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

[Shotgun Badger]

Conflating difficulty with accessibility was the sneakiest trick gaming journos have pulled in a while.

I usually don't like to do the whole 'thing vs thing Japan' routine, but its kind of illuminating that Elden Ring was released with uncompromising difficulty and a near total lack of player handholding that relied on the player to figure out the best routes forward and best way to handle the voluminous threats before them, and later on in the year God of War Ragnarok was released with a comical amount of carefully directing the player to make sure that they never had to activate their brain even once with an extremely on-rails experience where every minor character just tells you exactly what you need to do to proceed. Its night and day, Jim already whined about the fact that Elden Ring doesn't have an explicit easy mode with all the typically retarded arguments around that, will he whine about GOW going a zillion miles in the opposite direction to the point that everybody is posting clips of the most absurd fake QTE events and player being told exactly what to do to proceed at any given time because the developers have absolutely no trust that the player isn't a fucking idiot? I mean GOW is super accessible thanks to all that crap, isn't it?

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Conflating difficulty with accessibility was the sneakiest trick gaming journos have pulled in a while.

Remember that this is the industry that stood behind a guy so dumb he couldn't jump onto a platform despite the instructions being right there. They're pretty much disabled mentally.

 

[Cap-tan]

I literally can't speak English as you all know. Therefore all of Jim's videos are abelist as fuck. How am anyone supposed to watch his videos unless there's a dub in every language ever. Am I supposed to just learn to do something? Humans can't just learn things. Fucking racist fatty.

 

[Donuteater]

I usually don't like to do the whole 'thing vs thing Japan' routine, but its kind of illuminating that Elden Ring was released with uncompromising difficulty and a near total lack of player handholding that relied on the player to figure out the best routes forward and best way to handle the voluminous threats before them, and later on in the year God of War Ragnarok was released with a comical amount of carefully directing the player to make sure that they never had to activate their brain even once with an extremely on-rails experience where every minor character just tells you exactly what you need to do to proceed. Its night and day, Jim already whined about the fact that Elden Ring doesn't have an explicit easy mode with all the typically retarded arguments around that, will he whine about GOW going a zillion miles in the opposite direction to the point that everybody is posting clips of the most absurd fake QTE events and player being told exactly what to do to proceed at any given time because the developers have absolutely no trust that the player isn't a fucking idiot? I mean GOW is super accessible thanks to all that crap, isn't it?

He won't. He's already discussed GOW on the podcast and he never brought up the handholding. Neither did Laura, so both of them either didn't care, thought it was good or refuse to mention it because they're well aware that accessibility means worse games.
Slightly related, but a lot of praise was given to Last of us: remastered that came out a few months back because it had an accessibility setting for blind people. At that point you've gone too far but clearly theres someone out there demanding big studios make games for people who literally are unable to see the screen.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

One of Jim's favorite games, ZombiU (one of his few not-retarded opinions) actually mocks you for playing Easy Mode. It's called "Chicken Mode". All zombies have minimal health, you take 50% less damage, and you're locked out of leaderboards. By comparison, the hard mode (Survival) forces you into permadeath while making you take 15% more damage and zombie health is maximized, but Survival Mode gets it's own exclusive leaderboards. Just a fun, forgotten corner of the Jimbo Lore

 

[ChefKiss]

Jim is currently being cancelled over his negative review of Sonic Frontiers. He called the developers "lazy hack fucks" because the environments look like an asset flip. and that didn't sit well with Sonic fans. They're claiming Jim is harassing the overworked dev team who had been working on this game for a long time and giving the game a 1.5/10 and calling them lazy hacks is "rude" and "exposes that Jim tries to call out industry abuse of devs and workers.... unti it comes time to play their games at which point he stops being kind if he thinks the game sucks, then he becomes a bitter harasser like he's being to Sonic Team, and he was pre-transition to so many indie devs on Greenlight."

It's been hillarious to watch unfold. Even his usual orbiters have called him out. I forsee a tranny exodus from his sub count and patreon.

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1591673059257495552?s=20&t=vU8XL0NaP57095Bz3AQF4g

Also included some examples of even other lgbt people calling him out for his review. returning to actual games criticism rather than just talking about problems of the industry has been a DISASTER for Jimbo, because he's so bitter he can only ever find things to hate anymore. I don't think he's written a single positive review since he's started doing game reviews again. It's like Breath of the Wild all over again. and I REALLY HOPE he doubles down on it like what happened with BOTW and he loses even more of his lgbtq supporters for speaking ill of sonic team.

It's amazing that being a fat tranny clown wrestler youtuber still isnt being enough of an attention whore for him, he just couldnt resist making this trite decade old "edgy take"

 

[Lightly Buttered Crumpet]

I was wrong about it being a happy face, but it might as well be.

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And my thing is that this is a game that prides itself on attention you detail. Why go to the trouble of making a hyper realistic Honey I Shrunk the Kids backyard just to let people fuck it up with an out of place floating thing? You don’t see mirror’s edge coming with a vertigo mode

Bloody Satisfactory also has an arachnophobia mode where they are all replaced by 2D sprites of kittens. As someone who loves spiders, I find this offensive that such innocent creatures are vilified by games, probably increasing the customers' misplaced fear of them.
Stop pandering to utter pussies!

 

[huecoffs02]

It's amazing that being a fat tranny clown wrestler youtuber still isnt being enough of an attention whore for him, he just couldnt resist making this trite decade old "edgy take"

And even then his takes are not just edgy but uninformed and wrong most of the time. That BOTW take of his was astronimically autistic. He deserves every bit he gets.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Any day now he’ll be releasing a video about how this new E.T game is the death of home consoles.

 

[Spud gun]

Any day now he’ll be releasing a video about how this new E.T game is the death of home consoles.

I'm sure he has used it as an example of industry bloat and collapse in his videos before, it was pre trooning out though.

 

[LiquidKid]

Bloody Satisfactory also has an arachnophobia mode where they are all replaced by 2D sprites of kittens. As someone who loves spiders, I find this offensive that such innocent creatures are vilified by games, probably increasing the customers' misplaced fear of them.
Stop pandering to utter pussies!

Yeah, besides the fact that almost no spider is actually aggressive towards humans, very few spiders have venom potent enough to harm humans, even less spiders have venom that is lethal to an adult, and the majority of “spider bites” are actually from insects, the vilification of spiders really just plays off of the legs and fangs.

 

[NaviSpider]

Bloody Satisfactory also has an arachnophobia mode where they are all replaced by 2D sprites of kittens. As someone who loves spiders, I find this offensive that such innocent creatures are vilified by games, probably increasing the customers' misplaced fear of them.
Stop pandering to utter pussies!

I have trypophobia and find your crumpetness triggering. Please stop existing, for my benefit!

The best way to overcome a phobia is by exposing yourself to it. You make that irrational fear go away with familiarity. Why would somebody not want to do this?

 

[Cap-tan]

Yeah, besides the fact that almost no spider is actually aggressive towards humans, very few spiders have venom potent enough to harm humans, even less spiders have venom that is lethal to an adult, and the majority of “spider bites” are actually from insects, the vilification of spiders really just plays off of the legs and fangs.

I'm gonna be a fag and point out that this is the reason it is a phobia. It's an irrational fear. Had they been dangerous as fuck the fear is warranted.

 

[Hyro]

Yeah, besides the fact that almost no spider is actually aggressive towards humans, very few spiders have venom potent enough to harm humans, even less spiders have venom that is lethal to an adult, and the majority of “spider bites” are actually from insects, the vilification of spiders really just plays off of the legs and fangs.

They have too many legs and the legs are far too long for their own good. If they had little tiny legs they'd be less intimidating.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Yeah, besides the fact that almost no spider is actually aggressive towards humans, very few spiders have venom potent enough to harm humans, even less spiders have venom that is lethal to an adult, and the majority of “spider bites” are actually from insects, the vilification of spiders really just plays off of the legs and fangs.

Look, it's all fun and games until they have human heads with bowl cuts and their punching you while a walking mass of tumors, tentacles, mouths, and glowing eyes sings at you in the background. I just wanted to hunt werewolves, I never signed up for this cosmic shit.

 

[Lightly Buttered Crumpet]

Yeah, besides the fact that almost no spider is actually aggressive towards humans, very few spiders have venom potent enough to harm humans, even less spiders have venom that is lethal to an adult, and the majority of “spider bites” are actually from insects, the vilification of spiders really just plays off of the legs and fangs.

I was bitten by one of my tarantulas recently which was entirely my fault (I was drunk, it warned me it was unhappy and I pushed it out of the way to fill up its water bowl - it also hadn't eaten recently so may have thought my finger was a cricket). Not a pleasant experience but certainly not something to be scared of though I will try to be a bit less stupid in future.

I have trypophobia and find your crumpetness triggering. Please stop existing, for my benefit!

The best way to overcome a phobia is by exposing yourself to it. You make that irrational fear go away with familiarity. Why would somebody not want to do this?

And surely a computer game where the risk of a bite is reduced from unlikely to impossible makes it much easier to face the phobia. I wouldn't feel comfortable standing on the very edge of a cliff or balancing on a beam on top of a skyscraper but I can do these things in VR - it gives a tingly feeling but is quite exhilarating to face that fear of heights from a precarious position in complete safety.

I'm gonna be a fag and point out that this is the reason it is a phobia. It's an irrational fear. Had they been dangerous as fuck the fear is warranted.

True enough but I'll never understand the fear being so great that you can't even face them in a game. Maybe I'm too insensitive to this... but I just can't think of anything I could see on a 2D screen that would scare me so I struggle to understand it.

 

[Needless]

I was wrong about it being a happy face, but it might as well be.

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And my thing is that this is a game that prides itself on attention you detail. Why go to the trouble of making a hyper realistic Honey I Shrunk the Kids backyard just to let people fuck it up with an out of place floating thing? You don’t see mirror’s edge coming with a vertigo mode

I'm almost certain no one is that terrified of spiders, and it's just a joke taken way too far. The earliest I heard of an arachnophobia option was a mod in Skyrim way back in like 2012 that replaced all spider models with a static posed model of a bear. I guess no one stepped out and said "Guys it's a joke, no one cares that much."

 

[LiquidKid]

I was bitten by one of my tarantulas recently which was entirely my fault (I was drunk, it warned me it was unhappy and I pushed it out of the way to fill up its water bowl - it also hadn't eaten recently so may have thought my finger was a cricket). Not a pleasant experience but certainly not something to be scared of though I will try to be a bit less stupid in future.

I’m surprised it bit you, tarantulas usually spread their hairs out before biting, and even then they’re extremely docile. You must have really been an asshole

I'm almost certain no one is that terrified of spiders, and it's just a joke taken way too far. The earliest I heard of an arachnophobia option was a mod in Skyrim way back in like 2012 that replaced all spider models with a static posed model of a bear. I guess no one stepped out and said "Guys it's a joke, no one cares that much."

I’d agree with you if it wasn’t an insanely SJW dev team and if every journalist didn’t praise the hell out of the feature.
But I agree, no one Is so terrified of spiders they they can’t play a game. Just like how no one is sSo afraid of dogs that dog hair causes them to accuse you of rape consent accidents

 

[Brother Wind]

I’m surprised it bit you, tarantulas usually spread their hairs out before biting, and even then they’re extremely docile. You must have really been an asshole



I’d agree with you if it wasn’t an insanely SJW dev team and if every journalist didn’t praise the hell out of the feature.
But I agree, no one Is so terrified of spiders they they can’t play a game. Just like how no one is sSo afraid of dogs that dog hair causes them to accuse you of rape consent accidents

Did take me years to go back to Legend of Grimrock.

 

[Brain Problems]

Legend of Grimrock.

Ah, a man of taste.