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

[p1138]

Nah, if there's one thing I've learned about 'real' vegetarian/vegans in my life is that they will never, EVER, pass up the opportunity to try and show people "Just how good vegan cooking can be", they're the ones who pull all the stops. A vegan who shows up with a salad as pathetic as this hastily assembled, romaine and packaged baby tomato sad excuse for a salad would immediately be identified as a fraud who ubereats mcdonalds when they think nobody is looking.

A real vegan woulda done something like a tofurkey brisket.

Normally yes, but in this case I'm pretty sure he and his friends are all broke retards who couldn't afford enough tofurky to feed more than a couple of people.

 

[Keith the Horse Fucker]

I doubt anyone misses Total Biscuit. What a twat.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

I doubt anyone misses Total Biscuit. What a twat.

I think if every Br*tish person playing games on Youtube didn't have the exact same shtick he did of "Narcissist midwit with accent acts smart and is hyper-critical of everything", more people would remember him.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I think if every Br*tish person playing games on Youtube didn't have the exact same shtick he did of "Narcissist midwit with accent acts smart and is hyper-critical of everything", more people would remember him.

He switched to a way less hyper-critical persona by mid-career. It's one of the reasons people liked his WTF Is...? series: sure, he criticized shit he didn't like, but he also offered praise to the things that these games did right.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

He switched to a way less hyper-critical persona by mid-career. It's one of the reasons people liked his WTF Is...? series: sure, he criticized shit he didn't like, but he also offered praise to the things that these games did right.

Yep. He absolutely loved Magicka game. And for a good reason. It's great

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

I think I already said it before somewhere but TB is irrefutable proof that a weak body and a weak mind are prone to being infected by the "woke" virus. He literally went into full trannylover mode after it had metastasised and progressed to stage 4. The signs were already there over a year earlier, when he was mad upset at his wife for voting Trump. Prior to that he'd make gay jokes without pausing.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Same goes for programmers who put their ass into learning stuff that's completely irrelevant today, languages and tools and such.

This one's a bit of a 50:50, because if you can find somewhere that still uses outdated languages/systems (which is common in a lot of government institutions because they're cheap and evolve at a glacial pace) you can make an absolute fortune as a contractor because so few people have your skillset in 2023.

Having said that, you absolutely should still keep up to date with at least a couple modern and emerging coding languages, so you're still right. It's never not a good idea to have multiple strings to your bow.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

This one's a bit of a 50:50, because if you can find somewhere that still uses outdated languages/systems (which is common in a lot of government institutions because they're cheap and evolve at a glacial pace) you can make an absolute fortune as a contractor because so few people have your skillset in 2023.

Yea, but that's only a handful of languages like COBOL, most of what was floating around back then is completely useless today. If you learned Glide for the Voodoo graphics cards back in the day, completely useless API now. Meanwhile COBOL is still getting modernized updates, they've got cloud native CD friendly versions of that shit now, really a living example of sunk cost there. Besides, going for that COBOL contractor cash is a suicide pact with your bank account - It'll grow, but at what cost to the rest of your soul.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

tl;dr - never be against learning new skills in your field, and be willing to look for places where your skills can be beneficial. Also, Jim's logo looks like a ransom note because he's making the Jimquisition against his will for money.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Here's the original post and the 'wonderful' Christmas dinner he had last year.
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And here's Jim Sterling in action of that "wonderful Christmas dinner".

 

[Donuteater]

tl;dr - never be against learning new skills in your field, and be willing to look for places where your skills can be beneficial. Also, Jim's logo looks like a ransom note because he's making the Jimquisition against his will for money.

If you want a perfect comparison, former Escapist contributors Loading Ready Run are celebrating their 20th anniversary of making sketch comedy on the internet. Which has become a multi channel streaming network, multiple podcasts, live shows, paid convention appearances, guest spots on other channels and most recently a kickstarter that raised $150k in a day.
One stuck with what always worked, one adapted and tried new things. They're bigger than second wind now.

 

[Funeral for a Furry]

Jim strikes me as a classic case of reading the room wrong and getting trapped by those bad decisions, then being to prideful to admit fault.
One bad decision after another.
I think the suggestion that Jim will end up having to couch surf after his financial mismanagement becomes boogie2988 levels and they seem to be heading that way are quite possible.

 

[whatever I feel like]

So much overanalysis...

He put time into wrestling in front of 100 people instead of vidya content in front of 100s of thousands.

And he switched from consumer rights to worker rights.

And he trooned out.

All awful career moves.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

This advice goes beyond content creation and into genuinely everything. People seem to take for granted that if they develop a skill, it both will, and should be, never supplanted, their success should never be allowed to regress. When in reality, trends and expectations shift. Some people like to claim this is a modern manifestation, but it really isn't - the speed of new things arriving changed perhaps, but history is replete of tales of people who learned a trade and failed once they were old and stubborn as the expectations tools and techniques of the trade changed.

Same goes for programmers who put their ass into learning stuff that's completely irrelevant today, languages and tools and such. Same goes for authors and artist who tried to make careers of fleeting trends in writing and media. Same goes for factory workers who took for granted that being smart enough to not put their hands in the crusher and diligent enough to not get drunk before work would mean a lifetime working whatever line, only for the gizmos they built to become irrelevant and the whole business chain to go out of business. Same for the office drones, accountants and finance people who found most of their work replaced by digital tools. Same for the executives and CEO's who learned to engage in styles of business that aren't relevant anymore, who started up companies who's services became irrelevant and therefor unsold. Every single layer of every single profession out there has the constant looming fact that the work you do will change, and if your not willing to adapt and compete on that leading edge, you will eventually be made irrelevant in the economy.

The best thing you can do is learn to learn, and never turn your nose up at trends and shifts in your industry. You don't need to be a complete [thing]bro and immediately try to make your life about every little shift, but always remain curious, open, and try things. If you hear about a new tool, technique, or piece of software in your field, spend a few hours checking it out and giving it a chance. Odds are it'll be a novelty or a nothingburger, but if it does turn out to be a major shift or trend, you won't be completely in the dark. AI's the one that a lotta people seem to be rejecting on ideological grounds, refusing to even touch it, even if they're in fields where it could be a big deal like programming or business documentation/analysis. Another one is additive manufacturing for engineering/industrial people - its easy to sleep on them as lol 3d printers, but they are starting to look extremely promising for a few applications.

I love this advice cause it's both right and wrong. Learning is good but people underestimate how tough and time consuming it is to invest in something new. At least in the internet space it's a bit more lenient towards content creators but companies want to shrink learning periods to nonexistent degrees. You have to learn an application framework or a new programming language over the weekend, nuances and all otherwise they'll fuck you over monday. Imagine doing that while working regularly so you can't do anything on company time, you have to take care of relatives, clean up the house, buy groceries and shit. It's a nightmarish scenario. It's what is leading to the decline in the tech industry Josh said. Shit has literally been optimised the ingenuity out of existence.

Beyond that you have degenerating trends which is almost always companies trying to invent markets where unnecessary and the sheep are herded into said market like cattle. There's a reason twitch thots are popular, a reason why YouTube has certain content trends and why all tech is failing miserably. University was black pilling as a person who studied all this cause they literally want to create the wall e future where you have no agency and everything does shit for you, they're extremely open about it and aren't self aware. There are people who push iot and ai as constant "developments" in the tech sphere instead of just spending time to optimize code. Do you really think temperature controlled air conditioners which are connected to the cloud are organic market demands or shoehorned in hamfisted astroturfed shit which people are herded towards? The modern tech and content market is 90% deception and laziness 10% ingenuity. And that 10% ingenuity isn't given space to thrive and grow because that takes risk, time and resources. Look at YouTube, it's fucking dead and they're using a gas pump to animate it's corpse.

Jims format maybe 15 years old and as stupid jim is he had 15 years to change. Content creators who started off in 2021 have to change and flip on a dime which is difficult to do. Even when it comes to artists, sometimes Twitter artists blow up but for every person who blows up there's like 1000 who don't while almost every artist from 2010 blew up eventually. Even if you have a Twitter account it's extremely difficult to build a career out of it, i have tried it and assessed the logistics, at best you build up a small insular fanbase over a long fucking time at worst you get nothing. Given the state of the modern internet there is no ingenuity anywhere, everything is copied astroturfed slop and the best thing seems to be to go back to early 2000s content formats. Point being do not blindly support trends and people changing, on a long enough scale shit has to change but in a degenerating world shit shouldn't change just cause everything else changes for the worse. Also change requires time and effort, it's not instantaneous and shouldn't be treated as such. I really want to namedrop ted k but I won't.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

So much overanalysis...

He put time into wrestling in front of 100 people instead of vidya content in front of 100s of thousands.

And he switched from consumer rights to worker rights.

And he trooned out.

All awful career moves.

There's a lot more to it than that.
He couldn't find a way to combine his wrestling hobby with his gaming channel and persona. He's stuck in the late 2000s-Early 2010s mindset of youtubers only being able to do one thing or only being able to make vids in one broad, ill-defined category. But just look at youtube today and you've seen people who have pivoted to entirely new content or made creative and successful amalgamations of their old and new stuff.

Eg self help-tube is now self help+finance+philosophy+mental health+business and investment advice. Similarly, fit-tube is now fitness+food+equippment review+supplement review+travel+fitness industry commentary.

Jimbolina could've found a creative way to merge his gaming stuff with wrestling; even basic stuff like Angry Joe's review intro-skits would've been a good way to start but nope, he wanted complaining about early 2010s game industry problems to be his schtick into the 2020s.

Claiming he gives a single fuck about consumer or worker rights is as generous an assumption as assuming he's a woman. He only cares about CAPITALISM and hating on it like he has a better idea without actually ever elaborating about how he'd fix the problems he's talking about.

Trooning has 0% to do with it either, he was a blob before and nothings changed. The sub loss started almost a year before he trooned out.

EDIT: anyone think wizardgame has a chance to win the steam awards? Will we get end this year and start the next with a big fat seethe from the hormone whores?

 

[Corn Flakes]

So much overanalysis...

He put time into wrestling in front of 100 people instead of vidya content in front of 100s of thousands.

And he switched from consumer rights to worker rights.

And he trooned out.

All awful career moves.

Well, that and he got even more fucking repetitive than he originally was. I'd say that was a big thing. People are willing to put up with cringe behavior if they're being entertained, but all he has are crass jokes and claiming to be a woman (which is a crass joke in and of itself).

 

[WASR96]

It is amusing to me that he had a few things that could have helped his channel, yet he failed at all of them.

1. Drop the same talking points. After the Digital Homicide lawsuit video, that should have been it. Valve changed nothing, Nintendo and Sony were opening the floodgates to shovelware, good try but trash games are here to stay, time for a new topic. Make a jab at it once a year during your shittiest games video, but uploading the same video every Monday is tiring.

2. Nobody gives a fuck about wrestling. It's what every single fat person gets into when they "get involved in a sport to help me lose weight." They're always still fat and nobody else cares. Create a B-Channel for all your wrestling shit so people don't unsub from your main channel.

3. Keep politics out of videos about vidya. Not sure why this even needs to be stated. Pretty much everyone knew where he fell politically, but he rarely brought it up in his older videos so people still watched. He started shoving his ideals into almost every video after DH which is when a lot of people started to unsub.

4. Estrogen doesn't make you happy. Get a real workout routine, stop drinking shit that has bubbles in it, and put the fork down. I long for the day where becoming a gross tranny is no longer the norm for depressed/mid life crisis dudes. I'll take us going back to the buying a sports car shtick, at least they were nowhere near as whiny back then and it was funny watching out of shape grandpas trying to climb into a Corvette.

 

[ShitLurker]

He'd probably still be going strong if he never trooned out and kept the wrestling shit to a minimum.

He'd still be dropping (I peaced out of his videos when I noticed it was always the same video and that was way before wrestling and trannyhood struck), but at a much slower rate. This would also have meant he wouldn't have been nearly as disgusting to Yatzhee and friends when they had him on that Second Wind stream and could be negotiating right now a contract to collaborate with them actively, but alas, he decided to accuse Yathzee of making him "pregnant" in "playful banter". Action and consequences, has there ever been a more tragic combination?

 

[whatever I feel like]

He'd still be dropping (I peaced out of his videos when I noticed it was always the same video and that was way before wrestling and trannyhood struck), but at a much slower rate. This would also have meant he wouldn't have been nearly as disgusting to Yatzhee and friends when they had him on that Second Wind stream and could be negotiating right now a contract to collaborate with them actively, but alas, he decided to accuse Yathzee of making him "pregnant" in "playful banter". Action and consequences, has there ever been a more tragic combination?

He made more on hiscown than at the escapist. Even now he is more relevant and watched than 80 percent of them. His "success " is, if anything, an endorsement of capitalism rather than a critique of it.

 

[UncleTusky]

He made more on hiscown than at the escapist. Even now he is more relevant and watched than 80 percent of them. His "success " is, if anything, an endorsement of capitalism rather than a critique of it.

It's more than that: Much of his content consists of railing against megacorps for pushing profitability (micropayments, mergers/acquisitions, crunch time, phoning it in on ports, Hogwarts Legacy, etc.) over what he considers quality/player experience. That's about as capitalist as it gets and if those companies were all somehow replaced by indie devs trying to break even, he'd be out of a job overnight.