A Post Mortem Of An Ex-IGN Plagiarist's Shameless Career (The Jimquisition) 

I was working as a teaching assistant at Penn State when a student plagiarized his research paper--having stolen full paragraphs from an article written BY THE PROFESSOR OF THE CLASS.

of course it was unintentional, it wasn't his intentiont to get caught

I dunno, I kinda sympathize with the accidental plagiarist. I too sometimes fall face first into my keyboard, specifically the ctrl + c, then Ctrl + v, then flail my arms in pain to misclick my mouse to the submission box.

Wouldn't it be funny if we found out that his apology was plagiarized too?

Some of the most damning evidence of Miucin's plagiarism was from Engadget's review of Samus Returns, who accidentally said that you aim with the R-Button. It's actually the L-Button. *Filip copied the mistake*

"Craig, I've given him the voice of a weak child! That'll show him!" God, I love your work.

Don't forget that he had also monetised that apology video he released before he took it down.

He. Plagiarized. His. LinkedIn. Page. Let that sink in a second. This man is so creatively bankrupt he can't even sell *himself*.

How dare that Stardust clown rip off Sterdust like that.

If anything good came out of this dumpster fire, it's that at the very least Boomstick Gaming and Deadcells has gotten way more deserved attention from it.

I wish you’d mention the fact that he copied the mistake in the Metroid one where they said you press R to shoot instead of L to shoot.

The baffling thing about all this is that Miucin seems to genuinely believe this is normal operations for a writer.

"Please, everyone look for evidence that this wasnt the first instance of plagirism done by me" ... what a genius. x,D

A fast, fluid and responsive video. 9.7 Miucins out of 10.

Well I don't know about you but I thought Dead Cells was an amazing game: Dead Cells takes the progression of Metroidvania, and takes you into this procedurally generated action rouge-like, that has you slowly chipping away at its steep difficulty. Although Dead Cells falters slightly with some repetition setting in, especially in some of the earlier sections and longer play throughs. In most games of this genre your coolest spells are often set to strictly longer recharge timers or a limited mana system. But in Dead Cells, your abilities have extremely quick recharge which allows you to seamlessly integrate your new gadgets into normal encounters and it doesn't penalise you for using your cool stuff. Hey I could be a games critic!

"Hey, can I copy your homework?" "Sure, but change it slightly so it's not obvious" "No."

Life's Good when you can't even hold down a review job at IGN

Also he monetized his apology video lol

"Btw, Dead Cells on Switch is really fun, highly recommended. 10/10" Review by Keanotix, pls don't steal.

so who else returned here after 5 years because hbomberguy made plagiarism a big thing in everyone's mind and in the algorithm?

This is why teachers kept repeating "plagiarism is bad" in school. True, not all cases of plagiarism in all types of media result in public outcry like this one, but plagiarism truly is one of the easiest ways to become distrusted, discredited or unemployed.

The best part of the Metroid review is that Engadget actually made a mistake when they said that R is how you precision aim as it's actually L. R selects you missiles. But that's what makes Filip's "review" that much more damning because he also incorrectly claims that you precision aim with R.

12:50 “breaking into a farm and ****ing the punpking is illegal, no matter how much you wanna do it “. ... oh, crap :(

8:37 "Holding -R- now activates a precision-aiming mode that allows for full range of motion and some extremely precise aiming." Firstly, Flip Miucin copied the mistake made in the review he copy and pasted from. Secondly, "A precision-aiming mode that allows for ... some extremely precise aiming". Make of that what you will.

He even copied his LinkedIn profile and apparently he's multilingual in four languages. He's probably plagiarised outside of the English language too.

Gotta love it when someone throws down the gauntlet to the internet to find more skeletons in the closet. What an unapologetic fool

"you can keep looking, kotaku," you would think that someone in his position would know better than to challenge the internet and tempt fate at the same time

"Hey internet! Come at me bro! Find more evidence! Lol" Ign: ... ... ... yeah, just call off the investigation and keep an eye on the email inbox.

Here’s a shamelessly plagiarized comment that looks like an apple. 🍎

That reviewer guy's condescending 'video games are totally rad' voice makes me wonder about the sanity of anyone who ever listened to him in the first place...

> When the piano version of the intro plays "Oh this is gonna be good."

jim, can i just say i think its absolutely amazing that you've become a professional wrestler? like, that this silly joke you were doing turned into something real gives me so much joy for some reason.

Also may I point out that he challenged Jason Schreier of all people, the *Peak Performance* investigative journalist in games industry with multiple publications. Guy couldn't have signed his death warrant fast enough.

Deadcells will have benefited in sales from this whole thing, so at least theres an upside. Same with Boomstick

Can't believe it's been exactly two years since this video came out... Time fucking flies.

I love how he said “Oh it’s unintentional” like college professors haven’t thrown essays into their paper shredder for even accidental plagiarism.

He challenged the internet to not dig up info on him for other content stolen. Challenging the internet to not dig up or find something is a terrible idea if you did something wrong. Oops.

In dead cells 2 there should be a mirror boss called pillif .

Two things; First, don't challenge the internet, there is no way you can walk away scott free. Second, don't challenge Jason Schreier, he's damn good at what he does and I've yet to see him be wrong about a claim. Oh and as a last mention, I'm glad that IGN dealt with this as fast as they did, just a shame they didnt hire boomstick instead as an extra middle finger to the twatstick.

As much as I dislike IGN, I can at least give them some credit in how quickly they handled the situation.

The best thing was him lying to our faces TMartn-style lol

That spineless plagiarist is blocking everyone on Twitter who is calling him out. I wonder how one man can stoop so low.

"... or believing in what Randy Pitchford said." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Several years ago I remember that a high school teacher failed most of her class for copying Wikipedia and changing some words around. The parents raised hell with the school board and the school board caved and forced the teacher to let the students redo everything regardless of the fact that plagiarism was explicitly a severe infraction that cal lead up to expulsion. I think the teacher moved on to a different school. The students did not have their records tarnished and this story is the kind of crap that these parents "protect" their kids lead. Anyway...

I will never understand why anyone, ESPECIALLY a reviewer, would need to "research" (yes, that's an actual excuse he tried to pass off) another person's opinion to help their own.

I bet his apology video was plagiarized too. From starting with a sigh...to the whimpering throughout the video...to the backhanded apology that wasnt an apology... ....to the finger pointing and boldly daring the internet to find more of his acts of stealing (which honestly wasnt to hard to find apparently...) And then ending with a dramatic walk off and vacant air...? ...Really? ..... ......REALLY!?

It's amazing how far you can get in the industry with barely hidden flagrant plagiarism.

When I was getting my mechanical engineering degree, I had a semester with 4 lab classes. 4 lab reports due each and every week. It was an absolute nightmare, especially considering that I ended up doing nearly all the work. If all my worthless group mates, though, one stood out. He "wrote" his section of the paper and linked his source. The source was goddamn Wikipedia, and his writing was literally copied and pasted. I told the professor, because plagiarism is supposed to be an expellable offence, and she gave a half-assed speech to the class about doing your own work. The next week he did the same thing. Anyways, Dead Cells is fucking incredible. I'm like 110 hours in and working on an art piece based on it* tight now. *I mean, mine is a pixel art painting, so I guess, technically, I plagiarized it. Shit. (Play Dead Cells!)

But who is SterDust? Will we ever know his true identity? I have a theory that he is Ben Yahtzee Croshaw. Think about it no one has seen either and they both have the pompous accent.

Make the plagiarist cry like anime fan on prom night.

A RU-vid video's comment section has more original work in it than anything Miucin has done in his life.

This man is currently trying to make a come back in games journalism and some people believe he should be accepted with open arms. Glad this video is here to remind people why that shouldn't be the case.

He's married? Bet he stole his vows too I've done ZERO research

I don't understand. Why when you've been *proven* to be a lying muppet, and you *know* you've got a bunch more skeletons in your closet, would you *challenge* people to find them? Ah well, hope this leads to a bunch more sales of Dead Cells, I love me a precision perfect pixel platform metroidvania. ... and is the Pumpkin Fucker the Pog Fucker's Halloween cousin? :P

I've been a video game journalist for the past 13 years, and it makes me so sad to see people like this Filip guy continue to tarnish the already godawful reputation of our trade. There is no excuse for plagiarism. Period. Stealing from fellow hard-working people in the same line of work is abhorrent enough, but this idiot going the extra mile and trying to ego-trip himself out of an already terrible situation is like pissing in the community pool...from the starting block. Did it slip his mind, that the Internet NEVER forgets? He not only made himself completely unhiriable as an editor and journalist, but probably as most everything else too. In this day and age, employers don't just check your credit and rap sheet, but also your social media and history on the Internet. A simple friggin Google search would out him as an untrustworthy, lazy crook with an ego the size of the Sun. No sane employer would ever hire someone like him, because as Jim said, plagiarism never happens just once. It's a character trait, one that combines complete inability or reluctance to do your job with the complete disregard for other people's hard work that borders on sociopathy. Combine that with the utter lack of remorse and sheer arrogance he demonstrated after the fact, and you get a person that's lower on the hire-list than ex-convicts. There are no halfway-houses for people who commit career/character suicide of this magnitude. So, Filip, good luck flipping burgers somewhere in the middle of nowhere with no internet connection...

@Jim Sterling, thank you for covering this.

I dont see anyone else praising him for that Musenex joke and it was an amazing joke. Good job Jim.

Even the voice sounds plagiarized

And guess what? He's back and trying to get a reset on his career by doing a new review of DeadCells.

Coming back to this vieeo, Jim really should trademark Chungus Productions.

I don’t know if anyone has said this before, but I don’t think plagiarism happens once.

Who haven't accidentally done things like that? Just the other day I accidentally wrote down the Bible, slightly changing parts here and there but still the same yet I called it my original work! Happens all the time!

The new hbomberguy vid brought me back here. Banger vid bringing back memories of a banger Jimquisition.

Who's here after Miucin returned?

Surely having a larger platform would have made it HARDER for him to get away with plagiarism. After all, writing a 9.7 review for the largest game reviewing site on the net would have made it almost impossible that the guy he had copied wouldn’t have seen his work. The more visible you are, the harder to get away with blatant plagiarism, right?

As "I" always say, when someone is digging your grave, don't hand them a shovel.

Please do another one if these! He's trying to mount a comeback!

By FAR the most entertaining video I've seen on this guy. SAVAGE!! Nicely done.

I love the fact that "Audacity" is open at the bottom of the clip with his dead cells review. Perfect :)

RIP his career. While it's not rare for journalists to essentially release similar piece but with words changed here and there, that's generally because they are quoting a press conference or covering an event.

Jim I like the way you present things. Thanks.

Top shelf editing Justin

Jim, it's so much fun watching you as Sterdust because you look like you're just having way too much fun with this.

As if IGN needed people to question the integrity of their reviews more...

Justin, you deserve a raise. Very funny editing.

He’s trying to make a comeback... by reviewing the same game. pls make a follow up on this, I need it!

I had to look for this manually because it didn't show up on my sub feed. Thanks, RU-vid.

The biggest surprise is that people still go to IGN for game reviews.

Rule #1 of the internet..............NEVER EVER EVER EVER EEEEEEEEVER challenge anyone on the net to find out anything about you, cause they will.

I will not say that Philip Musen is worse than Hitler, but Hitler wrote his book on his own. Just sayin.

As John Milton put it, "Plagiarism only occurs if the work is not bettered by the borrower." Don't break the rules and plagiarise someone's work. Be inspired by them, sure. Learn from them, sure. Remix and build upon other's work until it's totally different from the original. Make it your own. Own it.

Joyously woke up to this. Thanks, Sterling. All the best.

Great video, and the message was not lost on me. But, I have to say my favourite thing about it is Justin's editing XD

I subbed to boomstick after this and gotta say that the reviews he gives that are cut down to 4-5 minutes are really refreshing in the present youtube where longer content is advisable.

I don't understand this guy at all. Why become a games reviewer if you don't want to play games or talk about games? It would be like becoming a chef so you could buy prepackaged food from another place and pass it off as your own. Why?

He knew he was fucked when the other stories about him were primed to come out. The fact he challenged the internet to do so has to be some weird Freudian admittance of guilt For just this one time, he could've made a sob story about deadlines and give transparency and promised to book his ideas up. But he knew his house of cards was about crumble. Why on earth he came out and "apologised" (in a way that wasn't apologising for his actions, nor was it admitting anything) is beyond me.

Some of the best narration I've ever heard 👀

He's back and whineier than ever

4:26 so quick blink and you'll miss it! Calling him an alleged writer is bloody genius Jim, this is why I love you XD

I wasn't genuinely ticked off with him until he posted that disgusting apology video in which he denied the obvious and even threw accusations at someone he'd stolen from... I was willing to assume something was going on in his life and he just stole a review due to some time constraint (especially as it was such an obvious, seemingly unpracticed theft) which would warrant firing and such but not necessarily mean he's a terrible guy, but after that video it was clear this man is an asshole. I suppose sociopaths just can't help themselves.

Love the work Jim Saw! Great moves, keep it up.

That Mucinex joke is the best you've ever made. And I really like your work, so I'm not be facetious.

No one accidentally plagiarizes an entire 4 minute video, then instead of owning up to his mistakes he tries to weasel his way out of it by telling people to find others who plagiarize. What a lazy, cowardly, weasel of a human being.

Come on Jim, where's our officially Sterdust-endorsed wrestling video game, Saturday morning cartoon AND breakfast ceral? I'm sure you could get a sweet deal after so many years of having the Cornflake Humunculus as a corporate mascot!

thank you for the goldust inspired theme still one of the best themes

Sterdust is like a shiny Stardust! Jim is truly one in 4,096!

I've always regarded IGN as a last resort for literally anything games media related. This new scandal does nothing to alter that opinion. Even still i feel bad for IGN having to run damage control over this.

I would never have checked out dead cells if this controversy hadn't have happened if I'm being honest, and god damn it I now love that game!

I always thought he was just a weird dude with a weird costumed RU-vid gimmick but now that I know it’s his wrestling outfit, a lot of things make sense. Pretty neat.