Don’t mind me, I’m just rolling around in all this sweet, sweet money I get for negging on NFTs, paid by... paid by... um... you know... the anti-NFT lobby!

I was never put off by the Militarist appearence of early Jimquisitions, because by the time I discovered their videos, the want-to-be-Dictator’s podium was full of He-man action figures and sexy, sexy dinosaurs so it was obvious that it wasn’t supposed to be taken as a genuine ethos.

I couldn’t stand The Jimquisition when it was on the Escapist, but after they took their show on the road to YouTube, it felt like it hit its stride. Less edge for edge’s sake, more pointed critique. The Jimquisition of the GamerGate years was an absolutely essential counter dialogue, and for me that was the peak of…

Jim Stephanie Sterling, thank god for them, is finally getting their due. Definitely one of the most entertaining personalities in the gametubeosphere, and gloriously so. I wasn’t a big fan of their The Escapist era content, but the Magenta Magician era has been so iconic.

It was with some reluctance I finally unsubscribed from Sterling’s channel recently; They do important, critical work speaking to the problems almost overpowering the AAA games industry; but equally, there was a critical mass to their videos that made it hard to wanna keep watching. To enjoy their videos. The…

I have become a huge fan of Jim Stephanie Sterling’s work over the last few years, after ignoring them for a long time out of the assumption they were just another reactionary, ranty person on Youtube. Man, I was wrong.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: modern Sterling videos let me imagine what it’d be like if Elton John reviewed video games, and I absolutely mean that as a compliment.

For some people, there is no solution, the outrage is the point. And for a lot of others, there is no solution other than “Erase yourself, because white people have had the spotlight for too long. Stop creating, so non-white people can be more represented.”

You’re one of two people in this entire comment section that is blatantly okay with this horseshit “article”. Maybe step back and realize if you and one or two other people are trying to “call out” an entire comment section, maybe you’re the one with the bad take? This isn’t appropriation, this is major league, cringe…

I’m a little confused as to the conclusion here. If they had dressed/acted in way that would make you think “they were connected to this world,” that would have of course been castigated for appropriation. To treat it more or less like any other fantasy setting, they “they fail to present us with anything of…

Ah yes, the semi-annual hyperventilating article about how a group of real-life friends who started streaming their hobby should replace half of their friend group with random people to meet a diversity quota, and how white people are forbidden from exploring anything except “Generic European” cultures even when they…

“It is no longer just a group of friends. It was never just a game.”

“One of the core concepts of Orientalism as a field of study is that even the most well-meaning scholars from the Western world are unable to present objective truths about the Orient. The Western view of the Orient is forever tarnished by the legacy of colonialism and fictionalized history.”

“...set in the fictionalized world of Marquet”
For clarity- Marquet isn’t a whole new campaign setting/world. It is a particular place within the existing Critical Role campaign setting. I find the statement that “it’s highly likely that Wizards of the Coast will release official Marquet-branded content which will…

A bunch of white people start streaming their home game 5 years ago, become wildly popular, and now they’re not allowed to do anything that anyone else playing D&D are allowed to do ever again.

You said it yourself - this might be a cynical, bad faith interpretation. That right there is an admission that you know there’s probably a perfectly reasonable counter-argument that you conveniently omitted from your article in an effort to steer the narrative one way: the click generating, socially inflaming way.

I understand people’s reticence to this, especially if you belong to the cultures this particular fantasy-inspired campaign exists in, but if your example boils down to them wearing some costumes in a silly promo piece that explorers used to wear, then that’s... not a lot.

So no matter how sensitive or respectful they might be, white people should never explore anything outside of their own culture and heritage? It is WILD how the far left is swinging all the way back around to the idea that segregation might be a good idea

Imagine a group of allies and progressives being like “hey we want to explore some other cultures in a fun and not appropriation way so let’s hire some people to guide us on that way and present it to people” and standing on the sidelines and being like NO YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!!!

No one is ‘so mad’, it’s just like 20 people on Twitter. I’ve seen just as many people be happy to be represented and feel seen by the campaign.