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

[Spud gun]

same reason why I think hardware upgrades for gamers (as in, merely for gaming, not for ML/rendering/etc.pp. stuff) are completely unnecessary

The issue is that devs are slipping back into that early 2000s phase of being lazy cunts when it comes to PC optimization, so people who want to play the latest AAA shit are having to buy those higher tier 4080/4090 cards to compensate via brute force, basically. It likely doesn't help that Denuvo makes performance tank on games that have it, as much as they try to shill otherwise, when the evidence in the form of pirated copies working better is there for all to see.

No doubt this attitude of half assing from the devs is because they have all been infiltrated by woke/diversity hires who are either incompetent or too busy hating on their customers to actually put out a decent product, as they see people asking for a game worth 60+ dollars as "gaymer entitlement" to quote the Sterling the troon.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

game worth 60+ dollars as "gaymer entitlement" to quote the Sterling the troon.

Nigga, there's hardly anything worth this price nowadays. Especially with soydevs. And entertainment... Yes, gamers entitled for the best. We pay for it. And who pays is the one, ordering the music. Business 101

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Nigga, there's hardly anything worth this price nowadays. Especially with soydevs. And entertainment... Yes, gamers entitled for the best. We pay for it. And who pays is the one, ordering the music. Business 101

Especially with the homogenization of games as everything becomes a stat and level driven looter with % increase based character upgrade systems. One of them is probably worth playing, genuinely - but once you've played one, you've played them all, and its just the same crap reskinned, with 'new content' that hardly matters and 'new stories' that nobody gives a shit about anymore.

And 90% of the survival crafting genre out there can be beaten in every regard by Cataclysm DDA, which is fucking free.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Didn't he start a discord? Anyone got a lodown on how many groomers he harbors on it?

I completely forgot about that even being a thing, looking into it currently its patreon only and I'm not giving Jim any of my money to go gawk at troons like some kind of horrible zoo.

 

[Maude Snew]

What's a quid? That have a woman on it?

Well you see it's one quid pro quo.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

I completely forgot about that even being a thing, looking into it currently its patreon only and I'm not giving Jim any of my money to go gawk at troons like some kind of horrible zoo.

That's actually a relief. This fuck looks and lives like a textbook deviant.

Hint: he only blended in so well because he got popular at the time other angry / edgy youtubers were also popular. Considering his comments in isolation from the edgelord wannabes, his obsession with dildos, cum, fucking and whatever else is downright disturbing.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I'm not giving Jim any of my money to go gawk at troons like some kind of horrible zoo.

Why pay for lolcow milk you can get for free here?

 

[Aegir]

Idk, i personally find gaming rather cheap as far as hobbies go. Yea sure buying AAA games at launch is expensive, but thats just being a consoomer. Like, $500 for the console ($400 if you don't get a disk drive), $15 a month for PS Plus Extra or Gamepass for access to more games than you ever will play, and you have a ludicrously cheap way to spend quite a lot of time. For anything in particular older games go on sale for next to nothing ($15-20) and there are a billion really good indie titles that go for $10-45 MSRP.

Like, I'm into motorcycles and I have about $2k into just clothing for that alone. That's not even mentioning my $13k bike and all the ludicrously overpriced accessories ($500 GPS, $1500 luggage) and the fact that it requires regular maintenance ($400 every 6000 miles). Boats and cars? Same way. Want to get into woodworking? You're gonna spend a decent bit getting that woodshop outfitted.

Yes, cheaper hobbies exist and many people are definitely into them, and maybe I just have expensive taste, but I find gaming cheap as fuck to be into. $515 to go from nothing to having everything and the only reoccurring cost is $15 a month? Plus all the accessories to expand it are at most $70 but go on sale for next to nothing regularly? Like, shit, even a lot of normal sports will cost you more than video games in just gear alone (let alone fees for playing at certain areas).

You really have to try to overspend on gaming. Only way I can think of is bougie controllers, overpriced headsets, and the tat-ridden "collectors editions". Maybe building an OP gaming rig using HEPC components that your games will never take real advantage of? Idk.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

You really have to try to overspend on gaming. Only way I can think of is bougie controllers, overpriced headsets, and the tat-ridden "collectors editions". Maybe building an OP gaming rig using HEPC components that your games will never take real advantage of? Idk.

Gamings only an expensive hobby if you decide to ride the cutting edge of it, yea. You can be a very comfortably cheap gamer with a single console and preowned games, and still have 90% of the entire market experience with minimal content or quality delay. You can spend some more and climb into a midrange gaming PC, but once you've hit 60fps 1080p medium settings on current games, you're at the peak of the rewards curve, its massively diminishing returns beyond that. Meanwhile you could build that entire computer for the cost of a single 4080, much less the hardware to keep up with it.

 

[Brother Wind]

Gamings only an expensive hobby if you decide to ride the cutting edge of it, yea. You can be a very comfortably cheap gamer with a single console and preowned games, and still have 90% of the entire market experience with minimal content or quality delay. You can spend some more and climb into a midrange gaming PC, but once you've hit 60fps 1080p medium settings on current games, you're at the peak of the rewards curve, its massively diminishing returns beyond that. Meanwhile you could build that entire computer for the cost of a single 4080, much less the hardware to keep up with it.

I am gonna be an incredible contrarian faggot.


I will also claim that at the point it isn't really a hobby. Thats just participating in the medium. Billions of people watch movies, read books, listen to music. And you wouldn't call them hobbyists, until they have whole ass home theater systems, multiple versions of books personally annotated, or uh really good speakers. I feel gaming is still kind of the same thing. The barrier to entry is muuuuuch higher than most others, but when you are doing the bare minimum, I feel its not really a hobby. Its a pastime.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Billions of people watch movies, read books, listen to music. And you wouldn't call them hobbyists, until they have whole ass home theater systems, multiple versions of books personally annotated, or uh really good speakers.

Completely disagree. If it's an activity you do regularly then it's a hobby. If you go golfing every weekend then it's a hobby whether you're taking a bag of second-hand clubs you got off eBay (or even renting some from the course) or if you've dropped $5k on brand new Tiger Woods signature clubs and all the gay-ass clothes.

If we're making the barrier to entry as high as you suggest then virtually no one on earth has a hobby.

 

[ShitLurker]

I am gonna be an incredible contrarian faggot.


I will also claim that at the point it isn't really a hobby. Thats just participating in the medium. Billions of people watch movies, read books, listen to music. And you wouldn't call them hobbyists, until they have whole ass home theater systems, multiple versions of books personally annotated, or uh really good speakers. I feel gaming is still kind of the same thing. The barrier to entry is muuuuuch higher than most others, but when you are doing the bare minimum, I feel its not really a hobby. Its a pastime.

I'll be blunt, to me that just sounds like a faggot that took it too far. What is more of a dedicated hobbyist to you? Somebody that plays 40 hours a week of videogames but spends like 30 buck o month on them or some guy that plays 5 hours a week and blows 300 bucks on it a month? For me the first is a much more "dedicated" hobbyist.

Same deal with you movie or music examples, for me it's much more key how much time you spend in the hobby than how much cash you spend on peripheral aspects of the hobby.

And this is without going into the quality of hobbyist you are. 40 hours a week but you only play Call of Duty/Fifa or 40 hours a week but you play onle 16bit and lower games emulated. Who is the more "alpha" here?

 

[Harambe]

And this is without going into the quality of hobbyist you are. 40 hours a week but you only play Call of Duty/Fifa or 40 hours a week but you play onle 16bit and lower games emulated. Who is the more "alpha" here?

The one with mo bitches

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

The barrier to entry is muuuuuch higher than most others, but when you are doing the bare minimum, I feel its not really a hobby. Its a pastime.

Your looking at cost, when you should be looking at time. I'd consider someone who spends an afternoon every week playing warhammer with a loaner army they didn't buy or paint at a gaming shot to have a hobby, not a pastime. Same goes for regularly borrowing library books to read, or doing all your gaming at a friends place cuz your broke -The time and interest spent engaging enjoyably with it makes it a hobby at the end of the day, not some arbitrary value line metric.

 

[Divine right to rule]

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Another 1k lost. 81 to go

Our lad is really doing well.
I recommend more trans issues, wrestling and disgusting sex stuff, it has done wonders for his race to the bottom.

 

[Solomon Bundy]

A reminder he thinks he's "a good worker." That's insider wrestling lingo for being good at his craft.

He thinks he's on the level of professionals in WWE and AEW. People like A.J. Styles and Bryan Danielson are called "good workers."

This literal Revolting Blob stiffs women with chair shots in literally every clip I've seen. If you're a wrestling nerd like me, you can see his delusion is even deeper than it appears.

 

[Brother Wind]

Completely disagree. If it's an activity you do regularly then it's a hobby. If you go golfing every weekend then it's a hobby whether you're taking a bag of second-hand clubs you got off eBay (or even renting some from the course) or if you've dropped $5k on brand new Tiger Woods signature clubs and all the gay-ass clothes.

If we're making the barrier to entry as high as you suggest then virtually no one on earth has a hobby.

Your looking at cost, when you should be looking at time. I'd consider someone who spends an afternoon every week playing warhammer with a loaner army they didn't buy or paint at a gaming shot to have a hobby, not a pastime. Same goes for regularly borrowing library books to read, or doing all your gaming at a friends place cuz your broke -The time and interest spent engaging enjoyably with it makes it a hobby at the end of the day, not some arbitrary value line metric.

But, if we do that is someone who watches a movie every night a hobbyist? Like I'll cede that my post was too focused on money, but what I was getting at was "investment". And my point is more that gaming has gotten to the same point that TV is. That it is so accessible, that people just do it to kill time, in the same they would watch TV well now, but certainly when we were children. And I wouldn't say my parents have a hobby watching TV.

Like your examples, still involve making an effort to do something. And like I said, I know I brought up equipment a great deal. But I mean more the effort to keep up with game releases and tech as a way to put effort into gaming. Which is what I would define as a hobbyist. Instead of using the phone that's already in your hand, or just switching the app on the Playstation that you were using to watch Netflix. I agree it's investment, and not just money. But I maintain that it's not just time, it's also effort or energy or perhaps some sort of dedication. If that makes sense

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

But I maintain that it's not just time, it's also effort or energy or perhaps some sort of dedication. If that makes sense

The problem this definition hits is that it functionally requires you to read minds to classify people - Otherwise how do you distinguish between someone who bought an xbox because it was easy and he happened to be at Walmart, or someone who bought an xbox because its the current gen console and he wants to play starfield when it comes out. How do you distinguish between the guy who plays games to waste time online with his buds, and the guy who plays games because he enjoys the systems and mechanics and shares those moments with his buds.

I don't really like describing it as 'moralizing' cuz of the good/evil connotations, but its still functionally an effort to assign a concept of 'correctness' to the exact same actions based on perception of the persons decision making process. Its arbitrary and useless to actually categorize anything by.

 

[BrainSand63]

I know this is a relatively pointless comment that doesn’t further the discussion much, but after skimming through his last video I feel the need to verbalize how absolutely disgusting he looks.

Like, I know that he’s always going to look like a literal pig wearing makeup no matter how hard he tries, but it feels like he’s almost gotten worse in his appearance since he first trooned out.

Like his subscribers, his attempts at “passing” are just slipping farther and farther back.

 

[Divine right to rule]

I know this is a relatively pointless comment that doesn’t further the discussion much, but after skimming through his last video I feel the need to verbalize how absolutely disgusting he looks.

Like, I know that he’s always going to look like a literal pig wearing makeup no matter how hard he tries, but it feels like he’s almost gotten worse in his appearance since he first trooned out.

Like his subscribers, his attempts at “passing” are just slipping farther and farther back.

It got worse because he became more confident in his body, and is constantly sexualizing himself in slutty instathot ways, like flaunting his fat manboobs or sucking on phallic objects. This made him way more revolting than being a blob in a wig.