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

[There Is Light At The End]

The very first time someone tried to show me one of his videos (maybe 2010/11?) I immediately wanted to beat the shit out of him, he was so obnoxious I couldn't understand how anyone could tolerate him.

I dunno why, but at some point it stopped bothering me, maybe because I started listening to Podtoid where he was much more chilled out and jovial so I recognised the JQ persona was just a bit. Today though he's cranked the obnoxious pompous bullshit off the charts, and like I say it's obvious he's no longer playing a character so it's all the more insufferable.

It's his voice and tone, innit?

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Jim is the very height of how awful those "I'm just playing a character" dickheads are. When the character is identical in opinion and personality...

Yahtzee is a pretty good example. He's very antagonistic and negative in his reviews videos, but notably quieter and more restrained outside of them. I can very much believe Yahtzee and Ben are two different entities.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

The very first time someone tried to show me one of his videos (maybe 2010/11?) I immediately wanted to beat the shit out of him, he was so obnoxious I couldn't understand how anyone could tolerate him.

I dunno why, but at some point it stopped bothering me, maybe because I started listening to Podtoid where he was much more chilled out and jovial so I recognised the JQ persona was just a bit. Today though he's cranked the obnoxious pompous bullshit off the charts, and like I say it's obvious he's no longer playing a character so it's all the more insufferable.

Don't worry everyone thinks Londoners sound and act like insufferable cunts.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Don't worry everyone thinks Londoners sound and act like insufferable cunts.

Still on the fence whether I hate Scousers or Londoners more tbh.

I suppose Liverpool occasionally spits out some talent to make up for being full of cunts, while London is an unrepentant hell on earth. The fact it produced Jim is just another black mark on its record.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Londoners for me. May that place burn down a bit better than last time. I've become immunised against Jim's nasal whine the same way I now think Rich Evans' laugh is delightful. Exposure.

 

[Burt Offerings]

Still on the fence whether I hate Scousers or Londoners more tbh.

I suppose Liverpool occasionally spits out some talent to make up for being full of cunts, while London is an unrepentant hell on earth. The fact it produced Jim is just another black mark on its record.

Both are hellholes, but I've met people from Liverpool I've liked whereas everyone from London is invariably a cunt.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Londoners for me. May that place burn down a bit better than last time. I've become immunised against Jim's nasal whine the same way I now think Rich Evans' laugh is delightful. Exposure.

Maybe the hottest take I'll ever post in this thread, but I think Mike's laugh is better than Rich's, especially when he's trying not to laugh at old people.

 

[The Scorpion]

Both are hellholes, but I've met people from Liverpool I've liked whereas everyone from London is invariably a cunt.

Perhaps it's because I live near Liverpool and have to deal with them often, but I tend to split them into two categories. Liverpudlians are just generally nice people who happen to be from Liverpool, often with a softer and even pleasant accent like, say, Craig Charles.

Scousers, on the other hand, tend to have piercingly shrill voices, orange skin, glaringly unnatural veneers barely concealed by overinflated lips, trashy tattoos, and are chronically tracksuited.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Perhaps it's because I live near Liverpool and have to deal with them often, but I tend to split them into two categories. Liverpudlians are just generally nice people who happen to be from Liverpool, often with a softer and even pleasant accent like, say, Craig Charles.

Scousers, on the other hand, tend to have piercingly shrill voices, orange skin, glaringly unnatural veneers barely concealed by overinflated lips, trashy tattoos, and are chronically tracksuited.

Where does Lister fit in then?

Jim can sneer all he wants at the North but I will forever prefer it over London.

 

[The Scorpion]

Where does Lister fit in then?

Jim can sneer all he wants at the North but I will forever prefer it over London.

Lister is definitely a Liverpudlian. He may be a disgusting space bum, but he is a man of character and surprising introspection

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

Maybe the hottest take I'll ever post in this thread, but I think Mike's laugh is better than Rich's, especially when he's trying not to laugh at old people.

I can one-up you. People like Rich Evan's soul-crushing cynicism because they laugh at it and forget he's often 100% serious with those stances.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Lister is definitely a Liverpudlian. He may be a disgusting space bum, but he is a man of character and surprising introspection

I'm not sure about that, he did have a job.

 

[TheGuntinator]

Yeah man, true. But to be fair so did Alien Isolation. The flamethrower was the powerpill in the sense it would repel your pursuers and give you the upper hand for a bit until the timer ran down and they started chasing you again. Pac Man was even a horror game too with those spooky ghosts and black background.

If you relied on the flamethrower, the alien would become less scared of it. What would originally only need a burst of flame to scare the alien becomes a sustained stream of fire by the 5th time you have to use it.

Yeah I dunno what to tell you, I've never had that problem. I'm moving up on a thousand games on Steam, and never had to even think about filtering out the trash. The fact that I've got like 3 people arguing this point means I must be missing something, though. Maybe I'm just lucky, or just rely more on word of mouth so I missed out on the trash era, who knows. But I just checekd my recommendation queue and got 12 actual games, all but one of which were from major companies with tens of thousands of reviews. Not that I rely on the queue to find games anyway, it's just there if I need extra.

You haven't seen it because you dont look at the raw store catalogue, you get a filtered version based on your interests, word of mouth or Steam's front page. If you're someone who browses the actual store listings or reduced price games you've seen it. I'm lucky enough that my preferred genres are too narrow in userbase and high effort to get spammed with shitty games

I'm pretty sure everyone has already gotten up in arms over the new Pokemon games selling 10 mil. despite their severe lack of polish.

I'm not even sure what this game did to be so successful that Legends Arceus didn't. Legends shooketh the entire formula in the same way Let's Go did by introducing drastic changes to the gameplay loop. I dont recall much particular hype about the Terastylize gimmick, any particular pokemon or even some of the better designed humans.

 

[Tanner Glass]

There is zero money in the wrestling industry outside of the major companies like WWE, AEW, New Japan or CMLL. Even most wrestlers at top tier British promotions like Rev Pro do it as a hobby. If Jim actually focuses on his wrestling "career" he would become impoverished very quickly since none of the big companies would work with him in a million years, which is why we should all encourage it.

There's also barely any money in those major companies (for wrestlers) unless you're at the absolute highest tier and even then it's laughably bad. The best thing a wrestler can do once they've "made it" is to get out of wrestling (TV, Movies, actual MMA, starting your own promotion, or ironically Twitch/Youtube).

People very often fail to realize that Pro Wrestling isn't a "once a week every so often" job - WWE has those motherfuckers out there like 2/3 times a week whenever they can, traveling the country like a carnival doing live shows and media appearences. Any WWE wrestler who has never held the world title would probably strangle a puppy for Jim's job/salary.

 

[Dr George Whitebread]

I've been saying this for years, Jim's biggest problem (professionally) is that he's nothing but hot air. He never offers any actionable solutions to problems, except to say they should be fixed. If I call a plumber round to fix my leaking sink, I'm not paying him to tell me the sink shouldn't be leaking, I'm paying him to stop the fucking sink from leaking.

It's funny you mention that because yesterday Scott Garland, the pro wrestler that Jim was trying to shame and publicly humiliate for being "transphobic" to his sociopathic twitter followers for no actual reason beyond him not wanting to wrestle him, just posted that he'd raised almost $5,000 for terminally ill kids off his own back.

So not only is he telling you the sink is leaking, he's breaking your bathtub for good measure just because it's not a sink.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

It's funny you mention that because yesterday Scott Garland, the pro wrestler that Jim was trying to shame and publicly humiliate for being "transphobic" to his sociopathic twitter followers for no actual reason beyond him not wanting to wrestle him, just posted that he'd raised almost $5,000 for terminally ill kids off his own back.

So not only is he telling you the sink is leaking, he's breaking your bathtub for good measure just because it's not a sink.

Jim doesn't care about kids who don't transition. In fact, Scott giving this money to normal children who literally cannot be groomed into thinking their got the wrong chromosomes probably only affirms in his mind how Scott isn't helping the group of people who are actually dying out*

*Reminder that Jim treats being trans like being a different race and demands you do too.

But seriously, that is a cool thing for Scott to do. It's ironic yet nice that wrestling, an opera of violence, has a lot of chill and polite personalities in it.

 

[The Scorpion]

Jim doesn't care about kids who don't transition. In fact, Scott giving this money to normal children who literally cannot be groomed into thinking their got the wrong chromosomes probably only affirms in his mind how Scott isn't helping the group of people who are actually dying out*

*Reminder that Jim treats being trans like being a different race and demands you do too.

But seriously, that is a cool thing for Scott to do. It's ironic yet nice that wrestling, an opera of violence, has a lot of chill and polite personalities in it.

There are obviously exceptions, but my experience with violent sports/hobbies is that generally most people in them are pretty chill. You have to learn humility fast or you're not going to last long.

 

[Brother Wind]

There are obviously exceptions, but my experience with violent sports/hobbies is that generally most people in them are pretty chill. You have to learn humility fast or you're not going to last long.

Not to mention your core audience really is children. So, it does help to be real cool to the kind of people who look up to. UNLIKE SOME OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC OF PEOPLE WHO THE SUBJECT OF THIS THREAD MIGHT HAVE BELONGED TO

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Jim's world has no place for children. Despite his anti-capitalist posturing, he basically wants life to be a frictionless, consumer driven experience. One where even your own body is a customisable product, mediated for you by corporate power. It makes for a world where everything is basically transactional. Children are far too inconvinent and needy for such a place.

 

[Fagnacious D]

Any WWE wrestler who has never held the world title would probably strangle a puppy for Jim's job/salary.

I'd prefer they strangle Jim for his job/salary.