Bob Chipman / Robert Lewis Chipman / MovieBob / Game OverThinker - "Coastal Elite Thinker" who wants conservatives, Christians and manual workers eradicated. Universally ignorant; cannot tell reality from sci-fi. Sore loser with short fuse. Odious Disney shill. Tranny chaser and general creep. Fat and diabetic.

[Ralph Barnhardt]

https://twitter.com/ManletThorin/status/1769736442652045578

https://twitter.com/AlexSaiz10/status/1770056485998932303

 

[WelperHelper99]

Unironically sounds like a dollar store spiderman ripoff, and not a serious franchise to anything at all.

It's why I didn't even consider watching it. She's a z list hero. I.e. support character for spoods.

 

[BScCollateral]

Unironically sounds like a dollar store spiderman ripoff, and not a serious franchise to anything at all.

I'm reasonably certain someone could make a heck of a good movie about some minor, barely recognized superhero background character. It's just obvious this wasn't one.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Another reason no one watched it: who the fuck is madame web? Seriously who? Not only were the trailers cringe, tryhard, no one knew who she was. Turns out it didn't matter, she was never important.

Unironically sounds like a dollar store spiderman ripoff, and not a serious franchise to anything at all.

Madame Web originally was an elderly mutant who could see though time and was an excuse for the writers to do gonzo things. She was a supporting character/quest giver, not the confusing and lazy knock off they made her into.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Madame Web originally was an elderly mutant who could see though time and was an excuse for the writers to do gonzo things. She was a supporting character/quest giver, not the confusing and lazy knock off they made her into.

So she actually works in the background. Literally a secondary character. No wonder her movie bombed.

 

[Flexo]

Oh, and also, D&D isn't an Isekai, it isn't even Japanese.

Well the original cartoon could technically be called an isekai in the same way Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland could be called isekai.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

So she actually works in the background. Literally a secondary character. No wonder her movie bombed.

I wouldn't even say works in the background. She's not like pulling the strings or anything. She just pops up from time to time when the writers wanna do something different from Rhino/Green Goblin/Shocker/X low level villain here is robbing a bank during Peter's date with MJ. She's been around since the 80's and has died and been resurrected a few times because no one's ever really gone. Even with her being around for over 40 years and even with her being in the Spiderman animated show from the 90's she's barely a recognizable blip outside of diehard fans.

I think you could've made an interesting film out of the original premise of the character but that would've required talent and people who cared. What we got was Sony throwing $80 million at some woman director who had never made a movie before and told her "Make us girly Spiderman or some shit I don't fucking care I can't let the rights lapse" as Sony snorted another line of coke. So we got this girl power bullshit that Bob has to pretend was actually just OK despite everything to the contrary. It's so painfully obvious with Bob's simping for this dreck. He spent how long excoriating and mocking Morbius for the shit show it was? Now we have to play nice and take it easy on Madame Web because vaginas? Fuck Bob and fuck everyone else playing this retarded game.

 

[Mr Processor]

Well the original cartoon could technically be called an isekai in the same way Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland could be called isekai.

Yes, that's true. The cartoon was an isekai, but the game itself isn't unless the DM makes it a variant. Honestly, back when that cartoon is out, I don't think they even made any modules based on it. They did make a couple based on Alice in Wonderland though.

Spoiler: D&D Modules

They did make a boardgame though:

Spoiler: D&D Cartoon Board Game

(It may shock you to know that I was a huge D&D nerd when I was but a child. I didn't really watch the cartoon much though.)

 

[Flexo]

Yes, that's true. The cartoon was an isekai, but the game itself isn't unless the DM makes it a variant.

Did not know about the board game.

Of course given this is Bob, you know he was probably talking about the cartoon because all he knows is cartoons.

 

[TVB]

I think you could've made an interesting film out of the original premise of the character but that would've required talent and people who cared. What we got was Sony throwing $80 million at some woman director who had never made a movie before and told her "Make us girly Spiderman or some shit I don't fucking care I can't let the rights lapse" as Sony snorted another line of coke. So we got this girl power bullshit that Bob has to pretend was actually just OK despite everything to the contrary. It's so painfully obvious with Bob's simping for this dreck. He spent how long excoriating and mocking Morbius for the shit show it was? Now we have to play nice and take it easy on Madame Web because vaginas? Fuck Bob and fuck everyone else playing this retarded game.

As with other big name corpos, Sony is more focused on nepotism and less on creativity. But it's weird, but unsurprising, considering the director of this movie is actually S. J. Clarkson, a long-time director of episodes of many TV shows such as Dexter, House, Succession and Jessica Jones, and this is her first (and potentially her only) movie she directed, and honestly given horrible lighting, camera work and acting, this shows. It could've worked better as a miniseries and not a theatrically released movie that looks cheaper than any typical fan movie from the 90s or 2000s.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

A key way of understanding Bob's video on Halo is watching Bob's previous video on First Person Shooters. He hates them and the people who play them. Bob was hoping his video on Halo would contribute to Halo being "cancelled" in the Social Justice sense. This would allow cartoony platformers like Mario and Donkey Kong to retake their proper place as the greatest games in America. Basically what I am saying is, MovieBob sucks.

This is a wonderful watch. Right off the bat he tells you that he doesn't hate FPS games he just dislikes them but not as much as real sports games. He does make some good points and by that I mean he echoes the same exact thing everyone else was complaining about in the 2010s that the FPS genre was saturated in desaturated Call of Duty clones. He complains about chuds in Xbox waiting rooms before that term existed. I wanna point out that Bob never was part of those racist, homophobic, misogynistic waiting rooms. He got all his information about them second hand. However what stopped me dead in my tracks and made me wanna sperg out was Bob saying that FPSs were not immersive to him because he's too scared to fight. That is not an exaggeration or me playfully misquoting him. He can pretend to be John Wayne or John Rambo popping skulls or getting blown up but to be super soldier Bob Chipman is just too far. Bob, and I am quoting him here, "would be fleeing madly in the opposite direction" if he was in any kind of conflict. So was Bob lying in this video or was he lying in his claims of being in bar fights or when he says things like "I've found a closed fist to be a solid start"?

Curious.

And as if he couldn't get dumber he segues into virtual reality and declares the only reason it never caught on is because "immersion is all about artificially engaging the senses and humans have five". He lists the five senses and does it out of order from what's on the screen which is hilariously bush league. According to Bob's logic, books should never have caught because they're barely visual and movies should've gone the way of the dodo because you can only see and hear Mary Jane in the rain and not smell her hair nor feel her recoil from your touch.

Bob finds new and interesting ways to impress me with his silliness. He is my favorite cow of all.

So this is my fault for stopping half way through Bob's video and thinking it can't get better than this.

I was wrong.

Bob would be into first person games if it wasn't a shooter but there in lies the problem. There are no first person games that are not shooters and as a reminder Bob is so craven that he is uncomfortable holding a gun in a video game in first person perspective. He mentions Mirror's Edge as an example of a game that's not strictly a shooter and then proclaims that it doesn't work. Before I go further I wanna point out during this time is showing off grainy and desaturated footage of Modern Warfare multiplayer footage to just hammer his point home. Let me do one of my favorite things and quote stupid things Bob says that he thinks is smart.

"And this, so far as I can see, is the dirty, uncomfortable secret of the whole thing. The first person perspective in gaming only works for shooters."

You wanna know how it's dirty and uncomfortable? Fuck you.

Bob explains the obvious. Platforming in first person is difficult because you can't see your feet without awkwardly looking down all the time. IMO Mirror's Edge did this very well as opposed to something like Far Cry's radio tower puzzles but that was also the focus of the game. Bob equates this to the fact that vidya can only interact with 2 senses, 3 if you have a rumble feature. Third person games, however, are superior and rather than attempting to break down his middle school level thesis I will just quote it for you.

"Now third person games don't engage those senses either but they COMPENSATE, in effect, by supercharging the sense they do engage: Sight. In firsters games not only are you numb to the world and selectively deaf but your eyes remain locked in your skull. In third person, on the other hand, you can see everything. You, I.E. your character, can see all angles around them at once and while you don't have touch to gauge balance or spatial relations you can see the strength and speed of your own actions and calculate the plausible movements that way. Think about it. Can you imagine how much more capably you'd move through the world if you could see yourself from above the whole time? We'd all be ninjas."

We'd all be ninjas

You may be thinking that this is the dumbest thing he will say in this video but, wooooooooo doggy, you'd be wrong. Bob argues that his argument, not all the other unconnected ones like racist Xbox Live lobbies or that he's too chickenshit to even imagine himself being a heroic soldier, is that games control better when there's a character on screen. This next block of quote follows right after "we'd all be ninjas".

"Is this just my opinion? Well, yeah, but you know what I think reality actually backs me up and for proof I'd cite the first person shooter genre itself. Ask yourself, if I'm wrong and the first person perspective isn't at best inherently limiting and at worst inherently flawed for almost anything but shooters or to be fair stuff like Myst or Shadowgate where you're basically quote unquote walking through a bunch of still photos ,why don't they make more first person games that aren't shooters? Well consider the core of my argument, namely that because games can only engage two of the five human senses, okay two and a half if you've got a rumble feature switched on, and therefore an out of body perspective paradoxically offers superior control of the digital self by drastically expanding the reach of vision. Said another way, gaming in 3D controls best when there's a character on screen like say a plumber or a ninja or a Hyrulian elf boy or maybe a gun."

Buckle up boys. When we hit 88 words a minute, you're gonna see some serious shit!

"And there my friends is the genius inspiration that allowed Wolfenstein and subsequently Doom to overcome the inherent limits of making playable 3D games in the first person in the first place by actually making 3D games in the third person but having a gun barrel as the player sprite instead of a character in effect creating a first person experience by illusion."

Holy shit. Like, how do you say this with a straight face and expect people to take you seriously? I'd wager that more than his political sperging it's THIS kind of retardation that made Screw Attack put a disclaimer on his videos. How do you expect anyone to take anything you have to say about video games seriously when you host a guy who says that Doom is actually better than CoD because Doom is actually a third person game disguised as a first person game that you can only play in the first person. "We are contractually obligated to host his videos. His opinions are his and do not reflect ANYONE else at ScrewAttack."

I'm going to finish this off by quoting the rest of Bob's video in it's entirety. In it he makes an insane hypothetical that makes me wish he could see 12 years into the future and know about that horrific Rick and Morty FPS and boldly takes on many a strawmen.

"Ask yourself, and be honest, how many first-person shooters would have their core gameplay changed one Iota by replacing the gun with, say, a hovering bullet shooting robot of some kind? Yeah that's what I thought. And that my friends is why I have absolutely no problem declaring first-person shooters as a whole to be the most played out, self-limiting, creatively stifling game genre other than sports sims, which is a whole other show, and declaring its place as THE go-to genre to be the worst thing that's happened to the industry since ET. It's a big swirling black hole that's dragging the whole damn video game game universe down with it. Yes that's just my opinion. No that doesn't mean all FPS fans are bad people. Calm the fuck down. The bad news is I don't know how it stops. Right now there are probably more people in the consumer public who are looking for a combination chat room/shooting range, and nothing else, out of their consoles than there are any other kind of gamer combined! That's the gotcha at the heart of the growth of the medium. Gaming didn't break out in the 21st century because Joe Sixpack and Jane Winebox suddenly realized the inherent awesomeness of Simon, Rock, and the brothers. It broke out because Doug Douchebag, Middle Management Mike, Unemployable Eddie, and Parolee Pete decided that teabagging noobs was more fun than their previous methods of venting, like shooting squirrels at the dump or collecting DUIs. Say what you will about the Wii but as far as I'm concerned it's done something close to holy work just by existing and establishing a fresh firm connection between the gods of the golden age and the next generation. Yes and also the next generation's moms. Do you even want to imagine what our world would look like with only these guys hands on the wheel? I have a bad feeling that the only hope of ending the reign of the first person shooter, which by the way would actually help the genre along with all the others, would be for some other hobby to come along and pull Restraining Order Rick and Dishonorable Discharge Dave away from gaming. As for what it'll be, I don't know, is competitive urinal racing a recognized sport yet?"


And that's the bottom line cuz Moviebob said so.

 

[Ensok]

Bobby doesn't know where his fairy small amounts of McD's come from.

I am so sick of seeing lefties make this argument about blue states subsidizing red states. First off, it's not your taxes that are doing the subsidizing, it's the top 10% of tax payers in the US that are doing that, no one else's taxes are being used for that. Secondly, yes, blue cities and blue states are producing a lot of the wealth in the nation as we've industrialized and the tech industry has risen. They make more money than what's produced in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, etc. But that's not to say that what's made there isn't important or necessary for the country either, it just doesn't make us as much money. We live in a symbiotic circle, both blue and red areas on that map would suffer greatly without the other. Blue areas generate wealth. Red areas generate food and energy. Blue has all the big cities, red has all the beautiful natural parks and nature. We are a single country, it's also why I hate it whenever someone says "California would be the sixth largest economy in the world".

 

[Mr Processor]

"And this, so far as I can see, is the dirty, uncomfortable secret of the whole thing. The first person perspective in gaming only works for shooters."

I was tempted to put System Shock 2 here, but I know Bob would just say System Shock 2 was a shooter, despite it being possible to go through the entire game using melee combat. So I put one of it's predecessors, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss.

Ask yourself, and be honest, how many first-person shooters would have their core gameplay changed one Iota by replacing the gun with, say, a hovering bullet shooting robot of some kind?

"Hi I'm Bob, I don't play first person shooters because they scare me. As a result of this, I don't really know much about the gameplay, so I'm going to propose something really, really stupid now. I know that I am right, and FPS players are wrong and bad. So, there are no chances that there are any flaws in my proposal that would be obvious to anyone who has sunk hundreds of hours into playing FPSs." -- MovieBob, probably.

You can actually sort of do his proposal in Bioshock, though obviously not for the entire game. But even if you have a drone shooting splicers, why wouldn't you also use your own gun and plasmids? Also, your drone is not always in sight, sometimes it flies ahead. Alternatively, he could have mentioned Descent or Forsaken, FPSs where you are in a space ship rather than walking around.

Oh, but those are still in First Person perspective, or "Worst Person" perspective amirite.

 

[Mola Ram]

I kind of suspect, and always have, that Bob's disdain for first person perspective games is because he absolutely sucks at them.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

I kind of suspect, and always have, that Bob's disdain for first person perspective games is because he absolutely sucks at them.

Bob admitted in Brick by Brick that he even sucks at Bing Bing Wahoo. He's not really much of a "gamer" he just wants to wear the facade of it for whatever scrap of credibility he thinks it gives him.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Bob admitted in Brick by Brick that he even sucks at Bing Bing Wahoo. He's not really much of a "gamer" he just wants to wear the facade of it for whatever scrap of credibility he thinks it gives him.

Its kind of funny that wider internet culture seems to consider "Terminally online gamer" to still be a superior position to "Terminally online movie watcher". At least the gamer has the excuse of their hobby being exclusively computerized, the movie addict had to actively chose to forsake basic socialization when they stay home seething about movies instead.

 

[JayHarrison]

As narcissists go, Trump's not the worst. The even worse narcissist also has what appears to be a type of dementia or something and also likes to sniff kids' hair for some crazy reason. Funny how everybody's so willing to diagnose Drumpf with narcissism (the grandiose type if he is, but not a malignant one IMO), but ignore all the narc red flags flying out of Sleepy Joe's mouth.

I can go one further: As far as narcissistic presidents are concered, Trump's level is far lower than Fuckwit in Chief Biden's, but Biden’s level is actually lower than that of Barack Obama (Moviebob: "Hallowed be Obama's name").

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[Flexo]

Bob would be into first person games if it wasn't a shooter but there in lies the problem. There are no first person games that are not shooters and as a reminder Bob is so craven that he is uncomfortable holding a gun in a video game in first person perspective.

Um....

(Bit of a pun as it is obviously in a world without guns too.)

Also you can play some of the Deus Ex games gun-free if you wish.

 

[Mola Ram]

Um....
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(Bit of a pun as it is obviously in a world without guns too.)

Also you can play some of the Deus Ex games gun-free if you wish.

The real old school gamers have been doing first person since the early-mid 80s.

Come to think of it, Wizardry might go back to the late 70s.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

Strangely enough, the first experience I had with a first person experience in a game was Toy Story on the Genesis. I thought it was revolutionary at the time: