I've made my point clear on how I don't like Jim Sterling for him talking about sticking up for the little guy and then attacking devs for making certain games, or better yet, working with people like Zoe Quinn. Or how he advocates against sending death threats to devs for writing a bad story and then encourages private investigating people he disagrees with. I don't feel the need to source any of that because I'm pretty sure I've sourced it before, but if you want the dirt, I'll give it to you. It's really,
really easy to find.
Then he started making these segments recently:
https://youtu.be/5DoNJ_oecLw?t=662https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejh_Dt3z46Qhttps://youtu.be/kr80dducu80Basically, he has his subscribers go onto gaming forums and pull comments from conversations that they're not a part of that they see as "elitist gaming wisdom" (usually just people annoyed at how games are getting easier and how harder games like Dark Souls just NEED to have an easy mode), and they email these comments to him and he puts on makeup and the cheapest wig you've ever seen and proceeds to insult the people who posted the comments by
reading screeching into the camera verbatim what was typed in an even more foppish, more condescending British voice than his usual "Jimquisition" episodes. It's a big prick-waving virtue-signaling forget-fest and it, in and of itself, reeks of elitism. "Look at these gamers,
thinking that games should have challenge, I am clearly the enlightened one because I think gaming is for
e v e r y o n e".
What's my opinion on difficulty in games, because I know someone's gonna ask? Not every game should be like Dark Souls, but none of them should just outright remove any risk of failure or reward people for sucking at the game so horribly. Dark Souls shouldn't have and won't have an easy mode because not only is it a game about the literal end of the world, but it's something that everyone suffers through together. If you artificially boost new players up and you don't hold them to the same standards as the older players when they joined, it's a slap in the face to people who put actual time into figuring out the game's mechanics, researching bosses and honing their skill, and it gives off a patronizing tone to whoever is playing the game on an easy mode no matter the execution because it means the game had to tip the scales in your favor in order for you to pass. It would absolutely shatter the Dark Souls community. Right now, it's filled with enthusiastic memelords and friendly lore experts, but add an easy mode and the edgy "git gud" phrase will be uttered every other sentence. I think went into more detail than necessary about my opinion on that because I'm pretty certain a good chunk of you agree with me.
But hey, that's just my opinion, someone sympathetic to #GamerGate. I'd say it's pretty moderate, but I think it's not crazy for me to say that judging from Sterling's history I would definitely be lumped in with the "I M TROO GAMR" strawman crowd that he made up to get brownie points. In fact, I hope someone from his subscriber base finds this and has him read it as his stuffty aristocrat character. That'd be too perfect.
TL;DR: Jim Sterling is an arrogant forgetface who "sticks up" for normiecigarettes and openly mocks random people for having different opinions than him. I'm not an edgelord, but I ain't no dang normiecigarette!!!1!1!1!!1!!111!
forgetin' /discuss
