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

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Oliver Onions dijo:
Back when he was on the cusp of going from watchable to half the video being skits and wrestling promo he started wearing lobster gloves.
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The problem with this is that he just has so much random crap that its hard to tell what was an early sign we missed and what was pure coincidence.
 
Martyr Logarius dijo:
Did he ever give a reason why he's just a lobster drawing now? I assume something to do with laziness.
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Sorry, I missed this.

IIRC, Jim first did the lobster claws thing during an episode where he was celebrating his successful back surgery. He was drawing parallels to the Six Million DollarMan, and being rebuilt.

That was just novelty gloves, but it must have been amusing enough.
 
Moja Zemlja dijo:
The problem with this is that he just has so much random crap that its hard to tell what was an early sign we missed and what was pure coincidence.
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It's impossible to tell, especially with how troons absolutely love to retcon their own history and claim that doing X was secretly a sign they were trans all along.
consul_dondas dijo:
That was just novelty gloves, but it must have been amusing enough.
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Case in point: I don't remember if it was the video where he introduced the lobster gloves, but I know one of the first things he did with them was start pinching his own nipples.

Joke? Or an egg beginning to crack? The world wonders...
 
gearhead1395 dijo:
Hello. YouTube deleted my Jim Sterling TROON video and won't reinstate it on appeal, so here's a copy of the original for archival purposes. TTD!
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What a frame to end on.
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Thank you for your service. I hope you'll do a remaster when Jim finally dies.
 
Kuritan Deplorable dijo:
Jims one of the many out there who thinks of shareholders as these arbitrary demons that just descend on random companies, declare dibs, and get to bleed it dry forever more because lulz evil. When in reality, the five years a game studio spends building a game before they sell it, its all financed voluntarily off the backs of the shareholders, who's only expectation is "we put in a hundred million dollars, we do want that back". Outside of genuinely rare cases, the deal and process is extremely well known, and everyone involved knows exactly what's going on. What usually happens is these companies fuck up that product, and keep borrowing deeper and deeper, until even their successes aren't grand enough to stem the bleeding. Then smoothbrains like Jim who've never paid attention to how the sausage is made just see a studio make a good game for a change and get shut down, and seethes endlessly assuming they immediately understand the whole thing
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See Hifi Rush and Tango Games. Everyone shits on Microsoft for closing the studio while conveniently leaving out that Tango's previous game Ghostwire Tokyo was a massive flop and the Evil Within series was pretty much dead in the water at that point.
 
The Hungry African dijo:
Everyone shits on Microsoft for closing the studio while conveniently leaving out that Tango's previous game Ghostwire Tokyo was a massive flop and the Evil Within series was pretty much dead in the water at that point.
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And they have to leave it out, because if they don't it leads a lot more credibility to the insider reports that Microsoft was working with them on other pitches, but none of them seemed like they'd be viable, and when Tango refused to compromise onto 'viable' ideas they split. It wasn't "successful game, now get fucked" it was "successful game, you're greenlit for a sequel - oh, you don't want to make a sequel? Ok, what do you want to make - oh my god that all looks fucking terrible no we're not doing that"
 
We're probably over-thinking it. Jim's wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle when it comes to the inner workings of an organization (company, funding, team-building, employment, direction, leadership, structure, etc.). He thinks employees should never be fired or laid off (unless they're right-wing or use the right pronoun) and if game do good, it's all because of the lowly workers. If game do bad, it's all because some greedy Capitalist executive fucked it up. None of this is beyond elementary-level, Santa-is-real thinking.

Anyone want to take a wild guess when he chimes in on the God of War Laundry controversy? I bet you'll have to really work the ol' brain to hazard a guess as to his position on it. I suspect we'll get the following: Nerdzis, Misogynists, Gamers™, Snowflakes. And, he'll completely ignore the underlying complaint: people play GOW to play Kratos.
 
The Scorpion dijo:
Perhaps Jim ought to try actually becoming one of the mythical shareholders. I own a small amount of stock in Take Two, and that was enough to get me a vote on whether they kept Straus Zelnick back in 2024. Surely he'd love the opportunity to cast his vote.
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That's money that could be spent on more shit to put on shelves and food to shovel into his mouth. Also rent money, because despite being over 40 and earning 7k a month he doesn't want to own property for some retarded reason.

Also, casting his vote is work. Whining on the internet and pretending that it makes a difference is much easier.
 
Fuck the lot of you I loved Ghostwire and I will always be salty we're not getting a sequel.
Kuritan Deplorable dijo:
And they have to leave it out, because if they don't it leads a lot more credibility to the insider reports that Microsoft was working with them on other pitches, but none of them seemed like they'd be viable, and when Tango refused to compromise onto 'viable' ideas they split.
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I think what really pissed in people's tea over the whole Tango situation was how it happened almost simultaneous to Microsoft glazing the fuck out of Hi-Fi Rush and how well it performed.

Probably more an issue with game journos deliberately misreporting the story, but hey what else is new.
 
Oliver Onions dijo:
The industry has always been cutthroat with more losers than winners but Jim chooses not to see any of that because it gets in the way of his stupid fat point.
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Same for ratings/quality being unrelated to sales, high margin slop didn't start with CoD or Bobby Kotick.
Arthur Morgan dijo:
That's money that could be spent on more shit to put on shelves and food to shovel into his mouth. Also rent money, because despite being over 40 and earning 7k a month he doesn't want to own property for some retarded reason.

Also, casting his vote is work. Whining on the internet and pretending that it makes a difference is much easier.
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His negative reviews + drama vids get more attention than his positive content, if the problems in the industry go away then so does his meal ticket. Trooning out just added to the list of problems that he can milk forever.
 
UncleTusky dijo:
His negative reviews + drama vids get more attention than his positive content, if the problems in the industry go away then so does his meal ticket. Trooning out just added to the list of problems that he can milk forever.
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Ha, he commented on this in his Mister Negative video from March 2020. Even brought receipts in the form of screenshots of his analytics to prove his audience watched way more of his negative shit than positive. Well, of course they did. He literally built the Jim Sterling persona to be a drama farmer. Those people didn't sub to him to hear him glaze video games; they were generally disgruntled people wanting to hear yet another fat guy rage (like Boogie & fat-ass Angry Joe).

But, I agree that he always needs something to rage on about...what better than milk his disabilities and trooning out?

On to the other point we were discussing, I think I over-estimated him all this time. He has a certain talent and he's obviously creative, but I think I gave him entirely too much credit with intelligence. He demonstrates this level of stupidity far too often for it to be a gag:
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Imagine posting this after running away from Twitter and hiding away on Bluesky to avoid criticism. "Another Trooner lolcow who's run to a safe space where he can bask in the pretend love because he's so fucking unlikable everywhere else." You can't possibly have an ounce of intelligence to not have something go off in your head...a self-check or something before posting this.

"Intelligence is the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, reasoning, and problem-solving. It involves the ability to perceive or infer information and apply it to adapt to different environments."

He's missing at least three of the parameters for intelligence and I'm giving him some benefit of the doubt on a couple others.
 
consul_dondas dijo:
Imagine if the people on X and Bluesky figured that out.
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They never will, they need the delusion that they can still fight the good fight without actually putting in any effort, otherwise they'd have to face reality and accept that their parents were right, they really are good for nothing.
10CENT$ & F0UR dijo:
Ha, he commented on this in his Mister Negative video from March 2020. Even brought receipts in the form of screenshots of his analytics to prove his audience watched way more of his negative shit than positive. Well, of course they did. He literally built the Jim Sterling persona to be a drama farmer. Those people didn't sub to him to hear him glaze video games; they were generally disgruntled people wanting to hear yet another fat guy rage (like Boogie & fat-ass Angry Joe).
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It's been like that for years, hell Channel Awesome's entire brand was built around shitting on things. But as you said, that's because of the audience he built for himself. If he wanted to do more positive content, he could, he gets his money from Patreon, not youtube ad revenue, so who gives a shit? The answer, he does, he wants the views because he wants to believe he's still popular instead of a failing nobody whose high subscriber count is mostly from dead channels.
 
Martyr Logarius dijo:
Did he ever give a reason why he's just a lobster drawing now? I assume something to do with laziness.
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His editor made it for him without intending to have him use it in his video but Jim liked it so much he started using it regularly. He’s always had a fondness/fascination with shellfish in general and lobsters and shrimp in particular. Over time that has morphed into some psycho-sexual thing and it became more of a fursona situation (shellsona?). It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s masturbated to lobster porn at some point.
 
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