Uhm, what was the point of this video?
He just mocks what valve said without bringing up any counter points at all.
His previous video on this is better.
There's apparently a ton of money to be made by talking shit about the same thing over and over and over again.
Just look at yongyea
youtube isnt responsible for the shit content he puts on the site why should valve be responsible for the shit on their store
I'd like Jim's videos a lot more if they weren't double or triple the length they needed to be.
Imagine taking a video that you already made, and saying "How can I make this more strawmanny and asinine?"
I love long videos but some content just shouldn't be longform, and Jims stuff is one of those things
And Jim was doing so good for a while there but it looks like he's settled back into being completely obnoxious again.
I don't know if it's a tumor pressing on something, but his videos have been getting gradually angrier, dumber and more provocative over the past 18 months, while the substance, coherence and validity of what is said has just plummeted through the ground.
I know he's always been edgelording in reverse, but he seems to have totally unraveled and now he can't figure out what his stance is, just that gamers are fucking stupid, developers are fucking scum and journalists are beyond criticism.
but Jimquisition is entirely supported by Patreon, it's ad free.
When did facepunch 180 on steam? Feels like the concious went from wanting valve to curate content to not giving a fuck cuz "lol makes them money so who cares". I should be able to view new releases and be able to at least expect at the very least, a functioning game. Some games dont even have the .exe file at launch; you know, the fucking game. Plenty of indie devs-including ones with successful titles on the platform-have complained about this.
How often are such occurrences actually taken down once reported?
The point steam needs to make sure whatever ends up on it's store should work is important - steam is lacking hard on that.
but same time...
You have the power to refund the game.
Hopefully the forethought of reading the reviews for such issues before purchase.
normally games lacking an .exe are shitty fucking games anyway. your fault????
Only thing I furiously hate is false reviews on really scam/shitty games, that gets them more view on the store page with successful indies
He was always an obnoxious pig IMO. His whole persona is just an unfunny edgy asshole, even if he claims it's a character it's still a shitty one.
Valve's move was actually pretty smart; they didn't have to change anything at all, just say le freeze peach and let everyone immediately jump to defending them
Youtube isn't charging money for Jim's videos though.
I'd almost want to say Stockholm Syndrome. Valve finally deigns to come down off their pile of gold and say something about the whole mess - non-answer as it was - and all those mid-to-late-2000s Valve fanboy instincts come flooding back and everyone starts going, "See?! See?! They do care about us!" all over again. As if there's some primal, desperate notion in people's heads that Valve actually coming out with some weasel-faced PR statement could be an indication that "the old days are back and they're listening again" and therefore we'd better be super-duper nice and ingratiate ourselves to them or else they'll just disappear without any new games again.
At the same time, you gotta see Jim's point that this isn't so much censorship as the fact that if the industry's big players don't take on some responsibility of regulating themselves, more powerful and less empathetic people like - say - lawmakers will step into do so. This is why the ESRB exists, because the game industry doesn't exist in its own idealized internet reality bubbled off from the real world. There is no "it's the internet lol" here. If mainstream media and politicians take notice, there will be consequences.
You may call it censorship, but really, aside from the mere principle of the thing, do the positives of having a game like School Shooter on Steam really outweigh the possible consequences? The industry was relieved as hell when people like Jack Thompson finally went away. This is how to get them to come right back. It is a video game about school shootings, this is a goddamn ticket for news outlets to print "GAMING BEHIND COLUMBINE AND OTHER TRAVESTIES AFTER ALL?!" headlines like no tomorrow. And you know people will eat that stuff up. Gamers' unspoken dream of all pre-gaming generations being dead hasn't happened quite yet, we still have to deal with the large majority of humans who are still unfamiliar with video games.
Now if this were just a decentralized marketplace system that Valve merely developed, that'd be one thing. But so long as Valve is still in charge of Steam and makes a commission on every single purchase on its platform - and by that I mean they actually take a direct cut, it's not just ad revenue like YouTube or something - it takes on the responsibility of making sure that stuff is kosher. Because they are quite literally making money off of games like that.
Yeah, let's see how much of a specter it is when we get a repeat of last year's lootbox law-storm. And no, the politicians won't care that gamers only hated the lootboxes but support this "free marketplace".
You can say that taking that reality into account is "part of the problem" all you want, but this is the hand we're dealt. You act like I'm saying this even out of my own morality - I'm saying it because it is quite clearly poking a hornet's nest to have that kind of stuff up on the store. You may be opposed this supposed notion of sacrificing creative freedom to kowtow to those blasted SJWs - I'd even agree somewhat - but stuff like Active Shooter is just quite literally a bad idea to keep around because it'll piss off far more people than just a bunch of 36-gender victimkin on Tumblr. Is it really practical to die on this hill?
he's a fucking weirdo imo, never liked him nor his videos, I get most of his points but he always just comes across as a massive asshole.
kinda off topic but he definitely has one of those weird leather BDSM fetishes
Those bits where he tries to play off jerking off in a pile of pogs every video for a minute straight as a hilarious and ironic were not funny the first time, nor the 21st time.
Yeah, and the point is to bang on about nonsense bullshit he doesn't understand but sounds really great and gets people riled up so they'll support him on Patreon. He wants people to rally behind him so he gets more patrons. Ads, Patreon, Twitch Subscribers, whatever. The specific system isn't the point, its the associated behavior to get people putting in to that system.
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