The Trouble with the Video Game Industry | Philosophy Tube

[@PhilosophyTube]

Gamers rise up

[@Ma_ksi]

Hi

[@Ma_ksi]

Gamers are the most oppressed group in the world

[@BullofCrete]

Philosophically speaking.

[@finnianquail8881]

Yes

[@scorchgid]

Thank god for him!

[@wagshadowzylus]

I love how Pontius Pilate says "*my team* made the decision to execute Jesus" but "*I* came up with the concept of fulfilment living", nice little detail!

[@Quintinohthree]

Socialising losses and privatising profits, or something along those lines.

[@Fluffkitscripts]

Good ol’ self-made billionaire titan myth.

[@Romandy13]

This is a call back to his video about Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and other billionaire philanthropists. I am glad be brought back the character as a reference.

[@mathieuleader8601]

you might say he was on autopilot

[@oONanniOo]

The whole Pontius Pilate speech was phenomenally written

[@helenakri7282]

Gotta admire a person who can clearly articulate while wearing vampire fangs.

[@johnthehumanist2333]

Take it from me,it's not easy........................

[@sirpente6651]

That means just one thing: They were real!

[@flicnerdy4385]

@@sirpente6651 that implies he sands them down for when they wants normal looking teeth

[@duffman18]

The worst ones were the Ferengi teeth in star trek DS9. All the poor actors had these huge fake Ferengi teeth in their mouth and they had to try and articulate regardless. It took them literally 7 seasons to learn how to speak clearly with those fake teeth in, and by then the show was over lol. It took Worf, the klingon in starfleet, a whole TWO different star trek TV shows to learn how to articulate properly with his fake klingon teeth in, cos he was in all of star trek TNG and then was a main character in DS9 after that. I always thought damn, these are relatively very big budget TV shows and they can't make proper teeth for their main characters, let alone side characters who rarely appear. These were the main characters in an ensemble cast. I gotta respect them for doing as well as they did despite the bad fake teeth

[@Ian_sothejokeworks]

TRUTH!

[@shizanketsuga8696]

I love how _completely unpolitical_ this video was, as it should be. We can't have people get weird ideas about applying philosphy to real world concerns or something like that.

[@danatronics9039]

It's not political at all, it didn't even mention Trump once!

[@MannFace51]

Danatronics Ah shit, here we go again...

[@madshorn5826]

@@danatronics9039 ...And what has entertainment have to do with politics??

[@MrElionor]

@@madshorn5826 Have you been living under a rock?

[@madshorn5826]

@@MrElionor It was an attempt at making a joke about Trump being more entertainment than politics, but in retrospect it didn't really work :-(

[@LeBonkJordan]

*start using gamer friendly language* ❌ *instead of:* "there are systemic injustices in our society" ✅ *say:* "there are balance issues" ❌ *instead of:* "continuous accumulation and merger of capital worsens income inequality" ✅ *say:* "the snowballing mechanics are overpowered" ❌ *instead of:* "the American dream is a myth and neoliberalism made sure of it" ✅ *say:* "this is pay-to-win" ✊ *gamers rise up* ✊

[@dragon1130]

I'm gonna have to show this to my discord group. They'd get a laugh out of it.

[@captainbacon9662]

I'm ready to watch your magnum opus: an hbomb-style 2 hour long masterpiece about coal extraction in 19th century Germany.

[@elenasilvestri3171]

I lowkey i wanna hear him talk about it

[@riz3310]

I know my life would certainly be better for having that in it.

[@0oPerson]

Seconded

[@TheDocfri]

8/8 would definitely watch

[@AKhoja]

But straight up that Pathological video was a masterpiece

[@tyrealhsm]

The reason Jim Sterling is able to so accurately predict what the AAA game industry will do is he guesses at what the most flagrantly anti-consumer, money-grubbing thing will be. And he's always right because the AAA game industry will always do the most money-grubbing thing it will find. He said it best himself: They can't just have lots of money. They have to have ALL the money.

[@theriderdwaft]

Incorrect Jim can predict what the market will do because he is a God elected prophet.

[@sophiaulrich9831]

@@theriderdwaft Thank God for him.

[@Diego-zz1df]

Yeah but the deep level of understanding he has of the industry at the macro level goes further than just thinking of them as insatiable greedy geezers. We can all imagine AAA executives as greedy bastards, but you gotta know how the industry works to understand how that greed translate into concrete business practices.

[@fredslipknot9]

true true

[@alreadyblack3341]

@Stale Bagelz WAit, if leftists are always right, does that mean they are also poltically conservative? Oh shit

[@rowanatkinson3594]

"During Pride Month, our security officers wore the rainbow flag for the first time" I'm dead. You have murdered me.

[@rosenissen9118]

Sad

[@Kane_the_Newschool_DM]

If he didn't, the security officers would have.

[@StainlessHelena]

A true pro gamer move.

[@freelanceart1019]

Hey Mr Bean Actor

[@HadBabits]

@@freelanceart1019 You shall address him as... the Black Vegetable.

[@AFR0PR1NC3]

It’s funny that both Abigail and Jim have come out as trans since this was made. Essentially, this is a woman playing a man playing a non-binary person playing a man.

[@fluffydestroyer8336]

when I saw the vampire bit at the start I was just thinking "WHAT IS A MAN? NEITHER OF THESE PEOPLE!"

[@WhisperWulf]

They are gender-fluid. Get over yourself.

[@Efreeti]

@@WhisperWulf Who, Steph? She's transfem non-binary, there's nothing to get over?

[@peridotlazuli6816]

Therapist: Ollie's American accent isn't real and can't hurt you. Ollie's American accent: Our workers said they didn't feel the need to unionize.

[@emperorleroy6747]

Hi, I'm Pontius Pilate...

[@sadino123]

I think that's a South African accent

[@swanstarr1441]

I've washed my hands, of your need to unionize

[@reneedooma]

omfg I didn’t even know why he sounded so weird in those segments but I knew that he did 🤣🤣🤣

[@anyoneyousee7772]

Non-Americans and people that don’t know history don’t understand how the unions here are just like guilds that have partnered with the government rather than any kind of labor association. Historically the unions that were supported by our government were racist and supported gun control and gerrymandering. Joining a union in America is like joining a cult, complete with bumper stickers and political ideology. And none of them actually try to unionize a wider labor market, it’s all like local trade unions that cost more than an average laborer, because they pay people to stand around because the young people do all the work and the old dudes that should be in an more intellectual position are stuck on the job because (capitalist labor market). T. Ironworker on the east coast and carpenter on the West coast.

[@dougdimmedome5552]

The immortal science of dialectic materialism? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of KZbin? Localized entirely within the gaming industry?

[@minerva9843]

...Yes

[@Mene0]

May I see it?

[@dougdimmedome5552]

Menega007 no.

[@perhapsahumanbeing]

It's more likely than you think

[@MannFace51]

🔥 *DOUG DIMMADOME, THE VIDEOS ON FIRE!?* 🔥

[@TheWeirdo879]

The whole Jesus thing was just a heated Roman esports moment

[@JasonLudeli]

I read this .. then like a whole 10 seconds later I just started laughing out loud. Amazing. Thank you

[@maxxvii2037]

Still waiting for Pilatus' apology video.

[@zeroeleven6551]

This is art

[@siennahayes9320]

10/10 would joke again.

[@Mernom]

@@maxxvii2037 nonpology vidoe*

[@mattwong5403]

"Rich people work harder than poor people." Indie devs make quality games. EA, Ubisoft, and Activision re-sell annual cash grabs filled with microtransactions

[@k.morningstar7983]

Was JUST talking to my partner last night about how some of my favorite games--Undertale, Spelunky, Stardew Valley--are ONE PERSON dev teams. It almost... I don't know, seems like small teams are making what they love and want out of necessity, working under the belief that it might not make it "big" (at first) but they want to make something special and fun.

[@Sofiaode18]

AAA studios do this shit whilst not paying their workers enough.

[@jacksonsmith2955]

Not to defend large companies, but you can't claim indie devs make consistently good games. For every Stardew Valley there are tens of thousands of awful one-person games that no one has ever heard of. Bad EA games are of far higher quality than 97% of indie games.

[@theblandcharlie822]

@@jacksonsmith2955 Well yeah, but that's because they have more money.

[@jacksonsmith2955]

@@theblandcharlie822 Well yeah, that makes no difference. You can't claim that that difference doesn't result in higher quality average games. I'm just saying that the argument "everything EA makes is objectively worse than all indie games," which isn't what the OP likely meant but is what is implied, is false.

[@BATCHARRO]

I was afraid this was gonna have politics but luckily there wasn't a single woman in it. Edit: This comment was made before I knew Philisophy Tube was Trans. YOU SET ME UP, TUBE! NOW I'M CANCELLED! Edit2: It's a joke about being set up and or cancelled.

[@SeiShinjitsuShi]

Or person of color

[@MrLareneon]

I read this, Laughed beer into my nose and then coughed for about 2 minutes. Well done

[@AzaleaJane]

well done 🤣

[@NoumardTV]

You win the "best original comment I read today as of 12:19, GMT+1"-award :)

[@TheLostArchangel666]

@@NoumardTV Gmt+1 here too!

[@MoDuZzz]

At first, “Why was this video recommended?” By the end, “How did I not know about this channel before?”

[@RabidDogma]

WELCOME! You're going to be busy for quite a while, there are so many amazing videos on this channel. It's worth it though, they're all extremely good.

[@محمد-ب4ف3ه]

He's a bit too commie for me.

[@JasonLudeli]

Welcome to the family friend! I'm good you found your way here! Might I also recommend Hbomberguy. I really enjoy his analysis of video games and his more political videos. Hbomberguy and philosophy tube are friends too so that's cool.

[@andrewmly9834]

sHITE ok lib

[@محمد-ب4ف3ه]

@@andrewmly9834 how dare you!

[@verderuso]

"I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move." - Vladimir Lenin, March 1921

[@TheFormHater]

tbh lenin did nothing wrong

[@verderuso]

@@TheFormHater tru

[@Synerco]

@@TheFormHater tankies gonna tank

[@frechjo]

@@TheFormHater There was that little betraying their anarchist allies in Ukraine.

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@kevin willems @fede Not even Lenin knows for sure how much of that was Lenin and how much was Trotsky.

[@unwillingly_will]

Rewatching this today with both Abigail and Jim coming out as their non-cis selves is nice, lil bit of hindsight that actually brings comfort for once :)

[@32andu]

I was gonna say something similar, but you said it first.

[@mothcub]

I can't believe you were Jim Sterling all along

[@zoetv2170]

omg I love your art! so cool that you watch Ollie too ♥

[@mariokarter13]

I know when I watch a content creator, there's nothing I love more than a thirty minute screed about how all of their ideas come from someone else and I could've saved time by just cutting out the middleman.

[@Beau8888]

Maybe the real Jim Sterling was the Ollie we met along the way

[@VikingBadass94]

@@Beau8888 Or what if, bear with me here...what if they were both one powerful cosmic being that was smote in two halves by the elder gods, one became Jim, and the other, Philosophy Tube.

[@j.d.thornton3683]

Your American startup exec accent is scarily accurate and frightening.

[@BrookeBaubles]

The one word where it faltered was "err". He said it with a bit of throatiness but people in the US say it very straight and flat like "air".

[@downsjmmyjones101]

It was a bit Ned Flanders-y but I can see the Steve Jobs impersonation he was going over.

[@j.d.thornton3683]

@@BrookeBaublesthis is true. We flatten a lot of words to the point where they become verbal Necco wafers! But I buy it because of the way that certain tech execs have a performative voice that is fake anyway (i.e. Elizabeth Holmes).

[@oddtail_tiger]

So good that this video wasn't political or anything. Dodged a bullet, for sure.

[@tenchimuyo69]

I feel sorry for Blizzard. Being apolitical really isn't possible. It always finds its way to you no matter what you want. If you pay taxes, that's politics. If you don't, that's politics.

[@oddtail_tiger]

@@tenchimuyo69 I legitimately don't know if you're playing along with my joke (if so, that's a bit weird of a way to do it), or if you're being serious. If it's the latter - I don't feel sorry for them. I am not even *that* strongly anti-capitalist, but I will not shed any tears for the big corporate machine that makes more money than is possible to really even conceptualize. "Oh nooooo, they want to be apolitical and just want to make truckloads of money, woe is them" is a bad take in any circumstances.

[@kenpanderz672]

a wild centrist appears: "i dont like politics, but i do like videogames" Ollie: "you've just activated my trap card!"

[@ahnrho]

Two refs in one -- You win.

[@quantumblur_3145]

Lol who uses trap cards anymore

[@heggy_69]

Reddit tier take rofl

[@mikaelsanchez6426]

Olly: casually cites Prager U in intro My brain: i WoNdEr If ThE oPeNiNg Is SaTiRiCaL

[@butcherzofrock]

Same

[@sheppycoop]

I cant like this,sorry,its at 69

[@666spalony]

can you direct me towards what he cited?

[@abreathofairABOA]

Pavlovski 2:52

[@0Fyrebrand0]

Ha ha, well this is the first time I've been to this channel so I gotta admit the opening had me fooled for a few minutes. Considering what's out there on KZbin right now, I wouldn't be surprised to see that put out there completely unironically.

[@commissar_leon1613]

When “Goosalovania” played at the end I just did a facepalm while I could just sense Olly standing directly behind me, dabbing

[@yeehaw4307]

I kinda need that edit as a separate video/song, I can't keep skipping to credits

[@nickgeffen8316]

@@yeehaw4307 BIG MOOD

[@joshamaris]

I was not complete until I received confirmation that this was a Goosebumps remix. That shit was bout to bother me

[@parkerhenderson2799]

It really went off, didn't it?

[@lily-jh1er]

love that since this premiered both PT and Jim have come out as trans. absolute icons making great work.

[@gorimbaud]

This one came back in my recommended after watching the latest Jimquisition, and that was my exact thought!

[@miratarnish6316]

@@gorimbaud that's what I'm here for too. I saw the thumbnail and realised that this KZbinr, nor the KZbinr she's cosplaying are men

[@Lycosa]

Yeah, pretty funny/crazy how that worked out :D both.

[@clairepettie]

I really hope they both kept the gloves. Those are awesome.

[@JordanJLyon]

Out of the loop, who’s PT and Jim?

[@septicjep]

man, i just love watching a normal, non-political gaming video.

[@Herrikias]

I hope all video game commenters take a page out of this channel and keep the moving pixel sprites in the plastic bubbles they were always intended to be experienced in.

[@GrandisArcanum]

Never heard of Jim sterling before. I've heard of a "Jim motherfucking sterling, son" though....

[@Phoenixspade2030]

odd, must be a distant relation.

[@ashkuigp]

Thank god for Jim son

[@gateauxq4604]

Yeah Olly kinda mispronounced it but he worked so hard on talking while wearing those fangs that i think we dan met it slide tbis one time

[@AnilSaulnier]

Oliver Thorn dressed up as Jim Sterling was the crossover I didn't know I needed

[@Mothmaninist]

a casual but tasteful Jim Sterling cosplay. 10/10

[@YEET-yh6qc]

Oli does a Jimbo

[@a_lethe_ion]

so many kinks, that over the event horizon

[@r15835]

lol, this is so lucid to watch after *both* of your coming outs.

[@scorchgid]

A woman dressing up as a person who is presenting as a man who is non-binary. AAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA AWESOME :D

[@gingganggoolie]

Calling it now, the hat made them both trans

[@katiepotatie1615]

@@gingganggoolie The sorting hat JK doesn't want you to know about!

[@bunk-o2495]

@@katiepotatie1615 I mean if not the hat... perhaps Abigail had a secret pog or gremlins hobby... lol

[@r15835]

@@katiepotatie1615 JK's TERF ass could never be that clever (or she'd have already retcon the real sorting hat to be anti-trans symbolism).

[@2starkiller]

I like how the vampire teeth force you to literally lie through your teeth and make the freedom of market speech sound more sleazy

[@chortlingkraken8966]

Are we really going to let this video pass us by without addressing the Goosebumps rendition of Megalovania? I refuse to ignore this timeline.

[@parkerflop]

i know how is everyone ignoring that killer rendition???????looking through the comments till i found your comment addressing it!!!!!

[@channelpointsparty]

I heard it too and was so happy to here this tune in the video!!! Where can I find this remix?

[@Mernom]

Watch the credits with capitons on.

[@SFLiminality]

My entire reason for going through the comments section was to see if someone else commented on this version of Meglovania, haha.

[@it-s-a-mystery]

It gave me whiplash. Somtimes I think I'm a little too harsh on this timeline/existence.. May Goosebumps never die.

[@zeratulrus142]

22:23 "Some other philosophers whose names I can't remember right now" with Marx and Lenin at the top of the screen. Olly, I'm screaming. Made this video so much better. And then I realized that the song at the end was a remix of Megalovania. That's why I love your videos.

[@Eon2641]

Megalovania AND the goosebumps theme because thank god for Jim

[@intentionally_obscure]

Where can I find this song or the song it's a remix of? I'm hooked and all of my searching is failing me.

[@sanityisrelative]

@@Eon2641 it took me till halfway through to realize it was Goosebumps. Then I thought I was just going mad.

[@Kraska93]

Free market sounds great in theory and it might even work on a smaller scale but once a company grows big enough to become a corporation, they will crush any competition but the sheer amount of money they control. And when a few huge corporations come together and start lobbying aka. buying politicians, in order to gain even greater wealth and tax breaks at the expense of the common people, that's when you get the USA.

[@cake226]

So late stage capitalism. (At least as of now)

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

Monopoly is bad for the company in long run, every random Timmy who took business classes instead of social studies knows that

[@lem860]

​@@SafavidAfsharid3197bad for the company, but great for the shareholders and CEOs who will get no retribution if and when the company crashes down

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@SafavidAfsharid3197companies stop caring about the long run at some point and just start revving as far as possible til the engine abruptly dies in a desert somewhere

[@Electricfox]

"The Roman Empire had the opportunity to bring the world together in a tough crucifixion moment about a month ago. We did not. We moved too quickly in our decision-making and then to make matters worse, we were too slow to talk to all of you. When I think about how most unhappy I am, I think about two things. We didn’t live up to the higher standards we set for ourselves. Second, we failed in our purpose. For that, I am sorry, and I accept accountability." - Pontius Pilate, at RomeCon, 0AD.

[@elvellarambles9151]

Electricfox underrated comment

[@domesticcat1725]

You off by 33 years mate

[@MoskalMedia]

This comment had me laughing my ass off, amazing work here

[@lucacommonjay7894]

The music industry is even worse. Almost all of the music worldwide is owned by 3 companies. And anyone that believes that that turned out to be an incentive to inovate can fight me.

[@isabo1901]

LM D what about food, most snacks are owned by 5 companies

[@Timbo5000]

Not even 3 companies, but most popular music is written by 3 _people_ who cover pretty much all the pop singers. Capitalism is all well and good when it promotes innovation and higher quality, but there is this point where it starts to spiral out of control. There is this point where companies have done the whole quality thing and are looking for even more profitable ways of selling their products. And that is where in the case of music we enter the realm of tunes that are not artistically created, but purposefully designed to be psychologically catchy. What a large part of the music industry does nowadays is simply create tunes that follow a certain recipe of catchiness and create a slightly different version of it for a new hit every time. We are now in the age where quality and profit no longer correlate. We're in the age of mass consumerism, wherein max profit is attained by making your washing machines break after a year or 5 instead of building them to last, wherein max profit is attained by creating a fashion trend each season and producing clothing in bulk to fit the fashion for short term wear instead of producing high quality sustainable clothing to fit a certain _style_ for longer time wear. It's a sad time we live in and video games are on the brink of entering into that next stage too now. We already had to deal with this yearly subscription for online multiplayer (because of this I only play single player games nowadays), but streaming services are truly going to be the killing blow.

[@economicist2011]

_Lars Ulrich has entered the chat._

[@tiagodarkpeasant]

@Andrew Potter they are already selling ways of playing games that don't run on your computer remotely, but of course it requires a good connection, so no one i know would be able to play

[@useroffline9999]

as an aspiring musician this is really discouraging to me. like, if i don’t top a stupid billboard chart i don’t get to eat.

[@Jungorend]

No marxism. Let's just analyze materialism via dialectics. hmmmm

[@petrus322]

No Stalin memes? Bootlicking confirmed.

[@Wiggyam]

petrus322 worshiping stalin is bootlicking

[@Stellar_Politics]

@@petrus322 Don't listen to them. They're either trots or infantile disorders. Glory to Stalin comrade.

[@eruno_]

@@Stellar_Politics Stalin was revisionist trash with fascist tendencies

[@Stellar_Politics]

@@eruno_ Tell that to 70% of the USSR when he tried making collectivization possible and the kulaks did everything in their power to stop that from helping. Can't call him a revisionist when he literally did his best to get out of the NEP, and for many years after the kulaks were sent to work camps the USSR was actually mostly socialist. Tell that to all the material evidence of real people who liked the USSR in his time. Y'all just need a scape goat to shit on.

[@harrylane4]

How wild is it that both Sterling and Abi transitioned since this video happened

[@mayayamato7351]

@@SirBlackReeds How so? Go ahead, you can say it.

[@seliamila1005]

@@SirBlackReeds fuck off bigots

[@cacamilis8477]

@@SirBlackReeds Why is it sad?

[@realMFgames]

@@SirBlackReeds take several seats, bigot

[@alexscriabin]

@@SirBlackReeds sad for transphobes like you, not sad for trans women like them.

[@heliguerrero1320]

"Tendency towards monopoly..." *The Walt Disney Company has joined the chat.*

[@MannFace51]

🐭 🔪

[@FreyaEinde]

My mind did keep drifting to Disney plus during this, and sigh....yeah

[@RoundHouseDictator]

As a gamer I was more concerned that he would talk about the board game. As a gamer I hate the board game

[@frrascon]

@Krónika true..and anti-trust does not help you when it comes to natural monopolies anyway. Which is the biggest source of income from rents.

[@YEET-yh6qc]

Pepsi and Coca-Cola joined the chat

[@SJNaka101]

Oliver: speaks for 30 minutes about stuff, says smart things probably My brain: "Videos Game"

[@Galvion1980]

Oliver: speaks for 30 minutes about smart stuff , says smart things probably. My brain: NSFW

[@RykerJones28]

@@Galvion1980 can relate.

[@Elkator955]

God dammit

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Videos game you. Nothing to do with the Soviet Union. This is simply the world we live in now.

[@fireworksfordinner]

You forgot to put in Edit: "OMG thanks for all the likes, I never thought I'd get this many likes on a comment before lol"

[@lmac6934]

the video games, the vampirism, the meta-biblical humour, the number of times text appeared on screen too fast to read so you pause the video to read it and find fun little jokes you otherwise would've missed...i'm feeling excessively catered to, what unscrupulous indulgence also, floored by your excellent performance while contending with large plastic teeth what the human mouth aint built for, v impressive, a testament to your dedication

[@Deepclow]

"What unscrupulous Indulgence!" sounds like something the Darkest Dungeon's Narrator would say, and that's a compliment.

[@michimatsch5862]

Gabriel Pontes i read it in his voice too. Could either be an exclamation for drinking the blood. Or one of those slow sentences.

[@JRexRegis]

During the EMPYRE mockup, I could actually feel myself being affected by the marketing. Even though it's fake, even though _I know_ it's fake, I was still hyped for it. Scary.

[@blahblahsaurus2458]

'Some people are skeptical. And that's healthy!'

[@Technotranceism]

It tends to propagate, what a hypothetical dystopian world might market, to the people.

[@quantumblur_3145]

I'm so glad I'm too autistic for this shit to work on me, what a scary world it must be when thousands of alarms don't instantly sound at that trash

[@DeepDiveDevin]

I still feel like we don't touch on the worst aspect of live service games enough, which is that they're usually run on servers controlled by the publisher that will render the game unplayable when they shut down, despite many of these games being sold as goods, which essentially makes this fraud in most countries.

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

^^^^ ALLLLL of this.

[@Carltoncurtis1]

That is the point of any monthly service though so it goes without saying. If your water or ISP goes out of business, you lose access too. I get the frustration though. Back in my day CS 1.6, WC3, Starcraft and most other online games could be played online completely independent of any company shutting down. It wasnt until game companies started controlling their servers that the very concept of "toxicity" was born. Porn and Gore sprays on CS 1.6. Porn maps on WC3. Racism, Sexism etc was all up to the players discretions and the only bannable offense was blatant hacking. Those were the days...

[@DeepDiveDevin]

@@Carltoncurtis1 There's a couple things wrong with this, but the main thing you're missing is that these games are being sold _as goods,_ no subscription at all. Them shutting down the servers and rendering these games unplayable is essentially destroying a product they no longer own.

[@AtomicSource11]

Yeah weird huh? Except (standalone) games as we buy them today have this weird duality of being a good AND a service at the same time. In order to play the game, you need to agree to a EULA which gives you a *licence* to play the game, which can be revoked at any time by the publisher. We also buy a delivery method (might be a physical disc, or access to a service to download it). Most of what we pay for when buying a game is the IP. IP is honestly the weirdest category of 'good'. Like, if you've bought a game disc, you've bought one of the strangest commodities in existence.

[@DeepDiveDevin]

@@AtomicSource11 It actually _cannot_ be revoked by the publisher. When you purchase a game as a good you purchase it under a _perpetual_ license. That means you are entitled to a working product, or some reasonable chance of making it work again. You don't own any part of the IP when you buy games. You're buying a copy of that IP's image which you can do anything you want with. If you fully pay for it, it is YOUR COPY. Shutting down a server that is REQUIRED to play it is effectively destroying that copy. EULAs aren't going to do _shit_ for that. If you pay for a new car up front, some fine print on the paperwork saying the company can steal the engine in the middle of the night and sell it back to you isn't going to help them in court. Because they're intentionally destroying something YOU OWN, they aren't entitled to control over it anymore. There's nothing "service-y" about any game that doesn't have a subscription fee. If you _buy_ a game, a "license to play a game", or whatever, it's a good. You are legally entitled to be able to use that product until it either wears out on it's own (see: newer OS versions not running certain games) or you choose to be done with it. This "you only own a license they can do what they want" is just the industry narrative talking, because they can profit off of murdering games and then selling the same shit in a new package because certain players have nowhere else to go for that specific type of game.

[@jamiebrown1604]

The way you said "nice...big...LOAN" was genuinely terrifying omfg

[@ingonyama70]

The licking of the blood really hit home. A nice subtle touch, in the way a Disney villain is "subtle."

[@KingBobXVI]

That'll happen when it's set to the background music that leads into Ganondorf's tower.

[@MichelFialloPerez]

Real talk, when Count Ollie suggested getting a loan, I wanted to hold a crucifix and holy water up a the screen before the blood even appeared.

[@Yemeth42pis]

hehe I said it with him ... didn't expect the blood though.

[@authenticbaguette6673]

7:25 "this [Skyrim] didn't just *Fallout* from the sky.." I see what you did there ...

[@KattReen]

To the person that did the english subtitles that wrote out the lisp caused by the fangs, bless you lol.

[@axolotlking1072]

Cat Tricks that was olly! He writes his own subtitles

[@mmmk1616]

I didn't catch the lisp! But I really loved his commentary at the end while the credits rolled :)

[@grmpEqweer]

In my psych class I was taught: Irregularly rewarded behavior takes the longest to extinguish.

[@grmpEqweer]

@transylvanian There's the Harlow monkey experiments. You can find creepy videos of that on KZbin. I think BF Skinner came up with that earlier statement though. IIRC he mostly worked with pigeons.

[@gabriellavedier9650]

Yes, the superstitious pigeon experiment

[@joethestrat]

Depends on reinforcement/punishment type, potential motivation, how far "shaped" a behavior is in the organism's current state, what specific reinforcement (psychopharmacology, like sugar vs nicotine for example... Which is an entirely HUGE part of behavioral shaping) you're utilizing, the complexity of the new behavior you're trying to shape into an organism's future behavior or "habit"... Experimental Psych is all about methodologies and calculations, it's an interesting field. Highly mathematical which is a plus.

[@Paralellex]

I'm actually a really big fan of the free market driving competition between companies. I'd be thrilled if it ever started happening.

[@manorothpitlordextraordina4041]

lmao thank you for this comment

[@discountchocolate4577]

The downside of actual market competition is that companies will waste revenue hiding trade secrets from each other and trying to sabotage one another. We also get formatting and platform wars (e.g. Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD in mid-2000s, Mac vs. PC, or any significant console war such as Nintendo vs. Sega in the 1990s). Oligopolies (i.e. significantly concentrated markets with a few dominant firms, rather than one) often result in the worst of both "perfect competition" and a true monopoly; companies willing to stab each other in the back and waste valuable resources vying for the #1 spot can just as easily form trust-like agreements to keep prices up and wages down or cooperate to lobby governments on behalf of their whole industry.

[@gur262]

A good example of that actually happening is Sony getting into the camera market. It does look a lot like manufacturers were going up a megapixel or 2each year till Sony decided to go in and do36. It has slowed down, they are just a company too and don't want to just throw everything into one model either as they now secured a place in the market for themselves, but it sure did accelerate innovation and gave us more features throughout the industry. Did things get cheaper... Eh. Not really. That is where sigma n Co come in though. Then again firmware updates are more common now and when your lens suck some companies expect you to buy an extra dock to update it.... Cancer is growth too and there is no growth without some shitty side effects.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Yep, I was just thinking about how RCA did the rentier thing a hundred years ago, entirely sucking up patent money for ages at the start. And still profited handsomely from colour TV patents in the 60s alongside selling their own sets.

[@aerthreepwood8021]

@a guy That's dumb as fuck. Monopolies exist because capital accumulates and will always accumulate. They existed during the gilded age and were enforced at the barrel of a gun held by the ownership class. They exist in weak states. They have existed since mercantilism transitioned to capitalism. But if you're just going to regurgitate stupid right-libertarian/AnCap talking points, there's zero point in engaging with you. If you ever start to care about anyone other than yourself, let me know, and I'll give you some good theory, instead of something Friedman shit all over a paper.

[@roxie6519]

You just put into really clear words everything I've been trying to explain to my husband about economics for like two years. He's super apolitical and doesn't really care to know, but I think he''ll watch this.

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

You should talk to economist or those who have studied business courses like MBA to talk about working of capitalism or corporation not people who studied communism. You don't talk to white people to know how black people think.

[@Huvpalto]

You did a very clever thing with this video and i wonder if ts intentional. See, I'm not really into philosophy and politics that much. Not more than the other guy - listen to it if its interesting but not really research or god forbid debate. But i do watch a lot of gaming and movie reviews from people like Yahtzee and Jim sterling. Buuuuuuut i was deeply depressed for 8 years now after a certain thing happening. Even though i love my job and have friends, girlfriend and try to live a full life i still hated waking up for years but lived in denial of my problems. So, i clicked on this video cause it was recommended to me cause if my view history. And after watching some of your other videos, as i usually do when i find a new (for me) content creator, i stumbled on you cosmonaut and abusive relationship video. They helped me A LOT. Cried my fucking eyes out. Ended my toxic relationship and started therapy for that old trauma. So thank you so so much. This video widened your reach and in that, reached and saved me. I would suggest you try other popular but not largely "familiar" to your usual content topics to spread your other messages further.

[@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice]

Glad you're doing better

[@omnibusprimephd7914]

Keep your head up. You're doing great

[@lilithhedwig5408]

Yep it's international, watching from Italy! :) Glad you're doing better, wish you the best, and I'm glad you found this channel!

[@danielelias7867]

Glad he could reach you and help you through a terrible situation. Happy to hear you're doing better now!

[@stevencleere4912]

fly safe cosmonaut

[@jackakimbo5718]

It disconcerting just how accurately you've nailed the gaming company corporate speak for that whole EMPYRE bit. It's like I'm watching an E3 presentation.

[@Donnerbalken28]

I don't think there is anything that differentiates gaming companies from big business tech companies (which, in fact, most of them are in terms of revenue). It's the same sack of shit, neoliberal capitalism.

[@nakenmil]

The beginning bit was very closely based on the Blizzard CEO's "apology speech" (which wasn't an apology) on them banning an esports contestant and two commentators because the contestant shouted a pro-Hong Kong slogan on a stream.

[@helloofthebeach]

@@nakenmil The problem is that he did it so much better than the actual Blizzard CEO.

[@storageheater]

throughout the years it's seemed like an arms race between news/corporate/adverts/politics and the satire of them, eg the satire taking news and making it punchier, sharper, more bombastic, the news taking that satire and learning lessons from it. It's almost like satire has turned out to be at best a bit shit, or at worst wildly unpredictable in its political effects, which is disappointing

[@edwarddickson7026]

@@Donnerbalken28 Having worked in tech for the last 4 years, that bit sounded exactly like every large big tech company I've ever seen or been acquired by. I've literally heard 3 exact same speeches from CEO's from larger companies that have acquired the start ups I've worked for which they then made us all redundant a couple months later to replace us with their own worker bee's because they pay them half the amount in salaries.

[@eoghan.5003]

2:51 the only time you'll see "PragerU" and "source" in the same sentence

[@ChimeraReiax]

Tfw you have to source that PragerU said something

[@ZainabThe1st]

I was honestly startled when I saw that source. I got scared that a channel I really like entertained any thoughts or ideas from PragerU.

[@MF-R]

"If you work a job you hate to make money for someone who owns things; are you free because you can choose the color of your socks?" That about summarizes my feels on capitalism and the state. Btw, answer is a big ol' NOPE.

[@thecageofinsanity.6968]

Vamp Olly is the goth husbando we all want.

[@ingonyama70]

Vamp Olly can BITE ME (no, seriously, he can. Anytime he wants. Better vampire boyfriend than T-...)

[@thecageofinsanity.6968]

Curt Clark I want him to bite me too!

[@grandmagusrubick3261]

Yes

[@Pewds9]

I’d call you freaks - until I realized that maybe I’d want that too. Fuck.

[@FlorenceFox]

I'm a goddamn lesbian and I literally said to my girlfriend, "Tell him to stop being so hot."

[@siresquidzy2343]

Me: "Premiering now? Sure, I'll see what's happening." *Opens video to credits playing Megalovania*

[@jonaswomack4493]

And the goosebumps theme a bit, I think?

[@BlueSun_]

@@jonaswomack4493 Yep, it's called Goosalovania 29:45

[@janesmith1840]

@@BlueSun_ Why does this exist

[@chubs191]

I'm ready to kick Sans' ass, personally. And be a terrible person in the making.

[@Gloomdrake]

John Smith Why wouldn’t it? People mix Megalovania with everything

[@ViveLRoi]

"Rentier economy" ehh just sounds like feudalism with extra steps

[@mushroomkaat2667]

Truuuuue

[@sujalthapa7887]

Honestly, I think the rentier economy is just an attempt to recreate the feudal property/power relations in modern day capitalism. Some people call it proto-feudalism or neo-feudalism but I think its more of an atavistic feudalism.

[@ireneuszpyc6684]

@@sujalthapa7887 can feudalism (in a particular geographic region) be measured, and compared with the intensity of feudalism in another geographic region?

[@rolfs2165]

Funny side node: "Rentier" is German for "reindeer". So a Rentier economy would probably be a lot of herders taking care of someone else's reindeer?

[@IAmDoctorable]

@@rolfs2165 That's just the Sami.

[@shethewriter]

The Empire character with an American accent is genius

[@DanielGarcia-wn9so]

WE LIVE IN AN ECONOMY BOTTOM TEXT

[@Sablus]

WHICH RULES A SOCIETY

[@islandboy9381]

GAMERS INVEST UP

[@cragnog]

u patrician?

[@johanoskarsson8209]

You know Ollie, one thing's for sure. You can't pull off Jim's look, not like he can. He looks like a big flamboyant jester, a bombastic chaos god, while your erudite suaveness just clashes with his style. Oh and great video.

[@MethCrystal666]

That was a very kind way to put that. I was just thinking "Olly's done the impossible. He's finally rendered himself unsexy."

[@cjboyo]

He looks more like a suave demon of trickery and seduction instead of the jester demon of chaos and freedom

[@janesmith1840]

"bombastic chaos god" is how I'm going to describe Jim Sterling from now until the end of time

[@technopoptart]

@@MethCrystal666 which is funny 'coz jim makes that outfit look hella fetch but i suppose olly wearing jim's setup is a bit like a teen wearing his da's suit. more cute than impressing XD

[@ahmedamine24]

Jim Sterling in Hazbin Hotel?

[@michaelgj23]

“He had a heated communist moment and teamkilled a bunch of dudes in Kronstadt.” Lolz

[@FreudRulz]

I fucking snorted

[@sathrielsatanson666]

Aye, the Blizzard jabs are precious :D

[@milascave2]

Michaael: Thanks. I missed that line.

[@FreudRulz]

@@RubenGonzalez-dg9mm fuck off tankie

[@farisabuain6832]

“I mean, yes he was the most famous Counterstrike player in Soviet Russia for a while and you’ve gotta respect the graft, he also had a heated communist moment and team killed a bunch of dudes in Kronstadt.” A little joke for the anarchists and anti Leninists I see ...

[@notcutty6631]

"I watched a cool documentary about parasites" I can relate to this, having watched many of Jim Sterling's videos.

[@denisherlock3023]

Is this supposed to be a compliment?

[@orbweaving]

@@denisherlock3023 I think "parasites" references the game companies Sterling speaks on

[@denisherlock3023]

@@orbweaving ah, of course. the so called 'triple A games publishers'

[@nakenmil]

@@denisherlock3023 Triple-AAAAAAAAYYYYY.

[@rushabhbhakta7181]

“Live services” *Jim Sterling Voice*

[@brokengames9020]

live services = Scam & spy business in plain sight.

[@f4614n]

There are some anti-capitalist vibes in Jim Sterling's videos

[@akrylpryl1414]

@@f4614n Some? It's his entire vibe imo

[@rushabhbhakta7181]

f4614n either you’re trolling or you haven’t watched enough Jim.

[@AnzeigenameHere]

Jim Sterling Voice: "Triple A"

[@lncerante]

I'm gonna tell my kids this was Jim Sterling

[@johannamost4387]

This was Jim Fucking Sterling, son!

[@Odinakos]

Thank god for Jim!

[@janesmith1840]

Thank god for Oliver fucking Thorn, son

[@lncerante]

This is the height of my social capital and it's sad

[@AstraIVagabond]

@@lncerante I know the feeling. 😄

[@BrightAwake]

This video got me into Jim Stephanie right in time for the covid shutdown - life changing. I'm not a ""gamer"" at all but I love drama & hate corporations and I can't recommend the Jimquisition enough.

[@tanyavs1]

The Empyre guy scares the shit out of me. He made me really uncomfortable... thanks Olly 👍

[@JackgarPrime]

If that's the first time you've seen that character, go back and watch his Elon Musk video for that one's first appearance.

[@ingonyama70]

I think part of it is his calm demeanor and that American accent. It's scarily good, and I say this as someone who grew up in or near the Silicon Valley area.

[@tanyavs1]

@@JackgarPrime Will do! Thanks :)

[@ragnar3434]

Pilate is the beautiful fantasy that silicon valley has a single neck.

[@astralura]

Sammmeer

[@soma8756]

hearing “born depressed” play in tribute to jim made me actually cheer and clap like an idiot

[@CalmBlue]

An absolute banger.

[@hurricanerae]

Same.

[@smooth4553]

Honestly me too

[@CanaryWorfRuns]

Me too!

[@TheSpaceCommunist]

I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW IT! *IT BROKE NEW GROUND!!!*

[@sarund9441]

I love how the bibliography has like 9 Jim Sterling Videos

[@scriptures7025]

This really helped me understand the weakness of capitalism sometimes. I’ve been watching your channel and challenging some of my beliefs. Your channel helped with that, thank you

[@quantumblur_3145]

Congrats, most of us have already been here for years but you got here in the end.

[@scriptures7025]

@@quantumblur_3145 I understand the weight of the discussion may of influenced your tone, but it’s his rationality and understanding tone in unity with the information that helped me understand. If you only have snide comments to make against those who disagree with you, I fear our cause for a better economic system will be harder to realize.

[@zomg1337h4x]

>that hair >those eyes >those vampire teeth Oh, I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me.

[@BurningSunBloodyMoon]

Can't awaken what's already awake. B)

[@zomg1337h4x]

@@BurningSunBloodyMoon But my fragile heterosexuality!

[@lindsc6293]

@@zomg1337h4x Heterosexuality?? Lol! Don't kid yourself, no straight guy would ever write what you wrote.

[@zomg1337h4x]

@@lindsc6293 Look, just because I want to feel those fangs slowly caress my skin while staring longingly into those yellow eyes... What was I saying?

[@UNSCMarine117]

*puts finger up* "I don't like where this is going"

[@RobVespa]

Twenty minutes into the video: Ah. That's why he's dressed as a vampire.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Twenty? It took me less than three minutes. All I needed was the hint at the top left 2:51 right here. I mean it can't get that much more obvious when you're quoting an actual vampire.

[@aasilakki9733]

@@Thor.Jorgensen Congratulations.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

@@aasilakki9733 It's called a joke.

[@valiroime]

Looks like he stole Jim Sterling’s schtick.

[@lukasjuszczak1664]

@@valiroime i came here to post that.

[@Turlingdromes]

I can tell Ollie watches The Jimquisition because of the way he had to struggle to not say "live services" in the mocking tone Jim uses every time he says it.

[@warmachine5835]

Imagine if he had to try and say TRIPPLE AYYYY

[@Deliveredmean42]

I thought the outfit choice was a good indicator too.

[@jackel11235]

I wanted him to say it... soooooo bad...

[@nmeister007]

LIIIIEIEIEIVE SEEEEERRRRVICES

[@elizabethlockhart2103]

The line "membership in our execution squads has gone from 82% to just 63%" is so, so delightfully satirical on so many levels.

[@stevenkerr6467]

"They're landlords! Easiest job in the world, a job so easy you can literally inherit your way into it." Love this, owning stuff isn't a real job!

[@stayphrosty]

+

[@mrclueuin]

+

[@twilightvulpine]

Rent-seeking is so bad for society, even Adam Smith the "Father of Capitalism" spoke out against that.

[@Fluffkitscripts]

I guess if you have to fix shit around the place and maintain the property you’re contributing something. But if you’re just hiring people for that you’re a vampire.

[@Cegorahsprankcaller]

@@Fluffkitscripts There is a role for someone who maintains and fixes places where people live. That person should not be the owner

[@willmistretta]

Capitalist propaganda delivered by an actual vampire. The subtlety is off the charts.

[@caldera11]

Fuck political extremism and polarization

[@swanstarr1441]

@@caldera11 are you a bot

[@Sonji_S]

​@@caldera11 the problem with centrists is that there alt right in Nazi Germany and socialists in the USSR,they base there believe on the world they already live in instead of looking at whats good and maximizing that good,extremism isn't inherently bad,if you value freedom and equality or blood soil and tradition that will logically lead you trough a certain path

[@dylanschmidt9056]

@@caldera11 Like, there's a time and a place for what you're saying, but you've been copy-pasting it everywhere and it often just doesn't make any sense.

[@randomnamegbji]

@@swanstarr1441 being rightfully called an NPC by someone claiming to be "a person". The irony.

[@Coupman]

Olly plays Skyrim the cheese way: as a sneaky archer with his pockets full of cheese wheels. I approve

[@Call-me-Al]

I never understood the cheeses. There are much better options, like all the health potions you steal from everywhere....

[@mangelexemplar6991]

@K CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!

[@nakenmil]

"I'm a elf scout" Ah, so neaky archer. Gotcha.

[@ZlatkoTheGod]

@@Call-me-Al Cheese wheelz are delicious.

[@Tenchigumi]

Any time someone brings up "cheese wheels," I immediately think of Ron White. You should, too.

[@Finvaara]

It's fun to re-watch this video now that both Abi and James Stephany Sterling have come out.

[@umangmalik]

I love how you made the capitalist vampire do the sponsor spot

[@369TurtleMan]

Umang Malik ahaha holy shit, good catch mate

[@ImortalZeus13]

Haha capitalism always bad amirite?

[@CrazyWeeMonkey]

@@ImortalZeus13 yes

[@umangmalik]

@@ImortalZeus13 yup

[@elillab2471]

@@ImortalZeus13 correct

[@NeroArisato]

"Lootboxes; basically it's the plot of the main villain in Rush hour 2" I couldnt say it better......

[@OspreySoul]

It is really distracting how good Olly looks with the fangs and contacts.

[@sykes1024]

You mean without his contacts and fang covers?

[@matthewmalpeli]

I predict that fangs and spooky coloured contacts will have their own gay Pornhub category before MAGA hats do

[@BakingAndGhibli]

I scrolled through comments until I found this one so I could g i v e it the t h u m b

[@Paulinemoke]

It isn’t yet? Ohh. Now I’m sad.

[@truffeltroll6668]

How my philosophy prof would say: "one of utilitarianisms biggest problems are rats on ketamine"

[@bangboom123]

What I especially like about the cross-over is the costuming makes Jim look less like a mad carnival owner (which is also an excellent aesthetic, don't get me wrong) and more like a colorful Van Helsing.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

Not really... "Mad carnival owner" is exactlyand explicitly the aesthtic Jim was going for when he rebranded. Just look at the intro from his JImquisitions from only a few mounths ago and it should be obvious.

[@bangboom123]

@@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598 Yes, I know. I'm saying Olly's take, juxtaposed with the vampire capitalist, gives me Van Helsing vibes.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

@@bangboom123 Oh ! Ok, sorry, I didn't get it.I'm a dum-dum.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

@@bangboom123 Oh ! Ok, sorry, I didn't get it. I'm a dum-dum.

[@robertfaucher3750]

*Me, a history buff:* I would love to read about coal extraction in the 19th century

[@ieatatsonic]

"The tendency towards monopolies in a rentier system..." hmm, if only ther was a piece of interactive media that could convey the downside of this to its interactees. Perhaps a board game, where players are presented the idea of a fair game that was never fair to begin with. I'll call it.... "The landlord's Game." Oh wait.

[@AbMaSync]

TURISTA!!

[@colto2312]

It's a lesson we learned as children, yet no one can seem to grasp fully to this day.

[@CGoody564]

@@colto2312 the problem is that as children, we never actually play the lesson out. The game ends when the rest of the players have run out of cash, and the one whom has all of their cash is declared the winner; what that actually represents is the economic collapse of the entire system. As kids, we just start a new game, when that is actually just the beginning of the end. We focus on winning the game, but the lesson of what happens to the other players afterwards or the system itself is never really explored.

[@colto2312]

@@CGoody564 Very well put, indeed. I sapose that's a logical leap I made on my own at a later date. The goal is to monopolize, then what? YOU WIN. All the pieces go back in the box, and hopefully all the friendships are still intact. IRL is a much darker tale when one "wins."

[@TwentySeventhLetter]

@@colto2312 I would love to see a modified way to play that highlighted the lessons originally intended to be present but were eventually swept under the rug

[@EarlHare]

How am I over a year late to this video. Never seen the modern western world put into such a succint sentence before. "If you work a job you hate to make money for someone who's job is owning stuff, are you really free?"

[@julesk3816]

The way companies always say "we're a big family :))) " reminds me of the book "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga; an incredibly poor man works for a rich family, who likes to put on the airs that they dearly care about their employees, when it's obviously a delusion of the wealthy, and they never put their money where their mouth is. At the end of the book, when he gets his own business, while he pays his employees good wages and is polite to them, he NEVER condescends by saying that he, as their boss, is their friend. They don't voluntarily spend time with him, he makes it clear that they're just linked by business. That blunt honesty is rather refreshing compared to the bullshit many bosses and CEOs spew about how familial and community-oriented their businesses are, while keeping hundreds of workers stuck at minimum wage with no benefits.

[@michaelhird432]

I had to read The White tiger for school, I have a lot to say about it. something I find incredibly interesting about balram is he's clearly a terrible person; he's sexist, egotistical, and he's still a capitalist (i.e. a wealth hoarder). However, he has respect for his employees and takes responsibility far more than anyone he ever worked for. Another thing I found interesting is how the mother of the person his employee killed doesn't want the money. She kind of sees through his bullshit - he's only taking responsibility because he knows nothing bad will happen as a result. Balram is really slippery like that; he's extremely good at pretending to be upstanding, but underneath he still spouts bullshit like the mongoose did.

[@sarahoshea9603]

This is a fixed position in the 3rd world state of Vermont. Where wealthy NJ fucks buy cute "farms" and convince ppl to work for min wage for (literally)30yrs because "they're family!". Yet they charge rent for employee housing where they refuse to fix the water for 3yrs- so employees are paying rent (taken directly out of pay with no record of course) for a place they can't shit n shower in. "But they're free to leave!" *someone yells from the back* Yes. But with no vehicle and being noticeably inbred/colored/foreign/ female....different- it's inevitable the scarcity of viable employment that lead them there will lead them back or leave them suffering. That "family" shit drives me up a wall.

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

Many communist who don't take business class still sprew bullshit. They don't know what is the concept of goodwill lol.

[@catiseith]

0:00 - 4:03 "Subtlety is for cowards" - Oliver "Dracula" Thorn

[@RabidDogma]

Also: "BALTIMORE (old bay seasoning)" is about an accurate of a description of Baltimore that I've ever seen. That is literally all you need to know about Baltimore.

[@stephenmarco2927]

“I know writers who use subtext. They’re all cowards!”

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

CaitSeith “I know writers who use subtext, they are all cowards.”

[@99wattr89]

I wish you'd tackle more politics instead of these totally benign, apolitical, non-controversial videos about epic gamer class warfare.

[@MisterH37]

Abigail cosplaying as Jim Sterling is very interesting as within a week of each other, both have come out on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

[@gorimbaud]

Jim had already talked about being transfemme and nb before, so it wasn't quite coming out, but they sure did incorporate their existing everyday presentation into their public persona the same week Abigail came out!

[@MisterH37]

@@gorimbaud I guess that's what I meant. The strange co-incidence.

[@gorimbaud]

@@MisterH37 It's pretty serendipitous!

[@deepstariaenigmatica2601]

@@gorimbaud serendipitous

[@starryskies9655]

The black “executive” turtleneck just kills me. Also, did this feel like it ended abruptly to anyone else? This is the first video where I’ve been surprised that it ended where it did.

[@draxiss1577]

I know right? I felt like there was supposed to be a lot more to this video than there was. Maybe it's because the last sixth of the video isn't really 'content?' Like, it feels like he didn't quite get to the part where he ties it all together into a strong conclusion. He mentioned some things about the free market, started to point out how this works in the video game industry, and then . . . that was it?

[@JH-pe3ro]

​@@draxiss1577 This video misses on the necessary depth and research to take on the subject matter directly, which was always going to be the case given that doing so would probably mean being someone more like, e.g., myself, who doesn't just watch Jim Sterling, but is also an insider and actively looks for journalistic and historical projects such as Critical Distance, Don't Die, or Digital Antiquarian that operate at some remove from the commercial influences of the industry. What we got instead is a decent starting point for applying dialectical materialism to the industry, which is on point but necessarily a bit unsatisfying - "yes, we have a conflict here," but articulating specific criticisms and alternative philosophies is something for the experts.

[@markofsaltburn]

It ended very abruptly. He didn’t even mention the most important political issue related to gaming, whic

[@fern5505]

Mark Lawton got demonetized

[@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice]

He had a little chitchat in the subtitles during the credits, apparently he was very ill during post-production and possibly shooting as well. Also, running low on money may have impacted his daily schedual.

[@DeoMachina]

It's so, so easy to just take the money, keep quiet and get by on games journalism, and so, so hard to take a stand and risk your career, home, everything for your principles. Jim Sterling picked the latter and made it work, despite legal action and threats. And even after all that, he still sticks his neck out to stand up for those who need it. That's why every Monday, I thank god for Jim.

[@godhaj2]

Thank god for Jim Fuckin Sterlingson!

[@stayphrosty]

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[@vitaliybakal7356]

what legal actions? only one i know is romine brothers who were like some trailer park poverty who could not fill a lawsuit right.

[@MCArt25]

@@vitaliybakal7356 he regularly gets his videos taken down by copyright claims often by the same publishers he rants against

[@RubyDynamite]

Thank god for Jim!

[@anewhero1216]

Nobody talks about how Vampires definitely would have a bit of a lisp, as exemplified here lol

[@BlueSun_]

It's actually pretty common to talk about it among vampire enthusiasts (expecially LARPers). Depending on the size of the prosthetic and wether it was custom made, you can adapt to it and speak without a lisp.

[@medes5597]

As the other commenter says, those with good/expensive prosthetics (especially if they have no real teeth) don't have any lisp. This lisp is because it's over his real teeth and thus larger because of it. IRL vampires wouldn't have a lisp.

[@SalmanRavoof]

I remember the Vampire in the IT Crowd having a pretty obvious lisp.

[@OmegaSoypreme]

Same with cat girls.

[@beguinemystic]

A New Hero121 ehh, i got the same fangs as ollie for halloween and i was able to speak without a lisp. it goes away the more your tongue gets used to a slightly different positioning when forming the “s” sound

[@SteelWool567]

I was looking for something to do with the cyberpunk scandal and the disease of the gaming industry as a whole and I stumbled into this sexy vampire. I’m so happy I did omg

[@AkhonaAlbertIsaacMali]

9:56 Ollie: "There's like 6 energy companies [in my country]" Me: *laughs in South African*

[@lydiadewet02]

Ek voel die

[@MCArt25]

in my country there is.... 3? I think. One is still owned by a (local) government.

[@JC-jd1us]

There's just pg&e in California 😂

[@mdstevens0612]

Hahahahahaah MY POWER WENT OUT AS THIS VIDEO CAME OUT BRUH, I don't know if Tshwane Municipality or Eskom are the bigger joke

[@ImpactIncoming]

@@JC-jd1us pg&e is the literal worst. Any emergy company with goddamn shareholders is cursed

[@transquelaag]

THIS MAD MAN ACTUALLY USED PAGER U FOR REFERENCE

[@darthrevan3342]

Well Look at what I answer to him : Liberalism eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggg ANd you call yourself a philosophe? It started by something interesting then at 2:00 I feel liek I ha just heard propaganda eeeeeeeerfff It shoddy at maximazing general interest, it just maximize teh personal interest of the peopel controlling the market ! And erf happyness is NOT the same thing as pleasure ! You are in a Hedonnistic sophism... You are just spreaidng aminstream misscocneption. 2:40 Yhea quote a bout aabout a dude who supported pinochet ! And seeing how you dress and drink champagn, I am guessing you are not a member of teh proletariate, go on with your shoddy qualification and yoru excess of knowledge, throw you money away, and try to gain it by working as a prols, we will see if it is easy to get a good job. You know how insulting is for people that are exploited and are force to take shitty jobs because there is no otehr alternatives for them? You know how INSULTING it is to pretend that if you get a good job it is because you are not smart enough to do so? Clearly you are dumber than they are ! We are not living in an happy utiopia it is are to get a job were you are investing and find sens in what you are making.

[@transquelaag]

@@darthrevan3342 a thanks for explaining the joke, perish

[@protonjones54]

_lol Prager U total shite amirite guys?_

[@roadent217]

@@darthrevan3342 You can say whatever you want, but please learn proper English. Your spelling is horrible.

[@pikapika3667]

Mousazz *You're.

[@alexv3357]

The captions are just delightful. "(Toccata and Fugue swells menacingly)." As if it could swell any other way

[@insomnimaniac58]

just discovered this channel and dAMN WHY DIDN’T I FIND IT SOONER?? You always put so much thought and effort into each video, I feel like I learn more from this channel than from actual school! Keep up the amazing work!

[@Crlarl]

This is an *OLLY* that looks like a *JIM.*

[@tremisanthrope]

*Captain America Voice*: I understood that reference

[@Kram1032]

Hahaha perfect Honestly I hope Jim is going to reference this video soon

[@ulasaksu3331]

Not fat enough 7/10

[@banessuperbrutalmetalfunti2561]

Jim Sterling is the only angry gamer that matters. Okay, and AVGN. But that's it.

[@elroy9173]

@@Kram1032 Monday is Coming.

[@JeremyCoatney]

I appreciate that you mentioned Jim’s wrestling career.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

A missed opportunity to mention the occasional VA job here and there.

[@TheRealMitco01]

The madlad cited a PragerU video I’m dead

[@Romanticoutlaw]

imagine if Abbi and Stephanie teamed up to tackle a similar topic...