When Jim Sterling Was Sued For $10 Million By Digital Homicide (The Jimquisition)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 26 лют 2017
- / jimquisition
www.thejimquisition.com
sharkrobot.com/collections/jim...
I am the videogame critic they tried to sue for $10 million.
I've kept relatively quiet for almost a year while a spurious and disgusting libel lawsuit was spuriously filed in an attempt to disrupt my life.
Now I get to talk.
#JimSterling #DigitalHomicide #PC #Steam #SlaughteringGrounds #Lawsuit #Jimquisition
(Additional Credits:
Born Depressed "Party Remix" and "Sax Remix" by Carl Catron: / carlcatron
Chains of Love cover by Nathan Hanover: • NHSO Covers | Erasure ...
Boglins: Themselves) - Ігри
When people hear Jim Sterling, they think Jim Sterling. When people hear Digital Homicide, they think Jim Sterling.
ooh. That burns deep.
and also Digital Suicide considering that is what they did
got em
Jim *FUCKING Sterling *SON.
*when people here Jim Sterling they think Chungus and Boglins.
Fixed that for you.
"If games don't exist, does your job still exist?" Yes, because Boglins still exist.
Ouch...
Zero_Burn you forgot pogs
I love how they actually thought that was a big "gotcha" moment, that that was actually a coherent argument of any sort. The arrogance of it, as if a lowly cretin like Romine speaks for the entirety of the games industry. It's almost impressive just how deluded these assholes were. Jim pities them, but I pity their families more. Imagine having idiots like those in your family...imagine one of them being your parent. Oh, those poor people.
Pog is a game.
Was the Jaden Smith meme a thing when that interview went up? Because in hindsight, that sounds a lot like the "how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real" quip.
5 years later. FIVE YEARS LATER and this is still entertaining to watch. I watched this play out in real time and now it feels like it was a fever dream.
You know what's funnier ? He's "supposed" to apologize to Digital Homicide during those 5 years XD
@@Zekium *They’re
Yes,quite quite.After his color palette changed then so did Jim,and not for the better.Compare this video to his latest rant criticising Ubisoft! I miss the old Jim Sterling,but nothing stays the same and in this case thats very unfortunate indeed don"t you think?
@@ethericboy there's no "new jim", the industry's problems have changed and so has their coverage. if you dont like it, then just...leave.
@@P-nk-m-na "cu*nt c*nt F*ck B*gger sh*t sh*t"
There. I just did a modern Sterling video.
Honestly, though! Listen to this video in audio only and then one of the modern ones. I really, really used to love Sterling's videos because they were well written and objective and could even convince a stick-in-the-mud like me to change my opinions on a matter I felt strongly about. Now, Sterling's all just venom and swearing. I get passion for a topic you feel strongly about, but now it just feels like they're trying to get views with shock value over what they're saying or something...
Edit: and that 'if you dont like it just leave' attitude? How many people do you think have said that to Sterling over their many rants? No, I wont be doing that because I respected their work too much to give up on them just yet.
Your lawyer in underatedly a savage using the popcorn defense. Your lawyer didn't try to argue why it wasn't slander and a ridiculous claim, he was just like, "OK... then prove it". They should teach that in law school.
"Welcome to dealing with total fucking idiots 101"
@@jordanloux3883 Haha I wasn't in pre law but I'd take that class
Call it "the Sterling," defense.....🤣
“Ok, then prove it” is literally the first thing you learn in law school.
It's basically the first thing you learn in defamation law, a defamatory remark has to be provably false.
"My lawyer countered this by claiming we can't prove there's not enough popcorn on earth"
Perfect.
Bacon Boots i've got popcorn for this video. running out at 15 minutes. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk
Bacon Boots tears😂😂😂
Between that and being the first person to ever talk James down from a bad idea, Jim's lawyer sounds like a right badass.
Yeah I laughed at that. Good sense of humour from that lawyer!
Nicholas Knudson to be fair I don't think James romine expected Jim to have an actual lawyer
*James Romine stubs his toe*
GOD DAMN YOU, JIM STERLING!!!!
Akito Soma Local man yells at cloud.
My god... James Romine was Dan from "Dan Vs" all along. This explains so much!
Akito Soma Dan Vs was never meant to be taken seriously. Jimmy (Romaine) was.
WillieManga Jimmy Romaine doesn't deserve that much respect.
Akito Soma Oh yes, lest we forget he took offense to Jim remarking that there's not enough popcorn on earth regarding ECC Games suing the Romaines for trademark violation. When I said Jimmy was full on serious, I didn't mean he was taken seriously. It equivilizes to a real life Phoenix Wright case.
Like you haven't heard that one before.
That man claims to have kids, and that upsets me deeply.
I do wonder if this sorry excuse for a man actually has a family, or if that was just another one of his lies that we can add to the ever-growing pile
Naah, I bet he just has framed photos of children he bought from Shutterstock, which he calls his own.
Same lmao
If he does have kids, he would have to explain how daddy ruined his own company due to his own ego and selfishness.
@@kentonbaird1723 he bought them after all
Can you imagine if Digital Homicide put this much time and energy into improving their games instead of antagonizing Jim?
The basic difference between an entrepreneur and a jackass.
They have no talent or ambition-so going litigious with random people on the internet is all they have left.
They shouldn't create anything for sale if they can't take criticism. They should just get a regular job for a minimal wage instead of polluting world with crap. Now too many people want to be developers because they think it will make them rich with no effort. That's how world turns into unbearable shithole with all those incompetent nubnuts being pushed to places they shouldn't be.
@@or10nsharkfin Wonder if they even still exist today.
Right? They might have been close to a somewhat playable demo by now!
Also relevant, they might have been slightly relevant.
"My lawyer countered this by claiming we can't prove there's not enough popcorn on earth"
this is the best life acomplishment ever, countering a lawsuit with popcorn
givingtnt IFKR. my fav bit of the vid
givingtnt
I think the world deserves to know what legally constitutes as "all the popcorn in the world" and if it can be quantified. Does it include kettle corn, microwave popcorn and cinema popcorn machine? Does it include even corn meant for popping, but not popped yet? Does it account for market fluctuations where there is more of a need for boiled corn rather than popped using corn made for popping for boiling? By God, this needs to be adressed!
givingtnt Popcorn. POPCORN. POPCORN!!!
you know your so called complaints are stupid when a lawyers joke can also be used as a counterclaim
Jep that one was easily the best :)
Romaine used Lawsuit
It hurt itself in it's confusion.
I love every word in this comment. Except "Romaine".
@Superfield: I mean, the guy's about as intelligent as lettuce.
hey don't insult lettuce it didn't do anything to deserve such injustice
Oh my god someone else thought of calling him Romaine
This whole fiasco does show one important thing, Romaine is completely deluded.. And should probably seek help to bring him back down to earth.
Also, if you're going to file a lawsuit.. don't ask for an utterly ludicrous amount of money over what, basically, equates to someone doing their fucking job.
"Its difficult to win an argument with a smart person, but its impossible to win an argument against an idiot"
yap,they drag you down to their lvl and beat you with experience
@@BruderSenf or lack of thereof with their non sequitur's and ass backwards logics.
@@warrenpeace5537 that's the point, they drag you to their level of stupidity and because they are so used to being that stupid they tend to beat you down with their idiocy.
We have this C++ gug at our place and one of the new guys said to him to use something that was not very fitting, instead of agreeing and shutting him up, both went into an argument and we all watched them fight like dog for 2 hours straight when his friend gave him a clue and he finally said "You're right, now let's not use your idea"
Well, you can get others to concede and side with you, but the egotist will not.
“I wouldn’t conspire with a food truck to deliver you a bad sandwich” is a hell of a line
I think it's a Brit thing, they're great at coming up with funny euphemisms and analogies.
Yahtzee and totalbuiscuit have some really good ones in their stuff too
@@Batchall_Accepted Ah, British humor. ☕️
@@Batchall_Accepted wait, Yahtzee is British?
@@KnakuanaRka that's coffee.
@@blakksheep736 It’s the first result that I got when looking up tea in my emojis.
I'm in the hospital with second hand embarrassment when he loses his "train of thought" after smugly asking a question.
Easily best bit of the video for me. You think your second hand embarrasment is painful, that guy got 3rd degree burnt by himself
Christ, if you haven't yet already, look up the Digihom interview. I listened to it all one morning and I have /never/ found a greater source of raw Cringe ore in my life, before or since.
You might want to stay away from the whole "interview" if that bit if cringe was too much for you; there was multiple times where I ended up yelling at my monitor because Romine had no fucking clue what he was talking about outside of his argument of Jim Sterling; Notably he's 35, "works" in nerd culture but doesn't know what MST3k or Rifftrax is and specifically makes points to say stuff like that doesn't exist? Are you fucking real? But he took the time to try to Dox Jim by saying he's vaguely related to some random author he shares a last name with.
The cringe from that interview could melt steel beams.
I was listening to the Digihom interview whilst riding a horse. For real. I nearly fell off because I tried leaning my elbow on my saddle to facepalm as quietly as possible. Sometimes I whispered frustration aloud, which was also great fun for my horse. I bet that animal could've actually given a better interview if he could speak.
I can imagine Jim's lawyer reading through the lawsuit documents and having to call Jim to double check that the documents are real and not part of some elaborate joke.
Doctorgeo7 Must've been a fun day for that lawyer. He takes one look at that document before saying "Yeah, this guy won't win the case"
Doctorgeo7 not as good as Totalbiscuits lawyer vs funcreators "lawyer" shame we'll never see those files.
Doctorgeo7 "Fuck it. We're going to lunch. Then we're going to put enough whiskey in the two of us to see if this makes any sense afterwards."
Jim Sterling's lawyer: "They keep using words like "fk u fgt" and "xDdddd," they make numerous threatening references to the UN, and at the end they repeat the words "Screw Jim" over and over again. "
Doctorgeo7 "haha you got me good Jim, but seriously send me the real papers man"
“This all adds up - trust me - to 10,761,000 dollars”
Such an underrated line in this vid
Is it because the total amount is actually wrong?
@@nrdsgtbck101 Yeah, the number is $800,000 off.
Tuxedo Cat still unreasonable absurd
I thought it was $11 million - cause I was thinking the $5m and $4m made $9m and that something didn’t add up.
I just did the math out and, yeah, the actual total would be something like $11,561,000. From what I've heard, this is the kind of shit that some judges will lose their everloving shit over because the paperwork wouldn't be correct.
9 years after retirement, Edge came back and everyone cheered.
3 years after retirement, Digital Homicide came back to a...different...reception.
an extremely snarky reception if twitter is anything to go by. jeeeesus, people are just laying into them.
YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEM
Wait what's edge?
@@Yal_Rathol They deserved it.
Maahes Wow a wrestler that retired in 2011 because of a neck injury who came back at the start of this year
So to sum it up: "I sued Jim Sterling and all I got was this T-shirt"?
NSNick Oh my gosh shit Jim needs a new shirt that's something along the lines of like one of those old rollercoaster shirts that says "I Survived the DigiHom Lawsuit" :DD
"...that I paid for myself"
Holy shittttt.
Underrated XDD
anyone know a generous shirt printer? would love to see him wearing a custom "survived" print.
"I wouldn't conspire with a food truck to bring him a bad sandwich."
Bloody. Freaking. Brilliant.
Gentleman J God, I am SO going to use this line for future references!
@@somecreativeperson6719 Me too! If I get the chance I'd use it.
This adds up... trust me... (04:56)
Amount is off by a cool $800,000...
Maybe instead of a lawyer, Romine should have spent money on maths lesssons
Or a calculator.
Or common sense
I recognized the basic arithmetic was off, but when I went through the mental math, I got the wrong number, too (just a different wrong number than they did), and I didn't get the right answer until I went through it all with a calculator...so I'm a fine one to talk :/
Or basic decency.
1,000 hours learning........ he didn’t immediately learn he didn’t have a case?
There's no accounting for narcissism
He knew, he just tried to see if he could scarper away with a cheeky 10 mil.
You win
That is why trying to disprove your beliefs is more important than trying to prove them. That's why I love science and skepticism. It is among the best tools for seeking truth.
He tried playing a game of chicken, trying to get Sterling to swerve first. Problem is, James Romine was in a car and Jim Sterling was in a freight train.
How this case worked.
Judge: Defense may now take the stand.
Lawyer: The defence will now call to the stand Jim Sterling.
What is your statement?
Witness: *cough* I'M JIM *FUCKING* STERLING SON!
Judge: holy shit. Case dismissed, Digital Homicide had no fucking chance.
I'm reminded more of a Dilbert strip where Dilbert tried to get through a court case by just spouting Latin phrases like "Habeus Corpus" and hoping nobody knew what it meant, to which the judge replied, "Bailiff, club this man!"
It's old, probably refers to a real life thing that we don't know about because we're too young.
TheataGamer 3
askalucas411 2
The point is that Dilbert is not a lawyer and had no point in the courtroom.
James: "I'm suing you for ten million dollars!"
Jim: "Your lawsuit is bullshit."
James: "..."
James: "The lawsuit just got two million dollars bigger."
It is good to see that the old adage about "the bigger the lie the better" didn't hold up this time.
Im fucking dead.
It's like someone painting headlights on a cardboard box, challenging someone else (with a real car) to a game of "chicken", and seeing that the other party didn't bow out immediately went on to concluding that the solution was to add racing stripes to the box.
It's certainly been interesting to watch a man bargain for more the weaker his bargaining position got.
Don't worry Jim, thanks for still doing despite idiots like James making your life harder.
And heck yeah, I bet it was.
"If there were no more video games what would critics review?"
I dunno. The 100,000 games already published?
which is a nonsense argument anyway, what would game critics review if there were never any video games?
books. movies. plays. music. paintings. sculptures. people make things, and there will always be a market for someone to tell the masses which creations are worth seeing and which aren't, and there will always be a market for analysis of the media.
@@kaistzar2831 i don't think it's that interesting, because we already know what all the thinkers and analysts would be doing if there was no media to analyze. they would be philosophers.
99.9999% of which are better than anything Digital Homicide has produced. Even games like Sonic 06 or Big Rigs have some kind of entertainment value or merit to them.
@@kaistzar2831 And says it in a way where as to imply Jim's end goal is to end the games industry with his criticisms... Which couldn't be further from the truth lmao.
@@Yal_Rathol bu ngl Jimmy kinda harsh with them,they just wanna "try" making a game
This case is one of the reasons I decided I wanted to study law. Seeing malicious people lose like this makes you realise how important having a good lawyer and justice on your side really is!
This case was part of me deciding to go to law school too! Glad I’m not alone. Between this and James Stephanie fucking sterling son, romine inadvertently did some good with this…whatever this was
The literal opposite of an apology video. I hope you make this the featured video for your channel for no less than five years.
No lie, would be poetic justice, and a warning.
LaserfaceJones It should be carved into metal plates and those plates erected as monuments all over the world. And also some should be shot into space.
Why? To tell aliens not to fuck with Jim fucking Sterling, son.
"Is it fair to call the Slaughtering Grounds an 'absolute failure' now?"
And with that, I'm fairly certain our lord and savior Jim Fucking Sterling, Son just scorched the surface of the Earth to uninhabitable levels. In his mercy.
Thenextworldwar Not even the dragon balls can restore the damage our Lord Jim Fucking Sterling Son has done.
Certainly not for Digital Homicide.
And he did it to the song "The Reflecting God"
MUH-MUH-MUH-MAXIMUM SASS.
Gonna need a Senzu Bean for that one...
"And you will break yourselves upon me" gives me chills every time I hear that and it's refreshing.
2022, 5 years today, had Digital Homicide won the case, today would have been the day Jim's "apology" video would no longer need to stay up.
Yet look how far James Stephanie Sterling has come since then, and this video is still re-watchable even today, thank god for them! =)
Almost at 800k, how the titans we love have fallen
Omg this is history. Also I too am revisiting this video and damn, Steph is one of those UA-camrs who you can go pretty far back in their catalog and still get pure quality.
Would have been a dark future if the Romine brothers won. Thank God for Steph.
@@GreatBooker It really is quite hilarious to go far back into the catalog, see them having spoken about all the same guff before, and then when it happens to someone's favorite corporation, suddenly JSS is "too political" XD
@@GreatBooker when Jim was good and the obnoxious whining was just an act. Pity now Jim’s perpetual victimhood and obnoxiousness is the real Jim.
this lawsuit reminds me of high school classes where i didn't read the class material but had to bullshit a paper on it anyway
Bridget Nelson
LMAO ME
Bridget Nelson I did that in college and still got an A. Should... should I sue Jim Sterling?
Apply all that to James, and when he gets an F to then ask the teacher if he/she could pay for the tuition cause of "time spent on looking up _________." When in actuality he probably only just read a few forum posts from some random quack claiming to be a professional on the topic.
Bridget Nelson i
The really sad part is you had to write that paper, cuz it's school. Romine coulda stopped whenever at literally any point, but that ego was made of titanium.
"We can't prove wether or not there is enough popcorn on Earth". That is a slick fucking lawyer right there.
I have a feeling the lawyer was having a fun time as well. Probably wanting to come up with some fun responses as well (while obviously continuing to get the job done).
Well, it's more that it's well established law in the US that an opinion generally cannot have falsity. I equally cannot establish the falsity of whether the sky is a pretty shade of blue or whether Taco Bell is great. In the US, falsity is required for a defamation claim (or libel, or slander, or their variations) because of the First Amendment.
TomasPabon whether*
Damn it's a real shame you didn't get the digital homicide brand. That would've been a fucking hilarious chapter in your career
Obviously he never read up on the "Consumer Review Fairness Act" which pretty much legally protects critics. (It is also why copyright claims on youtube game reviews are also illegal)
Pretty much, if it ever went to court, he would have to bend the knee to the US Justice system and receive his spanking.
You are right, but I just want to point out that UA-cam's expressed purpose is not "Consumer Review" and the copyright claim system is in place to protect from copyright Infringement- mostly to cover Google's ass- so yes people cannot be silenced from review of products, but no the copyright system on UA-cam is not illegal because the intent is for companies to claim their copyright has been infringed. Which is why the argument you more regularly hear about is that UA-cams copyright system is unfair because it has no accountability on the side of those frivolously making the accusation, all the accountability is on the producer of content even if the content is following the law, and UA-cam does nothing to protect it's content creators who are completely in the right when following fair use.
The way the system is misused could be construed as silencing fair review, but you would have to prove it was done for that purpose rather than the purpose of protecting copyright which thus far most UA-camrs cannot afford to do.
Looking at the bright side, you walked away from the shitstorm with a damn nice catchphrase.
Could've sworn he had that nickname from before, seems not to be the case, but its really good regardless
Surprised Romine hasn't copyrighted it and sued Jim for using it yet
RobCoxxy Well it's fair use. ;D
He is not allowed to Sue Jim anymore hahahaha!
i can't speak for jim but it was worth since we can say
THANK.....GO.....FOR JIM.......FUCKING.......STERLING. SON
James Romine single-handedly burning his company to the ground out of sheer petulence brings the words of Buddhaghosa to mind; "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
zody5 not really. his company is nothing but him, and store bought assets.
not really a company
they had steam distribution rights somehow though
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” This is another Buddhist quote that is applicable.
Romine is STILL trying to insult and belittle every single action Jim makes on his twitter.
Holding on to anger is like ripping off your arm in an attempt to beat someone with it.
It is *here,* at least.
Even in 2020, this video is still amazing. Aged like fine wine. I actually really do enjoy just watching Jim tear down DigitalHomocide every now and again. The satisfaction from watching is worth the time, every time.
Imagine acting like 3 years is an unfathomable amount of time 😂 lmao @ your attention span, my god.
@@aggrogator4045 I mean as far as content on UA-cam and the Video Game industry three years is quite a bit. Also idk why you'd want to just be a pretentious duche to random people on the internet but I guess good for you?
@@ormica5847 3 years ago we didn't even have Anthem, God of War, Spiderman or even a hit of the last of us 2 I think....so you're definitely right that the industry flies by
I go through the whole saga sometimes and it's always a delight.
It's an absolute gem of justice porn
My fellow Jimquisitioners!! It's even more legendary now in 2021. Digital Homicide has come back from the primordial ooze that they had slunk off to and are still petty af about everything towards Jim
Is there a video or article? I'm intrigued.
Just as an aside, here in March of 2022 they've disappeared again. Webpage is dead. Good riddance.
@@TheSkittlesmcgee lol ty for this update just saw this video today
Can I sue Jim too? I'm supposed to be working and I had to drop everything I was doing to view this relentlessly entertaining shit with a cup of tea and biscuits as soon as I realised it had been uploaded.
I'm seeking the following damages:
Price of tea: $1 million
Price of mug: $3 million
Price of biscuits: $6 million
Punitive damages: $10 million.
Anzelak Ah, I see you work for the Pentagon. :)
Anzelak remember to add at least 200K in emotional trauma for every Jimquisition that arent around 40 minutes long from this point on
Man, you're very lenient with your charges...
*Does the math DH style* So, that comes down to 19 million right?
You did it wrong, it comes up to 22 million if you use DH-math.
Damnit it pisses me off that James Romine wasn't forced to pay for your legal fees.
mayday303
I think Jim Fucking Sterling chose not to countersue
Let`s be honest: James doesn`t likely have any money. I have to imagine this is what Jim`s lawyers told him - don`t bother trying to get our legal fees from this guy, he doesn`t have the means to pay & you`ll just end up having to deal with him longer than you have to.
I also get the sense from what Jim was saying that his lawyer talked Jim into being merciful. Lawyers spend a lot of time watching ugly retribution play out and watching `bad` people get absolutely crushed, and I have to imagine they come to understand that this is nothing to delight over. James sounds like, for all of his terrible qualities, someone who is sad & desperate. It probably does the world no favors to make him yet more miserable.
You can't get blood from a stone.
Matrim42 unless your a minecraft character
Rebel3000 were not talking about minecraft.
the lindsey ellis omegaverse lawsuit video is a spiritual sequel to this
god yeah Addison Cain more like Addison Romine amirite?
This came out way sooner. That Lindsey Ellis video is a sequal to this
And their video on how Gilson B. Pontes tried to kill their channel is the psuedo direct sequel to this.
@@handsomeaaron6175 thats what they said
Imagine a game made by Romino, written by Cain and set in the Omegaverse.
There would definitely not be enough popcorn on Earth.
10:38 Ah, the old standby “Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children?!?!” argument. Yet they certainly had no qualms about taking money from said children by selling them crap games
Coining the "Jim Fucking Sterling Son" meme was of greater value than the total sum of all games ever released by any of James Romine's companies, and possibly anything else he will ever do in his life.
True dat.
"Possibly"? Let's be realistic...
Honestly, if he is still alive, I'd be impressed at how much his ego can take, but I'd still be surprised. If i went through what James did, I'd pull the trigger.
Jim was generous not counterclaiming these guys and eating his own attorney fees. That says a lot about Jim and what a good guy he is.
Z3PHLAR Marry him, maybe??
Yeah I thought the same thing. I was half expecting a counter suit for all that crap, but Jim probably figured this video would be enough. It was certainly awesome.
I think you make a point that is worth hearing because it shows Jim holds his principles higher than his wallet. Most people would have taken what your lawyer would be recommending, to go after the guy and at least get the money you pumped into paying for lawyers.
That fact alone is the most impressive thing about the whole bloody debacle. Someone like Sam wouldn't understand that.
This is basically the exact thoughts of that lawyer with a UA-cam channel. Verbatim. Its a correct statement, but you should probably express it originally and not just regurgitate it.
- He didn't need to take that settlement. That's the point. He could have countered instead but he decided not to.
"You will break yourself upon me" is genuinely the most badass sentence I've ever heard.
I discovered this channel in 2019 but this makes me have 10 times more respect for Jim.
Same. :)
Same again.
same
Same here.
He’s still great but I think he burned brightest playing shitty steam games. He carved out a huge space for himself and developed his character.
The Judge should've been forced to play Digital Homicide's games. I'm sure he would've ruled in favour of Jim and awarded Jim an extra 100 million dollars in damages due to mental anguish from DH's shitty games Jim went through for us.
Why should the judge be subjegated to such a horrid method of torture? No one should have to play those pieces of shite that barely qualify as interactive entertainment. :P
Steven Chapman How much money do you think DH has?!
TheUltimateRiku , not enough to pay for a artist. Or a lawyer... this sounded funnier in my head but it dident quiet come out right, I know there's a joke in there somewhere.
Robbie Sloan
Digital Homicide is poor. And sucks.
Well that wasn't it.
You should leave this video in the top slot on your UA-cam channel for a period of no less than five years.
Yeah! Remind all those coward and lazy devs they're not as powerful as they think they are.
Haha. Good idea!
hahaha absolutely right :D
The next idiot has arrived. Some random airport game
I check back with this video once a year or so to see if it still slaps.
It do.
I was genuinely disappointed when John Oliver didn’t bring this up in his SLAPP suit episode.
"Eat sh#t Bob!"
"Is it fair to call the Slaughtering Grounds 'an absolute failure' now?"
That's the sound of million mics dropped all at once.
More like 10 million.
MaC S3th more like ten billion.
MaC S3th INFINITE MIC DROP
+Anon E. Mousse
Portal mic drop?
places ear to youtube, yep 2 months later and you can still hear the mic drop XD
And so the Steam Meltdown Saga becomes a Steam Meltdown Legend. May the words of this tale be carved in stone and placed at the gates of Steam, a monolith of ineptitude to caution others of the folly of crossing swords with Jim Fucking Sterling Son.
And may we so see, new failures will attempt to rise, as they always do, Jim's great overbearing ego and pure verbal ferocity devour those that threaten our very way of gaming attainment. He shall not only smite thee, but even more so, remind even the greatest of giants corporations, that they too can't stand when at fault in front of such an epic figure
Thank God, for Jim Fucking Sterling Son.
EnclaveOfObsidian A tale of plaintiffs and defendants, eternally retold.
EnclaveOfObsidian
EnclaveOfObsidian May this grand legend forever be passsd down,father to son,and son to grandson. We are a truly honoured generation to have experienced this godly event with our very eyes
And the last paragraph should be #FucKonami.
Damn, getting close to 6 years old and this is as funny and nutty as it was when it first dropped. Thank god for you steph
Probably old news but hope we're all aware even their logo is just the font "Batman Forever"available for free on font sites.... I thought it looked like my year 10 design project.
“There’s not enough popcorn on earth”
P R O V E I T
Game Theory could've.
@@thesandwich5321 Careful, Matpat is that one that introduced me to this lol
I sell popcorn and popcorn accessories
o r i k i l l y o u
@Charmiskit mythbusters did that
"My lawyer countered this by claiming we can't prove there's not enough popcorn on earth"
Lawyers: This is why I went to law school?!
E. Meaghan Patrick I just never get over this one.
I wanna hear Pheonix Wright point that out in a court case.
Eh, as I said in another thread--not such a big deal if you have your First Amendment chops. Defamation requires falsity, and usually an opinion cannot have falsity. So just madlib in whatever funny opinion you want there. I equally cannot prove who whether Avatar is the most overrated film in the history of mankind, nor whether Jim Carey is now, or ever was, at all funny.
Admittedly, the number of attorneys with even passing competence with the 1A is depressingly a small sum. (See what I did there?)
Probably more like''FINALLY. A COURT-CASE I CAN SHITPOST AS MUCH AS I DO FROM MY OFFICE''
I can imagine the guy thinking: "i spend 5 years studying law & they ask me about fucking popcorns?"
I'm subbed to Jim, I listen to most of his videos and have on occasion rewatched stuff because it just autoplays.
The Digital Homicide story though, I've _actively_ rewatched these videos a good half a dozen times, it's just fucking hilarious.
personally, I think it's sad that people like james will try their hardest to win even to the point where they basically bury themselves instead of simply taking the critics or ignoring it
So in hindsight... they shoud've called themselves Digital Suicide?
🤣
Old joke really.
Burn
@@eugenestan2188 it's an old joke, but it checks out.
@@noahgray543 yea, best one.
"I lost my train of thought there..." I fucking lost it
Sonar101
One of many wonderful moments in this video. so fucking glad Jim won the case.
Wait, they actually HAD a train of thought?
In that brief moment he went "shit, I don't make all the games ever made, what can I possibly say here!?"
+Sonar101 Honestly my favorite moment of the video was when they pulled out that clip of Jim pretending to be a Mad Scientist, as if they had caught him in some GOTCHA! moment. Coincidentally it was also the moment I lost any shred of respect I had for the two.
Can you give me the timestamp? I can't seem to find this awesome moment.
I'd pay money to see 2 lawyers arguing in court about whether or not there was indeed enough popcorn on earth. I'm picturing powerpoint presentations with rough estimates for the existing amounts of popcorn and the popcorn industry's average popcorn production and growth vs the max amount of popcorn theoretically needed for the case
lawyer: Your honor my defendants at Jiffy Pop and Orville Redenbocker claim that the bases of this case requires we discuss the types of popcorn in question.
Geo780 other lawyer: your honor I object, there are certain elements of legal dispute of enough popcorn on earth
Meanwhile the cornflakes humunculus sitting back eating his tasteless cornflakes while this is going on
But will there be butter?
Vampyre Bassist good point, is it buttered popcorn? If so then is there enough butter in the world for all that popcorn?
Rewatching this in light of Gilson B. Pontes, I’m expecting a bit of overlap but there were a lot of gems from this season!
I'm going to sue someone and charge them for all the years I used studying law school in order to sue them hahaha
That’s one way to pay off student debts I guess lmao
Jim "Break Yourselves Upon Me" Sterling, son.
yeah I cheered for jim when he said that.
He's a living Dark Souls boss. Except there's no respawn mechanic.
Considering how frustrating, repetitive, exasperating and *boring*, and ultimately unsatisfying, this whole lawsuit was for Jim, I'd say Digital Homicide is the actual Dark Souls boss.
The cycle is complete
+wafflecopter11 Lol that was the first thing I thought of as well. "Break yourselves upon my body!"
Moral of the Story:
Never enter a creative field if you can't handle your work being criticised
Or if you don't have no creativity at all.
Amen, to both.
YES. This is so painfully true. When I was in school it was crazy to see how many people got insanely defensive and argumentative whenever it was their turn for critique.
Yandere Dev allegedly paid 10,000 usd to have his the Yandere Simulator subreddit taken back because it got overridden with, in his words, gremlins. Let that sink in.
Yandere Dev is one of the best LolCows :D
0:49 " D'ya know what it's like to have a job?"
me, a college student living at home: a what
🤣🤣🤣
Ahh I see, you are also like me
I used to have a job while living at home from college
Then the plague ravaged our world...
It's now been five years since this video was uploaded, and it's still highly entertaining to go back to. If Romine got his way, we'd now be able to watch these videos again. I don't know what Digital Homocide are doing these days, but I hope they realize they weren't defeated by Jim Sterling; they were defeated by themselves. All Jim did was what they had to do in response to a lawsuit, while Digital Homocide smeared their own name and became infamous, wasted hours of time and money throwing tantrums, and blamed Jim for all of it. Kudos to Jim for handling this situation as well as they did, but I think they'd agree with me that basically all of DigiHom's problems were entirely self-inflicted. If the Romine brothers could handle criticism this whole mess would never happen
"I kinda lost my train of thought there"
You've gotta have one before you can lose it.
I always cringe so hard at that part...
Did he have a plan to develop on that rhetorical gambit? Did he forget? Shitting Henry he's a waste of oxygen that lad.
It's kind of precious, really. I dunno how Jim refrained from snorting or laughing at the poor twit, but I know I wouldn't have the same level of self restraint, even if his display of courtesy was done in pure British condescention.
Jim doesn't realize how fragile his career truly is. Imagine if all video games everywhere suddenly disappeared into nothingness. Jim would be out of a job! And what if a massive volcano sprouted underneath Jim's house and began disgorging shock troops from the mole-people army? That would also put an end to Jim's employment. Finally, imagine if history itself was rewritten, and the Daevite Civilization remained the dominant world power up into modern times. I don't think I have to tell you that the field of Garme Jarnalizm wouldn't exist in that scenario. I guess what I'm trying to say is that...that...shit, I seem to have lost my train of thought. Maybe basing my entire argument on a hypothetical wasn't a very good idea.
Anyway, congratulations Jim! The lawsuit was clearly frivolous from the start, but it must feel nice to finally put it behind you.
Ah, the Daevites! Why last I ever heard of them was when Napoleon gave them a good whoopin! A friend of mine says they were involved in WW1 but I don't believe him...
God damnit, we have a breach boys, deploy the amnesiac... I bet this is brights fault, I'm gonna flush that fucking amulet down a toilet
this brought a tear to my eye
Yeah the daevites..... wait ! Space time is folding again ! Tell the foundation befor-
-INFORMATION LEAK DETECTED. CENSOR FOR FUTURE READINGS. CONTAIN THE SPREAD-
-O5-6-
It's a lovely day today isn't it?
I come back to this one every so often and I still think the "not enough popcorn on earth" bit is one of the most amazing bits of legal nonsense I've ever seen. Makes me laugh like a drain every time.
Gilson should be forced to watch this video.
Gilson should’ve watched it before even thinking about trying to take down Jim’s critique videos 🤦🏾♂️ 😆
youtube has... when has anyone ever seen youtube proactively defend a creator against fraudulent DMCA claims? Having followed Sterling since traditional games media days to own thing to now - they are the happiest they've ever been - Stephanie & wrestling have changed the content for the better, seems so so so so much happier. Found themselves - this was the period when having seen the industry for what it is, left out of disgust & kept doing it with patreon supporters to not be beholden to ad revenue or sponsors.... but the backlash & consequences of that move were non trivial. That stress/burden/anger showed often in the content.
it's in youtube's financial interest to keep this out of court - they are not steam here - steam was a third party that also told digital homacide yeahhhhh fuck yourselves to protect users. youtube as a matter of documented policy is protecting an individual who continues to commit perjury - granted one has to prove the claims are knowingly false - but feel that if gilson continues to push - that's what a good lawyer would go after & was hinted at in the "yes notice we're keeping a journal" - if genuine DMCA claims & not targeted harassment would have been bulk filed because the issue is the infringing content not the existence of a creator who makes you mad.
end of day - It's Jim Fucking Sterling, Son. if sony and youtube don't intervene to stop gilson to protect themselves - shit could get interesting
"Arrived on my doorstep of March 2017." Expect to hear from my lawyers for false claims of being a time traveler...
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
I KINDA LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT THERE LOL
because there isn't one.
If people didn't shit we wouldn't need shit trucks.
Great point.
ryan phillips He was obviously trying to make some stupid "point" about Jim not contributing anything meaningful to the gaming community, but he couldn't finish his thought because it was too illogical to complete off the cuff like that.
ryan phillips I THINK (and this is only speculation) he was trying to say if Jim makes reviews telling people to stop making games then Jim won't have a job anymore. Which is true I suppose if Jim only posted reviews telling reviewers to stop doing their jobs. But he doesn't. He posts good reviews and bad reviews.....almost as if he's encouraging.....better games.....from the games industry.
sydney steverson
awesome theory!
Made more stupid by the fact that he states game critics don't have a job if there are no games, completely forgetting that if Unity didn't sell assets for him to use, he wouldn't have a game.
I’m gonna comment my like but not actually leave one cuz it’s at 666
"And you will break yourselves upon me."
Hollywood, nay, Shakespeare couldn't write a line that good.
Rewatching this years later and I had genuinely forgotten that DH coined "Jim Fucking Sterling, Son"
The only good thing DH ever came up with.
My mother has worked in law for years and have worked on numerous sue cases. I showed her this video and she laughed and laughed and laughed, asking what the fuck was the devloper thinking?
FrenchieRocks Reading this i cant help but think she went to work saying " Look at this video my child showed me. Its a doozy."
Darksky1001able I really hope that's the case. I also really hope she did infact use the word "doozy".
I'd imagine one day the Romines walk into the courtroom (assuming to sue Valve), the judge sees them, starts laughing, points them and shouts, "haha, retards!"
Well even you know that your comment is utter bullshit ROFL :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Laughed and laughed?? Here I'm wondering what the heck is your mother thinking???
Dear God ...... I only just now realised that *Boglins* in an anagram of *Goblins*.
I - I.... I have a Master's Degree....
Tasty Loaf Mind. Blown.
Tasty Loaf - So long as you don't have a masters in cryptography, I think I can sleep safe at night knowing this information.
This gives me hope.
This shows that even smart people can make bigger fuck-ups than I do.
Don't worry, it just means your human. Its only human to not notice the obvious. Like me. I actually never noticed until you pointed it out. So now we can be fuck ups together.
"Nilbog is goblin spelt backwards." -Troll 2
I love how this video still crops up my recommended videos two years after the fact. Nearly as long as my time in recent gainful employment. My job is awful and this comment is heading off on a crazy tangent. Rather like Digital Homicide. **zing**
HERE'S TO THE YEAR J.S. Sterling can FINALLY take down the apology videos!!
The 3 year epic finally draws to a close. The anime adaptation, game, movie, book, and audio drama should all be released shortly.
The Nobody14200 I've Heard Hideo kojima was involved in the making of them
The Nobody14200 Fuck me was it really 3 years allready? God damn it runs by fast doesn't it.
"Jim Fucking Starling" the audiobook, read by Hideo Kojima
+HunterMishky 117
I heard that they'll just be reusing the theme "Snake Eater", because how else would you describe Jim after ruining a man like this?
Oh don't you tempt me to make a game adaptation. XD I have enough hobby projects already.
"Is it safe to call the Slaughtering Grounds an Absolute Failure now"
A thousand suns couldn't cause a burn that bad.
31:38 "James... Mate... I wouldn't conspire to have a food truck bring you a bad sandwich." The ultimate dismissal. Absolutely savage, Jim. Absolutely savage. I'm honestly surprised James didn't mention something about how you were defaming his name by calling yourself Jim.
EDIT:
This video was too great for just one timestamp in this comment.
36:54: "You are welcome to try... And you will *break* yourselves upon me." Fucking hell, you're my hero.
It wasn't until just now that I noticed that he fucked the math up on the lawsuit and put the total as $10,761,000 instead of the actual total of $11,561,000.
Nobody expects the English Jimquistion
TheGhostbuster1989 You should spam this comment everywhere
TheGhostbuster1989 I didn't expect the English jimquisition
TheGhostbuster1989 😂😂😂😂
🎶The Jimquisition!
What a show!
The Jimquisition!
Here we go!
We know you’re wishin’
That we’d go away!
Cause the Jimquisition is here and is here to stay!🎶
easiest payday of this lawyers life. I bet he was fucking laughing his ass off this whole time
Probably will be a great story to tell too
So I have been rewatching a lot of your old videos. This was the first video of yours that I ever saw. I'll be honest this video made me love your content. The subject of the video was not fun, but your character, your attitude, your clearly thought out argument and maximum sass is what makes me love you as a creator. Ever since I have always looked forward to your content and I have a feeling that I will for many years to come. You are one of my favorite creators and I am happy you are here. Thank God For You Jim Stephanie Sterling, keep being the awesome creator that you are!
Popped in after watching Lindsay Ellis' video on Addison Cain. There are some fascinating parallels.
Oooooh good shout. Neat double bill
I dare James Romine to sue Valve. Come on, boy, show us what you got. Should be entertaining enough.
0noregrets0 That is the legal equivalent of throwing someone in the Rancor pit.
Tantalized_Funyons Well James did try to subpoena Valve which resulted in him removing all of DH games.
More like someone throwing themselves into said Rancor pit. Though I actually think that a Sarlaac works better in the analogy
tboss2447 a
They win tens of millions
Valve makes half Life 3 to get the money back
Deletes the game
Replaces it with a Dota card game
Every great hero needs their equally great villain. Batman and The Joker. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Jim Fucking Sterling Son and James Romino.
Digicades But this implies Rominjob is "great" in some sense of the word :/
I love you
You're implying that DH is of equal standing with Jim, which is factually wrong.
Jame Romino is not the Joker, he is Crazy Quilt at best
I honestly think Jim's Joker is Nintendo. With Konami being his Penguin, and Ubisoft being his Two Face.
It's 2021 and this doesn't get old
James Romine: fails at running a business, fails to produce something that isn't complete trash, highly litigious, wants to censor all of his critics, takes no responsiblity for his failures, bullies people but calls himself a victim... he's the Donald Trump of video games
James Romine for president 2020!
@Dayton Crandlemire yes like trump has never done this, ever
Hahaha nice one. The T***p of video games.
Successful folk tank action for what they've done and improve themselves before it becomes an issue. Successful folk understand when They have made a mistake and then evolve from that mistake and teach others that so they don't screw up. This guy is the exact opposite
Idk... trump at least manages to convince some people to like him. Romine cant even do that.
"The time when a youtuber was sued for 10 million for saying that a game is shit."
what a time to be alive...
Lone Knight just makes one so excited to become a UA-cam critic in this day and age, eh?
Aye, prime time for that field of work, isnt it?
We're at the tipping point. Right now DMCA takedowns and completely ignored fair use hasn't been challenged. Someone is going to DMCA the wrong youtuber, and that youtuber is going to take them to court, and the internet will explode and reform in the aftermath.
What kind of heartless man would take away Jim's boglin money
I really hope James sees this video
this comment wins the internet for today
With the lawsuit mess over, Jim can now spend all his money on Boglins! Ensuring complete, global Boglin saturation.
ProjectiluvOP a glorious time for all
Plot Twist: Romine is addicted to collecting Boglins too. His habit has put him in deep with the Boglin Mafia, which is why he kept increasing the claims in his suit. If he fails to pay up, they'll cut his mini-boglins off.
Years later this intro is still a bop
truly a classic
Dont mind me, just back for my yearly binge of the digital homicide saga. Was here while it happened and now its just nostalgic for me
same. I do it too.. I miss the Good ole days.
The new Ace Attorney game is weird...
Yeah, but at least we get Jim as one of our defendants!
Menitta Objection! Reality is stranger than fiction!
*Jims lawyer appears*
OBJECTION!
Jim Sterling: Ace Garm Jurnalist
Jim Sterling: Reviews For All
Jim Sterling: Homicide and Tribulations
Robert Romine: Ace Asset Flipper
Jim Sterling: Dual Lawsuits
Jim Sterling: Spirit of Thanking (God. For me.)
What do you have against Apollo Justice?
I like to come here to remind myself that stupid evil people don't always get what they want.
that's the unfortunate thing. The stupid evil people always get caught and broken, its the smart evil people who get what they want
TheSugarRay Hillary Clinton is a prime example.
@@haveltherockjohnson6626 She'd still count as smart evil by that metric considering she got as far as she did.
He cost Jim money and time. He did get what he wanted. :(
Except Jim won. The actual evil person here. Jim is not some saint. He instigates fights and then cries he is the victim when the devs defend themselves. If Jim stuck to professional reviews instead of slandering everyone involved he would be as legit as IGN, but thats not what he does. He has to make money and to do that has to be controversial and put on a show.
"I wouldn't conspire to have a food truck bring you a bad sandwich". Jim Sterling
"Time lost dealing with this case" - That always makes me scream with laughter
You have to admit, his lawsuit was better crafted and more original than his games.
And STILL failed like his games.
this lawsuit should have been a game. The Sue Jim Sterling Simulator. he could just play it once a day to get all those feelings out of his system.
And it was certainly more entertaining to watch as this guy loses his shit. 😂
@@irkallaLustre that would have been hilarious and probably would have made him a decent amount of money from both jims fans and his haters xD
"Well you're welcome to try, because I won't show mercy next time, and you will break yourselves upon me." Goddamn, this could be the entire ending speech and you'd get the whole point across.
MithosFall that was the greatest piece in this video
25:40-28:13 That right there is the reason why I choose to support Jim Sterling. The fact that there are people out there in the world who are so ego/greed filled that they would go after some person who has never hurt them in any way just goes to shows how fucked up steam's system really is. It took a lawsuit for Steam to actually give a shit and shut down this dev's parade. I can only imagine what would have happened had Digital Homicide won the case against steam and got every single name of the people who gave his games a negative review. Scary stuff. Now that we've seen what James can do to a youtuber, who knows what he could do to some random nobody who gave his game a thumbs down. Someone who doesn't have access to a well versed lawyer OR someone who doesn't even know what $100,000 looks like.