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The channel is called The Jimquisition, and it used to be a quite prolific channel for gaming and games criticism. She came out as non-binary and started going by Stephanie (or Jim Stephanie) several years ago, which caused harassment from a lot of online chuds. Her takes on the industry and games development are still solid, as well as her politics. It's just that she tends to focus on the same pet peeves in the same style of commentary, so I stopped watching after a few years. I actually believe it's not cope because she's been consistent in that regard, and she gets most of her income from Patreon rather than YouTube.

Sorry, Geerling.

She also misrepresents and outright lies basically every time she talks about "big academia", but yes that too I guess.

Her mission is to advance an anti-intellectual agenda to further divide people and keep us stupid, and she's lied many many times in pursuit of that goal.

I never watched more than a few videos, he rubbed me the wrong way from the start acting like an expert on things that he clearly wasn't, banking on the assumption that his audience isn't either. That kind of attitude isn't usually confined to one aspect of your output so I'm not surprised.

Yep same. They need better editing that cuts down on the banter and in-jokes.

I find GN's scandal-chasing for clicks very tiring, but I still appreciate the no-nonsense work they put out. There's not many tech channels doing these time-intensive, actually data-driven deep dives.

CinemaSins is outright garbage, though it takes watching some EPs on movies you actually know to see that. Most people hate-watch EPs about movies they'd never watch, so the formula works I guess.

CinemaWins gets that watch time now.

Stephanie Sterling. I like her still, I don't share many of the complaints that other people field. But her content just didn't really evolve as my preferences did, and after years of the same complaints it felt like not a good use of my time.

She's said many times she doesn't mind dwindling view counts as long as she gets to make content on her own terms, so that's fair.

It's just "a fender bender" to only one of the parties. Beautiful display of the no fucks given attitude that's all too common on the road.

In Assassins Creed Black Flag, I ran into an optional encounter with a unique hostile ship that I was completely unprepared for, as I hadn't spent any money on upgrades for my own ship. So I tried to quit and reload. Well, the game autosaves at the start of the encounter. So I turned around to leave - and I get desynchronized. Great. I love being locked into optional unbalanced content!

So I had no other choice than to try to play the encounter. Except even with good positioning it was unbeatable as they had mortars, and a single broadside would melt my ship. But... there's one special cannon attack aimed straight ahead. It does almost no damage, but stuns the enemy ship for as long as it takes to reload. There's no way to turn fast enough to use any other weapon though. So I just plonked behind him too close for the mortars, and kept stunning this huge ship with the same attack for about 15 minutes, so it was never able to hit me with anything. We just sat there, neither ship moving or using any significant attack, until the 890th small cannonball upon which it suddenly burst into flames and sank.

Right, but costing them money while having it on the record that they lied is something. If you have the time and money yourself