Not a problem, my mornings are pretty slow to start at work.
Oh, I think that's inevitable.
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James Stephanie Sterling |OT| Thank God for the Jimquisition
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Lead designer is a huge gamergater that has a youtube channel basically dedicated to attack Anita Sarkeesian and SJWs.
Oh and according to him WB is ok with it.
Hogwarts Legacy senior producer Troy Leavitt, a game dev who used to make anti-feminist and pro gamer-gate videos (staff post added)(Up: Resigns)
The tweet that brought this into my attention And well, this shit is real and you can see by yourself: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLrOm_M6dSSmCun7ijgg9Dw His linkedin which confirms his position(his twitter also says the same but I don't know if it would be cool to link here, just...
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Probably the stuff about the Lead Dev getting revealed as having run an Alt-Right youtube channel.
Lead designer is a huge gamergater that has a youtube channel basically dedicated to attack Anita Sarkeesian and SJWs.
Oh and according to him WB is ok with it.
Hogwarts Legacy senior producer Troy Leavitt, a game dev who used to make anti-feminist and pro gamer-gate videos (staff post added)(Up: Resigns)
The tweet that brought this into my attention And well, this shit is real and you can see by yourself: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLrOm_M6dSSmCun7ijgg9Dw His linkedin which confirms his position(his twitter also says the same but I don't know if it would be cool to link here, just...
Thanks, I dipped into that thread and seeing some of the snapshots from Twitter and Youtube.......Just......yikes.
Can't believe people were seriously spouting off "Don't punish the developer!" nonsense when it was just Rowling. I see the goalpost has now moved to "Well I don't want to punish the others for one bad guy."
Anthem's Final Dirge (The Jimquisition)
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one of those things is not like the others.
FF14's an MMO, and a relaunched one at that, and has been doing spectacularly afaik.
Earth's Grindiest Heroes (The Jimquisition)
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They're just selling nothing now
Taishogun Rise Of Emperor - Gilson B. Pointless (Jimpressions)
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Heads up everyone looks like the last video got taken down with that developer I just got an email from patron about it.
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Sounds like they are well ahead of the curve depending on what happens to their channel (there's one strike left and one video of that dude's game on the channel...). They have contingency plans in place.
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I hope Jim's channel survives, I've been trying to back up what I can but there's loads of videos out there and it would be a shame if they all vanished. Hopefully they can legally push back against Gilson's bullshit.
If I was Gilson I would own into this "bad developer making endearing games" thing he had going, I remember when Jim criticised the future developer of Five Nights At Freddy's when the cutesy game they made featured horrifying looking creatures, and instead of going "Argh Jim" and stuff, they played into it and now it's spawned a massive franchise!
LOL And he chooses NOW to try to issue a take down or whatever. Freakin pathetic.
I Can't Believe A Developer Tried To Kill My Channel (The Jimquisition)
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Why is YouTube still allowing a liar to attack my channel
I'm starting to lose hope in these multiple topics per video format for Jimquisitions. I feel like none of the topics get the kind of coverage I expect from Jim.
Why It's Morally Okay To Pirate All Of Sony's Games (The Jimquisition)
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You might want to take down the video, the mods don't want to give that video a platform due to site ToS as they shut down discussion about said video in another thread.
This is my fucking favorite recent video from them.
TGFJSS
I loved how they called out Jim Ryan's and pointed out how it is fucking ironic how they disregard legacy and backwards compatibility, yet the current ps5 is carried by the same backwards compatibility.
On.... the.... fucking... nail.
I agree with them on the latest video. It's a grey area, don't get me wrong. I remember a huge Saturn guy on YouTube saying similar with PDS and other crazy expensive games, or at least getting repros done.
It's an iffy thing. Miss my Vita :(
I say we could talk about it. After all, we have actual EA shills here... And a weekly thing about nintendo should nickel and dime people
It's an iffy thing. Miss my Vita :(
I say we could talk about it. After all, we have actual EA shills here... And a weekly thing about nintendo should nickel and dime people
Ehh, Ultimately I understand why the rules exist and why as a site they can't make exceptions.
Outriders - Early 'AAA'ccess To A Disgusting Degree (Jimpressions)
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Streamin' On Easy Street (The Jimquisition)
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Gatekeeping regarding difficulty levels is awful. You even see it in this very community when people mock critics or reviewers for playing on easy
I think it depends if the critic's audience plays on easy, but you could argue that all of them do. One thing I dislike about gatekeepers is they support metacritic for bad reasons
The point of a review is largely to make an assessment of how the game will be as a product for the bulk of their readership. It's important to remember very few enthusiasts will actually make decisions based on reviews, because they're plugged in to upcoming releases and decide for themselves. The bulk of people who decide based on IGN or Polygon are the more "casual" (I hate that word but I can't think of a better alternative that conveys my meaning) buyer who may be looking for some idea of how the game might be. The reviewer's experience reflects that kind of buyer. Based on trophy and achievement stats we already know that most people do play on lower difficulties.
And honestly even if they didn't, a reviewer's tolerance for higher difficulties shouldn't be what is used to judge their worth. As long as they're upfront about what difficulty they played on and how that informed their experience (for example, "I played Yakuza 0 on Easy, and on that difficulty at least the combat became button mashy fairly quickly), I'm not sure what's wrong with that either. This whole difficulty based gatekeeping reeks of the "gamer" mentality that's behind so much of the toxicity found in the medium's audience, and I'm actually surprised it persists even on places like this. Places like Reddit or GAF? I get it. Here? We're supposed to be better, and with this, we fail.
Haven't actually watched Sterling vid for a while, it was quite good! Important subject too. I like that they aren't just critical of devs and pubs, but often also the gaming community part of the industry. Shitheads need to be called out once in a while.
Really well put, appreciated.
Imagine the absolute fucking privileged life one needs to think streamers opting to play a game on easy is worth being upset about.
I really enjoyed this week's episode and glad I can finally put a name to CaseyExplosion. I watched the hbomberguy charity stream VOD last year while working from home and she was just a great guest whenever she was one and highlighting indie games is always appreciated.
It's crazy to think where this channel came from. Used to be just a channel that laughed at asset flips to providing some overt critiques of capitalism through the gaming medium and the very serious harm Ubisoft has done. Such a great channel and also an incredibly fun twitch channel.
I really enjoyed this week's episode and glad I can finally put a name to CaseyExplosion. I watched the hbomberguy charity stream VOD last year while working from home and she was just a great guest whenever she was one and highlighting indie games is always appreciated.
It's crazy to think where this channel came from. Used to be just a channel that laughed at asset flips to providing some overt critiques of capitalism through the gaming medium and the very serious harm Ubisoft has done. Such a great channel and also an incredibly fun twitch channel.
A very good video. Almost glad that it didn't get it's own thread, as I'd rather not have to see some of the hot takes that permeate any that dare mention difficulty levels.
"Games aren't for everybody." "It's okay this type of game is just not for you." "If they implement difficult levels I'll be TEMPTED to use it!" (My favorite) etc etc etc. Like I get it, I'm not a fan of several genres. But the defense force for HARD GAMES is just mind numbing.
I loved the combat of FF7R. Ran through Normal and again on Hard. I got a couple of friends in a discord that aren't so great with action battles, so they played on Easy. Because of this option, they were able to beat it and we could discuss the game and hypothesize for the future. Would we have gotten those conversations if Square locked people out from an Easy mode or the "Turned Based" battle mode? I couldn't fathom giving them shit or just spouting "git gud" at them for not playing the same way I did.
More in line with the video, the last time I streamed on Twitch, it was for these same friends on discord. I was playing the new FF8 Remaster, since they never saw it. Some random enters my chat and shits on me for using the provided cheats. Like...why? I've beaten the PS1 version of the game multiple times now. I have nothing to prove to random internet strangers. I just wanted to get through the story with my buddies.
"Games aren't for everybody." "It's okay this type of game is just not for you." "If they implement difficult levels I'll be TEMPTED to use it!" (My favorite) etc etc etc. Like I get it, I'm not a fan of several genres. But the defense force for HARD GAMES is just mind numbing.
I loved the combat of FF7R. Ran through Normal and again on Hard. I got a couple of friends in a discord that aren't so great with action battles, so they played on Easy. Because of this option, they were able to beat it and we could discuss the game and hypothesize for the future. Would we have gotten those conversations if Square locked people out from an Easy mode or the "Turned Based" battle mode? I couldn't fathom giving them shit or just spouting "git gud" at them for not playing the same way I did.
More in line with the video, the last time I streamed on Twitch, it was for these same friends on discord. I was playing the new FF8 Remaster, since they never saw it. Some random enters my chat and shits on me for using the provided cheats. Like...why? I've beaten the PS1 version of the game multiple times now. I have nothing to prove to random internet strangers. I just wanted to get through the story with my buddies.
Why I'm Getting A Refund For Outriders (The Jimquisition)
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Just watched it, I can't realy disagree with anything he says about Outriders being online only is BS, but it's a damn fun game so I put up with it. I'm part of the problem
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At least you acknowledge that the online-only is BS. Even around here people defend that ...
others having opinions that differ from yours is not a bad thing.