Tear Jerker / Jimquisition

• Jim's tribute to Satoru Iwata on the day of his death, especially the ending: "Thank God for... you, Mr. Iwata. And sleep well."
• Jim's review of The Beginner's Guide: instead of making a conventional review, since they don't want to spoil the story, Jim instead references the game's themes by giving a heartbreaking description of their horrible childhood at the hands of an abusive stepfather and mother and how it caused them to develop a need for external approval that still persists to this day.

• At the end of their E3 2016 episode, Jim takes a moment to talk about the Orlando shooting of June 12th. Their grief is quite genuine.
• In February 2017, after almost an entire year of the lawsuit from Digital Homicide 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 them at once in the hopes that they 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 them. 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. They were abused by their father, who was an alcoholic and a member of a biker gang. By the time Jim became a teenager, they were unable to socialize with people and feared that everyone hated them. While Jim still has some social anxiety today, they're far better off now than they were back then.
• The Dismal Degredation Of Dynasty Warriors in its entirety. Seeing Jim fall out of love with their favourite series is absolutely heartbreaking.
• While not to the extent of Dynasty Warriors 9, their 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. They 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 them to put it pretty high on their top ten worst games of 2017.
• Their reaction to Total Biscuit's passing is short, but heartrending.
  I'm stunned and saddened. Been staring at my phone without adequate words. Just...fuck.
  • They ended their segment on the Jimquisition the following monday with a serious case of O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    Jim: Thank God for FOV-sliders... (Beat) ... I guess... fuck...
• The testimonials in the episode The Addictive Cost of Predatory Videogame Monetization, which are from people for whom video game microtransactions exploited their addictive tendencies and negatively affected their lives.
• Jim's review of Deadly Premonition 2 is full of this. Jim admits that it was their most anticipated game for 2020, which makes their reaction to the game all the more heartbreaking, especially when one recalls how the first game was one of their favorite games of all time. In addition to 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 completely lost faith in him. At the end of the year, Jim put the game very high on their 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 their championing of the original, even noting it sadly turned out to be what they'd always feared would happen with a sequel. They were sorry the game existed.
• "A Truly Fucked Up Industry". O.O.C. Is Serious Business 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 their own past, regrets, and their feelings of despair at the wrongdoings in the industry that friends of theirs and others were subjected to. They narrate the whole thing in a genuinely somber and exhausted tone, and there's little humor to be found, if any at all.
  • Taken up a notch in "Ubisoft Spent Years Protecting Physical and Mental Abusers". Jim's usual boisterous tone is absent for most of the episode; the entire thing leaves them so spent that they don't even say "Thank God for me" at the end of the episode.
    • And once again in Activision Blizzard and Industry Abuse: Burn it All Down. That one doesn't even start with the opening theme music, just fire.
    • By the time of the Activision video, Jim is left saying that they genuinely don't know what to say anymore at this point. While they still rage at Activision for their heinous acts and encourage the investigation of any other video game company, they directly state that it's all growing so tiresome and aggravating; and is therefore bitterly saying "Fuck this industry" and "I'm so fucking done" in such an venomous tone of voice they scarcely spoke in before.
• Instead of being titled as such, their "Best games of 2021" video is simply titled "The Games of 2021 I Didn't Completely Hate". Why? Because as Jim themself says, they've become so broken by years of predatory business practices and countless sexual abuse scandals in the video game industry (Which had reached their absolute lowest point that year in the wake of both Ubisoft and Blizzard's sexual abuse scandals) that it's all but impossible to take any joy in it anymore.

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