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

[Oliver Onions]

There was a company that actually did this. Redistributing profits from either a big project or a year of profits. I forget which company it was (I don't think it was a games company, might have been amazon) or the exact numbers.

I remember there were lefty news articles raging about it because the take home bonus for the employees was something like $38. ie. Basically nothing.

As it turns out, millions of dollars divided among almost a million people results in a small cut per person.

This is the sort of thing I always think of when people talk about giving McDonald's staff a $20/hr or whatever pay rate. Ignoring the fact that forcing such a pay rise would just cause McDonald's to reduce staff or shut down restaurants; ignoring the fact no one should be working fast food as a career unless they're climbing the corporate ladder, that million dollar bonus the CEO gets is gonna be stretched pretty thin amongst hundreds of thousands of employees.

But because Jim and his dickriders are all pudding-headed retards who never took a basic finance class all they can see is big number going to one person who probably earned it instead of everyone else who didn't. Anyone can flip a burger, but not anyone can steer a billion-dollar international company.

 

[Emperor Julian]

The weird part is he doesnt even touch on the core issue-the shareholders. Bobby and all of his bullshit is ultimatly a product of a system designed to maximise their profits above all else.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The weird part is he doesnt even touch on the core issue-the shareholders. Bobby and all of his bullshit is ultimatly a product of a system designed to maximise their profits above all else.

But without those shareholders who's footing the bill to pay for large swathes of the game development, and what incentive do they have to invest if they're not getting anything significant back?

Same with Bobby: even though I do think he's overpaid, who the fuck would want the stress of running an international company with thousands of employees if there wasn't a large financial benefit to doing so? May as well be sweeping the floors.

The problem with Jim is he has absolutely no formal education in business nor any practical experience in how to run one, yet talks like an expert. He has precisely zero qualifications to opine on the topics he runs his fat mouth about but because he once upon a time had that snarky, acerbic personality people just enjoyed listening to him rant.

 

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[Chilson]

The problem with Jim is he has absolutely no formal education in business nor any practical experience in how to run one, yet talks like an expert. He has precisely zero qualifications to opine on the topics he runs his fat mouth about but because he once upon a time had that snarky, acerbic personality people just enjoyed listening to him rant.

Jim and every other jagoff who repeats the "capitalism bad, communism good" rhetoric.

 

[Andrew Neil]

For instance, Games Workshop's former CEO Tom Kirby, treated the company as a producer of miniatures first, game company second. Bad rules, increasing miniature price, and killing off Warhammer Fantasy was dragging the company down, with rumors that he was trying to sell the company to Hasbro. The current CEO, Kevin Rountree has massively improved Games Workshop, with a focus on fun, strategic games with beautiful miniatures. Stock price and revenue has risen as a result, demonstrating the difference in leadership.

Literally marketing. Prior to 2015, when Rountree took the reins, GW considered marketing to be 'otiose.' After Rountree's promotion that changed, and arguably Andy Smillie has has FAR more impact than Rountree, in terms of marketing and messaging. The products themselves changed, a little, but that's because for the first time in decades GW asked what people wanted.

Fun fact, Rountree has been mooting the idea of GW becoming a video games publisher with in-house dev teams for a few years now, since they published some classics in the 80s. That'll go well.

 

[Noebel]

Fun fact, Rountree has been mooting the idea of GW becoming a video games publisher with in-house dev teams for a few years now, since they published some classics in the 80s. That'll go well.

Strangely enough, it seems that they are cursed to not being able to have a good FPS with their IP. Seems wierd that they didn't even tried to, at least, rip off classical CoD games. Like, just add guns, make 4-5 minicampaigns for different IG regiments, make differnt scenery and different enemies for each, and here's the game. Wouldn't be a hit, maybe, but wouldn't be a Fire Warrior either, if developers would' use their heads.

 

[Armitage]

Strangely enough, it seems that they are cursed to not being able to have a good FPS with their IP. Seems wierd that they didn't even tried to, at least, rip off classical CoD games. Like, just add guns, make 4-5 minicampaigns for different IG regiments, make differnt scenery and different enemies for each, and here's the game. Wouldn't be a hit, maybe, but wouldn't be a Fire Warrior either, if developers would' use their heads.

I'm thinking the new game might work, it appears they are just making warhammer vermintide but in 40k. That should work well enough, as Vermintide 2 was great fun

 

[Berrakh]

We're like Iran in a roundabout way. Trooning out is a punishment for sexual deviance in both places. The difference here is you do it to yourself.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I am not well versed on Jim Lore has he ever had a real job? I kind of doubt it or if he did it was strictly entry level and brief. This means he does not understand how business works. He seems just dull enough to believe everyone is like him: Wake up, eat more than a small village, spend one or two hours screeching autistically at a camera, eat another town's worth of food, get the edited version of the tirade back, start uploading, eat another dozen or two pounds of food, and rage on Twitter that his video is not being loved

I think he did, but according to him in one of those Co-Optional Podcast Animated shorts he admitted to being unemployed for two years. During which time he would eat sandwiches with only onions and cheese.

 

[None Drunk Username]

I am not well versed on Jim Lore has he ever had a real job?

I remember him saying on one of his podcasts that when he lived in England he worked an entry level job at some company doing something very menial like telemarketing. He said he was absolutely miserable there and it's possible this is where his anti-corporation hate boner first developed. The only reason I remember this is because he admitted he would masturbate on the job.

Other than that he technically worked as a games journalist if that can be considered a real job for many years before finally becoming popular enough to go to patreon.

 

[Totally Awesome]

I remember him saying on one of his podcasts that when he lived in England he worked an entry level job at some company doing something very menial like telemarketing. He said he was absolutely miserable there and it's possible this is where his anti-corporation hate boner first developed. The only reason I remember this is because he admitted he would masturbate on the job.

Jesus. I understand that many lowly jobs like this are crappy, but masturbating on the job is just mental illness. It's not the job's fault, nor is it capitalism's fault, that he has mental illnesses.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Jesus. I understand that many lowly jobs like this are crappy, but masturbating on the job is just mental illness. It's not the job's fault, nor is it capitalism's fault, that he has mental illnesses.

Mental illness? Hey, sometimes you just gotta rub one out!

 

[Oliver Onions]

I remember him saying on one of his podcasts that when he lived in England he worked an entry level job at some company doing something very menial like telemarketing. He said he was absolutely miserable there and it's possible this is where his anti-corporation hate boner first developed.

I think all of us have worked a job like that at one point or another, but (I'm hoping) the rest of us didn't turn into morbidly obese troons screeching at the stars about capitalism. Jim's problem is he is an aggressively unremarkable man by almost every metric, and his frustration over this reality is what causes him to lash out at whatever he deems the currently appropriate target (feminism, capitalism, transphobia etc).

He is incredibly lucky to have found the relative success he currently enjoys --mainly thanks to stealing his sense of humour from old British TV shows and comedians-- because if he hadn't tripped into this pot of gold he would still be working dead-end cubicle jobs in prefab office buildings, since he is qualified for and capable of nothing else.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

He seems like he was one of those guys who just knows he's meant for fame and fortune, so he never tried to make the best of his situation in an office to maybe get promoted.

In hindsight it worked out for him but for most people like that you're more likely to get fired or will be stuck in that shitty job for years.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

You think companies ever created monopolies by themselves? Fuck no, monopolies are not the birth child of capitalism and never have been.

Its the horrifying creation of governments having way too much power and corporate lobbyists giving the R&D handies in the back room for more regulations that fuck over small businesses. Which is what fuckers who "hate capitalism" want more of because their retards.

Yes and no, for monopolies to be created it needs at the very least the negligence of the government who's job (supposedly) to prevent them. However, the reason for monopolies is that once a body has enough power it will use its overwhelming power to make sure it has no competitors (up until it decays and collapses from within). Also technically speaking governments are monopolies over the use of violence in a country

 

[Chilson]

Yes and no, for monopolies to be created it needs at the very least the negligence of the government who's job (supposedly) to prevent them. However, the reason for monopolies is that once a body has enough power it will use its overwhelming power to make sure it has no competitors (up until it decays and collapses from within). Also technically speaking governments are monopolies over the use of violence in a country

Thats incorrect. A monopoly by definition is dominant control of resources. A company can only get such monopolies if it is explicitly granted or implicitly (through regulations) allowed through government interference.

Look at every major monopoly in history and they only came about due to being granted such rights by the government or regulations making competition infeasible to all but those who got there first. You can't really have a monopoly without government intervention.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Thats incorrect. A monopoly by definition is dominant control of resources. A company can only get such monopolies if it is explicitly granted or implicitly (through regulations) allowed through government interference.

Look at every major monopoly in history and they only came about due to being granted such rights by the government or regulations making competition infeasible to all but those who got there first. You can't really have a monopoly without government intervention.

Maybe in the past, but in the age of globalism, zero tariffs and fucking retarded populace, you have a lot of cases where competition is impossible because the initial investment to even be a blip on the radar is simply astronomical, without even a need for government cooperation. Like, if you want to be the competitor to YouTube you don't only need worldwide server farm with insane amount of storage and streaming ability, but have to get YouTube creators and consumers to use your platform instead.
Fuck, with Australia and Facebook you have a situation where the corporation can force the hand of the government when the former tries to limit the latter.

 

[None Drunk Username]

He is incredibly lucky to have found the relative success he currently enjoys --mainly thanks to stealing his sense of humour from old British TV shows and comedians-- because if he hadn't tripped into this pot of gold he would still be working dead-end cubicle jobs in prefab office buildings, since he is qualified for and capable of nothing else.

I completely forgot about that. People are probably tired of me saying this, but I remember in one of his podcasts Jim said that his "Thank God for me" catchphrase was actually from some British comedian I've never heard of. I feel bad because I'm doing the comedian a diservice for not remembering his name but the point I'm trying to make is I listened to his podcasts because I was a genuine fan of Jim's at the time (around 2015-2016) and even I was taken aback by him admitting that his signature catchphrase was actually stolen from someone else and Jim said it like that wasn't a bad thing to do.

If I'm ever brave enough I may sit down and relisten to his podcasts and give timestamps and archives because it's honestly a gold mine of Jim lore and a really good look into his character.

 

[Oliver Onions]

If I'm ever brave enough I may sit down and relisten to his podcasts and give timestamps and archives because it's honestly a gold mine of Jim lore and a really good look into his character.

If you ever do, I suggest listening to Ricky Gervais' old XFM radio shows at the same time, and marvel at how Jim copied the formula EXACTLY, including treating Jonathan Holmes like his own Karl Pilkington.

I enjoyed Podtoid at the time, and some of it still makes me laugh, but it was always so clear to me how hard Jim was trying to ape Ricky's personality, right down to his inflection, shrill laugh and changing the pitch of his voice. And I don't know who coined 'thank God for me' but it does fall in line with the (mostly) performative arrogance Ricky is also known for; another trait Jim took and ran with.