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

How will Bob react to seeing the Mario film?

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LordofCringe7206 said:
I don't even get what he's trying to say with the Ian tweet.
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The quote from Ian (which you can't see because of Godzilla@1989's retarded and awful crop) says: "Video games wouldn't exist under socialism." Bob counters this by showing a picture of Tetris, a game developed in the USSR.

Bob seems to be forgetting that Alexey Pajitnov, the original creator of Tetris, never recieved a single dime from his creation and all the proceeds were seized by the Soviet government.

As a side note: Godzilla@1989, try to control your fucking hateboner for Bob. 80% of your posts contribute nothing to the discussion and you can't even fucking post pictures from Twitter right. You're almost as much of a sperg as Bob is.
 
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Sissy Galvez said:
Disntnthe guy who made Tetris make like zero money offnit? The Soviet Union wouldn’t let him or something?
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The Soviet Union owned the rights to the game for 10 years so he didn't see any money from it until ironically, he came to America and founded a company to license Tetris and actually collect royalties from it.
 
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Pokemonquistador said:
Unions mean jack shit in a world where you can just pack up and move to a different country with a cheaper labor force. Most college-educated leftists want to start unions because "people made more money back when they existed, why can't we just bring them back? " They don't realize that Unions are useless unless they have something to bargain with, something to leverage. That something used to be labor, but in a world with no borders, labor is everywhere! Starting a labor union in this day and age is akin to setting up a snocone stand in the artic, in the middle of winter and charging 10 bucks a scoop.
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they're completely useless in white-collar professions, but carry a lot more clout in jobs where physical work is required, particularly skilled physical work (i.e. the one sector of the job market where you're least likely to find university-educated leftists)
 
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Knyttet said:
Bob seems to be forgetting that Alexey Pajitnov, the original creator of Tetris, never recieved a single dime from his creation and all the proceeds were seized by the Soviet government.
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According to Wikipedia, Alexey Pajitnov started to receive royalties for Tetris in 1996. I assume the collapse of the Soviet Union allowed for that to happen.
 
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Tetris also wouldn’t have existed if other video games didn’t. So Chong is somewhat correct, video games wouldn’t have existed without capitalism. Communism is the party of labor, they wouldn’t want a leisurely activity like that
 
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Why do I always picture Alexei Pajitnov as the Yakov Smirnov of gaming?
An Sionnach Seang said:
they're completely useless in white-collar professions, but carry a lot more clout in jobs where physical work is required, particularly skilled physical work (i.e. the one sector of the job market where you're least likely to find university-educated leftists)
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And you can't as easily outsource workers you need locally- welders, machinists, plumbers, etc.
 
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Pokemonquistador said:
Unions mean jack shit in a world where you can just pack up and move to a different country with a cheaper labor force. Most college-educated leftists want to start unions because "people made more money back when they existed, why can't we just bring them back? " They don't realize that Unions are useless unless they have something to bargain with, something to leverage. That something used to be labor, but in a world with no borders, labor is everywhere! Starting a labor union in this day and age is akin to setting up a snocone stand in the artic, in the middle of winter and charging 10 bucks a scoop.
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Partly why Bobs superior future is stillborn, we just exported the slave labour to china.
 
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Emperor Julian said:
I agree with these sentiments, I think unions are potentially inevitable simply because the people at the top are so greedy and short sighted that things will inevitably hit critical mass, they've consistantly shown to overplay their hand with loot crate gambling so it's unlikely they'll back down on treating their staff shamefully.
Even if it doesnt then somethings got to give, If anything Activisions antics might be the start of poisoning the well by making it clear that game development is usually soul destroying drudge work.
Ironically the liberal tech culture might actually be obstructing this process by allowing the companies to present themselves as 'progressive'.
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Again, sometimes on this board I wish there was a "half agree" button. Like any other subset of humanity, business leaders are a mixed bag. The bad ones are the ones that make the news.

Iceland Heavy said:
The Soviet Union owned the rights to the game for 10 years so he didn't see any money from it until ironically, he came to America and founded a company to license Tetris and actually collect royalties from it.
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'MURICA!!
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So today I was reading this (someone archive it for me plz) and found a quote that describes Bob perfectly.
The Sentimental Moralist
Oscar Wilde defined the sentimentalist as one “who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.” A sentimental moralist is one who desires the luxury of a moral response—the undeniable pleasure of righteous indignation, the delectable horror at the evil of others—without paying the cost. He need not uphold a consistent morality in order to indulge in moral denunciation. He need not bother with ascertaining facts, because justice in any particular case is not the point. His censures exist to assure himself and others that he is a good and well-meaning person. Because he confuses feelings with morality, he invariably condemns others for their lack of feeling.
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