Jim Sterling leaves The Escapist
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So there is only 1 reason to come here... Zero punctuation !
I wonder what will happen if that ended too ? This site will probably fade away....
I wonder what will happen if that ended too ? This site will probably fade away....
Which is why they will keep him supplied with anything he wants, up to biologically engineering prostitutes with three vaginas.TheArcaneThinker said:
Uh, Greg Tito's still here. At least, he may be. That's the odd thing with a lot of the staff - for the most part, they appear to be clinically dead until poked into life by necromancy. Kross is fun, but apart from him many of the staff don't appear to want much to do with the site or its community. The Community Manager? Unless you light a signal fire, fuhgeddaboudit, son. I think he may have let part of the site die through his inaction.Kenjitsuka said:They got bought by yet another big parent company and many core people - like Susan Arendt and Greg Tito - left some time ago...Ishal said:
Will stay for the newsfeed, ZP (forever!!!) and LRR's stuff. And Bob I guess.
Time to bring back Doraleous and especially Apocalypse Lane, guys!!!
It's a sad thing to see the creators of a community distance themselves so far from something they were once proud to have founded, to the point at which they almost seem ashamed to associate with it. Or they could just be busy with a million other jobs. Nobody is available for comment, nobody tells us nothin'. So you get a rift between the staff and the forum-goers, people feeling alienated, festering cynicism, apathy, resentment, all that toxic stuff that just makes any situation worse. You get lots of people saying they can't stand the place and yet they're still here for some reason, presumably to complain rather than contribute anything positive whatsoever. Bad trolling, worse Mondays, exclusionary cliques with their associated cattiness, rumour-mongering and antipathy. Heck, I could go on, but we've all seen it on a million playgrounds and in a million horrible teen movies and it happens more or less every time a staff member joins or leaves The Escapist. I won't bore and/or depress you with that tedium.
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So you know what? It's not all that bad. In fact, it's actually pretty good. I've met some delightful, wonderful and kind people here and, despite The Escapist's problems, no amount of nay-saying or defeatism will change the fact that this is one of the best communities I have had the pleasure of being introduced to. Too many people spend their lives living in the past and not enough time appreciating the things and the people they have now. I for one am excited to see who's going to be our next contributor. The best of luck to Jim Sterling, a man who made me laugh and made me think!
...Bug MuIdoon said:
Hah! Why do you think I only have like 200 posts on here? It's like wading through sewage.
Also, I agree that ZP isn't great anymore; Yahtzee seems to have slipped into full-on "Get off my lawn" mode. He's still occasionally funny, but I feel like he's a lot less willing to try and understand or accept tastes that aren't exactly his own lately.
I really don't think I'll be renewing my Publisher's Club membership. I like MovieBob's Big Picture (I don't bother with his reviews; he and I have -very- different tastes), but other than that I don't really watch any videos here, and I can get most of the news elsewhere if I want. Jim being here has been the main thing keeping me. Without him, I'm just not sure what the point of hanging around is.
Of course he's leaving, this place has become so toxic ibn the last few months it's amazing it's anything but whiny manchildren left by now.
Good luck fouling your own well.
Good luck fouling your own well.
Fickle? Definitely. I can't really blame everyone for it though.Redlin5 said:
Jim's first few months of content were frankly terrible; worse, he was essentially replacing Extra Credits who, while preachy, were informative and more constructive about the gaming medium than any other contributor (save possibly for Sheamus Young).
Hell, 2011 was just a horrible year for The Escapist in general; that's really where I started noticing the increasingly passive-aggressive attitude all-around (and am guilty of contributing, I freely admit).
People changed in those three years, but then again, people just change in general in three years; that's especially true in this blogosphere environment (everything seems to fly at the speed of light now).
Jim's departure comes at a timely moment for me; I'm pretty much done with this site anyway.
The passive-aggressive knee-jerk attitude is thick and infectious, "discussion" of anything game related is a joke unless it's tied to controversy/politics, and unless one already belongs to some clique there's really little worth sticking around for (incidentally, the Dreamer Society was fun, but a change in my work-sleep schedule basically killed my dreaming).
After GamerGate and the responses of certain contributors (MovieBob chief among them; I have zero respect for him or his work, to put it as politely as I can), I'll stick to lurking more; reading reactions more for a laugh and a sigh than anything now. At least until I become bored enough to move on entirely.
But it is very bad, that turtle is about to die!Barbas said:
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So you know what? It's not all that bad. In fact, it's actually pretty good. I've met some delightful, wonderful and kind people here and, despite The Escapist's problems, no amount of nay-saying or defeatism will change the fact that this is one of the best communities I have had the pleasure of being introduced to. Too many people spend their lives living in the past and not enough time appreciating the things and the people they have now. I for one am excited to see who's going to be our next contributor. The best of luck to Jim Sterling, a man who made me laugh and made me think!
OT: While I think that he sounds more and more like a broken down gramophone player I do wish Jim the very best.
$1 a month is nothing. Even if I end up not watching his stuff I'll be supporting someone that this fucked up industry needs.
Hey, I remember the first video Jim did here: Videogames Are Not Movies, Get Over It - somebody had posted it on another forum with...well, very little context, if any. I'm not really sure why they did that but at any rate, I watched it and I actually liked it. Since the I occasionally watched a video of his when I came across it, until one day I just started following them regularly. Frankly, I preferred the initial format of the Jimquistition more, however, I can't deny that as it evolved, Jim really did improve on making his points clear.Colour Scientist said:
At any rate, I could see why some people wouldn't like the Jimquisition, but I don't think it warranted that much hatred.
Well, I'll be supporting Jim on Patreon, now, I guess. I like all his work[footnote]Except Movie Defence Force, but for more trivial and personal reasons than you might imagine[/footnote] and I wish him to go on.
Shame really, but I do wish him the best.
Brings me to only one show I frequently watch on the Escapist now though.
Brings me to only one show I frequently watch on the Escapist now though.
Wow. What's The Escapist going to do without Jim? He was pretty much the star player. I hope they've got something lined up.