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I don't think it is Sterling he is mentioning. I might be misremembering, but I don't think Sterling was ever reprimanded or punished during his time at The Escapist. If I remember correctly Sterling left only because they wouldn't take a definitive stand against Gamergate. He wasn't fired or punished in anyway.I don't know exactly which fellow was wrongfully, and it's in quotes for reasons only Bob's hops addled brain can figure out, "disciplined". We can speculate but it doesn't really matter because the outcome was him getting shit canned and everyone else moving on with their lives. I'm really hoping that he's referring to Jim Sterling in 2014 because even though Jim follows Bob
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and Bob mentions him a bit and openly calls him friend
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and Bob got into a fight with Totalbiscuit while defending Jim Sterling
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Bob Chipman on Twitter: "@miracleofsound Sincerely sorry for any cros…
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As a side bar I wanna say it's kind of amazing how even in 2015 Bob had a reputation for being a reductive extremist.
and by my count has tweeted at him 148 time since August 10, 2011, if we just flip it around...
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Three. Only three times did Jim even bother to mention or reply back to Bob. The one in the middle is the day daddy Chipman died. Not in a single one of those did Bob retweet, quote tweet, reply, or like. Going through the first search, Bob to Jim, I couldn't find one where Jim did the same. Granted I only went through the top ten or so but I really doubt that there was some banger in that over 100 tweets that Jim liked.
Bob was never friends with Jim. He was barely a coworker. I really, really hope that this is the person he threw away his job for. It's incredibly fitting that he would've thrown everything away for someone who does not care about him with no plan of what to do next.
And even if it is Sterling he is talking about, Bob is completely misrepresenting his "holdout" claims. Going through archives of Bob's content on The Escapist, he was doing his regular content right up until he got fired. There was no big lapse in content from Bob at anypoint. Even during Gamergate when Bob was fuming 24/7.
He has said a lot of similar rhetoric before. I remember he once was bitching about how hard he had it in college because he had to commute thirty minutes away from home. Some of Bob's bullshit that he spews is just a coping mechanism that he doesn't genuinely believe, but a lot of other stuff like this are things that he does genuinely believe in.I honestly can't tell if claiming the occasional YouTube upload stutter is the same as having your arm ripped off in a factory accident is his usual intellectual dishonesty or his bottomless stupidity. As in, is he just posturing ... or does he really believe it?
Bob is a person that thinks that a bookcase filled with DVDs makes him an authority of art and culture. And that posting a photo of it on Twitter will make people instantly respect him. Bob is a person that thinks horrid concoctions like chicken soaked in a bag filled with hot sauce is a culinary masterpiece. Bob is a person who thinks that a totally real story about him manipulating girls into a threesome make him look like a stud instead of a perverted liar.
Bob is not a person that comprehends things like a normal human being. And he doesn't understand how normal people comprehend things either. That is one of the driving forces behind him being such a prolific cow: he wants people to respect him and view him as a master of something but his blatant retardation makes him incapable of doing that.