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

[AnOminous]

What's wrong with him, besides being fat?

All the shit that goes along with being morbidly obese. Aching joints, digestive system problems, borderline diabetes, fatigue, sleep apnea, anyone fat enough gets most or all of these things and more.

 

[Hengeyokai]

Jim's latest video, launched today is garbage as well. To the surprise of Boone he tries to paint a pro-democracy up views as being good for games. There is a (exceptional, for stupid people,) argument to be made for censorship but this isn't it.

His argument seems to be "we need censorship to stop people from censoring things".

EDIT: That tribute at the end. You could tell Jim was feeling death's hand on his shoulder when he said how young TB was. Very halfhearted "Whatever people say about total biscuit (PLEASE DON'T CANNIBALIZE ME SJWS PLEASE)" defense of TB's character too.

 

[Jaimas]

So Sterling decided to do something that nicely encapsulates why many people who once supported him now can't stand the guy.

Recently, a game got on Steam by pulling the Hatred/Postal Gambit: Active Shooter, a game in which you do a school shooting (or play as the police to stop it). Fittingly, the usual hand-wringing is going on about why things like this are even being allowed on Steam, even though this doesn't really do anything that new or interesting. He then proceeds to pontificate about the various IRL mass shootings that have happened, and makes the argument - no lie - that the game does not deserve to be on steam because it references what is "a real epidemic in the united states." He then claims that he's not offended by it and above it, but argues that it doesn't deserve to be there anyway, because its existence and tendency to offend means that people will push for legit censorship.

If you're familiar with Jim, this is the point where you've either facepalmed or laughed your ass off. Jim calling for rote censorship of games he doesn't like isn't anything new. He's personally responsible, for example, for going after several game developers, alongside fellow perennial lolcow Laura Kate Dale.

He's rather infamous for making the argument, apropos of nothing, alongside Bob Chipman, that the loss of boob games would be nothing but an improvement for video games and "no real loss." This would be bad enough but he's equally-well-known for his claim that "nobody will take your games away" when the fact is he helps push that exact fucking angle through self-censorship, and is personal friends with multiple people who literally never shut the fuck up about this shit (IRL friends with MovieBob and Zoe Quinn, publicly supported Anita Sarkeesian, extensive work with Leigh Alexander and Laura Kate Dale, etc). When the professionally offended brigade got GTAV blacklisted in Australia, for example, Jim denied any wrongdoing, despite his buddies pushing the ideology that led to its banning in the first place.

Back to the video: He then proceeds to argue that concerns about Social Justice-induced censorship don't exist and it's really the Right that wants to censor everything, citing the sociopolitical climate of over a fucking decade ago, and argues that Steam should crack down on it because they shouldn't be allowing things that would result in them facing legislation later on - in other words, arguing in favor of censorship to defend against censorship. He misses the point entirely.

This is the kind of shit that made people hate Jim so much - the constant fucking hypocrisy he shows. He'll ignore any problem so long as it comes from the political ideology he's cozy with, but the second it offends his delicate sensibilities, the motherfucker argues that it needs to be shut the fuck down, and it just does not stop happening.

As the good Doctor Jangles pointed out in the Wu thread, emphasis mine:

Hatred isn't a very good game on its own. It's a samey, isometric shooter with about 30 minutes of entertainment. The point of it being made, however, is the same reason games like Postal got made back during the "VIDYA MAKES KIDS VIOLENT" days when Clinton and Jack Thomson got their collective narc on. It's an immature thumb in the eye of hand-wringing crybabies who want everything censored. If you look at the specific time at which Hatred was released, you start to get the sense that its timing wasn't an accident.

The entire point of Hatred existing was to piss off people who didn't want it to. Kiwi Farms is not entirely dissimilar, in that sense.

These games don't get stopped because people like Wu object to them. They are made because people like Wu exist.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Recently, a game got on Steam by pulling the Hatred/Postal Gambit: Active Shooter, a game in which you do a school shooting (or play as the police to stop it). Fittingly, the usual hand-wringing is going on about why things like this are even being allowed on Steam, even though this doesn't really do anything that new or interesting. He then proceeds to pontificate about the various IRL mass shootings that have happened, and makes the argument - no lie - that the game does not deserve to be on steam because it references what is "a real epidemic in the united states." He then claims that he's not offended by it and above it, but argues that it doesn't deserve to be there anyway, because its existence and tendency to offend means that people will push for legit censorship.

>Claims to not be offended by the game and above it.
>Still tries to push for it to be removed.
You can spin this however way you want Jim, it still makes you look like you were offended.

Back to the video: He then proceeds to argue that concerns about Social Justice-induced censorship don't exist and it's really the Right that wants to censor everything, citing the sociopolitical climate of over a fucking decade ago, and argues that Steam should crack down on it because they shouldn't be allowing things that would result in them facing legislation later on - in other words, arguing in favor of censorship to defend against censorship. He misses the point entirely.

How goddamn blind do you have to be to not realize how drastically the pendulum has shifted in the last ten years? Yes, the right tried to censor video games with the likes of Jack Thompson, but Thompson is barely around anymore, and most of the right-wing whiners have fucked off. Not to mention, he's claiming to be on the left, yes? And that the Right were the ones who were censoring games which was a bad thing. But then he proceeds to proclaim that censorship is a good thing even though he's not on the right? And he's basically disproving his own point by saying that SJWs censoring games isn't an actual problem by advocating for censorship.

The mental gymnastics are making my brain hurt.

 

[Hengeyokai]

The thing people like Jim don't get is that the freedom to speech isn't there to defend something that everyone finds agreeable. It defends the crazy shit, whether from the right or left.
It also makes me laugh that when a group of "undesirables" are denied use of a platform like Twitter, people like Jim are always the first to say that it's Twitter's prerogative to decide what's allowable. Now when Steam decides that they're going to allow whatever they want, it's no longer their say; they have to agree with *my* moralism.

 

[Clop]

The game needs to be censored or otherwise games will be censored?

Jim.. baby.. did someone drop you off the stage while you were off pretending to be a wrestler with your little friends?

 

[AnOminous]

Tbh I'd trade Jim Sterling to have TB back.

 

[Dickxon]

Tbh I'd trade Jim Sterling to have TB back.

TB's voice and accent sure as fuck weren't as annoying as Jim's, I'll give you that.

 

[vhstape]

Tbh I'd trade Jim Sterling to have TB back.

sure you could trade Jim Sterling in for two TBs and still have some of Jim left.

 

[Hengeyokai]

Tbh I'd trade Jim Sterling to have TB back.

Maybe one day health will be determined entirely by lifestyle. The Jim Sterlings of the world would be dead 30 years before the TBs.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

So Sterling decided to do something that nicely encapsulates why many people who once supported him now can't stand the guy.

Recently, a game got on Steam by pulling the Hatred/Postal Gambit: Active Shooter, a game in which you do a school shooting (or play as the police to stop it). Fittingly, the usual hand-wringing is going on about why things like this are even being allowed on Steam, even though this doesn't really do anything that new or interesting. He then proceeds to pontificate about the various IRL mass shootings that have happened, and makes the argument - no lie - that the game does not deserve to be on steam because it references what is "a real epidemic in the united states." He then claims that he's not offended by it and above it, but argues that it doesn't deserve to be there anyway, because its existence and tendency to offend means that people will push for legit censorship.

If you're familiar with Jim, this is the point where you've either facepalmed or laughed your ass off. Jim calling for rote censorship of games he doesn't like isn't anything new. He's personally responsible, for example, for going after several game developers, alongside fellow perennial lolcow Laura Kate Dale.

He's rather infamous for making the argument, apropos of nothing, alongside Bob Chipman, that the loss of boob games would be nothing but an improvement for video games and "no real loss." This would be bad enough but he's equally-well-known for his claim that "nobody will take your games away" when the fact is he helps push that exact fucking angle through self-censorship, and is personal friends with multiple people who literally never shut the fuck up about this shit (IRL friends with MovieBob and Zoe Quinn, publicly supported Anita Sarkeesian, extensive work with Leigh Alexander and Laura Kate Dale, etc). When the professionally offended brigade got GTAV blacklisted in Australia, for example, Jim denied any wrongdoing, despite his buddies pushing the ideology that led to its banning in the first place.

Back to the video: He then proceeds to argue that concerns about Social Justice-induced censorship don't exist and it's really the Right that wants to censor everything, citing the sociopolitical climate of over a fucking decade ago, and argues that Steam should crack down on it because they shouldn't be allowing things that would result in them facing legislation later on - in other words, arguing in favor of censorship to defend against censorship. He misses the point entirely.

This is the kind of shit that made people hate Jim so much - the constant fucking hypocrisy he shows. He'll ignore any problem so long as it comes from the political ideology he's cozy with, but the second it offends his delicate sensibilities, the motherfucker argues that it needs to be shut the fuck down, and it just does not stop happening.

As the good Doctor Jangles pointed out in the Wu thread, emphasis mine:

Jim's losing subs thanks to that video it seems.

 

[Dickxon]

Maybe one day health will be determined entirely by lifestyle. The Jim Sterlings of the world would be dead 30 years before the TBs.

Has he ever commented on why he's so morbidly fat? Any kind of the typical "I've got a disorder" excuse?

 

[MidUSA]

Has he ever commented on why he's so morbidly fat? Any kind of the typical "I've got a disorder" excuse?

To his credit, he seems to be honest about that as far as I've seen. He's a fat boi cause he eats a lot of unhealthy stuff. Never heard him give another reason.

 

[Hengeyokai]

Has he ever commented on why he's so morbidly fat? Any kind of the typical "I've got a disorder" excuse?

Not as far as I'm aware. He's more of the acknowledges to comedic effect type.
Still complacent as fuck but way more bearable than the manipulative woe is me fucks like Boogie or the fat acceptance tards.

 

[Jaimas]

Jim's losing subs thanks to that video it seems.

He's been bleeding them for a while, because one of his biggest weaknesses becomes visible when he does this shit.

He will never criticize his own side, even when they're visbly in the wrong, even if he has to run interference for someone who's done despicable shit. He constantly goes to bat for LKD despite her litany of leaks and fuck-ups.

He won't go against the clique even if they're fucking savaging someone he's friends with. He barely fucking spoke up at all as his own buddies spent the better part the last week tearing John Bain to shreds for allegations ranging from stupid to insane. Similarly, nothing but simple "I will not condemn TB" as his buddies sent death threats to Bain's wife and son.

He quit the Escapist because the site owners refused to kowtow to the GG = Satan gambit, declaring that The Escapist had "given a platform to madmen," less than a week after he claimed he would be open to discussion.

He constantly tries to claim it's impossible to be impartial (and indeed, has shit out the same unfunny shit review like four times making fun of the concept) while glossing over his own personal friendships and working relationships with people who are constantly stirring up issues in the industry and happen to have threads here.

He claims he's not pro-censorship while ostensibly being pro-censorship.

He never, ever admits when he's fucked up somehow. When shit like the Australian banning of GTAV and the refusal to localize DOAX3 happened, both times citing pressure from the likes of Sterling's political sped associates directly, he denied he had anything to do with either and stated it wasn't his fault because self-censorship isn't real censorship.

Oh, and he's deleting comments critical of him in that video again.

 

[AbuIstimnaAlKekistani]

Its interesting how TB as a corpse is still better liked and more prosperous than these shit birds who are happy about his death.

 

[ChevroletBlackboard]

Social Blade says his views are down 10% over the last month, but he's gained roughly six thousand subs.

 

[Rocketleaguer]

His patreon figures will be more interesting.

 

[gobbogobb]

He's not wrong about impartial reviews and the ffxiii one was funny, but that horse has already hit the glue factory in the year of our lord 2018..

 

[DavieCrockerJump]

He's not wrong about impartial reviews and the ffxiii one was funny, but that horse has already hit the glue factory in the year of our lord 2018..

Well no, he is. You can evaluate a piece of media on it's objective merits, and relay that information to the customers. Your enjoyment of it is subjective but you analysis of it needn't be.

It's a shame that Stirling has so much pull in the sphere of gaming because he is an absolute pleb. I've been waiting to see if he'd maybe step up and make a video about his friends shitting on someone's grave, but no. Amusingly enough, he did it when people were being mean to Alex Mauer, someone he didn't even know.