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

[Anonymus Fluhre]

At the 17 minute mark Jim proclaims games are an increasingly expensive hobby and I've always found it hilarious when apparent poorfags whine about this. Yeah a brand new console can be expensive but what are you buying a $60 video game every week?

I find comic books and even tabletop role playing and miniature wargaming books to be more expensive. you can easily spend $80cad every two weeks on comic books if you're still big on Western releases. WotC wanted to release major books every other month so you could spend $60 if you wanted to keep your table up to date. Plus if you're big into multiple games you can spend more than that if you're the consumer type or just want to collect everything for historical/ archival purposes.

 

[Kulee Baba]

9 Hours Ago: Livestream time! I’m going to put off being bad at Aliens: Dark Descent as long as I can by playing with absurd toys and sharks http://twitch.tv/jimsterling

Yep pure AGP Troon right here. Look at my Avatar, Simpsons did it Jimbo.

 

[Harambe]

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Yep pure AGP Troon right here. Look at my Avatar, Simpsons did it Jimbo.

holy shit that's bringing back flashbacks to when I first really glimpsed the Troon on Encyclopedia Dramatica clicking around one day back in high school. The myspace angle, the disgusting hair, the nightmarishly bad makeup application, the retard collar, the animal plushy for stimming and or masturbating, the stupid pose, the thousand island stare, the norwood reaper lurking in the background

 

[AirdropShitposts]

I've noticed that it's only the "I'm so over gaming, it's terrible and needs to be wiped out" tards who made being a "gaming" person their entire persona who bitch about how gaming is supposedly getting more expensive even though it's cheaper than ever. Very high overlap with social media obsessed tards who need to be attached to whatever fucking thing everyone else is on about right now because they'll have to drop it soon to get onto the next thing. (All while missing every single actual popular mass trend.)

Meanwhile, the hundreds of millions of other gamers play stuff on things like GamePass or hit up digital store sales or subsist on free-to-play (with sometimes battle pass purchased) content from major and minor studios in greater quantities than ever.

 

[Tarka Dhal]

At the 17 minute mark Jim proclaims games are an increasingly expensive hobby and I've always found it hilarious when apparent poorfags whine about this. Yeah a brand new console can be expensive but what are you buying a $60 video game every week?

You know what? Games are expensive, not as much as other hobbies, but it's not unreasonable to complain about the rising costs and sleazy business practices. I can completely understand not wanting to drop 60-70 dollars on a new videogame or 400-500 on a new console; I know I wouldn't want to. Which is why I don't. I buy old games, used games, indie games, games on sale, and will happily emulate titles that have no official re-release or are being sold at unreasonable prices.

Anyone can happily continue playing videogames at a reasonable cost, and that's without getting into the territory of piracy (something that Jim frequently advocates for). You just need a modicum of sense and impulse contr- oh...
Jim, lad, I think I found your problem.

 

[Oliver Onions]

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Yep pure AGP Troon right here. Look at my Avatar, Simpsons did it Jimbo.

Exposure cranked up so high he looks like fucking Jeff The Killer and it's still obviously a badly balding male. Absolutely pathetic, Jimbo.

 

[Brother Wind]

I find comic books and even tabletop role playing and miniature wargaming books to be more expensive. you can easily spend $80cad every two weeks on comic books if you're still big on Western releases. WotC wanted to release major books every other month so you could spend $60 if you wanted to keep your table up to date. Plus if you're big into multiple games you can spend more than that if you're the consumer type or just want to collect everything for historical/ archival purposes.

As a hobbyist, I feel vidya is easily the most expensive. And I will add, not as a consoomer, but hobbyist. Which is to say that I only buy what I """""need""""". And frankly, video games are the ones that cycle through the most. To stay up to date on Warhammer or Magic my army will only ever see updates every few months. Every couple when I decide to keep up with metas. My Magic deck is about the same. I can go multiple sets without any strong upgrades, and if I am playing standard I can still make a deck last 2-3 months at the worst. But video games, even if you only play the stuff you're real interested, and you actually don't build up a giant backlog, you're still at best buying a new game a month. 2-3 depending on time of year.

Like obviously some money gets a little fuzzy, but like a Warhammer box costs 60, as well as a playset of really good current Magic cards. So I figured this was all eauivalent enough to prove a point.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Anyone can happily continue playing videogames at a reasonable cost, and that's without getting into the territory of piracy (something that Jim frequently advocates for).

Piracy. The boogeyman of big publishers of treeeple ayyy. Which is in fact a litmus test of game. Since now there's barely any demo versions of games, like in 90s, early 2000s. And if game is good - people will buy it regardless for support and patching

 

[Moja Zemlja]

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Yep pure AGP Troon right here. Look at my Avatar, Simpsons did it Jimbo.

If I didn't know who Jim was and you removed the shark plush I could very easily be convinced that this is an old used up mtf whore. Its a very common thing but you'd think after pretending to be a woman for so long Jim would've picked up the most basic concepts regarding make-up.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I could very easily be convinced that this is an old used up mtf whore.

It is.

He also just happens to do youtube.

 

[Bastet]

This is the second time I've seen that stupendium guy guest star in one of jim's videos. First was the <800K special. My guess is his another agp on the verge of having his 'egg cracked'. Doesn't matter how much of a progressive you are, there's something wrong if you think inviting Jim into your studio is a good idea.
For reference, a sponsored video he did:

Also Jim, I don't want to hear anymore complaints about being labeled adult content.

Nevermind, I guess his egg's already been cracked. Those totally valid video game adjacent enby youtubers gotta stick together I guess.

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Also Jim, I don't want to hear anymore complaints about being labeled adult content.

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He's lucky that nintendards have attention span of a fruit fly and forgot about him already.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Also, even though he's an idiot and his "ideology" is just scraped off of other idiots Jim is religiously committed to the premise that capitalism only makes things more expensive and exclusively restricted to hoarder-style elites who don't do any work but somehow have endless capital so he has to deny the fact that capitalism lowers prices and democratizes access in every instance it's allowed to try. Video games are a market so free of what Jim wants imposed on all of them that even though a handful of massive companies (Microsoft, Sony, Apple and Google plus Nintendo) dominate the access points prices have only ever fallen and are only ever continuing to fall. Gaming is more democratized than ever, faggots like Jim often point to how many of gamers are women now by surveys, while not at all changing his image of "gaming" to not rope them off to the mobile ghetto an elite like him would never deign to waste his time in rather than focus on "true" games. (Unless they're problematic in niche elite circles so he can't cover them no matter how many tens of millions they sell.) All while he wages irrelevant war on an aging single CEO who has been giving away access to his largest franchises for free because it makes him more money.

 

[Fools Idol]

I just watched the FF16 video, here are my thoughts.

Jim makes a comparison between his situation and Clive's as they are both branded man in way. Jim's obviously masculine features belie what he is under the slapped on makeup and poorly fitting clothes, just as Clive's face tattoo tells the world that he is a bearer. One of Jim's main points of contention is that Jim wants Clive to react to the magic racism with either violence or with harsh words and thinks it's unreasonable that Clive just takes it. The irony here being that Jim in his real life reacts to transphobia much like Clive reacts to the magic racism, he just takes it. Jim's a big lad he could start swinging, he could try to intimidate the transphobe but he doesn't. There's only one group that throws fists because of words and Jim's skin is a bit too white to be in that group.

On the point of the racism, I feel like he is kind of miss representing the theme here or the context for it. I'm not going to say that SE has handled subject subtlety or even that well, but the in game area in his video (and faction that controls it) that the worst magic racism happens in is noteworthy for being extreme in it's treatment of the bearers/branded. He complains that the overtly racist NPCs treat Clive, a branded man with thinly veiled contempt. How are they supposed to treat Clive other than with disgust? It's the main point of this arc and part of the whole main conflict of the game.

This mini arc about how awful this area and it's people are happens during a mission where you have bigger fish to fry. I won't go into to detail but you are basically sneaking into a city and you can't really start fights with the populace and have the mission make any sense. The game at this point is pivoting from directly helping the bearers plight to "we need to fight climate change" but the two themes are still entwined. It's hard to say with out spoilers but the point is that the only way to stop the "climate change" and help the bearers involves a massive change in the settings attitude towards magic which has the same solution. He's also ignoring that a good number of these side quests involve helping the bearers and are given by NPCs that are sympathetic to the cause so to speak.

His other point of contention is about the in game wiki is bit strange seeing as you don't have to use it. It exists to act as a round up and to add some extra context for characters, events, places, etc. There's nothing important to the game or story that isn't delivered to the player "organically".

 

[Mobster Monitor]

Quoting above post...

Jim makes a comparison between his situation and Clive's...

Now I don't know anything on Final Fantasy 16, but my head instantly goes to the thought of a narcissistic tranny seeing literally any piece of media and instantly going "HMMM HOW CAN I MAKE THIS ABOUT ME INSTEAD??"

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Don't give me hope, socialblade

 

[Mr Processor]

I've noticed that it's only the "I'm so over gaming, it's terrible and needs to be wiped out" tards who made being a "gaming" person their entire persona who bitch about how gaming is supposedly getting more expensive even though it's cheaper than ever. Very high overlap with social media obsessed tards who need to be attached to whatever fucking thing everyone else is on about right now because they'll have to drop it soon to get onto the next thing. (All while missing every single actual popular mass trend.)

Meanwhile, the hundreds of millions of other gamers play stuff on things like GamePass or hit up digital store sales or subsist on free-to-play (with sometimes battle pass purchased) content from major and minor studios in greater quantities than ever.

I can't accept gaming as being "expensive" when both Steam and GoG are having sales, (not even to mention how good emulation has gotten lately). What's expensive is being retarded about purchases, which granted a lot of people are. But people who are retarded about gaming purchases are probably retarded about all their purchases, so that's not gaming's fault.

Really, it's just about patience. Buy the game when it comes out if you have the spare money and you know you are going to love it, or patiently wait until it's $4.79 on a sale a couple of years later. Oh, and if the game is "We're charging real money for each in game bullet," then just skip that one and find something else to play.

 

[Tarka Dhal]

Really, it's just about patience. Buy the game when it comes out if you have the spare money and you know you are going to love it, or patiently wait until it's $4.79 on a sale a couple of years later.

Nowadays I only buy full-priced games on release if I'm worried about spoilers. Otherwise most triple-ayy games go down to half price within 12 months of release.

Hell does Jim even pay for his games? I know he's complained that some studios won't provide review copies anymore, but he can at least treat them as a tax writeoff.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I can completely understand not wanting to drop 60-70 dollars on a new videogame or 400-500 on a new console;

Try getting into RC.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

I can't accept gaming as being "expensive" when both Steam and GoG are having sales, (not even to mention how good emulation has gotten lately). What's expensive is being retarded about purchases, which granted a lot of people are. But people who are retarded about gaming purchases are probably retarded about all their purchases, so that's not gaming's fault.

Really, it's just about patience. Buy the game when it comes out if you have the spare money and you know you are going to love it, or patiently wait until it's $4.79 on a sale a couple of years later. Oh, and if the game is "We're charging real money for each in game bullet," then just skip that one and find something else to play.

I'm pretty sure I can count the games I've paid full price for in the last decade on both hands. Of those maybe 3 have been AAA. The rest come from Bundles or sales.