New OP update.
New Section:
Under Part VII - Bob's Writing Styles, I added Section
7.2 Bob's Jokes. It is just what I
posted before, with very minor emendations.
New Section:
Under Part II - Important Recent Events, added the following Section:
2.A7– Artificial Intelligence (AI) overhauls the entertainment industry (2023 onwards)
In February 2023, a small studio called Corridor Digital released a
demo that caused an uproar. Corridor used a technique known as AI-rotoscoping: digitally capturing real-life actors in front of a green screen, then processing the result with AI until it looked like an anime. Soon, more people put out videos, less elaborate than Corridor's but using the same tech, on Youtube, showing that the technology was already within reach of home users.
Bob's opposition to Corridor forced him to eat crow when Disney used this exact technique for the intro sequence of their TV show
Secret Invasion. Bob hemmed and hawed and, in a series of tweets that he deleted within a day,
claimed Disney did so precisely to make a point:
People also pointed out that Disney uses green screen plus CGI post-production to create everyday scenes, removing the need of set decorators and props managers. Bob
rationalizes that it is okay because it avoids having to fly in and pay for expensive actors to do reshoots
When ChatGPT and similar "AI language models" became the talk of the world in mid 2023, the entertainment industry took notice. Studio execs look forward to the day when one can simply feed AI with a list of specifications and let the computer generate a viable movie script, eliminating human scriptwriters. The scriptwriters themselves, no more ethical than studio execs, in turn
demanded the right to pass off AI-generated scripts as full original works bearing their names, and entitling them to full pay and full credit. This dispute was one of the factors for the Writer Guild of America's strike in 2023, which Bob blindly supported, to the extent that he stopped putting out review videos for weeks (even for movies from his beloved Disney) under the pretense of "solidarity".
The scriptwriter's strike was soon joined by actors, who believed that "deep fake" technologies would soon create life-like simulacra of themselves and leave them without a job. Bob knows well that Disney already has the full body scans of every actor who played a named character in Marvel films, yet he never raised objections to this practice, not even after actors raise their concerns. Technology is now changing entertainment in the most fundamental ways; it would be interesting to see how Bob juggles his faith in Superior Future technologies, his blind allegiance to Disney, and the supposed rights of the "Creative Elites".
Edited Section
2.A2 - The Covid Pandemic (2019-2023) to add the following:
After the pandemic, Bob would insist that “
there was never a ‘lockdown’”, just “mayo ghouls” denied access to their favorite Olive Garden. The supposed absence of a ‘lockdown’, however, does not stop him blaming covid for movie tanking during (and even after) the covid period.
Edited Section
3.2 Is Bob an atheist? to add the following:
In
one tweet, Bob alluded that he stopped believing in God at the age of 10, when his prayers to keep his aging dog alive went unanswered.
Edited two entities under "Bob's Allies":
- JonnySocialism – Jonny Meade is a nemesis of Peter Coffin, Caleb Maupin and their fellow “LaRouchites”. He tried to run for Washington House of Representatives in 2020 and lost badly.
- John Vinals (@CanisLupus1365) is a hanger-on who regularly shows dissent and, since around June 2023, escalates his rebuttal on Bob's insults to religious people, but since Vinals remains faithful to the Democrat Party, Bob would likely tolerate him for a while longer.
There is an old tweet that I think is important enough to include, but haven't figured out where best to put it.
I might need to add a small section called "Bob - the Machiavellian Chessmaster" in the future, but until then, I just keep this tweet on my archive.
(BTW does anyone remember why Bobby used the Tricolore as his avie in 2014?)
