Sentox6 said:
There's genuine, endemic social sexism, and then there's Jim Sterling. These two things are about as equivalent as a real motorway pileup and a toddler banging Mattel cars together.
Except Jim Sterling is quite clearly the former. Everything he has said and done, across all his sites and via Twitter, supports the idea that he really DOES still have the "women should be shackled to the oven" mentality.
As opposed to, say, Yahtzee, who is consistently and impeccably polite to all denizens of the earth.
Again, you completely miss the point. Yahtzee's delivery is blatantly intended as humour and/or parody.
Yes, Yahtzee has had a go at people on his videos, but let's look at some of the more prominent examples:
"Fans are clingy complaining dipshits ... incidentally, why not buy a zero punctuation T-shirt?"
You see how that one worked? The setup was clearly parody because of the immediate and blatant double standard. First he ribs on fans as being worthless and that creators should totally ignore them, then he immediately asks for HIS fans to buy merchandise. If you don't see why that's funny, you probably just don't understand how British people work.
Next, the Brawl incident. Yeah, here Yahtzee attacked his fanbase directly. Wait, no he didn't, he attacked people who had the audacity to claim he'd PLAYED THE GAME WRONG!
As Yahtzee has made clear many times, his videos are his opinion. I'm pretty sure that at least once we have had a statement along the lines of "I really don't like JRPGs but if you do like them then good for you." from him before now. The Brawl incident, however, was one where the Fanboys descended. As someone who has never owned any of the Smash Bros games, but played all but the original, I can honestly say that it IS a mindless button masher. Slamming the controller into the wall is only slightly less effectively than randomly pressing buttons until a magical super-combo happens.
Already, Fanboys will be drawing in, hell bent on declaring how wrong I am, but they can swivel on it. The reality is that every time I have played Brawl, it always goes down the same way; you have the one saddo who has played the game obsessively on his own and has probably memorised the game-breaking moves with his favourite character, and everyone else who button-mashes. That is how the game is played. It's not big, it's not clever, it is in no way original, and it sure as hell stops being fun after about ten minutes.
To return to the original point... yeah, what Jim Sterling does is not funny. There's nothing about it that screams 'this isn't actually my opinion'. The fact is that if you tout biggoted bullshit whilst DRESSED AS A FASCIST, people are going to take you seriously. If you want to make it clear what you're saying is pardoy, then you either need to learn about comedic execution, or dress as a fucking clown and have a laugh track playing every ten seconds.
Unskippable is a couple of guys VOing game cutscenes. Production standards don't even enter into the equation.
Their intro is still vastly superior to Jimquisition's.
, but that's not why I comment... I wish to say fair play to you - You have earnt my respect in this vid and the description down the bottom of the vid. Well done sir. You have won me over. A fellow Jim's stamp of approval.
