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

[Clem Fandango]

Except a lot of them do - compare how Oliver Thorn/Philosophy Tube sounds in his “coming out” video before and after he shows up as “Abigail”. Troons who try and sound feminine almost never sound like actual women, they might raise the pitch of their voice a bit, even add some vocal fry, but it’s still unmistakably male and sounds either super gay, or like a man mocking the way women talk, and overall has this real uncanny valley effect.

That annoyed me about Philosophy Tube: on that "coming out" video, as soon as he sits down as Abigail for the first time he laughs and says "So happy I don't have to do the voice anymore!".

If you were born a man it's pretty obviously that the deeper voice is your real and natural voice, and kicking it up an octave in a pathetic parody of what you think women sounds like is the "fake voice". How many levels of denial are these guys on.

Anyway, since this is the Jim thread and not the BreadTube one: Jim was way off point with his "patenting game mechanics is bad" rant. Not necessarily the central premise, which you could argue either way, but the overused example of the mini-games-on-loading-screens patent.

That patent was clearly invalid from day one, due to a number of existing games back in the 80s having mini games on loading screens. The reason no one applied for revocation is because it wasn't fucking worth it. By the time it was granted in the late 90s, gamers didn't want to play a mini game on a loading screen, they wanted shorter loading screens, or preferably no loading screens. Putting a mini game up there would obviously increase the loading time. So the patent owner didn't implement it, and no one else even wanted to.

Why do people always point to this patent, as if there would be some awesome genre of loading screen mini games without it? All you can realistically do is a space invader clone that you play for ten seconds. Do you really feel like you're missing out? Or would you rather the game just start already?

 

[Corn Flakes]

That annoyed me about Philosophy Tube: on that "coming out" video, as soon as he sits down as Abigail for the first time he laughs and says "So happy I don't have to do the voice anymore!".

If you were born a man it's pretty obviously that the deeper voice is your real and natural voice, and kicking it up an octave in a pathetic parody of what you think women sounds like is the "fake voice". How many levels of denial are these guys on.

Not to derail further, but I thought that claim was implying that he had already trooned out in real life and started using his "girl voice" before trooning out on the tubes. So he had already adopted the "girl voice" as his "default" voice, even though it's clearly fucking forced and unnatural for his range, and was using the "wrong" voice for his videos for a while.

 

[Crab Zone]

you'll find this used on virtually every single trans discord, especially the smaller ones.

but of course it doesn't mean shit. no matter how many years their 'allies' sink into this shit, the second they offer up an even mildly critical disagreeing opinion, no matter how politely worded, they get kicked for 'transphobia' or simply for 'offensive posting'.

these people absolutely harbor their own mini-cults for their own validation and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

Its used all across the SJW social circles. Say the correct thing get compliments and praise thrown at you for saying the right thing.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Its used all across the SJW social circles. Say the correct thing get compliments and praise thrown at you for saying the right thing.

On the flipside, say the wrong thing and you get hammered like a nail.

It's very Pavlovian.

 

[existencialdispointment]

The irony of Jim Sterling using the word "cuck" to insult so called corporate bootlickers (something he also implies using the stock image of a boot while calling those people cucks) is honestly baffling.

hasn't he constantly sided with corporations over the years

 

[The Last Boyscout]

Its used all across the SJW social circles. Say the correct thing get compliments and praise thrown at you for saying the right thing.

funnily enough, I have to disagree with this a bit since it's somewhat inaccurate.

tiny powerlevel, but if you couldn't tell I've frequented left-wing or SJW social circles for years in the past (genuinely trying to give them a chance as opposed to just trolling them, I'm sad to say) and all of them absolutely will of course validate you by saying the 'correct' thing and act like you're a fool for stating things that in the real world would be considered common sense, but which go against whatever left-wing lunacy they collectively espouse. but funnily enough, I've found that the ones that focus on broader topics (or several of them at once, like general hobbyist forums) will usually not go past that simply because a diverse range of topics attracts a diverse range of people/opinions by default, and so long as the jannies and owners are at least halfway attuned to that fact (tho yea lol...often times they aren't), they prefer to just let it slide and not jump at every tiny case of 'wrongthink' as reason enough to ban. I will admit tho, that if you keep up the 'wrongthink', they could certainly be talked into doing such by forum mobs or themselves. so as stupid as this is, I would not go so far as to call it full-blown cult behavior just yet and just your usual internet echo chamber instead.

not so, however, when it comes to the communities that are super narrowly focused on a single topic, like a specific sub-genre of gaming, fandoms or indeed politics and nothing but that. or especially in a smaller circle of friends, where the only jannie is the tranny that's supposed to be the center of attention by default! in those cases, not only is every new member immediately lovebombed and praised like they're the 2nd coming of Christ, but you are also practically always guaranteed to get perma'd for whatever slightest disagreement offends them to the point of utter lunacy and genuine cult-like behavior, especially if you disagreed with said tranny themselves.

it's genuinely amazing, in hindsight, that this behavior is to a tee comparable to a nationalist rally I went to check out of curiosity once IRL, where chanting their slogans would get people hoisted on their shoulders so they could chant them louder, while so much as booing them would usually result in attempted curbstomping. fortunately, in that case, those assholes were so few in number that the cops could easily get them while no such cyber police exists ofc on the internet lol.

 

[Governor Jeb Bush]

Why is Jim so anti corporations and stuff, but his whole lively-hood comes from those corps that own social media sites and YouTube?

Like back in the day, there was genuine underground printed newspapers that were anti big corp and they had cult followings and their own scenes. Jim Sterling mentally thinks he is being anti establishment... when in-fact he is the establishment, he uses all the big corp owned products and best of all - he plays - VIDYA games and makes a living from spouting shit about them.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Why is Jim so anti corporations and stuff, but his whole lively-hood comes from those corps that own social media sites and YouTube?

Like back in the day, there was genuine underground printed newspapers that were anti big corp and they had cult followings and their own scenes. Jim Sterling mentally thinks he is being anti establishment... when in-fact he is the establishment, he uses all the big corp owned products and best of all - he plays - VIDYA games and makes a living from spouting shit about them.

Don't worry, now that he's trooned out he's a permanent slave to Big Pharma. Otherwise he won't be able to get his titty skittles anymore.

 

[The Last Boyscout]

Why is Jim so anti corporations and stuff, but his whole lively-hood comes from those corps that own social media sites and YouTube?

Like back in the day, there was genuine underground printed newspapers that were anti big corp and they had cult followings and their own scenes. Jim Sterling mentally thinks he is being anti establishment... when in-fact he is the establishment, he uses all the big corp owned products and best of all - he plays - VIDYA games and makes a living from spouting shit about them.

I genuinely miss the old Jim from his times at the Escapist, because at least he was moreso honest about, ultimately, wanting to help corporations with his critique (wether it was right or wrong) and he genuinely didn't take himself as seriously.

heck, that was the original premise of how his videos started! the whole 'Thank God for me!' catchphrase that he came up with as his outro, was meant to emphasize his character's arrogant self-absorption in a performative sense, while every last interview he did outside of his character was of course drastically different.

now though, that genuinely entertaining man beneath the character is gone...and all that is now left is him becoming said character and trooning out of desperation. the old Jim is dead, long live Jimbolina the lolcow (though not likely, with him embracing deathfat 100% to milk asspats).

 

[PeriodicTrouble]

I genuinely miss the old Jim from his times at the Escapist, because at least he was moreso honest about, ultimately, wanting to help corporations with his critique (wether it was right or wrong) and he genuinely didn't take himself as seriously.

heck, that was the original premise of how his videos started! the whole 'Thank God for me!' catchphrase that he came up with as his outro, was meant to emphasize his character's arrogant self-absorption in a performative sense, while every last interview he did outside of his character was of course drastically different.

now though, that genuinely entertaining man beneath the character is gone...and all that is now left is him becoming said character and trooning out of desperation. the old Jim is dead, long live Jimbolina the lolcow (though not likely, with him embracing deathfat 100% to milk asspats).

You're right that Jim was better when he genuinely seemed to help Corportations like his jimquistions using Malcolm Gladwell's research, Damn Fine Coffee and Perfect Pasta Sauce. Now he just complains about a recent issue in the game industry, and also shoves in Politics and transgenderism. He's burned out on games and trying to be transgender women in order to help himself, yet it will most likely be his downfall.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

You're right that Jim was better when he genuinely seemed to help Corportations like his jimquistions using Malcolm Gladwell's research, Damn Fine Coffee and Perfect Pasta Sauce. Now he just complains about a recent issue in the game industry, and also shoves in Politics and transgenderism. He's burned out on games and trying to be transgender women in order to help himself, yet it will most likely be his downfall.

I don't actually think he's just burned out on games.

Jim has gone hard into the trans sphere, and there's always a leadup to it, where the person drinks the kool aid and gets deeper and deeper into the group madness there. Which means Jim has gone from enjoying games and wanting to see the industry improve, to rolling in the lines that the industry is objectively terrible. I genuinely believe he feels guilt whenever he enjoys these problematic games and goes out of his way to avoid acknowledging it whenever it does happen, leading to these increasingly salty takes on the industry as he overcompensates to hide his guilt over liking this deeply problematic space. Which is why he triples down whenever they go slightly woke, screeching about it being the best thing since sliced bread, even when its wrapped with "but its not inclusive enough" complaints.

 

[Tovarisz]

There's also the fact that, lolcows aside, most of us are a bit more intelligent than mice.

Also, if overpopulation caused troonery, Bangladesh would be swarming with them, and, well...no.

IMO it's not a problem of overpopulation so much as it is of abundance of resources and comformity.

Mice utopia didn't even get close in population to how many mice can exist in a confined space while retaining their instincts, it fell apart because everything was abundant which led to erosion of survival instinct as it ceased being necessary for, well, survival.

It's why India and China can generally be seen as conservative societies despite insane population numbers, because conservatism, family values, a social structure makes life easier and safer, resources easier to obtain, in the west people can count on their government to fulfil basic needs, you can go without any job and you won't starve even if you don't have a family unit to fall back. Hell, starting one can be argued to be a liability as it is far easier to go through life alone doing whatever the fuck you want these days, all you need is a brain.

I believe we can observe that with Jim, ever since he got big on Patreon he started becoming more and more insane compared to what you'd expect of a man his age, all his needs are taken care of and he doesn't really need to do anything for it, whatever internet cliques he attaches himself to he doesn't attach to for support but for masturbatory asspats.

 

[Cuscuta]

It's why India and China can generally be seen as conservative societies despite insane population numbers, because conservatism, family values, a social structure makes life easier and safer, resources easier to obtain, in the west people can count on their government to fulfil basic needs, you can go without any job and you won't starve even if you don't have a family unit to fall back. Hell, starting one can be argued to be a liability as it is far easier to go through life alone doing whatever the fuck you want these days, all you need is a brain.

China's culture can be viewed as rather repressive from a Western perspective, even without the communism, it's very rigid, hierarchical and bureaucratic. However, I think that sort of culture is quite frankly, the only possible way to keep a country as densly populated as China running. If they were as permissive and had the same libertine, extremely liberal atitudes towards sex sexuality, and gender, that are currently en vogue in Western progressive strongholds, the entire thing would collapse even faster into degeneracy and decadence than the West is.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

IMO it's not a problem of overpopulation so much as it is of abundance of resources and comformity.

Mice utopia didn't even get close in population to how many mice can exist in a confined space while retaining their instincts, it fell apart because everything was abundant which led to erosion of survival instinct as it ceased being necessary for, well, survival.

It's why India and China can generally be seen as conservative societies despite insane population numbers, because conservatism, family values, a social structure makes life easier and safer, resources easier to obtain, in the west people can count on their government to fulfil basic needs, you can go without any job and you won't starve even if you don't have a family unit to fall back. Hell, starting one can be argued to be a liability as it is far easier to go through life alone doing whatever the fuck you want these days, all you need is a brain.

I believe we can observe that with Jim, ever since he got big on Patreon he started becoming more and more insane compared to what you'd expect of a man his age, all his needs are taken care of and he doesn't really need to do anything for it, whatever internet cliques he attaches himself to he doesn't attach to for support but for masturbatory asspats.

I don't know how a country run by literal, actual communists is in any way conservative. A lot of Chinese tradition got outright trashed during the cultural revolution, though attitudes have since become more sensible. India yes, though they do have hijra which are their versions of troon lolcows that no one likes much.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I don't know how a country run by literal, actual communists is in any way conservative. India yes, though they do have hijra which are their versions of troon lolcows that no one likes much.

Culturally and in terms of social structure? China is extremely conservative. It's one of the reasons why they're heading towards a demographic crash: custom states that a girl will only date a guy if he can sustain her and he has a place to live that's not his parents. Well, a young man fresh off school simply doesn't earn enough to even rent an apartment in a lot of places by himself, so no "respectable" girl will date him. So the amount of single and prospectless males in China is steadily rising, and historically a bunch of young men without wives (or anything to lose) is a really bad thing.

That's just one example, of course. If you don't follow the customs and traditions (the ones the CCP endorses, of course), you're at risk of losing a lot in China. Just because their government are a bunch of grifters pretending to work "for the people", doesn't mean they can't use the culture's mile-deep, many-thousands-year-old conservative streak to their own benefit.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I don't know how a country run by literal, actual communists is in any way conservative.

There's conservatism and conservatism. Hierarchical, top-down, everyone eats the bugs, lives in the pod, does not rock the boat, and labours like a good little worker ant may be culturally, if not economically, conservative.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

There's conservatism and conservatism. Hierarchical, top-down, everyone eats the bugs, lives in the pod, does not rock the boat, and labours like a good little worker ant may be culturally, if not economically, conservative.

That's basically how far-left states almost always want to operate, though. It's totalitarianism. There's also a conservative equivalent, too, which is theocracies like Iran. There you take your marching orders from priests rather than party officials.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

priests rather than party officials.

Same thing. Marxism is just as much a religion as hardline Christianity or Islam.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Same thing. Marxism is just as much a religion as hardline Christianity or Islam.

People did sometimes describe diehard communists in the USSR as conservative because they wanted to conserve the system rather than reform it, but cultural attitudes to certain issues do tend to be different. The USSR focused heavily on technology as much as their limited budget allowed to the point where they had the first man in space. Ultra traditionalists don't really do that.

 

[Inspector Rex]

I don't know how a country run by literal, actual communists is in any way conservative.

Oh, it's very simple. You just need to talk to Russian boomers, they're very much the same as American ones if we skip economics.

USSR focused heavily on technology as much as their limited budget allowed to the point where they had the first man in space

It's not like Americans or Europeans were very far behind.