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

[Judge Dredd]

For anyone interested LGB Alliance is a UK based group. For someone who suppoedly hates the UK and never wants to come back here he sure as shit wont stop whining about events here, events that specifically wont affect him. Really makes you think.

Not really. He's just doing the same shtick as the "ex-atheists" back during the the mid 2000s. Where there'd be some low tier atheist grifter who would switch sides to Christianity. Do a bunch of interviews about how atheism is all just sex, drugs, violence, and misery, and how they really all do believe in god but are mad about it.

He's preaching to a mostly American audience who's only knowledge of Airstrip One is fuzzy hair brexit man bad. He plays into that ignorance and amplifies it. What I don't know is if he's doing it for clout, or if he actually believes his own bullshit.

 

[Corn Flakes]

What I don't know is if he's doing it for clout, or if he actually believes his own bullshit.

It doesn't really matter. Lie long enough and you might start believing your own lies...

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

Jim getting mad over pronouns:
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> when cis people say pronouns are no big deal, its not evidenced when they take *such* issue with others listing theirs

Y'ever stop to think that they're not taking issue with the pronouns themselves so much as these massive Twitter text walls and other rants and cancellation attempts you people are prone to the second you find someone who refuses to suck the not-even-1%-of-the-population dick?

No, of course you didn't. Your sperging and threats are discussion and discourse, their discussion and discourse are sperging and threats.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Jim getting mad over pronouns:
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Didn't see this one the first time around. At least I can avoid a doublepost now.

Here's something that never ceases to amuse me when it comes to the terminally woke: they say "science" has their backs, but they refuse to understand the very basics of this wonderful field of mathematics called statistics.

It's not that having pronouns in your bio means you're guaranteed to be an idiot whose opinions may be dismissed out of hand. No, I've met a handful people with pronouns in their bio who were perfectly capable of rational, nuanced thought. But, statistically speaking, people with pronouns in their bios are extremely likely to spout out such stupidity it makes you question humanity's future. Same with non-national flags. Or listing your sexuality. It's a stereotype born out of statistical evidence.

Jimbo, of course, makes it very easy for us to know where he stands by thoroughly confirming that stereotype.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Alternatively, you could just not care. I'm not going to break down and cry or fly off the handle just because I got misgendered. It literally changes nothing.

Apologies for the PL, but it's relevant to your point: for most of my 20s literally every new person I met thought I was gay, basically because I wore skinny jeans and had long hair.

Whether they were trying to insult me or it was a genuine mistake, never once did I take offence to this or have a meltdown, and never once did it make me think maybe I should start sucking dick, because I was secure enough in myself to not give a fuck what randoms said or thought about me. This is how being an adult works.

All these alphabet genderblobs are insecure mentalists who need the whole world to play party to their delusions because they lack the spine to be comfortable in their own skin. They are coddled children who need a wake-up call, not people pandering to their bullshit.

 

[Nigella]

This prompted me to go check out his Twitch, and after I got done laughing at how bad his numbers are I checked out some 'highlights'.
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It is shocking how much worse he looks without the JQ lighting. Not that I was buying the 'reel wahmun' schtick before, but here it really is full-force bloke in a bad wig.

Fuck Jim Sterling

harmfulopinions streams every day and is 100% more entertaining and deserving of support than this fat estrogenated nasally blob

what is funny is harmful beats sterling's numbers despite not having a youtube presence anymore.

 

[Haramburger]

Jim getting mad over pronouns:

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"I don't know why people think pronouns mean we're not conversing."

That is literally what it means, you fat retard! If I am expected to refer to you as he/she/they, it is because you are literally not there in the conversation to directly reference or speak to! That is how third-person pronouns work.

 

[GenitalFetishist]

That is literally what it means, you fat retard! If I am expected to refer to you as he/she/they, it is because you are literally not there in the conversation to directly reference or speak to! That is how third-person pronouns work.

Not aiming at you in particular, but this is something that comes up regularly in the pronoun conversation and it bothers me. In a conversation of more than 2 people, you absolutely do use 3rd person pronouns to refer to people who are present. "You want to go to the Friday meeting before your vacation? Great - hey Ashley, could you go with him and tell me what happened on Monday?"

That being said, pronouns are supposed to make communication faster/more efficient, and when you have a fucking buffet of possible pronouns which could change from interaction to interaction then they give no benefit and you might as well refer to people by their names only.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Not aiming at you in particular, but this is something that comes up regularly in the pronoun conversation and it bothers me. In a conversation of more than 2 people, you absolutely do use 3rd person pronouns to refer to people who are present. "You want to go to the Friday meeting before your vacation? Great - hey Ashley, could you go with him and tell me what happened on Monday?"

That being said, pronouns are supposed to make communication faster/more efficient, and when you have a fucking buffet of possible pronouns which could change from interaction to interaction then they give no benefit and you might as well refer to people by their names only.

Balance of odds; just use he/she if you're unsure. You're more likely to be correct than you are to be wrong, and even smaller chance that the person tries to cancel you for being wrong. And if they try, fuck em. Not worth dealing with them anyways

 

[GenitalFetishist]

Balance of odds; just use he/she if you're unsure. You're more likely to be correct than you are to be wrong, and even smaller chance that the person tries to cancel you for being wrong. And if they try, fuck em. Not worth dealing with them anyways

I'm a spiteful bitch. Normal people get the standard he/she pronouns; genderspecials get a pointed absence of pronouns and are referred to by name only. And you can find said genderspecials complaining about this tactic precisely because it isn't breaking any "misgendering" rules (thus denying them the pleasure of playing victim) while also not giving them what they want, which warms my shrivelled black heart.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

I'm a spiteful bitch. Normal people get the standard he/she pronouns; genderspecials get a pointed absence of pronouns and are referred to by name only. And you can find said genderspecials complaining about this tactic precisely because it isn't breaking any "misgendering" rules (thus denying them the pleasure of playing victim) while also not giving them what they want, which warms my shrivelled black heart.

I guess that's fine tactic. But I wouldn't call it spiteful, spiteful would be purposefully mis-gendering. But this seems to be the best neutral way to go about it, no one can really get offended and you don't have to partake in the theatre of it (which itself is a different kind of mess all together, but no one wants to hear me invoking 1984 like a quasi-literate 'intellectual').

 

[Blamo]

Is he ultimately in a death spiral or just stabilizing on a lower level?

Spoiler: Views and Patreon

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

Is he ultimately in a death spiral or just stabilizing on a lower level?

Spoiler: Views and Patreon

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I'd argue stabilising. He'll definitely have a devoted core fanbase (who won't care too much about quality of content) now that he's gone from an amorphous indistinct-gendered blob to an amorphous indistinct-gendered blob in a dress.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I'm on the side of death spiral, but not one that's actively accelerating, or particularly steep. The problem with a core, devoted fanbase is that they're not immortally fans. Its the difference between people who watch for weeks or people who watch for years, but eventually they do stop watching. Its the slow decline into irrelevance, new people to the market are more likely to watch other shows just because they're better, and Jim's existing watchers will slowly trickle out, either done with the media cycle, done with gaming, or having discovered and moved onto a fresher creator. Many shows have bled to death under the march of time and expectations moving on, and Jim's not immune to that.

 

[Shaka Brah]

> when cis people say pronouns are no big deal, its not evidenced when they take *such* issue with others listing theirs

Y'ever stop to think that they're not taking issue with the pronouns themselves so much as these massive Twitter text walls and other rants and cancellation attempts you people are prone to the second you find someone who refuses to suck the not-even-1%-of-the-population dick?

No, of course you didn't. Your sperging and threats are discussion and discourse, their discussion and discourse are sperging and threats.

These people seem not to get that the people making fun of them with pronoun in bio memes aren't taking issue with that. They're not even upset or anything. They're trolling people who are easily upset because it's funny. If gender blobs didn't get this mad about being dismissed people wouldn't troll them.

 

[Corn Flakes]

These people seem not to get that the people making fun of them with pronoun in bio memes aren't taking issue with that. They're not even upset or anything. They're trolling people who are easily upset because it's funny. If gender blobs didn't get this mad about being dismissed people wouldn't troll them.

I don't know how it happened, but in 20 years we went from "don't feed the trolls" to "you must feed the trolls or the trolls win".

The simple act of not engaging is completely beyond these people. It must be exhausting to tilt at every single ideological windmill you see in front of you.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I don't know how it happened, but in 20 years we went from "don't feed the trolls" to "you must feed the trolls or the trolls win".

The simple act of not engaging is completely beyond these people. It must be exhausting to tilt at every single ideological windmill you see in front of you.

That's why they refer to you as everything negative they can think of. It all get's lumped together into one windmill.

 

[Chilson]

I don't know how it happened, but in 20 years we went from "don't feed the trolls" to "you must feed the trolls or the trolls win".

The simple act of not engaging is completely beyond these people. It must be exhausting to tilt at every single ideological windmill you see in front of you.

They feed the trolls because they want attention and or justification that they are "oppressed". It pretty much plays into their pathology to be honest.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I'm on the side of death spiral, but not one that's actively accelerating, or particularly steep. The problem with a core, devoted fanbase is that they're not immortally fans. Its the difference between people who watch for weeks or people who watch for years, but eventually they do stop watching. Its the slow decline into irrelevance, new people to the market are more likely to watch other shows just because they're better, and Jim's existing watchers will slowly trickle out, either done with the media cycle, done with gaming, or having discovered and moved onto a fresher creator. Many shows have bled to death under the march of time and expectations moving on, and Jim's not immune to that.

This is a perfect analysis of Jim's trajectory, the only thing I want to add is specifically regarding the Patreon. There, I think it's less of a core fanbase scenario and more that most people supporting him are only giving $2 a month and likely don't even remember they're doing it; I hear that's a pretty common thing on the platform.

If you look at Critikal's Patreon just for the podcast he does, it gets a grand more than Jim with 3,000 less patrons; RedLetterMedia don't publish their income any more but last time it was available they were $30k with 1.000 less patrons than Jim.

It's not an exact science, I know, but even though Jim's Patreon income is ludicrously high for what he produces, it seems stagnant and dependent entirely on people not remembering they're subscribed; if he actually made a bit of effort and engaged his audience in a way that wasn't preaching about pronouns he could probably be making way, way more.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

This is a perfect analysis of Jim's trajectory, the only thing I want to add is specifically regarding the Patreon. There, I think it's less of a core fanbase scenario and more that most people supporting him are only giving $2 a month and likely don't even remember they're doing it; I hear that's a pretty common thing on the platform.

If you look at Critikal's Patreon just for the podcast he does, it gets a grand more than Jim with 3,000 less patrons; RedLetterMedia don't publish their income any more but last time it was available they were $30k with 1.000 less patrons than Jim.

It's not an exact science, I know, but even though Jim's Patreon income is ludicrously high for what he produces, it seems stagnant and dependent entirely on people not remembering they're subscribed; if he actually made a bit of effort and engaged his audience in a way that wasn't preaching about pronouns he could probably be making way, way more.

Subscription negligence is exactly why *everything* wants to be a subscription service these days. When someone pays for access and then doesn't use it for a digital good, its literally free money. That's why everyone should have a semi regular habit to review all their recurring payments and ask if they're still using 'em. I sure am surprised Jim's consumer advocacy hasn't addressed that elephant in the room yet, considering his festering hatred for recurrent revenue streams. Its almost as if he doesn't want folks doing that.