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

idk but it seems like that's what he's aiming at, intentionally or not
Could be his end game. As long as the channel still exists, he needs to keep posting shit on it. But if he gets banned, he can just tell all his patrons that he was a victim of transphobia, like he always is. Then he can walk away and focus on beating up women for not fucking him as he pretends to be a wrestler.
 
Could be his end game. As long as the channel still exists, he needs to keep posting shit on it. But if he gets banned, he can just tell all his patrons that he was a victim of transphobia, like he always is.
I've got a different take on this - IMO that YouTube channel is inherent to Jim's image of himself, just as the wrestling shit is. He certainly has a sense of entitlement toward what happens on it (to the degree that he is outraged that one of his videos catches an age restriction, which I've not seen any other youtuber ever have a hissy fit about). It is almost as if he considers the channel an extension of himself.

Sterling is also making use of the channel in a way (i.e. it hasn't devolved into a low-effort podcast or other dead-end zero-effort content). He's using his channel as his personal soapbox on which he holds forth about wrestling bullshit, degenerate tranny/NB bullshit and shitting on what members of his previous audience of Gamers(TM) happen to be watching.

I'll grant that this is not a very productive use to anyone but Jim, but to Jim that channel is where he puts his narcissism on full display.

Jim will probably be devastated if he loses this outlet - how dare anyone take away what is h is?

Also, how many of his patreon paypigs will be willing to give him money for absolutely nothing? (I have a feeling that some of his supporters have forgotten he exists and would cease their largesse upon being reminded of that fact).

My bet is that if he gets his channel shut down he'd kick and scream on Twitter for a few weeks, then either try to ban evade on YT or move to another platform, taking a substantial hit in financial support while doing so.
 
Its very telling that the first thing he talks about in the JQ after the intro is an almost 13 year old article. Jim has dragged out his favourite well beaten horse, don't watch.

 
Their opinions on the new things just about break even in quality, and they're naturally disappointed their grievances with BotW (slippery walls and weapon degradation) weren't fixed. Bit of whinging near the end about the people mad at their BotW review. The last few paragraphs just about sum it up:
Wait. They literally did address those issues. You can make slip resistant potions, and there's an armor set that makes you immune to slipping. Plus now you can dismantle your weapons with high quality parts to reuse them on a new weapon. Jim literally didn't play this game before reviewing it.
 
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I am happy to report that Jim lost a thousand subscribers. and he expected to lose another at 16th or 17th of June
 
I'm a bit surprised that Jim's most popular video doesn't have more than 4.2M views. Granted, he was on other platforms at the time but the Escapist was shit 6 years ago so I would think YouTube would be that site with the highest traffic.

Jim fancies himself a consumer advocate but based on his most popular videos, he's your run of the mill shit flinger.

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I'm a bit surprised that Jim's most popular video doesn't have more than 4.2M views. Granted, he was on other platforms at the time but the Escapist was shit 6 years ago so I would think YouTube would be that site with the highest traffic.

Jim fancies himself a consumer advocate but based on his most popular videos, he's your run of the mill shit flinger.

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That one on the top right is actually the last video he did for Escapist, with extra content at the end. He was able to repost it to YT because they never posted it on their channel. Since two or three weeks had passed since then, he added on another five minutes talking about what had happened since then. I think that was when the lawsuit happened.

I don't know if I'd say I'm surprised he doesn't have more. Yes he could easily reach 300k in the past, but his stuff is very topical, long winded, and repetitive. Digital Homicide was such a shit show though and were lolcows that people wanted to know more about.
 
I'm a bit surprised that Jim's most popular video doesn't have more than 4.2M views. Granted, he was on other platforms at the time but the Escapist was shit 6 years ago so I would think YouTube would be that site with the highest traffic.

Jim fancies himself a consumer advocate but based on his most popular videos, he's your run of the mill shit flinger.

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I'll give Jim the slightly bit of credit here, for as long as I can remember he's always described himself as a critic of the games industry but I can't remember him using the label consumer advocate much. He has always had this impression of a consumer advocate because for the longest time he's been calling out and shitting on bad practices but thats all he's ever done, there is of course a greater entertainment value to someone on a weekly basis slagging something off but as we've seen that can only work for so long until it runs out of steam.

but his stuff is very topical, long winded, and repetitive.
I think him leaving the Escapist is how this happened, talking about all this I rewatched his Slaughtering Grounds video and he calls it a "double length episode" even though its half the length of his current stuff. It does seem to be the case that back when he likely had an editor scrutinising his work or tighter restrictions he made videos around 6-8 minutes long which is about the perfect runtime for him, he can say his case and it doesn't get too repetitive.
 
Wait. They literally did address those issues. You can make slip resistant potions, and there's an armor set that makes you immune to slipping. Plus now you can dismantle your weapons with high quality parts to reuse them on a new weapon. Jim literally didn't play this game before reviewing it.
AND you can feed your weapons to a certain enemy type to repair them outright.

Jim just wants to complain to make other people mad.
 
Honestly one of the most disgustingly hypersexual videos he's ever put out. All his weird recurring jokes have been replaced by him desperately trying to make his grotesque, amorphic genderblob into a more sexual identity. It doesn't work. It's like getting hit on by a 55 year old barfly when you're DD. No thank you, hard pass.
 
No Yoda posting!
But its true. Started with lewd jokes, then using giant dildo from Saints Row as a prop, then playing with a Bad Dragon dildo, then totally ironic crossdressing and step by step here we are: fat man with tits in full drag simulating sucking a cock on video that's supposed to be about vidya.
 
But its true. Started with lewd jokes, then using giant dildo from Saints Row as a prop, then playing with a Bad Dragon dildo, then totally ironic crossdressing and step by step here we are: fat man with tits in full drag simulating sucking a cock on video that's supposed to be about vidya.
I have a feeling he used to have an overinflated ego and campiness for the comedy bits which he kept low for the punditry - back when he worked with Escapist, anyway.

Then, his ego started evening out on both the on-camera bits and the powerpoints. And getting blown the fuck out of proportion, just like his body.

And now we have a video in which Jim Turdling blames everyone who wanted to play Hogwarts Legacy for not conforming to the troon cult which, as we all know, should've been world government since 1700 AD. Really makes me wonder why it had to be TB to die of cancer, and not Turdling who is cancer in and of himself.

He has always had this impression of a consumer advocate because for the longest time he's been calling out and shitting on bad practices but thats all he's ever done, there is of course a greater entertainment value to someone on a weekly basis slagging something off but as we've seen that can only work for so long until it runs out of steam.
I'll say more, I've always got an impression that Turdling and whatever remains of his fanbase genuinely believe that calling out bullshit is the definitive way of solving said bullshit, once and for all.

It just feels like something you'd stick to in a make-believe schizo libtard world, especially if you can't physically do anything about the problem in question. Plus, that consumerism advocacy of his ends as soon as it crosses the "bigotry" line, drawn on the sand.

His signalboosting, if we consider Jim "the authority", worked about as well in the long run as Burgerstan's favourite awareness months work for the minorities they're supposed to "boost". Remember his lootbox saga? Yeah, not only he wasn't the only one calling the industry out on it, that saga ended with an overabundance of waifu PNG games. And Genshit.

How the fuck is it so hard to understand that people came to watch a show about video games but instead he posts about hating gaming culture , his mirco penis , his moobs and LGBT shit. And of course wrestling with a fuck up back.
Wait. They literally did address those issues. You can make slip resistant potions, and there's an armor set that makes you immune to slipping. Plus now you can dismantle your weapons with high quality parts to reuse them on a new weapon. Jim literally didn't play this game before reviewing it.
Hol' up.

I remember Jim dropping a "if all you want to do is complain about video games, maybe you just don't like video games" in one of his older videos. Oh, how the turntables.
 
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