You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
CareercowRobert 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
I don't know what's worse, the headshot inserts or the actual content of the segment.
Who... who is he talking about? He thinks people are serious about those comments and this somehow translates into technology being avoided doesn't he. Doesn't he remember say, the European Cyclotron black hole memes/jokes? Does he think those were people legitimately concerned and somehow slowing progress?
TL;DR
Russ Pitts is a dick who did an unthinkable dickish thing and I'm sorry for being near him and The Escapist and I'm going to therapy. Please pitty me.
Deep breath. I should probably use the “blog” function of this website to actually, y’know, “blog” more. Those of you who visit know that for the past year and a half …
moviebobcentral.com
My favorite line from it:
The so-called “Gamergate” fiasco – a hate movement born specifically a weaponized stalking campaign against a specific female game developer that soon blossomed into a whole network of internet-based terrorism pretending to operate under concerns about “ethics in games journalism” that came to encompass a large collection of proto-Trump campaign alt-right “New Media” personalities – tore through the mid-2010s gaming scene like a tidal wave of sewage, and The Escapist during that time was uniquely stuck in the nexus of it as it’s founder and (now-ex) co-owner had turned out to harbor some… “unique” political viewpoints that aligned with much of the aforementioned movement; leading to employees of the site who had spoken against “GG” (or were simply on the nebulous “naughty list” of persons GG had designated as targets for one reason or another) either quitting in disgust or being gradually cycled as part of “budgets” or “restructuring” – eventually including me.
He'd immediately declare himself Dictator of the Earth after going out and buying four tons of fertilizer and making what he thinks is a homemade nuke, Timothy Mcveigh style, the likes the world has never seen.
Christ, that fucking run-on sentence. Clearly someone never paid attention to grammar lessons.
I also love his revisionist history with regards to his being shitcanned the first time. His claim is that he was either one of the ones who "quit in disgust" or that he was one of the ones who were "restructured" out of the Escapist. The reality is that he was neither. He spouted off about how gamers are literally Nazis even after he was told to stop antagonizing the site's primary audience. But his autistic rage made him continue until they finally sacked him for being such a liability.
And then after he gets hired back by Pitts for no good reason, he immediately throws him under the bus when he dares to claim that maybe GGers weren't actually Nazis. You're full of class, Robert.
Wow he's just insufferable.
I don't watch Bob's videos but it's good to remind myself why.
He constantly praises automation for its ability to take jobs away from his hated factory workers, but in this video he forgets all that and reduces the concern to an idiotic "your roomba figuring out how to use a switchblade".
The REAL technological terror, in Bob's beetus-brain, is "asshole hackers convincing your grandpa to vote [Republican] with algorithmically generated bullshit", which is just bizarre, since he's saying "asshole hackers" not only exposed the DNC, but made viral Youtube videos about it too.
Robert is a results oriented futurist, friendo. He doesn't necessarily understand why the obsolete mayonnaise ghouls are standing in the way of the Star Trek future, or exactly how for that matter, but he'll say and do anything to make them stop.
Sounds like Bobby just took an IQ test and wasn't happy at his results, given he's now changing the goalposts on intelligence so he again isn't as obviously (in his mind) obsolete trash worthy only of starvation by his own exceptional and non-thought out system.
He's been against IQ tests as a measure of intelligence for a long time. The only measurement of intelligence Bob believes in is measured by how well your politics line up with his. Robert was clearly one of those kids who got told he was smart a lot growing up because he was a bit ahead of average in vocabulary but struggled in school (meaning teachers and parents were more likely to say that to him to try and motivate him), and he was the kind of dickhead who's the absolute worst person to say that to because it blew up his narcissism to proportions almost as large as his ass. It's probably not an exaggeration to say he believes he's the smartest person alive, and thus, everyone's intelligence can be measured by their agreement with him.
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to moon wheat. It will take all of you, and you will resent its absence." View attachment 1118138 I swear if Bob unironically uses this as his profile pic...
Since I haven't mentioned it before, now's as good a time as any to say one of Robert's traits I find more annoying is how he oscillates between "As a white man I was born a foot from the finish line, my existence is extremely privileged, I was handed everything in life, I'm living the good life" to "I'm a wretched working class poor who was born to a rough and tumble life and am barely scraping by" depending on whether he's advocating against poor whites and men being deserving of sympathy or trying to get sympathy for himself/deflect from people calling him out for being a blatant plutocrat.
I probably find it more annoying because he's far from the only person to do this.
Personally I suspect that Bob thinks he's smart is because growing up he rejected religion and patriotism. Not out of any sort of sophisticated intellectual reason, but out of autistic stubbornness and because these things demanded things from him (charity, chastity, forgiveness, respect, duty, obedience) that he refused to give because he is and always has been a selfish shit. He then naturally gravitated to a belief structure that also rejected these things, and said belief structure in turn told him how smart he was for rejecting them. In other words, his whole life has been an extended ideological masturbation session and he's too dumb to realize it.
Robert frequently conflates the two as he sees Star Trek utopia as an achievable reality. See also his emotional trauma regarding Mario not being from Brooklyn.
Robert frequently conflates the two as he sees Star Trek utopia as an achievable reality. See also his emotional trauma regarding Mario not being from Brooklyn.
Like New Donk City from Super Mario Odyssey? I wonder if Bob hates the game on some level because it essentially cements the fact Mario is not from Brooklyn.
I always love when that image gets posted, as it ties into my personal favorite Bobism: the nonstop use of sunglasses. He may constantly lash out at “mayonnaise ghouls” but I like to think even Kino Roberto has the self-awareness to realize no one wants to see those disgustingly sunken eyes.
Take that Sgt Slaughter pic, for example. Sure, Blob may be a jowly, doughy, atrophying mass of misery, but all in all he almost resembles a fairly normal person (at least for a Burger). Take off the shades, though, and you are forced to confront the soulless visage of a pathetic CONSOOMER:
Au contraire! I submit the gentleman from Providence perceived the coming of Bob Chipman with perfect, nay, supernatural clarity:
"Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species—if separate species we be—for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set fire to his clothing one night. No one placed the charred fragments in an urn or set a memorial to him who had been; for certain papers and a certain boxed object were found, which made men wish to forget. Some who knew him do not admit that he ever existed."
Arthur Jermyn ... or Robert Chipman? I know which one I think had an ape for a gramma. Might be why he skipped her funeral.
I always love when that image gets posted, as it ties into my personal favorite Bobism: the nonstop use of sunglasses. He may constantly lash out at “mayonnaise ghouls” but I like to think even Kino Roberto has the self-awareness to realize no one wants to see those disgustingly sunken eyes...