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

I can usually enjoy a Jim Spergling video but I feel like he was on a shitload of painkillers when he wrote that. It's basically a long-form response to some Youtube comments in which he doesn't really arrive at a point. Why did it need to even be a video? Is this really that big an issue? Is it threatening to become one? It's the week of E3, even though he obviously records in advance, but could he really not think of anything more interesting to talk about?
 
I suggest we consider allowing Genna to continue the Bain legacy on here as she is on TB's channels. While not full crazy troon she seems like she'll be a slow burn cow.

Aside from the afformentioned "glad my husband isn't here to see this" she has also made a joke about people mourning Fallout can join her in mourning and made a joke about wanting to have some PR woman from E3 ravish her.

A dark sense of humour is one thing and can help you get through a lot of shit, but something about her tone and general style seems like the pressure from the widdowing and all the financial stuff is making her crack and it could be a fun ride.
 
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You can spot it a mile away.

As someone who enjoys The Jimquisition, but couldn't care less about him as a person, I'll admit that the last few episodes have been pretty dull. The subject isn't interesting, maybe he is just repeating what he has said before or what have you, but they lack something.

Every other episode is him crusading against something problematic so its a bit hard to ignore.
 
How are people even running into brain-dead asset flips? Is this related to having searched for and bought garbage in the past like some kind of mongoloid who can’t smell a shit sandwich when they’re being sold one?

Whenever I want to find something, I find that and not much else. I more or less ignore the queue, but I am just not getting inundated with worthless crap games the way people like Jim Sterling seem to think is happening all the time.
 
I suggest we consider allowing Genna to continue the Bain legacy on here as she is on TB's channels. While not full crazy troon she seems like she'll be a slow burn cow.

She turned comments on the last video (something that couldn't be done with TB alive) and has been seemingly good at ignoring (at least publicly) the idiots celebrating her husband's untimely death.
 
How are people even running into brain-dead asset flips? Is this related to having searched for and bought garbage in the past like some kind of mongoloid who can’t smell a shit sandwich when they’re being sold one?

Whenever I want to find something, I find that and not much else. I more or less ignore the queue, but I am just not getting inundated with worthless crap games the way people like Jim Sterling seem to think is happening all the time.
It's extremely unlikely to see any of these low quality games on the front page of the Steam Store in the first place unless a large group of dumb idiots decide to buy one of them for shits and giggles but even then it's a very huge task.

The closest you can see any of them is if you found it on your Discovery Queue but even then you can just report it.
 

I don't typically watch Rags (nothing against him, just not a fan), though I did agree with part of his point against Jim. It's ridiculous how he's done a complete 180 against the very cause he stands for.

Quality control can be nice to keep shit off of Steam, but I'd rather not have it if the whole thing would become a slippery slope. And just remember, that's not to say that Steam allows any and all games to exist. There are still many that cannot exist due to their ToS (such as literally broken/unplayable games), which I at least think is fair.
 
I more or less ignore the queue, but I am just not getting inundated with worthless crap games the way people like Jim Sterling seem to think is happening all the time.

The closest you can see any of them is if you found it on your Discovery Queue but even then you can just report it.
Even in the Discovery Queue you are very unlikely to find anything resembling the caliber of what Sterling complains about. I cannot remember, for the life of me, a single "asset flip" I have ever seen, outside of Sterling's videos complaining about them. Now, I have found some pretty painfully low-quality games, but those were rare. Still, I might have forgotten something, so I hopped on the Discovery Queue to test it. Most of the games were games from actual companies, and all of them clearly had some effort put into them. In two 12-game Discovery Queues, I found one game that looked like an obviously shitty game by someone who didn't know how to make a game. Even this looks better than most of the crap Sterling talks about, as if it were everywhere on Steam.

Now, not every game I found was a winner, and I could find three or four other games that didn't seem like a well-made, quality, experience. But even then, with four terrible games out of 24, that's not even a fifth of what you find. And you know what I did about those games? I ignored them, because I'm capable of accepting a universe where not every game on Steam has the same polish as I have come to expect from most games on other platforms. This is all anecdotal, and doesn't really mean anything. If someone claimed their queue was full of shit, I can't argue against it. But as far as I'm concerned, Sterling spends his free time checking Steam's new releases for something terrible enough for him to sperg about. Because the very fact that the games exist is an affront to his tastes.
 
I don't typically watch Rags (nothing against him, just not a fan), though I did agree with part of his point against Jim. It's ridiculous how he's done a complete 180 against the very cause he stands for.

Some furry dunking on Jim Sterling, I don't know who looks worse.
 
It's extremely unlikely to see any of these low quality games on the front page of the Steam Store in the first place unless a large group of dumb idiots decide to buy one of them for shits and giggles but even then it's a very huge task.

The closest you can see any of them is if you found it on your Discovery Queue but even then you can just report it.

Valve should get rid of this Queue. It just throws generic indie garbage at the customer.

They should really work to foster a community used to searching through tags and genres to find what they actually want. Heck, they could do what F.Jim pretends to want sometimes and empower the curators.
 
Some furry dunking on Jim Sterling, I don't know who looks worse.

The one who doesn't even have the balls to use a camera and uses a barely changing .png like almost every political commentator on YouTube. Disturbingly enough nearly all of them are anthropomorphic animals like they're doing a Saturday morning cartoon.

And that's saying a lot considering Jim's a complete wanker.
 
I'm mostly sure that what we're witnessing is the very beginning of Jim's slow descent.

Give it time, because Jim mostly doubles down when pressed and I'm sure hilarity lies ahead.

His most ardent fans are going to triple down and he won't be any worse off.

Give it time, even if Jim pissed all over every single one of his principles, his patrons would still convince themselves into thinking he's always right. But at least we'll get a lot of laughs.
 
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