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

[Absolutego]

Sometimes I've wondered where his money goes. He makes $4000 $3250 on patreon plus whatever pennies The Escapist throws him for populating their dying website. While things are clearly on a downward trend financially; that seems to have been a fairly recent development.

His occupying a shitty below ground hovel is well documented and the lack of investment in his "business" is glaringly obvious, so where does it all go? Raging alcoholism? Gambling? Perhaps.

No, I think it might have to do with his one redeeming trait, his undying love and loyalty towards his brother and his niece. While Bob might be every bit the sheltered, raging autistic manchild he evidently is, I think he might be financially supporting his brother, rather than the other way around.

1. We've seen him blow $250 at a time on tacky Mario blazers and what images we've seen of the "basement apartment" are covered floor-to-ceiling in pop culture plastic
2. He works as an independent contractor and has to pay for his own health insurance, as a middle-aged adult with type II diabetes (he's very lucky he didn't manage that in an era where preexisting conditions still got you denied insurance)
3. He eats an enormous volume of food, lots of it takeout, and from seeing his window well filled up with PBR (and Bob helpfully telling us that took him 3 months to fill), I'd guess he probably is dropping $15+ a day on booze/soda alone, even drinking the cheapest, shittiest domestic he can find.

 

[saralovesjuicyfruit]

No, I think it might have to do with his one redeeming trait, his undying love and loyalty towards his brother and his niece. While Bob might be every bit the sheltered, raging autistic manchild he evidently is, I think he might be financially supporting his brother, rather than the other way around.

Pretty sure his brother is an engineer of sorts, owns a modest home in a higher-cost area of the country, and supports a wife and kids. Chris is definitely doing better than Bob, in like every conceivable way.

 

[The tired cat]

1. We've seen him blow $250 at a time on tacky Mario blazers and what images we've seen of the "basement apartment" are covered floor-to-ceiling in pop culture plastic
2. He works as an independent contractor and has to pay for his own health insurance, as a middle-aged adult with type II diabetes (he's very lucky he didn't manage that in an era where preexisting conditions still got you denied insurance)
3. He eats an enormous volume of food, lots of it takeout, and from seeing his window well filled up with PBR (and Bob helpfully telling us that took him 3 months to fill), I'd guess he probably is dropping $15+ a day on booze/soda alone, even drinking the cheapest, shittiest domestic he can find.

Also don't forget him blowing..what was it...85$ on a so called "steak"?

 

[Rei is shit]

Trump caused corona, mad about a checkmark


And two baffling retweets that basically argue the opposite of his worldview.

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1. We've seen him blow $250 at a time on tacky Mario blazers and what images we've seen of the "basement apartment" are covered floor-to-ceiling in pop culture plastic
2. He works as an independent contractor and has to pay for his own health insurance, as a middle-aged adult with type II diabetes (he's very lucky he didn't manage that in an era where preexisting conditions still got you denied insurance)
3. He eats an enormous volume of food, lots of it takeout, and from seeing his window well filled up with PBR (and Bob helpfully telling us that took him 3 months to fill), I'd guess he probably is dropping $15+ a day on booze/soda alone, even drinking the cheapest, shittiest domestic he can find.

He also goes to some arcade, possible a barcade, and blows money on shit he can play in mame.

 

[XtrmGamr719]

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"If Cloud Strife was real, he would shove his buster sword up Trump's ass "

Where to fucking begin... first, this is a prime example of Robert "knowledge" on pop-culture shit, this feels like someone is just quoting what he read on the wikipedia, he never really played the fucking game.

Then there is his explanation on why FFVII doesn't "register as a statement". Utter bullshit, everybody gets the message FFVII is trying to make, but it is so blatant simple and unilateral that it would be the same thing to say "the sky is blue". if you wanna chalk the game as being a pro-liberal message, fine, whatever makes you sleep at night, but you would have to be an idiot to use this simple ass message about "take care of mother earth" as in any sort of discorse, that is why normal people don't bother analysing politics on these dumb entertainment pastiches.

Also, it's pretty easy to cherry pick shit in order to make you points valid, watch me: Shinra managed to save two cities from the weapons with a giant cannon, while the heroes were incapable to do anything, clearly Sakaguchi is a right winger militar hawk after all .

Also also, nobody felt sorry for Sephiroth, he got over his trauma of being a lab rat pretty quick when he found out he could become a supreme being, feeding on the megalomania and narcissism he always had, and his "bad mom" (I think he means Jenova, not Lucrecia) wasn't wronged by Shinra, she was a dormant space parasite that is just waiting for a chance to suck the planet dry. And Hojo never came close to being any sort of father figure to Sephiroth, Sephiroth despised him.

And I would like to give one last fuck you to Robert here, Aerith IS NOT A FUCKING HIPPIE. She plays the holy maiden role, shit is over used in anime and mangas, stop bending shit to fit your crappy interpretations...

Seriously, go fuck yoursef Robert.

So basically this and John Flynt's tweet about FFVII gives me the impression that they don't know what the fuck the plot of the game is.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

I’m starting to fear if Bob has nuclear hot takes on the Sin monster from Final Fantasy 10 for having the monster attack Spira for relying on machines.

 

[XtrmGamr719]

I’m starting to fear if Bob has nuclear hot takes on the Sin monster from Final Fantasy 10 for having the monster attack Spira for relying on machines.

Ohhhhhhhhh man I can already imagine how he would think of (Grand Wizard) Wakka.

 

[Flexo]

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"If Cloud Strife was real, he would shove his buster sword up Trump's ass "

Where to fucking begin... first, this is a prime example of Robert "knowledge" on pop-culture shit, this feels like someone is just quoting what he read on the wikipedia, he never really played the fucking game.

Then there is his explanation on why FFVII doesn't "register as a statement". Utter bullshit, everybody gets the message FFVII is trying to make, but it is so blatant simple and unilateral that it would be the same thing to say "the sky is blue". if you wanna chalk the game as being a pro-liberal message, fine, whatever makes you sleep at night, but you would have to be an idiot to use this simple ass message about "take care of mother earth" as in any sort of discorse, that is why normal people don't bother analysing politics on these dumb entertainment pastiches.

Also, it's pretty easy to cherry pick shit in order to make you points valid, watch me: Shinra managed to save two cities from the weapons with a giant cannon, while the heroes were incapable to do anything, clearly Sakaguchi is a right winger militar hawk after all .

Also also, nobody felt sorry for Sephiroth, he got over his trauma of being a lab rat pretty quick when he found out he could become a supreme being, feeding on the megalomania and narcissism he always had, and his "bad mom" (I think he means Jenova, not Lucrecia) wasn't wronged by Shinra, she was a dormant space parasite that is just waiting for a chance to suck the planet dry. And Hojo never came close to being any sort of father figure to Sephiroth, Sephiroth despised him.

And I would like to give one last fuck you to Robert here, Aerith IS NOT A FUCKING HIPPIE. She plays the holy maiden role, shit is over used in anime and mangas, stop bending shit to fit your crappy interpretations...

Seriously, go fuck yoursef Robert.

Spot on @Bolo . I'm going to try and explain things to Bob so I'll type real slow.

Bob, there is POLITICS - that is, the normal struggles of people and institutions in their efforts to accomplish goals, in which case, no duh, all art is "political" because all art is going to have some parts of the human experience in them.

Then there is Politics(TM) which people are referring to and as I saw someone point out once, can better be described as "issues." That shit? That sucks and dates a work faster than clothing, hair style, and music. Because the latter things can last in style for at least a year, but "issues" are lucky to last a week. When you and the other NPCs start going on about "issue" works, you're no different from the fundies and their christian films.

Here's how you can tell the difference: If you were to remove or change a "politics" detail, does the story still work? Or does it fall apart?

Remove the feminism or transtrends or whatever from a lot of NPC work, and the result is often nothing remains. That's what you and yours keep failing to realize.

Or... maybe you do. Truly good, great stories a person wants to visit again and again because they hold up so well. An "issues" story is out of date by the next newspaper headline. So if people don't want to revisit those stories, then they'll need to get the new "issues" stories. They need the latest that's dealing with what's going on RIGHT NOW.

And if they need that, well you've got a ready made conveyor belt set up to just have people CONSOOM in a never ending cycle. Of course corporations would love that.... and the NPCs having to compete with the classics...

Why that's a downright diabolical plan. I swear I've heard of it before...

“And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.” -the Screwtape Letters

 

[LordofCringe7206]

Pretty sure his brother is an engineer of sorts, owns a modest home in a higher-cost area of the country, and supports a wife and kids. Chris is definitely doing better than Bob, in like every conceivable way.

Well... aside from the fact that he e-begs online because he's too lazy to go to a pharmacy he doesn't like.

 

[Koby_Fish]

So basically this and John Flynt's tweet about FFVII gives me the impression that they don't know what the fuck the plot of the game is.

It should be entirely inexcusable to think that a small portion of the first disk of the game is "the entire plot". I also get the feeling blob never played FFVII (maybe not even II or III for the SNES). While the AVALANCHE thing starts the whole 'need to save the planet' thing, it is by no means even relevant by the time the party leaves Midgar, which is still in disc 1. Then the focus becomes stopping Sephiroth from reaching 'the promised land', trying (and failing) to stop Sephiroth from getting the Black Materia, and then focusing on stopping Sephiroth AND Meteor. Oddly enough at the end (and in kind of an ironic way, opposite to the way the politicize-everything crowd expects), the planet itself ends up saving Humanity, rather than the other way around.

 

[saralovesjuicyfruit]

Well... aside from the fact that he e-begs online because he's too lazy to go to a pharmacy he doesn't like.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well, he is a Chipman, so being kind of a dumbass is a given. Still better off overall than living alone in a basement at 40 surrounded by toys.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I think he might be financially supporting his brother, rather than the other way around.

It's possible, but I doubt it. Bob has complained about money trouble before, and even had to sell some junk for that reason. I don't think he's really in a position to give charity.

They each lost a few cents every time they did that due to Patreon fees, but they believed the benefits would make up for it (bigger Patreon numbers supposedly leading to more people donating). I could be misremembering, but I think creators could pledge some of their earnings to other Patreons directly and bypass some of the fees involved. If someone knows differently, feel free to clarify.

I don't know if I'm remembering right, but I think the Patreon fees were brought in because of the circular donations. I remember when Patreon first introduced a fee-per-pledge system there was a lot of backlash from creators. Some genuinely concerned that their low tier patrons would be screwed out of money, and others who couldn't really articulate a defense. The latter of which seemed to be people suspected of circular donations.

I thought Patreon abandoned that plan though, so I don't know.

Then there is Politics(TM) which people are referring to and as I saw someone point out once, can better be described as "issues." That shit? That sucks and dates a work faster than clothing, hair style, and music. Because the latter things can last in style for at least a year, but "issues" are lucky to last a week. When you and the other NPCs start going on about "issue" works, you're no different from the fundies and their christian films.

Then there's the other side of coin. For all their talk of "challenging the status quo" and demanding all works be political(TM), those advocating for it throw a conniption fit when something doesn't parrot their views on an issue. See Bob's recent review of The Hunt where he dropped the score from 10 to 5 because of a twist that disagreed with him politically, or his rage over Call of Duty and Halo games.

Then there's the "blue curtains" meme. Where people read subtext into a work that doesn't exist and was never intended to exist.


And your comparison to Christian films is apt, because SJW media is as cringy as any Pure Flix movie but they don't seem to notice.
When critics praise Black Panther, Ghostbuster 2016, or the Star Wars sequels, it's as ridiculous as calling Reefer Madness a hard hitting documentary, or Neil Breen movies the pinnacle of movie making, but they don't see it because they happen to agree with it.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Magneto can be wrong about many things, but he's right about how mutants have abilities humans don't and he uses that to their advantage. He has a point asking why he should help humans when humans want to kill him.

Bob doesn't have that leverage. Magneto is already "superior" to humans, Bob's superiority is not only ideologically relative but it's kinda loopy: a better future would make me superior that's why I am superior and i deserve a future.

 

[BR55]

Magneto can be wrong about many things, but he's right about how mutants have abilities humans don't and he uses that to their advantage. He has a point asking why he should help humans when humans want to kill him.

Bob doesn't have that leverage. Magneto is already "superior" to humans, Bob's superiority is not only ideologically relative but it's kinda loopy: a better future would make me superior that's why I am superior and i deserve a future.

Maybe Bob was talking about Ultimate Magneto?
Ultimate Magneto is right up Bob's alley.
An explicitly genocidal lunatic with no redeeming qualities whatsoever and a God complex few can match.*
616 Magneto would probably begrudgingly accept being left alone by humanity.
Ultimate Magneto would stop at nothing to enslave or exterminate the inferior humans.
Of course, that was in the comics and not the movies so Bob is almost certainly unaware of any of that.
*Why yes Ulitmate Marvel was questionably edgy even in the beginning why do you ask?

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

Say what you will about EFAP but I do appreciate that they're bringing attention to the fact that moviebob is a godamn lunatic by covering that video. Now all we need to do is adjusts its like to dislike ratio

 

[XtrmGamr719]

Say what you will about EFAP but I do appreciate that they're bringing attention to the fact that moviebob is a godamn lunatic by covering that video. Now all we need to do is adjusts its like to dislike ratio

Yeah they may not be autists like us who can get what Bob's life is like based on his social media, his videos, and his published book but they do get the general aspect of him: He's a fat psychopath who wants to kill off the Midwesterners by eating all of their food.

 

[Benisbro]

Magneto can be wrong about many things, but he's right about how mutants have abilities humans don't and he uses that to their advantage. He has a point asking why he should help humans when humans want to kill him.

Bob doesn't have that leverage. Magneto is already "superior" to humans, Bob's superiority is not only ideologically relative but it's kinda loopy: a better future would make me superior that's why I am superior and i deserve a future.

No you don’t get it, he’s Superior because he’s a “Thinker” unlike midwestern mayonnaise ghouls, who are obviously evil and dumb “Believers”.
Whatever the fuck that means. I err on the side of “sheltered narcissist thinks He is the only Smart Man alive: ‘right’ politics as an outlet for my rage edition”.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

Magneto can be wrong about many things, but he's right about how mutants have abilities humans don't and he uses that to their advantage. He has a point asking why he should help humans when humans want to kill him.

Bob doesn't have that leverage. Magneto is already "superior" to humans, Bob's superiority is not only ideologically relative but it's kinda loopy: a better future would make me superior that's why I am superior and i deserve a future.

Plus their have been times where Magneto has realized the error of his ways and made efforts to change. This more often than nolt gets at least partially undone because the status quo has to be maintained but it still shows he is capable of self reflection which Moviebob is incapable of.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Also Magneto suffered, like in the comics the man has had a hard fucking life. He literally has a serial number on his arm from when the comics were showing him being treated like cattle. Bob had people tell him to fuck off over twitter. The difference between the two is genuinely staggering, there was an efap thing where one of the femoids on it said 'This man has never struggled for anything' and I think that's 100% true. Blob has never been good at anything, but he's also probably never really tried to be good at anything, he just assumes that people came out good at things.

Bob isn't pathetic because he fails all the fucking time, he's pathetic because his idea of 'hard work' is everyone elses idea of barely trying and his 'one bad day' moment where he's pushed to (fantasies) of mass murder is being called a fat bastard on twitter. He's literally a piece of societal dead weight. If life were a ship then he's an anchor that thinks it's the captain.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Maybe Bob was talking about Ultimate Magneto?
Ultimate Magneto is right up Bob's alley.
An explicitly genocidal lunatic with no redeeming qualities whatsoever and a God complex few can match.*
616 Magneto would probably begrudgingly accept being left alone by humanity.
Ultimate Magneto would stop at nothing to enslave or exterminate the inferior humans.
Of course, that was in the comics and not the movies so Bob is almost certainly unaware of any of that.
*Why yes Ulitmate Marvel was questionably edgy even in the beginning why do you ask?

Doesn't matter how bad Magneto can be, he's still powerful for real. The guy can kill you with a paperclip only using his mind, Bob can only what? yell at you? call you a nazi? being a sperg isn't a superpower.

No you don’t get it, he’s Superior because he’s a “Thinker” unlike midwestern mayonnaise ghouls, who are obviously evil and dumb “Believers”.
Whatever the fuck that means. I err on the side of “sheltered narcissist thinks He is the only Smart Man alive: ‘right’ politics as an outlet for my rage edition”.

He means that those poor rednecks living in the countryside, taking care of their cattle, their crops, developing irrigation systems, sending their kids to college so they can come back better eeducated to apply what they learned to the benefit of their families are bad because they aren't using their minds wishing we were more like Star Trek.

"Oh, wow, we build a new method for farming faster, we can harvest everything in a few hours, isn' amazing what we can achieve now?"

"HOW DARE YOU TO NOT WISH WE COULD FLY TO MARS AND LIVE IN THE MOON?"