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

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Oliver Onions said:
The more accurate equivalence with this drag shit would be taking your kid to a strip club, but they can't make that argument because they know no parent in their right mind would do that.
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I dunno, give it some time, after all, stripping is just good ol' honest sex work. And what proud wymnix-whatever wouldn't be proud to sca-ah I mean reaffirm that to thier child?...😒
 
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Moja Zemlja said:
The 'evangelical right', feels like I've gone back in time to the late 2000s when enlightened atheists were arguing online with Christian right wingers.
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Gay evangelicals in this case, you can't make it up (well actually you can, because that's exactly what Jim did)
On another note, what the FUCK is he doing with this lipstick?
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Looks like he has a mustache
 
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Hyro said:
Gay evangelicals in this case, you can't make it up (well actually you can, because that's exactly what Jim did)
On another note, what the FUCK is he doing with this lipstick?
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I believe his 'husband' Phoenix does all his makeup, so you know who to blame for making Jim look like a bloated corpse.
 
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Apologies for not responding sooner, I need to adjust my notifications settings.

Apteryx Owenii said:
man you must have been super salty about an argument in the comments section to still be thinking about it a decade later and years after the guy died
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It's not like I dwell on it every day. It's something that happened and I remember it. If I beat myself in the head with a hammer until I forget about it, would I rid myself of this saltiness?

One a serious note, yeah I guess I am a little bit salty.
I wanted to get into the game industry when I was 17/18 and I had plenty of experience using WolfEd and DoomEd level making. Wanting to get into the game industry, I had connections who could talk to Jon Romero from iD and put in a word. Then I found out how terrible the industry was for retainment. I wish the game industry back then was what it is today.
What always annoyed me about TB was that he would do these lazy takes, like a whining kid, rather than do any real analysis. Dorito Pope Geoff Keighley may be a tool when it comes to shit out of his area of expertise, same with Danny O'Dwyer, but they put in lot of time and work to learn the industry, not just the PR hype shit that TB and Jim floated on. See Angry Joe getting flattened by Dorito Pope as an example.


Motataio said:
TB is another issue entirely. I never really watched a single video of his, so I'm not qualified to speak on his positions, but everything I did learn about the man strongly suggested he wasn't someone worthy of my time; what you just said solidifies that notion.

Sterling probably just cloaked himself in a mirage, sure enough, but my point is that at the time he offered a type of discourse that was in dire supply among gaming "journalists" with any sort of pull. His time in Destructoid also gave him at least some knowledge on how people on the internet perceived and consumed gaming discourse, so he was able to shape himself in a way that benefited his popularity; I genuinely can't think of a single other journo that was appreciated by both Kotaku AND Kotaku In Action followers, even if plenty of the latter actively hated the man.

It's sad, when you think about it: at one time, JS was genuinely on his way to becoming a respected pundit, despite his antics and ridiculous persona. All he had to do was manage his career intelligently. He had the tools for it, too; his content was never brilliant, but some of the pieces from his Destructoid days strongly suggest he had at least SOME potential. His review of Deadly Premonition, for instance: it reads like something utterly mundane nowadays, but when it came out many people saw it as a revelation, since the idea of analyzing a game as more than the sum of its parts was shocking to those who only consumed the crap mainstream games media was regurgitating.

Now he is just a fat man wearing a ridiculous outfit and screaming stupid shit into the void. Sure enough, he's always been a fat man in a ridiculous outfit, but before people had genuine reasons to at least suspect there was more to him than that.
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Jim was a rising star in his lucrative professional sphere and topped off at a high level of prominence that most will never come close to achieving. Some can cope with that in various ways, some productive and some destructive, and then some can't and break down physically and mentally. TB was a big part of many people's careers. Jesse Cox and Crendor are still chugging along (last I checked a year or so ago), but TB's death drastically flattened their trajectory.


Bush King said:
It was very strange watching someone rag on for hours about obviously rushed out asset flips that no one would buy even in a Bad Rats so-bad-it's-funny sense. TB usually had one-notes at least, rarely returning, but Jim would have entire months worth of content dedicated to the stupidest drama imaginable. The main issue with Digital Homicide was that they were also Lolcows, and decided the response to bad reviews was a DMCA and subsequent lolsuit. Dedicating hours to playing an obviously shit game just to unironically say "don't play" is like Linus Tech Tips spending 40 minutes reviewing shit he finds at the local Chinese dollar store, as if anyone paying $15 for a uPhone would a) watch that and use it to inform their purchase and b) influence the industry to change those products. I think a lot of the audience stayed for as long as it did because they viewed as filling a similar to Ashens, sarcastic reviews of tat, but it wasn't and TB would probably get extremely irate if you thought it was. Jim was just chasing easy content, far as I can tell.

It was a little bit with Digital Homicide because it was more related to the gamer side of Youtube fighting back against DMCA and copyright claims, it was just treated like they were fighting Nintendo, and then they rode those coattails as if they'd done so.

Gerstmann always tries to give a fair shake and will give praise even in badly scored reviews that deserve it, but TB would actively seek out shit he knew he wouldn't like just to rag on it.

I understand that Greenlight lead to a lot of crap, but the review and refund system had solved that issue. It's almost like reverse-shilling, instead of reviewing Skyrim-hype games TB and Jim review games where no one would defend them, it was patently obvious what the faults were, and there was a huge audience so the developers would immediately get swamped by tweens. I remember one of them reviewing some shitty crafting survival game circa ~2015 and the reviewer left a comment on the Steam discussion board saying they were a student who wanted to sell their one-man game for a buck to fund future projects as they learned. It was probably the worst way to enter the industry and share your work, but at the same time it put a face to the crap they reviewed and the scorn with which they did it. Someone just wanted to share their work with enthusiasm, and instead they were hounded and shit on because some famous personality picked them out of crowd and said they were personally responsible for fucking up Steam and the games industry.
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Gerstmann was the canary in the coal mine that no one noticed. So many overlook what he did to showcase corruption in gaming reviews, which is a shame. It's like how everyone points to Snowden for exposing NSA domestic spying, while completely overlooking Mark Klein.
 
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TB was a big part of many people's careers. Jesse Cox and Crendor are still chugging along (last I checked a year or so ago), but TB's death drastically flattened their trajectory.
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Hands down the winners out of that era were dodger and strippin. Now married with a kid, moved from LA to the UK and just living their lives. Game youtubing is not a job you want to be in past your mid 30s at latest because it will eat your life and all you'll have to show for it when the numbers inevitably fall below what you can live on is an apartment full of consoomer crap. That said I still watch Crendor for a lot of his stuff.

I enjoyed the coxcon panel where they played cards against humanity. They turned off the cameras/stream and expressly forbade the audience from recording (it was small enough they could enforce it). They all went full shitlord and it was glorious. That was a while before the trapgate nonsense though.
 
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Coccxys said:
Hands down the winners out of that era were dodger and strippin. Now married with a kid, moved from LA to the UK and just living their lives. Game youtubing is not a job you want to be in past your mid 30s at latest because it will eat your life and all you'll have to show for it when the numbers inevitably fall below what you can live on is an apartment full of consoomer crap. That said I still watch Crendor for a lot of his stuff.

I enjoyed the coxcon panel where they played cards against humanity. They turned off the cameras/stream and expressly forbade the audience from recording (it was small enough they could enforce it). They all went full shitlord and it was glorious. That was a while before the trapgate nonsense though.
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Hope someone did are traps gay
 
Coccxys said:
I enjoyed the coxcon panel where they played cards against humanity. They turned off the cameras/stream and expressly forbade the audience from recording (it was small enough they could enforce it). They all went full shitlord and it was glorious. That was a while before the trapgate nonsense though.
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Just checked this fat faggot channel for the first time since AssCancer died and he still hasn't reached 1 million. Funny because I remember him doing a thing about how he was going to reach 1 million subs like 5 years ago or something. Only reason why I know this cuck is still alive is that now and them someone will post one of his soy filled tweets whining about some woke shit.

Edit: Just checked Cox channel, he's getting like 25k average views per video. Fucking dead channel. Also was constantly losing subs then magically gained like 7k out of nowhere, then went back to losing subs. I don't know if it's socialblade but seems pretty odd that he gains/loses subs in 1k intervals exactly. Could be socialblade since I don't usually care about this kind of shit.

His entire youtube career depended on TB and when he died so did Cox's channel. The quintessential soyman.
 
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Philier said:
Just checked this fat faggot channel for the first time since AssCancer died and he still hasn't reached 1 million. Funny because I remember him doing a thing about how he was going to reach 1 million subs like 5 years ago or something.
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He was probably on track to hit 1 million at some point but then he decided to add wrestling segments to his channel, become non-binary and make every single video about how trans he is and just ranting about trans issues in general and the only gaming content was the same old "AAA is evil because capitalism bad".

He decided the views started tanking, not because he changed the subject of the videos from gaming to wrestling, politics and trans issues (all valid topics to discuss *if* they are related to gaming or are on a channel that doesn't claim to be dedicated to gaming), but because transphobes hated him being happy (which he also never seemed to be). He made this video when he hit under 900k and has continued to plummet since - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz03oRqJmyc

Edit to add: Just realised you're not talking about Jim :D oops
 
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Lightly Buttered Crumpet said:
He was probably on track to hit 1 million at some point but then he decided to add wrestling segments to his channel, become non-binary and make every single video about how trans he is and just ranting about trans issues in general and the only gaming content was the same old "AAA is evil because capitalism bad".
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I meant Jesee Cox, not Jim
 
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