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

[Blonrad Blurze]

Gym has the Vermintide 2 Blightstormer physique

 

[SandyCat]

Gym has the Vermintide 2 Blightstormer physique

Once his double chin grows out more he'll turn into a leech

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[Funeral for a Furry]

Once his double chin grows out more he'll turn into a leech

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I do sence that the days of the angry smug reviewer is now over kind of how glam rock or nu metal died out

 

[Fools Idol]

Is Jim still playing SF6?

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

Is Jim still playing SF6?

Given he hasn't complained about the (legitimately awful) monetization of the character customization, I'm going to guess no.

 

[Dude Snakes]

Is this fat faggot dead yet?

 

[Hassou Tobi]

Obesity + estrogen pills doesn’t seem like a great combo for the heart

 

[CptnSnshn]

Is this fat faggot dead yet?

Yes Total Biscuit died a few years back.

 

[Funeral for a Furry]

Yes Total Biscuit died a few years back.

The loss of Total Biscuit was really a carrion call for that era of game's reviews from that point on it was down hill, kind of like when Garry from Nerdrotic is gone all the others will fall too.

 

[Berrakh]

I did not care for TotalBiscuit.

 

[Funeral for a Furry]

I did not care for TotalBiscuit.
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I think you have a fair point he was one of those people that are of there time.

 

[Berrakh]

I think you have a fair point he was one of those people that are of there time.

Well he’s dead. So I can only mean at this appropriate time.

I wonder if people forget he was one of the first big troon respecters in gaming media.

 

[AgendaPoster]

I wonder if people forget he was one of the first big troon respecters in gaming media.

Yeah but he dunked on WoW casuals infecting the game and demanding it's made less hardcore
Very conflicting

 

[Berrakh]

Yeah but he dunked on WoW casuals infecting the game and demanding it's made less hardcore
Very conflicting

And his solution was just to keep making the game harder, which Blizzard did while keeping low difficulty accessibility options, and now the middle class of the WoW playerbase is dead because they can’t do any of the “real content.”

With Classic WoW we saw that his glory days of Vanilla and TBC were not hard at all. People were just noobs. And he was kind of a shitty mage (mage at the time being a class for noobs to begin with) so he was likely carried for being an e-celeb.

When it comes to games like Mordhau people have slowly understood that hardcore gamer types are the kiss of death for games. But WoW was the first victim.

 

[AgendaPoster]

with Classic WoW we saw that his glory days of Vanilla and TBC were not hard at all. People were just noobs.

It's not about the actual difficulty, it's about having a proper exclusionary environment that simulates a meritocracy, even imperfectly (i.e. RMT). As long as there are content and rewards being gated from less skilled players, and there are incentives to force them to improve, the game works great.
At least for people like me.

 

[Berrakh]

It's not about the actual difficulty, it's about having a proper exclusionary environment that simulates a meritocracy, even imperfectly (i.e. RMT). As long as there are content and rewards being gated from less skilled players, and there are incentives to force them to improve, the game works great.
At least for people like me.

I agree with this. Build up the mystery and mystique of raiding. But Biscuit never articulated it in these terms. He was comically grug-brained in his solution.

He left WoW in Cata because Blizzard nerfed Nefarian’s crackle damage. Which, as a matter of history, is now considered to have been overtuned. That was his line in the sand. A boss he wasn’t even attempting.

 

[AgendaPoster]

I agree with this. Build up the mystery and mystique of raiding. But Biscuit never articulated it in these terms. He was comically grug-brained in his solution.

He left WoW in Cata because Blizzard nerfed Nefarian’s crackle damage. Which, as a matter of history, is now considered to have been overtuned. That was his line in the sand. A boss he wasn’t even attempting.

Your memory is better than mine.
I only remember some dungeon related rants.

 

[Berrakh]

Your memory is better than mine.
I only remember some dungeon related rants.

The dungeon thing was also a disaster but I’m not sure I want to say he was “just wrong” about that. I don’t remember 5 mans well enough.

 

[Corn Flakes]

TotalBiscuit started out as your average asshole and stayed like that for a good few years. His redemption as a reviewer only really happened after his World of Warcraft days, when his WTF Is...? series was in full swing and he started talking about industry subjects instead of sperging out about casuals. That's what people remember him fondly for, most people who watched his first impressions videos or the Co-Optional Podcast didn't even know of his previous Warcraft-related activities. At most they watched his Terraria playthrough with Jesse Cox.

 

[LaCreaturaDeLasAmerica]

I did not care for TotalBiscuit.
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He was the quintessential modern British "person." Hedonistic, nihilistic retard who very slightly hopped on the right side of the fence during an internet spergout. I will never forget the fact that he was literally consooming video game slop in his literal deathbed, as if to suck out the last bit of consoomption he could get. I was a liberal back then and I still thought it was pathetic.