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Jim Sterling, An Epic Problem
Jim Sterling, Are Automated Bots A Deceptive Con?
Jim Sterling, Blizzard is Pathetic
Jim Sterling, Game Companies Avoid Paying Millions in UK Taxes
Jim Sterling, How Game Companies Abuse Passion
Jim Sterling, Rockstar Is Just Another Tax Ducking Corporate Parasite
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Jim Sterling, The Problems With The Epic Store
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#Gaming #Videogames - เกม
Gamers rise up
Hi
Gamers are the most oppressed group in the world
Philosophically speaking.
Yes
Thank god for him!
I was afraid this was gonna have politics but luckily there wasn't a single woman in it.
Edit: This comment was made before I knew Philisophy Tube was Trans. YOU SET ME UP, TUBE! NOW I'M CANCELLED!
Edit2: It's a joke about being set up and or cancelled.
Or person of color
I read this, Laughed beer into my nose and then coughed for about 2 minutes. Well done
well done 🤣
You win the "best original comment I read today as of 12:19, GMT+1"-award :)
@@NoumardTV Gmt+1 here too!
Gotta admire a person who can clearly articulate while wearing vampire fangs.
Take it from me,it's not easy........................
That means just one thing: They were real!
@@sirpente6651 that implies he sands them down for when they wants normal looking teeth
The worst ones were the Ferengi teeth in star trek DS9. All the poor actors had these huge fake Ferengi teeth in their mouth and they had to try and articulate regardless. It took them literally 7 seasons to learn how to speak clearly with those fake teeth in, and by then the show was over lol. It took Worf, the klingon in starfleet, a whole TWO different star trek TV shows to learn how to articulate properly with his fake klingon teeth in, cos he was in all of star trek TNG and then was a main character in DS9 after that. I always thought damn, these are relatively very big budget TV shows and they can't make proper teeth for their main characters, let alone side characters who rarely appear. These were the main characters in an ensemble cast. I gotta respect them for doing as well as they did despite the bad fake teeth
TRUTH!
*start using gamer friendly language*
❌ *instead of:*
"there are systemic injustices in our society"
✅ *say:*
"there are balance issues"
❌ *instead of:*
"continuous accumulation and merger of capital worsens income inequality"
✅ *say:*
"the snowballing mechanics are overpowered"
❌ *instead of:*
"the American dream is a myth and neoliberalism made sure of it"
✅ *say:*
"this is pay-to-win"
✊ *gamers rise up* ✊
The gamers preferred language..
It’s funny that both Abigail and Jim have come out as trans since this was made. Essentially, this is a woman playing a man playing a non-binary person playing a man.
when I saw the vampire bit at the start I was just thinking "WHAT IS A MAN? NEITHER OF THESE PEOPLE!"
They are gender-fluid. Get over yourself.
@@WhisperWulf Who, Steph? She's transfem non-binary, there's nothing to get over?
I love how Pontius Pilate says "*my team* made the decision to execute Jesus" but "*I* came up with the concept of fulfilment living", nice little detail!
Socialising losses and privatising profits, or something along those lines.
Good ol’ self-made billionaire titan myth.
This is a call back to his video about Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and other billionaire philanthropists. I am glad be brought back the character as a reference.
you might say he was on autopilot
The whole Pontius Pilate speech was phenomenally written
The immortal science of dialectic materialism? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of TH-cam? Localized entirely within the gaming industry?
...Yes
May I see it?
Menega007 no.
It's more likely than you think
🔥 *DOUG DIMMADOME, THE VIDEOS ON FIRE!?* 🔥
"Rich people work harder than poor people." Indie devs make quality games. EA, Ubisoft, and Activision re-sell annual cash grabs filled with microtransactions
Was JUST talking to my partner last night about how some of my favorite games--Undertale, Spelunky, Stardew Valley--are ONE PERSON dev teams. It almost... I don't know, seems like small teams are making what they love and want out of necessity, working under the belief that it might not make it "big" (at first) but they want to make something special and fun.
AAA studios do this shit whilst not paying their workers enough.
Not to defend large companies, but you can't claim indie devs make consistently good games. For every Stardew Valley there are tens of thousands of awful one-person games that no one has ever heard of. Bad EA games are of far higher quality than 97% of indie games.
@@jacksonsmith2955
Well yeah, but that's because they have more money.
@@theblandcharlie822 Well yeah, that makes no difference. You can't claim that that difference doesn't result in higher quality average games. I'm just saying that the argument "everything EA makes is objectively worse than all indie games," which isn't what the OP likely meant but is what is implied, is false.
a wild centrist appears: "i dont like politics, but i do like videogames"
Ollie: "you've just activated my trap card!"
Two refs in one -- You win.
Lol who uses trap cards anymore
Reddit tier take rofl
Therapist: Ollie's American accent isn't real and can't hurt you.
Ollie's American accent: Our workers said they didn't feel the need to unionize.
Hi, I'm Pontius Pilate...
I think that's a South African accent
I've washed my hands, of your need to unionize
omfg I didn’t even know why he sounded so weird in those segments but I knew that he did 🤣🤣🤣
Non-Americans and people that don’t know history don’t understand how the unions here are just like guilds that have partnered with the government rather than any kind of labor association. Historically the unions that were supported by our government were racist and supported gun control and gerrymandering. Joining a union in America is like joining a cult, complete with bumper stickers and political ideology. And none of them actually try to unionize a wider labor market, it’s all like local trade unions that cost more than an average laborer, because they pay people to stand around because the young people do all the work and the old dudes that should be in an more intellectual position are stuck on the job because (capitalist labor market). T. Ironworker on the east coast and carpenter on the West coast.
The whole Jesus thing was just a heated Roman esports moment
I read this .. then like a whole 10 seconds later I just started laughing out loud. Amazing. Thank you
Still waiting for Pilatus' apology video.
This is art
10/10 would joke again.
@@maxxvii2037 nonpology vidoe*
love that since this premiered both PT and Jim have come out as trans. absolute icons making great work.
This one came back in my recommended after watching the latest Jimquisition, and that was my exact thought!
@@gorimbaud that's what I'm here for too. I saw the thumbnail and realised that this TH-camr, nor the TH-camr she's cosplaying are men
Yeah, pretty funny/crazy how that worked out :D both.
I really hope they both kept the gloves. Those are awesome.
Out of the loop, who’s PT and Jim?
lol, this is so lucid to watch after *both* of your coming outs.
A woman dressing up as a person who is presenting as a man who is non-binary. AAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA AWESOME :D
Calling it now, the hat made them both trans
@@gingganggoolie The sorting hat JK doesn't want you to know about!
@@katiepotatie1615 I mean if not the hat... perhaps Abigail had a secret pog or gremlins hobby... lol
@@katiepotatie1615 JK's TERF ass could never be that clever (or she'd have already retcon the real sorting hat to be anti-trans symbolism).
I love how _completely unpolitical_ this video was, as it should be. We can't have people get weird ideas about applying philosphy to real world concerns or something like that.
It's not political at all, it didn't even mention Trump once!
Danatronics Ah shit, here we go again...
@@danatronics9039
...And what has entertainment have to do with politics??
@@madshorn5826
Have you been living under a rock?
@@MrElionor
It was an attempt at making a joke about Trump being more entertainment than politics, but in retrospect it didn't really work :-(
I'm ready to watch your magnum opus: an hbomb-style 2 hour long masterpiece about coal extraction in 19th century Germany.
I lowkey i wanna hear him talk about it
I know my life would certainly be better for having that in it.
Seconded
8/8 would definitely watch
But straight up that Pathological video was a masterpiece
Rewatching this today with both Abigail and Jim coming out as their non-cis selves is nice, lil bit of hindsight that actually brings comfort for once :)
I was gonna say something similar, but you said it first.
How wild is it that both Sterling and Abi transitioned since this video happened
@@SirBlackReeds How so? Go ahead, you can say it.
@@SirBlackReeds fuck off bigots
@@SirBlackReeds Why is it sad?
@@SirBlackReeds take several seats, bigot
@@SirBlackReeds sad for transphobes like you, not sad for trans women like them.
Olly: casually cites Prager U in intro
My brain: i WoNdEr If ThE oPeNiNg Is SaTiRiCaL
Same
I cant like this,sorry,its at 69
can you direct me towards what he cited?
Pavlovski 2:52
Ha ha, well this is the first time I've been to this channel so I gotta admit the opening had me fooled for a few minutes. Considering what's out there on TH-cam right now, I wouldn't be surprised to see that put out there completely unironically.
The reason Jim Sterling is able to so accurately predict what the AAA game industry will do is he guesses at what the most flagrantly anti-consumer, money-grubbing thing will be. And he's always right because the AAA game industry will always do the most money-grubbing thing it will find.
He said it best himself: They can't just have lots of money. They have to have ALL the money.
Incorrect Jim can predict what the market will do because he is a God elected prophet.
@@theriderdwaft Thank God for him.
Yeah but the deep level of understanding he has of the industry at the macro level goes further than just thinking of them as insatiable greedy geezers. We can all imagine AAA executives as greedy bastards, but you gotta know how the industry works to understand how that greed translate into concrete business practices.
true true
@Stale Bagelz WAit, if leftists are always right, does that mean they are also poltically conservative? Oh shit
During the EMPYRE mockup, I could actually feel myself being affected by the marketing. Even though it's fake, even though _I know_ it's fake, I was still hyped for it.
Scary.
'Some people are skeptical. And that's healthy!'
It tends to propagate, what a hypothetical dystopian world might market, to the people.
I'm so glad I'm too autistic for this shit to work on me, what a scary world it must be when thousands of alarms don't instantly sound at that trash
"If you work a job you hate to make money for someone who owns things; are you free because you can choose the color of your socks?"
That about summarizes my feels on capitalism and the state. Btw, answer is a big ol' NOPE.
"Tendency towards monopoly..."
*The Walt Disney Company has joined the chat.*
🐭 🔪
My mind did keep drifting to Disney plus during this, and sigh....yeah
As a gamer I was more concerned that he would talk about the board game. As a gamer I hate the board game
@Krónika true..and anti-trust does not help you when it comes to natural monopolies anyway. Which is the biggest source of income from rents.
Pepsi and Coca-Cola joined the chat
"During Pride Month, our security officers wore the rainbow flag for the first time" I'm dead. You have murdered me.
Sad
If he didn't, the security officers would have.
A true pro gamer move.
Hey Mr Bean Actor
@@freelanceart1019 You shall address him as... the Black Vegetable.
“I mean, yes he was the most famous Counterstrike player in Soviet Russia for a while and you’ve gotta respect the graft, he also had a heated communist moment and team killed a bunch of dudes in Kronstadt.”
A little joke for the anarchists and anti Leninists I see ...
The Empire character with an American accent is genius
"I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move." - Vladimir Lenin, March 1921
tbh lenin did nothing wrong
@@TheFormHater tru
@@TheFormHater tankies gonna tank
@@TheFormHater
There was that little betraying their anarchist allies in Ukraine.
@kevin willems @fede Not even Lenin knows for sure how much of that was Lenin and how much was Trotsky.
This is an *OLLY* that looks like a *JIM.*
*Captain America Voice*: I understood that reference
Hahaha perfect
Honestly I hope Jim is going to reference this video soon
Not fat enough 7/10
Jim Sterling is the only angry gamer that matters.
Okay, and AVGN. But that's it.
@@Kram1032 Monday is Coming.
Abigail cosplaying as Jim Sterling is very interesting as within a week of each other, both have come out on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Jim had already talked about being transfemme and nb before, so it wasn't quite coming out, but they sure did incorporate their existing everyday presentation into their public persona the same week Abigail came out!
@@gorimbaud
I guess that's what I meant. The strange co-incidence.
@@MisterH37 It's pretty serendipitous!
@@gorimbaud serendipitous
Free market sounds great in theory and it might even work on a smaller scale but once a company grows big enough to become a corporation, they will crush any competition but the sheer amount of money they control. And when a few huge corporations come together and start lobbying aka. buying politicians, in order to gain even greater wealth and tax breaks at the expense of the common people, that's when you get the USA.
So late stage capitalism. (At least as of now)
Monopoly is bad for the company in long run, every random Timmy who took business classes instead of social studies knows that
@@SafavidAfsharid3197bad for the company, but great for the shareholders and CEOs who will get no retribution if and when the company crashes down
@@SafavidAfsharid3197companies stop caring about the long run at some point and just start revving as far as possible til the engine abruptly dies in a desert somewhere
No marxism. Let's just analyze materialism via dialectics. hmmmm
No Stalin memes? Bootlicking confirmed.
petrus322 worshiping stalin is bootlicking
@@petrus322 Don't listen to them. They're either trots or infantile disorders.
Glory to Stalin comrade.
@@Stellar_Politics
Stalin was revisionist trash with fascist tendencies
@@eruno_ Tell that to 70% of the USSR when he tried making collectivization possible and the kulaks did everything in their power to stop that from helping. Can't call him a revisionist when he literally did his best to get out of the NEP, and for many years after the kulaks were sent to work camps the USSR was actually mostly socialist. Tell that to all the material evidence of real people who liked the USSR in his time.
Y'all just need a scape goat to shit on.
Never heard of Jim sterling before. I've heard of a "Jim motherfucking sterling, son" though....
odd, must be a distant relation.
Thank god for Jim son
Yeah Olly kinda mispronounced it but he worked so hard on talking while wearing those fangs that i think we dan met it slide tbis one time
The line "membership in our execution squads has gone from 82% to just 63%" is so, so delightfully satirical on so many levels.
How my philosophy prof would say: "one of utilitarianisms biggest problems are rats on ketamine"
At first, “Why was this video recommended?”
By the end, “How did I not know about this channel before?”
WELCOME! You're going to be busy for quite a while, there are so many amazing videos on this channel. It's worth it though, they're all extremely good.
He's a bit too commie for me.
Welcome to the family friend! I'm good you found your way here! Might I also recommend Hbomberguy. I really enjoy his analysis of video games and his more political videos. Hbomberguy and philosophy tube are friends too so that's cool.
sHITE ok lib
@@andrewmly9834 how dare you!
“Live services” *Jim Sterling Voice*
live services = Scam & spy business in plain sight.
There are some anti-capitalist vibes in Jim Sterling's videos
@@f4614n Some? It's his entire vibe imo
f4614n either you’re trolling or you haven’t watched enough Jim.
Jim Sterling Voice: "Triple A"
7:25 "this [Skyrim] didn't just *Fallout* from the sky.."
I see what you did there ...
I love it when people use my music :D
And why shouldn't they? As the captions say, it does indeed slap. :)
@@robinchesterfield42 Indeed, people should use my music more!
Huh I always wondered who did the Goosebumps theme. Or did you just handle the Undertale remix?
Also what's wrong with "John", pretentious much?
/s
This is the most unexpected comment I’ve ever seen on a TH-cam video
You wrote the music for Banjo-Kazooie? How wonderful!
I can't believe you were Jim Sterling all along
omg I love your art! so cool that you watch Ollie too ♥
I know when I watch a content creator, there's nothing I love more than a thirty minute screed about how all of their ideas come from someone else and I could've saved time by just cutting out the middleman.
Maybe the real Jim Sterling was the Ollie we met along the way
@@Beau8888 Or what if, bear with me here...what if they were both one powerful cosmic being that was smote in two halves by the elder gods, one became Jim, and the other, Philosophy Tube.
Me: "Premiering now? Sure, I'll see what's happening."
*Opens video to credits playing Megalovania*
And the goosebumps theme a bit, I think?
@@jonaswomack4493
Yep, it's called Goosalovania 29:45
@@BlueSun_ Why does this exist
I'm ready to kick Sans' ass, personally. And be a terrible person in the making.
John Smith Why wouldn’t it? People mix Megalovania with everything
You just put into really clear words everything I've been trying to explain to my husband about economics for like two years. He's super apolitical and doesn't really care to know, but I think he''ll watch this.
You should talk to economist or those who have studied business courses like MBA to talk about working of capitalism or corporation not people who studied communism. You don't talk to white people to know how black people think.
imagine if Abbi and Stephanie teamed up to tackle a similar topic...
When “Goosalovania” played at the end I just did a facepalm while I could just sense Olly standing directly behind me, dabbing
I kinda need that edit as a separate video/song, I can't keep skipping to credits
@@yeehaw4307 BIG MOOD
I was not complete until I received confirmation that this was a Goosebumps remix. That shit was bout to bother me
It really went off, didn't it?
Oliver Thorn dressed up as Jim Sterling was the crossover I didn't know I needed
a casual but tasteful Jim Sterling cosplay. 10/10
Oli does a Jimbo
so many kinks, that over the event horizon
The little lisp you get from the vampire fangs is cute af.
You and “Jim” (and me) are looking very different since this video came out 😂 I’m about to do a spinny for all of us now x
Oliver: speaks for 30 minutes about stuff, says smart things probably
My brain: "Videos Game"
Oliver: speaks for 30 minutes about smart stuff , says smart things probably.
My brain: NSFW
@@Galvion1980 can relate.
God dammit
Videos game you. Nothing to do with the Soviet Union. This is simply the world we live in now.
You forgot to put in
Edit: "OMG thanks for all the likes, I never thought I'd get this many likes on a comment before lol"
Capitalist propaganda delivered by an actual vampire. The subtlety is off the charts.
Fuck political extremism and polarization
@@caldera11 are you a bot
@@caldera11 the problem with centrists is that there alt right in Nazi Germany and socialists in the USSR,they base there believe on the world they already live in instead of looking at whats good and maximizing that good,extremism isn't inherently bad,if you value freedom and equality or blood soil and tradition that will logically lead you trough a certain path
@@caldera11 Like, there's a time and a place for what you're saying, but you've been copy-pasting it everywhere and it often just doesn't make any sense.
@@swanstarr1441 being rightfully called an NPC by someone claiming to be "a person".
The irony.
It's fun to re-watch this video now that both Abi and James Stephany Sterling have come out.
It’s so wild how-while rewatching this after she’s come out-my brain is dubbing her real voice in over the video. I hear the words in my head the way she would deliver them now. Pretty wild! Anyone else have that experience?
Yes, exact thoughts
Despite what preferred gender the streamer prefers, I find it interesting to see both sides of the coin. This isn't a attraction interest, it's just a entertainment interest. The streamer is entertaining in whatever form he or she decides to be.
@@Technotranceism this is an old video of her but yea I agree she’s talented af 💕
I'm trans and reading this brings me big euphoria... love that
Watching videos out of order, my mind defaults to a brother\sister team\dynamic lol, the transition was\is so organic, seemingly natural and comfortable in all the different skins and personas chosen. Beautiful ❤ To me, this is a utopia of sorts, a place where a persona can be perceived as beautiful in the many physical forms taken. Beautiful Souls all around
“He had a heated communist moment and teamkilled a bunch of dudes in Kronstadt.” Lolz
I fucking snorted
Aye, the Blizzard jabs are precious :D
Michaael: Thanks. I missed that line.
@@RubenGonzalez-dg9mm fuck off tankie
WE LIVE IN AN ECONOMY
BOTTOM TEXT
WHICH RULES A SOCIETY
GAMERS INVEST UP
u patrician?
This really helped me understand the weakness of capitalism sometimes. I’ve been watching your channel and challenging some of my beliefs. Your channel helped with that, thank you
Congrats, most of us have already been here for years but you got here in the end.
@@quantumblur_3145 I understand the weight of the discussion may of influenced your tone, but it’s his rationality and understanding tone in unity with the information that helped me understand. If you only have snide comments to make against those who disagree with you, I fear our cause for a better economic system will be harder to realize.
How am I over a year late to this video.
Never seen the modern western world put into such a succint sentence before.
"If you work a job you hate to make money for someone who's job is owning stuff, are you really free?"
man, i just love watching a normal, non-political gaming video.
I hope all video game commenters take a page out of this channel and keep the moving pixel sprites in the plastic bubbles they were always intended to be experienced in.
I'm gonna tell my kids this was Jim Sterling
This was Jim Fucking Sterling, son!
Thank god for Jim!
Thank god for Oliver fucking Thorn, son
This is the height of my social capital and it's sad
@@lncerante I know the feeling. 😄
"Keep progressive politics out of games." Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Metal Gear Solid, Death Stranding, Spec Ops The Line, BF Hardline, Halo 2, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, GTA V, Sleeping Dogs, Borderlands, etc
The same can be aplied to comics and manga/anime.
Half of those don't strike me as progressive
@@kiriki4558 or any fictional works, really. Check out Jim Sterling's video about politics in Dark Souls, if you haven't already. It may be just about DS, but it really shows how universal political themes can be.
@@InhabitantOfOddworld Which ones?
Olly: "This particular box was made in Austria."
Me, an Austrian: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
16:53
Your American startup exec accent is scarily accurate and frightening.
The one word where it faltered was "err". He said it with a bit of throatiness but people in the US say it very straight and flat like "air".
It was a bit Ned Flanders-y but I can see the Steve Jobs impersonation he was going over.
@@BrookeBaublesthis is true. We flatten a lot of words to the point where they become verbal Necco wafers! But I buy it because of the way that certain tech execs have a performative voice that is fake anyway (i.e. Elizabeth Holmes).
I like how the vampire teeth force you to literally lie through your teeth and make the freedom of market speech sound more sleazy
This video got me into Jim Stephanie right in time for the covid shutdown - life changing. I'm not a ""gamer"" at all but I love drama & hate corporations and I can't recommend the Jimquisition enough.
just discovered this channel and dAMN WHY DIDN’T I FIND IT SOONER?? You always put so much thought and effort into each video, I feel like I learn more from this channel than from actual school! Keep up the amazing work!
I still feel like we don't touch on the worst aspect of live service games enough, which is that they're usually run on servers controlled by the publisher that will render the game unplayable when they shut down, despite many of these games being sold as goods, which essentially makes this fraud in most countries.
^^^^ ALLLLL of this.
That is the point of any monthly service though so it goes without saying. If your water or ISP goes out of business, you lose access too. I get the frustration though. Back in my day CS 1.6, WC3, Starcraft and most other online games could be played online completely independent of any company shutting down. It wasnt until game companies started controlling their servers that the very concept of "toxicity" was born.
Porn and Gore sprays on CS 1.6. Porn maps on WC3. Racism, Sexism etc was all up to the players discretions and the only bannable offense was blatant hacking. Those were the days...
@@Carltoncurtis1 There's a couple things wrong with this, but the main thing you're missing is that these games are being sold _as goods,_ no subscription at all. Them shutting down the servers and rendering these games unplayable is essentially destroying a product they no longer own.
Yeah weird huh? Except (standalone) games as we buy them today have this weird duality of being a good AND a service at the same time. In order to play the game, you need to agree to a EULA which gives you a *licence* to play the game, which can be revoked at any time by the publisher. We also buy a delivery method (might be a physical disc, or access to a service to download it). Most of what we pay for when buying a game is the IP. IP is honestly the weirdest category of 'good'.
Like, if you've bought a game disc, you've bought one of the strangest commodities in existence.
@@AtomicSource11 It actually _cannot_ be revoked by the publisher. When you purchase a game as a good you purchase it under a _perpetual_ license. That means you are entitled to a working product, or some reasonable chance of making it work again. You don't own any part of the IP when you buy games. You're buying a copy of that IP's image which you can do anything you want with. If you fully pay for it, it is YOUR COPY. Shutting down a server that is REQUIRED to play it is effectively destroying that copy. EULAs aren't going to do _shit_ for that.
If you pay for a new car up front, some fine print on the paperwork saying the company can steal the engine in the middle of the night and sell it back to you isn't going to help them in court. Because they're intentionally destroying something YOU OWN, they aren't entitled to control over it anymore.
There's nothing "service-y" about any game that doesn't have a subscription fee. If you _buy_ a game, a "license to play a game", or whatever, it's a good. You are legally entitled to be able to use that product until it either wears out on it's own (see: newer OS versions not running certain games) or you choose to be done with it.
This "you only own a license they can do what they want" is just the industry narrative talking, because they can profit off of murdering games and then selling the same shit in a new package because certain players have nowhere else to go for that specific type of game.
The Freer the market the freer the corperations
fhe more corrupt the corporations become
Rapture would like a word with you
Both came out in a (very semi) close span as new LGBTQ+ icons and both are absolutely fantastic.
Abi and James Stephanie Sterling were already LGBTQ icons before both coming out as trans, because they were already both out of the closet as bi, which especially for James Stephanie is a pretty big thing as gamers don't seem to like anyone who's not straight and cis (and male and white). The fact they already had a huge TH-cam channel about gaming, one of the biggest channels on gaming in fact, and they weren't dislike-bombed every video like other LGBTQ or left wing gamer channels have to suffer through, is really a testament to how good they are. They talk facts, about how fucking awful most gaming companies are both to consumers and to their employees (basically destroying the mental health of everyone who works for them) is something all people who play video games can be angry about. It's not socialism to bring up how awful the crunch-time for these developers is. I mean it is inherently left wing, but James Stephanie is always great at getting everyone to be on the same page about it. Kinda stealthily talking left wing politics every week without a lot of people even noticing. It's impressive.
@@duffman18 JSS identifies as pansexual not bisexual
"They're landlords! Easiest job in the world, a job so easy you can literally inherit your way into it." Love this, owning stuff isn't a real job!
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Rent-seeking is so bad for society, even Adam Smith the "Father of Capitalism" spoke out against that.
I guess if you have to fix shit around the place and maintain the property you’re contributing something. But if you’re just hiring people for that you’re a vampire.
@@Fluffkitscripts There is a role for someone who maintains and fixes places where people live. That person should not be the owner
The music industry is even worse. Almost all of the music worldwide is owned by 3 companies. And anyone that believes that that turned out to be an incentive to inovate can fight me.
LM D what about food, most snacks are owned by 5 companies
Not even 3 companies, but most popular music is written by 3 _people_ who cover pretty much all the pop singers. Capitalism is all well and good when it promotes innovation and higher quality, but there is this point where it starts to spiral out of control. There is this point where companies have done the whole quality thing and are looking for even more profitable ways of selling their products. And that is where in the case of music we enter the realm of tunes that are not artistically created, but purposefully designed to be psychologically catchy. What a large part of the music industry does nowadays is simply create tunes that follow a certain recipe of catchiness and create a slightly different version of it for a new hit every time. We are now in the age where quality and profit no longer correlate. We're in the age of mass consumerism, wherein max profit is attained by making your washing machines break after a year or 5 instead of building them to last, wherein max profit is attained by creating a fashion trend each season and producing clothing in bulk to fit the fashion for short term wear instead of producing high quality sustainable clothing to fit a certain _style_ for longer time wear. It's a sad time we live in and video games are on the brink of entering into that next stage too now. We already had to deal with this yearly subscription for online multiplayer (because of this I only play single player games nowadays), but streaming services are truly going to be the killing blow.
_Lars Ulrich has entered the chat._
@Andrew Potter they are already selling ways of playing games that don't run on your computer remotely, but of course it requires a good connection, so no one i know would be able to play
as an aspiring musician this is really discouraging to me. like, if i don’t top a stupid billboard chart i don’t get to eat.
The thing is, the truth is inherently political.
@@33up24 Naturally sweetie. Everything is political. That's why, starting now, I don't just request, no, but demand a thesis on why the fat, steaming shit I'm currently taking is actually, secretly a metaphor for the failures of capitalism and its reliance on exploiting others (I'm not terribly good at socialist doublespeak, so bare with me here) for its EVVVILLLL gains. Your time starts....now.
@@papapalps2415 Well capitalistic media has convinced you that everything has to be productive to an overall cause, even a mere shit is for some reason relevant to a discussion. In a socialist society, something like that would be considered normal and not meant for any useful production and instead should be the right of everyone to do so if they need to do it.
@@popopop984 I...I fucking can't. Just fucking stop. Please, for the love of God, just stop. I don't give the slightest fucking shit about your pet cause, whether that be socialism, anti natalism, or the moon is fake. I don't fucking care, no one else cares, go away.
I was looking for something to do with the cyberpunk scandal and the disease of the gaming industry as a whole and I stumbled into this sexy vampire. I’m so happy I did omg
Thank God for Jim Sterling. He's one of the most prominent game critics out there, and i'd wager a good chunk of his audience are "apolitical" gamerbros who don't even realize they're watching a full blown leftist rant about late stage capitalism -and agreeing with him. If that's not a genius way to introduce these concepts to a wider audience, i don't know what is.
Excuse me, it’s spelled “Jim Motherfucking Sterling, son”
I dont really think that's Jim's intentions, though. I see no sign that Jim is just trying to rant about 'capitalism bad', and he's certainly not sneaking in socialist rhetoric or talking points or anything to 'introduce' people to the economic left. He's just a critic.
@@maynardburger my first impulse was to do a reddit whoosh joke but honestly if you're missing the point of the jimquisition that badly you aren't watching it
@@maynardburger Have you literally never heard the man say "Ca-triple-apitalism" before? His criticism of how capitalistic systems allow and support the shitty behavior present in the games industry is *constant*. I have no idea how you've managed to miss it if you're a regular watcher of the show. He literally has a video called the exploitation of apolitical politics.
@@maynardburger Can't work out if this is just a terrible attempt at sarcasm or not seeing as Jim's latest video LITERALLY HAD AN ANTI-CAPITALIST RANT IN IT.
Vamp Olly is the goth husbando we all want.
Vamp Olly can BITE ME
(no, seriously, he can. Anytime he wants. Better vampire boyfriend than T-...)
Curt Clark I want him to bite me too!
Yes
I’d call you freaks - until I realized that maybe I’d want that too.
Fuck.
I'm a goddamn lesbian and I literally said to my girlfriend, "Tell him to stop being so hot."
“Tale of Zoulda: Foggy Mountain Breakdown” is my favorite baroque-bluegrass fusion album.
"...And other philosophers, whose names I can't recall right now,..."
He’s speaking, of course, about Milton Friedman.
We need the vampire back as a recurring character
Yes, please.
Agreed. 😀👍
It makes sence, some books, videogames and movies use them as a "secret elite", so a vampire as an evil capitalist is good.
The Ancapire
agreed!
It's so, so easy to just take the money, keep quiet and get by on games journalism, and so, so hard to take a stand and risk your career, home, everything for your principles.
Jim Sterling picked the latter and made it work, despite legal action and threats. And even after all that, he still sticks his neck out to stand up for those who need it.
That's why every Monday, I thank god for Jim.
Thank god for Jim Fuckin Sterlingson!
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what legal actions? only one i know is romine brothers who were like some trailer park poverty who could not fill a lawsuit right.
@@vitaliybakal7356 he regularly gets his videos taken down by copyright claims
often by the same publishers he rants against
Thank god for Jim!
I think my favorite part about the thumbnail for this video is that within a year both you and Jim Stephanie Sterling both came out as trans
Well this hits different.
I'm actually a really big fan of the free market driving competition between companies.
I'd be thrilled if it ever started happening.
lmao thank you for this comment
The downside of actual market competition is that companies will waste revenue hiding trade secrets from each other and trying to sabotage one another. We also get formatting and platform wars (e.g. Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD in mid-2000s, Mac vs. PC, or any significant console war such as Nintendo vs. Sega in the 1990s). Oligopolies (i.e. significantly concentrated markets with a few dominant firms, rather than one) often result in the worst of both "perfect competition" and a true monopoly; companies willing to stab each other in the back and waste valuable resources vying for the #1 spot can just as easily form trust-like agreements to keep prices up and wages down or cooperate to lobby governments on behalf of their whole industry.
A good example of that actually happening is Sony getting into the camera market. It does look a lot like manufacturers were going up a megapixel or 2each year till Sony decided to go in and do36. It has slowed down, they are just a company too and don't want to just throw everything into one model either as they now secured a place in the market for themselves, but it sure did accelerate innovation and gave us more features throughout the industry. Did things get cheaper... Eh. Not really. That is where sigma n Co come in though. Then again firmware updates are more common now and when your lens suck some companies expect you to buy an extra dock to update it.... Cancer is growth too and there is no growth without some shitty side effects.
Yep, I was just thinking about how RCA did the rentier thing a hundred years ago, entirely sucking up patent money for ages at the start. And still profited handsomely from colour TV patents in the 60s alongside selling their own sets.
@a guy That's dumb as fuck. Monopolies exist because capital accumulates and will always accumulate. They existed during the gilded age and were enforced at the barrel of a gun held by the ownership class. They exist in weak states. They have existed since mercantilism transitioned to capitalism.
But if you're just going to regurgitate stupid right-libertarian/AnCap talking points, there's zero point in engaging with you. If you ever start to care about anyone other than yourself, let me know, and I'll give you some good theory, instead of something Friedman shit all over a paper.
Real talk, when Count Ollie suggested getting a loan, I wanted to hold a crucifix and holy water up a the screen before the blood even appeared.
hehe I said it with him ... didn't expect the blood though.
I'VE JUST REALISED:
This is a woman, acting as a man,
impersonating another woman,
who at the time was acting as a man . . .
You're a damn good actress to pull that all off at once, Abigail :-)
Unless I missed a second coming out, Jim came out as nonbinary, not a woman.
@@twelveetal.2126 Watch her most recent video
@@kiwimarshall3937 Jim's non-binary, uses they/them pronouns and changed their name to James Stephanie Sterling (but still use Jim Sterling as a pen name). They present rather fem but are non-binary.
@@twelveetal.2126 ah yeah, sorry, i missed that at the time of writing, thank you for the update.
@@emmastrange5557 ah yeah, sorry, i missed that at the time of writing, thank you for the update.
MORE :clap: FEMALE :clap: LEGIONNAIRES :clap:
The Empyre guy scares the shit out of me. He made me really uncomfortable... thanks Olly 👍
If that's the first time you've seen that character, go back and watch his Elon Musk video for that one's first appearance.
I think part of it is his calm demeanor and that American accent. It's scarily good, and I say this as someone who grew up in or near the Silicon Valley area.
@@JackgarPrime Will do! Thanks :)
Pilate is the beautiful fantasy that silicon valley has a single neck.
Sammmeer
In my psych class I was taught:
Irregularly rewarded behavior takes the longest to extinguish.
@transylvanian
There's the Harlow monkey experiments. You can find creepy videos of that on TH-cam.
I think BF Skinner came up with that earlier statement though. IIRC he mostly worked with pigeons.
Yes, the superstitious pigeon experiment
Depends on reinforcement/punishment type, potential motivation, how far "shaped" a behavior is in the organism's current state, what specific reinforcement (psychopharmacology, like sugar vs nicotine for example... Which is an entirely HUGE part of behavioral shaping) you're utilizing, the complexity of the new behavior you're trying to shape into an organism's future behavior or "habit"...
Experimental Psych is all about methodologies and calculations, it's an interesting field. Highly mathematical which is a plus.
After watching your coming out video last week, i'm rewatching some of the vids you did over the last 3 years and now i'm seeing the truth you were hiding. Thank you for showing us you are now "in the skin" that makes you happy. It fills my heart with joy to see someone finally be able to be true not just with themselves, but comfortable enough with the rest of the world to "wear it" publically. Thank you.
“Hegelian Dialectics” and the Rome parody is getting dangerously close to mentioning F:NV
THIS MAD MAN ACTUALLY USED PAGER U FOR REFERENCE
Well Look at what I answer to him :
Liberalism eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggg ANd you call yourself a philosophe? It started by something interesting then at 2:00 I feel liek I ha just heard propaganda eeeeeeeerfff It shoddy at maximazing general interest, it just maximize teh personal interest of the peopel controlling the market !
And erf happyness is NOT the same thing as pleasure ! You are in a Hedonnistic sophism... You are just spreaidng aminstream misscocneption.
2:40 Yhea quote a bout aabout a dude who supported pinochet ! And seeing how you dress and drink champagn, I am guessing you are not a member of teh proletariate, go on with your shoddy qualification and yoru excess of knowledge, throw you money away, and try to gain it by working as a prols, we will see if it is easy to get a good job. You know how insulting is for people that are exploited and are force to take shitty jobs because there is no otehr alternatives for them? You know how INSULTING it is to pretend that if you get a good job it is because you are not smart enough to do so? Clearly you are dumber than they are ! We are not living in an happy utiopia it is are to get a job were you are investing and find sens in what you are making.
@@darthrevan3342 a thanks for explaining the joke, perish
_lol Prager U total shite amirite guys?_
@@darthrevan3342
You can say whatever you want, but please learn proper English. Your spelling is horrible.
Mousazz *You're.
To the person that did the english subtitles that wrote out the lisp caused by the fangs, bless you lol.
Cat Tricks that was olly! He writes his own subtitles
I didn't catch the lisp! But I really loved his commentary at the end while the credits rolled :)
The WeWork thing was even worse because they themselves were mostly renting the properties they were renting out. They didn't even own the one thing they were selling.
They actually re-rebranded into "Meta"
"The Roman Empire had the opportunity to bring the world together in a tough crucifixion moment about a month ago. We did not. We moved too quickly in our decision-making and then to make matters worse, we were too slow to talk to all of you. When I think about how most unhappy I am, I think about two things. We didn’t live up to the higher standards we set for ourselves. Second, we failed in our purpose. For that, I am sorry, and I accept accountability." - Pontius Pilate, at RomeCon, 0AD.
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You off by 33 years mate
This comment had me laughing my ass off, amazing work here
"Rentier economy" ehh just sounds like feudalism with extra steps
Truuuuue
Honestly, I think the rentier economy is just an attempt to recreate the feudal property/power relations in modern day capitalism. Some people call it proto-feudalism or neo-feudalism but I think its more of an atavistic feudalism.
@@sujalthapa7887 can feudalism (in a particular geographic region) be measured, and compared with the intensity of feudalism in another geographic region?
Funny side node: "Rentier" is German for "reindeer". So a Rentier economy would probably be a lot of herders taking care of someone else's reindeer?
@@rolfs2165 That's just the Sami.
That was cool but, you made me realize I've never *seen* someone's accent before. When youu're doing the Empyre sketches, I noticed I can see a difference in the shape of your mouth while you speak. Thanks, I guess.
That might have been because he wasn't wearing the vampire fangs.
@@MrTombombodil As someone who speaks two accents natively (I was raised in England and the US) there is definitely a shift in how you move your mouth, but it's mainly a tongue thing.
I just found this channel and I’m loving your content. I’ve only recently been watching more political/philosophy/debate content that wasn’t surrounded by drama or Twitter rants, so I applaud you for your very interesting and well made work. Good luck with all new content you make and I hope you continue to create this high quality of videos. From one artist to another, you have given the world a gift to enjoy. Congratulations. ❤️
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Technical point just on one thing but WeWork don't actually even own the property. They're usually subletting :)
That's why it's even worse than he makes out
WeWork is a sign of late stage capitalism
As someone once put it, WeWork’s business model is to rent buildings, put beer in them, rent those buildings with the beer to other people (often for vastly less than they’re paying to rent said buildings, supposedly to get people in the door so they can raise prices later, even though that hasn’t really happened), and then get rich Asian investors to cover the shortfall.
Or, to summarize even more, their business model is tricking SoftBank into buying beer for software developers and then figuring out how to make money from that later.
Hey, it could be worse, they could be MoviePass. (We’ll pay people to watch movies now, and then figure out a business model later. They never did figure out that last part, but still got billions in outside investments before collapsing.)
@@Nathan-kk6lb So what you mean to say is, that both movie pass and wework did amazing praxis by defrauding investors by giving movie tickets/beer to commoners. Good Praxis
@TheCasualAnarchist030
Lol true
2:51 the only time you'll see "PragerU" and "source" in the same sentence
Tfw you have to source that PragerU said something
I was honestly startled when I saw that source. I got scared that a channel I really like entertained any thoughts or ideas from PragerU.
In-game currency is like casino chips, except you can't redeem them for cash.
It disconcerting just how accurately you've nailed the gaming company corporate speak for that whole EMPYRE bit. It's like I'm watching an E3 presentation.
I don't think there is anything that differentiates gaming companies from big business tech companies (which, in fact, most of them are in terms of revenue). It's the same sack of shit, neoliberal capitalism.
The beginning bit was very closely based on the Blizzard CEO's "apology speech" (which wasn't an apology) on them banning an esports contestant and two commentators because the contestant shouted a pro-Hong Kong slogan on a stream.
@@nakenmil The problem is that he did it so much better than the actual Blizzard CEO.
throughout the years it's seemed like an arms race between news/corporate/adverts/politics and the satire of them, eg the satire taking news and making it punchier, sharper, more bombastic, the news taking that satire and learning lessons from it. It's almost like satire has turned out to be at best a bit shit, or at worst wildly unpredictable in its political effects, which is disappointing
@@Donnerbalken28 Having worked in tech for the last 4 years, that bit sounded exactly like every large big tech company I've ever seen or been acquired by. I've literally heard 3 exact same speeches from CEO's from larger companies that have acquired the start ups I've worked for which they then made us all redundant a couple months later to replace us with their own worker bee's because they pay them half the amount in salaries.
"The tendency towards monopolies in a rentier system..."
hmm, if only ther was a piece of interactive media that could convey the downside of this to its interactees. Perhaps a board game, where players are presented the idea of a fair game that was never fair to begin with. I'll call it.... "The landlord's Game."
Oh wait.
TURISTA!!
That's a nice game you've got there. Should would be a shame if someone bought it so you could eat this winter and changed it. Haw haw haw!
It's a lesson we learned as children, yet no one can seem to grasp fully to this day.
@@colto2312 the problem is that as children, we never actually play the lesson out. The game ends when the rest of the players have run out of cash, and the one whom has all of their cash is declared the winner; what that actually represents is the economic collapse of the entire system. As kids, we just start a new game, when that is actually just the beginning of the end.
We focus on winning the game, but the lesson of what happens to the other players afterwards or the system itself is never really explored.
@@CGoody564 Very well put, indeed. I sapose that's a logical leap I made on my own at a later date. The goal is to monopolize, then what? YOU WIN. All the pieces go back in the box, and hopefully all the friendships are still intact. IRL is a much darker tale when one "wins."
Thank you for your video. It’s very hard to find a good philosophical channel with honest review. This channel is AMAZING! Thank you for the book references!
would like to express my ever evolving appreciation for the subtitles in your videos
Olly plays Skyrim the cheese way: as a sneaky archer with his pockets full of cheese wheels. I approve
I never understood the cheeses. There are much better options, like all the health potions you steal from everywhere....
@K CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!
"I'm a elf scout"
Ah, so neaky archer. Gotcha.
@@Call-me-Al Cheese wheelz are delicious.
Any time someone brings up "cheese wheels," I immediately think of Ron White. You should, too.