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

[bigbombguy2222]

I think politics can absolutely enhance art, including video games. Jim just treats it like some joyless obligation, like taking a multivitamin. And he also acts like games or media should serve primarily as framing devices for politics. As though I’m so fucking stupid and childish I need to be spooonfed my viewpoints by a shooter game.

It’s like diversity. I like characters in a cast to be different from one another: in viewpoints, personality, background, and yes, appearance. It makes the work more interesting. But making a character “queer” doesn’t automatically make them interesting.

Politics can enhance art when treated properly - that is to say, with an open mind and a willingness to explore nuance. Thing is, you know Jim Sterling and everyone else spouting that all art is political have no interest in any nuance. When they say they want politics in games, they aren't talking about all politics, just their own views presented in a one dimensional, sterile manner. Basically, their views are right and good, everything else is bad and evil. If they had their way, all games would just be thinly veiled 'Capitalism horrible, this is why socialism is the best' allegories.

Remember the bitching that Kingdom Come Deliverance didn't have blacks in it? Remember Sterling whining that the guy who made FNAF was a Christian? He doesn't give a fuck about 'art' or 'mature gaymz', he's a petty ideologue who wants the world to stop and bend over for him. My way or the high way, racist sexist xenophobic fascists!

 

[Lightly Buttered Crumpet]

ETA: To avoid doublepost, I just noticed something interesting (albeit not surprising). His Diablo Immortal video already has almost 200k views within 24 hours, which hasn't happened in almost 2 months, and this is paired with him already dropping another 1k subs despite the last drop being a mere day before.

In other words, the more hits Jim's videos get, the faster he loses subs. Pure pottery.

When I saw you post about the 1k drop in subs *before* the Monday video was out, I meant to ask if you expect another 1k drop after the release of it. Seeing it did really does make it look like there's both a slow trickle unsubscribing and those doing it due to the video being promoted to them. I wonder if the Patreon decline is also based on the videos.
I want to see him go a month without releasing a video to see if the subscriber count remains pretty much static and I would also like to see if that causes a drop in Patreons or helps keep it level, also.
It's possible that it's financially in his favour to stop releasing videos (though I think the Patreon subs would drop while the YouTube ones don't - I would just love to know either way).

 

[Oliver Onions]

When I saw you post about the 1k drop in subs *before* the Monday video was out, I meant to ask if you expect another 1k drop after the release of it. Seeing it did really does make it look like there's both a slow trickle unsubscribing and those doing it due to the video being promoted to them. I wonder if the Patreon decline is also based on the videos.

It was definitely my assumption there wouldn't be another 1k drop til next week. I've been operating on the theory it's a constant trickle all through the week and Monday's videos are just the bump they needed to get over the edge, so this was a big surprise.

I feel like the unusually quick spike in views has to be a factor in accelerated unsubbing, possibly because the thumbnail for this one was so unbelievably bad people felt compelled to click on it instead of ignore his videos as usual.

I want to see him go a month without releasing a video to see if the subscriber count remains pretty much static and I would also like to see if that causes a drop in Patreons or helps keep it level, also.
It's possible that it's financially in his favour to stop releasing videos (though I think the Patreon subs would drop while the YouTube ones don't - I would just love to know either way).

There are so many interesting experiments he could run, but unless he is forced to take time off for some reason or he straight up quits the Jimquisition I sadly doubt we'll ever get that data.

Politics can enhance art when treated properly - that is to say, with an open mind and a willingness to explore nuance. Thing is, you know Jim Sterling and everyone else spouting that all art is political have no interest in any nuance. When they say they want politics in games, they aren't talking about all politics, just their own views presented in a one dimensional, sterile manner. Basically, their views are right and good, everything else is bad and evil. If they had their way, all games would just be thinly veiled 'Capitalism horrible, this is why socialism is the best' allegories.

What Jim and people like him want isn't political art, it's propaganda, and they are incapable of understanding the difference between the two because they are NPCs with zero original thoughts.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

YouTube just recommended me a video from that fat fuck faggot Sterling. He seems to be LARPing as a woman now. Like he wasn't cringey enough. I watched a few of his videos and by few I mean 1 or 2. He just says the same shit about the modern video game industry that other people say but they manage not to be cringe inducing faggots. It's not him being fat that I dislike it's his cringey faggot bullshit I hate. One or two videos was enough for me to decide to never watch him again. I haven't watched any of his videos in years and YouTube is shoving this fag in my face. Last time I saw him he was dressed in a black suit with a red dress shirt on under the jacket with black leather gloves waving around a purple double headed dildo. That was fucking weird enough. Now he is doing the tranny thing. He isn't even American and he should fuck off back to Bongland that's where his faggot ass belongs. He can take his ugly fat bitch land whale with him.

Total Biscuit is someone I don't know much about. I do know that years back he seemed to have this fanbase that would occasionally pop up on YouTube and they would talk about how much of a great guy he was. I believe he died a few years back from cancer. But it sounds like he wasn't the nice guy people made him out to be or as the image he tried to give off. Like other people involved with video games on YouTube he sounds like a massive faggot.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

That is an amazing face
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No need to corner colouring his agp smirk no more. Here's his true face

 

[ShoFuKan]

ETA: To avoid doublepost, I just noticed something interesting (albeit not surprising). His Diablo Immortal video already has almost 200k views within 24 hours, which hasn't happened in almost 2 months, and this is paired with him already dropping another 1k subs despite the last drop being a mere day before.

Diablo Immortal is the current video topic of the day, which is something Jimbo would cover because it allows him to bash his 3 favoriate things, loot boxes, Blizzard and no troon representation. Blizzard has put in aggressive monetization to the point the PVP is pay to win and one streamer spent 4,000 USD just to see how good his team could be. The current cap on end tier gear could be as much as 55,000 USD.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

ETA: To avoid doublepost, I just noticed something interesting (albeit not surprising). His Diablo Immortal video already has almost 200k views within 24 hours, which hasn't happened in almost 2 months, and this is paired with him already dropping another 1k subs despite the last drop being a mere day before.

In other words, the more hits Jim's videos get, the faster he loses subs. Pure pottery.

He managed to be topic for once and on a topic where his usual attitude of just shitting on stuff could be given a pass by most people but he fucks it up by spending half the video talking about Bobby Kotick, like fucking come on this was the perfect topic to be ableto segue onto the greater topic of (usually Asian) exploitative mobile games that are designed to have these insane grinds letting him do the usual 'fuck captialism' shtick and be on topic.

Instead he continues to drive people off with his infantile hate boners over CEOs living rent free in his head.

 

[Coccxys]

But it sounds like he wasn't the nice guy people made him out to be or as the image he tried to give off. Like other people involved with video games on YouTube he sounds like a massive faggot.

To be fair my IRL interactions I had with the guy were always super positive. One con I went to he was taking time to chat with people who came for an autograph and not really rushing through. When the con staff told him he was out of time and had to move he took everyone left in the queue over to some empty hallway, found somewhere to sit and carried on signing and chatting. He sat in the hallway for just over 8 hours to make sure everyone who wanted to see him could (kept tweeting out that of you wanted to visit him you still could). That was after his first cancer diagnosis while undergoing treatment too so must have took it out of him.

He had some genuine easy charisma and was pretty easy to chat crap with. A year later in another con he had some recollection of chatting with me at the other con which was genuinely surprising.

All that aside what I did really like from him was the fact he always made it very clear he was a content creator and we could engage or not but we do not actually know eachother and are not friends. With all the creators out there fostering and milking parasocial relationships to the detriment of their audience that set him apart in my mind. Though I know that put some people off him for similar reasons.

 

[Victory Leo]

To be fair my IRL interactions I had with the guy were always super positive. One con I went to he was taking time to chat with people who came for an autograph and not really rushing through. When the con staff told him he was out of time and had to move he took everyone left in the queue over to some empty hallway, found somewhere to sit and carried on signing and chatting. He sat in the hallway for just over 8 hours to make sure everyone who wanted to see him could (kept tweeting out that of you wanted to visit him you still could). That was after his first cancer diagnosis while undergoing treatment too so must have took it out of him.

He had some genuine easy charisma and was pretty easy to chat crap with. A year later in another con he had some recollection of chatting with me at the other con which was genuinely surprising.

All that aside what I did really like from him was the fact he always made it very clear he was a content creator and we could engage or not but we do not actually know eachother and are not friends. With all the creators out there fostering and milking parasocial relationships to the detriment of their audience that set him apart in my mind. Though I know that put some people off him for similar reasons.

I didn't watch too much of TB back in the day but what I did watch wasn't too bad, he seemed like a decent guy and he was nowhere near as retarded as Jim from what I can tell.

anyway jimposting


Jim is just an expert and tweeting the most unflattering pictures of himself.

 

[Skullwhalejelly]

"Guys I'd really appreciate if you could subscribe to my Patreon. The Transphobes are starting to hurt my income and I need that money to pay my bills and back taxes"

Lost 72 subs in a week. Only down 87 bucks, but it does look like those 1-2 buck subs aren't gonna stick around.

Diablo Immortal thoughts:

Spoiler: I'ts a good thing Jim makes these videos about loot boxes to help stop them in video games

As a guy who barely plays any games, Diablo Immortal is pretty fun. Brings me back to the old days of Diablo 2, mindlessly killing shit. Jim bitching about pay to win shit is stupid. The "ah-ha" moment for Jim seems to be "Look They aren't releasing these games in the Netherlands due to restriction, clearly loot boxes are required."

A few things about that. First off, no fucking shit this game isn't going to release in countries that don't allow loot boxes. They didn't make this game for the fun of it. They also didn't make this game to be sold as a "one time purchase." Several fundamental systems of the game are designed around loot box style mechanics. Blizzard isn't going to waste it's time re-working a game as a single purchase without these mechanics for some tiny ass insignificant countries that have less than a tenth of the population of the US.

Also there is the simple fact that you can play the game completely fine without spending money. Run around and kill shit. Complete quest. Build a character. Like every other f2p game, they make it free.... but you can always be the TOP player if you just spend a little money. You can always finish your goals faster if you just buy a few gems. Just cause jim cant't recognize that you don't have to be the top sped on the leaderboard in a video game doesn't mean you are FORCED to pay.

 

[Lightly Buttered Crumpet]

"Guys I'd really appreciate if you could subscribe to my Patreon. The Transphobes are starting to hurt my income and I need that money to pay my bills and back taxes"

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Lost 72 subs in a week. Only down 87 bucks, but it does look like those 1-2 buck subs aren't gonna stick around.

Fuck the American date format!
I was wondering how he'd only lost $100 in the space of 6 months

 

[Matt Damon]

Jim is just an expert and tweeting the most unflattering pictures of himself.
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Standing next to another man really lends a sense of scale and drives home just how impossibly unconvincing a woman Jim makes for. I immediately got Chris Farley vibes from this one.

 

[BHWuser]

"Guys I'd really appreciate if you could subscribe to my Patreon. The Transphobes are starting to hurt my income and I need that money to pay my bills and back taxes"

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Lost 72 subs in a week. Only down 87 bucks, but it does look like those 1-2 buck subs aren't gonna stick around.

Diablo Immortal thoughts:

Spoiler: I'ts a good thing Jim makes these videos about loot boxes to help stop them in video games

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As a guy who barely plays any games, Diablo Immortal is pretty fun. Brings me back to the old days of Diablo 2, mindlessly killing shit. Jim bitching about pay to win shit is stupid. The "ah-ha" moment for Jim seems to be "Look They aren't releasing these games in the Netherlands due to restriction, clearly loot boxes are required."

A few things about that. First off, no fucking shit this game isn't going to release in countries that don't allow loot boxes. They didn't make this game for the fun of it. They also didn't make this game to be sold as a "one time purchase." Several fundamental systems of the game are designed around loot box style mechanics. Blizzard isn't going to waste it's time re-working a game as a single purchase without these mechanics for some tiny ass insignificant countries that have less than a tenth of the population of the US.

Also there is the simple fact that you can play the game completely fine without spending money. Run around and kill shit. Complete quest. Build a character. Like every other f2p game, they make it free.... but you can always be the TOP player if you just spend a little money. You can always finish your goals faster if you just buy a few gems. Just cause jim cant't recognize that you don't have to be the top sped on the leaderboard in a video game doesn't mean you are FORCED to pay.

I actually like various avenues of upgrading my character, and I probably would have been more invested in doing so if I wasn't an ADHD sperg who gets bored easily. Now, with how these games function I would not be shocked to find out that 10% of the playerbase (probably less) make up over 90% of the profits off of it. At this point Jim is only speaking to the people who, if they stopped playing, would hurt the game less than inflation will.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

The problem is meaning of words again. The fun discussion held here about 'politics' in games is about a variety and number of levels of sociopolitical commentary that can be read in narratives of a game. Some are put there as obvious allegory and some more philosophical and critical in that they challenge existing beliefs or point out hypocrisies. A total absence can also have meaning. Most of the examples given here do this through gameplay, which imho is the best type of game (where the gameplay is part of the narrative, and not something separate to it).

When Jim says 'political' he means related to American state politics, or rather, party dogma and ideology. The difference is Jim's 'political' does not show, it tells. It explicitly tells us what is right and wrong, and by inference suggests you must be wrong too if you disagree. I find people that do this ignores the uses and limits of their medium and skill and craft needed to make something, resulting in a bad product.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

God, trans gets so insufferable during Pride:

”You mere gays owe men in dresses everything! You are nothing without us!“

 

[AirdropShitposts]

God, trans gets so insufferable during Pride:

”You mere gays owe men in dresses everything! You are nothing without us!“

It's actually kind of perfect. They aren't even doing anything they're simply claiming lineage from past trans people (or people who they're now claiming as trans) who may have done something.

WORSHIP ME BECAUSE I IDENTIFY AS IMPORTANT

 

[BaconBoobs]

God, trans gets so insufferable during Pride:

”You mere gays owe men in dresses everything! You are nothing without us!“

Most trans are not even gay. Gays need to give them the boot. Due to the trans lot furries are now jumping on the pride bandwagon.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

At this point they’ve developed their own Hotep mythology. Trans people were a supreme religious caste among “colonised peoples”. People of colour didn’t know how sex worked before the white man. Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute was a lost Mecca of “important trans research” and not a bunch of weirdos who strung along mentally ill people, performed doomed surgeries that killed them, and thought lesbians menstruated semen. Any woman with a modicum of individuality was a man.

 

[BaconBoobs]

At this point they’ve developed their own Hotep mythology. Trans people were a supreme religious caste among “colonised peoples”. People of colour didn’t know how sex worked before the white man. Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute was a lost Mecca of “important trans research” and not a bunch of weirdos who strung along mentally ill people, performed doomed surgeries that killed them, and thought lesbians menstruated semen. Any woman with a modicum of individuality was a man.

Here is the thing. All trans folks need to do to be accepted is fuck off and stay fucked off and I don't mean this in a bad way. They need to fuck off with the rest us. They want to be part of society then join us in fucking off and minding our own buisness. If they want to be feminine or butch whatever cool I don't understand it but whatever its their shell they are modifying so its none of my buisness. Thats the important part ITS NONE OF MY BUISNESS.

They need to stop trying to insert themselves into places they have no places being (women's sports for example), stop trying to erase actual women/men, stop attacking normal folks and leave kids the fuck alone (trans kids are not a thing).

I do not doubt the majority of trans folks might actully be trying to hide in plain sight and mind their own buisness but fat fucks like Jim and the fake alphabet twitter spergs are making it harder for them.

Fuckers like Jim need to learn nobody fucking cares but when you start to attack normal folks for being well god damn normal then they will take notice but not in an accepting way. I have IBS you do not see me fucking shoving my bad guts in everyones face.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

I for one do not give a shit if a man wears a dress if they feel like it.