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

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Me and a friend are both completionists and we play alot of single player games together. When it comes to trophies I don’t mind the grindy ones too much, provided the moment-to-moment grind is easy. It can be quite relaxing and therapeutic to just zone out and grind away.

What really infuriates me are the trophies that are so insanely hard that only a fraction of a fraction of the absolute top players in the world could be expected to beat them. I’m thinking specifically of the Community Challenge trophies in Batman: Arkham Knight and completing the game on Brutal difficulty in the Uncharted remasters.

Yes, we did get those trophies. But it took us literal months of practice.

Seriously, if anyone in this thread has beaten Killer Croc in the Iceberg Lounge you have officially earned your God Gamer certification. (I didn’t do it. My friend eventually did.)
 
completing the game on Brutal difficulty in the Uncharted remasters.
You are an absolute mad man. Crushing was bad enough for me. Uncharted 1 was especially miserable because they hadn't worked out the formula just yet so in some battles enemies would literally drop in behind you through holes in the ceiling. I think Uncharted 2's train chapters took the most attempts though.
 
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100% a game to me means one of two things: I genuinely loved it and wanted to get the most out of it (We Happy Few) or I absolutely hated it (but not enough to stop playing it) and I didn't ever want to return to it (Sonic Heroes).

I wanted to add Jim's latest video here so we could all ignore it, but he no longer keeps his 11 am schedule. Just "As long As It's Monday" standard.

So, remember when the Tony Hawk games gave you silly crossover characters when you completed them?
 
Chronologically.

I guess 7's wasn't too bad but 8 is exhausting.

But after doing a second marathon I've come to the conclusion that Yakuza has terrible writing.

I've only played 4 games in the series and whilst I've enjoyed them, I've never wanted to do a marathon as it feels like I would get major burnout. I do like how they manage to balance the tone by keeping the main stories serious and the silly stuff to the side missions, but have to admit I don't always find the story that easy to follow when almost every character can be described as "scowling Japanese man in a suit".
 
Chronologically.

I guess 7's wasn't too bad but 8 is exhausting.

But after doing a second marathon I've come to the conclusion that Yakuza has terrible writing.
I disagree. Yakuza has pretty terrible main stories. The characters in those stories, the scenes and the sidestories are top-notch.

And that is just the drama side of things, the comedic writing and directing have been top shelf since 0.
 
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Hope you're ready to celebrate a full decade of Jim
It’s a hard anniversary to celebrate for a number of reasons, not least for the fact that a huge part of my career has been pushing back against crunch culture, arguing that game developers deserve more time off. Like many self-loathing mentally ill people though, I have never applied to myself the wellness considerations I’ve advocated for others.
Oh Jimmy boy you are a joker, lets not pretend that working under genuine crunch is in any way comparable to what you do. You have an editor, all you do is pick a topic which doesn't even need to be particularly relevent and try and pad out at least 10 minutes of talking about it, you have it quite easy you little fuck. There is a reason why no one has one what you've done and thats because the format is archaic and very suboptimal if you want to make an actual career of it.
 
You are an absolute mad man. Crushing was bad enough for me. Uncharted 1 was especially miserable because they hadn't worked out the formula just yet so in some battles enemies would literally drop in behind you through holes in the ceiling. I think Uncharted 2's train chapters took the most attempts though.
Yeah there was a section in the train level where the checkpoint spawns you in front of 2 enemies firing at you. They both have 95% accuracy, they fire 4 or 5 shots each and you die in 2 hits. So you’re just rolling for cover and dying over and over until you get God-like RNG and they miss their shots.

I also have Nam flashbacks to the scene in the third game where the ship you’re on is sinking and water is coming in while enemies attack. You have to clear the enemies before you can escape, but you’re under time pressure since you drown if you’re too slow (the only enemy encounter in the series where you’re under time pressure). And since it’s on Brutal all the enemies have 4x as much health as normally and you only have 25% your normal ammo count. Meaning you have to head shot as much as possible and quickly or else you’re dead.

Anyway, I see Jim has uploaded a video congratulating himself on never missing a Jimquisition. I haven’t watched the video so maybe he adresses this but I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER THAT HE DID MISS A DEADLINE!

Back when the show was new on The Escapist he uploaded an episode that was just him saying ”sorry, no episode this week. I’ve been too busy playing Euro Truck Simulator.” The whole video was like 40 seconds long. Does anyone else remember this???
 
Stuff like this really pisses me off. I totally get the appeal --especially for the crazy motherfuckers who do no damage runs of these games-- and it must be incredibly satisfying to pull off, but given there are a handful of sections in Dead Space 2 where you can get randomly insta-killed by cheap bullshit (like the room with the spinning walls you need to stasis) it just put me off ever attempting.
From what I recall, DS2 hardcore wasn't that bad. You already had to play through the game on the toughest difficulty to unlock it in the first place, so if you went immediately into it then you'd have a decent idea of what to expect. There are guides you can follow that suggest at which points you should save, with your first one generally being a few chapters in since the early game is pretty easy even on hardcore. And even if you do die and have to go back, DS2 is still a fun game.

Besides, the reward for beating it is pure catharsis.

But yeah, I do agree that achievements that are ridiculously hard probably don't belong in official lists. LASO achievements in the Halo MCC games are a good example. They wouldn't be so bad if not for the Iron skull that sends you back to the start of the level if you die anywhere, and as anyone who's played a Legendary Halo campaign knows, there are a lot of places you can die even before you crank up the difficulty even more with other skulls. There are ways around this, like playing co-op (so you only go back to the last checkpoint if one of you dies) or quickly saving and quitting when you die (bringing you to the last checkpoint when you reload). Even setting that aside, you're still having to get through the entire campaign of every game on an absolute bullshit difficulty, forcing you to use every trick in the book to skip fights, despawn enemies, and get extra help you shouldn't have. On the bright side, it does teach you a lot about how to break the games, and some of those glitches are pretty funny, like infinite Johnsons at the end of Halo 2 or the infinite Spartan Laser at the end of Halo 3.

Oh, Jim's still here?
 
I'll give it a chance.

Jim's intro is as shit as ever but it made me scroll down to the comments to avoid the flashbang that is his pornography. Here's the comments.
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Nothing to say about the first guy but the second highest comment on this video is just dumb. Jim is far from reliable, sure he uploads once a week on the same day but he can't even fucking pick a time to stick to. And like he didn't even used to have this once every Monday schedule either. Back when he made somewhat interesting content he would post more than just Mondays.
I think I've said it before but intros on youtube are pretty rare nowadays, people always used to have an intro but no one does anymore. I can't say it's entirely MrBeast's fault but I'd say he certianly popularised it. It's just another example of unneeded filler and how much Jim refuses to change with the times.
His intro today is seemingly even worse than normal. Let me try and screenshot this. The , and . keys will move a video back/forward one frame btw.
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What has he done to his logo asset? Why the fuck does it have all that fuzz around it? How do you manage that? Ok I checked the last video and it's fucked up there too. And while I'm here this is what a community has flagged Jim's last video on scalpers with.
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That purple section is flagged as filler. A 12:35 video and only 6:19 of that is deemed actually worth watching by a community.
Anyway back to today's video. He starts with a sexual comment. You're a middle aged man. Not a teenager.
I find it a kinda interesting duality of him saying 'it's me commandant staphylococcus aureus' and 'jimquisition'. I know it's branding but imagine being a new viewer, what the fuck is a jimquisition, what does that have to do with you? Normally trannies freak out if you call them by their real name instead of the internet larp name.
Two sexual comments in 20 seconds. I'm not a prude it's just that you come across as either a reddit level virgin desperate for sex, or a porn addict. Mr femboy fart huffer isn't going to tell you not to make sexual jokes but like these aren't even jokes and it just makes you look like a child.
He's never missed a Monday upload. Genuinely good job, it's pretty impressive. However you have repeatedly said you do not want to have to do it and your videos are you talking into a camera with little scripting and editing.
Idk if it's just me but the whole twitter tranny bullshit has made me not want to use they/them as intended. Everyone's a man now. But Jim's talking about himself using they/them, he's talking in the third person so it fits but also hmmmm.
Jim asks people to not ask for another 10 years but realistically would there even be any active subs left at that point?
He's just giving a brief recap of when the show started and it's roots, nothing to say. Could all be bullshit, I do not care to actually check.
He sounds really sombre which is kinda odd to hear honestly.
He's also rambling a fair bit too which is kinda odd coming from someone who was sucking off his own scripting talents.
Jim wants to say that 'everything online is either corporately owned or sponsored by raid shadow legends'. Everyone shits on raid and talks about how bad it is as a game. And to pretend that everyone else is owned by a big company is just bullshit, you're on fucking youtube my guy. There are hundreds of other people making high quality reviews of games on here as well as talking about drama just like you. You're not special.
Ok finally something interesting. 'You don't see many of the right wing so called free speech advocates stick by their principles when ad revenue's on the line.' he says. Jim sterling. The guy that will defend an objectively bad game for political reasons. The guy who is incapable of standing by his hatred of gacha games because he can't stop playing them. That's the guy saying that you can't stand by your morals. Just remind me what happened to budweiser and shit like that? How many of those chuds we're actually lying about not buying veilguard or whatever. Jim is from the same group of people that hate big tech and all that shit but will still think that them putting some tranny flag in their bio for a month or slapping it in a corner of a game is going to save thousands of lives.
Jim is 'the last stronghold of freespeech on youtube', for one that doesn't exist anywhere. But also like you constantly bitch about random people online speaking their opinions and calling them horrible people for doing so. You might not want to outright censor them but you clearly are not a fan of complete free speech.
Just putting this quote here. 'it’s still somewhat abstract to me, but for as much as I *can* pull back and take it in wouldn’t be the first time)'. Do I need to say that no one wants to hear about your sex life.
He thinks that 'what’s been accomplished [uploading for 10 years] is phenomenal'. It isn't though. You basically upload average drama slop videos. You are no more phenomenal than moist charlie. It's an accomplishment sure but like once again you stand in front of a camera for 20 minutes a week and that's about it. There's no way that an episode takes more than a day of work, working one day a week for 10 years isn't exactly groundbreaking. You're one step above a hobo, even then not all of them.
Hey at least he finally admits that he just loves to talk about himself. We finally get that audio clip. I'd go in and clip it but like does anyone actually care? We've all known that he only does this show to fluff himself for ages now.
He thinks his wrestling name is 'fantastic', you put a bunch of random fancy sounding words together. Your wrestling name sounds like a fucking racehorse name.
More talk about his sex life.
'I’ve worn many hats in the 18 years I’ve been professionally working in media' MPB arc coming soon? He says that the ones he has worn are stylish as fuck. Maybe to a teenager in hot topic.
'Over the decade, I’ve set precedents, influenced an industry, inspired a wave of younger - and more fucking successful - creators, pissed off billion dollar corporations, helped a lot of queer people find themselves, and gone tits first into a pile of thumbtacks on more than one occasion.'. So if anyone's playing bingo now is the time to cross off your 'jim has a massive ego' square. Jim has influenced an industry. Wow! So that means that every game has no microtransactions and is full of proper LGBTQAAVEPPETM representation then? The only people that influence industries are the ones in charge, you have had basically minimal impact on gaming. Even in the niches like steam greenlight, he wasn't the first person to talk about how bad it was, everyone already considered greenlight to be a shithole. He might have been the biggest person to talk about it at the time but did he really add much to that conversation? I'm not saying you have to, making funny videos is enough and it's not hard to take the piss out of greenlight. But I doubt that Jim has had any noticeable impact on gaming. Also from what I've seen online 'helping queer people find themselves' normally means encouraging mental illnesses or grooming. Not something I'd be bragging about.
More talk about his sex life.
'I’ve been at the forefront of criticizing predatory videogame monetization, the longest running and almost certainly first full advocate against such exploitative practices as microtransactions, loot boxes, so-called live services etc.'. Are you actually retarded? Like have you ever looked at gaming discourse before? There is not one person I have ever seen defend those things. When I was a kid in school before you even started uploading I was taking the piss out of the faggots who bought fifa points. Have done since back then. And I'm nothing special. You are most definitely not the longest running hater of microtransactions. People have hated them since their fucking inception. He wants to claim that his arguments have been parroted by loads of other people, then doesn't give any fucking examples. Yep let me take the guy who constantly lies and misconstrues shit on a regular basis at his word.
Jim says that the slaughtering grounds was most people's introduction to his 'work'. Is it? I mean are people watching today familiar with that video? On one hand it's so old that surely it's only the most dedicated fans who remember it, on the other hand it's not like he has any new fans so maybe they all do remember it. I'll give him a pass on him calling it one of the biggest video game feuds, mostly because I can't be fucked to list the other more impactful things.
Jim wants to call digital homicide games '''''''games''''''' implying that they're not, I don't disagree with him but once again I can say the same thing about his ''''''content'''''''
He says he has a 'memory disorder'. Maybe that's why he keeps making the same 5 videos over and over again. Maybe he just doesn't remember doing it? Then again online tranny so I don't trust any 'medical' issues he has on face value.
He got served documents from a sheriff? I'll freely admit I know nothing about how that sort of shit works especially for a country I don't live in. But surely that's a lawyer's responsibility not the fucking police.
Jim thinks he is 'one of the most controversial video game reviewers in the world'. As an individual maybe, but the amount of shit that Jim gets is nothing compared to games journalism sites. Shit like Kotaku is a widespread joke, the only widespread thing about Jim is his stomach. He 'doesn't believe that his opinions should be that controversial to start with'. Says the guy who repeatedly stokes controversy for attention. I agree people shouldn't be getting pissy over a review of a game written by some nobody that they'll forget about in minutes. That goes both fucking ways though Jim. You shouldn't be pissed off at people disagreeing with you especially in a commemoration video you retard. You are no better or even different from the people you are currently criticising. He is just complete those in glass houses momenting slagging off people for caring about his old reviews when he should just not care about them. They are literal nobodies. Why the fuck do you care what randoms on Twitter have to say? You've been doing this for 10 years and you still care about random people online?
Jim wants to say that the culture around reviewing pop culture has only gotten more hostile with time. I'm not going to disagree with him but we've all watched a Jim video right? The guy who constantly spews vitriolic hatred is the one complaining that discussion is hostile? He's just being retarded again. Took around six months for people to call Starfield shit did it? Because I clearly remember people calling it shit the same fucking week it came out.
'It doesn't matter. It never does. It's just computer game reviews.' If it doesn't matter then why are you still pissy about the comments you got on them? It doesn't matter. It never does. It's just a comment online.
I think we're on the 5th mention of Jim's sex life in this video now.
I genuinely refuse to believe this video was scripted at all. He's just all over the place. There is no way he wrote a script for this, if he did then he didn't stick to it and couldn't be bothered to edit around it.
There is no fucking way someone looked at Jim and had any revelations about their sexuality or 'gender'. Unless they were previously gay. You're not an lgbt rights activist or anything like that, you don't actually 'help' any of these people through anything you do, you make fucking game reviews. He mentions 'cracking eggs' in tranny speak. That's what normal people call grooming. He considers 'THE most important thing I have ever done' to be just being a faggot online. Guess we're about equal on life achievements then Jimbo where's my celebration video? He puts two photos of before/after hrt. They look the fucking same. The only difference is that the after photo has better lighting and makeup. More typical tranny propaganda.
The more I listen to Jim the more I hear like r/funny tier writing.
Also on behalf of all normal gay people and shit no you did not improve anyone's life. Even remotely. Normal people take the piss out of you because you are a caricature of the extremes of the lgbt community.
He's back to bragging about being a wrestler despite being 'physically disabled'. That's not a bragging point. That's called being retarded. You are not brave for doing something against your doctor's advice. Ruining your body for short term happiness is not a good oh hold on sorry he's a tranny I forgot. Bragging about this is about as impactful as bragging that you started smoking. This isn't a case of someone overcoming disability to do something hard but rewarding, this is a case of someone actively furthering their disability. You're not brave, you're stupid.
>women's champion wrestler
I'm sure I don't need to say anything more on that one.
He thinks that writing for vampire survivours is the best start he could have had as a writer. Which is just not true. You wrote fluff in a section of a game hardly anyone reads. You wrote some shitty jokes and that's it. You're no world renown writer, you just have an ego. Then he acts proud that he wrote for the coomer dating sim. He says that his work on the game is 'so fucking good', so that's going to be a commercial flop. We've seen his writing skills in the scripts that he claims to write and the reddit tier jokes in survivours. 'I am infuriatingly good at it[writing games]'. The only infuriating thing about Jim's game writing is his ego he has about it. He puts up an example of his amazing writing to show that AI could never do it. But then actually no it does look like something AI could do. It's just more of that thing where people learn about a technique (alliteration) and for the short while afterwards they try to use it everywhere. That's what his writing makes me think of. Me as a fucking 8 year old in English class.
The fact that his workers, if he even has any, can take any time off that they want with only short notice and he can still upload once a week is not showing how good he is. It's showing how easy it is to produce the show. If someone just randomly said to me that they weren't coming in to work in two days then we would be missing deadlines. If you can afford to have people not show up then clearly you are not using all 7 days to produce that weeks episode. Yet he still calls himself a 'workaholic'. Jim you make fucking videos on youtube. Yea let me go call the people I work with lazy in comparison, those guys breaking their backs laying brick? Lazy cunts. They should try making a fucking youtube video once a week to see how tough life really is.
He's had a 'lot of abusive situations' in his life. I'm not going to question that I'm just going to say considering the whole trans thing, you know there's patterns to this shit. But it's ok because he's 'got a lot more positivity going on now'. That's called lovebombing, it is a grooming technique. Also almost every single video you have made for a very long time is you pissed off at someone/thing, how is that a lot more positivity?
A retrospective on the jimquisition would be next to impossible he says, because there's a man in his place he says. Not because it would mean coming to terms with how shit his content is and how repetitive he is, not because he would have to humble his ego but because transgender. If you're weirded out by seeing a fucking video of yourself then idk I think there might be some mental problems going on there. He calls his 'old self' 'fucking miserable'. Didn't I just write something about how almost everything he does is just him being angry?
He makes mention of LKD, just talks about him subtitling shit for him and hosting a podcast. Idk there's just nothing to say he's saying nothing and repeating himself like always.
He does say thanks to Phoenix for helping him 'find himself' which once again is politician speak for grooming.
Then he says that his editor has 'amazing editing talent' which I can't fucking see. Half of his videos are filler that should be edited out. The fuck is that? His editor I assume adds in him saying thanks back and it sounds like a fucking demon possessed a new yorker.
He then starts priming his audience to expect him to retire soon. He once again just sounds fed up of doing this. How can you have such an ego over something you don't even want to do? He's stressing that there will not be 10 more years which I mean yea we know you're trans and heavily overweight.

Also just to show how fucking lazy Jim is, he still hasn't updated his outro properly. It still links to his twitter, facebook, instagram, twitch and paetreon. Despite the fact that he mostly uses bluesky now. Just to prove my point he announced he is going live on twitch, didn't post that on twitter, did on bluesky.

He's been saying more dumb shit since the absurd 'bioware games don't have good writing' take.

He's such a good writer. That's why he has to try leverage his internet following for a position. Normal people do this thing called a job application. I assume at least. Either way it makes you look fucking desperate.
And then more of his retardation. Echochambers are very much a bad thing. I know he's saying it half jokingly but echochambers are how you end up with political radicals (like those not sees that you hate so much) or people raping puppy corpses. There's your end point. I've said many things on twitter, so far no one has disagreed with them in the years of using my account. You get criticism because you say retarded shit and because you're a public figure. If you need a hugbox then maybe you should just stop doing those two things. I've said many things online and had people disagree with them, many things on this site and even this thread that people have heavily disagreed with and said some nasty mean words that weawy hurted my wikkle feefees, I'm not running off to an echochamber to have my opinions validated by yesmen lovebombing me. That's called being an adult.
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Imagine paying for this. I know trannies are desperate but christ. More than that imagine going to a drag show, I could not imagine anything worse. No idea how a drag show (the things that used to be the 'queerest' shit you could go to) could be 'mega queer'. What does a mildly queer dragshow look like?
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Sounds like a really shitty way of doing difficulty. I enjoyed Crushing but I don't think I would enjoy Brutal.
Even the YouTubers I usually use for max difficulty walkthroughs complained about how bullshit Brutal was. I don't know if this is confirmed, but apparently they consulted with speedrunners and tweaked any sections they got through too easily to make them even worse.

I've never particularly rated Naughty Dog as a developer when it comes to shooters. They do some amazing technical stuff and come up with cool set pieces, but the gameplay is usually the worst part of their games (and according to Neil Cuckman, that's just how they like it).
 
That's why they fail. Games are not fucking movies. They are supposed to be played. Not watch 30 minutes of cutscenes between some sprinkles of gameplay.
Broadly, I agree, but I will make exceptions for people like Kojima and visual novel games. As long as you make the content engaging I can live with preposterous amounts of exposition, but stuff like the Last of Us is the worst of both worlds: you watch a predictable story play out --oh this guy who lost his daughter has to look after an initially hostile young girl? Wonder how this one's gonna turn out-- in between bouts of the most boring, trial-and-error combat sections and moving planks of wood around.

There's no catharsis, no payoff; it's just an 8-10 hour misery simulator.
 
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