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

[Apteryx Owenii]

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

I think Jim has previously complained about games that "subvert expectations" by being shit and thinking it's okay to have awful, tropey gameplay elements as long as they hang a lampshade over it. To paraphrase: if you're making fun of shit by being shit, you're still shit.

Yet he does the same thing all the time. I think it's part of why he likes the wrestling nonsense- it's supposed to be terrible, so it makes it harder to criticize for the terrible parts.

 

[Corn Flakes]

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].

His humor also changed. It went from standard edgy boi shit to "look at [thing]. Is it not absurd? You must now laugh and/or be angry at [thing]" that the woke love to do.

And once he trooned out all bets were off. He started piling on more and more gross sexual humor that just... didn't fit.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

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

I can't even imagine how annoying Chris would be if he had the emotional intelligence to properly adopt and put to use all the SJW phrases, he'd be the king of all rat kings.

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.

It might be a bit of projection on his part since people like Jim judges content entirely based on who created it while the average person only cares about the content and won't keep watching Jim's videos if it's just him regurgitating the talking points of the previous 50 videos with some added 'I'm trans me! Look at my sexy fat rolls and maybe retro adverts and toys too! (If I can be bothered adding them)'.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

His humor also changed. It went from standard edgy boi shit to "look at [thing]. Is it not absurd? You must now laugh and/or be angry at [thing]" that the woke love to do.

And once he trooned out all bets were off. He started piling on more and more gross sexual humor that just... didn't fit.

The humor doesn't fit like Jim in his wrestling spandex.

 

[TheBeanz]

Gran Turismo 7 something or other:

Another classic Jim take on microtransactions.

The worst part is what he's describing about Gran Turismo is true, they fucked the in-game economy in the most cynical way possible in order to get you to buy money as a shortcut. Interestingly he got Laura Kate Dale to open Forza and check that economy out for him, where he directly equates the economy of the two games to each other.

The problem with this though is that the economy of Forza and the economy of Gran Turismo aren't the same. Forza Horizon's main money generator is 'Wheelspins' which are functionally identical to slot machines and can be bought for real money (No they can't, I remembered wrong), and have the chance to offer you cars that can be auctioned for millions, or the spin straight up gives you hundreds of thousands of credits. Forza also offers multi-million credit cars as free gifts or event prizes, money in that game is totally meaningless because you can obtain millions within a couple of hours of gameplay.

 

[Oliver Onions]

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.

Definitely plausible, but I suspect Jim is even more basic than that: I think he believes himself to be such a born entertainer that it shouldn't matter what he's doing or talking about; people will flock to his channel just to see him.

As with all troons, reality is not on his side.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Another classic Jim take on microtransactions.

The worst part is what he's describing about Gran Turismo is true, they fucked the in-game economy in the most cynical way possible in order to get you to buy money as a shortcut. Interestingly he got Laura Kate Dale to open Forza and check that economy out for him, where he directly equates the economy of the two games to each other.

The problem with this though is that the economy of Forza and the economy of Gran Turismo aren't the same. Forza Horizon's main money generator is 'Wheelspins' which are functionally identical to slot machines and can be bought for real money, and have the chance to offer you cars that can be auctioned for millions, or the spin straight up gives you hundreds of thousands of credits. Forza also offers multi-million credit cars as free gifts or event prizes, money in that game is totally meaningless because you can obtain millions within a couple of hours of gameplay.

I can't be bothered to watch the video, but Forza's wheelspins are all earned in game, there are no microtransactions. Forza Motorsport 7 had them at first, and did the similarly shitty thing of adding them post-launch, but they were later removed and Horizon 4&5 never had them. Although if anything FH goes too far the other way, it throws credits and supercars at you from the beginning, so there's zero sense of progression.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I can't be bothered to watch the video, but Forza's wheelspins are all earned in game, there are no microtransactions. Forza Motorsport 7 had them at first, and did the similarly shitty thing of adding them post-launch, but they were later removed and Horizon 4&5 never had them. Although if anything FH goes too far the other way, it throws credits and supercars at you from the beginning, so there's zero sense of progression.

As someone who bought GT7 is micro transactions weren’t really that much of an issue since at first once you completed the game you had a few missions where you could earn well over a million an hour but they drastically reduced the amount, one annoying thing is upgrades ends up being the biggest price sink and for example the credits you get for winning the final championship isn’t enough to buy the best tires for a sports car.

The main story is really good though and you get lots of cars since you get one every race you win during the campaign.

 

[TheBeanz]

I can't be bothered to watch the video, but Forza's wheelspins are all earned in game, there are no microtransactions. Forza Motorsport 7 had them at first, and did the similarly shitty thing of adding them post-launch, but they were later removed and Horizon 4&5 never had them. Although if anything FH goes too far the other way, it throws credits and supercars at you from the beginning, so there's zero sense of progression.

You're right, I misremembered. FH5's DLC at the moment exists as a £36 car pass offering about 30 different cars, so far less egregious. The thing with Forza is that there are now so many different bullshit ways to earn wheelspins I simply assumed you'd be able to buy them too.

FH4 & 5 definitely fucked the sense of progression, 5 has been horrendous for it.

 

[Gloria From Pokemon Sword]

One nice thing all these Microtransactions have done is make me happy so many franchises I like are dead. I miss Need For Speed but barring a remaster that came and went and a mobile game no one cares about, I don't have to worry about them charging $100 for a sports car that's needed for most endgame races. Or how Square is never making another Sleeping Dogs so I don't need to worry about having to pay for gas and bullets with a crypto currency that I can use actual money to get. Pac-Man World 4 would probably offer an arcade pass to let you play all the arcade games without having to collect the tokens - bonus points if extra lives were suddenly much more stingy than the first three games.

Whether it's quoted from Mythology, Religion, or Harry Potter, there are far worse fates than death.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

You're right, I misremembered. FH5's DLC at the moment exists as a £36 car pass offering about 30 different cars, so far less egregious. The thing with Forza is that there are now so many different bullshit ways to earn wheelspins I simply assumed you'd be able to buy them too.

FH4 & 5 definitely fucked the sense of progression, 5 has been horrendous for it.

FH5 is basically a participation trophy, full of hyperactive characters who constantly praise you in Spanglish as the best driver ever, zero stakes and showers you with rewards. No wonder game journalists loved it. I'm fine with difficulty settings and assists, but don't patronise me with a bigger circlejerk than Jim's Twitter replies. Could make for an interesting topic, but no way he'd do something like that as it would be seen as ableist, and he'd have to play the game.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

One nice thing all these Microtransactions have done is make me happy so many franchises I like are dead. I miss Need For Speed but barring a remaster that came and went and a mobile game no one cares about, I don't have to worry about them charging $100 for a sports car that's needed for most endgame races. Or how Square is never making another Sleeping Dogs so I don't need to worry about having to pay for gas and bullets with a crypto currency that I can use actual money to get. Pac-Man World 4 would probably offer an arcade pass to let you play all the arcade games without having to collect the tokens - bonus points if extra lives were suddenly much more stingy than the first three games.

Whether it's quoted from Mythology, Religion, or Harry Potter, there are far worse fates than death.

I agree and same goes with any game that considers itself a live service with season/battle pass, I have at best time to play one of those so can happily ignore any new ones that come along.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I agree and same goes with any game that considers itself a live service with season/battle pass, I have at best time to play one of those so can happily ignore any new ones that come along.

Maybe it's the nihilist in me, but I quite enjoy seeing old IPs dredged up and put through the ringer of modern AAA, just to laugh at how badly they've fucked them up. It's actually another angle Jim could take with his channel if he wasn't so bitter and genuinely angry all the time now.

Having said that, I don't think anything could ever possibly top the Silent Hill pachinko announcement following the cancellation of Silent Hills.

 

[TheBeanz]

Maybe it's the nihilist in me, but I quite enjoy seeing old IPs dredged up and put through the ringer of modern AAA, just to laugh at how badly they've fucked them up. It's actually another angle Jim could take with his channel if he wasn't so bitter and genuinely angry all the time now.

Having said that, I don't think anything could ever possibly top the Silent Hill pachinko announcement following the cancellation of Silent Hills.

Don't forget Snoop Dogg himself is now in CoD Warzone. That was tragic

 

[Picnic_Boy]

He's still not at 800k. We need to keep that subscriber loss up, I want the 800k coping video.

Jim has a built-in audience of autistic trannies, I'd be surprised if it dropped much lower. These are people who will beg for money to spend on a pornographer's Patreon, and Jim is their termite king.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Here's hoping for an incoming wrestling arch where he pivots away from talking about muh capitalism and truly crashes his viewbase by talking about wrassling.


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[Corn Flakes]

Jim has a built-in audience of autistic trannies, I'd be surprised if it dropped much lower. These are people who will beg for money to spend on a pornographer's Patreon, and Jim is their termite king.

Even without the autistic trannies, most people who stop watching a channel don't actually unsubscribe. They just stop watching. I wouldn't be surprised if Jimbo's current loss was less about his viewers and more about youtube culling old subs and inactive accounts.

 

[TheBeanz]

Here's hoping for an incoming wrestling arch where he pivots away from talking about muh capitalism and truly crashes his viewbase by talking about wrassling.

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'It's about bloody time'

Nigger you make 15 grand a month! What does he do that means that amount of money isn't enough for him to live comfortably?

 

[Open Window Maniac]

'It's about bloody time'

Nigger you make 15 grand a month! What does he do that means that amount of money isn't enough for him to live comfortably?

He eats so much food he needs to make 16 grand a month to be able to afford it all.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

True but I don’t see any guy wanting to rape:
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