14Nov#01
More Maw.
Ha, Bob is such a simp that he refuses to believe that girls can be just as cruel as boys, if not more so. And I'm not basing this off of my own experiences, plenty of women here on the farms have related their stories of how vindictive they've known women to be. Hell, need I bring up that classic story of the all-woman company that tore itself apart through backstabbing and infighting?
I think it's a safe bet that Maw has had a lot more female interaction than Bob ever will.
14Nov#05
Someone called Chris Gore has turned whole M-She-U / Star Whores fandom into his enemy.
Does Lon Harris really think products are never targeted to particular demographics, and that only teenagers believe otherwise?
I'm not going to quote all of these because Jesus there's a lot, but Bob seems to be unable to grasp that someone's opinions can change over time, even though he was just talking about it as an excuse for The Marvels flopping. It hasn't occurred to him that Chris Gore might not be doing this for the grift, and instead actually holds these views and wants to discuss them. And then he tries to lump himself in with any group of film reviewers that supposedly express shame at what Gore is doing, as though he isn't anything more than a fat dweeb in his mom's basement shouting into the void.
It's also funny that they can't really address the substance of Gore's argument, which is that these brands have been obviously retooled in an attempt to garner a larger female audience, at the cost of what initially attracted the male audience in the first place. They bring up Star Wars as though people weren't hyped just for a new Star Wars movie (and ignore the cratering box office to come). They claim women were always fans, which is true, but never in huge numbers and having different expectations from a general female audience. And when they can't argue against him, they resort to anecdotal attacks that Bobby believes unquestioningly.
If Bob were remotely aware of what was going on in gaming during the seventh console generation, he might know of a phrase that sent shivers down any passionate fan's spine: "we want the Call of Duty audience." There are plenty of examples of this same effect, but they all boil down to the same thing: if you attempt a major rework to your product in order to attract a wider audience, you're probably going to turn away those that supported you in the first place, while simultaneously not getting enough new fans to replace them.
14Nov#19
Rumor mill has it that The Rat is ditching Jonathan Majors
14Nov#20
Okay, which is it, Bob? Is the MCU meticulously planned out years in advance such that the tiniest wrench in the works will send the whole thing flying off the rails, or is it completely made up as they go along and they're totally flexible to be able to do whatever they decide on? It can't be both, fatass.
Two rebuttals to his points. First, there has literally been nothing stopping Marvel from recasting actors before, and there still isn't anything now (and I still say they should have just recast Black Panther after Boseman's untimely death, creepy deification aside). And second, why does he keep thinking that they're going to retitle these movies constantly? The only time to my knowledge that they've retitled an MCU movie in the past has been Infinity War Part 2 to Endgame, probably to make it less clunky. They retitled the next Cap movie but only because (((some people))) got upset about "New World Order" being referenced. It's bizarre that he believes that these movies will have some secret title reveal before release.
14Nov#21
Ha, Bob, talk about media literacy. Disney isn't making up new Star Wars material as they go, they have been
blatantly pilfering the EU for concepts since they bought the brand, only making them worse because they don't have any talented writers on board. And calling Star Wars "over" before the prequels couldn't be more wrong, as people who saw it growing up were enthusiastically sharing it with their kids in the years that followed. The Special Edition rereleases wouldn't have been as successful as they were if Star Wars were a dead brand, and merchandising had always been strong.
Then Disney turned it into, yes, a girl brand, and the result is that Star Wars is
truly dead these days.
