Because people like him think Socialism/Communism is just Capitalism without the price tags. They think they can walk up to a local coffee shop and walk out with a coffee, no questions asked. They don't think of the Great Leap Forward era state canteens where the government controlled all the food, clothes, etc, and you got what they had, in amounts they determined.
If you told me 7 years ago that DH would come out as the less annoying and unlikable party than Jim I wouldn't have believed it. At least DH pretty much fucked off after everybody was done throwing eggs at them for the lolsuit. Year after year I come back and Jim somehow keeps getting worse and worse. I never liked his skits but he still made good videos to just listen to in the background. You either die a John Bain, or live long enough to see yourself become a Jim Sterling.
If you told me 3 years ago Jim Sterling would start role playing as a female cow in a top hat I wouldn't have belie... oh wait.. I guess it was on the Tarot Cards of possibilities.
This combined with everything they're saying (the director, Iizuka etc.) is what's making people take notice for once. They're actually asking for feedback, something that rarely if ever happened before and promising that the next game won't just throw the baby out with the bathwater (to borrow a phrase from Jim). I'll not blame anyone for being skeptical towards Sonic Team because they've got a lot of trust rebuilding to do, but then and now have two completely different circumstances.
God bless you for sharing this, might be my favourite post in the thread all year. This photo is a perfect metaphor for Jim's life; everything is wrong, half-arsed or just plain weird-looking. It makes Patrick Tomlinson's weird Hooligans Christmas dinner with the inexplicable burger bun look like haute cuisine.
Children's party plastic tablecloth that is way too small for the table does it for me. But the too many chairs, mismatched cutlery, missing spoons, only three *really* mismatched glasses, and party hats instead of crackers are golden too. You can tell where the patreon bucks went for sure.
This looks more like a student house than the house of a grown ass man. Was it too much to ask to buy 2 tableplastics to cover the whole table? Also, the food does not look appealing at all.
I was overcome with Christmas cheer (alcohol) and decided to let Jim pass with his horrid excuse for a Christmas Christmas dinner but it really is a sad affair, are you sure its two table cloths though? To me it just looks like one kids playmat or like wrapping paper or something with the way it reflects the light. Also since its not included in that Jim had guests around this year and he thought this was a decent way to welcome them into his home, it all screams "broke uni students" to me.
A fairly cheap solution I know some people will use is to just throw a kingsize bedsheet over the table. It's still ghetto as fuck but it at least serves the purpose of protecting the table and looking relatively decent compared to what Jim went with.
If you look closely, there's a second, pink/red cover underneath the kid's party one, presumably because even a mongoloid like Jim knows that cheap plastic isn't going to do shit to protect what looks like a nice table from hot plates and errant cutlery scraping.
The whole Mortgage situation in the UK is kind of fucked right now. Combine that with the fact he is self employed and only recently returned to the UK his credit score may be none existent.
Oh yeah I never noticed that, but I don't think thats why he put it over the pink one because there are still a few plates not on either.
Oh yeah I'm well aware how shitty the housing market is in the UK but Jim shouldn't need to worry about credit since he shouldn't need to get a mortgage, apart from a few months in 2016 he's earned over $10k/mo from Patreon (pre-tax) since 2015 and really should have enough money saved to be able to buy a house. He's just a huge consoomer and pisses away his money.
If this is what Jim's household looks like, on fucking Christmas no less, the time of year everybody puts the most amount of effort to make their dinner presentable, what does all his patreon bux go into?
I'm really starting to wonder if Jim got himself into massive medical debt in the US. I can't think of a more compelling answer for why a man with so much money lives in such abject squalor.
I remember the Mr. Bean episode where he makes a stupidly powerful cracker by stuffing all the fuses into one.
