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Just stopped by to say that Jim Sterling is still fat and still a man.
Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread
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What does Jim want to happen? Google are giving all customers refunds on all Stadia hardware bought through them (Which they get to keep) and all games including add-ons.
Makes me wish I had bought one since I’d have gotten to play as many of the games on the console as I wanted for free.
Makes me wish I had bought one since I’d have gotten to play as many of the games on the console as I wanted for free.
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He wants to be a real woman, we all know that isn't going to happen though.
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Jim's lifestyle wouldn't be possible on a Socialist economy. Even the more liberal ones don't allow for all the shit he consumes to be produced, there isn't a single Socialist country where fucking Funko Pops are a priority on State run industries. Not to mention how they would at the very least tax the shit out of his winnings from Patreon, he would get at best 10% of what he makes for not being a productive member of the State, you don't build anything for the working class by putting out the same videos with a different coat of paint every few weeks!
People like Jim can't really be pleased, and that's not taking into account that he makes a living by shitting on things he dislikes. Google is being exceptionally generous with their offers considering how literally no other companies do that when they shut down their product lines. Refunding people before shutting down their services is more than fair, it would be unusual and frankly unfair if they fucking paid people for owning a Stadia!
I don't really get where Jim wants to go, I don't use them/they pronoums as they drive me mad when writing, but he also doesn't claim to be a woman despite dressing like one. I don't mind, to each his own (while he should make more of an effort to look passable, however)!
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Jim Sterling: Stop telling me and Dunkey to stay in our lane!
Also Jim: Google should have really stayed in their lane.
Also Jim: Google should have really stayed in their lane.
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I don't know what Jim was talking about since I don't want to watch his videos, but I know that while the consumers are going to be doing pretty alright, except if there were any exclusive Stadia games, the same can't be said for the developers who flushed months and years down the toilet and however much money they needed, in the name of games that will never launch and the developers may never be compensated for, depending on how Google reacts. It's pretty terrible for them.
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There were few if any. At first Google concentrated on spinning up an internal dev effort for exclusives - that being shut down was one of the clearer signs that they weren't 100% committed.
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What I got from this is I should hate on a company willing to try things out even if they don't succeed and, thats about it? There are reasons to dislike Google but Jim really doesn't bring anything new to the table and if anything with them offering refunds for the games and the hardware I'm actually more pro-Google coming out of this episode than I was going in. I can bet you that if the opposite happened and Google stood by Stadia and only axed it after a few more years having really tried to have a crack at it Jim would make a smug video about how it was on life support and should've been killed years ago.
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I think its important not to lose sight of the fact that Stadia was a bad service that heralded a questionable future for gaming where companies were tightening control over games that people had already purchased and turning it into more of a subscription service than something you straightforwardly owned after paying for it, it shuttering is ironically one of the best arguments against it as a concept since those games no longer exist for the people that bought them, in a way that never would be the case if you bought a physical CD 20 years and the company that made the game collapsed. It wasn't the good kind of innovation.
Still, I'll say that I'm actually a bit surprised that Google gave full refunds for people for what they purchased, I wouldn't have been surprised at all if they just fucked over the consumer when they realized that this business model wasn't going to work. I hope that it doesn't negatively effect the developers who got roped into this fiasco but its pretty much the best possible outcome, it cripples the whole concept of streaming games that takes ownership away form consumers in favour of corporations for a while at least, I doubt people will want to touch that if Google couldn't make it work, and at least the people who bought into it did get there money back, so whatever I'll ultimately take this is a victory of sorts.
Still, I'll say that I'm actually a bit surprised that Google gave full refunds for people for what they purchased, I wouldn't have been surprised at all if they just fucked over the consumer when they realized that this business model wasn't going to work. I hope that it doesn't negatively effect the developers who got roped into this fiasco but its pretty much the best possible outcome, it cripples the whole concept of streaming games that takes ownership away form consumers in favour of corporations for a while at least, I doubt people will want to touch that if Google couldn't make it work, and at least the people who bought into it did get there money back, so whatever I'll ultimately take this is a victory of sorts.
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I'm profoundly late to be asking this, but why the Plutarchian bio for Sterling and TB? The former of whom is not dead from cancer of the ass, and still making an idiot of himself by trooning out and playing pro wrestler. Yet he has the lighter amount of attention in the OP.
My experience with Sterling is that he was one of the few people to positively review Dynasty Warriors games, albeit for contrarian purposes.
My experience with Sterling is that he was one of the few people to positively review Dynasty Warriors games, albeit for contrarian purposes.
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I have to assume it's a similar principle to "always kill a traitor before an enemy". Jim was always a self-aggrandising, contrarian wanker, whereas total biscuit at least appeared to have some level of ethical consistency, until the chemo brain completely took over, so his faults would garner more attention.
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It's simple: that's a very old OP. Back then Totalbiscuit was simply more popular than Jim, who was only really known for his dumb rants and the Digital Homicide lawsuit. No one expected Jim to go full fucking tranny. Full degenerate? Sure. But not... this shit we see now.
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I forgot it's Monday. Lol.
Oh no, he's wearing the Harley Quinn Lipstick.
Jim has to ask his sex partner "Are you proud of how mature I was, when you said it was the hardest thing you've done all day and I didn't say anything?" Tried to sound seductive at that. Horny to a fault.
Jim shows a clip of him choke-slamming people. He's really proud of it. Probably because he gets to physically abuse others, but it's acting to who cares?
"Google has, at short last, killed the ill-advised, doomed-at-inception, poorly supported, and laughably marketed Google Stadia." There is nothing wrong with this statement. However, his claim that it won't go down in history is less-than accurate. Granted, no one can predict the future, but the idea that the time Google tried to effectively make people pay for the right to pay for the right to play is probably going to be a footnote in failure, and one of Google's more embarrassing blunders.
Jim compares it to milk bottle of cold cum because of course he does. I don't think Jim can compare anything without it being to 1940's dictators, semen, or feces. Sex-addicted edge-lord being forced to toe the line. What a sad state of affairs.
Jim then goes over Google not telling devs or their own enginieers about Stadia's shut down just a few hours before the announcement or just not telling them at all. None of us really would disagree with this, so let me add this:
"Cruelly laid off 150 employees." So would it have been better they never got work? Make no mistake, losing your job sucks, but how could he have not cruelly laid them off? Probably by giving up his salary to them. But Jim really wouldn't know what it's like to have to lay people off; every venture he's done is solo/contractor work. Anyway, he goes on about how it was outright awful to praise someone and then fire them two days later. For those who skipped the text above, I comapred Jimbo to YongYea, and this is another example of why one isn't hated: Yong would acknowledge either the possibility of the CEO being honest and then immediately firing them but that he doesn't believe it, or have left it to a sarcastic chuckle and go "yeah, okay." But Jim? goes on and on about what to call that kind of management.
Jim mentions that he was shocked it lasted more than a year before entering the Google Graveyard. Fair enough, although I personally thought it would only last 2-3 years so horary for me.
After going through the Google Graveyard as a concept (not sure how many people watching this video wouldn't know what that is, but honestly mocking Google for committing mass abandoncide is a fine way to pad out a Google Stadia video), he goes on to say that Google does not understand the market they were entering. He's right in saying that a business plan that relies on Comcast being good to customers is basically doomed to fail. He said it with more anger, swearing, and name calling, but you probably didn't need me to tell you that.
Recapping news most of you have already heard.
Jim goes on how the higher ups won't take a hit, nor will they even be embarrassed by what would be a massive failure. Let's ignore that we don't know that and never will. As others have asked: what did Jim want? It's somehow both a problem that Google shut down Stadia and that they tried to do Stadia (but remember, don't tell people to stay in their lane). He comepletely glossed over that Google is actually refunding customers, and instead can only talk about how the screwed people over. Because anything that doesn't fit into the story of "They're Google, they suck" isn't canon to the Jimquisition.
"You know what else is cute? Thanking God for Me" No. That's not cute. It's proof that even the Devil can build a cross. Rest the video is padding time with stuttering and wrestling adverts.
This ending is actually an example of why I do both versions of the Jimless Jimquisition: if you could remove Jim's awful attitude and biases, most people would find reasonable arguments. But Jim approaches the games industry the same way incels approach women and/or online dating: despair and anger to justify their unhappy state.
You're all welcome.
Jim has to ask his sex partner "Are you proud of how mature I was, when you said it was the hardest thing you've done all day and I didn't say anything?" Tried to sound seductive at that. Horny to a fault.
Jim shows a clip of him choke-slamming people. He's really proud of it. Probably because he gets to physically abuse others, but it's acting to who cares?
"Google has, at short last, killed the ill-advised, doomed-at-inception, poorly supported, and laughably marketed Google Stadia." There is nothing wrong with this statement. However, his claim that it won't go down in history is less-than accurate. Granted, no one can predict the future, but the idea that the time Google tried to effectively make people pay for the right to pay for the right to play is probably going to be a footnote in failure, and one of Google's more embarrassing blunders.
Jim compares it to milk bottle of cold cum because of course he does. I don't think Jim can compare anything without it being to 1940's dictators, semen, or feces. Sex-addicted edge-lord being forced to toe the line. What a sad state of affairs.
Jim then goes over Google not telling devs or their own enginieers about Stadia's shut down just a few hours before the announcement or just not telling them at all. None of us really would disagree with this, so let me add this:
He provides emotional outrage to events now. Say what you want about the Lootbox era, but Jim made some fair points people weren't bringing up. That the idea that it's optional isn't strictly true, but there's no option to play the game without it trying to get money out of you. Again, it's frustrating that he made no effort to actually help the people he claimed were being abused, but his actual commentary tried to add to the conversation. Now, just just angerly repeats headlines and tweets.
It's also why YongYea has basically replaced him: he covers multiple articles, doesn't flip out over every little injustice, keeps to the story, and uploads in a timely manner. Sure, he's in the Timcast sphere of middle-man-news-coverage. But like with Timcast, I find it so telling that news (being it serious or entertainment) is so oversaturated, so swamped with unprosseionalism, and at the beck-and-call of search engines utterly cucked by advertisers and activists that there's sizable user bases for people who just want the tl;dr so they can move on with their day. Jim, on the other hand, fails at this completely. He cherry-picks what to cover, is more biased than most journalist at this point, and just lacks general self control when his ego starts to whisper how sweet owning the facists who ruined everything would be.
Anyway, rant over. Back to Fat Man
It's also why YongYea has basically replaced him: he covers multiple articles, doesn't flip out over every little injustice, keeps to the story, and uploads in a timely manner. Sure, he's in the Timcast sphere of middle-man-news-coverage. But like with Timcast, I find it so telling that news (being it serious or entertainment) is so oversaturated, so swamped with unprosseionalism, and at the beck-and-call of search engines utterly cucked by advertisers and activists that there's sizable user bases for people who just want the tl;dr so they can move on with their day. Jim, on the other hand, fails at this completely. He cherry-picks what to cover, is more biased than most journalist at this point, and just lacks general self control when his ego starts to whisper how sweet owning the facists who ruined everything would be.
Anyway, rant over. Back to Fat Man
"Cruelly laid off 150 employees." So would it have been better they never got work? Make no mistake, losing your job sucks, but how could he have not cruelly laid them off? Probably by giving up his salary to them. But Jim really wouldn't know what it's like to have to lay people off; every venture he's done is solo/contractor work. Anyway, he goes on about how it was outright awful to praise someone and then fire them two days later. For those who skipped the text above, I comapred Jimbo to YongYea, and this is another example of why one isn't hated: Yong would acknowledge either the possibility of the CEO being honest and then immediately firing them but that he doesn't believe it, or have left it to a sarcastic chuckle and go "yeah, okay." But Jim? goes on and on about what to call that kind of management.
Jim mentions that he was shocked it lasted more than a year before entering the Google Graveyard. Fair enough, although I personally thought it would only last 2-3 years so horary for me.
After going through the Google Graveyard as a concept (not sure how many people watching this video wouldn't know what that is, but honestly mocking Google for committing mass abandoncide is a fine way to pad out a Google Stadia video), he goes on to say that Google does not understand the market they were entering. He's right in saying that a business plan that relies on Comcast being good to customers is basically doomed to fail. He said it with more anger, swearing, and name calling, but you probably didn't need me to tell you that.
Recapping news most of you have already heard.
Jim goes on how the higher ups won't take a hit, nor will they even be embarrassed by what would be a massive failure. Let's ignore that we don't know that and never will. As others have asked: what did Jim want? It's somehow both a problem that Google shut down Stadia and that they tried to do Stadia (but remember, don't tell people to stay in their lane). He comepletely glossed over that Google is actually refunding customers, and instead can only talk about how the screwed people over. Because anything that doesn't fit into the story of "They're Google, they suck" isn't canon to the Jimquisition.
"You know what else is cute? Thanking God for Me" No. That's not cute. It's proof that even the Devil can build a cross. Rest the video is padding time with stuttering and wrestling adverts.
This ending is actually an example of why I do both versions of the Jimless Jimquisition: if you could remove Jim's awful attitude and biases, most people would find reasonable arguments. But Jim approaches the games industry the same way incels approach women and/or online dating: despair and anger to justify their unhappy state.
You're all welcome.
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Not sure if this is the first time he mentioned it, but he says he hasn't known his father for decades. Not surprising that tubby troon tard didn't have a strong male parental figure growing up.
I'll also say nothing he said was insightful and I doubt even if Google gave everyone a decade of notice before shutting down it still wouldn't be enough for him. Fuck Google and their retarded projects and policies but people like Jim are no better with their takes.
I'll also say nothing he said was insightful and I doubt even if Google gave everyone a decade of notice before shutting down it still wouldn't be enough for him. Fuck Google and their retarded projects and policies but people like Jim are no better with their takes.
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I'm pretty sure this is the first time he's mentioned it on the Jimquisition as he's been pretty quiet on his family situation, depending on if you believe Jim's word or not (and I have no reason to doubt it in this situation) he did have an abusive step-dad though.
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I guess that's one thing Jim and the average viewer don't agree on since most gamers do not care really about the programmers or whatever, they only care about games they play and not getting financially screwed personally via microtransactions or in this case the potential of Google stopping them from playing the games they paid for and then NOT getting a refund, something which I bet Jim secretly wish had happened since it would have make for great videos.
It's one thing if it's a small independant developer getting screwed over but if it's someone working for a big company who got paid then it's just a job and they should move on and ask for a better contract next time if they're not happy.
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My initial reaction to Stadia dying was something along the lines of "oh, that's sad" because of the exclusives and the fucking idiots who gave google any money. Turns out the exclusives are only timed, and everyone is (apparently) getting a refund. That's actually pretty huge news, more so than Stadia dying, because honestly who didn't foresee console tanking the second it was even announced. Sucks for the devs for now, but they'll be able to sell their games again on other platforms soon enough. So everyone wins with Stadia dying, except google. Which means everyone wins.
Music streaming? Video streaming? Yeah sure. Gross and myopic, but convenient for most. But game streaming will never work. I just can't see commercial internet connections breaking the speed of light in order to have zero input lag any time before we end up building the dyson sphere.
Music streaming? Video streaming? Yeah sure. Gross and myopic, but convenient for most. But game streaming will never work. I just can't see commercial internet connections breaking the speed of light in order to have zero input lag any time before we end up building the dyson sphere.
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That's the thing, they didn't get paid. Or at least some of them didn't. I've heard claims that these developers who got hooked into these Stadia deals weren't supposed to get paid until the product was out, or something to that effect, and that's not going to happen. So they sunk a bunch of personal cash into trying to please Google and got burned for it.
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Really? Jim trooning out has been on the cards since day one. I know I wasn't remotely surprised. Consider the following:
> He had an absentee father and abusive step-father
> Had a not-so-great mother (I vaguely remember him alluding to this in at least one old video) and a generally rough childhood
> He was already a gay or bisexual man before this, so he had already been in the BLTBBQ cult for years
> He's exclusively hung out with uber-liberal SJW types for most of his life who would have pushed the idea on him
> One of his closest friends is Laura kate Dale, fellow troon
> He's a regular and proud practitioner of sexual degeneracy and was happy to let his wife cuck him
> He's extremely overweight and unappealing to men and women alike
> He is work-shy and supremely attention-seeking
> He is childless and lives a totally hedonistic lifestyle free of responsibility (also no job in the traditional sense)
> His popularity and platform are steadily dwindling (and his Patreon income is slowly drying up)
> Likely experiencing a midlife crisis
When you account for even just a handful of these factors, the chances of Jim going troon approach near-certainty.
Now imagine a man who's life experience is the diametric opposite of what I just listed- it's pretty hard to imagine such a person starting to wear dresses and changing their name to Stephanie at the age of 38, right?
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