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

[The Fatriarchy]

Even then, infinite growth is generally possible across any given space - Because as one company declines from bad decisions, another rises.

This isn't infinite growth. A company dying is doing the opposite of growing. The idea "infinite growth" is representing is that ONE company must continually make more money than the last time and pull every shitty trick in the book to do it. There isn't a soul in the world who thinks companies nickel-and-diming people is good, aside from brain dead morons who dump thousands into singular shit games as it is, and most people definitely think companies should be focused on making good games instead of figuring out how to dig more money out of people's pockets with a game. The ideal situation is that they aim for stability and let growth come through the concept of making better games, not more predatory and money hungry ones.

We all know this. It's not a secret. The problem is that some fat man in a dress complaining about it as his "job" doesn't actually do anything to change it. That's why we're here. To make fun of a fat man (currently in a dress) who doesn't do anything to help the industry and tells everyone things they already know.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

This isn't infinite growth. A company dying is doing the opposite of growing. The idea "infinite growth" is representing is that ONE company must continually make more money than the last time and pull every shitty trick in the book to do it. There isn't a soul in the world who thinks companies nickel-and-diming people is good, aside from brain dead morons who dump thousands into singular shit games as it is, and most people definitely think companies should be focused on making good games instead of figuring out how to dig more money out of people's pockets with a game. The ideal situation is that they aim for stability and let growth come through the concept of making better games, not more predatory and money hungry ones.

We all know this. It's not a secret. The problem is that some fat man in a dress complaining about it as his "job" doesn't actually do anything to change it. That's why we're here. To make fun of a fat man (currently in a dress) who doesn't do anything to help the industry and tells everyone things they already know.

As someone who gets to sit in the meeting investors aren't allowed near because it is full of counterintuitive nonsense, the game's industry has a fair bit of this going on. Most games either are made to make all the money, fuck everything else, or they are made to win prestige for the company while making some money. Dead Space Remake is a prestige title, Battlefront 2 with all the loot boxes was a moneymaking title. Both are profitable games from EA. The difference is the goals during development and release.

 

[HRT Heisenberg]

I'm amazed Jim doesn't see the irony with him dunking on CEOs with what he does for a living. I know, if he was that self aware he wouldn't be wearing the makeup he does every week. But really, I genuinely believe that Jim Sterling is the worst person to complain about capitalism. I did some more autistic analysis as I really want to show how comically overpaid Jim is.

Spoiler: More sperging over Jim

I did a little bit of research and if you believe news sites suprise suprise, being a CEO is actually a busy job averaging about 62.5 hours a week apparently most of that is spent in meetings and they even work a few hours on weekends and holidays. I tried to find the average wage of CEOs in America but the numbers I got were all over the place. One site claims a median of $809,775 a year and another site claimed $20 million including bonuses (this seems a bit high compared to other sources, not sure if it's an exaggeration or just including everything else that a CEO gets money from). I'll also throw in Bobby Kotick's $1.75 million a year from 2021 before he cut it in half.

Where am I going with this? At the time of writing Jim earns $11,181 a month - or $134,172 a year from Patreon. I will also be generous and say Jim takes 5 hours a week to sperg out for 20 minutes and get his stock images in order (I'm only saying 5 hours because he's fat and lazy). This may not be the best metric, but let's value someone's work hours by dividing their pay by their average work week. The problem with this metric is we are assuming that both a CEO and Jim are working an equal number of weeks per year, but to Jim's credit he puts out a video almost every week so I think the two jobs are at least pretty close. We'll also throw in an average US wage of $70,930 for a full time week of 40 hours.
Average 'work value' for each salary (divide CEO's pay by 62.5 and Jim' by 5)

• Supposedly total average: $20 million - 320,000
• Bobby's salary from 2021: $1.75 million - 28,000
• Jim's Patreon earnings: $134,172 - 26,834
• Supposedly mean of a CEO: $809,775 - 12,956.4
• Average wage in the US - 1,773.25

I will be the first to admit that mathematical speculation from just some guy doesn't mean much, but it does at least highlight how valuable Jim's work hours are from a strictly economical perspective. The fact he is arguably valued higher than the work week of a CEO's mean and only just losing to Bobby's 2021 salary and almost doubling him when he cut his base pay by 50% is levels of irony that really makes Jim's screeching all the more hilarious (or disgusting if you're MATI like Jim).

 

[Suck the Cock]

This isn't infinite growth. A company dying is doing the opposite of growing. The idea "infinite growth" is representing is that ONE company must continually make more money than the last time and pull every shitty trick in the book to do it. There isn't a soul in the world who thinks companies nickel-and-diming people is good, aside from brain dead morons who dump thousands into singular shit games as it is, and most people definitely think companies should be focused on making good games instead of figuring out how to dig more money out of people's pockets with a game. The ideal situation is that they aim for stability and let growth come through the concept of making better games, not more predatory and money hungry ones.

We all know this. It's not a secret. The problem is that some fat man in a dress complaining about it as his "job" doesn't actually do anything to change it. That's why we're here. To make fun of a fat man (currently in a dress) who doesn't do anything to help the industry and tells everyone things they already know.

The "infinite growth" argument from commies is really stupid, but also pretty interesting for anyone with a cursory undersrtanding of economics. Econ 101, money isn't real, it's just a representation of how much stuff we have to use. Build more factories, breed more workers, line goes up. So, ever since the industrial revolution (at least), the whole world has been consistently growing at an average of 5% or higher per year (even with occasional hiccups like the Great Depression). Nobody alive has ever experienced a world where we weren't constantly getting new money, faster than the population is growing, and nobody can imagine a world where that stops any time soon without some civilization-ending apocalypse.

This is all normal, but it leads to pretty unintuitive situations, like how a company is considered bad if it maintains steady profits, and how investing in big companies is supposed to be a stable way to make more money. The commie whingers of the world, like Jim, see this stuff and their brain shuts down, because Econ 101 isn't a high school requirement in America or England, so they get mad that corporations want to keep making more money because "how can there be endless growth if money is just something we made up and mass can't be created or destroyed?". So then they come up with conspiracy theories of how businessmen get turned on by profits to the point where they steal money from everyone else and cook the books to pretend like the world economy is going up 5% a year and actually everyone in the world could live like a low-level executive if the rich people would stop stealing from them.

I hope the reason that this makes absolutely no sense is not something I have to clarify in this thread.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

I hate internet debates, but god, I would love to see Sterling talking to someone, anyone, that can push back on his ridiculous claims.

Has he ever even done that? Closest was probably Digitial Homicide, but at the time at least those two were even bigger lolcows.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Has he ever even done that? Closest was probably Digitial Homicide, but at the time at least those two were even bigger lolcows.

The closest we've got is when he highlights tweets or comments criticising his position on the JQ. All he does is repeat what the person said to him in a silly voice as if that discredits valid criticism.

I don't think Jim has ever or would ever get into a debate over his positions, because he knows as well as we do that all he does is regurgitate Right Opinions™ he gets from Twitter and Reddit. The second someone asks him what system he proposes as an alternative to capitalism --or how he justifies his 6-figure income-- he'd probably pull a Keffals and kick his opponent from the call.

TL;DR People like Jim never want feedback, because they already know they're right.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

I don't think Jim has ever or would ever get into a debate over his positions, because he knows as well as we do that all he does is regurgitate Right Opinions™ he gets from Twitter and Reddit. The second someone asks him what system he proposes as an alternative to capitalism --or how he justifies his 6-figure income-- he'd probably pull a Keffals and kick his opponent from the call.

One thing I learned from the Holy Autism Wars of '14; people like Jim on both sides do not like in-person debates, because they have nowhere to run away once the inevitable holes in their arguments are poked.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

The closest we've got is when he highlights tweets or comments criticising his position on the JQ.

Lmao, I just spent a minute immediately trying to remember if there was some Jim incident with him talking about the Jewish question, only to then realize what you meant

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Jim is a midwit and completely ignorant of things outside of his hobbies, its why his comments on current events, capitalism or politics are always regurgitations or just straight up wrong. Nothing better proves this than a tweet he did today about the current freeze of mtf prisoners being moved to women's prisons and blaming it on the evil tory government, except you don't even need to look into it too much to find out it was a decision made by Scotland's SNP and not the Conservatives.

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[Aaron Costello]

The closest we've got is when he highlights tweets or comments criticising his position on the JQ. All he does is repeat what the person said to him in a silly voice as if that discredits valid criticism.

I don't think Jim has ever or would ever get into a debate over his positions, because he knows as well as we do that all he does is regurgitate Right Opinions™ he gets from Twitter and Reddit. The second someone asks him what system he proposes as an alternative to capitalism --or how he justifies his 6-figure income-- he'd probably pull a Keffals and kick his opponent from the call.

TL;DR People like Jim never want feedback, because they already know they're right.

I vaguely remember that. I remember they were cherry picked as well. No actual valid criticism, but stuff on the lines of "you suck, go die fat ass" low hanging fruit like that

 

[Oliver Onions]

One thing I learned from the Holy Autism Wars of '14; people like Jim on both sides do not like in-person debates, because they have nowhere to run away once the inevitable holes in their arguments are poked.

Funnily enough I was going to bring up Sargon as an example, because you could clearly see the difference in how he performed whenever he went up against low-hanging fruit vs how he handled someone more intelligent than him, like Richard 'Controlled Opposition' Spencer*.

*Not a big fan of Spencer, but he is orders of magnitude smarter than Carl the midwit, for whatever that's worth.

Jim is a midwit and completely ignorant of things outside of his hobbies, its why his comments on current events, capitalism or politics are always regurgitations or just straight up wrong. Nothing better proves this than a tweet he did today about the current freeze of mtf prisoners being moved to women's prisons and blaming it on the evil tory government, except you don't even need to look into it too much to find out it was a decision made by Scotland's SNP and not the Conservatives.
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For anyone unaware, this is the brave and beautiful trans woman Jim is currently campaigning to be put in a woman's prison:

It's so ludicrous even the SNP have had to back-pedal, which has lead to some hilarious 'trans women are women, but...' gaffes from Dear Leader Sturgeon. Their narrative is crumbling rapidly and I love to see it.

 

[Probably An Autist]

I'm amazed Jim doesn't see the irony with him dunking on CEOs with what he does for a living. I know, if he was that self aware he wouldn't be wearing the makeup he does every week. But really, I genuinely believe that Jim Sterling is the worst person to complain about capitalism. I did some more autistic analysis as I really want to show how comically overpaid Jim is.

Spoiler: More sperging over Jim

I did a little bit of research and if you believe news sites suprise suprise, being a CEO is actually a busy job averaging about 62.5 hours a week apparently most of that is spent in meetings and they even work a few hours on weekends and holidays. I tried to find the average wage of CEOs in America but the numbers I got were all over the place. One site claims a median of $809,775 a year and another site claimed $20 million including bonuses (this seems a bit high compared to other sources, not sure if it's an exaggeration or just including everything else that a CEO gets money from). I'll also throw in Bobby Kotick's $1.75 million a year from 2021 before he cut it in half.

Where am I going with this? At the time of writing Jim earns $11,181 a month - or $134,172 a year from Patreon. I will also be generous and say Jim takes 5 hours a week to sperg out for 20 minutes and get his stock images in order (I'm only saying 5 hours because he's fat and lazy). This may not be the best metric, but let's value someone's work hours by dividing their pay by their average work week. The problem with this metric is we are assuming that both a CEO and Jim are working an equal number of weeks per year, but to Jim's credit he puts out a video almost every week so I think the two jobs are at least pretty close. We'll also throw in an average US wage of $70,930 for a full time week of 40 hours.
Average 'work value' for each salary (divide CEO's pay by 62.5 and Jim' by 5)

• Supposedly total average: $20 million - 320,000
• Bobby's salary from 2021: $1.75 million - 28,000
• Jim's Patreon earnings: $134,172 - 26,834
• Supposedly mean of a CEO: $809,775 - 12,956.4
• Average wage in the US - 1,773.25

I will be the first to admit that mathematical speculation from just some guy doesn't mean much, but it does at least highlight how valuable Jim's work hours are from a strictly economical perspective. The fact he is arguably valued higher than the work week of a CEO's mean and only just losing to Bobby's 2021 salary and almost doubling him when he cut his base pay by 50% is levels of irony that really makes Jim's screeching all the more hilarious (or disgusting if you're MATI like Jim).

Add into the fact that Jim almost definitely has a couple of people helping him and likely doesn't edit his own videos, his workload is even lower

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

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Be fair to Jumbo Jim, it's an interesting hypothesis.

Men rape other men in male prisons, so if we put all the men in women's prisons, that'll solve the problem of men raping other men in prison.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

No actual valid criticism, but stuff on the lines of "you suck, go die fat ass" low hanging fruit like that

you could clearly see the difference in how he performed whenever he went up against low-hanging fruit vs how he handled someone more intelligent than him

Words I associate with Jim; Low-hanging fruit, because that's what his videos boil down to.

He'll happily tar and feather the usual suspects along with the occasional indie developer that walks into his crosshairs, but anything regarding colleagues and the current (journo)media darlings get nothing but silence.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Funnily enough I was going to bring up Sargon as an example, because you could clearly see the difference in how he performed whenever he went up against low-hanging fruit vs how he handled someone more intelligent than him, like Richard 'Controlled Opposition' Spencer*.

*Not a big fan of Spencer, but he is orders of magnitude smarter than Carl the midwit, for whatever that's worth.

For anyone unaware, this is the brave and beautiful trans woman Jim is currently campaigning to be put in a woman's prison:
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It's so ludicrous even the SNP have had to back-pedal, which has lead to some hilarious 'trans women are women, but...' gaffes from Dear Leader Sturgeon. Their narrative is crumbling rapidly and I love to see it.

Talking about Sargon (From his channel):

im retarded and lazy so i haven't read the previous posts yet but did Jimmy cut his peepee off or is he still debating the ghost of Totalbiscuit on that?
Edit: NVM.

Jim is following the interesting trend of saying they're trans/queer/non-binary/whatever but at the end of the day are an XY individiual with a penis in a relationship with an XX individual with a vagina.

Usually I notice it's done with teenagers/twenty somethings who in the past would have probally called themselves bi and dressed as a goth/emo/whatever subculture.

 

[Macky Mouse]

Add into the fact that Jim almost definitely has a couple of people helping him and likely doesn't edit his own videos, his workload is even lower

This is his video editor; in case you were wondering.

 

[indigoisviolet]

Jim is a midwit and completely ignorant of things outside of his hobbies, its why his comments on current events, capitalism or politics are always regurgitations or just straight up wrong. Nothing better proves this than a tweet he did today about the current freeze of mtf prisoners being moved to women's prisons and blaming it on the evil tory government, except you don't even need to look into it too much to find out it was a decision made by Scotland's SNP and not the Conservatives.
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Not only that, but he's arrived at the exact opposite conclusion with that "government approved rape" statement. Presumably troon delusions of being so irresistable that ruffians wouldn't be able to resist his charms vs the real life case of a multiple rapist working the Scottish prison system to provide them with access to new women. There's a tone deafness to this that transcends his usual off note breadtube nonsense. Or, you know? It's walking the walk of the usual troon bitter hatred of women, I suppose.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

"It should be us doing the raping!"

 

[dankogrg2]

So, let me get this straight,
its ok that you can chose gore or no gore on Dead Space?
but it's NOT ok to chose if you want or don't want lesbos in your game?
what a pathetic bitch

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Jim, wishing rape and violence on women is cringe. Stop it.