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

[Corn Flakes]

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 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 see that person start wearing dresses and calling themselves Stephanie at the age of 38.

Yeah, but no one thought that at the time. The OP was written in late 2016, around the time the plague of troons that's still washing over the internet broke containment.

 

[SnergenFlergen]

Yeah, but no one thought that at the time.

To be fair most of what I listed still applied in 2016, and I was almost certain he'd troon out at some point even back then. There's a very distinct and recognisable pattern with men who troon out in their 30s and beyond:

Abusive upbringing + hanging around with wierdos + no stable career/relationship + constant thirst for attention = troon, nearly every time.​

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A pre-existing liberal/leftist worldview helps too, which Jim most definitely had/still has.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

One thing I've come to learn is that, unless we're talking about quite little kids where it's really the parents deciding, it's never the feminine dudes who actually go trans. It's always guys like Jim who're just kind of shit at being men.

 

[Burt Offerings]

If you're an undersexed and overstimulated suboptimal 20-30 something, you have to choose whether to troon out or become a darkcel. Or you could work to better yourself, but fuck that noise.

Which way, mediocre western man?

 

[Pickle Inspector]

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.

That sucks and maybe they have a legal case but still if I had bought a Stadia I’d rather they are left holding the bag and not me.

 

[NotFatChild]

I really hope we get an 800k cope video. 13k to go boys....

If you're an undersexed and overstimulated suboptimal 20-30 something, you have to choose whether to troon out or become a darkcel. Or you could work to better yourself, but fuck that noise.

Which way, mediocre western man?

I'm starting to think that religious fundamentalists were right about literally everything. Porn consumption breaks these retards who already had something wrong upstairs so hard that they cut off their reason for existing.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

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?

Idk, I don't if I agree. You can feel it in your gut when someone's the specific kind of fucking faggot who's going to troon.

I would be more likely to assume he would become like a sort of moviebob or Quinton Reviews, just a grumpy lefty performative-chaser type. He doesn't seem like quite enough of a sociopath to be a tranny, his self destruction seems very inwardly directed vs. trannies whose entire life revolves around outsourcing their misery onto everyone around them.

Maybe the problem is he was already doing homo shit to seem special, and nowadays if you're a gay man you may as well be straight. Therefore there was only one option left to remain on the cutting edge of the left.

If you're an undersexed and overstimulated suboptimal 20-30 something, you have to choose whether to troon out or become a darkcel. Or you could work to better yourself, but fuck that noise.

Which way, mediocre western man?

Undersexed and overstimulated is a fantastic way to describe most of the internet.

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

I'm starting to think that religious fundamentalists were right about literally everything.

 

[Aaron Costello]

I remember there was a discussion here ages ago about Yahtzee getting Political... and yeah, recently, he is getting very political. On the escapist podcast, someone said with a superchat "I'm glad I had a switch during hurricane Ian" and Yahtzee said 'i'm glad you're okay, but Ian is the least of your problems. You need to vote the governor out".

 

[Prince Vegeta]

I remember there was a discussion here ages ago about Yahtzee getting Political... and yeah, recently, he is getting very political. On the escapist podcast, someone said with a superchat "I'm glad I had a switch during hurricane Ian" and Yahtzee said 'i'm glad you're okay, but Ian is the least of your problems. You need to vote the governor out".

Gross.

I hit return, computer, not post! Anyway, he's certainly kept up a steady commentary that shows his personal beliefs throughout his work and that's fine. But this kind of saddens me. Don't fall for it Yahtzee, it's never enough for them.

 

[Lightly Buttered Crumpet]

Gross.

I hit return, computer, not post! Anyway, he's certainly kept up a steady commentary that shows his personal beliefs throughout his work and that's fine. But this kind of saddens me. Don't fall for it Yahtzee, it's never enough for them.

Why on Earth does a British person living in Australia give a shit about American politics anyway?

 

[Aaron Costello]

Why on Earth does a British person living in Australia give a shit about American politics anyway?

he's been living in san Francisco since 2017 i think

 

[Hankus McSix]

Why on Earth does a British person living in Australia give a shit about American politics anyway?

That is the question isn't it? Americas retarded politics seem to seep into everything even though realistically it doesen't matter for most of the world.

People here in central Europe get into American issues more and more, back in the day we just used to point and laugh at the dumb shit Americans did. Now we're gonna get dragged down with them because we're all connected through the Internet and it makes us think those issues are actually somehow relevant to us.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I remember there was a discussion here ages ago about Yahtzee getting Political... and yeah, recently, he is getting very political. On the escapist podcast, someone said with a superchat "I'm glad I had a switch during hurricane Ian" and Yahtzee said 'i'm glad you're okay, but Ian is the least of your problems. You need to vote the governor out".

I'm always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to powerleveling on podcasts, its a form of content that will always end up with you being more open about your beliefs and I don't terribly mind people letting that stuff slip as long as long as it doesn't become a regular thing.

Why on Earth does a British person living in Australia give a shit about American politics anyway?

Both the UK and Australia are very much tied to the US so stuff that happens there often has an impact over here, its why you saw shit like BLM get imported into the UK (other US adjancent countries too as well) when race relations have a completely different dynamic.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Both the UK and Australia are very much tied to the US so stuff that happens there often has an impact over here, its why you saw shit like BLM get imported into the UK (other US adjancent countries too as well) when race relations have a completely different dynamic.

Hell, trans shit is kind of American as fuck.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Why on Earth does a British person living in Australia give a shit about American politics anyway?

I think the whole world thinks it's America sometimes. I hear people say things where I live that have no basis in our society or history but clearly sound like American twitter takes.

 

[Brain Problems]

I think the whole world thinks it's America sometimes. I hear people say things where I live that have no basis in our society or history but clearly sound like American twitter takes.

Most countries (especially commonwealth ones) tend to have this tsundere relatationship with the States and love to shit all over them any chance they get but then secretly kiss a picture of George Washington at night and import every single one of the culture wars into their own countries no matter the relevance. It's painful. Try living next door the US and experience the utter cringe of Canadians taking it up the ass for BLM in order to own the Yanks. Genuinely embarrassing shit.

 

[Brother Wind]

it's never the feminine dudes who actually go trans. It's always guys like Jim who're just kind of shit at being men.

Not that I would know personally, but one would imagine being a small, slight, man especially say through High School would make you either come to terms with yourself, or you fucking fix that about yourself. Not that I would know. Oh look at the time. The sun hitting my perfectly square jaw tells me that Jim is being s contrarian faggot again. I must be off

 

[Corn Flakes]

One thing I've come to learn is that, unless we're talking about quite little kids where it's really the parents deciding, it's never the feminine dudes who actually go trans. It's always guys like Jim who're just kind of shit at being men.

Those guys are usually gay and getting all the dick they could possibly want.

ETA: just so I'm doing more than just a stupid quip, let me add this: Blanchard's HSTS (homosexual transsexual) categorization seems to have taken a bit of a dive correlating to the increasing tolerance towards gay men in greater society. So the feminine dudes trooning out are getting rarer because being gay on average results in fewer hangups than it did back when Blanchard was formulating his theories.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Those guys are usually gay and getting all the dick they could possibly want.

Even for the straights (David Bowie, the one man who had to come out as straight) I feel like being properly different from the crowd recquires a bit of self-confidence. Most guys who go trans meanwhile, are perfectly, even depressingly normal. They become trans to feel special. But it never works. That's why they need to be constantly "affirmed."