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

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Corn Flakes said:
@AngryTreeRat Quote bug due to long post, so...

Just to make sure I got it right, your argument is that Jim isn't losing subscribers just because "lolboring tranny", but because he fully surrendered to cheap, low-effort "topical" clickbait instead of talking about things he's actually interested enough in that he'll actually put in the effort for a proper script? Because you might just be right.
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Yes. Exactly that. Even the driest person making a video of what they are passionate about will be more enjoyable than the most colourful person making a video they don't give a fuck about.

As an example pick a recent Jim video and try to be engaged and interested. Then do it with something from the era I pointed out before. Even if you don't care about the subject, a passionate individual is easier to enjoy and focus on than an passionless individual.

Then watch this video, from Unnatural History Channel, who has an incredibly dry and academic delivery while he talks about and speculates about the ecology of a video game series while tricking you into learning about real life ecology. He clearly has passion about ecology, biology, and Monster Hunter and speculative zoology, and it comes through despite the dry delivery.
 
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Ponderous Pillock said:
Short answer? No, of course not. Hobbies should be as accessible as possible to those interested in them but eventually some fuckwit turning up screeching about oppression and muh racisms over fucking video games needs being told to Fuck right off and quickly because they don't bring anything whatsoever worthwhile to the table. If they did, they'd make their own games that would be any good and not fodder for Jamais to do a Let's Sperg on.
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This is why gatekeeping is not a universal bad like some would believe, and why aiming for the biggest fanbase is a double edged sword.

Sometimes you just need to tell people to fuck off, or make it clear that you're not going to change everything around them. And anyone arguing that it's selfish that a hobby will not change for them needs to look in a mirror and realise that expecting every single community to tailor to what they want is selfish.

Also, let's be honest, the whole "accessability" thing is a red herring they always use. If they gave a shit about accessibility they'd talk about features like colour filters, responsive interaction or the price of disabled-friendly controllers being shockingly high.

But nah, it's just "bad at video games". They just decide to puppet the disabled community so they have a shield to jump behind.
 
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Mister Mint said:
Are you kidding? Jim spent a majority of that <900k stream pretending transphobia is so rampant, deep, and accepted that it's legal to execute trans people in the streets and dump them in your community's local trans person mass grave.

Jim would be not only willing to believe that 120k are transphobic, but happy to do so since it means he's doing an even heckin' bigger activism by making videos about dumb-dumb capitalism oppressing his poor, downtrodden, universally celebrated by media and corporations, trans brothers, sisters, and whatever the fuck Jim is pretending to be.
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If Jim really believed his life was in imminent danger because he's trans, he wouldn't bring attention to himself by wearing what he does. I can't think of anything more likely to catch my eye than a fat man parading around in women's clothing with a horrible wig and makeup that makes him look like a prostitute clown.
 
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White-Kettle Shufflepunk said:
That attitude can be really annoying and try-hard… but as someone who doesn’t even play Soul games, and isn’t really great at video games in general, does every experience have to be for literally everyone? Is it so bad for something to be for a particular audience? I’m all for people of all types having games to play, but does it have to be every game? You know who didn’t practise good gatekeeping? The Trojans. And look where it got them.
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No, nor sould they be, and the attempts to harmogonize and simplify everything to be easier to access and more accessible to everyone has over all hurt gaming and is probably the leading reason behind why Souls fans are as defensive as they are. They don't want their game watered down to be something for everyone, even if that means sternly denying how obviously flawed many of the Souls games (including Elden Ring) are in many aspects (such as frame rate, bugginess, poor hitboxes, shitty networking, etc.)

A good criticism of the Souls like genre, particularly From Soft, is that they have a tendency to rely on obnoxious gimmicks that detract from the statement that "You can beat the game if you're good enough without dying." which is both true and untrue. In many of the Souls games (less so in Elden Ring in my opinion), there are bullshit gimmicky traps that From Soft makes (Such as an enemy hiding around a corner that you cannot know about until you've walked into that room and been hit by that enemy the first time) that make playing the games tedious and detract from the idea that a skilled enough player should be able to beat them on the first try without dying. I think most honest Souls players would agree with that as well, however I think most Souls players don't want their shit watered down to where traps aren't dangerous, and ambushes can't/won't happen.

I mean the same thing happened to RTS back in the day. 1v1 High Stress macro/micro heavy games were a bit too much for the standard player and then 5v5 MOBAS were born from them and were much more popular. The entire genre shifted to games like DOTA and LoL, but it self Starcraft players like myself who enjoyed the harder learning curve of RTS feeling displaced. In addition in an attempt to be "more accessible and garner the most players posible." many probably good RTS watered themselves down to MOBA status. Its a shitty thing no player wants to deal with and a LOT of Gaming Journos seem to want to push literally every game in that direction regardless of what the players want
 
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Moja Zemlja said:
In fact Jim himself has been inconsistent on the topic because up until recently in his twitter bio he put that he was trans and non-binary something that should surely be mutally exclusive right? How can you be outside of the gender binary while transitioning to be the other gender? Now he's 'transfem non-binary' which is equally as dumb because being on either side of the masc-fem spectum must be you're not non-binary?
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As far as I know - I can't claim to be an authority but I probably have more experience than you evil 4chan bigots - non-binary people are generally accepted to be trans' in that they do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth (after all, "transgender" never implied you had to transition from male to female or vice-versa exclusively), so in a way, they did transition between two genders. That's not the only view, though, but, again, as far as I know, no, Jim claiming to be non-binary and trans' (the veracity of either claims aside) isn't contradictory at all if you believe in all that.

And while I find non-binary-ness to be bullsh#t on the whole save for people who are actually intersex, and maybe other cases I can't think of right now and don't really care to, I think the whole "transfem non-binary" thing isn't considered a contradiction either (keep in mind I mean that in the general sense, not in Jim's specific case) in that it can be interpreted to mean a simple "preference", as in, having traits from both genders but still leaning towards female.

But I make the distinction with Jim's own use of the expression for a reason, because it does seem to me that this all doesn't quite fit with Jim having no voluntarily male trait and glorifying having female ones, though I can't speak for LGBT people's opinion of his particular take on the concept. I'm not sure why he uses that seemingly ill-fitting label, maybe to give himself an easier out if he wants to stop, maybe not to have to admit to the passing failure (he's definitely used the label as a shield against that, so that does lend credence to that idea), maybe so he doesn't have to justify not going through with any actual surgery/medical procedure beyond hormones (though considering his crowd I'm not sure that'd be seen as an issue) ?
 
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TheBeanz said:
He's a 'journalist' he has to have all games and he has to bitch about having to pay for them, even though that's what his patreon is for.
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I hate the fact you're probably right - a journalist or reviewer has no place reviewing a product they're not remotely the market for, but that won't stop them. Find me a games journalist who spends a total 10+ hours on public transit every week, give them a steam deck to review - they'll probably consider the thing to be a literal brick of gold then.
 
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White-Kettle Shufflepunk said:
That attitude can be really annoying and try-hard… but as someone who doesn’t even play Soul games, and isn’t really great at video games in general, does every experience have to be for literally everyone? Is it so bad for something to be for a particular audience? I’m all for people of all types having games to play, but does it have to be every game? You know who didn’t practise good gatekeeping? The Trojans. And look where it got them.
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I look at it from another way. Souls games wouldn't be easier by simply changing some stats, the very nature of their gameplay is about precision and patience. If you don't have it then, short of God mode (that all games on Steam have), the game needs to be completely reworked and that's a massive amount of effort that will not be given to actual people willing the learn the game.

That's the problem, easy mode sounds innocent and in retard's minds it is. But it means a lesser product to appeal to the lowest common denominator. People like Jim, who have never created anything and only exist by being parasites on other people's hard work, have zero issues fucking everyone else for their laziness and/or virtue signalling.
 
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