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

BHWuser said:
I know this is true. Though, I do have to ask. Is it because women are more vicious, or power only tends to come to women who are more vicious?
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that's the question that always gets brought up. certainly, there's a different kind of woman that wants to excel politically like that, but judging by how women interact in offices and similar spaces where there's a lot of them put together in a semi-competitive or competitive environment...well. it gets pretty ruthless, to say the least.
 
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BHWuser said:
I know this is true. Though, I do have to ask. Is it because women are more vicious, or power only tends to come to women who are more vicious?
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My guess is it depends on the society and how militant it is.
 
Dick Pooman said:
Forgive me if it's been asked before, but how much do you think Jim writes off on his taxes for his faggy English fop makeup?
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Jim probably thinks he's a minority and shouldn't pay taxes, so all of it.
 
bricked said:
the issue is that jim is a conSOOMer who believes that he has to buy every new thing that comes out in his hobby. it's a weird mindset that you see from a lot of people in recent years, where they basically feel like they're forced to constantly buy whatever frivolous thing and can never save money as a result.

at least in jim's case he has some excuse of being a "games reviewer," but he does a pretty shit job of that anyways.
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That whole mindset is basically like the nerd version of keeping up with the Joneses, except you have to in order to "stay in the conversation" with other people online. Nerd groups have weird hierarchies where you're judged as a person not by your character, but by your collection, your video game accomplishments, superficial shit like that. Fall behind on your eternally growing collection of bullshit trinkets or video game scores, and your position on the totem pole drops.

That's how you end up with crazy situations like the Smash Bros. community and the guys who ran EVO grooming young girls and being pedos and so many others just staying silent. Nobody rocks the boat because they know they'll get ostracized, and the kind of people who are attracted to the idea of taking video games seriously to any extend don't tend to have the balls to call out shit when they see it.

Pickle Inspector said:
One thing I‘ve noticed which Jim never mentioned is games seem to go on discount quicker than ever these days, if you wait just a few months there’s a good chance a game will be at least a third off on a sale.
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Amazon and Walmart have also been selling new releases for $50 for a couple of years now.
 
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Pissmaster said:
That whole mindset is basically like the nerd version of keeping up with the Joneses, except you have to in order to "stay in the conversation" with other people online. Nerd groups have weird hierarchies where you're judged as a person not by your character, but by your collection, your video game accomplishments, superficial shit like that. Fall behind on your eternally growing collection of bullshit trinkets or video game scores, and your position on the totem pole drops.

That's how you end up with crazy situations like the Smash Bros. community and the guys who ran EVO grooming young girls and being pedos and so many others just staying silent. Nobody rocks the boat because they know they'll get ostracized, and the kind of people who are attracted to the idea of taking video games seriously to any extend don't tend to have the balls to call out shit when they see it.


Amazon and Walmart have also been selling new releases for $50 for a couple of years now.
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Is it exceptionally weird to assume a grown men deeply invested in a hobby usually filled with kids probably have a pedo among them? I feel really fucking autistic typing this out, but it seems like this is the same old song and dance where you have pro gamers, content creators, or organizers for any type of hobby where there is a heavy pressence of kids there's almost always some grooming going on. I know i'm painting with a broad brush here, but I could not in good conscience let my kids go to something like evo as teenagers unless I was trying to purposely trying to sign them up for the %molestation speed run, I feel like I would need supervise them to make sure they don't get coerced in something because their favorite streamer call them their little pog champ or some stupid shit, it just feels like a lot of the things I enjoyed as a kid when it comes to conventions I could only enjoy because of the autonomy me and my friends had and it blows I cannot give that exact same opportunity to my kids in good conscience.
 
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PadThaiLover1 said:
Is it exceptionally weird to assume a grown men deeply invested in a hobby usually filled with kids probably have a pedo among them? I feel really fucking autistic typing this out, but it seems like this is the same old song and dance where you have pro gamers, content creators, or organizers for any type of hobby where there is a heavy pressence of kids there's almost always some grooming going on. I know i'm painting with a broad brush here, but I could not in good conscience let my kids go to something like evo as teenagers unless I was trying to purposely trying to sign them up for the %molestation speed run, I feel like I would need supervise them to make sure they don't get coerced in something because their favorite streamer call them their little pog champ or some stupid shit, it just feels like a lot of the things I enjoyed as a kid when it comes to conventions I could only enjoy because of the autonomy me and my friends had and it blows I cannot give that exact same opportunity to my kids in good conscience.
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It‘s not much of a stretch, plus a good number of the adults there are likely autistic so won‘t notice the red flags because they’ll be hyper focused on their hobby.

A lot of the grooming seems to be on social media itself though if the threads on these forums are anything to by.
 
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The tired cat said:
So, I wonder how hard Jimbo is gonna scree about CP77, we already had Kotaku reee'ing again about crunchtime, Polygon jacked off about "muh twoons arent repressented properly Cyberpuunk!!!", so what can fatman bring to the table.
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He’s not covering it apparently since he said he won’t be buying it. As you can imagine CDPR are just besides themselves right now.
 
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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
He’s not covering it apparently since he said he won’t be buying it. As you can imagine CDPR are just besides themselves right now.
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Lol he's still mad because CDPR employee told him to gtfo after he bitched about black representation (or lack thereof) in Witcher 3? Must be really mad because that's the first I hear of him boycotting something he hates instead of using it as a punching bag.
 
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Tovarisz said:
Lol he's still mad because CDPR employee told him to gtfo after he bitched about black representation (or lack thereof) in Witcher 3? Must be really mad because that's the first I hear of him boycotting something he hates instead of using it as a punching bag.
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Well, that or he still holds a grudge when CDPR posted a gif of the Postal dude pissing on the gravestone of gaming journalism on their GoG Twitter account.
 
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It also seems like he has a crossdressing fetish but is trying to insert himself into the trans community as a shield for his behaviour (Like in that podcast where Jim insisted the host should look at sexy photos of him in a dress) as well as the extra social media clout he‘d get in progressive circles.
 
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