Local archive. I presume Toxinophile has found it as difficult to upload a video that long (26 minutes) to KF as I have.
I am older than bob by nearly a whole ass decade. And yet, I managed to watch the STINK out of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and even Dragon Ball GT. For some reason some of the Canadian channels were pretty good about it (YTV, Teletoon) and we tended to get the Vancouver-based dubs (although we did get a bit of the Funimation/Saban dub of DBZ at first, then they went with the Ocean Dub, whose
opening theme I find superior to the original
Funimation theme and the "
Rock the Dragon" Saban/Funimation one). For GT, we had the
Blue Water Dub. The thing is, Bob doesn't have the shared visceral connection, because he made
no effort to forge said connection. Don't you DARE blame your age for this, Bob.
So, Bob worked almost exclusively for video rental stores, eh? Assistant-managing at "Suncoast Video" (which apparently also sold vinyl records and CDs)? Before or after his stint at Blockbuster? Did he stick it out to the bitter end (closing of the video store) or was he fired, necessitating his switch to Blockbuster? He must have been a shit manager, he's lazy AF.
Fallout TV is chasing a demographic that don't even know what
Fallout is. Bobby approves, and Bourbon Traveler (
March09#01 and#14) makes another appearance.
Satirizing Jingoism etc is NOT the definition of "woke". "Woke" would be, the nuclear fallout turns everybody into a troon. Or needlessly and awkwardly shoehorning in Current Day Bullshit out of nowhere.
I think the point of throwing meat off the platform is that 1) sharks are there and 2) the drilling doesn't scare them away or anything. It wouldn't matter if meat was dropped or no, ANYTHING falling off that platform that would have any semblance of edibility would be shark chow.
Ironically Bob halfway stumbles on a truth when in his book he talks about Yoshi's Island that "the creators didn't care the way he did."
That's the thing of it. Continuity is how a creator shows they care. Creators aren't perfect, they will make mistakes, but continuity is a sign that they're trying.
A lack of continuity proves that they don't care because, as Bon puts it, "it not realz!" Well if you don't care because it's not real, why should I? I'll just hang onto my money and spend it on more worthwhile things. Like blackjack! And hookers.
At least the ladies and the dealers will pretend to care.
With Comic Books and Saturday Morning cartoon fare, the problem was usually in the case of comic books, a myriad of different writers across the ages (thus resulting in "retcons"), and in the case of the cartoons, and this was made worse in weekday afternoon cartoon runs, slapping together 65 episodes for syndication was a slog that required multiple writers, some of whom hadn't seen the other guys' stuff. It was a stroke of fortune that when David Wise wrote the transformers episode
War Dawn and created Ariel, the girlfriend to Orion Pax (who becomes Optimus Prime), someone (probably Ron Friedman) told him about an earlier episode,
The Search For Alpha Trion, which introduced Optimus Prime's girlfriend Elita One, so then he was able to include this concept in the continuity after Ariel and Orion Pax are both gravely injured/"killed" by Megatron, and Alpha Trion rebuilds them into Elita One and Optimus Prime. But again, that's a rare instance of continuity that may not have happened had story editor Ron Friedman not been paying attention. The Constructicons, on the other hand, are a mess in terms of continuity. In
Heavy Metal War, they were introduced as having been built in caves on earth by the Decepticons. In
Desertion of the Dinobots, both the Dinobots and the Constructions function properly since they were both constructed on Earth and didn't have the problem of Cybertonium deficiency that was affecting every other Transformer. But a later episode,
The Secret of Omega Supreme, contradicted all that by having the Constructicons pre-exist on Cybertron, had them reprogrammed into evil by Megatron, and have an ongoing feud with Omega Supreme, who chased them to Earth. Then, in the season three 5-part episode
Five Faces of Darkness, some generic bots that look like the Constructicons (though there are more than 6 present in the scene) are seen building Megatron. Since Bob's a known but not-as-rabid Transformers fan (certainly not as rabid as his Mario fandomness), he probably religiously watched
Transformers and was scarred by the inconsistencies. However, he probably didn't develop his "Canon doesn't matter, Nothing Fictional is Real Anyway" stance until he needed to cope and seethe over Yoshi's Island undoing what was canon to HIM. How
dare Nintendo make Mario from Mushroom Kingdom, when the Super Mario Bros. Super Show CLEARLY portrayed him as being from Brooklyn, NY?
In this way, Bob protects his brain because he's got a serious cognitive dissonance problem. He just tells himself Nothing Fictional Is Real Therefore None of It Ackshually Happened and It's GOOD, actually just so he can sleep at night. What little sleep he gets, anyway.
Not to mention if he'd made any level of management, he'd have spent the last decade using it to attack people who question how his favorite franchises are run. "Have you ever been in charge of people? No? Then shut up Chud, because I have and this is right".
Well to be entirely fair, Bob has claimed obliquely in the past on Twatter that he has experience "managing" people. This was probably it. He probably didn't mention it before because while everybody knows what Blockbuster is, nobody knows what that other store is.
But to get to the point of assistant manager tho? Assuming he's not lying, that's not something you just walk into. He either was there long enough to get promoted or got promoted because everyone in front of him got fired or died. However, unless some poor bastard that actually read Brick by Brick can confirm it, I'm gonna assume that he is lying because I've never heard him talk about it before. He's mentioned numerous times that he worked at Blockbuster and loved suggesting movies to people as a mere clerk so why never this?
You'd be surprised the level of incompetence at a retail store where people who have no business being managers, end up being managers (or assistant managers) due to lack of available qualified people and SOMEBODY has to be manager and the owner doesn't give a fuck, especially if said owner is a large corporate owner.
