Capitalism breeds not only slaves, but slavish mindsets. They just have to make it easier to swallow their loads than it is to rebel against them. And instead of making the loads more palatable, they just use law to crackdown on any opposition to the system that protects wicked people and impoverishes the world. And all the while, true believers carry the torch
That's the thing: they inevitably hire a bunch more back after. It's just a cruel process to fuck with people's employment status and keep their wages down.
Actiblizzard hire them back after the financial report and sweaty Bobby gets his milestone bonus. They're almost all on 0 hour temp contracts and they have 0 rights as employees.
I LOVED (and I'm paraphrasing here wioth some of my own spice) when Jim said: *"Every second that billionares do not choose to spend their way out of existence, is a second they are knowingly choosing to allow and watch as, millions of people die needlessly miserable, sickly, desperatley impoverished lives."* *Poverty is a choice, not of the poor, but of the rich. And that choice is rooted in sadism.*
@@iwtie112 But religions being the insidious hypocrites that they are, only say so, they don't act as such. The wealth, power and greed of religions is second only to corporations. Indeed, the line between the two has been thinner and thinner in the last 70 years.
Here's your reminder that the average person gets around $2 million in their entire lifetime, cumulatively. Kotick got 100 lifetimes' worth of kaching for depriving over 190 people of their livelihood. And it's less than 3 percent of his current estimated net worth. There is no world in which being a billionaire is ethically justifiable.
I was friends with a guy who liked Elon Musk. This same guy could barely afford the necessities to survive. How he could have any positive feelings towards a billionaire, especially considering his situation, is beyond me.
It's not necessarily that owning a lot of money is in itself evil, it's how they GET that money that pisses me off. Crunching and laying off workers like they're disposable. Stepping stones in their eyes. They fuck over their worker's livelyhoods for cash like they don't need food and homes at the end of the day too. THAT'S what's so unethical and outrageous to me. They're literally earning more money that they could ever use. They DON'T use it. This shit is being horded when it really should be out in the market. There really needs to be a cap or higher taxes for these money-sink ceos.
@@RacingSnails64 Well the issue is, that having hundreds, if not thousands of lifetimes' worth of money in your possession means that you will at most be able to use a minuscule fraction of it in a way that is remotely justifiable (so not, like, blowing 44 billion to set one of the world's biggest social media networks on fire). The rest, under the current system, will just sit there indefinitely. Essentially, you've got resources that would save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, _that you will never use,_ but instead of giving back to the society that's put you where you are, you just keep it. Let it gather dust. Because it makes you look more important. _That_ is why there is no ethical way for billionaires to exist. Not because of how they got there, but because they refuse to take on the responsibility that being in control of such vast, world-changing amounts of money brings.
My ridiculous internet conspiracy theory is that Gilson's games are just a cover for some sort of money laundering scheme, but they haven't told him that. Also never let anyone ever tell you your outfits are too much. You don't need that in your life. Your entire look is just fabulous
There's tons of money laundering asset flip companies, but I don't think Gilson fits the MO, I am fairly sure he's actually a Japanese guy and probably a relative of a Sony exec
I honestly think most of those freemium games, like raid and similars, are actually money laundering schemes... i've yet to hear about a single person spending ANY money on that game and yet they seem to be doing great. it's kinda genius when you think about it.
@@davidbodor1762 That's most likely it. Something approximately similar happened in Ubisoft with some bff or relative or whatever of Yves Gillemot that keeps trying to make horse-centric games. It's like all they do - horse games. Of course, those are actual games (not good games, just actual games), unlike Gilson's weird shroom trips.
@@ferna182 Raid in particular is owned by a casino games company; they acquired Raid's developer specifically because, "We think they can help us reach a broader audience with our business."
Capitalism is great don't know what you're talking about. Kotick is a piece of shit. Stop buying his games and he goes away. Can't do that! Ain't blind loyalty to a money grabbing monster, lining his pockets and rewarding his behavior grand?
Well when you shut down small buisnesses and allow big corporation to still do business then you've just witnessed the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the richest but Yea gotta save grandma right....
Really I think him turning Gilson turning up as the Joker would be more appropriate, he is acting like a completele clown he may as well turn up looking like one as well.
If each of the nearly 200 employees that Activision laid off earned $50k per year, Bobby Kotick could have paid them all for the full year out of his $200 million bonus and still had $190 million remaining.
For me, that's the most disgusting thing about it. That the company awards Bobby Kotick a sum so much greater than what it would have cost them to keep all their talented staff on hire. $200m is equivalent to FOUR THOUSAND YEARS at a $50k per year wage. And it's just Bobby Kotick's bonus.
Ya but again why is that his problem ? People should understand a big corporation is going to try and screw them. Activision has been dirty for years. I'm sorry as much as I like him sterling his views on capitalism are way way off base
@@edwardk12687 why is what whose problem? What "people" are you talking about? Are you talking about the employees, Jim's viewers, the general public? And you think gross inequality is "on base"?
being found guilty in court is meant to be the threat that stops people filing fraudulent DMCA claims - suing them is how the system's supposed to work (it's bad)
He's more like a silver age villain you only see in articles listing the worst foes Batman has faced in his career. Gilson is basically The Condiment King.
@@hitman_s1 Imagine saying this about a guy who lit has multiple half hour long videos about the impacts of lootbox based gaming on problem gamblers and rampant sexual abuse at ubisoft
@@Battledongus Imagine thinking compulsive lootbox buying is an addiction, but that Jim Sterling's obvious mental health issues are perfectly acceptable.
@@hitman_s1 Jim's always been a unstable attention seeker, except now hes got the "twansphobia" strawman to hide behind if anyone wants to criticize him. We get it Jim you're wearing pink because "muh el gee bee tee" has never been more fashionable amongst the mentally unstable on the internet until recently and you can't stand not getting free attention.
If Gilson turns out to be a Sony money laundering scheme, you gotta imagine there’s a bunch of people at Sony are sending him emails along the lines of “Please, Gilson, SHUT THE F*CK UP! YOU’RE GONNA BRING IT ALL DOWN!”
That might actually be a thing. Back in the black and white days, the mafia made porn movies, most infamously one called Deep Throat, bought thier own tickets with illegally obtained cash, and played the movie to empty theaters. Making games bad enough no-one would actually buy them, and then buying millions of them with dedicated sock-pupped accounts, is mildly plausible. It there is in fact a person named Gilson down there, it is probably a formerly unemployed dev who made Faustian deal with Sony churn out shovel-ware asset flips as money detergent for a meager percentage that totally to an astronomical amount in dollars and cents.
@@josephjarosch8739 I don’t think the sales data reflects that (I haven’t seen it, and I refuse to let Gilson onto my search engine in any form) so maybe it’s some other scheme. Maybe tax related? Could be something specifically Studio related and not the games
Gilson B. Pontes is likely not a person at all. It's likely a hush-hush operation on Sony's end or an alias for someone who's legitimately laundering money
I think the hat is overdoing the bedazzling, but that won't stop me from watching Edit : I got it. The hat is over designed compared to the jacket. Solution is to be dazzle the jacket
Gilson: tries to shut Sterling down Sterling: sues and forces him to reveal his real identity and the controversy makes Sony remove his games Gilson: Shocked Pikachu face
I'm going to laugh if Jim manages to drag UA-cam into this and actually change the system. UA-cam: What do you mean we can't allow people to purjur themselves?! T_T What do you expect us to do, actually give a shit about people NOT Corps?? To say nothing of whatever the HELL that Gilson & Sony are hiding. It would be wonderful if it turned out that someone in or related to someone in the Upper Echelons in Sony were using Gilson as a money laundering or whatever. An that Jim ends up becoming an Investigative Reporter who tracks them down. That or sues youtube in a giant class action lawsuit would be p amazing too.
@@TheAyanamiRei as someone who hates those Sony bastards for monopolizing a much-adored comic book hero character from my childhood, and rendering my favourite RPG series PlAyStAtIoN eXcLuSiVe, Sony deserve a scandal like that.
Jim, I know you always say your audience skews a little high age-wise, but this whole "eat the rich and look fucking fabulous while doing it" is an A+ approach to widening your base. You can never be too extra, is what I'm saying.
"Is this too much?" ... Yes, but that doesn't mean I don't like it. Honestly it's just the jacket that's letting the team down. Juxtaposed to the hat it seems muted. Which, is impressive considering how very *pink* it is.
I think I'd prefer it if it was revealed that Gilson is a cousin of the Romine brothers. Just so it has that feeling of a writer trying to figure out how to use the same villain without actually inventing a new villain.
if you had told me 10 years ago that this is what the show would evolve into, i'd have called you insane. Glad it did, shit this energy is intoxicating
Jim could walk into frame wearing human skin as a body suit and I'd be like, "okay this is jim today, cool". Every episode is its own universe and has its own continuity.
Lol, beat me to the punch! I personally dont think the level of extra which would be too much has been dreamt of yet. It would take some real innovation to accomplish
At that level of increasing extraness within 3 years Jim would have transcended physical reality and become a shimmering orb of multicoloured energy. In a really cool hat. And that would play Merry hell with the green screen.
From WIlliam Gibson's _Count Zero_ “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
I rarely comment on a video, or personality. Frankly I value someone's personal opinion as much as they should value mine, which is not at all. How-****ing-ever, I must say this to relive what feels like a burden on my soul. It has been quite some time since I have viewed an episode of "The Jimquisition", which was made wildly clear from the moment I hit play. Honestly, Jim has always been a bit much but, from my limited exposure over the last few years, they appear to have lost their god damn mind. Shocking! Jarring! Wild! They took, 'too much' and added some 'extra'. Surely a sight to witness, and proof that too much, was not enough. I am in for all of it, I thought I had been subscribed, well I sure as F**k am now, I assure you. May God save the Jim, for they bless us with their presence.
So UA-cam only gives a crap about the rights of its users when someone threatens them with legal action? I'm so shocked by this fact. It's almost like UA-cam is run by ghouls or something. *Edit: Thank you for giving Bobby his customary devil horns. I'm always excited by the prospect of people googling his name and seeing what Bobby realistically looks like.
Is it? As you literally reference, it's not the first time in history this has happened. What surprises me is how close to actual cartoon/comic book villainy people in real life have become so openly and brazenly. It's almost like something is just inherently wrong with people if it keeps happens throughout history at any place on Earth at any time and nothing is ever truly able to be done about it.
It don't help that people are completely incapable of understanding the levels of money we are talking here because all of the time you say someone is a Billionaire and instantly people believe they are richer than they really are. Don't get me wrong, they are insanely wealthy to an absurd degree but all the time you end up with people not understanding that Billion does not equal trillion. He even does it in this video claiming this guy with 7 billion could give everyone in America thousands of dollars and he could still live off the interest.... why don't ya'll run that math real quick and come back and lemme know what you come up with. Figure on say 350 million people in America. Can Bobby give everyone thousands? Tens of thousands? Hunnndreds of thousands?
@@seditt5146 I know, I know, Boby can give about 70 million people $100. I don't think Jim is being litteral but you have to conceded that if this class of person was not so wealthy society would not be so poor. Certainly he should not fire the workers that made him rich after he doesn't need them.
@@davidcomito505 Yeah I really do not concede that in the slightest sorry. It's 20 bucks btw and the amount of money they have is irrelevant to my life or yours especially considering there has been people equivalent to the ones such as this for thousands of years and yet overall prosperity and wealth has varied widely from country and culture over time. This notion has persisted and gotten so bad that people such as yourself feel like it is a give simply because it is so easy to take pot shots as those on the top, ignoring the fact that in reality it is those very people that keep society functioning in the first place. This particular fellow might be a complete and utter piece of shit but you can rest assure he was a piece of shit well before he had a million dollars.
@@seditt5146 They don't really keep society functioning they exploit a functioning society and give little back. They value 90% of the work and innovation magnitudes less than their contribution and are often rewarded for failure with more money than a hard working person will make in their lifetime. Indeed explain how Bobby keeps society running? His contribution to society is selling video games, he doesn't help make the games anymore, I'm sure at this point he would be hard pressed to know how to write one line of code for a COD game, he just mandates that they be made and then has the people that make the games fired. One thing I know about Bobby, is like other rich kids of the 70s he had the advantage of having access to computer technology middle class kids didn't. Maybe he was gifted to be abel to write code but he started out leveraging huge amounts of money in his early 20s and equally or more gifted programmers ended up working for him being paid considerably less not because they were less talented but simply because they didn't start life owning the means of production like Bobby. These people are not Atlas, they don't hold society up they just collect most of the wealth generated by equally talented but poorer people for themselves. Anyone who defends these worthless billionaires are likely suffering a Horatio Alger complex.
Gilson should become a detective. Because the only way Sony and UA-cam are letting him do what he's doing is him finding some absolutely scandalous dirt on them.
The origanal NES Zelda comercial was pretty bad then they released there hip take 2 version ua-cam.com/video/E-qBkWerZDg/v-deo.html , I was confused if it was a game at all just being a kid at the time.
Ah so is it like the Gif vs Jif debate. Is it actually Jilson and they’re just upset at Jim for their honesty rather than the coverage of their terrible, terrible ‘games’
NEWS: The devs for Overfall have decided to revoke the keys of people who bought the game after 2+ years. These keys were part of a Fanatical bundle in 2018. So we are out the money and the game. They are willing to give us the game back if we hand over marketable personal info to them. How nice of them! And kudos to "Steam"ing Pile for letting them do this. Awesome hat BTW.
Imagine Kotick suborning a small European country's economy by pumping trillions of untaxed income into the sectors only serving his masturbatory lifestyle.
Hey man cut him some slack, since epsteins arrest they don't have an island for blood rituals anymore so Bobby's working hard to get that island money.
@@alvernonjunior1701 i saw its a start. She's still being viewed as Epsteins accessory which wasn't the case, was the other way around. She ran the op most likely and Epstein was the front man
1, I ADORE the outfit, and 2, watching you be so absolutely happy is so god damn good I feel better coming out as nonbinary watching your transition. Thank God for you, Sterling.
@@reservoir_flow Golden Wind is part 5, and "Freek'N You" is the song they use for the outro for the first 20 or so episodes. People like to meme the song because the opening lyrics are "Every time I close my eyes, I wake up feeling so horny".
For the record, they also got 3 months salary and a year of health insurance. Doesn’t make the fact of the layoffs any better, of course, there’s no real reason for AB to be laying people off when they’re so successful, but the gift cards were almost certainly the smallest part of the layoff package, not remotely the most significant part (which is how they’re often reported).
@@Wraithfighter After reading up on it I was just coming back to say the same thing! It does however seem pretty tone deaf to include such a locked in and effectively worthless addition.
@@chrismingay6005 Oh, its indeed tone-deaf and a small bit of salt in the wound. The package might be less valuable without the gift cards, but likely would be received better. Just figure it's worth, well, getting the facts right, ya know?
@@Handle35667 Nah, I'm kinda with him on this one. He has so much makeup on he looks like a vampire from Twilight. I'm not bashing him for wearing makeup, I could really care less, but I agree that it's too much makeup
0:35 Nah Babes this is literally the best thing ever. I actually giggled and clapped like a 5 year old seeing Elsa at a birthday party in happiness when I saw your hat.
Jim: "Is it too much?" Me: "Is what too much?" Seriously, I didn't even know what they were talking about for the first few seconds of the video. It just looked like classic classy Jim to me LMAO!
Now now, there's usually some barely-veiled blackmail, extortion, threats and coercion involved. "Make more money for me, or I'll throw you out and pull in an even more desperate person off the street!" Which explains why the political right loves to keep the poor numerous, under-educated, miserable and barely alive.
Damn, Jim Stirling be looking fine, not many people could rock a glitter hat and a hot pink jacket. I'm jealous of how damn good this legend looks. Rachael xx
Jim could've worn this exact outfit with 0 explanation last year and I wouldn't have batted an eye. It's just extremely Jim.
Very true! 😂
To be honest, on the coming out video, I didn't bat an eye either. The explanation explained it but didn't need an explanation.
Exactly, it's still the same Jim, people need to chill out haha
I haven't watched Jim's content in a while so i have absolutely no context and i still was like "ok, nothing weird here".
The outfit is completely on brand for the channel
The most surprising thing about Activision laying off employees is that the company still has employees left.
Capitalism breeds not only slaves, but slavish mindsets. They just have to make it easier to swallow their loads than it is to rebel against them. And instead of making the loads more palatable, they just use law to crackdown on any opposition to the system that protects wicked people and impoverishes the world. And all the while, true believers carry the torch
The only thing about Activision that doesn’t make me angry: they own crash bandicoot and other franchises I love dearly. No mad, just sad.
That's the thing: they inevitably hire a bunch more back after. It's just a cruel process to fuck with people's employment status and keep their wages down.
@@gothimaya2776 And just like every decent IP they have, they bought it from someone else. It's just a money siphoning machine
Actiblizzard hire them back after the financial report and sweaty Bobby gets his milestone bonus. They're almost all on 0 hour temp contracts and they have 0 rights as employees.
I LOVED (and I'm paraphrasing here wioth some of my own spice) when Jim said:
*"Every second that billionares do not choose to spend their way out of existence, is a second they are knowingly choosing to allow and watch as, millions of people die needlessly miserable, sickly, desperatley impoverished lives."*
*Poverty is a choice, not of the poor, but of the rich. And that choice is rooted in sadism.*
I think you mean it's rooted in capitalism.
Oh, right, it's the same thing.
*stupidity and sociopathy*
You know i dont often agree with religion but most see greed as something bad.
@@iwtie112 But religions being the insidious hypocrites that they are, only say so, they don't act as such. The wealth, power and greed of religions is second only to corporations. Indeed, the line between the two has been thinner and thinner in the last 70 years.
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 which is alarming.
Here's your reminder that the average person gets around $2 million in their entire lifetime, cumulatively. Kotick got 100 lifetimes' worth of kaching for depriving over 190 people of their livelihood.
And it's less than 3 percent of his current estimated net worth.
There is no world in which being a billionaire is ethically justifiable.
I was friends with a guy who liked Elon Musk. This same guy could barely afford the necessities to survive. How he could have any positive feelings towards a billionaire, especially considering his situation, is beyond me.
It's not necessarily that owning a lot of money is in itself evil, it's how they GET that money that pisses me off. Crunching and laying off workers like they're disposable. Stepping stones in their eyes. They fuck over their worker's livelyhoods for cash like they don't need food and homes at the end of the day too. THAT'S what's so unethical and outrageous to me.
They're literally earning more money that they could ever use. They DON'T use it. This shit is being horded when it really should be out in the market. There really needs to be a cap or higher taxes for these money-sink ceos.
@@sophitiaofhyrule Lol that's a strange situation
@@RacingSnails64 Well the issue is, that having hundreds, if not thousands of lifetimes' worth of money in your possession means that you will at most be able to use a minuscule fraction of it in a way that is remotely justifiable (so not, like, blowing 44 billion to set one of the world's biggest social media networks on fire). The rest, under the current system, will just sit there indefinitely.
Essentially, you've got resources that would save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, _that you will never use,_ but instead of giving back to the society that's put you where you are, you just keep it. Let it gather dust. Because it makes you look more important.
_That_ is why there is no ethical way for billionaires to exist. Not because of how they got there, but because they refuse to take on the responsibility that being in control of such vast, world-changing amounts of money brings.
@@sophitiaofhyrule It's usually the poorest people that depend on the state for survival that hate its protective programs the most.
Jim is slowly becoming a Jojo character and I'm absolutely here for it.
Is his stand named "born different"?
Edit: hers, sorry, fuck im still not used to it
I see it more being the kellogg's homunculus
@@tefnutofhoney2832 It's genuinely great that you're doing you best, but I'm pretty sure Jim specified "they/them/their."
God dammit you got there first.
Did he develop powers?
Sterling asks: Is this too extra? Audience: You've always been this extra.
Mettaton approves!
Yeah, I was a bit confused why anyone would think this was too extra, maybe if they're new to the channel I guess.
I know right. I was like ,"this is normal."
I actually thought it was mild for Jim.
Audience: PLUS ULTRA
My ridiculous internet conspiracy theory is that Gilson's games are just a cover for some sort of money laundering scheme, but they haven't told him that. Also never let anyone ever tell you your outfits are too much. You don't need that in your life. Your entire look is just fabulous
There's tons of money laundering asset flip companies, but I don't think Gilson fits the MO, I am fairly sure he's actually a Japanese guy and probably a relative of a Sony exec
I honestly think most of those freemium games, like raid and similars, are actually money laundering schemes... i've yet to hear about a single person spending ANY money on that game and yet they seem to be doing great. it's kinda genius when you think about it.
@@davidbodor1762 That's most likely it. Something approximately similar happened in Ubisoft with some bff or relative or whatever of Yves Gillemot that keeps trying to make horse-centric games. It's like all they do - horse games. Of course, those are actual games (not good games, just actual games), unlike Gilson's weird shroom trips.
@@ferna182 Raid in particular is owned by a casino games company; they acquired Raid's developer specifically because, "We think they can help us reach a broader audience with our business."
I think this also. Gilson is obviously a bogus name and details of the company is difficult to track down.
Sterling: "Is this too extra?"
Yes
Sterling: "Do you love it?!"
Yes
The joy in their eyes when they started yelling too, hahaha... love ya Steph, you absolute icon.
I love jim i just miss his old look no toys in his goggles, or strange hats, love the OG look of the red and black ascetic. :(
@@Eaterofsouls999 i do miss the boglins, and the black and red aesthetic is nice but this isnt a bad one either
I kinda love how GILSON B. PONTES is always spoken with his full name like an anime villain or something.
Ahem REINERRRR
Pink Jim Sterling is now canonical and no longer immersion-breaking fanfic. Sense of pride and accomplishment restored.
*EA enters the chat*
So Bobby could basically take his bonus and give a million dollars to everyone he fired and still have 7 billion dollars. Ain't capitalism grand.
Bobby doesn't strike me as a Carnegie who'd want to enrich his community. More a Rockefeller who'd only make donations to get heat off his ass
Capitalism is great don't know what you're talking about. Kotick is a piece of shit. Stop buying his games and he goes away. Can't do that! Ain't blind loyalty to a money grabbing monster, lining his pockets and rewarding his behavior grand?
@@Ruestar1 LMAO yeah capitalism is so great stuff like this is LEGAL, endorsed and allowed
@@Ruestar1 Capitalism is great to a minority of people and the rest is fucked like half of the people in the planet are poor.
Well when you shut down small buisnesses and allow big corporation to still do business then you've just witnessed the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the richest but Yea gotta save grandma right....
As somebody who Activision fired (somewhat) recently, listening to you tear Bobby Kotick and Activision a new one is very cathartic
Gilson if your reading this, please turn up to court dressed as the Riddler. You won't look as good as Jim but you may just surprise us.
Surprise? No.
But he would look just as stupid as his actions suggest he is.
Really I think him turning Gilson turning up as the Joker would be more appropriate, he is acting like a completele clown he may as well turn up looking like one as well.
@@barrywallace2744 but that would require him to be a smart scheming trickster, and that is something he is NOT.
The funny part about Jim's transition is that nothing much has really changed aside from the fact that they seem happier.
40%
@@Qwerty-jy9mj of cops beat their spouses
@@Supercooldude1107 40% _self report_
I started watching Jim 5 years ago and back then I knew they were not straight. Today I just know their preferred pronouns
@@georgekostaras they came put as pansexual a few years back
If each of the nearly 200 employees that Activision laid off earned $50k per year, Bobby Kotick could have paid them all for the full year out of his $200 million bonus and still had $190 million remaining.
Someone should just help me build a COD-inspired gun and help me raid his mansion already
For me, that's the most disgusting thing about it. That the company awards Bobby Kotick a sum so much greater than what it would have cost them to keep all their talented staff on hire. $200m is equivalent to FOUR THOUSAND YEARS at a $50k per year wage. And it's just Bobby Kotick's bonus.
Ya but again why is that his problem ? People should understand a big corporation is going to try and screw them. Activision has been dirty for years. I'm sorry as much as I like him sterling his views on capitalism are way way off base
@@edwardk12687 why is what whose problem? What "people" are you talking about? Are you talking about the employees, Jim's viewers, the general public? And you think gross inequality is "on base"?
@@edwardk12687 So you're a fan of people being assholes. Nice to know. Let's never meet.
“Don’t be a Gilson” is such a hard hitting slur.
Don't be the bigger person. Sue them out of existence.
“Being the bigger man is overrated.”
-Huey Freeman
Thanos really changed you, didn't he Cap?
It's easy for us on the sidelines to go 'destroy this alleged person', but that doesn't make it any less correct. He's asked for it.
Suing is being the bigger man.
being found guilty in court is meant to be the threat that stops people filing fraudulent DMCA claims - suing them is how the system's supposed to work (it's bad)
Jim’s ad breaks are slowly moving towards something you’d find in a horror film
Slowly? It's been horror for a while in my opinion 😂
Lol I was thinking the same thing
They're moving toward Tim and Eric.
Especially with the intro, I think the COVID lockdowns pumped up the madness
And I grew up watching these adverts, an improvement I say!
Comparing Gilson to the Riddler is either extremely complementary to Gilson or unfair to the Riddler
Is that a riddle in itself? :P
Both. Riddler is far above him.
Poor Frank Gorshin
The riddler is a hypercompetent intelligent man with a variety of skills and talents, gilson is aledgedly a man
He's more like a silver age villain you only see in articles listing the worst foes Batman has faced in his career. Gilson is basically The Condiment King.
Jim is slowly becoming vaporwave, I'm not mad at it.
You had it right: vaporware. A lot of gasbagging and zero tangible result. He's an internet panhandler, and always has been.
@@coxsquad Imagine being dumb enough to think that Jim Sterling cares about anything other than himself.
@@hitman_s1 Imagine saying this about a guy who lit has multiple half hour long videos about the impacts of lootbox based gaming on problem gamblers and rampant sexual abuse at ubisoft
@@Battledongus Imagine thinking compulsive lootbox buying is an addiction, but that Jim Sterling's obvious mental health issues are perfectly acceptable.
@@hitman_s1 Jim's always been a unstable attention seeker, except now hes got the "twansphobia" strawman to hide behind if anyone wants to criticize him. We get it Jim you're wearing pink because "muh el gee bee tee" has never been more fashionable amongst the mentally unstable on the internet until recently and you can't stand not getting free attention.
I can't wait for Jim to unmask Gilson B Pontes like a Scooby-Doo villain
Let's see who this monster is? James Romine!?
Gasp...old man bobby kotick?
@@jaschathane134 My money's on Randy Pitchford
@@Edgemaster72 Still can't not read that as Pitchfork every time I see it. >.
That hat is god damn amazing!
You speak the truth! =D
I love it
You're god damn amazing.
Jewel-encrusted Jim is a fabulous way to start a week.
we ask "Why is Gilson" but never "How is Gilson" I am genuinely concerned for his mental health.
Wait.. GBP actually poked the bear enough to potentially destroy himself?
go Team Jim!
In 2022 the one GBP trashy game will be a shit Ace Attorney ripoff. Of him loosing.
I cannot express just how much I love the outfit.
It took me a moment to absorb the sheer amount of fabulousness. I particularly liked the goggles!
It is far from extra. It is EXACTLY what is needed. Or dare I say, the bare minimum.
ELLEN! Of all the places to see my favorite outsidextra person.
I can: I love it very.
The expression is, ALL OF MY YES
I'm glad to see Jim Stephanie is still maintaining their sense of humor through the madness.
I don't know what "too extra" means when we're talking about Jim. I would raise a brow if Jim threw on a regular a regular t-shirt and jeans.
If Jim starts an 'help me unmask Gilson B Pontes' fund I'll donate as much as Jim needs.
This outfit is fucking perfection and I need that hat holy shit
Absolutely agree.
Hat is op. I think maybe they made it, so the chances of obtaining one are...not good.😔
Definitely saw that hat for sale in Brighton a few years back. I almost convinced my girlfriend to buy it 😂
It isn't my style, but it is AMAAAAAZING for them and made me ridiculously happy TBH.
If Gilson turns out to be a Sony money laundering scheme, you gotta imagine there’s a bunch of people at Sony are sending him emails along the lines of “Please, Gilson, SHUT THE F*CK UP! YOU’RE GONNA BRING IT ALL DOWN!”
That might actually be a thing. Back in the black and white days, the mafia made porn movies, most infamously one called Deep Throat, bought thier own tickets with illegally obtained cash, and played the movie to empty theaters. Making games bad enough no-one would actually buy them, and then buying millions of them with dedicated sock-pupped accounts, is mildly plausible. It there is in fact a person named Gilson down there, it is probably a formerly unemployed dev who made Faustian deal with Sony churn out shovel-ware asset flips as money detergent for a meager percentage that totally to an astronomical amount in dollars and cents.
@@josephjarosch8739 I don’t think the sales data reflects that (I haven’t seen it, and I refuse to let Gilson onto my search engine in any form) so maybe it’s some other scheme. Maybe tax related? Could be something specifically Studio related and not the games
If true, one can only wonder how many other studios under Sony putting out stinkers are part of this scheme.
@@crazyinsane500 And we can only assume that the Tojo Clan is involved in the whole operation in some way.
Gilson B. Pontes is likely not a person at all. It's likely a hush-hush operation on Sony's end or an alias for someone who's legitimately laundering money
"Is it too much?"
I mean this is where I always assumed we were going. And I AM HERE FOR IT!
After the opening title. My eyes were drawn immediately to the new, majestic crown resting gently upon thine head and thought, "yup, that works."
Loud and proud just like our host 💓
I think the hat is overdoing the bedazzling, but that won't stop me from watching
Edit : I got it. The hat is over designed compared to the jacket. Solution is to be dazzle the jacket
New Batman Villain Unlocked: The Bedazzler!
BEDAZZLE THE JACKET
genius!!!!
@@MnemoticCat90 bedazzling a jacket should be called "bejazzling". And there'd be no way this could be confused with anything else.
Gilson: tries to shut Sterling down
Sterling: sues and forces him to reveal his real identity and the controversy makes Sony remove his games
Gilson: Shocked Pikachu face
Gilson claim shocked pikachu face....
I'm going to laugh if Jim manages to drag UA-cam into this and actually change the system.
UA-cam: What do you mean we can't allow people to purjur themselves?! T_T
What do you expect us to do, actually give a shit about people NOT Corps??
To say nothing of whatever the HELL that Gilson & Sony are hiding. It would be wonderful if it turned out that someone in or related to someone in the Upper Echelons in Sony were using Gilson as a money laundering or whatever. An that Jim ends up becoming an Investigative Reporter who tracks them down.
That or sues youtube in a giant class action lawsuit would be p amazing too.
@@TheAyanamiRei Yeah, honestly, I suspect Gilson's running some kind of money laundering or tax avoidance scheme.
@@TheAyanamiRei as someone who hates those Sony bastards for monopolizing a much-adored comic book hero character from my childhood, and rendering my favourite RPG series PlAyStAtIoN eXcLuSiVe, Sony deserve a scandal like that.
Jim, I know you always say your audience skews a little high age-wise, but this whole "eat the rich and look fucking fabulous while doing it" is an A+ approach to widening your base. You can never be too extra, is what I'm saying.
I don't think that's the main focus, it's about just being happy and comfortable, we don't all need to be influencers
"Is this too much?"
... Yes, but that doesn't mean I don't like it.
Honestly it's just the jacket that's letting the team down. Juxtaposed to the hat it seems muted.
Which, is impressive considering how very *pink* it is.
I was thinking the same thing. Step it up, pink jacket!
Jacket needs to glow in the dark to be equal to everything else.
I'd like a black jacket with excessively pink highlights and tie.
My default setting is Extra so I agree. 👌🏿🦄
Perhaps a lovely animal print
Okay so 1) outfit is amazing and 2) I've never been more terrified of turkey in my life
I'm not vegan because I love turkeys. I'm vegan because I'm fucking terrified of them.
@@2020-p2z angering the turkeys is the greatest mistake one could make. Trust me.
@@2020-p2z it's good that you're vegan but you wouldn't have to kill them yourself
"Turkey"
@@2020-p2z Wait, 2020 is afraid of turkeys? Damn, we could've saved last year with more turkeys!
Jim Sterling looking more fabulous than a pink Darth Vader.
on prom night
But far less fashy than the ol vader.
looks kinda jojo which is great
Not too extra. IT IS THE EXTRA! SLAY IT!
The jacket could need more glitter. Your hat cries literally "Hello! I'm here! Look at me!" and your poor jacket whispers "At least I'm pink."
*Gilson being unmasked as one of the Romine Brothers*
"It was me, Sterling! It was me all along!"
I think I'd prefer it if it was revealed that Gilson is a cousin of the Romine brothers. Just so it has that feeling of a writer trying to figure out how to use the same villain without actually inventing a new villain.
"And i would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!"
This is now canon.
"You thought I was Gilson, but it was me, James!"
It was me Jim. I filed all those DMCA claims. And when I did it. I talked. Just. Like. _Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis_
Copyright striking Jim is like trying to invade Russia in the winter
Only the Mongols could do it?
@@vegronica9006 thats a legit thought... is mongolia a risk to Jim?
Surely I will be the one to do it successfully!
He fell for one of the classic blunders
@@z-beeblebrox never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line?
if you had told me 10 years ago that this is what the show would evolve into, i'd have called you insane. Glad it did, shit this energy is intoxicating
Jim could walk into frame wearing human skin as a body suit and I'd be like, "okay this is jim today, cool". Every episode is its own universe and has its own continuity.
We wouldn't even be talking about it this much if Jim hadn't.
It’s beautiful
It's the Sterling multiverse!
@@FUN27UYIRT The Multijimension
@@CarbonRollerCaco oh! *points* NICE!
Holy shit, that hat is so glamourpunk!
Glamourpunk sounds like it should be it's own punk genre, ngl.
To paraphrase Pratchett: "Dwarf women loved sequins; they hadn't transgressed centuries of gender norms for no modest dress and pearl earrings"
Best quote I've read on the internet this year, long live Discworld!
@@andrewlodge8065 GNU Terry Pratchett
Jim's videos are extremely important to me. They provide me the motivation I need to enter government and do my best to change these corrupt systems.
Hope you've managed something, pal
Its official now. Jim just morphed in to a JJBA character.
Preferably the Golden Wind Arc, since everybody there all dressed so extra.
@@gamepapa1211 Jojo gangstar
Literally every time I see Jim they're more powerful.
Then he's my favorite Stand.😊👍🏽
I bet that's not even their final form!
Jim, you can NEVER be too extra. In fact challenge you to become 20% more extra each video. Come and have a go if you think you're fab enough.
Was just about to comment, best look so far !
I mean... It's Jim Stephanie Sterling we're talking about. Increasing the extra ain't even a challenge for them. XD
Lol, beat me to the punch! I personally dont think the level of extra which would be too much has been dreamt of yet. It would take some real innovation to accomplish
Jim has been getting more extra with each video lol so he's already doing it
At that level of increasing extraness within 3 years Jim would have transcended physical reality and become a shimmering orb of multicoloured energy. In a really cool hat.
And that would play Merry hell with the green screen.
Jim Stephanie looking like they're going to become the next hyperpop queen isn't extra, it's perfect
James Stephanie Sterling not missing a Monday, even when bellends are attacking their channel. Fucking respect!
From WIlliam Gibson's _Count Zero_ “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
That's due to all the cloning and manipulating their genetic code though.
Nobody expects the Jimquisition!
I expect it every Monday.
I wonder what the Jimquisition's chief weapon is...chief weapons are...
May he strike gaming evildoers with glittering, pink cushions.
@@Martynde 😄
Martyn de Weert: ok fine, Mondays yes, and sometimes on Thursdays as a podcast but besides those two situations: NOBODY EXPECTS THE JIMQUISITION!
Ahem, the _F A B U L O U S Jimquisition!_
"Why is Gilson?"
Why, indeed.
What is Gilson?
@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 more importantly: where is Gilson?
@@Heidenspross That IS the big question, innit! Where *IS* Gilson?
At least no one is asking "how is gilson", because we really don't care. XD
I rarely comment on a video, or personality. Frankly I value someone's personal opinion as much as they should value mine, which is not at all. How-****ing-ever, I must say this to relive what feels like a burden on my soul. It has been quite some time since I have viewed an episode of "The Jimquisition", which was made wildly clear from the moment I hit play. Honestly, Jim has always been a bit much but, from my limited exposure over the last few years, they appear to have lost their god damn mind. Shocking! Jarring! Wild! They took, 'too much' and added some 'extra'. Surely a sight to witness, and proof that too much, was not enough. I am in for all of it, I thought I had been subscribed, well I sure as F**k am now, I assure you. May God save the Jim, for they bless us with their presence.
"Stand users can look like anyone..."
i wonder what Jim's stand would be hahaha
@@pronick619
STAND: Born Different
ABILITY: Can detect bullshit and unleash a ruthless verbal counter attack
PWR: A
SPD: C
RNG:D
STA: A
PRC: B
DEV: C
@@nyx9208 You got the Stand stat block and everything. Bravo.
Ah. I see you're a person of culture as well
And yet they have the most outlandish outfits.
This blinged out Poison look is popping the fuck off - I adore it Jim.
Thank God for Jim F-ing Sterling and their Non-Binary Finery, Son/Daughter!
So UA-cam only gives a crap about the rights of its users when someone threatens them with legal action? I'm so shocked by this fact. It's almost like UA-cam is run by ghouls or something.
*Edit: Thank you for giving Bobby his customary devil horns. I'm always excited by the prospect of people googling his name and seeing what Bobby realistically looks like.
To be fair they don't give a shit if you sue them either. But when it comes to copyright they don't get involved at all. The law would have to change.
I really want to see close-ups of that hat. It looks like a crown that should be displayed in a glass case
This kind of Olympian detachment of these billionaires is unbelievable.
Is it? As you literally reference, it's not the first time in history this has happened. What surprises me is how close to actual cartoon/comic book villainy people in real life have become so openly and brazenly. It's almost like something is just inherently wrong with people if it keeps happens throughout history at any place on Earth at any time and nothing is ever truly able to be done about it.
It don't help that people are completely incapable of understanding the levels of money we are talking here because all of the time you say someone is a Billionaire and instantly people believe they are richer than they really are. Don't get me wrong, they are insanely wealthy to an absurd degree but all the time you end up with people not understanding that Billion does not equal trillion. He even does it in this video claiming this guy with 7 billion could give everyone in America thousands of dollars and he could still live off the interest.... why don't ya'll run that math real quick and come back and lemme know what you come up with. Figure on say 350 million people in America. Can Bobby give everyone thousands? Tens of thousands? Hunnndreds of thousands?
@@seditt5146 I know, I know, Boby can give about 70 million people $100. I don't think Jim is being litteral but you have to conceded that if this class of person was not so wealthy society would not be so poor. Certainly he should not fire the workers that made him rich after he doesn't need them.
@@davidcomito505 Yeah I really do not concede that in the slightest sorry. It's 20 bucks btw and the amount of money they have is irrelevant to my life or yours especially considering there has been people equivalent to the ones such as this for thousands of years and yet overall prosperity and wealth has varied widely from country and culture over time.
This notion has persisted and gotten so bad that people such as yourself feel like it is a give simply because it is so easy to take pot shots as those on the top, ignoring the fact that in reality it is those very people that keep society functioning in the first place.
This particular fellow might be a complete and utter piece of shit but you can rest assure he was a piece of shit well before he had a million dollars.
@@seditt5146 They don't really keep society functioning they exploit a functioning society and give little back. They value 90% of the work and innovation magnitudes less than their contribution and are often rewarded for failure with more money than a hard working person will make in their lifetime. Indeed explain how Bobby keeps society running? His contribution to society is selling video games, he doesn't help make the games anymore, I'm sure at this point he would be hard pressed to know how to write one line of code for a COD game, he just mandates that they be made and then has the people that make the games fired. One thing I know about Bobby, is like other rich kids of the 70s he had the advantage of having access to computer technology middle class kids didn't. Maybe he was gifted to be abel to write code but he started out leveraging huge amounts of money in his early 20s and equally or more gifted programmers ended up working for him being paid considerably less not because they were less talented but simply because they didn't start life owning the means of production like Bobby. These people are not Atlas, they don't hold society up they just collect most of the wealth generated by equally talented but poorer people for themselves. Anyone who defends these worthless billionaires are likely suffering a Horatio Alger complex.
Jim opening up their email: "There better not be any goddamn emails in here."
Suspect use of the word "their" 😏
@@fmotlgreen6814 ? jim uses they/them pronouns so 'their' email is correct
@@fmotlgreen6814 *correct use
Does anybody ever hope they have emails?
Doesn't stop it being an unnecessary & embarrassing overcomplication whilst walking on eggshells as he's fine with still being called Jim.
“Do you love it?!” Yes.
“Do you love it?!” Yes!
“Do you love it?!” *YES!*
Why would we NOT love it?!
the new costume needs one thing: either pogs or boglins
Gilson should become a detective. Because the only way Sony and UA-cam are letting him do what he's doing is him finding some absolutely scandalous dirt on them.
I still think gilson is a failson of a sony exec
UA-cam lets any bozo file claims to their heart's content as long as they don't have to get an actual human with an actual salary to look at it.
Anagrams for Gilson B Pontes: Bilges Nonstop, Goblin Stepson, Begin Slop Snot, Glib Sonnets OP
@@a_lethe_ion surely
@@sporedoutofmymind If there isn't AT LEAST two music bands that adopt these names, I'd be one Sad Roger.
Every time I watch a Jimquisition, I watch those commercials and feel like I've taken drugs that don't exist on this plane of existence
It's called the 80s and 90s and honestly I don't know how we survived
The origanal NES Zelda comercial was pretty bad then they released there hip take 2 version ua-cam.com/video/E-qBkWerZDg/v-deo.html , I was confused if it was a game at all just being a kid at the time.
Plot twist: Gilson is really just upset that Jim isn't pronouncing his name correctly.
It's pronounced Ghilseauxn
Ah so is it like the Gif vs Jif debate.
Is it actually Jilson and they’re just upset at Jim for their honesty rather than the coverage of their terrible, terrible ‘games’
I think you'll find it's pronounced with a soft G and a silent L.
He got bullied a lot in school.
Heck I've learnt 3 languages over my entire life and I still don't get how the fuck his name is supposed to be said.
Gibson
NEWS: The devs for Overfall have decided to revoke the keys of people who bought the game after 2+ years. These keys were part of a Fanatical bundle in 2018. So we are out the money and the game.
They are willing to give us the game back if we hand over marketable personal info to them. How nice of them!
And kudos to "Steam"ing Pile for letting them do this.
Awesome hat BTW.
Bobby Kotick has more money than my state's entire budget.
Imagine Kotick suborning a small European country's economy by pumping trillions of untaxed income into the sectors only serving his masturbatory lifestyle.
He makes 76 dollars a minute. Think about that. That's 109,000 dollars a day.
That's not punk! That's not punk at all!!
What, California?
@@0mikr0n If you think about it that's not much. He can only file The Heavy's gun for 3 seconds per day.
:-P
"Is it too much"
No lie, it's even better
(Dramatically takes off glasses) Jim is ascending to become the pinnacle...the ultimate lifeform.
Good ole' Bobby Kotick. A man who even looks like what would happen if sheer, unmitigated greed and avarice grew a human face.
Hey man cut him some slack, since epsteins arrest they don't have an island for blood rituals anymore so Bobby's working hard to get that island money.
@@carpathianhermit7228 Ghislaine Maxwell just got 4 more convictions the other day as well
@@alvernonjunior1701 i saw its a start. She's still being viewed as Epsteins accessory which wasn't the case, was the other way around. She ran the op most likely and Epstein was the front man
@@alvernonjunior1701 she comes from a family of espionage
@@alvernonjunior1701 but will she lose her reddit account?
I just love how much happier you are in your videos. The ending of the video was both funny and heart warming.
Jim: "is it too much?"
Most of the fans: "M O R E ! !"
The whole toothpaste assault on the previous hat is solemly forgiven
toothpassault...
Not me, that hat was magnificent! Jim can always have more than one hat, one for every rage mood!
What's there to forgive?
1, I ADORE the outfit, and 2, watching you be so absolutely happy is so god damn good I feel better coming out as nonbinary watching your transition. Thank God for you, Sterling.
That Big Cook Little Kid scene is gonna scare me for life
These intros are just becoming one big fever dream.
Also not enough Pink.
Not enough pink, and I don't even like the color pink.
Bro I gotta finish Stardust Crusaders if Jotaro gets THIS stylish by the end
Golden Wind: *laughs in freek'n you*
I was thinking the same thing. Looks like a jojos character lol
@@sado_3939 I have no idea what season that is, I literally have not finished Stardust Crusaders. See you in two months when I get this references
@@reservoir_flow Golden Wind is part 5, and "Freek'N You" is the song they use for the outro for the first 20 or so episodes. People like to meme the song because the opening lyrics are "Every time I close my eyes, I wake up feeling so horny".
@@reservoir_flow you mean 6 months
Wow, Sterling is getting more fabulous every passing day.
I love it.
I love it~ nya
I actually screamed a little when I saw the outfit. It's glorious!
"given battle net gift cards" holy shitting shit.
That's just appaling.
If that was in a satirical comedy, I would say it was too on the nose. Damn
For the record, they also got 3 months salary and a year of health insurance. Doesn’t make the fact of the layoffs any better, of course, there’s no real reason for AB to be laying people off when they’re so successful, but the gift cards were almost certainly the smallest part of the layoff package, not remotely the most significant part (which is how they’re often reported).
@@Wraithfighter After reading up on it I was just coming back to say the same thing! It does however seem pretty tone deaf to include such a locked in and effectively worthless addition.
@@chrismingay6005 Oh, its indeed tone-deaf and a small bit of salt in the wound. The package might be less valuable without the gift cards, but likely would be received better. Just figure it's worth, well, getting the facts right, ya know?
holy shit james stephanie sterling, your outfit choices are absolutely impeccable
Gilson's just jealous he doesn't have an eye-searingly gorgeous gilded hat!
THAT OUTFIT IS MAGICAL! I have pink hair rn and I really should start wearing all pink in order to complete the look
Who could not love this look, tbh. It's fucking radiant.
Jim's finally learned that gems go on the hat rather than in the hat
James Stephanie Sterling is the non-binary icon we've been waiting our whole lives for.
Looks kinda like a fat guy in a wig with too much makeup on to me, but that might be just me.
@@jimboblordofeskimos oh you poor baby. How much makeup would be the right amount for your tender sensibilities?
I mean....Janelle Monae exists. But I do love Jim.
@@Handle35667 Nah, I'm kinda with him on this one. He has so much makeup on he looks like a vampire from Twilight. I'm not bashing him for wearing makeup, I could really care less, but I agree that it's too much makeup
@@Handle35667 nice projection
Jim: You hate it, don't you, this is too much, even for me."
everyone: *doesn't bat an eyelash*
0:35 Nah Babes this is literally the best thing ever. I actually giggled and clapped like a 5 year old seeing Elsa at a birthday party in happiness when I saw your hat.
Jim: "Is it too much?"
Me: "Is what too much?"
Seriously, I didn't even know what they were talking about for the first few seconds of the video. It just looked like classic classy Jim to me LMAO!
ROFL! So true.
There is NO such thing as too pink or too glittery. That outfit, my god... Jim is living the dream, as far as I am concerned.
I'm drunk as hell and that turkey ad bit caused me to have an anxiety attack
Jim: Is it too extra
Me: ABSOLUTELY NOT ITS GLORIOUS!!!!
No one "earns" million and millions of dollars. They take it.
Now now, there's usually some barely-veiled blackmail, extortion, threats and coercion involved. "Make more money for me, or I'll throw you out and pull in an even more desperate person off the street!" Which explains why the political right loves to keep the poor numerous, under-educated, miserable and barely alive.
@@hazukichanx408 exactly this is why centrism can not work in the current political climate
Thats the mentality of a criminal.
@@sniperduells There's a reason the phrase "Behind all great fortunes are great crimes" exists.
The games industry as whole sadly.
"Do you love it??? Do you LOOOOVE IT?" Is literally me asking my partner for validation abt my outfits lmfaooooo
Damn, Jim Stirling be looking fine, not many people could rock a glitter hat and a hot pink jacket. I'm jealous of how damn good this legend looks. Rachael xx
That hat is absolutely extra... and I wouldn’t have jimquisition any other way
Ayeee digging the new outfit!
Only a couple of years ago, the hat was filled with jewels. Now the hat *is* the jewels.
And the pink is great, too.
GameStop could have just sold some shares when the price was high to make money.