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

[Pickle Inspector]

Jim is a minor internet celebrity wrestling rather than a professional wrestler who makes his living from it, much like how Donald Trump is technically a wrestler who even has his own page on WWE but I doubt many people would consider him to be a professional wresting entertainer.

As for being considered a man - he dresses like one while wrestling and his wrestler name is Sterdust, a parody of a male wrestling character called Stardust who is also known for his deviant behaviour and dressing in a similar way.

Wrestling is a world much like theatre where appearances are everything and if you want to pretend to be a woman you have to be at least convincing enough that young children will believe you‘re a woman otherwise they’ll just assume you’re a wrestler whose gimmick is being a crossdressing pervert.

 

[Lightly Buttered Crumpet]

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Uh oh - making a profit from it, alongside the profit from Patreon and YouTube... sounds almost like the dreaded Capitalism, there, Jim!

 

[Nod Flenders]

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I think the secret service would like a word with these people. Also, there's a chance this might not even be true.

 

[Nixxit]

I think the secret service would like a word with these people. Also, there's a chance this might not even be true.

Most convenient targets for the C.I.A.: For once, no-one will blame them for the suicide of a political dissident.

 

[bajagoogoo]

Kinda hard for Sterling to prattle on about his passion and love for wrasslin' when he has so little regard for it that he unashamedly lifted his persona from someone else.

And, of course, the narcissist essentially Googled himself. Bless.

I would legitimately pay for Sterling to try and get housing in Japan without a hoshonin or being told he's not allowed in a bar or restaurant because serving foreigners is an inconvenience.

Let's see how keen he is to sound off about American freedom after that. Then again, this is Sterling we're talking about. Where coming out as a 1998 Hot Topic drag queen was in any way unique or powerful.

 

[TheBeanz]

A circle jerk on how "unions" are great.

Too boring a topic to even bother to watch, 0/10

Unions are an odd thing, in the UK they're totally intertwined into the workplace and will stand up for you even if you aren't a member, but are also completely intertwined with the Labour party to such a point that if Labour ever get in again under someone heavily aligned with the Momentum faction of the party, they will be given so much power they will take us back to the 1970s.

In the US, unions seem to have so little power they're actively stomped on by practically everyone (That's how the media portrays it at least, it's probably wrong). I don't see what the big deal actually is about unionising in the states, personally.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Kinda hard for Sterling to prattle on about his passion and love for wrasslin' when he has so little regard for it that he unashamedly lifted his persona from someone else.

From what I understand (I’m a pretty casual wrestling fan) it’s not uncommon to do parody wrestling personas but it’s mostly for small time events where everyone knows they’ll not be big names attending but Bulk Bogan or Texas ‘Stunner’ Rattlesnake will still get a cheer from the crowd if they look and act somewhat similar and do some of their signature moves.

It’s just I imagine the full time guys won’t like that a part timer internet celebrity like Jim is coming in and demanding top billing.

 

[Corn Flakes]

In the US, unions seem to have so little power they're actively stomped on by practically everyone (That's how the media portrays it at least, it's probably wrong). I don't see what the big deal actually is about unionising in the states, personally.

Unions have a long and colorful history of corruption and infighting everywhere in the world, but we're particularly bitter about it here in America.

With regards to game developers unionizing, it's a catch-22. Game development in the West already happens on the bleeding edge of crunch half the time. Many studios (and I mean studios, not publishers) time their game release so the burst of initial sales brings them back from the brink of bankruptcy they reached while developing the game. Game developers unionizing would curb that, but it would also mean games would take longer to come out, face longer delays, and it's also likely to put a damper on indie and small studio development because if the union demands a snack bar and Mongolian Yoga classes in every studio or you don't get any union workers, only the large development houses will have the funds to fulfill those demands.

So Jim would then be bitching about games being delayed and the indie market dying.

Also, games development is an increasingly more international effort, with people all over the world pitching in. Trying to set up an international union to wrangle the labor laws of a dozen different nations, most of them not even speaking the same language, would be... phew, I don't even want to think about the logistics of it.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Unions have a long and colorful history of corruption and infighting everywhere in the world, but we're particularly bitter about it here in America.

With regards to game developers unionizing, it's a catch-22. Game development in the West already happens on the bleeding edge of crunch half the time. Many studios (and I mean studios, not publishers) time their game release so the burst of initial sales brings them back from the brink of bankruptcy they reached while developing the game. Game developers unionizing would curb that, but it would also mean games would take longer to come out, face longer delays, and it's also likely to put a damper on indie and small studio development because if the union demands a snack bar and Mongolian Yoga classes in every studio or you don't get any union workers, only the large development houses will have the funds to fulfill those demands.

So Jim would then be bitching about games being delayed and the indie market dying.

Also, games development is an increasingly more international effort, with people all over the world pitching in. Trying to set up an international union to wrangle the labor laws of a dozen different nations, most of them not even speaking the same language, would be... phew, I don't even want to think about the logistics of it.

Game Dev is uniquely unsuited to Unions in many ways - Outside of rote roles like QA and VA's, you can't really handle the restrictions of unions regarding promotions and progression and such. They're such wildly creative passion dependent fields that two people hired at the exact same time may see one of them rapidly shoot up to a senior designer role while the other is stuck forever in systems coding hell, just because of the talent expressed. That sort of selective and preferential promotion and hiring is fundamentally anathema to most union structures, and is also one of the few reasons anyone at the top of these structures still cares about games anymore.

A lot of these new and budding designers have more passion than talent and it shows in their games, but that's still a marked improvement over having your lead coders strictly be people who started in the 90's because that's what the union structure demands, even if most of their skills from back then are fundamentally irrelevant these days. Games aren't factory line products as much as companies like Activision try to make them otherwise, and the rigor and structure of unionization just won't play well with that.

Unionize the ancillary and support slivers if you want, but attempt that shit with your core design and dev teams and your going to have a bad time.

 

[Noebel]

Most convenient targets for the C.I.A.: For once, no-one will blame them for the suicide of a political dissident.

That's not how feds do their business. If political dissenters start to suicide themselves actually themselves, that's reduced budgets, that's taking their jeeeeeeeeebs.

So Jim would then be bitching about games being delayed and the indie market dying.

Jim bitching about an actual videogame-related topic? Hooey.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Too boring a topic to even bother to watch, 0/10

Unions are an odd thing, in the UK they're totally intertwined into the workplace and will stand up for you even if you aren't a member, but are also completely intertwined with the Labour party to such a point that if Labour ever get in again under someone heavily aligned with the Momentum faction of the party, they will be given so much power they will take us back to the 1970s.

Whilst there definitely are some who do good, you also get the likes of the RMT, who regularly bring London to a halt when all the Tube drivers walk out after one of their own gets sacked for drinking on the job.

Anyway, imagine spending years training and putting your body through hell as a wrestler for very little financial game, only for a fat man in a dress to show up and declare himself part of your industry.

 

[Brother Wind]

Too boring a topic to even bother to watch, 0/10

Unions are an odd thing, in the UK they're totally intertwined into the workplace and will stand up for you even if you aren't a member, but are also completely intertwined with the Labour party to such a point that if Labour ever get in again under someone heavily aligned with the Momentum faction of the party, they will be given so much power they will take us back to the 1970s.

In the US, unions seem to have so little power they're actively stomped on by practically everyone (That's how the media portrays it at least, it's probably wrong). I don't see what the big deal actually is about unionising in the states, personally.

Thats because they are kind of a joke in America. Like they split workplaces. Shut people out. Demand part of your check. That just doesn't work here. Probably elsewhere.

 

[Chilson]

With regards to game developers unionizing, it's a catch-22. Game development in the West already happens on the bleeding edge of crunch half the time. Many studios (and I mean studios, not publishers) time their game release so the burst of initial sales brings them back from the brink of bankruptcy they reached while developing the game. Game developers unionizing would curb that, but it would also mean games would take longer to come out, face longer delays, and it's also likely to put a damper on indie and small studio development because if the union demands a snack bar and Mongolian Yoga classes in every studio or you don't get any union workers, only the large development houses will have the funds to fulfill those demands.

So Jim would then be bitching about games being delayed and the indie market dying.

Also, games development is an increasingly more international effort, with people all over the world pitching in. Trying to set up an international union to wrangle the labor laws of a dozen different nations, most of them not even speaking the same language, would be... phew, I don't even want to think about the logistics of it.

On top of that unions will never take hold in the gaming industry for one simple fact, game development is not an in-demand job.

The only reason that unions worked and have continued to work in factory settings is because factory jobs are highly specialized, requiring years of training and making it hard to get many workers with those specific specializations. This gives a group of specialized workers leverage against employers in negotiations. Its not the guys on the factory line who are in the unions in the US, its the guys running and maintaining the machinery/specialized processes.

Game development on the other hand could be done with any group of code monkeys. The fact that there is a massive indie market of independent or contracted game developers proves that anyone can make their own game if they really wanted to apply themselves. Game development employers can and in some cases have simply adopted the McDonald's strategy of firing and re-hiring the minute any serious discussion of unionizing pops up. Its that easy to find a bunch of code monkeys to do the job.

Hell, you could hire a few dozen random joes on the street, spend 1-3 months teaching them to program and you would likely come out of it with at least 10 people who can do a better job than 80% of game developers in the market.

The only exceptions to this rule are government or corporate mandated unions, which are practically no better for the employees than the government or corporate entities themselves. And this exception is simply never going to happen to the gaming industry.

 

[The Lawgiver]

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The fucking shit where he opens it by going "oh they only fear mongered about communism because they don't like working class people!!!" is fucking straight up bog standard politics twitter wank shit from wealthy people trying to make bank off working class people via patreon. There's more than one reason why some companies don't utilize unions, people forget unions have hierarchies and shit of their own and it adds an extra layer of complexity to the work process. I've known and/or run some people that got stuck with shitty ass predatory unions. It's like a company working with another company made of the employees but the other company has it's own demands and systems and WILL fuck over workers sometimes. People can be shitbags and greedy and it doesnt matter if they label themselves as a coporation or a union shit's just gonna be a gamble if you get caught with the assholes or not and wealthy twitter troons like jim either do not seem to comprehend this or (more likely) are once again outright fucking LYING to try and seem like the good guy communist utopia pusher for internet points.

 

[Zizara]

With every video he approaches the look of that fat goth chick from my highschool in the early 2000's more precisely.

Don't encourage him. I had my goth phase and looked forward to a goth gf, only to get to watch as the shifting culture and internet ~2008 destroyed the subcultures in practice. Having this fat """non-binary""" perv calling himself a big titty goth gf is just spitting in the wound.

 

[Space Retard]

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Imagine this creature living next door to you. R.I.P. to the property value in that area.

 

[Burt Offerings]

Tenner says he opens the next video with the Roe v Wade thing. I can almost *hear* him downloading the correct talking points from twitter as I type this.

 

[Heinrich Hammler]

Tenner says he opens the next video with the Roe v Wade thing. I can almost *hear* him downloading the correct talking points from twitter as I type this.

Can't wait to hear the expert of US Federal Law, a fat british commie video gamer in a skirt.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Can't wait to hear the expert of US Federal Law, a fat british commie video gamer in a skirt.

Now, now, I’m sure he will be closely reading through the documents of the original cases and will wait until the current court publishes its finalized documents so he can make a thorough reasoned argument that is reliant on levelheaded facts. He certainly won’t do anything stupid like proclaim it’s a sign of oncoming theocracy and then make it about himself by saying they’ll be coming for the trannies next, before predicting his own execution in the Republikkkan death camps.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Tenner says he opens the next video with the Roe v Wade thing. I can almost *hear* him downloading the correct talking points from twitter as I type this.

Going by the shit he's been saying on twitter, it all comes back to muh trans rights apparently. He seems to be saying the word 'theocracy' a lot which I don't get because I've not heard that being used up until now.