- Joined
- May 19, 2018
The only thing I would say Bob is competient at is eating and drinking. If I had to have a partner in an eatting or drinking contest Bob would be my first choice. Other than that I got nothing, he'd be terrible at Bar Trivia or Jeopardy because he knows jack shit outside of entry-level geek culture and those kinds of competitions don't let their competitors have their phones on them to Google Wikipedia articles.
On a forum that documents Nicholas Perry, Chantal Sarault, and Amberlynn Reid, you'd pick Bob as a buddy in an eating competition? For shame.
Let's put it this way, can you imagine Bob being actually competent at anything? Surely he's just as bad at financial management as he is everything else. Who on Twitter would have loaned money to him in the first place? It's not like he has real friends. All I can think of is Russ Pitts at the Escapist giving him an advance on his pay. But Russ is long gone at this point, and Bob's problems have only become acute in the last few months with Corona-chan shutting down Hollywood and Bob reacting to this loss of income by sitting on his fat ass and doing nothing except get even madder about Bad Orange Man on Twitter. It's like he's deliberately sabotaging his own life at this point just so he can blame everything on Trump personally.
The sad part is, it's not like there's actually a shortage of material. Other reviewers like Mr. H have been doing fine by branching out into TV shows and foreign movies, and streaming services are dumping everything onto their platforms because they know that people need entertainment while in quarantine. The lack of big-budget popcorn movies hardly means that the medium is dead, it's just forcing it to evolve into smaller, cheaper, more efficient products. I thought Bob liked evolution?
Also, considering his career trajectory, now would be a perfect time to start sending up test balloons for other kinds of content. Maybe he could livestream- from what I understand, he's significantly less toxic live because he doesn't have Wikipedia and Thesaurus.com to make himself sound smarter, and he has to think on his (missing) feet as opposed to stewing in his pudgy resentment. Maybe he could make Game Overthinker episodes that actually tackled new games instead of just sperging out about gamers and basic-bitch Nintendo products- hell, he could try to one-up Yahtzee by playing through Pathologic 2 and making a review that adequately explains it to the viewer.
His Patreon isn't what it was, but he still has a background income that positions him to actually experiment with his content and put in the work. Instead, he just marinates like his garbage bag chicken in the acid of his mountain dewy resentment of everyone and everything he perceives as responsible for his unhappiness.