Jim Sterling has a Little Abe Figure on his Desk
 

The fuck is that JAW? You've got some explaining to do.

http://i.imgur.com/rzWwol3.png

So yeah. I think they're prototyping a bunch of different Oddworld related merch. And Jim has one of them. I do hope that the figures become a thing though. I'll buy the shit outta a Abe Figure.

Also shitting hell Nep. That image is huge.

Just do it.

It's a screenshot from my phone, I keep forgetting that it's a 2K display.

I'd also buy the shit out of that. That'd be so cool to have.

Jim who

Some guy from the internet

Oh. Who cares

He's fat, too.

Why would JAW have anything to do with it?

Well. He's a pretty big deal within YouTube and the gaming industry, on the same lines as people like Totalbiscuit. He named New 'N' Tasty one of the best games of 2014 so I'd assume he got quite a few people who have never heard of Oddworld to get the game.

He probably got the Abe statue as a gesture from OWI.

TotalBiscuit has over 2mln subscribers on yt, with that guy having petty 259,069, I'd still say he's pretty nobody.

Plus I have heard about TB, and I did not about that guy.

He's only really just recently started his solo YouTube channel. He wrote for the Escapist and Polygon for years.

Wasn't The Escapist that site many people hate?

I dunno. I just knew he wrote for that site for a number of years. It's completely irrelevant regardless.

He left traditional game journalism to become a YouTuber with Patreon funding.

I was being facetious before but yeah, he is a fairly prominent person in the games industry. Quit bein’ a goober about it.

(TB is legit awful tho)

TB, awful? That's news to me.

TB is fucking amazing. I seriously don't understand all the hate he gets.

I share CP's opinion completely about that matter.

I don’t give enough of a shit about him to go off-topic to explain it.

Anyway, the figure is nice, looks like exactly the kind of thing I’ve been wanting them to make for a while. I’ll take figures of a Paramite, Scrab, Steef, Slig, Greeter, and Stranger.

We can make another thread. Color me interested.

No, that's Polygon.

Isn't that the same thing?

I don't know, I just know Polygon's shit.

TotalBiscuit? More like TotalArsewipe. Jim Fucking Sterling, Son, on the other hand, is an all-round fab dude.

I've been following Sterling's work for some years from afar now and I usually agree with what he has to say.

Except that now that he has an Abe statue and I don't. My vision is so clouded with jealousy that I'm not even going to try to defend him in this thread. :p

Yeah, what an asshole he is!

This reminds me of that time that you told me that following your dream to make videos on Youtube is more courageous, and important than working multiple jobs that you hate to support your family. I'm just saying that I find your ideas about Youtube, and what makes a person important, or "somebody" to be hilarious, and absurd.

Carry on, gentlemen.

I usually do when it comes to games but his stance on GG is disappointing. I much prefer Yahtzee. He's on the right side of the argument.

Poor, old OANST... It's okay though, I can forgive you your blisful ignorance combined with weak memory (partially because it happened 2 years ago, and I had to refresh my memory as well), instead I'll just post you a link to the discussion you're probably pointing at, where in no way I said any of my dreams revolves around getting money from youtube. They don't. I did defend the people who get money from it, I think I still do.

As I posted this, I realized phrase "old OANST" is kind of redundant