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

Since when did he start depicting himself as a lobster with tits ? Ah and of course in a topic about the decline of physical media, the overall worse state of the video games industry and the customer getting the short end of the stick he had to mention "Microsoft killing (Palestine) kids". What a fucking faggot.
 
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How the fuck do you manage to be so financially incompetent to be getting kicked out of your apartment and what not from making a passive income of $6,941
Are you talking about his previous flat? Because he didn't get kicked out, he moved out of protest because his landlord was increasing the rent and now he lives in the granny flat of a recently deceased old woman.

To answer your question though: Jim is ghetto rich so he has no concept of saving or making wise investments with his money. He blows most of it on stupid gaudy shit like a rapper.
Since when did he start depicting himself as a lobster with tits ?
He started using the lobster about a year ago, I think. Maybe as a subtle admission no one wants to look at his ghastly attempt at womanface.
 
Ah, you love to see it. Come on, Jimmy, put out another video and drop down 2k in one month. I know it won't happen because he loathes work but a man can dream.

At the current rate he'll reach under 700k by Feb 2028
For me personally the PS5 will be my last console.
Yeah, I'm thinking the same way. Part of me wants the Switch 2 but the way Nintendo prices their games and refuses to let them drop even when they've been out for years just pisses me off. I might grab an Xbox Series X and get some old games that I missed, but I've also got plenty of games I could platinum without needing to buy anything new.

Also, modern games just don't grab me the same way the old ones did. Even stuff I enjoyed like Spider-Man 2 and Hogwarts Legacy just feel... weak, I guess, compared to other titles I've played. Could be I'm getting older. Could be some of the magic's gone.
 
Part of me wants the Switch 2 but the way Nintendo prices their games and refuses to let them drop even when they've been out for years just pisses me off
I was tempted because the Donkey Kong game looked fun, but then I remembered I've only used my current Switch to play Gameboy/SNES games I could easily emulate so I bought a Steamdeck instead.
I might grab an Xbox Series X and get some old games that I missed
Be careful with that if you're talking about 360/OG Xbox titles. I bought a Series X thinking it was fully backwards compatible with the full Xbox library, but it's a relatively tiny selection of games and a lot of the best ones (like Tenchu Z which was never ported anywhere else) aren't included.

Honestly depending on your situation you might be better buying what you can on PC or getting one of the old consoles second-hand. I've been collecting Xbox games for a while and they are almost always much, much cheaper than PS2/Gamecube games because there's so little demand for them.
 
I was tempted because the Donkey Kong game looked fun, but then I remembered I've only used my current Switch to play Gameboy/SNES games I could easily emulate so I bought a Steamdeck instead.

Be careful with that if you're talking about 360/OG Xbox titles. I bought a Series X thinking it was fully backwards compatible with the full Xbox library, but it's a relatively tiny selection of games and a lot of the best ones (like Tenchu Z which was never ported anywhere else) aren't included.

Honestly depending on your situation you might be better buying what you can on PC or getting one of the old consoles second-hand. I've been collecting Xbox games for a while and they are almost always much, much cheaper than PS2/Gamecube games because there's so little demand for them.
I wasn't planning on going that far back, I have a 360 that still works and Wikipedia has the list of games that are backwards compatible for that. I think Fable isn't backwards compatible for the X but is for the 360, which is weird but whatever. And funnily enough, Donkey Kong Bonanza was also on my list. I do play other things besides the Switch Online titles (And hey, they finally put Donkey Kong 64 on there) but that is my main thing. No idea why they don't put the other Sonic games on. And I want the old Pokemon games but they probably won't do those either. I partially wanted the Switch 2 for the Gamecube titles but they've barely put anything on there. They don't even have Mario Sunshine on there.

Yeah, I might just go back to Steam and open Age of Empires 2 back up.
 
I partially wanted the Switch 2 for the Gamecube titles but they've barely put anything on there.
Oh yeah I wanted that too, but I think I already own all the Gamecube games I'd ever want to play and last I checked my Wii still works (have an actual Gamecube somewhere too but it's more hassle to set up).

ETA & OT: Zilla's GoFundMe to move house made it's goal and then some. Unless he did so anonymously Jim did not donate, even though he could have easily fronted the entire $2k himself with his Patreon bux. Champagne Socialism rocks!
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I'm not going to bother with the ps6 for the same reasons you guys mentioned above. Plus, I find myself just replaying my old library more than new games. Also, because I've got most games I fancied since the 90s, the current rerelease trend is of no interest to me. I just realised I've got no game I'm looking forward to on consoles? Are there any titles you guys are interested in?
 
I just realised I've got no game I'm looking forward to on consoles? Are there any titles you guys are interested in?
I'm interested in the new Onimusha and Silent Hill games, but I won't be buying them for at least a year after release when they're cheaper, and maybe on PC by then if I decide to sell a kidney to fund a new graphics card.

I really enjoyed the Nioh 3 demo earlier this year but again, same deal.
 
Are there any titles you guys are interested in?
I'm looking forward to a very packed October. I've been a lifelong gears fan, and E-Day impressed enough that assuming performance on PC is good enough on launch day, I'll be grabbing that. Same story with the new Ace Combat, and there's a handful of indie projects floating 'maybe' release windows out around end of year. And while there's no release date announced yet, the hope is that H3VR2 releases end of year or early next year, and as someone who still likes VR gaming and wants a steam frame, I'm looking forward to it.
 
I've been a Sony fan ever since the PS1 but the physical media thing might be my last straw. They've been high on their own farts for a long time. I use my PS5 very regularly and am generally happy with it, but it's full of bad design choices. The Store is the worst digital storefront I've ever used (except the PS3 Store), the hardware prices are insane, especially the controllers which cost an absolute premium but still come with shit-tier analog sticks that basically roll a d20 to determine their lifespan once you start using them. Their customer service support is probably the least consumer friendly in the industry. They keep shoving subscription prices up. Their business strategy is hilariously bad.

I think the last vestigial remains of Classic Sony died when they booted Shuhei Yoshida out. The PS5 has been a wasted generation with no effort to innovate or improve and they expect us to drop an exorbitant amount of money on what will, by all accounts, be an incremental improvement in processing power while more than likely actually getting worse in its design, as the PS5 did compared to the PS4.

Genuinely fuck them and their hubris.
 
Also, modern games just don't grab me the same way the old ones did. Even stuff I enjoyed like Spider-Man 2 and Hogwarts Legacy just feel... weak, I guess, compared to other titles I've played. Could be I'm getting older. Could be some of the magic's gone.
The most fun I have had with gaming recently has been emulating old games from my childhood. Gaming for me has gone the way of a lot of other things where it resembles the thing you are expecting but just doesn't have the same intention or purpose. Old games were made by just fucking making a game and hoping. Whereas now they all feel like they had investors decide the core features before the development actually started. It used to feel that games would be sold on their merit whereas now they feel as if they're sold on how much time they will consume. Every game wants you to go do a grind every day and every game is a massive time investment and drawn out. Back in ye olde days games would try to be halo or cod or skyrim and so on, now they all want to be fucking mmos. I would much rather have a 7/10 that lasts five hours over the current trend of 4/10s that last for 100 hours. If I had to point at anything I would point at the order 1886, that's when I first really noticed the push for length instead of quality. Admittedly that game was painfully short and did deserve the criticism but it bled into other games too around that time. The thing with game length is that it doesn't matter because there's an endless number of games, the length desire is filled by other games. But obviously it's much easier and safer to try produce a bloated 4/10 than take a risk to try and produce something higher quality and just like every other facet of modern day life economic risk is something that will never be taken.
 
The Store is the worst digital storefront I've ever used (except the PS3 Store)
Clearly you never used the Vita store, where you couldn't just type in a search query but instead had to use a spinning wheel to locate each letter.

But wait, it gets worse! Instead of gradually discarding letters that would return no results, you had to scroll back through the whole alphabet every single time.

But yeah, PS5 UX is fucking trash; every month I have to wrestle with it just to find my new PS+ games.
 
At the current rate he'll reach under 700k by Feb 2028
I wonder if he will even bother making a "under 700k subscriber special" like he did the last two times. With how lazy his stuff has become I doubt he would even film himself metaphorically stamping his feet and bemoaning those "dang dirty transphobic gamers".
 
Whether it's under the guise of The Under-700,000 Subscriber Special or something else, you can be sure he'll do some kind of retarded farewell that'll we'll have a lot of fun watching. I seriously doubt he'll be making any videos beyond the end of this decade and what little he does will be one every three-six months. He has an 11-year streak of making less YouTube content than the year before, no reason to believe he'll change that. That means he'll finish this year somewhere around 7-8 videos, next year will be 4 or 5 tops, '28 will be 2 or 3 with the 700K video probably being his big send-off whenever that happens or JD Vance/Marcus Bigus Dickus Rubio wins the '28 POTUS. His brain will be fully melted by then.
 
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