and shitting on publishers (both rightly so), but I enjoyed his shtick. He was pretty funny and his edgy humor was right up my alley.

However, I did stop watching his stuff quite a while before he trooned, so its simply not that. He had changed something (that I'm sure has been discussed here before) about his videos that made me not interested anymore. I think in my case it was mostly: The amount of politics seemed to go up, and my general inability to put up with the same stuff for too long. As soon as the point comes where I predict whatever will be said next in my head, I know I have watched enough of a channel.

His current antics make me be ashamed that I ever enjoyed his content in the first place. And that sucks. Not only can I not enjoy stuff in [current year], I can't even enjoy having enjoyed stuff in [past year].

 

[indigoisviolet]

His current antics make me be ashamed that I ever enjoyed his content in the first place. And that sucks. Not only can I not enjoy stuff in [current year], I can't even enjoy having enjoyed stuff in [past year].

It's possible to separate the performer from the performance, Jim made fun YouTube fodder for many years that suddenly became worthy when a madman sued him. That turned into a double edged sword as he could never recapture that sort of righteous high off his regular stuff any more and, well, now look at him. There's nothing wrong with liking bullshit when you were younger and your brain was full of sawdust. It doesn't reflect poorly on either yourself or the thing you used to enjoy, look at TGWTG and its not-so-merry men these days. It was fun at the time, you couldn't pay me to watch it now. Nothing is constant, everything changes.

 

[Shotgun Badger]

I think this video well represents a constant issue with his format, that the stuff he covers in videos is almost never relevent when the video comes out. GT7 has been out for just over three weeks and these issues have been there since the launch so it feels like he's just going for low hanging fruit he knows he can use to push out a video using the same tired old script but with the name of the game and dev swapped out.

As I've said before, its the worst of both worlds, his output is too slow and rigid to be timely and to ride the wave of whatever the current popular talking point is, and he doesn't go into enough depth in his videos to make a more in depth examination of a game like Gran Turismo 7 that might work as a video essay style video where people are willing to wait much longer for that kind of content.