History TearJerker / Jimquisition

* Jim's [[http://www.thejimquisition.com/the-beginners-guide-review/ review]] of ''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'': instead of making a conventional review, since he doesn't want to spoil the story, Jim instead references the game's themes by giving a heartbreaking description of his horrible childhood at the hands of an abusive stepfather and mother and how it caused him to develop a need for external approval that still persists to this day.

* At the end of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1ge5huvEz8 E3 2016 episode]], Jim takes a moment to talk about the Orlando shooting of June 12th. His grief is quite genuine.
* In February 2017, after almost an entire year of the lawsuit from Digital Homicide [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS-LXvhy1Do Jim sums up the entire affair in a 38-minute Jimquisition.]] Rather than how fans had envisioned it, there's no dancing and singing, and while some humour is present Jim quite understandably wasn't in a joking mood. While fans had largely watched in amazement and amusement as the company dug its own grave, Jim was the one being put under emotional stress and financial issues. One random Youtube comment (that was swiftly deleted) from some random troll said that developers (read: asset flippers) are planning to sue him at once in the hopes that he will drop dead from stress. Yes the source makes this threat hard to take seriously, but it is nevertheless indicative of what could possibly be in store. Usually those who have tried to screw with Jim's work never go as far as Digital Homicide, but now they've seen first-hand what effect stuff like this had on him. The gate was opened for others to try the same thing if they want to see Jim's criticism of their hateful shovelware gone. Failure is certain, but even wasting Jim's time and money is enough for those spineless cretins to consider it "worth it".
* Jim's childhood wasn't exactly sunshine and rainbows. He was abused by his father, who was an alcoholic and a member of a biker gang. By the time Jim became a teenager, he was unable to socialize with people and feared that everyone hated him. While Jim still has some social anxiety today, he's far better off now than he was back then.
* [[https://youtu.be/4u3Kf274iOk The Dismal Degredation Of Dynasty Warriors]] in its entirety. Seeing Jim fall out of love with his favourite series is absolutely heartbreaking.
* While not to the extent of ''Dynasty Warriors 9'', his falling out with ''Destiny 2'' in the wake of the many, ''many'' controversial decisions Bungie's made with the game (chief among them the increasing focus on loot boxes and microtransactions, as well as how ''Curse of Osiris'' infamously locked out vanilla content unless you bought the expansion) was similarly depressing. He initially considered the game promising with an 8 out of 10 rating, but by the end of 2017, Bungie's rampant and blatant greed and mismanagement caused him to put it pretty high on his top ten worst games of 2017.
* His reaction to [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit Total Biscuit's]] passing is short, but heartrending.

** He ended his segment on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=745&v=sFpb-dz2tCE Jimquisition]] the following monday with a serious case of OOCIsSeriousBusiness:

* Jim's review of ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' is full of this. Jim admits that it was his most anticipated game for 2020, which makes his reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of his favorite games of all time. Among multiple problems including framerate issues, Jim feels disappointed and disheartened by the game's problematic trans content and its offensive nature. And after creator SWERY promised to fix the problematic parts, only to subsequently make a few token cuts of the very worst lines and then declare he was happy with it before lashing out at people who were still rightfully appalled at it, Jim [[BrokenPedestal completely lost faith in him]]. At the end of the year, Jim put the game very high on his list of the Shittiest Games of 2020, and even ''apologised'' for supposedly being a driving force in getting the game made in the first place due to his championing of the original. ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He was sorry the game existed.]]''
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7c2uZACcI A Truly Fucked Up Industry]]". OOCIsSeriousBusiness is in full force here, as Jim goes on to criticize Ubisoft without the usual "Oh Ubisoft" sound effect for the company's enablement of abusers and sexual predators, while also discussing his own past, regrets, and his feelings of despair at the wrongdoings in the industry that friends of his and others were subjected to. He narrates the whole thing in a genuinely somber and exhausted tone, and there's little humor to be found, if any at all.
** [[UpToEleven Taken up a notch]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98 Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers]]". Jim's usual boisterous tone [[TranquilFury is absent]] for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves him so spent that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he doesn't even say]] "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Thank God for me]]" at the end of the episode.

* Jim's review of ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' is full of this. Jim admits that it was his most anticipated game for 2020, which makes his reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of his favorite games of all time. Among multiple problems including framerate issues, Jim feels disappointed and disheartened by the game's problematic trans content and its offensive nature.

** [[UpToEleven Taken up a notch]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98 Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers]]. Jim's usual boisterous tone [[TranquilFury is absent]] for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves him so spent that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he doesn't even say]] "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Thank God for me]]" at the end of the episode.

** [[UpToEleven Taken up a notch]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98 Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers]]. Jim's usual boisterous tone [[TranquilFury is absent]] for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves him so spent that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness]] he doesn't even say "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Thank God for me]]" at the end of the episode.]]

** [[UpToEleven Taken up a notch]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98 Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers]]. Jim's usual boisterous tone [[TranquilFury is absent]] for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves him so spent that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness]] he doesn't even say "[[SigningOffCatchPhrase Thank God for me]]" at the end of the episode.

* Jim's review of ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition2'' is full of this. Jim admits that it was his most anticipated game for 2020, which makes his reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of his favorite games of all time. Among multiple problems including framerate issues, Jim feel disappointed and disheartened by the game's problematic trans content and its offensive nature.

* While not to the extent of ''Dynasty Warriors 9'', his falling out with ''Destiny 2'' in the wake of the many, ''many'' controversial decisions Bungie's made with the game (chief among them the increasing focus on loot boxes and microtransactions, as well as how ''Curse of Osiris'' infamously locked out vanilla content unless you bought the expansion) was similarly depression. He initially considered the game promising with an 8 out of 10 rating, but by the end of 2017, Bungie's rampant and blatant greed and mismanagement caused him to put it pretty high on his top ten worst games of 2017.

%% (ZeroContextExample) * Jim being sued by Digital Homicide, especially after it looked like ''Dungeons of Kragmor'' would actually be a decent game.

* His reaction to Total Biscuit's passing is short, but heartrending.

* In February 2017, after almost an entire year of the lawsuit from Digital Homicide [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS-LXvhy1Do Jim sums up the entire affair in a 38-minute Jimquisition.]] Rather than how fans had envisioned it, there's no dancing and singing, and while some humour is present Jim quite understandably wasn't in a joking manner. While fans had largely watched in amazement and amusement as the company dug its own grave, Jim was the one being put under emotional stress and financial issues. One random Youtube comment (that was swiftly deleted) from some random troll said that developers (read: asset flippers) are planning to sue him at once in the hopes that he will drop dead from stress. Yes the source makes this threat hard to take seriously, but it is nevertheless indicative of what could possibly be in store. Usually those who have tried to screw with Jim's work never go as far as Digital Homicide, but now they've seen first-hand what effect stuff like this had on him. The gate was opened for others to try the same thing if they want to see Jim's criticism of their hateful shovelware gone. Failure is certain, but even wasting Jim's time and money is enough for those spineless cretins to consider it "worth it".

* In February 2017, after almost an entire year of the lawsuit from Digital Homicide [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS-LXvhy1Do Jim sums up the entire affair in a 38-minute Jimquisition.]] Rather than how fans had envisioned it, there's no dancing and singing, and while some humour is present Jim quite understandably wasn't in a joking manner. While fans had largely watched in amazement and amusement as the company dug its own grave, Jim was the one being put under emotional stress and financial issues. One random Youtube comment (that was swiftly deleted) from some random troll said that developers (read: asset flippers) are planning to sue him at once in the hopes that he will drop dead from stress. However, it is nevertheless indicative of what could possibly be in store. While most of those who have tried to screw with Jim's work never go as far as Digital Homicide, they have now seen first-hand what effect they had on him. The gate was opened for others to try the same thing if they want to see Jim's criticism of their hateful shovelware gone. Failure is certain, but even wasting Jim's time and money is enough for those spineless cretins to consider it "worth it". On the bright side, they ''will'' fail, and next time Jim will ''destroy'' them for it, in his own words. Despite all the trouble they put him through, Jim was willing to let Digital Homicide off lightly, letting the suit be dismissed with prejudice and not even going after them to pay for all the legal fees he'd racked up dealing with their garbage. He ''could'' have taken them to the cleaners, but he was both gracious enough and, to be honest, dead bloody tired enough of the whole affair to just put it all behind him (his lawyers and advisers also repeatedly talked him down from more extreme measures). The next time some assclown levels a blatantly malicious and frivolous lawsuit against him for the express purpose of harassing him, he's going to make a ''real'' example of them, or as he put it '[[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry Become the consequences]]'.

* Jim being sued by Digital Homicide, especially after it looked like ''Dungeons of Kragmor'' would actually be a decent game.

* In February 2017, after almost an entire year of the lawsuit from Digital Homicide [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS-LXvhy1Do Jim sums up the entire affair in a 38-minute Jimquisition.]] Rather than how fans had envisioned it, there's no dancing and singing, and while some humour is present Jim quite understandably wasn't in a joking manner. While fans had largely watched in amazement and amusement as the company dug its own grave, Jim was the one being put under emotional stress and financial issues. To make the whole thing worse? ''More developers are planning to sue him at once in the hopes that he will drop dead from stress''!
** Well, ''one'' random Youtube comment (that was swiftly deleted) from some random troll said that. However, it is nevertheless indicative of what could possibly be in store. While most of those who have tried to screw with Jim's work never go as far as Digital Homicide, they have now seen first-hand what effect they had on him. The gate is now open for others to try the same thing if they want to see Jim's criticism of their hateful shovelware gone. They'll fail, that much is certain, but even wasting Jim's time and money is enough for those spineless cretins to consider it "worth it". It makes the whole lawsuit a PyrrhicVictory; Digital Homicide is finished, but God knows how many more of their kind wait in the wings, determined to the point of insanity to see Jim ''destroyed''.
*** On the bright side, they ''will'' fail, and next time Jim will ''destroy'' them for it. Despite all the trouble they put him through, Jim was willing to let Digital Homicide off lightly, letting the suit be dismissed with prejudice and not even going after them to pay for all the legal fees he'd racked up dealing with their garbage. He ''could'' have taken them to the cleaners, but he was both gracious enough and, to be honest, dead bloody tired enough of the whole affair to just put it all behind him (his lawyers and advisers also repeatedly talked him down from more extreme measures). The next time some assclown levels a blatantly malicious and frivolous lawsuit against him for the express purpose of harassing him, he's going to make a ''real'' example of them, or as he put it '[[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry Become the consequences]]'.

*** On the bright side, they ''will'' fail, and next time Jim will ''destroy'' them for it. Despite all the trouble they put him through, Jim was willing to let Digital Homicide off lightly, letting the suit be dismissed with prejudice and not even going after them to pay for all the legal fees he'd racked up dealing with their garbage. He ''could'' have taken them to the cleaners, but he was both gracious enough and, to be honest, dead bloody tired enough of the whole affair to just put it all behind him (his lawyers and advisers also repeatedly talked him down from more extreme measures). The next time some assclown levels a blatantly malicious and frivolous lawsuit against him for the express purpose of harassing him, he's going to make a ''real'' example of them, or as he put it '[[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry Become the consequences]].

*** On the bright side, they ''will'' fail, and next time Jim will ''destroy'' them for it. Despite all the trouble they put him through, Jim was willing to let Digital Homicide off lightly, letting the suit be dismissed with prejudice and not even going after them to pay for all the legal fees he'd racked up dealing with their garbage. He ''could'' have taken them to the cleaners, but he was both gracious enough and, to be honest, dead bloody tired enough of the whole affair to just put it all behind him. The next time some assclown levels a blatantly malicious and frivilous lawsuit against him for the express purpose of harassing him, he's going to make a ''real'' example of them.

*** On the bright side, they ''will'' fail, and next time Jim will ''destroy'' them for it. Despite all the trouble they put him through, Jim was willing to let Digital Homicide off lightly, letting the suit be dismissed with prejudice and not even going after them to pay for all the legal fees he'd racked up dealing with their garbage. He ''could'' have taken them to the cleaners, but he was both gracious enough and, to be honest, dead bloody tired of the whole affair to just put it all behind him. The next time some assclown levels a blatantly malicious and frivilous lawsuit against him for the express purpose of harassing him, he's going to make a ''real'' example of them.

* Jim's [[http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/10/the-beginners-guide-review/ review]] of ''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'': instead of making a conventional review, since he doesn't want to spoil the story, Jim instead references the game's themes by giving a heartbreaking description of his horrible childhood at the hands of an abusive stepfather and mother and how it caused him to develop a need for external approval that still persists to this day.

* Jim's [[http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/10/the-beginners-guide-review/ review]] of ''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'': instead of making a conventional review, since he doesn't want to spoil the story, Jim instead references the game's themes by giving a heartbreaking description of his horrible childhood at the hands of an abusive stepfather and mother and how it caused him to develop a need for external approval that still persists to this day.