Now for the actual video itself.
Starts off with him talking about wrestling again and showing off the bruise he got from it which wow that looks really painful. You entered into a physical sport and got a bruise, what a shocker. Funnily enough he has so many filters on that you would hardly be able to see it if he didn't point to it.
Ok so now he starts talking about the content of the video and the thumbnail does seem to be fairly accurate, it will be a video on deadlock with some random bethesda doom news awkwardly shoved in the corner.
I hate self deprecating humour, it's not funny, you're just kinda sad. This isn't banter with the boys, you are just being genuine here when you say you have no future. Self deprecating humour is just the lowest slop commentary channel tier humour.
We then get more random old tv show intros because those intros were much better than Jim's and he just wants us to know how talentless he is in comparison.
The verge did nothing wrong and then says that it probably has also done wrong. I mean I didn't expect jim to be on the anti journo side.
Jim seems to think that valve doesn't create games and only prints money probably csgo skins and shit. Half life alyx was released only a few years ago (a perfectly reasonable time frame for game development as jim fully well knows) and was reviewed at 93%. Vavle do make games still, and they make good ones. 3-4 years for game development is not them sitting back to print money, that's just called game development takes time. You should be happy that valve are not rushing out games, I thought you hated crunch times and forced yearly releases?
Jim's editing remains dog shit. Random pngs that take even less effort than the average pngtuber just moving around and the most basic of zooms. I could make a jim video on powerpoint probably.
So the verge did nothing wrong was how he started this video, he has now explained the situation. A journo went in and got access to an open playtest with rules saying don't share information on the game. That's a very simple rule and I don't think too uncommon for open playtests to ask for no media coverage because it's still a work in progress. I don't think this is an unreasonable ask. Yet the journo read those rules and wrote an article on it anyway. And somehow I'm meant to feel bad that he got banned? If you don't follow tos you get banned, is this newsworthy?
Jim then goes on to read random comments left on the article. He takes these comments completely out of context, it's just a quote. I don't know how many likes these have, I don't know if they have a load of people in the replies calling them retarded. I'm just presented with a random quote by someone that I'm meant to think is some massive infraction for some reason.
Jim defends kotaku. I have nothing to say other than fucking kotaku.
He's right that most people will have forgotten about this in a few months time though. At the end of the day it is an entire nonstarter. A guy broke a game's tos and got banned. This isn't news and it certainly isn't interesting. So why are you making a video on it?
Jim is still 100% totally jokingly seething about people saying he reviewed botw too low. Yea sure you're bringing it up ironically but all jokes are based in some sort of truth. Though I think 7/10 is probably fair for botw, I think 7-8/10 is pretty accurate in terms of fair review scores ie 5 is average not 7 is average.
The second commenter that he is mocking is just correct. The journo was shown and acknowledges that the game said to not talk about it publicly. He went on to make an article on it. He very much did fuck around and find out, admittedly in a tiny degree because it's a fucking game ban on a (seemingly free) game that you could probably just make a new account for. Regardless of jim reading it in a funny quirky voice it is scummy to write an article on a game that explicitly says to not do that. This isn't investigative journalism and exposing things. This is just talking about a game before the devs feel it is in a place to be reviewed.
Jim wants to say that the sentiment is taking things out of proportion. Which yea it kinda is from what little I've seen. But at the same time most people are just making jokes about it on twitter, you're the one making a video about it pretending that it's gamergate 2.0. You're reading the comments on the article, of course they're going to be bad. The people that are retarded enough to go to an article to leave comments like that are obviously going to be the most mentally inept no lifes. You went to the place where things would be the most negative and are surprised that things are negative. It's like joining the kkk and being surprised that they're kinda racist.
'weve been here before and the situation hasnt changed', yes jim, we have been here before, countless times, you've made this video more times than i can count.
'good journalism is reporting public interest over corporate interest' the only actually kinda based thing jim has ever said in the past 5 years. He's not wrong. He's just woefully in the wrong context. This isn't some corporate coverup, it's just devs asking people to not go talking about the game too much because it's not finished or whatever. This isn't hard hitting investigative journalism it's a fucking game review.
Jim thinks that its ok because an nda wasn't signed. There was no nda, that's why the guy was banned from the game not fucking sued. He broke the game's tos, something that exists exclusively within the game, and was therefore punished solely within the game. He did not break a legal agreement, hence why there was no legal action. Break tos, get banned, this isn't complicated.
Jim wants games journalism that breaks the mold, stuff that doesn't play it safe. Which once again is kinda based, just not in the way jim is about to phrase it. It's also very fucking rich that the games journalist who has made the same 5 videos on loop for half a decade is hoping for people to take risks. Those in glass houses. Jim claims that his risky mold breaking 'journalism' got him blacklisted many times. Probably true. But because you're just not very good at your job and no one cares what you have to say, not because you're assange. He also claims that didn't affect him at all, his youtube channel is currently dying.
Jim then goes on to eat an onion like an apple. Fitting because shrek also did that and they sure do look pretty similar. No offense to shrek though. I'd actually listen to that guys opinion on games. Then possibly the worst take he's ever had is that he thinks raw onion tastes nice. No one likes raw onion, it takes like shit and the texture ruins almost everything that it's put on. I respect cooks who can't cook onions about as much as I respect jim.
Jim goes off about acab which I'd normally take the piss out of him for, but after the past month in England I'll leave it out just this one time.
Jim wants to say that corporations don't care about the support of the public, this is bullshit. The public bullied cdpr into fixing their game, they've bullied valve into adding new content to tf2 and css2. Corporations do care about the public opinion, obviously they do, if the public hate you then they're not going to buy your shit. It might be motivated by money, but they still care about your opinion.
Jim you should not be bringing up the dictionary after showing photos of yourself, especially when friend and female are very close to each other.
Jim seems to think that for something to care about you it must be a person and be mutual. Idk about you guys but I'd consider my dog to be my friend, she cares about me and it's definitely mutual. A therapist cares about you, but they're not really your freind either.
The love fanbases have for the companies is not a one way street, sure it is not equally reciprocated. But it's not one way by any means. How the fuck is it one way? They made the fucking game jim. That's pretty big. You can't have a fanbase without a game to be a fan of.
Jims back on thinking that the only way for the journo to be in the wrong is if there was an nda. That's just more bullshit. once again if you go against something the game explicitly asks you for then you can't be surprised that you get banned. Games ask people not to cheat, by jims logic those cheaters should be being sued i guess?
Jim does say that there's no honour in games journalism which man I thought broken clocks we're meant to only be right twice a day, so far this is the third time in this video he's said something agreeable.
Why has this video on a valve game turned into another pitchford hateboner? Yea we get it he's a shitty person, can you at least fucking try to stay on topic though? Also jim taking the piss out of randy's squirt porn magic hits a lot less hard when, well, you've seen jim.
Jim once again admits that this situation is not very serious, so why are you making a video on it? He still thinks that the hate towards the journalist is disproportionate but by the looks of it he was mostly looking in the comments of the article that would only be used by the people that hate the journalist the most.
Jim seems to think that there was no ethical issues? I mean there kinda was though. Not massive ones, but still, it's a bit of a scummy move to do something that the devs don't want you to do. Not a hard concept to grasp. Write an article about it and then publish it when the embargo lifts maybe? Jim then obviously brings up gamergate which I'm still not sure why that's a bad thing. Games journalism is a joke and people were rightly pissed off about it? Jim in this video said that there's no honour in games journalism but is now defending it from criticism?
Yea there have been leaks reported in games journalism before. Remember those gta 6 leaks a while ago that were getting constantly dmca strikes? There was another game like that too recently, I remember someone's channel being deleted because they talked about some leaks without even showing anything. Leaking will get dmcas, it's not like there's never been consequences for it. And in the grand scheme of things, he was banned from one fucking game. That's it. This isn't news. This is keemstar level idea of 'news'
Jim again says that the gaming community makes mountains of molehills. In a video where he does that, on a channel dedicated to doing exactly that, by a man who does nothing but exactly that. Those in glass houses jim.
Jim finally admits that this was just not enough to make a video on, halfway through the video. He's admitting that the entire thing is retarded. I'll sum up my opinion on it. The journalist broke an agreement in game and got banned for it. I don't feel bad for him. People then got pissed off because it's the internet. I remember hearing about this a week or so ago, I heard nothing about it the day after because it's just nothing. The time it takes to watch this entire video is probably 10x longer than it would take me to read all the comments on the article. Journo retarded deserved ban. Simple. Ok so he admits that the journo drama is probably long enough to be it's own video. Yet he has already written another script. So why not make it two videos? Two topics is a strange midpoint. You're not making one focused video, and you're not doing a weekly roundup. Split this video in half and upload the bethesda shit tomorrow. 'There is no shortfall he says', can we crowdfund him a mirror. You're full of them. There's also a longfall, we call that one socialblade.
