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

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Did she block him after that?

If she has only he and her know.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Did she block him after that?

I honestly don't know.

 

[BHWuser]

Jones has gotten laid in his life and his persona is pretty much that a persona that's it he's a show man. He might also be a creep at home I have no idea but he's not the loon he pretends to be in front of the cameras.

Film Robert really is this what you see is what you get and that's pathetic. Also Film Robert has never gotten laid.

Jones is actually right, from time to time. And intentionally. The only times that Bob is right is when he's right for the wrong reasons. But, since he's so dumb and only right by accident, he's still technically wrong.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

If we can go back to the Firefly/Serenity Bobposting for a moment, one point really struck me. Not his takes on Firefly, I don't know anything about Firefly (I'm not a nerd). It was his tweet that Firefly is a movie your "college friends" drag you to. I really wonder, what sitcom did Bob get that scenario out of? Bob didn't have friends in college, he didn't have friends in college "dragging" him to movies. Bob watched movies in college the same way he watches movies now: alone, in the dark, stuffing his face with junk food, to block out the outside world with loud movie sound and flashy distracting visuals.

He did work in retail so there was probably a guy or two who couldn't shut up about Firefly, so when Serenity came out, they insisted everyone come with him to see it. There's the possibility Bob was invited because said hypothetical people weren't aware of how he really was.

 

[AnOminous]

Also, Bob saying how he'd like to best be remembered for "this series or the other work I've done" when then mentioning how he he's probably best known for his Pixels review. Bad news, Bob, but I think at this point you're best known for Twitter sperging.

He's best known for sexually harassing Lindsay Ellis at this point.

I guess my point is that simply thinking of him as some sort of retard implies that he is incapable of understanding/comprehending the implications of what he's saying and he 100% knows what he's saying. It's why I've taken to call him disingenuous.

He's still socially retarded and doesn't realize why his own side thinks he's a pathetic embarrassment.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

My biggest memory of Blockbuster is that they tried to charge me $250 for a copy of Terminator 3 in 1996. No matter how many times I told them the movie didn't exist, they still wanted their money, till it went to a collection agency and then into court.

At least the judge looked at them and told them they can't charge me for time travel.

 

[cypocryphy]

Can someone explain what is so god damned amazing about blockbuster? I find chris's autistic obsession with a shit movie rental chain weirder than bobs autistic obsession with a game series with some fun games in it.

It didn't even have a porno section which is what 85% of funny stories about working in a video store involves. So I don't know what "great stories" Chris could even have about that place.

 

[ConsoleWarVet]

It didn't even have a porno section which is what 85% of funny stories about working in a video store involves. So I don't know what "great stories" Chris could even have about that place.

I may be remembering incorrectly but Chris had something Clerks related at his wedding reception didn't he? He probably saw the movie shortly before starting his job at Blockbuster and autistically imprinted himself on Dante and Randall and imagined himself as a super-witty underachieving sarcastic Kevin Smith character his whole time there. Him and Bob probably mumbled dumb shit to each other under their breath all day long about the customers thinking they were dunking on everyone.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

It didn't even have a porno section which is what 85% of funny stories about working in a video store involves. So I don't know what "great stories" Chris could even have about that place.

It was far more corporate than any other rental store.

 

[Mola Ram]

It was far more corporate than any other rental store.

In fact, it and other big time rental places put the charming little Mom & Pop places out of business, then failed to adapt to a changing market and died themselves.

 

[BScCollateral]

I guess my point is that simply thinking of him as some sort of retard implies that he is incapable of understanding/comprehending the implications of what he's saying and he 100% knows what he's saying.

That's a circular argument.

If your thesis is "Bob is not an idiot," then the argument needs to be of the form "Bob is not an idiot because he said / did this smart thing." For example, "Bob is not an idiot because he describes the use of Othello in Children of Paradise as a 'Red Herring.'"

Spoiler: You see...

Othello is about a man who kills his wife out of jealousy. A character in Children of Paradise is a duelist, who is jealous of his mistress. This might suggest he will murder her, but since he does not, it is a red herring.

Why do you think he's able to understand the implications of what he says? It seems to me that his endless deflection when he is caught out suggests the opposite.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I was a Hollywood Video person growing up
I only went to Blockbuster if what I wanted was out of stock

And sporadically during blockbusters final years I went back to buy stuff, but that was it.

 

[AnOminous]

It didn't even have a porno section which is what 85% of funny stories about working in a video store involves. So I don't know what "great stories" Chris could even have about that place.

Being obsessed with Blockbastard is autistic but not even in an interesting way. It's like being obsessed with Nickelback or something, just boring. It was a shit company and I'm glad it died.

 

[Mola Ram]

Being obsessed with Blockbastard is autistic but not even in an interesting way. It's like being obsessed with Nickelback or something, just boring. It was a shit company and I'm glad it died.

It's on the same level as being obsessed with Nintendo's plumber mascot; or the most popular, blandest, inoffensive film franchise going today.

 

[StraightShooter2]

This is true. Bob doesn't lack intelligence. He just lacks charisma, motivation, self-control, self-awareness, common sense.

...and intelligence.

 

[Druveer]

Can someone explain what is so god damned amazing about blockbuster? I find chris's autistic obsession with a shit movie rental chain weirder than bobs autistic obsession with a game series with some fun games in it.

I always thought that it was pretty amazing how Blockbuster wasn't bright enough to spot where the trends were going and allowed themselves to get fucked over by not buying Netflix when they had the chance.

Spoiler: Laughing at the people who put you out of business is about Blobs speed.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/14/netflix-marc-randolph-founder-blockbuster

Netflix grew its subscriber base by offering free trials and other deals that made the convenient rental service extremely popular, but meant it was also haemorrhaging money.

Blockbuster finally agreed to talk to Netflix, calling an unexpected meeting the morning after an alcohol-fuelled Netflix retreat. Randolph says he was wearing shorts, a tie-dyed T-shirt and flip-flops when he and his colleagues sat down with Blockbuster in Dallas and proposed the video chain accelerate its entry into DVDs, by purchasing Netflix – for $50m.

“In one fell swoop, we might get out of this,” he recalls.

After they stated the dollar amount, Randolph noticed something strange happening with the Blockbuster CEO John Antioco’s face. He was struggling not to burst into laughter.

The meeting went further downhill from there.

Randolph says it was one of the lowest moments for the company: “You fly to Blockbuster, try and sell the business, and they laugh at you.”

Yeah this is in early 2000 but this is 6 years into Amazon being a thing, it was pretty clear even back then what a threat to physical bookstores and what Netflix was doing was possibly going to be a threat to Blockbuster. When I first joined Netflix I just did the pay a flat fee a month and get 1 dvd at a time and you can watch as many as you can get sent to you and returned, it very quickly became obvious that it was definitely cheaper than BB.

Put another way, it's the story of David and Goliath and as per usual the Chipmans obsesses over the wrong character in the story for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

...and intelligence.

...and hygiene.

 

[Koby_Fish]

True. I don't think I could name a single right wing activist who acts in the way Moviebob does.

My word.

Do they want us to pay for this shit?

I wouldn't call softblocking someone six times passive aggressive. If you don't get the message after the second or third block, that's on you.

Which is ironic, given that Robert, as a Disney sperg, should know that Star Wars existed and had a more long lasting impact on pop culture than the vast majority of capeshit.

Indeed. That said, they can also accuse things of being transphobic.

To these people, any suspicion of the idea that sexuality should be a public thing and that this extends to shit like BDSM and public sex is ”sex negative” and therefore a heresy.

When you reduce sex to just another thing that people do in public or a commodity to be traded, like eating or reading a newspaper, instead of something to be enjoyed within the bounds of a loving marriage, you take the individual people who take part in that sex act and take away their agency as men and women, and reduce them to, to put it frankly, a dick and a cunt.

It seems that intersectional feminism no longer cares about objectifying people if that objectification is done by the right people. Put simply, when the New York Post prints a photo of a woman with her tits out, it's a symbol of the evil right wing cisheteropatriarchy, but when a dominatrix gets a man to wear a collar and crawl naked through the streets, it's stunning and brave.

To carry on with the comparisons to famous dictators, Bob reminds me of Heinrich Himmler.
They both believed that humans were divided into inferior and superior races, they both had unrealistic schemes of a Superiyah Fyoocha (or in Himmler's case, Generalplan Ost) and they were both obsessed with Norse paganism, although Bob prefers the Marvel-influenced version.

It's funny that they idolise video rental stores because they're the very definition of obsolescent industries that should be swept away for a Superior Future.

Bob, I know you're telling me I've got a mote of dust in my own eye, but can you step back a bit?
There's a massive two by four sticking out of your own eye and you should really get it removed.

well the thing is, Twitter is exceptional a lot of the time on its own. Bob had no idea whether Lindsay had done something to unsubscribe him, or whether some sperg wrote an algorithm wrong making Twitter unsub him. After all, this is known to happen with Youtube. It's the ambiguous case. So, I wouldn't fault him for being confused at the initial outset because then he can just think, "Oh, twitter's being exceptional again" especially if he or others he knows have experience with twitter malfunctioning and unfollowing people from other people randomly.

After Lindsay called him out, though, I give him no sympathy whatsoever. Lindsay would have to spell out exactly what Bob said that she referred to as "toxic views" for Bob to even have a hope of "getting it" and understanding where he went wrong, but if she did that, there's a far more likely scenario that he'll dismiss her as another wasteland mayo ghoul rather than face the truth.

 

[Sumdood]

Unlimited DVDs as fast as the mailman could deliver for a flat monthly fee was the tits back in the early 2000’s. It’s lunacy to think that blockbuster didn’t see how convenience would win in the end, considering how hated they were.

perhaps that is why they like it so much. The chipman bros and blockbuster corporate are like peas in a pod when it comes to incompetence, lack of vision, and a general ‘fuck the paying customer, do it MY way’ attitude.

 

[BScCollateral]

I'll never get over the audacity of the original DVD renting Netflix model.

If it costs you money when a customer rents something, then who cares about late fees? Your customer can hold on to that DVD for a decade if he wants to, as long as he pays his monthly fee. And incredibly, that's a better deal for the customer, too.

Brilliant.