Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[Odie Esty]

always relevant:

 

[Oekaki Hellion]

Dang I forgot about this guy! Does anyone remember that comic someone drew years ago of him? Where he goes on a blind date and wears that awful Mario costume. The running gag is he brags about the size of his penis the entire time, and that its getting even longer "from tugging" each time he mentions it. I can't for the life of me find that comic anywhere.

 

[Keystone]

Dang I forgot about this guy! Does anyone remember that comic someone drew years ago of him? Where he goes on a blind date and wears that awful Mario costume. The running gag is he brags about the size of his penis the entire time, and that its getting even longer "from tugging" each time he mentions it. I can't for the life of me find that comic anywhere.

That "comic" sounds awful and horrifying.


Find it and post it immediately.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

He's saying their ceasing Trump parodies is cowardly. As if South Park deciding the well is dry somehow means Trump wins.

Most likely they're just switching gears because comedy has been dominated by anti-Trump shticks for two fucking years now.

We aren't allowed to do anything unless it involves Trump anymore.

 

[Oekaki Hellion]

That "comic" sounds awful and horrifying.


Find it and post it immediately.

So I had a brain thing as when I was talking to someone about this awhile back a picture of Bob was used to further make fun of the comic. Tuns out it was an unrelated old Seanbaby thing about some creepy plumber and I got the two confused as being related. http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/mark.htm

 

[sbm1990]

Just curious, what makes this guy any different from your avarage, run-of-the-mill neckbeard who makes shitty commentary/review videos?

I've seen one of his movie review videos on youtube, and ill just say that I want those 10 or so minutes of my life back.

 

[Assorted Nuts]

Just curious, what makes this guy any different from your avarage, run-of-the-mill neckbeard who makes shitty commentary/review videos?

I've seen one of his movie review videos on youtube, and ill just say that I want those 10 or so minutes of my life back.

As per his videos, nothing. They're boring as shit. The thing about MovieBob is that when you take away the filter he is absolutely fucking bonkers. You get a taste of that on his Nazi-esque Twitter rants, but when he goes full retard it's amazing.

Take this interview with someone who knew Blob shortly before his Internet reviewer days. Blob thinks violent video games did 9/11. That is not an exaggeration, he actually thinks that.

 

[Keystone]

That and he skipped a family member's funeral to play Mario.

Seriously, you can't make this shit up.

But if you want the full picture, then you need to read the preceding 300 pages of this thread. I know that's a tall order, but cows like Bob simply can't be explained in a few posts, let alone a page or two.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Just curious, what makes this guy any different from your avarage, run-of-the-mill neckbeard who makes shitty commentary/review videos?

I've seen one of his movie review videos on youtube, and ill just say that I want those 10 or so minutes of my life back.

Multiple reasons.

The first is he's an arrogant douchebag who's absolutely obsessed with his technocratic "superior future" pipe dreams. He's one of those idiots who reads pop-sci fluff on terraforming, nanobots, AIs, and genetic engineering and believes we're on the doorstep of living in a post-scarcity environment. He sincerely thinks we could have massive, automated wheat farms on the Moon used to sustain a trans-humanist social justice utopia where no one ever has to do manual labor. The only thing keeping us from that, in his view, is the malevolant and repressive forces of Red State America, a demographic he A-Logs constantly.

Which brings me to the second reason. Behavior-wise, Bob is a total Nazi. While he advocates for standard liberal progressive social politics he has absolutely no empathy or understanding of people who disagree with him. There's either people like him--compassionate, politically correct intellectual feminists--and people like them. He has very bluntly called for the systematic persecution of basically anyone who votes Republican and he's only gotten more vocal about it since November. He's got this great quote: "there is no such thing as a bad tactic, only bad targets". Which sounds straight out of a fucking Hitler speech.

Third reason is for all Bob harps on about his visions for a bright and shining future, he knows jack dick about basically anything he says. He calls himself a technocrat but he has no background in the hard sciences. He does no research on any of this shit other than clickbait articles and Facebook pages like "I Fucking Love Science". He believes he's a model for this new future and is guaranteed a place amongst giants when it finally happens, even though his only "skill" is reviewing big budget popcorn films. The only role he'll play in his future is getting rendered down into bio-fuel for the automatic combines maintaining his precious moon farms.

Fourth is like most internet reviewers his movie tastes are fucking pedestrian. For all he likes to pretend he's some kind of erudite film aficionado it seems he only ever watches MCU flicks.

He also believes in some absolutely insane shit. The most bizarre is his weird insistence first-person shooter games caused 9/11.

And the last reason is he's got this weird obsession with Mario and 80s gamer culture in general. There's this ridiculous picture of him in full Mario regalia. It's peppered all through this thread and honestly it says more than I ever could.

 

[muh_moobs]

"The He-man cartoon is the new generation's equivalence of mine's not understanding dad until Platoon."
Completely appropriate comment for someone who thinks Nam is equivalent to the console wars.

YES Now I have an excuse to upload this fucker!

 

[NQ 952]

Multiple reasons.

The first is he's an arrogant douchebag who's absolutely obsessed with his technocratic "superior future" pipe dreams. He's one of those idiots who reads pop-sci fluff on terraforming, nanobots, AIs, and genetic engineering and believes we're on the doorstep of living in a post-scarcity environment. He sincerely thinks we could have massive, automated wheat farms on the Moon used to sustain a trans-humanist social justice utopia where no one ever has to do manual labor. The only thing keeping us from that, in his view, is the malevolant and repressive forces of Red State America, a demographic he A-Logs constantly.

Which brings me to the second reason. Behavior-wise, Bob is a total Nazi. While he advocates for standard liberal progressive social politics he has absolutely no empathy or understanding of people who disagree with him. There's either people like him--compassionate, politically correct intellectual feminists--and people like them. He has very bluntly called for the systematic persecution of basically anyone who votes Republican and he's only gotten more vocal about it since November. He's got this great quote: "there is no such thing as a bad target, only bad tactics". Which sounds straight out of a fucking Hitler speech.

Third reason is for all Bob harps on about his visions for a bright and shining future, he knows jack dick about basically anything he says. He calls himself a technocrat but he has no background in the hard sciences. He does no research on any of this shit other than clickbait articles and Facebook pages like "I Fucking Love Science". He believes he's a model for this new future and is guaranteed a place amongst giants when it finally happens, even though his only "skill" is reviewing big budget popcorn films. The only role he'll play in his future is getting rendered down into bio-fuel for the automatic combines maintaining his precious moon farms.

Fourth is like most internet reviewers his movie tastes are fucking pedestrian. For all he likes to pretend he's some kind of erudite film aficionado it seems he only ever watches MCU flicks.

He also believes in some absolutely insane shit. The most bizarre is his weird insistence first-person shooter games caused 9/11.

And the last reason is he's got this weird obsession with Mario and 80s gamer culture in general. There's this ridiculous picture of him in full Mario regalia. It's peppered all through this thread and honestly it says more than I ever could.

Lest we forget, in his book Bob said the console wars were like his Vietnam.

Cue Suicide is Painless.

 

[_blank_]

Just curious, what makes this guy any different from your avarage, run-of-the-mill neckbeard who makes shitty commentary/review videos?

I've seen one of his movie review videos on youtube, and ill just say that I want those 10 or so minutes of my life back.

The only thing that makes him stand out above the crowd of YouTube Pillsbury Doughboys is the fact that he once had a job with the Escapist and actually held a substantial fanbase. Keep in mind this was also the era where Escapist was hiring other exceptional minds like Jim Sterling, Extra Credits, and for a very, very, very short stint had articles written by Silverstring media. If you want for info on any or all of these folks, I'll defer you to @Jaimas.

In any case, this was when the Escapist was thirsty for the indie scene and bent over backwards to appeal to the vidya pseudo intellectuals (aka the ones who think they can write a thesis paper about their adventures making mudhuts in Minecraft). Chipman fit right in with the rest of the shallow-end deep thinkers and it is mostly this reason and this reason alone anyone even pays attention to him. If it wasn't for his presence on the Escapist, chances are he'd just be a dime-a-dozen butterchub that no one would care about.

 

[AnOminous]

Multiple reasons.

The first is he's an arrogant douchebag who's absolutely obsessed with his technocratic "superior future" pipe dreams. He's one of those idiots who reads pop-sci fluff on terraforming, nanobots, AIs, and genetic engineering and believes we're on the doorstep of living in a post-scarcity environment. He sincerely thinks we could have massive, automated wheat farms on the Moon used to sustain a trans-humanist social justice utopia where no one ever has to do manual labor.

That makes absolutely no fucking sense at all. Any payload sent into space costs by the fucking microgram. Transporting wheat from the Moon would involve launching from a world with no atmosphere and then landing again, over and over again. The cost would raise the cost of any such wheat well over the price of pure gold.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

That makes absolutely no fucking sense at all. Any payload sent into space costs by the fucking microgram. Transporting wheat from the Moon would involve launching from a world with no atmosphere and then landing again, over and over again. The cost would raise the cost of any such wheat well over the price of pure gold.

Something something space elevators or some shit.

 

[Shokew]

Something something space elevators or some shit.

Sadly not invented in real life yet, but whatever.

 

[The Nothingness]

That makes absolutely no fucking sense at all. Any payload sent into space costs by the fucking microgram. Transporting wheat from the Moon would involve launching from a world with no atmosphere and then landing again, over and over again. The cost would raise the cost of any such wheat well over the price of pure gold.

He would probably pull some Star Trek explanation that in the future, currency will no longer be needed.

 

[Positron]

Yeah yeah post-scarcity society everything is just for the price of asking.
Will there be moon-grown weed and shooms too?

 

[AnOminous]

He would probably pull some Star Trek explanation that in the future, currency will no longer be needed.

You can do away with money all you like, there is still a limited amount of energy available for doing work, and squandering it stupidly still leaves you with not enough food.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Sadly not invented in real life yet, but whatever.

That applies to basically all of the technologies Bobby pines for. But in his world the only reason they're not a thing is because Trump voters don't want them.

 

[Absolutego]

He's got this great quote: "there is no such thing as a bad target, only bad tactics". Which sounds straight out of a fucking Hitler speech.

You actually flipped the quote into something reasonable. No bad target, only bad tactics implies some kind of restraint in dealing with ideological enemies.

This is what Bob actually said: