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Stephanie Sterling (and not for the reason you probably think).
I understand that the gaming industry is shit, and therefore reporting on it is always going to skew negative, but it really felt to me like the negativity started permeating their content as a whole - to the point that I got the feeling that they didn't really enjoy video games at all anymore.
I also started to get the feeling that they resent their audience for responding positively to such negative content, too - doing things like complaining that the worst-of lists get more views than the best-of lists. You don't have to make them if you don't want to.
Also, it's cool that they found a passion, but I really don't care about wrestling.
Hey same. I mainly listened to her podcast and that for two or three years now. Some of their opinions are spot on i find, but oftentimes i find it really hard to listen to.
If they don't like a game for just one little reason, it's the worst game ever made and fuck everything about it. But if they like a objectively shit game, they find every reason to defend it. The biggest example to me was when pal waorld came out. They are super into pokemon, and honestly in a bit of a weird way. Pokémon games have been embarrassingly bad for a while now, but they shat on palworld so hard because it encouraged slavery and they didn't like that, so they hardly played it and called it a bad knock off. When the last Pokémon game by game freak came out, which is TERRIBLE laura just talked about how much she liked it, despite it being an obvious low efford cash grab. And Stephanie just bit her tongue, even tho you could hear how much she despised what the game was and what it represents.
Same with arc raiders. I don't want to defend arc raiders, it's not my kind of game and i'm not a fan of gen AI. But at least they pay their voice actors, and the game has hardly any to begin with. But they didn't even care. AI bad, fuck them. But what really got me was when steph was ragging on that the game was pointless, because you walk around, collecting shit to craft other shit and then do it again, and that's stupid. Like what the fuck is a your pokemon game? You go around and collect some dumb ass pokemon for the past 20+ years, and that is somehow better.
I don't dislike them, they seem like cool people, i just don't get it, and i feel like they got worse and I can't really listen to them anymore.
She is busy writing these days but she did several positive videos that were well received, I think her sporadic video releases will be 50/50 from now on
Yeah same. For some reason I just liked the old persona a lot more. Just something about that uncompromising "I am right because I say so. Thank God for me". I didn't agree with all opinions but the persona just felt unique. Then they shifted a lot to the weird. Wtf was that cornflakes homunculus? That was still pre transition and continued after. Haven't watched a video in a few years, maybe they have found a new solid identity by now but that interim period just put me of to mutch.
I was never that into Sterling, to be honest.
But yeah, the wrestling thing seems to permeate gaming video makers and podcasters in general. I feel like you could come up with a dangerous drinking game based on taking a swig every time a gaming media personality brings up some wrestling shit.