First of all, the thumbnail features Tracer's ass on full display. I'm glad it does. After well over a year of seeing Jim's wrestling cosplay as the Communist Condom, it's nice to be reminded that spandex can make a proper woman who is in shape quite attractive. Also, only 12 minutes? maybe this won't be so bad.
Opening joke is... actually kinda good? "People give Chris Pratt shit for taking months to sound like Chris Pratt... but to be fair, it'd take me months to learn how to sound like Chris Pratt." That was actually a decent opening gag.
And now I see why Tracer's ass is in the thumbnail: he has Clutch-Cargo's himself onto it. Jim found a way to make a lean British woman's butt in spandex unappealing. Bravo and damn you. Anyway, the opening is Jim going over how the first Overwatch came out sometime ago and he had less hair back then (poor guy actually thinks his wig counts...) The one part of it that is a bit off in terms of the script is Jim saying he "saw Activision Blizzard for what it really was and tried to warn you." This is over-selling it by a couple grand if you ask me. He did point out that the loot boxes were bad and that people shouldn't support them (hardly a controversal stance). He left out the fact he literally praised people making porn of these characters and he said that the creativity of the porn being made should have been something to be proud of (but remember, the mage from Dragon's Crown having big ol titties was uncreative and not something to be praised). Sorry, I'm rambling now; the intro is boring.
Opening of the proper episode at least has him acknowledge how he's made his stance on Activision Blizzard way too well known by now. The new development is that he hasn't played an Activision-Blizzard game since 2020 and will not for as long as Bobby is a part of the company at all. That's... interesting. Hey, his call there. Closest thing to seeing Jim practice a standard in some time, but to be fair besides Call Of Duty Activision is pretty limited in it's output these days. Anyone of any success like with Crash 4 gets put into the CoD mines anyway so it's not like there's many games Jimbo is sticking. Still, standards are a step forward.
Spends 2 minutes talking about the game Codemmed. Has to mention he "problematically violented his way through it". I almost feel bad for people who unironically make problematic as part of their vocabulary; imagine having to add that forced adjective every time you enjoy something the cult might take issue with. 4 Minutes in and Overwatch 2 is actually the talking point now.
5 minutes in and nothing you haven't heard so far. How the game is a grindfest, how Jim got a lot of crap from criticizing the first game's loot boxes (gotta make it about yourself, Boogie698
. I'll just say this here and now: if you're a fan of Jim Sterling, you're probably a fan of YongYea. If you're a fan of YongYea, you have no need for Jim Sterling and haven't had a need for him in 4 years.
"I'm shocked at how I'm not shocked the game expects you to grind for 5 years to unlock something." Well, 5 years for a LOT of somethings. This is for the character's cosmetics in a free-to-play game. Yeah, of course it's going to take forever. Honestly, the battle-pass system forcing you to collect stuff in a set order is far more damning than anything.
7 minutes and 50 seconds in, Jim is talking about Activision Blizzard's phone number issues. The thing is, he's do so at remarkable speed, but WELL after it's been covered by YongYea and other commentators. He, of course, has to tie it into how poorly Activision pays it's employees. Look, I'm not arguing that executives aren't over-paid or that ground-level employees aren't getting screwed over... but we get it. This hollow "anti-corporation" approach is not helping anyone.
Jim then brings it back to 2016 when people said he was making mountains out of moles hills and says that he's a joyless soulless husk now because he can't even enjoy saying "I told you so." This is what happens when you're religiously self-righteous about things completely outside your control: you eventually become nihilistic about what you were once passionate about.
There's more after this, but it's just Jim justifying his actions from 6 years ago. Feels like someone looking back at high school bullies and gloating "I WAS RIGHT AND NOW YOUR ADDICTED TO WEED", complete with the same unlikable vindictiveness that makes one so easy to dismiss.
I refuse to watch Jim ruin Tracer's ass anymore. So I will not be recapping the ending. Good day to bad rubbish.
