Bob Chipman / Robert Lewis Chipman / MovieBob / Game OverThinker - "Coastal Elite Thinker" who wants conservatives, Christians and manual workers eradicated. Universally ignorant; cannot tell reality from sci-fi. Sore loser with short fuse. Odious Disney shill. Tranny chaser and general creep. Fat and diabetic.

[Flexo]

I absolutely want you to, yes.

Ok, i want to stress that I am going to use COMPLETELY MADE UP NUMBERS because the exact dollars and cents are less important than the idea for you all to get.

Let me just also say that Hollywood business practices are royally fucked. Really they can only get away with the economies they have because of how much more valuable social capital is than real money. (Basically people will do almost anything to "have their name in lights.")

So one thing to know is that because of old union contracts, basically people get raises the longer projects go on. Let's say I'm Sexy Robot Star of the hit new TV series and in my contract I get $100 an episode for season 1. Well when season 2 rolls around, I'll then get $150 an episode. If we make it to season 3, I'll now get paid $200 an episode and so on.

Where does this really really work? Syndication! So take a show like Friends or Seinfeld or Cheers or The Office or even the Big Bang Theory. Basically these shows are all just collections of stand-alone episodes. Which means they can experience continual viewer growth. Interested in that show all your buddies are watching? Well just flip on the TV and catch an episode! You'll know everything you need from the title song and can enjoy what you're watching. Other stations can also run reruns forever and ever since, again, it doesn't matter which episode you're watching, they all work alone. Did you go on vacation for a week and miss an episode? Doesn't matter, now that you're back home, flip over and resume watching.

But TV is not like that now, is it? Now we're on the Netflix model, where it's not a single episode, it's one part of a 6-10 piece epic (what in the 70s-90s was called "miniseries" on TV). Those series have a problem. Let's say premiere of New Hot Nextflix Show (NHNS) has 1,000,000 viewers. Well not every viewer is going to like what they see. Many came because of the trailer and ads, but not everyone will like it. So you're going to have a drop off. So episode 2 might have something like... 800,000 viewers. Well every episode after that is going to have some steady bleed off. Some people will just give up later on the story than folks who started. Some, while they can devote 1 hr a week to the show, if they miss an episode, now they have to devote 2 hours in the week. If they keep putting it off, it then grows to 3 hours, then 4... eventually they'll not find it worth the catch-up cost and just stop watching. And where are new viewers going to come from? It's not like they can start at episode 8 and begin watching. They've got to start at episode 1 and spend several hours catching up.

This is basically why Netflix has a rule of 2 seasons and done for a show. Because their model means that viewership steadily declines with minimum new viewers coming in, while the price of everybody involved with the show goes up each season.

Why all this extensive background which not even my boi Warren Smith goes over? Because I want you to understand what I mean when I say this pricing model the writers just negotiated into writing teams.


So let's say we decide we're going to make "moviebob, the series." Well how many episodes does it need to be? Let's say we figure we'll start with 6 episodes. (or maybe just 4) Well we need 3 writers (who are also producers - just think of these as "better paid writers). So me, @Ralph Barnhardt and @Positron start working on the series for example.

Oh wait, we find out we're going to need a bit more time to really examine the story of moviebob. Now we need to do it in 12 episodes. Well we can't just keep it to the 3 of us, we have to bring in more writers. So now @Mola Ram and @JayHarrison have to be brought in to help with those. We decide to go over and make 13 or more episodes? Now we're up to 6 writers.

Minimum wage for all of us on this? like over $14k a week (this is a real number from the video). TV shows typically take about 1 week an episode to make. So 6 episodes? That's about 6 weeks. With 3 writers that's a MINIMUM of $252k total for a series. 13 episodes? That's going to be 13 weeks at 6 writers. That's $1.092 MILLION dollars for a series. You want a 14th episode? That's $84k you have to pay. Again, this is just for WRITING the thing. We haven't even begun talking about actors, or other crew, or special effects.

Then every time you want to do another season? All these numbers go up.

Believe me I have a lot of sympathy for hollywood writers (I listen to Rob Long's podcast to be forthright), they were kind of at the shit end of the totem pole with only VFX below them, but these prices are insane and it's going to reach the point nobody can afford to make a show any more because the unions have literally priced them out of any profitability.

Warren also goes over the other basics of economics like having too many writers and the laws of supply of demand.

 

[JayHarrison]

[2024.04.15-03] Still, free lunch to children beats free lunch to parasites.

I'll actually with Drew Carey in this situation, as it appears Carey had more concern over the striking writers'/actors' well-being than those heading the union. (That, and Carey is not a government employee, so I don't really care what he does with his money.)

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[2024.04.15-04]

Missing from image of Vladimir Putin, Ebrahim Raisi (?), and Xi Jinpeng is missing one thing: Joe Biden geneflecing before all three of them.

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[2024.04.15-06]

What @toriangray is openly suggesting is either Democrats presenting only two possible directions: Dems are either molding this America into Mao's China or Hitler's Germany (the latter of which I imagine Moviebob's superiyaa fyuuchaa more closely represents).

Speaking of which...

[2024.04.15-07] AOC will build a dignified future for NYC, in tandem with the socialists.

Miss Occasional-Cortex isn't going to sleep with you, Bob.

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[2024.04.15-09] Stupid game, stupid prize.

If there was a sign anywhere on that property stating "no skateboarding (on the premises)", the fault lies entirely on the skateboarder. Iif not, then the fault lies on the guard.

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[2024.04.15-22]

The notion that women are victims of pregnancy is a political position.

A vast majority of pregnancies are by choice. A Thinker™ like Eugenicsbob should know that.

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[2024.04.15-26] Bobby thinks furry fandom has already built in the American ethos.

Given Moviebob's blind loyalty to the Donkey Party...

Wearing an animal-eared headband does not make you a furry. Wearing a racoon-skin hat does not make you a furry. And Moviebob claiming to be an American does not make Moviebob an American.

Why continue to be a fan when the power that be has already told you that you are disposable?

The powers that call us disposable need us to survive; we can easily survive without needing the powers that call us disposable.

 

[The tired cat]

Huh, no posts of fat ass seething how Keanu got cast for Shadow in Sonic 3? Color me surprised.

 

[Koby_Fish]

Miss Occasional-Cortex isn't going to sleep with you, Bob.

let alone have abortions with him.

If there was a sign anywhere on that property stating "no skateboarding (on the premises)", the fault lies entirely on the skateboarder. Iif not, then the fault lies on the guard.

strictly speaking what the guard did could be considered assault, regardless of signs. There's better less litigiously-fraught ways of dealing with that.

A vast majority of pregnancies are by choice. A Thinker™ like Eugenicsbob should know that.

Bob is so pro-abortion that he thinks not enough abortions take place. Only by expressing this viewpoint will bob finally attract his Superior sweetheart from the ground-up to have abortions with.

Wearing an animal-eared headband does not make you a furry. Wearing a racoon-skin hat does not make you a furry. And Moviebob claiming to be an American does not make Moviebob an American.

moviebob: says he's american
also moviebob: separate countries with borders is an obsolete concept!

 

[Arthur Morgan]

The problem is the peaks and valleys are less in magnitude depending on your background, whether youre born into privilege whether you made the right decisions all that. I can understand Bob, being at the bottom sucks and it can feel like it never ends. But imo the solution is to accept it and force yourself to work to get where you want to instead of whining about how its the worlds fault. Egotism really is the number one disease among internet personalities.

Sure, but Bob will never get to work because he hates effort and believes he doesn't need to put any in. He'll put in token attempts, like tweeting out ideas for movies because obviously Hollywood producers follow him and would love to make a movie with him, but never anything requiring him to do actual work.

Also, speaking of #3, I notice that he's retweeting a lot of Nick Calandra's (former editor at The Escapist, current co-founder of Second Wind) posts. He's not trying to suck his dick in an attempt to get a job, is he? I would hope that Nick would be smart enough to realise that, while The Escapist might've (just about) survived the poor decision to rehire him, hiring him at Second Wind would kill Second Wind stone dead.

I'm also convinced that Yahtzee doesn't particularly like him (which is saying quite a bit as he still likes Jim Sterling)

Oh he absolutely wants to work with them. It's part of why he's been attacking Escapist's owners, to try and endear himself to them and remind them that he was once a draw to the site. And that they were friends, at least in Bob's mind. But as you said, they're trying to establish a business composed of hard working professionals. Which Bob is not. Besides, they already have a movie guy, Darren Mooney. The guy who replaced Bob the second time he was fired from Escapist.

And you might be right. A decade ago, Yahtzee did some streams with a friend where they talked while playing games. Bob came up three times, though I only remember two. One time, Yahtzee talked about Bob's accent and how the voice he uses for his videos is a fake radio voice while in real life he sounds like someone trying to do a bad Boston accent. The second was a response to Bob's Spider-Man 3 defense, which they laughed at and Yahtzee was dismissive of. Can't remember the third one but it was probably funny.

I get the feeling that Kevin Feige is a one trick pony. You get the sense that he’s only good at making movies that are staged like a comic book and nothing else. But now that trick is getting old, and Feige, aside from displaying his absolute chaos and hubris now that he doesn’t have Ike Perlmutter and the Marvel Creative Committee tard wrangling him, won’t try something new and adapt with the times.

The movie theater audience of 2024 is different the audience of 2018 and 2019, and Feige not adapting to the changing reality and tastes of the audience is why the MCU is on its way to becoming a fossil in a industry that is already moving on from superhero films.

What Feige forgets is that the early movies were made by Marvel, not just the studio. They hired people who had done shows and movies as well as comics before like J Michael Straczynski and Joss Whedon. Comic editors were creative consultants on the projects. It was actually a point of mockery for Amazing Spider-Man 2 that they ignored the comic experts.

The problem is Feige, and the people he after he got full control, doesn't like comics and seems to see himself so far above them. The MCU is it's own thing and not only can work without the comics, it can be readily shit all over the characters who were forged by comic writers and everyone will clap along with them. Except that's not working. And they don't understand why because obviously they all think this was good, so why don't the unwashed masses?

Huh, no posts of fat ass seething how Keanu got cast for Shadow in Sonic 3? Color me surprised.

Wouldn't surprise me that he doesn't care. Back when John Wick 1 came out, Bob spent half his review gushing over the trailer for Avengers 2 and then dismissed the movie he was being paid to talk about as nothing, which pissed off a lot of people who loved that it was focused on realism, something Bobby disdains. Afterwards his reviews for the sequels were just "Yeah, it's more Joh Wick. If you like it, you'll like it" as if he was afraid of getting hated on again.

I bet he blames Keanu for that. He's always been irrational and ready to hate on someone else for his own errors. COD is the reason he failed as a games critic, Gamergate is the reason he got fired the first time, The Critical Drinker is the reason he's failing now, shit like that.

 

[Koby_Fish]

Critical Drinker namedropped Moviebob in his review of Civil War. He's not impressed with the movie, either, meaning that Bob and his senpais are retards and no, Drinker is NOT 'the worst' youtube reviewer. The reference drops around 1:50-ish.

 

[TowinKarz]

strictly speaking what the guard did could be considered assault, regardless of signs. There's better less litigiously-fraught ways of dealing with that.

The guard absolutely opened himself and his employer up to costly litigation by doing that, "no trespassing" is not carte blanche to injure someone.

Being entitled to throw a guy off the property doesn't mean you can literally throw him off the property.

However, that attitude is changing because people are absolutely fed up with crime, both serious and petty, and we are probably returning to a time where the guards COULD do that to you because everyone would say "sucks to suffer for being an asshole huh?" and no helicopter parent or ambulance chasing lawyer could do a thing about it.

And it's all their fault.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Critical Drinker namedropped Moviebob in his review of Civil War. He's not impressed with the movie, either, meaning that Bob and his senpais are retards and no, Drinker is NOT 'the worst' youtube reviewer. The reference drops around 1:50-ish.

Timestamp

Also, he did a review of that Fallout show and... liked it?

 

[Positron]

Huh, no posts of fat ass seething how Keanu got cast for Shadow in Sonic 3? Color me surprised.

Bobby seems to be on board, because when he thinks of the voice of a nasty nigger 1%er, he thinks Keanu Reeves.
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16Apr#03
Two psychiatrist quacks write in The Atlantic (archive) that Americans are dumping their "unprocessed covid grief" on poor, poor Biden. Bobby feels he has been "SEVERELY PUSHED, on all fronts" to believe that covid never existed.

I don't see many other countries likewise dumping their "unprocessed covid grief" on their leaders; indeed it is the very first time I heard of "unprocessed covid grief". Strange isn't it?

16Apr#04

We have not seen Bobby protesting against police violence or the "illegitimate" Trump Government. Ergo he doesn't think of himself "a person who matters".

16Apr#05

How many wars did Trump got the US in?

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16Apr#08
Someone wants to murder Will Stancil for being a dribbling retard. Youth these days.

The person who wanted to murder Stancil will surely want to put Bobby in a meat grinder.

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16Apr#13

This is something called Godzilla Final Wars. Looks exactly like the kind of mismash slop that Bobby considers ambrosia.

16Apr#14
Jules Verne liked monkeys big too.

From Chapter 40 of Journey to the Centre of the Earth (translator unknown):

Never, were ages to pass over my head, shall I forget the horrible apparition.​

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It was the Ape Gigans!​

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Fourteen feet high, covered with coarse hair, of a blackish brown, the hair on the arms, from the shoulder to the elbow joints, pointing downwards, while that from the wrist to the elbow pointed upwards, it advanced. Its arms were as long as its body, while its legs were prodigious. It had thick, long, and sharply pointed teeth—like a mammoth saw.​

16Apr#15
Continuation from 15Apr#15, but the subject has switched from Big Monkey and Hulk to DBZ.


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16Apr#17
Mysteriously, the universally lambasted Velma got a second season.


16Apr#18

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16Apr#20
Legend Of The Overfiend is a notorious demon-rapes-girls anime in the late 1980s. Needless to say Bobby has watched it; he found it "accidentally" next to Project A-Ko in the video rental store.


16Apr#21
Someone warns us the woke brigade in video-game communities might be emboldened to use actual violence.


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16Apr#24
Another IGN alumnus heading towards a truck lot near you.

 

[The tired cat]

Bobby seems to be on board, because when he thinks of the voice of a nasty nigger 1%er, he thinks Keanu Reeves.
16Apr#01

Well, hes def still mad about the John Wick movies

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Bobby seems to be on board, because when he thinks of the voice of a nasty nigger 1%er, he thinks Keanu Reeves.
16Apr#01

In the words of the hacker known only as 4Chan: Cope and Seethe, Robert.

16Apr#03
Two psychiatrist quacks write in The Atlantic (archive) that Americans are dumping their "unprocessed covid grief" on poor, poor Biden. Bobby feels he has been "SEVERELY PUSHED, on all fronts" to believe that covid never existed.

I don't see many other countries likewise dumping their "unprocessed covid grief" on their leaders; indeed it is the very first time I heard of "unprocessed covid grief". Strange isn't it?

The propaganda machine has spun up already to explain why Biden will lose. It's always interesting to see how the Left abhors personal responsibility.

16Apr#09

I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying 6 million is a bit of a stretch as the Jew's own records show 6 million deaths would've all but wiped out international Jewry at the time.

16Apr#21
Someone warns us the woke brigade in video-game communities might be emboldened to use actual violence.

He ain't wrong.

16Apr#24
Another IGN alumnus heading towards a truck lot near you.

The mop is here, the bucket is in the closet, the water is in the faucet, and I believe you know where the floor is.

 

[Mr Processor]

16Apr#19

Why would a One Punch Man live action need a writer when it was already written? At most it would need a translator. I look forward to him not being able to clear an enemy in One Punch in the first couple episodes of the American series.

16Apr#17
Mysteriously, the universally lambasted Velma got a second season.

Scooby Doo and the Mystery of BlackRock.

16Apr#11

If they decide to sell these separately, it would be funny to watch how little interest there is in The Star Wars channel these days, Oh, who am I kidding, they'll force you to buy the entire package at an inflated price.

 

[Dr J]

Oh he absolutely wants to work with them. It's part of why he's been attacking Escapist's owners, to try and endear himself to them and remind them that he was once a draw to the site. And that they were friends, at least in Bob's mind. But as you said, they're trying to establish a business composed of hard working professionals. Which Bob is not. Besides, they already have a movie guy, Darren Mooney. The guy who replaced Bob the second time he was fired from Escapist.

Yeah, Blob's desperation could not be more obvious. But, like I said, if Calandra's got any sense, he'll stay far, far away from Blob. Second Wind is being built from the goodwill of the fans and the viewers and Blob will just destroy all that. He got fired from The Escapist first time because, at a time when The Escapist were the only ones to apologise in the wake of GG and said 'we'll try to do better', Blob came and pissed all over that. Insulted the audience. He got fired the second time because, after Russ Pitts and Susan Arendt and all that new management who actually wanted Blob there got the boot, newer management couldn't wait to get rid of him and stop the bleeding of the audience Blob had insulted the first time around

If Blob had any sense he'd come crawling back to The Escapist, who are probably going to need people to create content for them, now that their biggest draw is gone. Also, it would be funny to see him completely destroy The Escapist

And you might be right. A decade ago, Yahtzee did some streams with a friend where they talked while playing games. Bob came up three times, though I only remember two. One time, Yahtzee talked about Bob's accent and how the voice he uses for his videos is a fake radio voice while in real life he sounds like someone trying to do a bad Boston accent. The second was a response to Bob's Spider-Man 3 defense, which they laughed at and Yahtzee was dismissive of. Can't remember the third one but it was probably funny.

Yeah, I remember Yahtzee's, light jabs at best, at him on his Let's Drown Outs. But, more than that, Yahtzee has never done a video with him, never had him on podcast, never hung out with him or been photographed with him outside of cons and other situations where he was forced to. At least with Jim Sterling they did two video series together, appeared on podcast together and were also mutual friends with the late TotalBiscuit (who, by the way, also hated Blob), who sponsored or at least wrote a recommendation for Yahtzee's immigration to the States.

Truth is I can't imagine a circumstance in which Yahtzee would like Blob, they're almost total opposites. Blob is a raging social justice partisan and Nintendo fanboy, whereas Yahtzee, in his Let's Drown Outs, often critiqued and made fun of social justice rhetoric, and has usually tried to present himself as a 'everyone is dumb but me' political centrist. Also, he hates Nintendo

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

Yeah, Blob's desperation could not be more obvious. But, like I said, if Calandra's got any sense, he'll stay far, far away from Blob.

That's the thing that gets me. They have to know that Blob is beyond radioactive. I cannot see a universe where they would actually welcome him in with open arms. And what exactly would he even bring to the channel? Piss-warm hot-takes on Mah-vel? Incredibly stupid commentary on games he doesn't play? I guess he could try and spin himself as the Nintendo guy but I imagine that they can someone else with a less punchable personality.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Bob and the rest of the woke ilk want everything to be as bland as them so everyone is equally miserable. They can all wallow in shit for all I care.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Bob and the rest of the woke ilk want everything to be as bland as them so everyone is equally miserable. They can all wallow in shit for all I care.

They can only derive pleasure by corrupting and destroying what better people built. They are evil.

 

[Dr J]

I guess he could try and spin himself as the Nintendo guy but I imagine that they can someone else with a less punchable personality.

I doubt he could even spin himself as the Nintendo guy. He doesn't really keep up with modern gaming, is ignorant of basic facts (he once claimed Mario Kart 7 wasn't actually the seventh Mario Kart), and is therefore unsuited to offer commentary on what Nintendo is currently doing. Yahtzee is probably better equipped to act as the 'Nintendo guy' and, as I said, Yahtzee is not even a particularly big Nintendo fan

 

[Flexo]

Yeah, I remember Yahtzee's, light jabs at best, at him on his Let's Drown Outs. But, more than that, Yahtzee has never done a video with him, never had him on podcast, never hung out with him or been photographed with him outside of cons and other situations where he was forced to. At least with Jim Sterling they did two video series together, appeared on podcast together and were also mutual friends with the late TotalBiscuit (who, by the way, also hated Blob), who sponsored or at least wrote a recommendation for Yahtzee's immigration to the States.

Most I see we have is Bob playing one of Yahtzee's games. Which revealed just how special needs Bob is.

Also WTF is this?

 

[The Fatriarchy]

He doesn't really keep up with modern gaming, is ignorant of basic facts (he once claimed Mario Kart 7 wasn't actually the seventh Mario Kart)

This only works if you're a retard and include the Arcade GP games, which aren't made by Nintendo and are considered their own spinoff series with numerous differences from the mainline games.

Hey look! I'm more of a Nintendo guy than Bob!

 

[Grumpy Pickle Rick]

Bob and the rest of the woke ilk want everything to be as bland as them so everyone is equally miserable. They can all wallow in shit for all I care.

Honestly, at this point I say let them have their boring and passionless capeshit and Disney Princess fantasies.