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

[Oliver Onions]

I'd settle for Kotick being publicly flayed by a cat-o-nine tails.

Personally I like Bobby, purely because of how irrationally angry he makes people like Jim.

 

[CptnSnshn]

Are we only counting UK fights? Cause remember in America he fought a woman and did an incredibly clumsy move that could have easily broken her neck.

UMMMM SWEATY THIS IS WHY BIGGOTS LIKE YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO WATCH WRESTLING

SHE WOULD HAVE THANKED THE BRAVE AND STUNNING AND POWERFUL JAM STARLANG FOR GIVING HER IMPOMPTU BUT INEFFECTIVE NECK ADJUSTMENT THAT LEAD SADLY TO HER TRANSPHOBIC SPINE GIVING OUT.

 

[Aaron Costello]

@Ooonkeh posted a photo from one of the events that Jim attended a few pages back (link) and it's pretty obvious from looking at it that there aren't a lot of people there who would find Jim any worse than the next weirdo.

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They look like a group of low level villains from an old comic book. These aren't WWE wrestlers. They aren't even the B-tier wrestlers that show up to events in small-town America. I'm not even sure that this gaggle of goons is on Tonka Saw's level.

No one with any sense of standards, decency, or shame will be harmed by coming into contact with Jim at one of those events.

This looks like a college theatre production.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Diablo Immortal is a bit of a lazy target for this because you can hate Blizzard all you want like a rational person but they actually do seem to be trying to give everyone something by doing both Immortal and IV (and II remaster) rather than just mashing it all into one game that puts all its focus on the stuff that will make money. Rather than trying to force everyone into a single model that makes money for everything they're doing a lot better about "don't like that well how about this" including the changes they made to Overwatch 2 and so on. And to the broader Activision-Blizzard, they could have been absolutely shitty with Call of Duty but they really haven't been there either and provided lots of options and free content that used to be expensive as fuck DLC that never went on sale. Black Ops Cold War is still getting maps.

I'm not saying they're great or anything nor even that I personally am interested in most of this stuff but there have to be better targets surely? Companies that aren't actually improving and listening to fans (even if they aren't listening to Jim, the real sin)?

I completely agree and its very weird that Jim goes off on Activision, Kotick, Blizzard, muh capitalism without once mentioning that Immortal was co-developed by their Chinese partner and with that in mind it makes sense why there is so many microtransactions because this kind of stuff in the F2P scene in Asia isn't that uncommon. To highlight how Immortal might've been made for the Asia market in first there was more pre-registrations in China alone (15 million) then there has been installs in the rest of the world (10 million).

 

[KaptainKerplunk]

@Ooonkeh posted a photo from one of the events that Jim attended a few pages back (link) and it's pretty obvious from looking at it that there aren't a lot of people there who would find Jim any worse than the next weirdo.

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They look like a group of low level villains from an old comic book. These aren't WWE wrestlers. They aren't even the B-tier wrestlers that show up to events in small-town America. I'm not even sure that this gaggle of goons is on Tonka Saw's level.

No one with any sense of standards, decency, or shame will be harmed by coming into contact with Jim at one of those events.

Notably, Jim is the only one wearing a mask, maybe, deep down, he subconciously knows how fucking repulsive he looks.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

I completely agree and its very weird that Jim goes off on Activision, Kotick, Blizzard, muh capitalism without once mentioning that Immortal was co-developed by their Chinese partner and with that in mind it makes sense why there is so many microtransactions because this kind of stuff in the F2P scene in Asia isn't that uncommon. To highlight how Immortal might've been made for the Asia market in first there was more pre-registrations in China alone (15 million) then there has been installs in the rest of the world (10 million).

I used to help highlight monetization and design changes needed to port East Asian games to a Western audience in an earlier part of my career. The shit they get away with over there that's viewed as generous and non-exploitive would make any microtransaction bitching we do about the worse offenders here look like nothing.

My favourite thing was when I said "yeah, selling each of these for $50 a piece when it's an 18 piece starter gear set that can't be earn in game won't fly over here, especially since it's worthless past hour five of gameplay." And they responded with "so should it be $40 each?" Then their shock when I told them "try $20 as a bundle with this $60 items, these cosmetics that come to a total of around $3000 and around $30 in currency, and even then almost no one but whales will buy it. You have whale flagging right? Anyone who buys this should be flagged. Also all these items I marked before. Bundle them like so and each bundle should be $5".

Over there what was a hard to sell $20 bundle here, was worth around $3930 there. That mindset difference in development could explain a lot.

Edit: fat fingered post button.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I completely agree and its very weird that Jim goes off on Activision, Kotick, Blizzard, muh capitalism without once mentioning that Immortal was co-developed by their Chinese partner and with that in mind it makes sense why there is so many microtransactions because this kind of stuff in the F2P scene in Asia isn't that uncommon. To highlight how Immortal might've been made for the Asia market in first there was more pre-registrations in China alone (15 million) then there has been installs in the rest of the world (10 million).

He can't point any of this out because it would totally undercut his argument that these evil predators are targetting poor vulnerable neurodivergents when the primary whales are probably all Chinese bugmen who only care about paying to be NUMBAH WAN.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

He can't point any of this out because it would totally undercut his argument that these evil predators are targetting poor vulnerable neurodivergents when the primary whales are probably all Chinese bugmen who only care about paying to be NUMBAH WAN.

Chinese players, as well as Korean and Japanese, are a bit looser with their wallets to start, and that's before we get to the fact they have a higher number of Krakens than we got Dolphins over here, and for a reminder:

Dolphins spend maybe $200-$2000 on a game over the course of a year. These are the guys who buy the odd skin or maybe drop a bit of money each month. You know, consistent spenders, but not big spenders. You get about one of these in every hundred players, and they cover the cost of keeping the servers online at best. They might drop a few hundred a month. Whales drop thousands a month, they make games profitable. A kraken drops tens of, if not hundreds of thousands, a month on the low end. These are what make a game unreasonably successful, just getting one of these. A kraken, if you can keep them, is worth literally millions a year. They can easily drop a new house a month on a game, and do so consistently. A kraken is what the unreasonably wealth become when they lack self control and get hooked on a game.

 

[Jaimas]

Chinese players, as well as Korean and Japanese, are a bit looser with their wallets to start, and that's before we get to the fact they have a higher number of Krakens than we got Dolphins over here, and for a reminder:

Dolphins spend maybe $200-$2000 on a game over the course of a year. These are the guys who buy the odd skin or maybe drop a bit of money each month. You know, consistent spenders, but not big spenders. You get about one of these in every hundred players, and they cover the cost of keeping the servers online at best. They might drop a few hundred a month. Whales drop thousands a month, they make games profitable. A kraken drops tens of, if not hundreds of thousands, a month on the low end. These are what make a game unreasonably successful, just getting one of these. A kraken, if you can keep them, is worth literally millions a year. They can easily drop a new house a month on a game, and do so consistently. A kraken is what the unreasonably wealth become when they lack self control and get hooked on a game.

Brianna Wu is a Kraken for her shitty Star Trek games. I remember Smutley did a breakdown on her spending for one once and it was like 10,000 in a single month.

 

[Sunglasses @ Night]

Saw a YongYea video this morning (yes he's cringey and rambling, but also likeable somehow and informative and not a tranny) where he covers Ubisoft pulling online playability and more from a bunch of their older titles.

How many weeks after the story was actually current I wonder, will Jim Bob cover it as an "Oh Ubisoft" edition of the Jimquisition?

One? Two? More?

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Saw a YongYea video this morning (yes he's cringey and rambling, but also likeable somehow and informative and not a tranny) where he covers Ubisoft pulling online playability and more from a bunch of their older titles.

How many weeks after the story was actually current I wonder, will Jim Bob cover it as an "Oh Ubisoft" edition of the Jimquisition?

One? Two? More?

Its actually about video games so never.

 

[Donald Trump's Neck Vag]

Now, getting back to Aloy, she actually had a balanced design in the first horizon. She had elements of a traditional female design with some warrior elements, compared to her design in the sequel which sandpapers away a lot of her cuter design elements (namely her facial structure, which were her most feminine features in the original game) for seemingly no reason other than "we don't need people to like her now, the game will sell."

I just played through the game and I think they're using pretty much exactly the same body model as the first game (with the exact same animations too). They changed the face to look a lot more like the face model.

It's something that I've noticed all of Sony's big studios doing. Nathan Drake from Uncharted looks completely different in the last game. I remember the God of War devs said it had something to do with mocap/performance capture.

The same discussion about 'ugly characters' came up with Ghost of Tsushima, Jedi Fallen Order, and Control, even though all the characters were straight-up face scans of real actors.

@Ooonkeh posted a photo from one of the events that Jim attended a few pages back (link) and it's pretty obvious from looking at it that there aren't a lot of people there who would find Jim any worse than the next weirdo.



They look like a group of low level villains from an old comic book. These aren't WWE wrestlers. They aren't even the B-tier wrestlers that show up to events in small-town America. I'm not even sure that this gaggle of goons is on Tonka Saw's level.

No one with any sense of standards, decency, or shame will be harmed by coming into contact with Jim at one of those events.

It's honestly surprising to see how many bookings he seems to be getting. They all seem to be tiny UK promotions, so you've got to assume they're desperately hoping to get some views from his youtube/twitter audience.

 

[BaconBoobs]

@Ooonkeh posted a photo from one of the events that Jim attended a few pages back (link) and it's pretty obvious from looking at it that there aren't a lot of people there who would find Jim any worse than the next weirdo.

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They look like a group of low level villains from an old comic book. These aren't WWE wrestlers. They aren't even the B-tier wrestlers that show up to events in small-town America. I'm not even sure that this gaggle of goons is on Tonka Saw's level.

No one with any sense of standards, decency, or shame will be harmed by coming into contact with Jim at one of those events.

Its like a convention for nonces.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Saw a YongYea video this morning (yes he's cringey and rambling, but also likeable somehow and informative and not a tranny) where he covers Ubisoft pulling online playability and more from a bunch of their older titles.

How many weeks after the story was actually current I wonder, will Jim Bob cover it as an "Oh Ubisoft" edition of the Jimquisition?

One? Two? More?

At least YongYea focuses on just the topic of Ubisoft's backlash, unlike Jim Sterling where he would go off-topic about trans crap.

 

[Delicious Moomer]

Jim claims he 'did the journalism' by interviewing a handful of speds who bankrupted themselves on FIFA.

I think about this video almost as often as Jim references it. I think it was a good Jimquisition, and probably the last one at that. It seemed like Jim put some real work into it and you could tell he was proud of it by the way he mentioned it in almost every episode the following weeks.

I don't have much sympathy for the people in the episode, but it's an angle I hadn't seen on the show (or elsewhere) before. He actually did the work to find and interview all these sad sacks. All of whom weren't dissimilar to many of the cows on the farms.

Jim made something good, but more importantly, he knew it was good when he made it. I imagine a world where he took that project as a template for future Jimquisitions. Longer, more researched projects. Even if he had to forgo the weekly releases. I believe that was his plan at the time.

I think his channel would have done so much better than it does with his current trooned out channel where he makes jokes about his tits. It's really sad. The impulse to be a tranny just caught up with him eventually and we never saw what a Jimquisition with more of those types of videos would be like.

 

[Hankus McSix]

I think his channel would have done so much better than it does with his current trooned out channel where he makes jokes about his tits. It's really sad. The impulse to be a tranny just caught up with him eventually and we never saw what a Jimquisition with more of those types of videos would be like.

As I said before - I think this has nothing with Jim being trans, that's just a by-product of his left wing politics and dying popularity. Jim would still be releasing awfull videos if he wasn't a troon, because he's fucking lazy.

This mf would rather rant about Activision Blizzard and Bobby Kotick week after week (Curious who the new big evil man is gonna be since Bobby is leaving once Activision Blizzard goes under Microsoft) rather then make anything original ever again. That's cause he and most of his left wing buddies are incredibly short sighted and chase the short term profit instead of long term gain, ironically enough following the footsteps of the industry he so much hates.

So instead of putting in the works he knocks out these super easy to make videos that used to be succesfull but eventually ppl realize that he's just repeating the same shit they heard in every other episode of the Jimquisition and stop watching. And now cause he fed in the weekly videos for ages the algorythm is probably going burry his channel unless he does weekly uploads, so the fat fuck shot himself in the foot because he couldn't bother to put in the extra work.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I think about this video almost as often as Jim references it. I think it was a good Jimquisition, and probably the last one at that. It seemed like Jim put some real work into it and you could tell he was proud of it by the way he mentioned it in almost every episode the following weeks.

I agree it was the last time he actually attempted to make an effort, the problem I had was he presented maybe 3 or 4 accounts and acted as though that was somehow reflective of the millions of people who play these games. I'm not going to bat for microtransactions or anything --they fucking suck, especially in full-price games-- but anyone with even a basic understanding of how research works knows that is a laughably poor data set that proves absolutely nothing.

It really just highlights how Jim can't help but sabotage himself even when he tries to make an effort: He did the legwork to gather info and interview people, but only the accounts that confirmed the point he wanted to make about the topic he already had a set-in-stone opinion on.

 

[Spud gun]

(Curious who the new big evil man is gonna be since Bobby is leaving once Activision Blizzard goes under Microsoft)

He will go back to his other favorite punching bag, Konami.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

This looks so bad if I didn't know it was real I'd say its a masterfully done parody. You have Jim's massive girth taking up half the space where the competitors are, with the AGP smirk and eyes so soulless the drag queen on the right looks scared, "as seen on TV" and no event name just "wrestling".

Source

 

[Kevin Grumbles]

He will go back to his other favorite punching bag, Konami.

Have they even done anything remotely malicious of note recently? Not that it'd stop the man, but still...