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

How will Bob react to seeing the Mario film?

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Well, new video about MST3K. It actually wasn't all that bad, until he criticized it for that pacing of its jokes because millennials are bad, short attention spans, etc. He had something good going there, talking about how great it was to see an old favorite back on the air, but he couldn't make the video without slagging off on a group that he hates.

 
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SoberBlitz said:
Well, new video about MST3K. It actually wasn't all that bad, until he criticized it for that pacing of its jokes because millennials are bad, short attention spans, etc. He had something good going there, talking about how great it was to see an old favorite back on the air, but he couldn't make the video without slagging off on a group that he hates.

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This is part of the reason I stopped watching Bob back in the day, he couldn't go a single video without going on a tangent about some group he hated and how it's somehow connected to what he was watching. It got really tedious after a while; back then I thought he needed to just chill. Not every video had to be an attack on someone.

Of course, knowing the way he is now, it's kinda funny how he only got more vitriolic at people who are basically better than him.
 
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Lensherr said:

@Absolutego how close are your predictions for his review to the actual thing?
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Well, here's what I said he would say:

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Fast 8 - he'll praise the self-parody of the movie while finding a way to complain about its original fanbase
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And he literally started the review off summarizing the history of the series and bitching about how bad the original films and Vin Diesel are. So yeah. Not exactly a Nostradamus-tier prediction, but I was right.
 
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SoberBlitz said:
Well, new video about MST3K. It actually wasn't all that bad, until he criticized it for that pacing of its jokes because millennials are bad, short attention spans, etc. He had something good going there, talking about how great it was to see an old favorite back on the air, but he couldn't make the video without slagging off on a group that he hates.

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It's quite weird watching the gushing fanboy coming out. The tension eased, his manner relaxes and their's actual enthusiasm in his voice. He actually comes across as well a human being enjoying something. Pity his arrogence and hate manage to seep in a little.
 
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If you're throwing up the Nazi salute in support of white ethnic-nationalism, you're a Nazi.
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that's somewhat reasonable coming from Bob. too bad it only applies to maybe 10% of people he considers Nazis.
 
Emperor Julian said:
It's quite weird watching the gushing fanboy coming out. The tension eased, his manner relaxes and their's actual enthusiasm in his voice. He actually comes across as well a human being enjoying something. Pity his arrogence and hate manage to seep in a little.
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It's like he was a normal person for once. He was doing something he enjoyed, talking about things he enjoyed, etc. As I said, this video is miles beyond anything he's posted lately, if only because he comes off as someone who has a love for nerd culture and the things it has produced over the years. But, he just can't let go of that sense of superiority, which in turn tells the viewer more than they need to know about Chipman and his opinions.
 
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I love how all these far left creeps are White Knighting North Korea. Like letting them get away with all the shit they've been doing these past eight years is a good thing.
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It's an irrelevant thing. Kim Jong Un isn't exceptional enough to attack the USS Carl Vinson or the American forces in South Korea, though if he did the United States would be entirely justified in responding with force. I'm not sure if MovieBob would spin it so the United States were still the bad guys even though Clinton would respond in exactly the same way, but I think he would.
 
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It's an irrelevant thing. Kim Jong Un isn't exceptional enough to attack the USS Carl Vinson or the American forces in South Korea, though if he did the United States would be entirely justified in responding with force. I'm not sure if MovieBob would spin it so the United States were still the bad guys even though Clinton would respond in exactly the same way, but I think he would.
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I dunno. Kid was crazy enough to employ VX nerve agent at the biggest airport in one of the only countries that was friendly to his regime. I mean, the assassination itself wasn't that far out of the norm for how the Kims have conducted themselves, but why not just have him quietly murdered in a hotel room? It was flashy and it was over the top and I think it scared the shit out of everyone, China included. At this point I don't know if anybody knows what Kim Jong Un would or wouldn't do, or how scared his inner circle is of reining him in.

Of course no matter what happens, even if it completely confounds scholars and diplomats who've been studying the weirdness of North Korea for decades, Bob will be happy to explain how it's all Trump's fault.
 
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Mola Ram said:
I dunno. Kid was crazy enough to employ VX nerve agent at the biggest airport in one of the only countries that was friendly to his regime. I mean, the assassination itself wasn't that far out of the norm for how the Kims have conducted themselves, but why not just have him quietly murdered in a hotel room? It was flashy and it was over the top and I think it scared the shit out of everyone, China included. At this point I don't know if anybody knows what Kim Jong Un would or wouldn't do, or how scared his inner circle is of reining him in.

Of course no matter what happens, even if it completely confounds scholars and diplomats who've been studying the weirdness of North Korea for decades, Bob will be happy to explain how it's all Trump's fault.
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China's entire economy depends on free trade and at least marginally friendly relations with the western world. If it comes down between that and North Korea China won't put everything on the line to defend a rouge state they have nothing to gain by defending.
 
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Mola Ram said:
I dunno. Kid was crazy enough to employ VX nerve agent at the biggest airport in one of the only countries that was friendly to his regime. I mean, the assassination itself wasn't that far out of the norm for how the Kims have conducted themselves, but why not just have him quietly murdered in a hotel room? It was flashy and it was over the top and I think it scared the shit out of everyone, China included. At this point I don't know if anybody knows what Kim Jong Un would or wouldn't do, or how scared his inner circle is of reining him in.

Of course no matter what happens, even if it completely confounds scholars and diplomats who've been studying the weirdness of North Korea for decades, Bob will be happy to explain how it's all Trump's fault.
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I doubt it'd be any different than had Clinton been elected.

Bob's just looking for a scapegoat for all of this shit going on, and it wouldn't even matter who was elected as president- he'd find a way regardless. The fact that he can't seem to realize that maybe there's people out there who hate North Korea and aren't American makes me wonder if he's legitimately sympathetic for those other countries. Hell, would anyone even be surprised if he decided to victimize North Korea?
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
I doubt it'd be any different than had Clinton been elected.

Bob's just looking for a scapegoat for all of this shit going on, and it wouldn't even matter who was elected as president- he'd find a way regardless. The fact that he can't seem to realize that maybe there's people out there who hate North Korea and aren't American makes me wonder if he's legitimately sympathetic for those other countries. Hell, would anyone even be surprised if he decided to victimize North Korea?
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It's hard to say. I do think Hillary would have been more apt to saber-rattle than Obama was, but treating North Korea with kid gloves was an entrenched policy that spanned both parties. Who knows.

Bob's viewpoint is completely blinkered. He is almost totally incapable of examining events from the view of anyone other than a white male entitled left-wing Boston suburbanite, so of course there are no enemies but those retrograde Trump voters and no strategies worth pursuing that don't disenfranchise or at least irritate them. I don't think he's sympathetic to those other countries, exactly, so much as he reflexively adopting a position contrary to his hated Republican foes. It's kind of funny: for all his pretensions to worldliness, Bob is much more parochial and narrow-minded than your average redneck.
 
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Mola Ram said:
I dunno. Kid was crazy enough to employ VX nerve agent at the biggest airport in one of the only countries that was friendly to his regime. I mean, the assassination itself wasn't that far out of the norm for how the Kims have conducted themselves, but why not just have him quietly murdered in a hotel room? It was flashy and it was over the top and I think it scared the shit out of everyone, China included. At this point I don't know if anybody knows what Kim Jong Un would or wouldn't do, or how scared his inner circle is of reining him in.

Of course no matter what happens, even if it completely confounds scholars and diplomats who've been studying the weirdness of North Korea for decades, Bob will be happy to explain how it's all Trump's fault.
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Kim Jong Nam, or Malaysia for that matter, didn't command the most powerful armed forces in the history of the world. Trump, much to MovieBob's dismay, does. Kim Jong Un knows the number 1 rule of being a bully: only pick on targets who are weaker than you are, or you'll take a beating, a beating which would be terminal in this case.
 
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Mola Ram said:
It's hard to say. I do think Hillary would have been more apt to saber-rattle than Obama was, but treating North Korea with kid gloves was an entrenched policy that spanned both parties. Who knows.

Bob's viewpoint is completely blinkered. He is almost totally incapable of examining events from the view of anyone other than a white male entitled left-wing Boston suburbanite, so of course there are no enemies but those retrograde Trump voters and no strategies worth pursuing that don't disenfranchise or at least irritate them. I don't think he's sympathetic to those other countries, exactly, so much as he reflexively adopting a position contrary to his hated Republican foes. It's kind of funny: for all his pretensions to worldliness, Bob is much more parochial and narrow-minded than your average redneck.
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And that's why I'm wondering if Bob would be willing to victimize North Korea- His mindset is narrow as fuck already. And considering his hatred towards Trump, it would only seem right that he'd try to defend the country that consistently treats its population like shit.

Yet what he seems to forget is that NK, while clearly under powered compared to the rest of the world in terms of firepower, earned its reputation by bomb testing and wars with its Southern counterpart. Plus the constant fear that they could easily turn their militaristic situation around if no one does something about it. I mean say what you want about Trump, but he sure as shit not sitting on his hands when it comes to this sort of thing. And as you said, it's unlikely Clinton would be doing the same (albeit to a lesser extent).

But Bob won't realize any of that. He'll just half-ass his argument like he always does.
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
And that's why I'm wondering if Bob would be willing to victimize North Korea- His mindset is narrow as fuck already. And considering his hatred towards Trump, it would only seem right that he'd try to defend the country that consistently treats its population like shit.

Yet what he seems to forget is that NK, while clearly under powered compared to the rest of the world in terms of firepower, earned its reputation by bomb testing and wars with its Southern counterpart. Plus the constant fear that they could easily turn their militaristic situation around if no one does something about it. I mean say what you want about Trump, but he sure as shit not sitting on his hands when it comes to this sort of thing. And as you said, it's unlikely Clinton would be doing the same (albeit to a lesser extent).

But Bob won't realize any of that. He'll just half-ass his argument like he always does.
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North Korea got steamrolled in 1950 and only survived because China and the Soviet Union intervened to save them. If they went full exceptional and attacked American forces now they'd be on their own, and their situation could be summarised in one very rude word.
 
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