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

[Godzilla@1989]

Wait enough time and Bob will find another hill to die on for his stupid causes. That, or he fucks up the company and goes down with it

Well there’s the midterms, which I think Bob is going to have a epic meltdown again like he had in 2016.

 

[Rekkington]

If they were smart. They would have just apologized about the comments, and try to reach an agreement and avoided such an event to happen. But no, Russ arrogantly thinks this lawsuit will not affect them. Chipman shouldn't that far behind with the same thoughts about it.

These guys have ZERO knowledge of the fucking importance of PR. And I don't think they care to learn. They have their heads so far up their asses that any sign of a threat they'll downplay it, or flat out ignore it.

How many times do these fucking people have to stumble on the same rock before their skulls break and they bleed out? Seriously I can't wrap my head around this. Nothing about it screams good case for them. There was one escape, and Russ ignored it. Anybody will two brain cells can see what's wrong. I guess the guy from the video was right. These motherfuckers will use emotional stands rather than factual.

I find that people on the left greatly underestimate just how many of their opponents exist. I've seen this in my professional life too: liberals are very loud and open about their politics and conservatives tend to be quieter. But in their minds they believe they're in the majority because they are all they ever hear talking. That's why they act so shocked and dumbfounded when the other side wins with votes. They can't fathom that the right is even fucking real most of the time.

 

[A Big Bumbling Black Man]

Well there’s the midterms, which I think Bob is going to have a epic meltdown again like he had in 2016.

I can't wait for the tweets blaming Bob for his complete lack of persuasion, especially from his left.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

So the escapist/Russ Pittts is doubling down on Blobb? That’s really funny considering he’s not well liked amongst the left and he’s hated by the center and right.

Who in their right mind would raise enough funds to float that level of stupidity? I don’t give it a year, I give it 6 months tops.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Well there’s the midterms, which I think Bob is going to have a epic meltdown again like he had in 2016.

Almost forgot about that. Elections are always a nice source of butthurt from everyone, but Bob will have a special kind of butthurt because the coming election has a special meaning for him. The evil Drumpf is in power of the Fascist States of America and he must side with whatever dickwad goes against the mighty Emperor

 

[Mola Ram]

So the escapist/Russ Pittts is doubling down on Blobb? That’s really funny considering he’s not well liked amongst the left and he’s hated by the center and right.

Who in their right mind would raise enough funds to float that level of stupidity? I don’t give it a year, I give it 6 months tops.

See, this is what I can't figure out. Bob infuriates the right with his sheer thuggishness; irritate the left with how stupid and easy a target he is; and from all indications is not terribly adept at forging good relationships with people in meatspace. Is it possible he's personable when not on Twitter, to the point the Escapist people actually consider him a friend? I've often wondered if his Twitter persona is vastly different from the real world version of him. Maybe that's the case. Or is it just that 100k subscribers? I would think with Yahtzee still on board they wouldn't be quite that desperate.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

You saw Blobb at his sister’s wedding in Mexico, hunkered down at a table and bent over his phone tweeting about DRUMPF and BLACK PANTHER. His twitter persona is his identity, he’s been consumed by identity politics. GamerGate and Anita Sarkeesian broke his brain.

 

[Mola Ram]

You saw Blobb at his sister’s wedding in Mexico, hunkered down at a table and bent over his phone tweeting about DRUMPF and BLACK PANTHER. His twitter persona is his identity, he’s been consumed by identity politics. GamerGate and Anita Sarkeesian broke his brain.

See, that's kinda my point. There isn't much evidence that Bob is any better in the real world, other than that he seems to get along with his family. So why is the Escapist backing him to the hilt? Whether this current legal threat is the real deal or not, the dude is a PR disaster/defamation suit just waiting to happen.

 

[Rekkington]

See, that's kinda my point. There isn't much evidence that Bob is any better in the real world, other than that he seems to get along with his family. So why is the Escapist backing him to the hilt? Whether this current legal threat is the real deal or not, the dude is a PR disaster/defamation suit just waiting to happen.

I think it's two reasons, the first being that they align with him politically/culturally. That guy said it best, Escapist was dwindling so they're desperate for content aside from Yahtzee. So for one, Bob is willing to work for them and they agree. To them this site is now in rebirth mode so hail-mary passes make sense to them.

One other thing is the reason people here hate him, but what they probably like about him: his fresh takes. I did not say good takes, but fresh takes. He prides himself on deconstructing shit into something absolutely ridiculous and waterheaded, but like we see with idiots like Peter Coffin, as long as it's unique it can stand out and if it can stand out then they matter as an "influencer."
Him saying that offering Black Panther anything less than best picture is racism sounds absolutely insane, but that's the perfect mix of controversy and uniqueness that can get them traffic at the very least. That's his brand, and like other Twitter dolts the more extreme they get they can at least walk that wire another day until it all just explodes in their face. Bob openly calls for the death or imprisonment of half the country and is outwardly racist, so that day may come soon but all these goofy nerds are slow motion locomotive explosions anyway.

 

[BScCollateral]

I understand that in the buildup to the Revolutionary War Parliament was behaving so incompetently that some Americans suspected they were trying to provoke a Rebellion.

Maybe there might be some way to profit by running The Escapist into the ground.

Maybe idiots just have to be idiots.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

One other thing is the reason people here hate him, but what they probably like about him: his fresh takes. I did not say good takes, but fresh takes. He prides himself on deconstructing shit into something absolutely ridiculous and waterheaded, but like we see with idiots like Peter Coffin, as long as it's unique it can stand out and if it can stand out then they matter as an "influencer."

As someone who likes to write fiction (publishing is another matter altogether), Bob's deconstruction of culture is frustrating because the man certainly can identify tropes the themes in storytelling, but has absolutely no clue as to how they work. He cannot, for the worthless life of his, actually put the damn thing back together. One reason for this is because Bob's narcissism and simplistic black-and-white worldview cripple his own understanding of the human psyche. As we have witnessed with The Last Jedi, he obsesses over "subversion of expectations" and believes that makes it a smart film. Fans are half-wits if they hate it as far as he's concerned.

The reason why the original trilogy as well as the Indiana Jones trilogy worked was because George Lucas wanted to recreate the excitement he felt when watching the old film serials of his youth. Thus he read Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces and took inspiration from those serials and other films to (re)construct a film that many would agree is one of, if not THE defining film of the 20th century. Rian Johnson is postmodernist that believes that subverting the audience's expectations is somehow intelligent, which Bob agrees with because it fits with is ideology that the past must be torn down to make way for the Superior Future™.

No. There is a reason why works like the Iliad, Beowulf, and the works of Shakespeare are required reading in every university English program (and frankly, I would be surprised if Bob read any of them.) It's because they fulfilled a basic human need to look beyond this materialistic existence. Deconstruction and subversion are okay if the writer is skilled enough to put it back together. Alan Moore deconstructed and subverted the superhero genre with Miracleman and Watchmen, but was also able to reconstruct it with "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow," Supreme, and Tom Strong. Bob can't because he is too self-obsessed and motivated by instant gratification to look beyond the superficial.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Maybe there might be some way to profit by running The Escapist into the ground.

Maybe idiots just have to be idiots.

That is what has been niggling at me. It all seems like a move to part out the carcass of the company, which would be sort of awesome given Bob's whining about Toys R Us for the past six months.

 

[Cure Quanta]

I understand that in the buildup to the Revolutionary War Parliament was behaving so incompetently that some Americans suspected they were trying to provoke a Rebellion.

Maybe there might be some way to profit by running The Escapist into the ground.

Maybe idiots just have to be idiots.

Empire in a pinch, out of touch with (some of, anyway) the people actually feeding it, making unreasonable demands of the put-upon citizenry until things finally exploded?

I can see it.

 

[Rekkington]

As someone who likes to write fiction (publishing is another matter altogether), Bob's deconstruction of culture is frustrating because the man certainly can identify tropes the themes in storytelling, but has absolutely no clue as to how they work. He cannot, for the worthless life of his, actually put the damn thing back together. One reason for this is because Bob's narcissism and simplistic black-and-white worldview cripple his own understanding of the human psyche. As we have witnessed with The Last Jedi, he obsesses over "subversion of expectations" and believes that makes it a smart film. Fans are half-wits if they hate it as far as he's concerned.

The reason why the original trilogy as well as the Indiana Jones trilogy worked was because George Lucas wanted to recreate the excitement he felt when watching the old film serials of his youth. Thus he read Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces and took inspiration from those serials and other films to (re)construct a film that many would agree is one of, if not THE defining film of the 20th century. Rian Johnson is postmodernist that believes that subverting the audience's expectations is somehow intelligent, which Bob agrees with because it fits with is ideology that the past must be torn down to make way for the Superior Future™.

No. There is a reason why works like the Iliad, Beowulf, and the works of Shakespeare are required reading (and frankly, I would be surprised if Bob read any of them.) It's because they fulfilled a basic human need to look beyond this materialistic existence. Deconstruction and subversion are okay if the writer is skilled enough to put it back together. Alan Moore deconstructed and subverted the superhero genre with Miracleman and Watchmen, but was also able to reconstruct it with "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow," Supreme, and Tom Strong. Bob can't because he is too self-obsessed and motivated by instant gratification to look beyond the superficial.

I do a lot of writing too and you're spot on about all of this, especially the tropes part. See actual, good critics will delve into the substructures of storytelling and mythology and learn how they function. It's one of the ways you can tell if something has value. That's why Bob cannot talk about archetypes, or ancient themes, or why these stories get told over and over. He lives in the tropes hemisphere, where as long as anything is a throwback to anything it is cliche and derivative. They will sacrifice the value and history of a story structure for shitty twists and meta narratives. They don't want a story that resonates with the deepest emotions and archetypal echoes that fill our mind, he wants Deadpool to literally look at the audience and say "wow that's a little sexist, isn't it?" These idiots live to deconstruct and the height of media in their opinion is when it deconstructs itself.

Someone in this thread or another thread likened it to why video game critics don't like fighting games. Because they're actual games, they're the purest form of "video game," like a sports game. It takes skill, repetition, understanding a system, and becoming the best at it. They don't know what to do with that, it's too hard and alien. All these critics are the same, they don't actually care about any of this. Bob can't talk about why movies work, he would need to do a lot of reading and studying to figure out why stories MATTER. Not entertain, not distract, not deconstruct, but actually matter to people. He's just an MST3K character that takes himself extremely seriously.

 

[Keep Yourself Safe]

he's a journalist in the same way brianna wu is a game developer. He only does it for attention and money, nothing more

To be far to the fat pig at least he has actually produced an actual body of work, no matter how pathetic it may all be.

 

[Flexo]

My question is what exactly would get Bob to lose his job at The Escapist again? I could say the James Gunn shit, but everyone has moved on from it.

So the escapist/Russ Pittts is doubling down on Blobb? That’s really funny considering he’s not well liked amongst the left and he’s hated by the center and right.

Who in their right mind would raise enough funds to float that level of stupidity? I don’t give it a year, I give it 6 months tops.

See, that's kinda my point. There isn't much evidence that Bob is any better in the real world, other than that he seems to get along with his family. So why is the Escapist backing him to the hilt? Whether this current legal threat is the real deal or not, the dude is a PR disaster/defamation suit just waiting to happen.

That is what has been niggling at me. It all seems like a move to part out the carcass of the company, which would be sort of awesome given Bob's whining about Toys R Us for the past six months.

That's my bet. This is all a ploy to burn down the escapist for the insurance money. Or a scheme like the producers. And they're handing Bob a box of matches.

 

[Lensherr]

I do a lot of writing too and you're spot on about all of this, especially the tropes part. See actual, good critics will delve into the substructures of storytelling and mythology and learn how they function. It's one of the ways you can tell if something has value. That's why Bob cannot talk about archetypes, or ancient themes, or why these stories get told over and over. He lives in the tropes hemisphere, where as long as anything is a throwback to anything it is cliche and derivative. They will sacrifice the value and history of a story structure for shitty twists and meta narratives. They don't want a story that resonates with the deepest emotions and archetypal echoes that fill our mind, he wants Deadpool to literally look at the audience and say "wow that's a little sexist, isn't it?" These idiots live to deconstruct and the height of media in their opinion is when it deconstructs itself.

Someone in this thread or another thread likened it to why video game critics don't like fighting games. Because they're actual games, they're the purest form of "video game," like a sports game. It takes skill, repetition, understanding a system, and becoming the best at it. They don't know what to do with that, it's too hard and alien. All these critics are the same, they don't actually care about any of this. Bob can't talk about why movies work, he would need to do a lot of reading and studying to figure out why stories MATTER. Not entertain, not distract, not deconstruct, but actually matter to people. He's just an MST3K character that takes himself extremely seriously.

I think that this ties in to Bob's desire to see genre fare be smugly self-aware of how stupid it is. Just look at his pitch for a Predator film: it features, in his own words, the titular hunter being depicted as the alien equivalent of a dipshit suburban weekend warrior. While it could potentially be a funny Comedy Central skit, it would completely destroy any sense of verisimilitude and gravitas that the franchise has if it were turned into a feature film. And when people criticize some of the MCU films for out of place humor that drains the tension and emotional impact of the story, he resorts to "well, it's all ridiculous bullshit made for children, they CAN'T be taken seriously." I think it's because, like you said, he's unable to understand why these stories resonate with people, so he sees the tropes they employ as something to be mocked within them.

 

[Rekkington]

I think that this ties in to Bob's desire to see genre fare be smugly self-aware of how stupid it is. Just look at his pitch for a Predator film: it features, in his own words, the titular hunter being depicted as the alien equivalent of a dipshit suburban weekend warrior. While it could potentially be a funny Comedy Central skit, it would completely destroy any sense of verisimilitude and gravitas that the franchise has if it were turned into a feature film. And when people criticize some of the MCU films for out of place humor that drains the tension and emotional impact of the story, he resorts to "well, it's all ridiculous bullshit made for children, they CAN'T be taken seriously." I think it's because, like you said, he's unable to understand why these stories resonate with people, so he sees the tropes they employ as something to be mocked within them.

He's like all the weird hags who got into writing comics. They don't actually like comics or action scenes or the grandiose stories, and they certainly don't care about their history or cultural value. But they like people who dress up and have big personalities, so you get shit like Hellcat and Squirrel Girl and all the rest where they spend so much time chatting, bantering, and commenting on how silly and stupid everything is. That was once the gimmick behind Spiderman but it was balanced with the stuff that made people like comics. No, now that's under THEIR control, things can finally evolve. That's Bob's mission, he is trying to elevate nerd culture. While having no idea how any of this works. His script pitches 100% reflect this. They're all "takes."

Maybe that's why these Netflix Marvel shows appeal to them so much, it's just boring interpersonal drama and a heavy focus on relationships. Now you get Batman comics with "ummmmm, daddy issues much?" lines. I think it would be nice if we just flew into the sun.

 

[Mola Ram]

While having no idea how any of this works. His script pitches 100% reflect this. They're all "takes."

That's a really good point. I don't believe I've ever seen a truly original idea from him. Even his Super Mario pitch was built around an incredibly dumbass catchphrase ("It's a Brooklyn thing!") that was about as fresh as last week's bagels.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Clickbait doesn’t work when you heavily moderate your comments and forums or get rid of them altogether.

Part of what Blobbo does is create controversy to increase his influence and visibility on twitter. He does it by making stupid claims and arguing with people smarter than him so his tweets get a lot of views and comments.