SliceSabre
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"Have a wank."
Jim always has the best advice.
Jim always has the best advice.
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Jimquisition: Delayed Reaction (August 22, 2016)
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He changed from being a raving right wing lunatic to being fairly normal ages ago now.
themagicalkitsune
Member
It's strange to hear someone say game ef ay qs. I always say gamefucks
It is quite ridiculous how angry and how people throw verbal insults all over the place about this stuff.
I mean I can understand people being disappointed over XV. It's been a 10 years wait, and just when people thought they may finally get it, another delay. Getting so angry and crazy over it is just insane though, even more so when it's not even at the people who caused the delay - it's baffling!
I've been asking myself what happened to people for a long time though. It's not unique to hype. I mean you look at how people act in games and stuff. Back when I first started playing online, somewhere around when the first WoW came out, I rarely experienced that kind of bad behaviour. Not in WoW, not in Counter Strike Source which I briefly played(I mean yeah there was some comments but it wasn't any where near as bad), don't remember it in Halo 2 either. Now you get people being dicks in at least 50% of MOBA matches/PVP matches/Shooters.
I mean I can understand people being disappointed over XV. It's been a 10 years wait, and just when people thought they may finally get it, another delay. Getting so angry and crazy over it is just insane though, even more so when it's not even at the people who caused the delay - it's baffling!
I've been asking myself what happened to people for a long time though. It's not unique to hype. I mean you look at how people act in games and stuff. Back when I first started playing online, somewhere around when the first WoW came out, I rarely experienced that kind of bad behaviour. Not in WoW, not in Counter Strike Source which I briefly played(I mean yeah there was some comments but it wasn't any where near as bad), don't remember it in Halo 2 either. Now you get people being dicks in at least 50% of MOBA matches/PVP matches/Shooters.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I assume people were mad at NIntendo rather than the press reporting the delay. Because people generally didn't behave like fucking morons then.
Nope. Look back at how you behaved when you were a child or teenager. It was probably nothing like this weird frenzy that accompanies every major consumer product.
There's an odd infantilisation going on culturally right now. It's tempting to point the finger at consumerism in general, as an infantilised me-focus has always been intrinsic to being a good consumer. But the infantilising of the last couple of years is so much more sudden and ravenous than it was during the happy nineties, neoliberal utopia of a pre-9/11 world.
Part of it's marketing. The marketing industries learned a lot from the last couple of Harry Potter novels and have basically refined it over the last decade, where each product that comes out is marketed in such a way that positions it as a cultural phenomenon and, if you aren't interested in it, there's something wrong with you. The way Star Wars is marketed is the current epitome of that, but there are so many microcosms of that generating hype from all angles. For the videogame industry it was probably Halo 3 which was the first to use these techniques, but now every AAA title has access to them.
It's troubling anyway, because really, what's the endpoint of this?
Dreams-Visions
Member
I was there then. People will always freak out about a subjective game score for a beloved franchise. Especially back then when System Wars was literally a clown fiesta of sanctioned trolling among all posters.
The subject of this discussion is people freaking out over factual news. How simply reporting the objective truth (like a game delay in the case of Final Fantasy or a feature not being in the product in the case of NMS) sends people off the deep end.
It's easy to blame children and teenagers for anonymous childish behaviour, but anonymity brings the worst out in adults too. I'd guess the people moaning about FF are far less likely to be kids/teenagers who weren't even born in the series heyday than it is to be adults who just like talking shit online and take their hobby a bit too seriously. I'm always amazed at how people can take a product delay as a personal insult, as if it's the highlight of their year and their time with the game is being robbed.
Pilgrimzero
Member
He real drama will be when people finally get the game and see for themselves what a pile of shit it is.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
It's easy to be a complete dick on the internet.
Websites have, at least, to worry about reputation, but the reporters also put themselves at risk, both their careers and, as we've seen, their personal safety and mental health because of the pricks who are able to hide behind anonymous comments and handles. Randomers online? Nah, they can do what they want because they're not accountable.
Websites have, at least, to worry about reputation, but the reporters also put themselves at risk, both their careers and, as we've seen, their personal safety and mental health because of the pricks who are able to hide behind anonymous comments and handles. Randomers online? Nah, they can do what they want because they're not accountable.
R_thanatos
Member
Everything's chip fault !
I dunno, people have been calling it a pile of shit without playing the final product for years now
Starwolf_UK
Member
I wonder if being European and when I was younger getting shat upon a lot when it came to game releases has just given me a thick skin when it comes to these delays.
http://smashboards.com/threads/lets-end-the-delay.137150/#post-3719849
As soon as I heard Jim say Gamestop I couldn't help but think of this legendary forum post about Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
http://smashboards.com/threads/lets-end-the-delay.137150/#post-3719849
At the time Americans were freaking out about that delay Europe didn't even have a release date
Moon_frogger
Member
I mean, he doesn't even yell for one thing. He's extremely articulate and intelligent and everything he says is very very careful considered, in stark contrast to 99 percent of popular gaming YouTube channels.
How else would you say it?
Portugeezer
Member
I remember his FF XIII review, but is there something you could link to? His style in general is more out there, but I never got the impression of him "going after" Final Fantasy any more that someone being critical of bad games.
Sanctuary
Member
It's an acronym. You actually pronounce acronyms as words, not as individual letters.
blankempathy
Member
I feel like outrage like this has been fairly normal on message boards and the comment section but I don't know if it's just me but lately that outrage has turned into death threats, personal attacks on Twitter and ddos attacks on sites themselves. If people want to vent on a forum then fine whatever you can avoid it if you choose but when that outrage moves to the next level that's a problem. I admittedly like to vent as well but I can also control my anger like a rational adult. Some of these people aren't remotely rational.
How'd you pronounce BDSM?
BibiMaghoo
Member
Zombiecorns...
It may stick.
It may stick.
That's an initialism, not an acronym.
This really pissed me off
Muffdraul
Member
FBI "f'beye"? "f'bee"?
UFO "uffoe?"
CIA "see ya"?
Some people say "facks" some people say "eff ay kyoo." Neither is wrong.
Intialisms ARE acronyms.
glaringradio
Member
I mean I like Jim and all, but his thinking that Square are delaying this for a good reason... I'm trying to stay positive, but I can't help think this game is going to release in 3 months time and still be a total technical nightmare
brandonh83
Banned
They've earned it. People are babies.
It can still be more polished, and I'll gladly wait for more polish.
I find this backlash amusing if it's to avoid a day one patch, which everyone loves about the new age of consoles
No, they are both abbreviations. They are distinct from each other.
Audioboxer
Member
Thanks Jim.
Had a good laugh at the crazy.
Also good use of the word "fuck" a lot.
Had a good laugh at the crazy.
Also good use of the word "fuck" a lot.
I don't catalogue every episode in my head, so I don't know off hand, but the last two have just been blasting some amorphous unspecific bad actor -- Groups of fanboys/trolls. You chastised trolls on the internet and last video you yelled at people who were overzealous defenders of No Man's Sky.
I don't personally find these sorts of videos very compelling, because it's already well known that people on the internet are horrible. There's no face to it so it's unsatisfying. Fuck Konami, by comparison, is satisfying because I know who and what Konami is. There's something to direct my anger against and thus some kind of cathartic pay off. "People on the internet being awful" just feels empty as a topic.
My 2 cents
Corleth the Fey
Member
That fucking Metal Gear is certainly improved with the music from Thomas the Tank Engine. Great work, Jimothy.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Magnet_Man
Member
The idea is that "GameFAQs" is where you go for "game facts". Very ironic, I know.
I think that's a good analysis and I think it also goes both ways - hype train and hate train.
Another good video to highlight the shity folk that are so emotionally tied to gaming as "gamers". Only thing I would mention is that there are literal clickbait sites, still claiming HL3's impending reveal / release every month, as they did with FFXV and other crap people search for. I'm pretty sure that isn't really the purview of the video, but I still find it funny that such sites do exist
Muffdraul
Member
The term acronym is more encompassing than you are apparently willing to admit.
Aretak
Member
All I can recall is his FFXIII review where he, one hundred percent correctly, noted that it was a steaming pile of shit.
lol
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