Why I hate Jim Sterling.
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I find if you ignore the troll, the troll has no food to feed on. Jim is a huge troll, and he exists because there's a market for it. Or rather, an audience. If there's no audience, or attention, there's no market. So I ignore EVERYTHING that has Jim in it. Those e-mail newsletter things had Jim once, and I stopped reading, for example.itsmeyouidiot said:
Exactly. It is quite sad how someone who gets prissy about someone "passing his oppinions as fact" goes on to make the claim that he knows anything with 100% certainty--unless it is Jim Sterling himself trying to troll us, and whom I'm ambivalent about, I doubt that anyone can know anything about him as much as the OP claims to do.martin said:
Someone needs to grow the fuck up.
honestly i think he's halarious. He's a self parody. He pretends to act like he's the ideal man and a gift from god when we can all see he's a fat nerd. He does post some intresting OPINIONS and acts as if he can't be wrong but again its so over the top that it must be sarcasim.
Even if i'm wrong and he really does think he's gods gift then i think that just makes it all the more funny.
Even if i'm wrong and he really does think he's gods gift then i think that just makes it all the more funny.
His persona is not the reason why I dislike the Jimquisition. The problem I have is that his arguments are almost always filled with logic holes you can drive a road train through and still have room to spare. If you're a "game critic" or doing "game journalism" or whatever it is he claims to be doing, you have be to able to construct a logical argument which follows towards a logical conclusion. Jim doesn't. Worse, his "satire" (though I use that term generously) frequently ends up undermining his opinion because he uses it as a shield instead of backing up his arguments with... well, anything at all.
His persona isn't the issue, his inability to make interesting or valid arguments is his real problem.
Any money that is going towards Jimquisition should be redirected to Extra Credits. Then we'd actually get more reasoned and intelligent discussion about games and gaming.
Right, so he's a genius because he needs other people to explain his poorly argued points? Nope, I'm not buying it for a second. He simply doesn't make a coherent argument in his videos here.Hero in a half shell said:
His persona isn't the issue, his inability to make interesting or valid arguments is his real problem.
Any money that is going towards Jimquisition should be redirected to Extra Credits. Then we'd actually get more reasoned and intelligent discussion about games and gaming.
I said earlier that I would give Jimquisition another try, and I am doing that right now. It's great! I have no problem with it. Maybe it depends on the episode, but I'm watching "Metacritic Isn't the Problem" and he seems to have some very good reasonable points. I'll watch the first episode again too, and see whether the issues I had with him are real or whether it was just a reaction to something different.
Edit: Okay, the first episode is still problematic. Now that I've seen a later episode which I like, I guess he's got more of an existing good reputation and buffer against the annoying things.
The first episode just had lower production values, and in addition to that, he's being the douchebag character he's trying to be. Together, it just made the first episode offputting. Also, at the time the video came out, I had already read and heard the exact same arguments he is making way too many times, so he sounded like another angry forum poster who happened to have a video with bad MS Paint art.
But if the Metacritic episode is representative of what the majority of his episodes are like, I think this guy is doing a fine job. I'm still not a fan of his angry forum poster persona and will take Extra Credits or Rev Rants or The Game Overthinker or Zero Punctuation over his any day, but I don't hate it.
Edit: Okay, the first episode is still problematic. Now that I've seen a later episode which I like, I guess he's got more of an existing good reputation and buffer against the annoying things.
The first episode just had lower production values, and in addition to that, he's being the douchebag character he's trying to be. Together, it just made the first episode offputting. Also, at the time the video came out, I had already read and heard the exact same arguments he is making way too many times, so he sounded like another angry forum poster who happened to have a video with bad MS Paint art.
But if the Metacritic episode is representative of what the majority of his episodes are like, I think this guy is doing a fine job. I'm still not a fan of his angry forum poster persona and will take Extra Credits or Rev Rants or The Game Overthinker or Zero Punctuation over his any day, but I don't hate it.