Is that dude trolling? Or is he very much an individual?
It's an edit. That dude did not appear on television.
awww
It's been driving me mental all weekend trying to remember what other video I've seen him in. It's the fast, under the breath "I don't know". I know for a fact I've heard it before with similar fast silly talking.
(FYI, I use Adblock, but have Escapist Greenlisted because I like Jim Sterling and Yahtzee enough to put up with advertisements.)
I think it's been a year since Jim left the escapist, right around when they dumped a lot of their content creators. I just remember going to their site and noting that there hadn't been any Jimquisition, LRR, or other updates for several weeks.
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Konami. Upset that Jim Sterling said bad things about one of their games once.
Konami. Constantly poking and prodding Jim Sterling and wonder why he constantly seems annoyed with their shit.
then something started changing in the environment there, maybe new management, I don't know, and creators started leaving
it came to a head when gamergate got going and the people in charge the of site sided heavily with the them, and anybody who disagreed either saw the writing on the wall and left voluntarily while they still owned the rights to their work (jim sterling, miracle of sound) or unceremoniously got the boot and had to rebuild their brand from scratch (moviebob)
in this instance, they weren't trying to take his video down (though they've tried that before)
they were trying to claim ownership of the video to make money from ads
which really stuck in jim's craw because he takes a lot of pride in only getting money from his patreon and keeping his videos/podcasts/website/etc ad-free
then something started changing in the environment there, maybe new management, I don't know, and creators started leaving
it came to a head when gamergate got going and the people in charge the of site sided heavily with the them, and anybody who disagreed either saw the writing on the wall and left voluntarily while they still owned the rights to their work (jim sterling, miracle of sound) or unceremoniously got the boot and had to rebuild their brand from scratch (moviebob)
This may or may not be because they had regular problems with paying the people producing that content. In one of their latest podcasts Paul from LoadingReadyRun took a couple swings with a wiffle ball bat at the escapist, basically pointing out that they kept failing to pay for content delivered, or changed the amount they'd pay for it, but he was also trying to keep it professional.
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It's been driving me mental all weekend trying to remember what other video I've seen him in. It's the fast, under the breath "I don't know". I know for a fact I've heard it before with similar fast silly talking.
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This is my favourite one.
Satans..... hints.....
They knew what would happen.
(FYI, I use Adblock, but have Escapist Greenlisted because I like Jim Sterling and Yahtzee enough to put up with advertisements.)
So a guy at work was talking about how he didn't like seafood and I said "oh, so you're not an aficionado?"
I think it's been a year since Jim left the escapist, right around when they dumped a lot of their content creators. I just remember going to their site and noting that there hadn't been any Jimquisition, LRR, or other updates for several weeks.
everyone worth a fuck has long since left or been fired from their site, and they've become little more than a den for GGers
Konami. Constantly poking and prodding Jim Sterling and wonder why he constantly seems annoyed with their shit.
they used to have a lot of great content!
then something started changing in the environment there, maybe new management, I don't know, and creators started leaving
it came to a head when gamergate got going and the people in charge the of site sided heavily with the them, and anybody who disagreed either saw the writing on the wall and left voluntarily while they still owned the rights to their work (jim sterling, miracle of sound) or unceremoniously got the boot and had to rebuild their brand from scratch (moviebob)
From scratch huh
Well the dude seems to be doing really well for himself, good for him
(I never heard of him in his Escapist days)
but the dude was making two videos a week for them for years and he doesn't have the rights to any of that work
I don't know what they really expect to gain from this, considering no one has successfully managed to really screw him over in any indefinite manner.
You need only point to Digital Homicide's ongoing tantrum towards Jim to see where this sort of tactic leads.
they were trying to claim ownership of the video to make money from ads
which really stuck in jim's craw because he takes a lot of pride in only getting money from his patreon and keeping his videos/podcasts/website/etc ad-free
This may or may not be because they had regular problems with paying the people producing that content. In one of their latest podcasts Paul from LoadingReadyRun took a couple swings with a wiffle ball bat at the escapist, basically pointing out that they kept failing to pay for content delivered, or changed the amount they'd pay for it, but he was also trying to keep it professional.
it was publicly known at the time that it was an issue, too