06May#06
Bill Maher discusses the Moderna covid vaccine with RFK Jr.
Even if you want to deny the possibility that the jabs can and have produced serious side effects far in excess of what the coof itself could have done (AstraZeneca was finally forced to admit their jab paralyzed people), there's also the fact that people who were jabbed more times have proven to be more likely to get the coof. Thus, the jabs utterly fail as vaccines on multiple levels, and Big Pharma is once again profiting off of our misery.
Bob prefers to stick his fingers in his ears and make oblique pop culture references that nobody will understand because he refuses to explain them. Ignorance isn't bliss, Bobbo.
06May#10
College fraternities ain't what they used to be.
He should have made oink oink noise instead.
I'm not about to listen to some Masshole pretend that Mississippi is any more racist than his home state. Couple this with his insistence that people who saw the Fairly Odd Parents reboot trailer are chomping at the bit to shout nigger, and you can see a clear case of projection.
06May#11
If someone wants to take one for the team, knock yourself out, but I'm still not watching any Theorist crap. I'll just say that Bob is constantly praying that the MCU doesn't actually die, because this really is his only consistent work for them. I don't have the numbers off-hand, but when I tallied up the topics of every video he's skimmed Wikipedia for, Marvel was far and away the most frequent. If it ends, what will he be able to feign expertise in? McDonald's?
06May#14
I like the caveat they had to make for their comparison by removing the Chinese box office. Yeah, turns out that losing out on a big market will make your profits considerably lower, and your movie will do worse as a result. Besides, Doctor Strange 2 was riding high off of the post-No Way Home buzz, but it failed to replicate NWH's stellar box office and marked the beginning of the downward trend. Bob once again prefers to remain ignorant by calling it all fake.
I get Jason's point that you can't vote with your wallet without already seeing the movie, but that's kind of true of the entire theatrical run, though I suppose in later weeks, word of mouth will have gotten around to let people know what is or isn't worth seeing. All I know is that I didn't see this or any post-Endgame MCU capeshit in theaters, but a friend did put this one on when I was over at his house. We got maybe five minutes in before we both got bored of it and turned it off.
06May#21
The reason why movies don't stay in theaters very long anymore is because of the lopsided arrangement that studios have with theaters with regards to their share of the box office take. For opening week, studios get the lion's share of the box office, and it's only in later weeks that the theater itself gets a larger percentage of the take (which they're okay with because they make most of their money on concessions). Thus, studios are incentivized to do fairly short runs so they get the most money and don't have to share it with the theaters, cycling their previous movie out and getting another new one in as quickly as possible so they can repeat the process. The old movie is then quickly released on home video or streaming rentals, and eventually shown through syndication and on streaming to milk any remaining dollars out of it.
If a movie is exceptionally popular, it'll likely be justifiable to have an extended run, studios being alright with theaters having an increased take if the overall box office is considerably higher. But you can't do that with every movie because there are only so many theaters out there, and they'd much prefer to be using their screens on newer movies instead of saving a screen for the one guy who might come in to watch a movie three months after its release. This is basic economics, something that Bob is apparently too stupid to comprehend.
06May#23
Reminder that
I Saw The TV Glow broke Bobby for a whole day (05May#26)
I don't know much about this movie, but I saw the trailer and it nearly gave me a headache with the cacophony of sound and the seizure-inducing visuals. It may be good, I dunno the director's work at all, but the trailer did not entice me to check it out.
Also, that reminds me of a tweet I forgot to reply to about Bob's latest billion-dollar idea to remake The Last Dragon with the dweeby half-black guy that's in that movie (and also the terrible Magical Negroes movie). Absolutely retarded idea since he's a complete charisma vacuum whose entire line of work has basically been playing one character after another that only exists to be emasculated by everyone around him. He's terrible as a lead actor and would be even more so as a lead in a kung fu movie.
06May#27
The "is all art political?" debate continues.
Troon thinks that people who call out the "all art is political" crowd are too dumb to be able to see the truth. Guy correctly replies that the call out is specifically aimed at people who use that as an excuse to defend godawful writing just because it has a shoehorned political message they agree with. Bob has nothing substantial to add to this conversation, so he attempts to make fun of the guy's next project instead.
I hate leftists.
06May#28
Easy mode in video games.
Even in games that have difficulty options, the developers tend to design their games around a particular level (Doom's standard was Hurt Me Plenty, the Halo games were built around Heroic, etc.). It's generally accepted that there's a specific experience that the devs have in mind, but you can choose to make your time with it easier or harder. Souls games and their ilk actually do have ways to make them easier, but it's built naturally into the game instead of chosen through a menu. You can find powerful items that drastically improve your abilities, or you can summon NPCs or another player to help you out. Either way, the experience you have is one where the difficulty is standard for everyone who plays it, and it's up to you to figure out how to surmount those challenges. This leads to bonding amongst players when they share their experiences, each understanding what the other is talking about inherently without having to also take into account a difficulty slider.
Bob's comparison is flat-out retarded because footraces and car races are two totally different sports, not two variations on the same sport with different levels of difficulty. There really isn't a good real-world comparison to video game difficulty I can think of, outside of giving yourself a handicap while doing some physical activity. But as everyone said above, Bob's takes on video games are fucking pointless because he doesn't even bother to play them, and thus any of his opinions can be safely discarded.
I also have to laugh that he has to specifically say "non-gendered" about his Simpsons reference so his senpais don't think he's actually sexist for implying girls don't take to challenge like boys do. Never change, fatass.
. However, he full-throatedly supports commie-style not-economic ideas, such as woke postmodernist marxist social Ingsoc Justice.
