Yeah, it shouldn't be surprising, in that it happens seemingly every time, but a lot of people genuinely seem to have convinced themselves they aren't obviously totally in the wrong somehow, and it's weird.
Jim has always been an odd duck, and their personas over the years have been real hit or miss. But I dunno, this new one feels especially garish, to the level of their weird aristocrat character but like...they wear it out, like to the store. Its not a costume anymore, its the way Jim wants to present. And its just not a good look. And I'm all for gender non-conformists identifying how they want, but if you want to be taken seriously and not garner unwanted attention, don't dress like an extra from the Conjuring movies. My first thought when I saw their new look was "Well this is their child molester persona" but turns out its just normal every day Jim, and that just makes it worse.
But how do you regulate scalpers? Its not illegal to buy something and re-sell it. It can be shitty, and I hate the practice, but what laws should be put in place that don't just limit the market or have unintended negative consequences?
Me personally. Limit transactions to 4 Tickets per customer. But then I know that people just bot farm it out and buy all the tickets the second they are released before anyone can enter information into the site. So that probably won’t help
Has had one for a good while (I'm sure people will find it on their own without me linking it) and it was originally shared with TotalBiscuit. Kiwi Farms is where I go when I want to unwind and lose faith in humanity.
Kiwi Farms? Wuzzat? Welp, never mind, found it, as well as Jim's thread there. I learned about the term 'troon'. Seems like a lovely place.
Well you're in luck! Their income is through Patreon, not clicks, and has been brought up many times as a thanks for being able to create content not dependent on "engagement" and clicks and whatnot when some produced content is less viewed. Pluuuuus, they mentioned losing around 4000 subs after presenting as outwardly transitioning on the show for the first time, so it isn't the audience-netter you seem to assume it is.
And how does one get noticed in order to attract people to their pattreon? You have people in this thread talking about how Jim has a history of doing things to be "lul random" or shocking in the past, I'm just following that through that this is just him trying to further his "brand".
To be fair to Jim, I don't think this is entirely an act. I think something has fucked him up (likely getting sued by Digital Homicide) that caused him to have some sort of breakdown. Since then he has become ever increasingly bitter towards the games industry but it would actually be more accurate to say that he has become crazed into an anti-capitalism mindset which is coming amongst the progressive and LBGT circles he runs around in.
The answer is you build them to order.
I think the only reason this situation is as bad as it is, boils down to the stupid fucking decision to sell "online only". Making it too easy for people to use bots to buy up all the stock.
I know one of my local 3rd party video game store basically scalped. Like as a 3rd party distributor they were limited to a certain number of PS5s they could order. So they just had each individual employee order the max and had them shipped to the store. So instead of getting like 10 PS5s, they got 60+.
The videogame industry is not a unique example of the abuses that happen under capitalism. There are no isolated incidents. The rot is systemic, every scandal merely a symptom of the moral torpor capitalism encourages, as a variety of people have been asserting for about two hundred years. EA is evil and they will never be punished because they are behaving in accordance with the capitalist system. There is very little point in criticising the actions of individuals or corporations except as case study because without systemic change they will simply be replaced by something other suitably unpleasant entity. Not that they will ever be under much pressure for their genuinely exploitative practices, because gamers are too busy being upset that women and minorities exist. In such a pervasively unjust system I have the choice of mindless conformity or near impotent protest. I chose protest. Jim, too, chose protest. That is what it is to be left wing; to look at how capitalism drags people down and say "no", as loud as you can, even if nobody listens, because we all have a responsibility to each other and part of that is showing other people the truth.
Hearing people refer to a single individual with pronouns like this literally makes me think of the movie Split. It takes a while to get used to lol.
