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Of Course You Realize, This Means Wargaming (The Jimquisition)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2024
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As The Jimquisition gears up for change, we're reminded that some things stay the same - like spurious TH-cam copyright threats.
World of Tanks' very own Wargaming.net has been misusing words like "defamation" in order to try and scare its own community... and it's time for an expert to step in.
Because this isn't about World of Tanks... this is about OUR shit being fucked with. Again.
Chains of Love cover by Nathan Hanover: • NHSO Covers | Erasure ...
Born Depressed "Final Take" by Carl Catron:
• Born Depressed - Jimqu...
*World of Tanks finishes downloading*
*Sees and watches new episode*
*Uninstalls World of Tanks*
Hylian Jim then try War Thunder. It's WoT's main rival
I'm a casual player but I have found War Thunder pretty fun so far.
Armored Warfare? Run by better devs? haha, not anymore. Mail.ru kicked Obsidian entertainment off of the project a while ago. RIP.
War Thunder is crap in comparison to World of Tanks. WOT is the king of all tank games.
only if you like getting killed because someone went through one weakspot and killed you by damaging the exact same fucking thing over and over, because that makes sense
Jim Sterling is one of the greatest TH-camrs of all time and that is a scientific fact because you read it on the internet right here
Oh hey! Fancy seeing you here!
Dan Bull you should make a sterling rap
Dan Bull oh damn its Dan Bull
Whoa, Dan Bull! *takes a picture!*
Will the new theme song be by Dan Bull? :o
I want Jim's portrayal as an aristocrat to be a main villain in an RPG.
kingnitros Voiced by Jim, of course
Late reply, but the voice reminded me a lot of Professor Pyg from Arkham Knight
Not that anybody cares here but I was cast in the play “Cyrano” and played this guy named De Valvert and I played him as closely to Duke Hardcore as I possibly could. Even the voice.
YES
He might fit in a bloodborne like theme.
"SirFock, whose name is pronounced SirFoche, but I started calling him Fock and now I can't stop" Remains my favourite part to this day.
I think mine is "SirFoch me Foch me say that you'll Foch me."
“Sir Foch me gently” is great too XD
How this SHOULD have gone:
"Hey this video goes over the line, please remove it or at least make it different and less toxic"
"No"
"Okay you are no longer a community contributor"
"Ok"
DONE
Uncle Andross I think Jim Fuckng Sterling, Son's version would involve them requiring that the Community Contributors set up a separate channel for their Seal Of Approval Community Contributed Videos and have the vids reviewed by WG *prior* to them being posted. In other words, make sure the barn door is closed *before* the horses get out.
And have this in a legal contract from the start, with the agreement being a prerequisite of CC status. And the understanding that the rules only apply if you sign and only for official vids - nothing else would be covered, you can say whatever you want elsewhere.
This would give them the control they need, and would lay the rules out in writing for everyone to see up front.
Well that is what they should have done from the start, yes. But since they didn't they should have rolled with the fallout of hiring a """"""""""salty"""""""""""" content creator, instead of this
Or you know maybe they should just watch the videos they have put out in the past and determine if they want to promote this type of video? Its not hard to not be stupid you just have to try a little.
Actually, it should have gone like this:
WarGaming: (watches a vitriolic video from one of their community contributors angry about a new premium vehicle): 'Wow...maybe we went too far'
Then they changed the vehicle to make it more fair.
DONE
Ocrilat First of all I don't even know how SirFoch got community contributor status in the first place, all he does is go on profanity-laced tirades. Second of all, they can't change a premium tank after they sell it. That would be bait and switch.
Wow... Horse armor has certainly gotten complex these days.
Horse armor: now available in bullet size
But you cannot ride it. That, much like modeling women moving in games, it too much for our current technology.
I just want to point out that premium ammo thing used to be just that ammo for real money, but that was years ago now it just cost more in game currency that you earn playing battles.
These are Hor$iz, they're premium mounts.
... but you CAN still pay real money for it.
Former WG EU employee here, trust me this office has always been plagued by incompetence they just reached a new level there with this Hungarian CM I personally don't know.
Nice acting skills by the way I really enjoyed this video, I like how you get your facts straight.
I used to be a big fan of the game but let's be honest it totally is a cash machine, a few players should be able to be honest and tell the truth about how extremely hard and painful it is to progress and unlock stuff without using real money for many different reasons.
*sees another ad of WoT*
kill me
Took a long time to get my first tier X. Remember grinding a T25 for hours to get credits for that amx50B
*THEN THE SWEDES SHOWED UP*
Ya know, I'm completely fine with monetization in free to play games. Developers have to make money for their hard work, so it's all good..My problem is with pay to win mechanics. I don't understand what is so hard about monetizing a game without pay to win mechanics..It isn't all that hard to come up with some monetization ideas that still would allow them to bring in plenty of revenue..
@@doomslayer163 yeah. Like.. . APCR ammo? Premium already are hard to deal with, but this? This is just ridiculous
Aristocrat Jim is fabulous.
Jim is so flamboyant and confident that he's honestly very attractive.
That isn't Jim, silly, that is Duke Amiel Du H'ardcore
This Is My Name confidence is always attractive (as long as it doesn’t turn into arrogance) regardless of a persons appearance. Like Buddy Love in the Nutty Professor remake said “No matter what, you’ve got to strut.”
I'm starting to think Jim's just looking for excuses to dress up
Think? That's almost a guarantee.
I see no problem with this.
Uh...Welcome to the channel? xD
we all look for reasons to dress up
You say that as if its a bad thing.
I don't get why people who are a fan of something blindly accept everything the creator of that thing does.
CoffeeMusicGuy *cough cough Nintendrones*
"Sell us your house" Okay ...
CoffeeMusicGuy people hope desperately that the things they like are not bad and the people who make them are not bad so that they dont have to feel bad for liking them. people feel defensive of things they like and want to keep liking
You can't spell "fanatical" without "fan". Just saying.
CoffeeMusicGuy pretty sure fan literally is short for fanatic.
The fact that the o.1% player was mentioning how good he is and how he shows off how much he plays shows he's probably a noob.
Joseph N
He is more likely to be a stat padder by seal clubbing with one or two OP tanks.
Yep, this^
Unlike most games where that's true, this is par for the course.
I suspect that this has something to do with the juxtaposition of war sim and history buff.
They're coming into this (or warships) already having a favoured set of vehicles, *probably* read critiques about them already, both irl and the game, and want to prove "the whiny baby men just don't know how to play/counter them"
See guys like that approaching 80%+ win ratios often. And yes the answer is often not that they're super good (though it will be near impossible to kill them for fresh players) but that they're essentially "spawn killing" noobs by sitting at tiers 1-4 in these dirty ass seal clubbing tanks.
Imagine if you got xp for killing level 1-10 noobs in a normal MMO, and how many more people that would encourage to sit in the noob starting area to PK them.
It actually undermines his arguments, since it shows he has an interest in one party winning. He's not impartial.
Thats debatable. However if he is pathetic, is not.
Or he's one of those people that tie all of their self-worth into how good they are at one online game. That would also explain why he's so adamantly defending Wargaming in this.
Tanks for nothing, Wargaming!
Tank God for Jim Sterling.
Wargaming risked *tanking* its reputation with this move.
They'd better *tread* lightly from now on.
Geez. Stop Panzering for attention. j/k
All of you should cease to exist just for those puns.
There's no need to feel that Bradley! Sherman, these puns are bad, but it takes a certain calibre of person to go through with them.
thank god for jim fucking sterling son
Jim Fucking Snow Son
Okay, this has nothing to do with the video or your comment, really, but I've seen your avatar, or the character in your avatar before, but I can't remember where from. It's driving me mad, so could you please fill me in?
EarlnEarl its from a hentai called euphoria
+Edgy McEdgeface
Nice profile picture. Where's it from?
+LordVader1094 A lovely game by the name of Euphoria.
LordVader1094
Euphoria is a pornographic video game, too.
And now the loop repeats.
We need Classical 17th Century Jim to be a thing. It's fantastic.
Two weeks have passed... and to show just how sincere their apologies are, and just how much they have taken their customers' concerns about the premium culture to heart... Wargaming have just announced the release of ANOTHER high-powered "pay to progress" tank!
As Jim once said, they wait for the anger to subside, and then carry on as before.
Aristocrat now has to be a thing forever please
17th Century Jim could be it's own series. Seriously, can we just have a weekly episode with Jim reading comments/emails from less than stable people for X minutes? Hell i'd PAY to see that!
Acting 10/10.
Would pouder my face again!
Is there anywhere we can a sign a petition to make this happen? Change.org maybe?
Wizdavision Productions I Hate Everything (IHE) has a thing just like it called comment comeback (without the 17 century 'elite' gamer), The problem is people will just provide fake comments to get on the segment like they do for IHE.
I like this. Video game reviews need more 17th century aristocrats. "Come to the gazebo! I Roasted the casual but good!"
subtitles made it great ! especially for non english speakers like me
17th Century Aristocrat is your best new character in recent memory - and I REALLY like cornflake homunculus.
I have to wonder what passers-by were thinking while Jim (sorry, 'Duke Amiel du H'ardcore') was filming that bit...
I'm rather curious about that too.
To that 0.1% Top Player of World of Tanks that sent that warning: You are one of the reason why Commentocracy now exists, and for that, I thank you, good sir. Thank you!
That email is hilarious. It's like a mix between game of thrones and the Navy Seals copy pasta.
Charles Britannia Prob like some random 15 yearold that never learned that there is other games then wot.
My fav part is the esl meantion that games esl never took off its boring as piss to play and has a 25% rng on damage rolls, accuracy etc.
good isnt it. Good points as well. I think i got him Kek
Never retire the 17th Century aristocrat.
Here here!
My sibling really doesn't like Jim, but they dislike gamer elitism so much that they watched that entire bit willingly. This is my story and reasoning for agreeing with you.
Jim Fucking Sterling, son, I Patreon and it is well worth, retroactively, further appearances of Lord Fop ™ !
for real, add a horrifically ruffly shirt
My favorite part of the email is the "Feel free to message me or whatever" fucking, gold.
Premium rounds for real money. Premium tank for real money. You can take it down with premium rounds which cost real money. Seriously. And some fanboys barking on anyone who said something bad about their's lovely game. I don't know what to say. HUMANITY!
Reminds me of the EA CEO that wanted to make people pay a dollar to reload.
That's not really how it works, tbh.
Hell, just pay close attention to the few gameplay clips in this video, it's a HP-based game.
Premium Ammo doesn't cost actual money unless you're stupid and forget to change it to costing silver. They just cost more in-game silver which means you need a premium tank or a premium account to make enough money if you use a lot of it. (Read: if you suck and spam premium ammo because you can't aim)
Exactly. You don't spam it, use it only for hard targets, and you'll make a profit even without premium tanks, or premium time.
I only get my premium time from Ops rewards, and more than half my premium tanks were free giveaways or earned through game events.
@@Mr-Trox
"They just cost more in-game silver which means you need a premium tank or a premium account to make enough money if you use a lot of it. "
so... it only doesn't cost a lot of money... if you pay for an account that costs money, and buy a tank that costs money.
right.
I bet Trump has you on a list of people he wants to hire for the treasury department.
I subscribed just because the way you roasted that arrogant emailer with that 17th century aristocrat. EPIC.
This ^
just wait for the 12th century aristocrat when shit gets medieval
+Lord Cuthbert
wouldn't need to go any further back for shit to get medieval, actually.
17th century was late medieval era. very cool time where we had full plate armor and muskets at the same time.
Gary! hahaaa GaaaarY
not gonna lie assumed the renaissance _was Distinct_* from medieval era, one smart Gary!
I wonder what people walking through that park thought seeing Jim.
'Oh look, it's Jim' Probably:)
"What the f-... oh its just jim again."
"Wave to Mr. Sterling, kids."
"Thank God for Him", obviously
"Oh look. Its that crazy guy who yells and complains about video games. Just ignore him kids. He does this all the time"
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT that intro allways gets me fist bumping
Nicolas Boissiere fist bumping? Like, the replacement for hand shakes?
I wish I lived in Jim's neighborhood just to occasionally see him out and about filming himself doing wacky shit.
Wargaming crying slander while calling someone a homophobe and a hate speaker without any evidence. Kek
I didn't actually think about that angle. Damn thats low. Poor Foch.
Ironically setting the grounds for a counter suite for defamation.
Sounds like the entire left.
Ralin well.... that didn't come out quite as , shall we say, right
*harr harr*
And the defenders calling people "white knights"... ah I love it, these assholes have so overused the meme they don't have a clue what it means. No wonder they substitute in PC and SJW for every other word.
So my takeaway from this was to write complaints to Jim Sterling as foppishly as humanly possible.
0.1% lol.. the pretentiousness. You'd think he'd have to play a lot more than 5 hours a day for that though. I mean those are casual scrub hours in any other competitive game.
It's scrub hours in WoT also. He is a scrub gamer in general.
I’m an actual wot player here, he could just be playing a few tanks that are op and seal clubbing.
I once bought a kv220 reskin on console for 15 bucks because of the xp boosts they had going on. I played about 100 something games to get the boosts and currency...I had super unicum stats in the thing because it was easy to play (super unicum is what the best players are called)
Im only above average wn8 with my account going into a better class when I actually play often. However, even I was able to seal club my way up a bit.
TLDR: he stay pass by playing a few tanks he is good at because they are op.
World of Tanks is like an eight year old game now. 5 hours a day for a few years (and, as an ex-WoT player and current World of Warships player, you tend to play _only_ WoT/WoWS) and you can easily reach that level. Hell, I played the _console_ version for about three years solid, and stopped two years ago. I think that brought me to 30k battles.
"The largest and most diverse audience of any game"
They must range from normal/casual to ignorant, to repulsive, to toxic. This elitist is any of these but normal.
There are so many elitist sh*t heads on that game..It is the reasons I don't play it..
Keep the aristocrat character, please.
he's definitely doing more that's why he's asking for more comments to his email haha
Guido Bos The superior "Internet Aristocrat."
You are not anonymous on the internet. If you don't stand by the things you say, you shouldn't say them.
+Zayne Lendrum A fine sentiment but how many people actually do that? More to the point, what is you were 12 when you wrote it? Anyway, I realised I was remembering of one of Yahtzee's videos, not Jim's last one.
Keep the aristocrat and have a backup group of nobles that laugh when he does.
25 minute jimquisition? oh hell yes
forgive me good sir
Shit, I've been here that long?
WHAT YEAR IS IT?
Is SirFoch related to Fred Fucks?
I think Fred Fucks is his uncle.. Good ol' Uncle Fucks..lol
SirFoch me foch me say thay you'll foch me.
Shout-out to Jim for going out in that outfit in Mississippi. Dude, it's like upper 80's to 90° right about now.
"It's very unprofessional to-"
You don't get to talk about professionalism when you're selling premium ammo in a game, much less making it a borderline requirement to be as meta as possible. MOBAs might make you buy heroes often times, but they don't try to sell you the ultimates separately.
Aerolite08 Savage af
Well, in respect to the original context of the quote, they're right. You don't hire on someone who routinely slags the company off. There's also the matter of "They buy it, so we're selling it", same as with all the other "micro-transaction arguments" people can make in their defence.
Again though, this isn't about the game, more about the fact that the EU team was publicly announcing they were going to file a false copyright takedown request with the head office backing them up with inaccurate reasoning. The ammo is just a stupid addition to milk cash out of their whales.
Dunno about if it's required or not as I've never have and never will play WoT, so I can't make a worthwhile comment on that.
They're not right, sure, but let's keep things accurate, eh? We're better than that.
Tbh, premium ammo used to work the you think they do, but now they can be purchased with the in game currency, but for high amount (it's made so that you basically won't make a profite if you use them).
Obviously they are trying to incitate people into buying premium account (gives you bonus income, makes it possible to use them without loosing tons of money) but at least they are a bit less retarded
You also don't get to talk about professionalism when the people you expect to be professional aren't getting paid. That's like the exact opposite of being professional.
It would be exactly like if a fantasy game sold you a magic bow, but you had to buy the arrows with real money, and the arrows kill in one hit.
What i'm saying is they sold you a bow that is statistically better then what you can normally get, they charge you to fire it, and you get an advantage over everyone who doesn't use it just for using it.
Wargaming EU "We fucked up"
Wargaming US "Hold my beer! We got this"
Some time later: Wargaming US "The fuck...this guys asked for proof...shit!"
ROFLMAO
Yep, pretty much. The split offices have no idea what each other are doing and making matters worse. The WG EU community manager basically wound up going on the forums and apologizing twice, because the first time he messed up his english and made it sound almost as bad if not worse the first time around (english is not his first language). On the flip side WG NA is a shitshow and WG RU is laughing its way to the bank.
TBH i don't really even know of any big US/NA community contributors. It mostly seems to be in the EU. Cock ups like this in the PR department are probably why.
It's like being at work. (Wait, can they attribute comments to me? No good.) Yes just like work. They need to look at there recruitment criteria. Some common sense would be a good start.... oh and Hi Reload.
Hi Dave :)
BillMcD Total lack of communication & cooperation is WG's speciallity.lol It happens all the time with them. Everything from this shit storm right down to even basic business like when to release stuff on sale, pricing, roll outs of updates. They even balls up NDA covered anouncements screwing over their own Community Contributers.
This is almost 2 years late but that “SirFoch me gently” really got me
To be fair, Tank fest is a thing that has been going on since before world of tanks. it happens at Bovington tank museum, and is actually really fucking cool. Its just now Wargaming is one of their largest donator's.
17th Century Aristocrat Jim is my favourite Jim, would buy the Amiibo, optional skins, intro video and themed mount.
Would you buy the premium ammo?
I want to use 17th century jim amiibo in breath of the wild, I wonder what it'd give me.
Kazekai premium ammo
I preorder all my Jims in case they become exclusive.
fuck you they don't sell them in my country D:
Did that hardcore gamer just say that "sure, they may be a bit dodgy sometimes" but then go on to defend them? What apologist crap. His entire argument is invalid and not just for that line alone.
I used to play a lot of WOT and I would read the forums he isn't the only one who will defend to the death wargaming but based on what I seen in the forums I wouldn't be surprised if that company employs shills to make themselves look good.
PaceBreaker Productions the admin on the forum are bunch of dicks
DukeWooze It's a Russian-spirited game company. May I say more?
Yeah I mean, I could say I hate how Nintendo claims countless videos for showing their game play, but I definitely still consider myself a fanboy. I might consider that as Nintendo "being a bit dodgy".
Not defending his side but you can't be sure what he was referring to when he said that.
Ev’ry action has its equal, opposite reactions
Thanks to SirFoch, the game's fractured into factions
Try not to crack under the stress, we’re breaking down like fractions
We smack each other in the press, and we don’t print retractions.
*eh, idk*
I just don't get the World of Tanks players' behavior here. Jim's not criticizing the game he's criticizing the company. A company or artist and their work are NOT the same thing. It is possible to make great work and be a terrible person/company. HP Lovecraft wrote awesome stories, but was also a massive racist. EA has made some good games over the years, but they're still one of the douchiest gaming companies ever. Fox has made great TV shows, but the way they treat the people making shows for them is often just plain scummy.
People are moronic shitheads what else is new?
I wish people would stop using Lovecraft as the go-to example though.
It's pretty obvious to me, and kind of sad, he lived in a "rougher" part of the city and his racism was fueled by loads of undiagnosed, untreated mental illness. Dude just needed a kindly black church lady nurse in his life. (Which was unfortunately impossible because this is still when Phrenology is considered real science)
Meanwhile...most people have long since forgotten HG Wells' "Lord of the Dynamos," which shows why he rarely wrote human centred tales. He was a believer of Eugenics.
Going from that into Moreau adds a pretty unsightly element to the "beastmen"
And technically, with the exception of sports games, the last game EA actually made fully in-house was 007 Nightfire. They're really just the retail shelf mustache-twirly evil universe Valve these days.
@@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer Plus later on in life Lovecraft realized that being a massive racist is a morally bad thing and started trying to remedy that, but nobody ever mentions that.
@@buttahXD Well, I at least applaud him for TRYING to make amends for his racist cuntish ways, and I have a little more respect for him overall now. If I had known this sooner, that would have been great. Still, you cant entirely blame people for mentioning his sins.
Two years later... FOK WARGAMING!!!
I hope 17th Century Aristocrat will stay.
It always cracks me up every time because it's so accurate.
"Suffice to say, there will be more Duke Du H'ardcore in the future." - Jim Sterling, 6:28 AM - 16 May 2017.
lol's all around. Funniest thing I've seen on Jimquisition in a long time and that's a very high bar. More of that guy!
i find it annoying because:
- too long
- its actually more like 18th
- inaccurate hair
Personally I honestly hope he won't, I was cringing and covering my ears every second, it only made me want to skip ahead. A shame because this was an otherwise fine Jimquisition video other than that bit.
Foch should post a new vid, a polite and Disney friendly version that just shreds Wargaming to bits, but in a nice friendly tone.
And when they try to take that one down for exposing their BS pay to win nonsense what excuse will they give?
bob mcbobbob What excuse? TH-cam doesn't care if the company has a reason, they just allow the video to be taken down with no consequences. TH-cam is fucked up like that
Honestly it looks more like they got rid of Foch to protect their brand and less to protect their alleged pay to win nonsense. ((Note: I have never even touched the game, lol))
I only say that because the only people I have seen get 'attacked' by Wargaming are people who were community leads/representatives on TH-cam who took a very negative approach to dealing with Wargaming itself.
I still don't agree with their decision for all the reasons pointed out in Jim's video, and I also think there's still a fair chance they're trying to squash criticism instead, but I know myself that companies are quick to defend their brand name a lot more than squashing criticism. It just so happens that their perceived 'brand attack' also had criticism in it about the game itself, so it's hard to distinctly tell what they're doing.
Who knows.
"defend their brand name a lot more than squashing criticism."
...Dude... That's the same thing.
To an extent you are correct. I suppose I did not convey my meaning well. Here is attempt 2.
I meant that Wargaming has said/asserted that these community representative youtubers were representing them. Hence, their actions and words represented their brand to an extent. Therefore, if they make some really dumb joke they don't agree with then they may overreact because of brand control. I'm just saying, they may not be doing it very specifically to silence criticism of their gameplay itself, like the decision to release this premium tank. I'm not saying silencing criticism of a gameplay aspect and silencing someone saying "fuck wargaming" a lot are different when looking at 'brand control.' Understand what I mean now?
I'm also not saying doing either of the above is cool or okay, especially not when said 'silencing' is done by abusing the youtube copyright system, threats, etc.
That's a better example, yes. Brand image control and censoring of negative critiques are VERY intertwined though. In this specific case, I'd say that argument can't be applied. SirFoch is afforded the same privilege as a games journalist would be given. That doesn't make them employees.
What you're thinking of sounds more like Disney telling it's teen TV show actors to not drink, smoke, party, sex it up, etc.
This situation is Wargaming saying "You shut the fuck up or we'll force you to shut the fuck up."
If they actually cared about brand control, they'd just have to make a public statement. However, they are forcing someone to shut the fuck up. This is censoring, plain and simple.
Holy shit, just hit that 17th century part. That character needs to make more appearances, it was literally perfect. Also, WoT has always been a pay to win system as highlighted by Premium Ammo. It is literally the definition of pay to win. I personally didn't mind because I'm not stupid enough to pay for it and I'm certainly not a 0.1% player, I just enjoy playing regardless of winning or losing. That said I haven't played for quite a long time, it may have changed.
Olivia Lambert Jim and his completely over the top sketches. I also enjoy just playing WoT, but the progression is sometimes pretty slow.
When a company goes on record as stating that it's going to abuse the TH-cam copyright system, that should be enough to squash the claim totally.
I sure hope that Wargaming doesn't try to attack ol' Jim, or they're gonna find out that the Jimquisition is the most overpowered tank in the game!
Kyuubi Von Kaiser this is the gayest thing I've read
Lol. XD
I’ve read gayer
Wargaming has intimate financial connections with the Putin government. There, I said it. It's well known and not discussed openly, because the pro-Russia trolls arrive by the busload when you try.
They let Maj. Nicholas "Chieftain" Moran, a former member of the Irish Army and a current OFFICER in the American Army crawl all over and INSIDE every single tank at the Kubinka Museum, which is (pointedly) located on a Russian military reservation with no guarantee of admittance: they've repeatedly closed it to ALL foreign personnel whenever there's a foreign policy pissing match and for many years Western citizens had to pay an exorbitant bribe (essentially) to have the FSB (successor to the KGB) check their identities before they'd be issued a pass to visit. Under NO circumstances were ANY visitors who weren't Russian military allowed inside the tanks. Only small tourist still cameras are allowed inside the building, definitely no movie cameras and they're very fucking serious about it. There are several accounts of covert cameramen (primarily the scale modeling nerds, bless their hearts, who regard Kubinka as a sort of holy grail) being accosted, questioned and having their cameras seized and deleted by FSB goons on site. They don't like or trust Westerners of any stripe and they don't want you there.
I tried to get a permit to visit Kubinka three years ago and was told (by virtue of my 4-year teenage stint in the Army infantry) I need not waste my "application fee", as "Former NATO military personnel are ineligible for the security clearance necessary". Various other military history enthusiasts, some vastly more creditable and credited than myself (though, critically, none employed by Wargaming) received much the same run around (in various forms) and ultimately gave up trying.
And then came Wargaming....and suddenly it's all flowers and daisies for an active Major in the American Army to crawl all over the Russian military's most coveted little prizes.
Weird, huh?
Putin's gangsteropolis runs on bribes. Don't encourage these greedy fucks.
A salute to drill queen
Premium ammo was a reason I stopped playing the Battlestar Galactica MMO. Also, props for the aristocrat bit. Gave me a bit of a giggle.
The incredibly british reenactment skit was some golden work jim! I hope you have more fun little pokey segments like that in the future :D
Once again they end off on "appropriate actions" yet have no idea what they are. Using a copyright takedown to remove defamation is like telling authorities you were raped by someone who stole your car. Yes they're both illegal but it's not the same fucking thing.
and technically what wargaming did is industrial espionage since they also have a youtube channel and they are trying to destroy sirfoch's source of income
CaptainSauce and i dont think it even qualifies as difamation
CaptainSauce I hope that TH-camr's like yourself need to look out for these types of people who can use the broken system that is TH-cam, #strengthinnumbers.
Give Jim Fucking Sterling an Oscar for the 17th century rendition of the email. Can I give you two thumbs up?
Aristo-Jim may be my favorite character.
When you still don't know when to use the contraction of "You" and "Are" otherwise known as "You're", but you're a super elite 0.1% god tier World of Tanks player so it's okay.
disclaimer: girls und panzer has no affiliation with wargaming.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Girls und Panzer being an actual thing...
Perry Martin anything can be a thing in a world where kantai collection is a thing.
Girls und Panzer is awesome: and I love that it's an actual thing. ^_^
Though my more favored military-themed anime/manga/multi-media series is Strike Witches. Love Strike Witches.
Oi...How exactly does someone liking Girls und panzer or Strike Witches equates to someone being a pedophile? Logically that is a nonsensical false equivalence: besides most of the characters in strike witches are about high school age or are in fact age of consent, and it's much more tasteful and even in it's fan service then most other ecchi anime series. Girls und Panzer doesn't even have too much ecchi fan-service in it.
Also: they are 2D animated constructs; not real human beings so even if we were to even try to get into some kind of peado-hunt argument it's also (still) a false equivalence and is nonsense logic and bullshit moralizing since such "outrage" is misdirected at best and best spent going after actual child predators and after actual pedophile materials of actual flesh and blood children being exploited and targets and abused instead of wasting, time, money, effort and "outrage" on nonexistent media character constructs that only ever existed as drawings and cell shades and as a construct entity in a creators head space.
All Strike Witches is about is a bunch of magical girls fighting aliens using magi-tech in the 1940's and Girls und Panzer is about high-school girls on a ship partaking in a martial arts sport using tanks. In either series we don't see the girls involved in any kind of sexual interactions with anyone and the most you can argue is a bit of skinship and occasional ecchi scenes between the girls themselves, and even then: so what? A scantily clad or naked high school girl into and of itself does not equal 'pedophile' and that's a ridiculous conclusion to even consider drawing; much less if that girl exists as nothing more then ink lines on paper or cell shaded textures on a computer. I mean hell with strike witches because the girls are in a world and have societies where girls and young women are walking around in pantsu and it's considered a socially acceptable norm (like how bikini's in the 1940's were normalized socially) it's gotten to the point where many of the fans and viewers of the series are frankly desensitized to it and take it as 'normal' and not something to loose your minds over.
As for Kanti Collection: it's a neat idea and concept but frankly as an anime it was horribly executed and is comparatively to strike witches somewhat an inferior Mecha Musume Magical girl military series.
brano13177 Because anime apparently. People like anime. People like Tanks. Mix them up and chances are somebody is gonna like it. Simple as that
Well! It's here...
So...
...Fuck Wargaming...
and
Thank God For Jim Sterling
SHADE A.I Gaming Chamber
*Correction: "Thank God for Jim Fucking Sterling, Son." ;)
LOVE your intro jim...As a matter of fact i love your whole channel...Please NEVER STOP being AWESOME... gaming needs guys like you... Thank god for Jim
I wouldn't have been able to resist pointing out his misspelling of YOU'RE.
Cannot put how amazing Jim looked as an Aristocrat. Like, seriously. I want to see more.
Ruth Snape
Wish granted.
Thanks for making this! From a Homophobic hate speaker!
Foch is so good at this that he even made Wargaming salty. Are we going to see a "TheFochYou Goes Ham!" video some time soon?
#FreeFoch
What's up Foch
Gosh Foch, I sure hope they have some evidence of that extremely defamatory implication that they made. Wouldn't it be terribly ironic if they didn't?
You have said FU WG, I´ve just done that. it is quite easy, just stop playing that game :) .i.. WG
Dear Jim,
In my early days when I had to live out of a van in the cold, snowy winter of Colorado, the one thing that gave me warmth was hearing the Jimquisition theme song (I had just discovered your channel and binge watched it). I feel that nostalgia every time I heard the theme song, and I am sad to see it go.
Thank god for drill queen.
For some reason Jim's humor never landed for me. I enjoyed (and still enjoy) his content, his podcasts, but the content he does for laughs? Never. And that's ok, it's just a different sense of humor than mine.
Why am I mentioning this? Because the Duke segments have me in tears. Those ones landed. And landed hard. I love them. Thanks for adding the actual quotes on screen.
Duke? He is a beautiful Duchess!
Dude, you don't know the fashion of XVIII. It was not uncommon for a gentleman to wear makeup, act softly and carry a sword around in case someone questioned threir manliness!
It's odd, it's completely the opposite for me. His humor has me in stitches, but the Duchess segments feel almost embarrassing for me. Still love Sterling though!
Personally the only bits I've found really funny so far are the Cornflake Homunculus, which I fear says a lot about me.
It's probably because his power level is over 5000. You aren't even able to comprehend it.
So how pissed do you think that weirdo who sent the "0.1%" email is right now? lol, great video man, I'm sad to see the theme go, but I trust your tastes...weirdly enough, I'm sure you'll find something great. Can't wait !
Man I could imagine the WoT community in Facebook, DeviantArt, Twitter, and those shitty forums destroying their miniature tanks in berserk.
Haha, I watched that bit like 4 times just thinking "oh man, this guy who wrote this is definitely watching this right now..." lol good god
He must have some issues as is, raging with anger is probably not uncommon for him.
Let's face it, in a game where you can only be in said 0.1% if you spent a ton of money on premium ammo (which drove me away from this game in the first place). At the very least he must have serious braindamage to be that stupid - heck, it's a wonder he could actually write that message at all.
Though, not sure about Jim's... enaction not promting him being genuinely damaged either. Let's say he is under stress.
What drove me off was that he bragged about being an ESL player..
You know, becausethe competitive scene deserves to have such a mature representation
im not defending Wargaming in any way but idk when you played but it was changed a while ago that premium ammo just cost more normal credits then standard ammo, promoting usage still carefully but also made it so people who dont buy gold can still load some. like i said wargaming is still quite shit and ive quit the game because of the grinding.
Wargaming, Wargaming never changes.
at least until they officially shut down WoT and WoW
Premium ammo is a thing. And it's awfully OP.
And any tank can use it. Even high power tanks.
Help me I got an investment in ammo.
Jim, should you ever return to this subject please, please, please mention that the 0.1% types in that game refer to themselves as "Unicums."
Watch out guys! We got an unicum over here!
We better uninstall quick!
They not only proudly would do so, they looked down their noses at everyone else who didn't have their W/L ratio (bearing in mind its a team game, giving you fourteen other people who have to carry weight too)
You can't make that shit up.
That's beyond hilarious.
'unicum' is also a transliteration from the Russian of 'the unique one'
ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC
OMG! I loved that email reading so much. I nearly had tears!
I like picturing someone taking their kid to the park, seeing Jim in that costume yelling at a camera, and slowly backing away.
"Royston! Royston! Come to the gazebo! I roasted the casual butt good!"
FUcking dying.
I can't stop imagining some mom walking up to this playground with her kids and witnessing a full-grown man dressed as a fop cackling maniacally, screwing her face up a bit, tightening her grip on her kid's head, and promptly turning around and walking feverishly back from where she came.
Good. Teaches the woman how to parade her chroshgobling around on an otherwise great sunday afternoon.
No more Drill Queen? **sheds a manly tear and then a lot more tears**
All good things comes to end one day. big salute to Drill Queen ( ಥ_ಥ)‾/
Nekogami-Crystal sweet emoji
I nearly shit myself laughing at the 17th century gig. Fucking gold. Pure comedy genius and hilariously accurate.
After seeing you in the end montage, and then going back to re-check what you looked like from this ep, I can really see the change with your weight loss. Blood good effort, good on ya mate keep it up!
Sorry Jim, I'm going to have to sue you. That aristocrat bit caused me great physical pain when it made my sides literally split.
Edit: By recommendation of top men I also wish to issue a copyright complaint so that no one else gets injured. You should be thanking me for this.
junkmutt I'm sure Leonard can give you a referral to one of his colleagues.
Dude. Don't you know ANYTHING about how this works? You need to threaten a copyright complaint.
"Royston! Royston! Fetch the police! The filthy casual wants to sue me."
I believe you mean the constable, yes?
i think he laughed so hard until he injured himself. chill guys. it is a joke
WoT in tarnation
Hejty Skočdopole ................fuck, that was clever.
Hejty Skočdopole Well said.
Michael Chiappi no u
You Wot mate? Why are you telling someone to commit suicide over a joke?
Hejty Skočdopole you win best pun of the week, sir. As well as best meme application of the fifteen minutes
They once had a package deal for premium vehicle and in game currency as a part of a Humble Bundle for their warship game. But after the game released from Beta they removed the Humble Content from players accounts falsely claiming it was only for access during the Beta. Humble Bundle stepped in the WG shits refunded the players.
"A top 0.1% player" That was the best part
As a [potentially former] player of World of Tanks I'll leave this comment for those that wish to know more about the economy of the game and why the Chrysler is such a pay to win tank.
*Overview of the in game economy in WoT and what costs real money:*
In WoT there are 10 tiers of tanks, you progress through tier 1 to 10 playing to earn experience to research modules (such as a better gun) and tanks. The progression in the tech tree (more so for tanks, not modules) is somewhat logarithmic (fairly fast to get to tier 4, starts to slow down at tier 5, fairly slow once you're at tier 7). So evidently people spend a good amount of time in the higher tiers to grind and because there are more players that know what they're doing. The game has a currency called credits, which is used to buy modules/tanks from the tech tree, ammunition, repair tanks after battle, etc. You receive credits from battles (amount based on if you win or lose and how well you did). Once you reach the higher tiers you can start to lose credits because when you do make a profit from a battle it's not enough to offset the amount you lose in other battles. You can buy 2 things to make more credits. Either you pay for a premium account (earn more credits and xp in any tank), which only lasts a certain amount of time, or you pay for a premium tank (such as the Chrysler) which earns more credits, and can really help train a crew for another tank. There's also 2 ways to pay for premium accounts/tanks real world money, or the gold in game currency (there are premium tanks that can only be bought with real money). Gold, the premium currency in WoT, can be earned by playing in tournaments, playing clan wars (if your clan chooses to give you gold), or by completing select missions that reward you with a low tier premium tank (if you already have the tank you get the gold that tank costs instead). You can also pay money to buy gold (paying money for gold is the only fast way to get the amount needed for a premium account/tank). Premium ammunition can either be payed for with gold, or with credits (usually 4 or 5 times more expensive than standard rounds I'd say).
*Issue with the Chrysler:*
The Chrysler is a premium tank, one that you can only buy with money. It has very good armor for it's tier and has no frontal weak spots. So in order to damage one frontally (in a lot of tanks it would see) you need to fire premium ammunition (some tanks it can see won't penetrate at all even with premium ammunition), which you will probably pay for with credits. It's too expensive to be firing all that premium ammunition so you either have to pay for a premium account/tank (probably paying money for it) or you don't fire premium ammunition making it easier for teams with a Chrysler on them to win.
When you're in the Chrysler you'll probably be firing some premium ammunition yourself because the penetration is not good on the standard rounds. This makes it more difficult to make a profit, so on top of your premium tank you may also want to pay for a premium account to earn credits faster.
So if you're against a Chrysler you need to pay to win. If you're in a Chrysler you are paying to win.
Quite the devious money grab, I must say.
Somehow the same people who came up with this are fuckwits when it comes to community realations and copyright law.
Just want to add that:
1. No, you don't need to shoot premium tanks to actually fight tanks with good armor. There is a black magic called "flanking" which is definitely possible, especially when many heavy tanks players over extend themselves and therefore could be easily flanked.
2. You could finance high tier games by playing well, or by playing in mid tier where it will be always profitable anyway.
So yeah, indeed WG free to play mechanic is not the best, but it was acceptable. They could actually improve it by changing how premium ammo works, but instead they destroyed it by starting to make premium tanks in par or even better than standard tanks, which destroyed the meta.
They are very good at squeezing every last drop out of everything and anything, the problem is they don't give a damn about how they treat their community. The 9.18 update was pretty much universally panned by the community, changing SPG's (the least liked vehicle class in the game) in what was supposed to be a nerf that ended up buffing them. They also butchered the Light Tank line, and the 'improved matchmaking' that was promised made literally no difference whatsoever.
But they released it anyways.
zeroyuki922 I know you can flank, and I know you can grind credits in lower tiers. I was just trying to give a quick general overview of it. Besides, most decent players wouldn't let themselves be flanked (unless your team has already been over run) and a lot of people dislike playing low tiers.
Thanks, it's a little hard to follow all this since I've never played, and after hearing that I'm no longer too tempted to try it.
9:58 Why is Granny Goodness yelling at me about tanks?
Now I want him to amass an elite squad of Furies. We'll start with Laura Kate Dale, the Queen of Butts, and build from there.
Shit, now I really want to see him play Granny Goodness for real.
Jim, go into theater. You got a knack for it man. Your 17th century Ursula impression is spot fucking on.
coming from Jingles vid. 17th century Jim had me in tears and earned you a new sub. You are hilarious and informative xD. Thanks for standing up against censoring^^
17th century aristocrat NEEDS to become a part of this channel for eternity :D
This, minus "I'd never thought I'd say this"
Agreed. I'd tap that.
No, that guise was CANCER.
And Wargaming might be shitty, but arson?
Matthew Abban you're right..we need more love
Still a better Joker than Jared Leto
This new character is delightfully traumatizing
I allready fapped 10x to it.
The eyes terrify me.
Jim's usually wearing either glasses, a mask or a bag of cornflakes, so being subject to his unfiltered gaze scorches my unworthy casual-gamer soul.
Oh, Duc Amiel du H'ardcore is a splendid personality to be around. It is too bad that his highness is having a feud with Sir Foch at the moment. But we all know whose side the King of Cyprus is on!
He is not a character, he is REAL
Yeah, not my proudest wank; well, not since watching The Golden Girls marathon.
Jim I just found your Channel and I am so glad man you put a smile on my face I truly enjoy your style of making videos keep up the great work and that 17th century Aristocrat bit God damn that was funny shit!
Thank you for using the Girls und Panzer promotional art
EDIT: THANK YOU FOR USING THE GIRLS UND PANZER CLIP TOO I'M SORRY FOR EVER UNSUBBING FROM YOU JIM STERLING
I usually "watch" these videos while working and can only occasionally glance at the visuals; can you give an exact timestamp as to where he uses the clip?
@@SuperfieldCrUn 9:21
Chains of Love started playing on the TV's music channel while watching this. I shit you not.
Dakota Moore that shit made my day
"I am a top 0.1% player.... I roasted the casual!"
I can't stop laughing
I have to admit I keep watching this video not beacause I perpendicularly like the subject, I just love 17th century Aristocrat Jim Starling, or as I have dubbed him Sir Jim IV, Lord of the Gazebo.
"Answer the Question." I see what you did there.
Also, Decap Attack music on the second half of the video. You're a sweetheart, Jim.
I am going to miss hearing Drill Queen on this show.
We can all agree on this, but this proves that Jim has good tste this song has been his theme music for so long, im curious at what he will choose next ( really need to check twitter more i never knew of this change coming)
It's a risky move, Grange Hill was never the same after it changed its classic theme tune...
... I'm actually really enthusiastic, as I've never liked the song at all. ^^;
But to each their own - cool if you like it, and unfortunate that it's changing, for y'all.
Maybe he'll just use Chains of love to make Copyright deadlock easier.
You know nothing Jim Fucking Snowling Son my Ratatta is in the top 0.1% of Rattata.
I’m posting this here, comfortable in the knowledge that you, Jim, will never see this.
I love you, dude.
I fucking love you.
The straight up balls edge honesty that you play this character with.
Your scathing, uncompromising assault on all things bullshittery within the gaming industry.
I fucking love you
Thank you, for being you.
And thank god for you too.
17 century Jim Fucking Sterling... I didn't know I wanted this
My hat is off to your fantastic performance in the gazebo.
Well done sir!
Jim, I hope for the children's sake that the gazebo was in your back yard and not in a park. Those children don't need exposed to Mr Hardcore like this
Cory P. Pretty sure he says "outside in public" so uh
The poor children
***** idk why you felt like saying that much was necessary in this case
***** Easy there Ghost Rider, I was making a joke at the character being named Duke De Hardcore or whatever it was when he brought it out last week. The joke was don't expose children to hardcore gamers. (The star fox and dark souls shouldn't have easy modes type) Like what that character represents.
Cory P. It's not really hardcore so much as toxic elitist on a high horse from how he's played it up
Wonderful sendoff rendition. Love the sax!
V.nice! I'm very excited about the changes Jim. Thank you for the content.