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For those who can't be arsed to actually watch the video there happens to exist a written transcript on every JQ, written for our (dis)pleasure by LKD himself.
Enjoy:
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0:09 [James Stephanie Sterling] Hello everyone, James Stephanie Sterling here.
0:11 Now, usually we start this video off with a lovely bit of a filmed live-action intro.
0:17 The only problem is is we did do one, and the sound was fucking unteneble.
0:22 I will actually play you the outro, at the end of the episode that we did film, mostly
0:27 because my friend Louis was doing the filming, and he'd be absolutely gutted if we used none
0:32 of the footage.
0:33 Now I'm away on a trip to London, Justin has been moving, I'm all out of resources, so
0:38 I'm just here to appologise before we start what I think is a pretty good video, which
0:42 this week has been guest edited by Jane Aerith Magnet, @ManiacJaniac on Twitter.
0:49 So do, please, enjoy today's episode which is totally 100% guarenteed all about video
0:57 games.
0:58 WINK
0:59 The world may have gone to hell in a handmaiden, but over in my little corner of the world,
1:05 things are looking puh-ritty good!
1:07 You see, after years of being told by rational individuals that my videos on corporate overreach
1:14 in a fiscally violent economic system are just too political, I actually, truly, FINALLY
1:22 have a real excuse to talk politics on this albatross of a channel.
1:26 For the very first time in my life, I’m actually thankful for the existence of a Republican,
1:31 for he has provided me the perfect outlet, the unimpeachable right to literally talk
1:38 literal politics.
1:40 And for Texas Senator and perennial coward Ted Cruise, this marks the first time in HIS
1:45 life that anybody’s been thankful for this spineless wretched ass at all.
1:50 That includes his parents, his kids, and his wife, the woman Trump called ugly and Cruz
1:55 failed to defend as he was soon found with his wormlike little tongue wriggling *deep*
2:00 inside the former president’s cracked, red-raw, milky anus.
2:05 Ha.
2:06 And some haters say my flair for writing has dulled.
2:09 Anyway, the man who once abandoned his state during a meteorological disaster to go pump
2:15 his flaccid tug stick in Cancun has opened to furnace door to his own roasting, for it
2:20 was HE who deigned to identify himself a gamer, and thus become content for an embittered
2:27 lefty content creator to take a massive wet shit on him, and feel temporarily better about
2:33 just how fucking horrible everything is.
2:36 In an installment of the snide little sick-sipper’s own podcast, Senator Ted Cruz indeed said
2:42 he was a gamer, perhaps hoping to make himself more relatable to the average human being,
2:47 rather than the sniveling invertebrate of a political bottom feeder that he actually
2:52 is.
2:53 If you think that might possibly make this hopelessly tiny plate of jizz jelly even vaguely
2:59 cool, however, think again.
3:01 You see, it should surprise nobody that a compulsive liar like Ted is actually talking
3:07 out of his dribbling rectal pipe.
3:09 He’s not actually a “gamer” so much as he is a microtransaction spending freemium
3:15 fast tracker whose approach to gaming pretty much sums up his approach to life and politics
3:20 in general.
3:21 Yes, from out of his own depraved maw, Ted Cruz explicitly celebrated the very concept
3:27 of pay to win.
3:28 Incidentally, he said he didn't like that, before he then said it was good.
3:33 Because he's Ted Cruz.
3:35 And that's what he does.
3:36 [Ted Cruz] When you can buy in game items, and sort of make your character stronger,
3:41 or get advantages, Now I'll confess when I play some games I'll sometimes buy it, because
3:46 it is more fun if suddenly your character has a lot more great stuff that would take
3:50 you six months or a year to build up.
3:52 So sometimes I'll...
3:53 Okay, I'll spend twenty bucks and buy a, you know, a treasure chest full of coins, 'cause
3:59 then I can spend them to get cool things in the game.
4:02 [JSS] Now, actual true Hardcore Gamers, I know how apathetic to real world issues y’all
4:08 can be, but come on now!
4:10 I understand that you might not care about Cruz’s history of supporting fascism up
4:14 to and including his undeniable part in the whipping up of a riotously violent insurrection
4:19 at the Capitol.
4:20 I’m aware that if I brought up him lying about the equality act to perpetuate transphobic
4:25 rhetoric while moving to restrict the freedoms of LGBTQ+ people, I'd get shrugs at best.
4:31 And I’m cognizant of the fact that his anti-abortion stance and hypocritical character assassination
4:37 of pro-choice protests might not perturb you.
4:41 But come on, pay to win!?
4:43 I KNOW y’all think THAT’s a bridge too far!
4:46 I mean, christ, endorsing a child predator is one thing, but pay to win?!
4:52 Introducing legislation that would roll back gay marriage and associated rights is shitty,
4:57 but we’re talking about Pay.
4:58 To.
4:59 Win here!
5:01 Of course, it’s hardly surprising that any Republican would pay to, as publishers call
5:06 it, “skip the grind.”
5:08 It is, after all, what they do in real life.
5:11 Wealthy, privileged straight white men and their “pick me” quislings, who have all
5:16 the societal advantages and use their money and political connections to get ahead.
5:21 This is a group of scumbags who obstructed and lied their way to packing the Supreme
5:25 Court with their own creatures to finalize their decades long bid to overturn Roe.
5:30 Vs. Wade, and of COURSE we were going there.
5:32 Oh, you didn’t think we’d get to the anti-abortion shit on this videogame series?
5:36 Here we fuckin’ are, losers!
5:40 Men like Ted Cruz will never know what it’s like to be pregnant, but that didn’t stop
5:44 him and all the other Republican cronies from fighting against the bodily autonomy of those
5:49 who do.
5:50 Because the consequences of their actions don’t affect them.
5:53 Nor does ensuring that the country that’s forcing people to give birth is the same country
5:58 that has no universal healthcare, has no guaranteed paid leave to raise a baby, has no social
6:04 programs that adequately protect lower income families.
6:07 A country that only cares about kids while they're fetuses and utterly abandons them
6:12 when born.
6:13 Quite how men like Cruz can call themselves pro-life while taking millions of dollars
6:18 from gun lobbyists to keep military grade weapons in the hands of deranged school shooters
6:23 is beyond me, but the NRA is a prime example of pay to win in real life.
6:28 A group that spends and spends to win at literally any cost.
6:32 Buying the support of politicians everywhere, very much like the average GOP-voting corporate
6:39 executive who, in Ted’s earlier words, “has a lot of great stuff that would take you 6-12
6:44 months to build up", woohoho.
6:46 Only, replace months with years - more years than many of us can physically live for.
6:53 In videogames, pay to win is popularly considered unethical, but we see it in real life all
6:58 the time.
6:59 Bobby Kotick doesn’t want his restraining order in the news?
7:03 Use money and power to shut it down.
7:05 Vince McMahon wants to Sexually prey on employees and keep them quiet after?
7:10 Use money and power to buy silence.
7:13 Elon Musk wants Twitter to be nice to him?
7:16 You know the drill.
7:17 But when I point out that Capitalism is literally a pay to win system the rich have gamed to
7:23 ensure they always win at the expense of everyone else, I’m told I’m too political.
7:28 Which is bullshit.
7:30 Because what’s happening in this fucked up system harms us ALL.
7:33 I could not just sit here and talk about fuckin' Overwatch or whatever while this shit's going
7:40 on.
7:41 What happened with the overturn of Roe v Wade was Ted Cruz’s approach to video games writ
7:46 large.
7:47 Wealthy power gamers poured millions into getting what they wanted, only instead of
7:52 a new skin for their Fortnite character, they got millions of Americans who will fucking
7:57 DIE from forced birth, from the evil, evil thing they accomplished.
8:02 And as I’ve said before, what is happening truly does affect us all, even if you’re
8:08 just a gamer who considers your status-quo supporting centrism an “apolitical” stance.
8:14 And as I've also said before with the constant attacks on trans rights that have paved the
8:18 way for this open fascism, you can’t pick and choose human rights, not without a domino
8:24 chain of consequences.
8:27 Once one group’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve normalized the concept of
8:32 debating human rights, and it’s open season on the lot of us at that point.
8:38 Once you debate one set of human rights, you open the door to debate ALL human rights.
8:43 In fact, it needs saying that the overturn of Roe v Wade also overturned the right to
8:48 privacy.
8:49 Even if you can’t get pregnant and don’t care about any of this, do keep in mind that
8:53 your private life is up for grabs now too.
8:56 All of you.
8:58 ALL of you.
8:59 And 99% of you can’t pay your way out of this shit.
9:04 For you, there’s only the grind.
9:08 Now, I understand what doing a video like this is gonna cost me.
9:14 There will be people furious that I did not actually talk enough about games.
9:19 There always are.
9:20 There have been people that for years have said "The Jimquisition is too political",
9:24 but like I also said, this effects you, as well as me, as well as everyone.
9:29 When human rights are on the line... then your rights are on the line.
9:34 And, for those of you who identify as "hardcore gamers", and have talked for years about how
9:40 hard done by, how put upon you are, well, we're facing some real issues now.
9:46 Just... think about it.
9:49 Just...
9:50 Could some of you please just think about what I've said for all these years?
9:53 And look at where we are now?
9:55 And think that, maybe, for all of the fury, and anger, and resentment that you've had
10:03 over video games, maybe you could reserve just a tiny sliver of that attitude for people's
10:10 fucking lives?
10:11 You can Thank God for Me while you do it.
10:15 Actually, you know what?
10:16 Like, Considering what's been done in his name lately, maybe give it a week.
0:11 Now, usually we start this video off with a lovely bit of a filmed live-action intro.
0:17 The only problem is is we did do one, and the sound was fucking unteneble.
0:22 I will actually play you the outro, at the end of the episode that we did film, mostly
0:27 because my friend Louis was doing the filming, and he'd be absolutely gutted if we used none
0:32 of the footage.
0:33 Now I'm away on a trip to London, Justin has been moving, I'm all out of resources, so
0:38 I'm just here to appologise before we start what I think is a pretty good video, which
0:42 this week has been guest edited by Jane Aerith Magnet, @ManiacJaniac on Twitter.
0:49 So do, please, enjoy today's episode which is totally 100% guarenteed all about video
0:57 games.
0:58 WINK
0:59 The world may have gone to hell in a handmaiden, but over in my little corner of the world,
1:05 things are looking puh-ritty good!
1:07 You see, after years of being told by rational individuals that my videos on corporate overreach
1:14 in a fiscally violent economic system are just too political, I actually, truly, FINALLY
1:22 have a real excuse to talk politics on this albatross of a channel.
1:26 For the very first time in my life, I’m actually thankful for the existence of a Republican,
1:31 for he has provided me the perfect outlet, the unimpeachable right to literally talk
1:38 literal politics.
1:40 And for Texas Senator and perennial coward Ted Cruise, this marks the first time in HIS
1:45 life that anybody’s been thankful for this spineless wretched ass at all.
1:50 That includes his parents, his kids, and his wife, the woman Trump called ugly and Cruz
1:55 failed to defend as he was soon found with his wormlike little tongue wriggling *deep*
2:00 inside the former president’s cracked, red-raw, milky anus.
2:05 Ha.
2:06 And some haters say my flair for writing has dulled.
2:09 Anyway, the man who once abandoned his state during a meteorological disaster to go pump
2:15 his flaccid tug stick in Cancun has opened to furnace door to his own roasting, for it
2:20 was HE who deigned to identify himself a gamer, and thus become content for an embittered
2:27 lefty content creator to take a massive wet shit on him, and feel temporarily better about
2:33 just how fucking horrible everything is.
2:36 In an installment of the snide little sick-sipper’s own podcast, Senator Ted Cruz indeed said
2:42 he was a gamer, perhaps hoping to make himself more relatable to the average human being,
2:47 rather than the sniveling invertebrate of a political bottom feeder that he actually
2:52 is.
2:53 If you think that might possibly make this hopelessly tiny plate of jizz jelly even vaguely
2:59 cool, however, think again.
3:01 You see, it should surprise nobody that a compulsive liar like Ted is actually talking
3:07 out of his dribbling rectal pipe.
3:09 He’s not actually a “gamer” so much as he is a microtransaction spending freemium
3:15 fast tracker whose approach to gaming pretty much sums up his approach to life and politics
3:20 in general.
3:21 Yes, from out of his own depraved maw, Ted Cruz explicitly celebrated the very concept
3:27 of pay to win.
3:28 Incidentally, he said he didn't like that, before he then said it was good.
3:33 Because he's Ted Cruz.
3:35 And that's what he does.
3:36 [Ted Cruz] When you can buy in game items, and sort of make your character stronger,
3:41 or get advantages, Now I'll confess when I play some games I'll sometimes buy it, because
3:46 it is more fun if suddenly your character has a lot more great stuff that would take
3:50 you six months or a year to build up.
3:52 So sometimes I'll...
3:53 Okay, I'll spend twenty bucks and buy a, you know, a treasure chest full of coins, 'cause
3:59 then I can spend them to get cool things in the game.
4:02 [JSS] Now, actual true Hardcore Gamers, I know how apathetic to real world issues y’all
4:08 can be, but come on now!
4:10 I understand that you might not care about Cruz’s history of supporting fascism up
4:14 to and including his undeniable part in the whipping up of a riotously violent insurrection
4:19 at the Capitol.
4:20 I’m aware that if I brought up him lying about the equality act to perpetuate transphobic
4:25 rhetoric while moving to restrict the freedoms of LGBTQ+ people, I'd get shrugs at best.
4:31 And I’m cognizant of the fact that his anti-abortion stance and hypocritical character assassination
4:37 of pro-choice protests might not perturb you.
4:41 But come on, pay to win!?
4:43 I KNOW y’all think THAT’s a bridge too far!
4:46 I mean, christ, endorsing a child predator is one thing, but pay to win?!
4:52 Introducing legislation that would roll back gay marriage and associated rights is shitty,
4:57 but we’re talking about Pay.
4:58 To.
4:59 Win here!
5:01 Of course, it’s hardly surprising that any Republican would pay to, as publishers call
5:06 it, “skip the grind.”
5:08 It is, after all, what they do in real life.
5:11 Wealthy, privileged straight white men and their “pick me” quislings, who have all
5:16 the societal advantages and use their money and political connections to get ahead.
5:21 This is a group of scumbags who obstructed and lied their way to packing the Supreme
5:25 Court with their own creatures to finalize their decades long bid to overturn Roe.
5:30 Vs. Wade, and of COURSE we were going there.
5:32 Oh, you didn’t think we’d get to the anti-abortion shit on this videogame series?
5:36 Here we fuckin’ are, losers!
5:40 Men like Ted Cruz will never know what it’s like to be pregnant, but that didn’t stop
5:44 him and all the other Republican cronies from fighting against the bodily autonomy of those
5:49 who do.
5:50 Because the consequences of their actions don’t affect them.
5:53 Nor does ensuring that the country that’s forcing people to give birth is the same country
5:58 that has no universal healthcare, has no guaranteed paid leave to raise a baby, has no social
6:04 programs that adequately protect lower income families.
6:07 A country that only cares about kids while they're fetuses and utterly abandons them
6:12 when born.
6:13 Quite how men like Cruz can call themselves pro-life while taking millions of dollars
6:18 from gun lobbyists to keep military grade weapons in the hands of deranged school shooters
6:23 is beyond me, but the NRA is a prime example of pay to win in real life.
6:28 A group that spends and spends to win at literally any cost.
6:32 Buying the support of politicians everywhere, very much like the average GOP-voting corporate
6:39 executive who, in Ted’s earlier words, “has a lot of great stuff that would take you 6-12
6:44 months to build up", woohoho.
6:46 Only, replace months with years - more years than many of us can physically live for.
6:53 In videogames, pay to win is popularly considered unethical, but we see it in real life all
6:58 the time.
6:59 Bobby Kotick doesn’t want his restraining order in the news?
7:03 Use money and power to shut it down.
7:05 Vince McMahon wants to Sexually prey on employees and keep them quiet after?
7:10 Use money and power to buy silence.
7:13 Elon Musk wants Twitter to be nice to him?
7:16 You know the drill.
7:17 But when I point out that Capitalism is literally a pay to win system the rich have gamed to
7:23 ensure they always win at the expense of everyone else, I’m told I’m too political.
7:28 Which is bullshit.
7:30 Because what’s happening in this fucked up system harms us ALL.
7:33 I could not just sit here and talk about fuckin' Overwatch or whatever while this shit's going
7:40 on.
7:41 What happened with the overturn of Roe v Wade was Ted Cruz’s approach to video games writ
7:46 large.
7:47 Wealthy power gamers poured millions into getting what they wanted, only instead of
7:52 a new skin for their Fortnite character, they got millions of Americans who will fucking
7:57 DIE from forced birth, from the evil, evil thing they accomplished.
8:02 And as I’ve said before, what is happening truly does affect us all, even if you’re
8:08 just a gamer who considers your status-quo supporting centrism an “apolitical” stance.
8:14 And as I've also said before with the constant attacks on trans rights that have paved the
8:18 way for this open fascism, you can’t pick and choose human rights, not without a domino
8:24 chain of consequences.
8:27 Once one group’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve normalized the concept of
8:32 debating human rights, and it’s open season on the lot of us at that point.
8:38 Once you debate one set of human rights, you open the door to debate ALL human rights.
8:43 In fact, it needs saying that the overturn of Roe v Wade also overturned the right to
8:48 privacy.
8:49 Even if you can’t get pregnant and don’t care about any of this, do keep in mind that
8:53 your private life is up for grabs now too.
8:56 All of you.
8:58 ALL of you.
8:59 And 99% of you can’t pay your way out of this shit.
9:04 For you, there’s only the grind.
9:08 Now, I understand what doing a video like this is gonna cost me.
9:14 There will be people furious that I did not actually talk enough about games.
9:19 There always are.
9:20 There have been people that for years have said "The Jimquisition is too political",
9:24 but like I also said, this effects you, as well as me, as well as everyone.
9:29 When human rights are on the line... then your rights are on the line.
9:34 And, for those of you who identify as "hardcore gamers", and have talked for years about how
9:40 hard done by, how put upon you are, well, we're facing some real issues now.
9:46 Just... think about it.
9:49 Just...
9:50 Could some of you please just think about what I've said for all these years?
9:53 And look at where we are now?
9:55 And think that, maybe, for all of the fury, and anger, and resentment that you've had
10:03 over video games, maybe you could reserve just a tiny sliver of that attitude for people's
10:10 fucking lives?
10:11 You can Thank God for Me while you do it.
10:15 Actually, you know what?
10:16 Like, Considering what's been done in his name lately, maybe give it a week.
