I guess there was another push after their Hairy Hogwarts video.
I haven't said the "T" word for a few weeks now, just to see how long I could go, but I was very tempted to say it here because the tribalistic defense of Harry Potter in the internet wilderness has been downright feral lately, moreso than before.
They address this in the vid, citing YouTube's recommendation algo for not putting all of their videos in the subscription feed every time for a steady stream of people who still comment like they just found out Sterling is trans.
I don't think it's solely the phobes and the chuds either.
Given their anti crAAApitalism stance, which I'm sure doesn't make advertisers happy, Google basicaly being a propaganistic arm of the State that artifically boosts MSM shite, I wouldn't put it past them to have Stephanie on a negative algorithm or even slowly auto-unsubscribing people. The consistant rate of unsubs points to an algo.
I've been following their stuff since they started doing Jimquisition, I read all the reviews they did, and I still regularly relisten to old Podtoid and other podcasts they've been on. It's interesting how the gender stuff has kind of always been there, like even years and years ago you could see them trying to break out of their egg with little "jokes" or things cis people likely wouldn't pick up on. I only stopped listening to their main podcast because the other hosts keep bringing up Tencent as an excuse to whine about China. But having to talk about the gaming industry and necessarily rub shoulders with Gamers sounds like hell, it's just an extreme microcosm of capitalism at large. Everything sucks and you're the dumbass for caring. But on the other hand the spiteful poor person in me thinks I'd love to complain about only having nearly a million subs and making 10k a month.
Dismal jesters is still my all time favorite podcast. I never listened to the follow up, do you know if it was any good?
I'm happy there's more lil weirdos who like dismal jesters/podtoid on this site.
Also as Doghouse Charlie said... Boston's favorite son is excellent
I am glad to hear it. I was actually afraid to listen to it because I was worried it would be bad somehow. I think I'll listen to it tomorrow :)
You've been missing out on a lot of classics. Rise of Crabnuts, Bugs Bunny Hentai, Fine Pizza Ass. I listen to them all on shuffle at work all the time.
I thought they were annoying and never liked them, including before their transition when I actually formed this opinion
Same, they tried to be your typical contrarian internet asshole, the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 7/10 review was the peak of that, and I say that as someone that doesn't even like most Nintendo games.
I actually find their more recent videos and reviews much better than the past ones. In fact I'm probably the opposite of the phenomenon they're talking about, I subscribed to their channel after they came out haha.
they tried to be your typical contrarian internet asshole, the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 7/10 review was the peak of that
Some people didn't like the weapon breaking mechanics and gave a subjective opinion, which is what reviewers do when they rate games. :I-was-saying:
Again, that was a subjective opinion that Sterling received months of doxxing, harassment, and threats for.
I personally also felt the game was, for me as a player playing it, a 7/10 or so compared to other Zelda games I liked more because I enjoyed their mechanics and gameplay more.
Call it "contrarian" if you must but I'd rather Sterling give their subjective opinion rather than have to bow to some dishonest pretense of "objectivity" just because a large crowd of consumers liked a product more than the reviewer.
I don’t believe in genuine neutrality but I believe in intellectual integrity
Saying that a 7/10 review lacks "intellectual integrity" feels dangerously close to a :freeze-gamer: take for me.
I can recognize that something is a genuinely great racing sim
And I can argue over competing games (with arguably less toxic fandoms) having a valid claim to being as good, or better, at what Breath of the Wild did.
the realm of solipsism.
:what-the-hell:
At this point, I'd rather not escalate this so I'll just make this my last reply in this particular reply chain.
Jokes on you guys. I'd never score a game in terms of #/10 and I don't know what a solipsism is.
There are plenty of complaints to be had of BOTW imo. 7/10 is a very reasonable score. Lack of enemy variety, weapon durability, frame rates, the beasts being very boring, the bosses being pretty boring, and the fairly repetitive shrines can easily wear on people.
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