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'''Jim Sterling''' is an English-American freelance video game journalist, critic, pundit, and wrestling personality. Prior to becoming independent in September 2014, through crowdfunding, Sterling was the review editor for Destructoid, and an author for The Escapist. His active YouTube series are "The Jimquisition", "Jimpressions", "Industry Bullshit", "Direct to Video", "Oh My Gawd Hype!", and "Commentocracy"; his discontinued series include "The Videogame Show What I've Done", "Boglinwatch", "itch.io Tasty", and "Nitpick Theater".

Sterling was born in London, England, where he lived on the poverty line for much of his childhood and was psychologically abused by his mother's lover, a Hells Angels outcast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thejimquisition.com/the-beginners-guide-review/|title=The Beginner's Guide Review – The Hardest Word {{!}} The Jimquisition|website=www.thejimquisition.com|accessdate=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414124258/http://www.thejimquisition.com/the-beginners-guide-review/|archive-date=14 April 2016}}</ref> This abuse is what prompted him to take on the "Jim Sterling" name, saying that he would have had it legally changed, if not for his legal issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ask.fm/Jimquisition/answers/135370745058|title=While Wikipedia had already listed "James Stanton" as your birthname, does that make "Jim Sterling" a pseudonym or something more official than that? And is the "Fucking" implied regardless of whoever says "Jim Sterling"? {{!}} ask.fm/Jimquisition|website=ask.fm|access-date=17 March 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324090022/https://ask.fm/Jimquisition/answers/135370745058|archivedate=24 March 2016}}</ref> In a video from November 2015 on ''Fallout 4'', when talking about the polyamorous relationship options he stated that he is "not a monogamous guy, nor [...] a [[heterosexuality|straight]] one either."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUBqXkijAw|title=Fallout 4's S.P.E.C.I.A.L Relationships (The Jimquisition)|date=9 November 2015|work=YouTube|access-date=23 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317202601/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUBqXkijAw|archive-date=17 March 2016}}</ref> He openly identifies as [[pansexual]]<ref>{{Cite tweet|last=Sterling|first=Jim|title=I used to identify as bi before I realized the whole pan thing applied to me so much more...|user=jimsterling|number=1176169811124133888|date=September 23, 2019|access-date=August 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923171410/https://twitter.com/jimsterling/status/1176169811124133888|archive-date=September 23, 2019}}</ref> and [[queer]].<ref>{{Cite tweet|last=Sterling|first=Jim|title=Anyway, as an openly queer wearer of corseted hats, I do declare that homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia all smell of poo and wee. #IDAHOBIT|user=jimsterling|number=1129381002424606720|date=May 17, 2019|access-date=August 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828052501/https://twitter.com/jimsterling/status/1129381002424606720|archive-date=August 28, 2020}}</ref> In June 2020, he became a naturalized United States citizen.<ref name="uscitizen">{{Cite tweet|last=Sterling|first=Jim|title=The job is done, a citizen I am, and I have a flag to prove it.|user=jimsterling|number=1277592411657719808|date=June 29, 2020|access-date=August 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629132747/https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1277592411657719808|archive-date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> In August 2020, Sterling came out as [[nonbinary]] on Twitter, saying he accepts all [[pronouns]].<ref>{{Cite tweet|last=Sterling|first=Jim|title=I am non-binary pansexual gendertrash. I like all pronouns. I haven't been this comfortable with myself before. Ever''.''|user=jimsterling|number=1298199496652918784|date=August 25, 2020|access-date=August 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825123123/https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1298199496652918784|archive-date=August 28, 2020}}</ref>

''The Jimquisition'' is a weekly YouTube video series in which Jim Sterling discusses current issues surrounding video games, primarily involving unethical business practices in the video game industry, of which he is an outspoken critic on. The series originally started on Destructoid's YouTube channel and was later moved to The Escapist's channel, before being released on Sterling's own channel. ''Direct to Video'' consists of his playthrough of recently released, and often poor-quality, early access games, while ''Oh My Gawd Hype!'' has him discussing anticipated upcoming games. His main gameplay series is ''Jimpressions'' (formerly known as "Squirty Play"), where he discusses his impressions of a recently released video game while showing his own pre-recorded gameplay. Another (albeit rarer) series, ''Commentocracy'', consists of Sterling playing a flamboyant 18th-century aristocrat character called "Duke Amiel du H'ardcore" (a parody of "hardcore" gamers), who in a tongue-in-cheek manner reads disgruntled, haughty or otherwise trolling online comments on the topic of video games.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cuphead Elitists Episode (Commentocracy) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidBCKYVCMA |website=YouTube |accessdate=23 January 2019}}</ref>