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

[Fields Of Rye]

Get woke, go broke, waiting for that unfortunate post where somebody accuses him of being a predator.

IIRC he was a voice actor in Lisa: The Painful in a joke encounter where he made the protag cross dress at gun point. I think if you don't kill him you have to stay the rest of the game with the getup on, and Jim really didn't like it. I think he even took it a little personally. Maybe too personally.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

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.

They’re not aiming for the biggest fan base but the right kind of fan base.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

About the Steam Deck, its actually a rare moment where he talks about video games and makes a good point.
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You just know actually commenting on games feels like peasant shit for him at this point. Why can’t he be allowed to talk about real art, like irony poisoned amateur pro-wrestling?

 

[LeChampion1992]

How the mighty have fallen.

And to think he was doing enjoyable content at some point.

somewhere around 2013-2017 they lost their balls, then they trooned out and now we're here at utter insanity.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

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.

Precision and patience - now outside the obvious jabs at Jims complete lack of patience for anything, this is a super key line. Its not just about patience in combat. Its patience in reaching any of your goals. You can grind souls in basically every dark souls game infinitely (Except for 2, where your grinding will eventually just nuke out whole regions of enemies) and spend those to level up your character and gear to the point that you're practically stronger and healthier than the average boss. With sufficient patience and dedication you can overcome any shortcoming in reflexes and precision with sheer determination and levels.

Its never just been about making dark souls easier - its about making it easier to be done with dark souls. They want to apply the worst aspects of theme park game design to a series that so thoroughly rejects them.

 

[stupid moron]

Nothing specific. He started injecting more and more lefty politics into his videos and leaning too heavily on the same catch phrases. I brought him up in the "creative works you enjoyed until politics happened" thread and it seems I'm not alone in noticing the shift.

I’ve noticed him doing it too. It’s not annoying enough that I’ve stopped watching but it’s enough to bother me. I really do enjoy his content though and hope he just keeps that shit to social media where I can ignore it

 

[Dr George Whitebread]

Ladies and guntlemen...we got 'em.
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JIM HAS OFFICIALLY LOST 100,000 SUBSCRIBERS

It shows how many normal people don't want to deal with Jim any more which is great. His thing now is as an "activist" so slowly the needle is going to shift from "General gaming figure" to "tranny icon" which is a punishment befitting such a grifter. He has his podcasts and friends circles and the less influential he is in gaming the better.

Here's to the next 100k.

 

[Second-Hand Boat Supplies]

Precision and patience - now outside the obvious jabs at Jims complete lack of patience for anything, this is a super key line. Its not just about patience in combat. Its patience in reaching any of your goals. You can grind souls in basically every dark souls game infinitely (Except for 2, where your grinding will eventually just nuke out whole regions of enemies) and spend those to level up your character and gear to the point that you're practically stronger and healthier than the average boss. With sufficient patience and dedication you can overcome any shortcoming in reflexes and precision with sheer determination and levels.

Its never just been about making dark souls easier - its about making it easier to be done with dark souls. They want to apply the worst aspects of theme park game design to a series that so thoroughly rejects them.

Dark Souls easy mode already exists, it's called watching a youtube walkthrough. If you don't want to spend time playing a game but still want to know the story or environments, just do that. There are plenty of games I've done that with; it has nothing to do with being too hard or too easy, it's just that I'm not all that invested in them. I don't pretend I've gotten an equivalent experience but for something of only a passing interest I find it sufficient.

I absolutely cannot wrap my head around anyone who gets upset that a game is too hard and tries to make it some sort of Issue. Imagine you're disabled and struggle with public spaces being physically inaccessible to you and you hear some dumbass start mouthing off about how Flappy Bird is gatekeeping them or something.

 

[Anime Goddess]

He was adamant about not having ads on Jimquisition because his Patreon is supposed to cover that content in terms of cost. It's honestly one of the only morals he hasn't completely abandoned. But make no mistake, it is mostly out of ego. The rest is perfectly on point.

Is not having ads such a great moral position?

Jim loves to rant about capitalism. But, with ads, all the money would come from big corporations.

Instead, by using Patreon, Jim is taking money directly from hard working average people to sustain a lazy luxurious life style.

From someone that hates capitalism, that's Capitalism at its finest

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Dark Souls easy mode already exists, it's called watching a youtube walkthrough. If you don't want to spend time playing a game but still want to know the story or environments, just do that. There are plenty of games I've done that with; it has nothing to do with being too hard or too easy, it's just that I'm not all that invested in them. I don't pretend I've gotten an equivalent experience but for something of only a passing interest I find it sufficient.

I absolutely cannot wrap my head around anyone who gets upset that a game is too hard and tries to make it some sort of Issue. Imagine you're disabled and struggle with public spaces being physically inaccessible to you and you hear some dumbass start mouthing off about how Flappy Bird is gatekeeping them or something.

The discourse around games and accessibility reminds me of someone named Wheels. Wheels was born with a muscular disorder that makes it so his muscles don't receive signals form the nervous system so they atrophy. That doesn't stop Wheels from being one of the best Killer Instinct players in the world. Here is an interview he did last year about not letting his physical disability hold him back from competition. Granted, a 1v1 fighting game like Killer Instinct is very different from a PvE game like Elden Ring. However what I'm trying to say is that someone like Wheels being able to play his game at the level he has makes the "games need to more accessible argument" some people make ring especially hollow to me. They aren't doing it to include physically disabled people; they're doing it because they are bad at games and want be able to achieve something without putting effort into it. I'd also argue that people who have the disability of being a fat whining tranny are the people games should be made the least accessible to.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

@AngryTreeRat

It is the fate that befalls most cynical reviewers, you lose all passion from constant criticism and with age and a growing amount of haters snapping back at you at whatever you are doing wherever you are calling their game shit or because you trooned out. The only survivors are the ones like Yahtzee who have to this date refused to engage with his audience.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

The discourse around games and accessibility reminds me of someone named Wheels. Wheels was born with a muscular disorder that makes it so his muscles don't receive signals form the nervous system so they atrophy. That doesn't stop Wheels from being one of the best Killer Instinct players in the world. Here is an interview he did last year about not letting his physical disability hold him back from competition. Granted, a 1v1 fighting game like Killer Instinct is very different from a PvE game like Elden Ring. However what I'm trying to say is that someone like Wheels being able to play his game at the level he has makes the "games need to more accessible argument" some people make ring especially hollow to me. They aren't doing it to include physically disabled people; they're doing it because they are bad at games and want be able to achieve something without putting effort into it. I'd also argue that people who have the disability of being a fat whining tranny are the people games should be made the least accessible to.

I should also point out there are several affordable, often cheaper than the "real ones" in fact, controllers designed for a wide range of disabilities designed by those who actually care about video game accessibility, there are people who do this for free, and many of these are open source designs. Then there are the more official and licensed products as well, which are expensive, but they are such due to the fact they are, ultimately, products for a very niche audience.

I got pretty bad arthritis, it affects my ability to play video games. Does this mean I need my games made easier? No, I still demand ever greater challenges to make my bitch, greater foes whose corpses will be piled to make a monument to my success. No, instead it means that I rebind my controls to be easier for my hands to handle, it means that I ask developers to allow rebinding controls if they don't for some fucking reason, it means I take more breaks, it means I get more accessible controllers if it comes down to it, it means I put in the effort to engage with my hobby, because I want to engage. I want to enjoy my hobbies, I want to play video games, I love video games, I made them my career.

Accessibility, heck even inclusivity, is something that generally the gaming community is supportive of. We want to share these cool experiences with others so we can talk about them, but you never see much support for "inclusivity" or "accessibility" like LKD or Jim demand, because what they want isn't inclusivity, it is conformity for political good boy points, and it sure as fuck isn't accessibility. They want to put less effort into the game, they don't want to engage with the hobby, and to look like they are championing a cause that is noble for their own selfish reasons.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I should also point out there are several affordable, often cheaper than the "real ones" in fact, controllers designed for a wide range of disabilities designed by those who actually care about video game accessibility, there are people who do this for free, and many of these are open source designs. Then there are the more official and licensed products as well, which are expensive, but they are such due to the fact they are, ultimately, products for a very niche audience.

I got pretty bad arthritis, it affects my ability to play video games. Does this mean I need my games made easier? No, I still demand ever greater challenges to make my bitch, greater foes whose corpses will be piled to make a monument to my success. No, instead it means that I rebind my controls to be easier for my hands to handle, it means that I ask developers to allow rebinding controls if they don't for some fucking reason, it means I take more breaks, it means I get more accessible controllers if it comes down to it, it means I put in the effort to engage with my hobby, because I want to engage. I want to enjoy my hobbies, I want to play video games, I love video games, I made them my career.

Accessibility, heck even inclusivity, is something that generally the gaming community is supportive of. We want to share these cool experiences with others so we can talk about them, but you never see much support for "inclusivity" or "accessibility" like LKD or Jim demand, because what they want isn't inclusivity, it is conformity for political good boy points, and it sure as fuck isn't accessibility. They want to put less effort into the game, they don't want to engage with the hobby, and to look like they are championing a cause that is noble for their own selfish reasons.

Hell you can even find grips that ease severe low muscle tone!

 

[Corn Flakes]

The gatekeeping and accessibility arguments make me think of something my father told me while I was growing up.

He's a pretty old-fashioned guy, and he liked dragging me along to go fish or hunt with him at least once a year. Hunting was cool, since I got to play around with a .22 and never hit anything with it. But fishing was really fucking boring for 13-year old Corn Flakes. So there I was, sitting on a pier, bored out of my skull, and I asked him what was the point of fishing if we could just go to the supermarket and get a whole fish for less than it cost to drive down to the lake. He told me that the point was simply to fish. Whether or not we caught a fish didn't matter nearly as much as just sitting down and watching the lake as we waited for the fish to bite.

Needless to say young Corn Flakes was unconvinced. But now, an embarrassing number of years later, every time I see people bitching about how games must be more accessible I'm reminded of Father Flakes' words. The point of games isn't to be "accessible". The point of games is to be played. If a game is meant to be played in a certain way, and you don't like how it plays, just... move on. There are literally thousands of other games out there. Games like Dark Souls stop being what they are if you make them easy, just like Starcraft stops being Starcraft if you remove the micro. No one would remember Dark Souls if everybody who played it one-shot every boss up to Gwyn. There's no meme if there's no difficulty to make it memorable.

You know what truly made games accessible? Let's Plays. And streamers now, I guess. They're the equivalent of just going to the supermarket and buying a fish. Someone else went through the trouble of fishing the damn thing and bringing it to you. Only with the fish you actually have a meal in the end. With LPs all you've got is... hopefully a fun time with the player's commentary? I never really understood the appeal, to be honest.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Funny thing about Jim is that he'll bitch about artlessness in Triple A games, but turn around and whine about games that are carefully crafted to be difficult as a deliberate choice. He doesn't care about artistic expression, he just wants to be capitulated to.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Funny thing about Jim is that he'll bitch about artlessness in Triple A games, but turn around and whine about games that are carefully crafted to be difficult as a deliberate choice. He doesn't care about artistic expression, he just wants to be capitulated to.

It's only artistic expression if he enjoys it.

 

[Manah]

It's ogre, folks.

Personally I was never able to watch many of his videos, even back when I watched all the angry videogame channels - hey we all did it! He was too fat and British and gay even back then. Just a fat man wearing steampunk Nazi clothes and waving a dildo around.

Thank God for MUH DICK

The thing I always found impossible to bare was the voice. eesh.

 

[Manah]

Dark Souls easy mode already exists, it's called watching a youtube walkthrough. If you don't want to spend time playing a game but still want to know the story or environments, just do that. There are plenty of games I've done that with; it has nothing to do with being too hard or too easy, it's just that I'm not all that invested in them. I don't pretend I've gotten an equivalent experience but for something of only a passing interest I find it sufficient.

I absolutely cannot wrap my head around anyone who gets upset that a game is too hard and tries to make it some sort of Issue. Imagine you're disabled and struggle with public spaces being physically inaccessible to you and you hear some dumbass start mouthing off about how Flappy Bird is gatekeeping them or something.

easy mode is leveling up at all, most souls fans get upset at the idea of easy mode because they're too cowardly to admit they already use it.

 

[Oliver Onions]

His thing now is as an "activist" so slowly the needle is going to shift from "General gaming figure" to "tranny icon" which is a punishment befitting such a grifter.

The best part is he's going to be nowhere near as successful as a troon icon as he was in the niche of gaming industry analysis (and I use 'analysis' lightly in regard to Jim's expertise).

Jim is very late to the party, and there are already way more experienced, better educated and, relatively speaking, better looking troons doing what Jim wants to. He's went from a big fish in a small pond to one of those horrifying atrocities that live at the bottom of the ocean so no one ever sees.

Dark Souls easy mode already exists, it's called watching a youtube walkthrough. If you don't want to spend time playing a game but still want to know the story or environments, just do that. There are plenty of games I've done that with; it has nothing to do with being too hard or too easy, it's just that I'm not all that invested in them. I don't pretend I've gotten an equivalent experience but for something of only a passing interest I find it sufficient.

I absolutely cannot wrap my head around anyone who gets upset that a game is too hard and tries to make it some sort of Issue. Imagine you're disabled and struggle with public spaces being physically inaccessible to you and you hear some dumbass start mouthing off about how Flappy Bird is gatekeeping them or something.

I've always compared it to me complaining there are no Guitar Hero sections in FIFA, because I love rhythm games and I hate sports games.

Not every game has to be for everyone; if you don't like difficult games either 'git gud' or just play something else. Problem solved.

 

[boongus]

@AngryTreeRat

It is the fate that befalls most cynical reviewers, you lose all passion from constant criticism and with age and a growing amount of haters snapping back at you at whatever you are doing wherever you are calling their game shit or because you trooned out. The only survivors are the ones like Yahtzee who have to this date refused to engage with his audience.

Except for that one time in 2008 but we don't talk about that.