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

[MeltyTW]

when I was young all the local punks where skinhead nazis and video games where a cassette tapes


great times

and since cyberpunk was supposed to be based on a futuristic version of that time ..... idk it still makes me sad the genericization of everything for a zoomer audience

 

[White Devil]

I miss the days of blasting Skrewdriver out of my 8 track.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Yeah, is it proven that those pills aren't like lexapro or adderall?

On the other hand, I doubt Jim would outright joke about taking estrogen, as that would be considered transphobic.

Coppercab did it.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Coppercab did it.

Wasn't that a troll?

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Wasn't that a troll?

You're asking me whether or not these are two fat attention whores with tiny dicks?!

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I felt in my heart of hearts that this day would come. I mean, I already knew he was in his own words a "queerboat." I used to watch his stuff a few years back because it was generally pretty incisive but he has increasingly disappeared up his own arse and started just regurgitating talking points repeated a thousand times. Basically, he used to be just pretending to be a scornful egotist as part of a character, now he is one.

 

[Governor Jeb Bush]

Jim is one of those late night thesaurus readers, i bet. Checking for new words to appear witty. Sad loser!

 

[Jack Awful]

Coppercab did it.

Coppercab will say anything for attention

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

To dust off an old favorite.

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Yup, it got fully infiltrated and taken over by the leftist brigade.

"Ageism" I highly doubt that one.

 

[pogo]

A better comparison would be to ancient pagan cults that would conduct ritualistic castration; or in the case of trans kids casterato opera singers. Humans are weird.

Castrati were skilled professional musicians. Some, like Farinelli, are known as notorious ladies men too (depending on the region and era, a castrati would only lose their balls). Modern day troons and trans kids are just pure degeneracy to make a statement about gender identity. At least Castrati had training, pipes, a purpose, and suffered no delusions of being a woman. Because of the anatomy of the male chest, Castrati usually could sing more comfortably than woman with similar vocal range and usually had a wider range to boot. Men with naturally high voices, contra tenors, don't even approach the abilities of a trained Castrato.

It's still wrong to cut people's genitals, no defending that---but Castrati were professionals with a legacy-- and they weren't trannies.

 

[pogo]

I can guarantee you right now someone is coaching their kid to be trans, for the purpose of getting in good with rich people

Desmondisamazing?

To bring it back to soon-to-be-her-deadnamed Jim, a lot of what is driving the trans trend is that its like a big ladder up the victim hierarchy. You go from being a filthy oppressive cisshit white male to being on par with black women in the victim hierarchy.

In addition to all of this, becoming trans is an extremely tangible identity destroying act--- you abandon the name your parents gave you, abandon your past, abandon the image and personality (even apart from gender). A lot of cis white dudes who go full troon are committing suicide in more ways than one. I think this is an extreme result of people learning to hate themselves.

 

[Terrorist]

Because following the culturally and institutionally support process of taking prescribed drugs to 'fix yourself' is definitely what punk is all about.

Punk was mostly a marketing gimmick to sell liberal politics and corporate entertainment products through an aesthetic of fake rebellion. Jim Sterling is as good an heir to punk as anyone.

 

[Hux]

Another day, another instance of me repeating this point:

Punk died with GG Allin

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Coppercab will say anything for attention

So, someone who's been photographed with what looks like semen on their face and says, "I'm so punk, I take estrogen" is stunning and brave.

 

[Enoby Way]

To dust off an old favorite.

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Yup, it got fully infiltrated and taken over by the leftist brigade.

Western leftists will always take over stuff like this because to them left=progressive. Anything that is anti-establishment is fodder for them. Doesn't matter what the establishment is, either, the point of progression is that you keep moving, otherwise you are no longer progressive.

That's also why they have gotten more and more extreme. If they find a point where they want to settle down, they can't or they lose their identity. (PL, this is what happened to me, I had very left-wing values and then in the later half of the last decade I saw my peers get nuttier and nuttier. It was a combination of them leaving me behind and me just noping out of it. Traditionally-speaking my views are still quite left wing, but the left we have at the moment would probably call them fascist these days...)

Punk was mostly a marketing gimmick to sell liberal politics and corporate entertainment products through an aesthetic of fake rebellion. Jim Sterling is as good an heir to punk as anyone.

Punk was pro-DIY and anti-corporate before marketing teams saw a way to make a buck or two.

Basically Punk has the weird distinction of being taken over and co-opted by both the commies and the capitalists for their own ends.

 

[Morwyn]

I honestly thought that the taking estrogen is punk line was Jim actually being funny for the first time in a while. It turns out he was, but unintentionally.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Western leftists will always take over stuff like this because to them left=progressive. Anything that is anti-establishment is fodder for them. Doesn't matter what the establishment is, either, the point of progression is that you keep moving, otherwise you are no longer progressive.

That's also why they have gotten more and more extreme. If they find a point where they want to settle down, they can't or they lose their identity. (PL, this is what happened to me, I had very left-wing values and then in the later half of the last decade I saw my peers get nuttier and nuttier. It was a combination of them leaving me behind and me just noping out of it. Traditionally-speaking my views are still quite left wing, but the left we have at the moment would probably call them fascist these days...)



Punk was pro-DIY and anti-corporate before marketing teams saw a way to make a buck or two.

Basically Punk has the weird distinction of being taken over and co-opted by both the commies and the capitalists for their own ends.

Punk was basically another way to sell degeneracy to the masses. The 80s version of the Hippies. A few people took the music and the fashion seriously, but to most people, it was just a way to piss off their own parents.

 

[Pissmaster]

Punk was pro-DIY and anti-corporate before marketing teams saw a way to make a buck or two.

Basically Punk has the weird distinction of being taken over and co-opted by both the commies and the capitalists for their own ends.

This made me think about how Burning Man started out with a whole thing about "radical self reliance", where you had to bring all your own stuff and rough it in the desert with everyone else for like two weeks, and now you've got billionaires just kinda landing their jets there and joining in and there's no real protest against it.

Punk was basically another way to sell degeneracy to the masses. The 80s version of the Hippies. A few people took the music and the fashion seriously, but to most people, it was just a way to piss off their own parents.

And that's kind of where it stayed. It's a way to rebel against your parents when you're a teenager in the 80s, going against your parents idea of ideal life coming from Leave it to Beaver. The problem is, we're a solid 40 years out from the 80s, and the things Jim considers rebellious is the same kind of shit billion & trillion dollar corporations agree with. Everything went full circle, and now conservatives embracing the nuclear family and calling out Black Lives Matter and Antifa for what they are is the modern form of rebellion.

 

[myiqis53]

This made me think about how Burning Man started out with a whole thing about "radical self reliance", where you had to bring all your own stuff and rough it in the desert with everyone else for like two weeks, and now you've got billionaires just kinda landing their jets there and joining in and there's no real protest against it.


And that's kind of where it stayed. It's a way to rebel against your parents when you're a teenager in the 80s, going against your parents idea of ideal life coming from Leave it to Beaver. The problem is, we're a solid 40 years out from the 80s, and the things Jim considers rebellious is the same kind of shit billion & trillion dollar corporations agree with. Everything went full circle, and now conservatives embracing the nuclear family and calling out Black Lives Matter and Antifa for what they are is the modern form of rebellion.

Jesuscore rock when?

 

[kcbbq]

Another day, another instance of me repeating this point:

Punk died with GG Allin

Naw, GG Allin rotting away dead isn't much different than him rotting away alive and punk occasionally still shits out something worth listening to. Commodify Your Dissent by The Dead Milkmen (yeah, yeah, Beavis And Butthead fifteen minutes of fame yadda yadda) is a worthy track.

Tacoland might now be an expensive restaurant, Avril Lavigne might me allowed to breath everyone's oxygen, but there's still some shit out there that isn't just tryhard garbage.

Punk was basically another way to sell degeneracy to the masses. The 80s version of the Hippies. A few people took the music and the fashion seriously, but to most people, it was just a way to piss off their own parents.

If you took punk seriously you didn't understand the point of it back then. Malcolm McLaren was entirely a poseur for trying to do just that.

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" Yes, Johnny, all the time.