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

[TopTierHealer]

That's where the left disagrees. It's part of why they hated Cyberpunk 2077.

They see cyberpunk is a progressive utopia because extreme body mods allow you to have neon hair and change gender on a whim, and are accepted as normal. The stories are about the lower classes standing up to the establishment and capitalism. In Bob's case, he sees the plebs being ruled by corporations as a good thing.

I don't know about Shadowrun specifically (I don't like that magic overshadows the tech) but I assume it's the same idea.

Twitterleft being retarded again, news at 11.

I have been sperging in the CP 2077 grieving thread and I actually like what they did with the gameworld. People wanted moar blade runner but they got nightmare socal instead. I don't give a shit, if they wanted noir then they can go to V's appartment, rest until night and play the game during the night hours. I did it with a melee toon, I would get drunk, go to watson at night and punch Maeltrom to raise my athletics (and incidentally, grind for XP).

Each story is deeply personal, from the more uplifting ones (Pepe's wife, Saul and Panam, Misty and Ma Welles), to the depressing ones, (the Mayor, the Cyberpsychos, the actor ) to the Nightmarish (the scavs and XBD's, Clouds and the dolls, Lizzie Wizzie). I don't want to spoil anything, so anyone reading who hasn't played please don't click, I think it's a good game to buy on sale, for under 25 bucks. I certainly had my money's worth.

And technology isn't explored as a theme, it's implicit that there is no Ted Kazynsky route out of here. The world is alien enough that you, the viewer have as much in common with a 1950's citizen as with a resident in this world. The City (because it's always a city) is just a Colossus that feeds and feeds, who constantly grinds on anyone and everyone and only exists to consume and consume more. It's completely unnatural and the insanity is seeping through the cracks.....but even that insanity is part of the status quo.

The only character that will survive is a shopkeeper that sells you implants but doesn't have any. His words, "The moment we have a solar flare big enough, all your body mods will cease to function. Eyes, ears, heart, brain. That's why I don't install any chrome myself".

And that's why the world is so fascinating, because it's utterly fucked. It's the titanic sinking, you can't stop it, you can only watch as it unfolds. The best, the very best you can hope for is to save yourself, save what little humanity you have and pray that any god out there Machine or not sends divine intervention.

Finally, for Shadowrun. There is magic but the science is close enough to magic that you can call it magic as well. Despite Azteclan being blood ritualists....they are also the world's basket. If their crops fail, you can expect parts of the world to have bread lines and some other parts to starve to death. The world of shadowrun is actually more uplifting than CP if only by a little bit. At the end of the day there actually is something out there (I remember discussing with goons...who being goons though that Eldricht abomiations were a bad addition to the setting), something bigger than our puny selves. In Cyberpunk, there's just us and we have fucked the Earth beyond recognition. I guess if I were to find a manga equivalent, I would suggest reading BLAME!

 

[Steelatlas]

Twitterleft being retarded again, news at 11.

I have been sperging in the CP 2077 grieving thread and I actually like what they did with the gameworld. People wanted moar blade runner but they got nightmare socal instead. I don't give a shit, if they wanted noir then they can go to V's appartment, rest until night and play the game during the night hours. I did it with a melee toon, I would get drunk, go to watson at night and punch Maeltrom to raise my athletics (and incidentally, grind for XP).

Each story is deeply personal, from the more uplifting ones (Pepe's wife, Saul and Panam, Misty and Ma Welles), to the depressing ones, (the Mayor, the Cyberpsychos, the actor ) to the Nightmarish (the scavs and XBD's, Clouds and the dolls, Lizzie Wizzie). I don't want to spoil anything, so anyone reading who hasn't played please don't click, I think it's a good game to buy on sale, for under 25 bucks. I certainly had my money's worth.

And technology isn't explored as a theme, it's implicit that there is no Ted Kazynsky route out of here. The world is alien enough that you, the viewer have as much in common with a 1950's citizen as with a resident in this world. The City (because it's always a city) is just a Colossus that feeds and feeds, who constantly grinds on anyone and everyone and only exists to consume and consume more. It's completely unnatural and the insanity is seeping through the cracks.....but even that insanity is part of the status quo.

The only character that will survive is a shopkeeper that sells you implants but doesn't have any. His words, "The moment we have a solar flare big enough, all your body mods will cease to function. Eyes, ears, heart, brain. That's why I don't install any chrome myself".

And that's why the world is so fascinating, because it's utterly fucked. It's the titanic sinking, you can't stop it, you can only watch as it unfolds. The best, the very best you can hope for is to save yourself, save what little humanity you have and pray that any god out there Machine or not sends divine intervention.

Finally, for Shadowrun. There is magic but the science is close enough to magic that you can call it magic as well. Despite Azteclan being blood ritualists....they are also the world's basket. If their crops fail, you can expect parts of the world to have bread lines and some other parts to starve to death. The world of shadowrun is actually more uplifting than CP if only by a little bit. At the end of the day there actually is something out there (I remember discussing with goons...who being goons though that Eldricht abomiations were a bad addition to the setting), something bigger than our puny selves. In Cyberpunk, there's just us and we have fucked the Earth beyond recognition. I guess if I were to find a manga equivalent, I would suggest reading BLAME!

Moviebob should hate Cyberpunk it basically refutes his idea of Consumerism being the end all of humanity. Despite its technological trappings cyberpunk is essentially a repudiation of coonsumerism.

 

[Mola Ram]

Moviebob should hate Cyberpunk it basically refutes his idea of Consumerism being the end all of humanity. Despite its technological trappings cyberpunk is essentially a repudiation of coonsumerism.

Also, The Future Is Not Inherently Good.

 

[RainwaterDrop]

Hang the fuck on….you mean to tell me that as of the time of writing Chris is only 29 years old???

I’m not exactly an Adonis myself but fuuuuuuuuuuck.

Balding, plus being overweight and the beard. These make him look older than he actually is, if he shaved his head but kept the beard and hit the gym he would actually look younger!

Eh, I don't doubt he's had sex. A lot of people overestimate how hard it is to get laid, and Bob got to at least partially live in a pre-Tinder, pre-lockdown, pre-everyone-is-terminally-online world. If you don't believe me, take a look at the average boomer goober, even money says he's got a wedding ring.

Whether it was with someone you'd look twice at is another matter entirely.

Precisely. I would put more faith on him not getting laid more due to his personality, with him being a colossal asshole with narcissistic delusions of grandeur, than on his looks. He's a landwhale indeed, but there are plenty of she landwhales and others with less demanding standards. Powerleveling a bit, I know a guy that is shit out of luck on the genetics department - very short, had the body of a potato and had crippling shyness, yet he still scored from time to time when some (mostly under the juice of the red grape) women came onto him. It happens!

Bob's standards aren't all that elevated, surprisingly, from what we know considering his crush is the hot dog girl. But even the most milquetoast women won't like the company of a gigantic asshole, so that's what cripples him even harder on this department!

I can see him having sex at one point but not to the frequency he claims since he’s single. Unless he frequently hires them, in which case he’s contributing to human trafficking.

Bob is a delusional narcissist so I wouldn't bet on the most likely of his vague claims being real. This is the guy that, as a bloated retard, believes himself to be a thinker and an intellectual, whose genocidal philosophy of the elimination of the "obsolete" won't include him on the field of the undesirables precisely because he's the one who wrote this horseshit!

And yeah, precisely. His personality is what makes me think so, ugly people still enjoy the joys of life, but ugly assholes don't do it as much. I can easily picture some butterface girl taking an interest on Bob, only to get turned off real fast once he starts talking and the waves of drivel come crashing!

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

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... at the risk of agreeing with Bob, I am actually pretty fucking stoked about Nobody getting a sequel.

 

[Mr Processor]

That's where the left disagrees. It's part of why they hated Cyberpunk 2077.

They see cyberpunk is a progressive utopia because extreme body mods allow you to have neon hair and change gender on a whim, and are accepted as normal. The stories are about the lower classes standing up to the establishment and capitalism. In Bob's case, he sees the plebs being ruled by corporations as a good thing.

I don't know about Shadowrun specifically (I don't like that magic overshadows the tech) but I assume it's the same idea.

Yeah, that was really weird. All the cultists saying Cyberpunk 2077 needed to be positive and progressive, because to them cyberpunk is positive and progressive. For me one of the main concepts in the cyberpunk genre is that the bad guys won. The positive thing about the setting is you can be a gritty antihero "fighting the power," not that you are living in some futuristic paradise. Cyberpunk has been mainstream since Robocop came out, so I mean it should be a well understood genre by now even by non-fans.

Shadowrun is an odd game that tries to be gritty even though it has elves, orcs and magic. If you've played a White Wolf game, I think those are closer in tone to it than the Lord of the Rings is, especially Mage: The Ascension. I actually prefer more standard cyberpunk, but I don't hate Shadowrun.

 

[Red Hood]

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The concession staff might comply if a 3-year-old kid did that; a 30-year-old man would be lucky if he wasn't told to fuck off.

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Chris's genetics are so bad he looks like a rough 40 on his 30th.

 

[Mola Ram]

Chris's genetics are so bad he looks like a rough 40 on his 30th.

Fuck genetics. Booze will do that too. Bobologists should never forget we're dealing with a pair of boorish drunks, if not full blown functioning alcoholics. Bob might be veering into non-functioning; I'm willing to bet he's done nothing to secure a job for security against his dwindling Patreon because he can't keep to a normal sleep schedule thanks to drinking until he passes out.

 

[Law]

Bobby considers himself "working class". Bobby doesn't go to the gym. Therefore the working class cannot go to the gym.

Friend of mine actually got long covid, unfortunately. After like 2 months of health bullshit, he's been cleared to start light workouts again. He was very into lifting before.
The gym isn't like flying private, Blobby.
Lynn actually has a bunch of gyms in poorer/working class areas too.

There is no such thing as a non-binary actor.

How exactly do the Wokescolds want us to talk about this person? "Wow, they's cute and his iridescent green boob armor really accentuates they's titties, he totally doesn't look like a woman you bigot!"

You can't make cyberpunk NOT dystopian, that's essentially missunderstanding the concept behind the theme!!!!

Part of why I loved William Gibson's short stories was the way they seemed to be saying that the future would have all this amazing technology, but I wouldn't be able to afford it.
Gibson said that he was inspired by looking at the nicest, newest computer in a shop, and imagining it being covered with dust in a thrift store. Gibson also frequently wrote about characters who made awful decisions, they weren't progressive role models in a shiny happy neon future land.
It's "punk" as in "angry, young and poor", not just some meaningless suffix. It's not Future vs Stagnation, it's stagnation and futility, in the future.
Blobby just saw colored hair and clicked like.

I guess if I were to find a manga equivalent, I would suggest reading BLAME!

Well I might try 2077 now. I adored BLAME!

 

[Red Hood]

Fuck genetics. Booze will do that too. Bobologists should never forget we're dealing with a pair of boorish drunks, if not full blown functioning alcoholics. Bob might be veering into non-functioning; I'm willing to bet he's done nothing to secure a job for security against his dwindling Patreon because he can't keep to a normal sleep schedule thanks to drinking until he passes out.

Being a corpulent drunk: It's a Bahstan thing.

 

[EnemyStand]

Finally, for Shadowrun. There is magic but the science is close enough to magic that you can call it magic as well. Despite Azteclan being blood ritualists....they are also the world's basket. If their crops fail, you can expect parts of the world to have bread lines and some other parts to starve to death. The world of shadowrun is actually more uplifting than CP if only by a little bit. At the end of the day there actually is something out there (I remember discussing with goons...who being goons though that Eldricht abomiations were a bad addition to the setting), something bigger than our puny selves.

What makes the Shadowrun comparison even dumber is every little phobia the left has is turned up to eleven. A deadly pandemic kills 1% of the world's population? Well, how about an intelligent, self aware nanobot plague with severe Pinocchio Syndrome that overwrites your personality, so you don't even die as yourself anymore along with diseases that can turn you undead and one that makes COVID just as dangerous as you wish it was (VITAS). Racism a problem? How about humans having to deal with other races that actually are stronger, smarter, faster, prettier, and longer lived than any other average human so the prejudice can be somewhat justified? Being underpaid getting you down? Congratulations, globalism won and we're now at the mercy of unaccountable oligarchs who's only concern is eating the orange and throwing the peel away. Enjoy your even lower pay and even longer workday with mandatory unpaid overtime! Nationalism and religion are evil? Well, let's replace all that with brand loyalties so severe most people can't even function without sucking capitalisms dick. Communism is the way? Nope, it's been outlawed by YOUR corporate masters. Give land back to the Indians? No problem, they took it back by force! Also they probably murdered your family with a magical ritual so big Cthulu woke up. Want to be the resistance fighting against a corrupt, sociopathic establishment and get paid for it? You can do that. Except your retirement plan is still going to be tied to the corps that pay the big bucks, and if you die they'll probably just chop you up and sell the pieces (literally!). And even if you do survive to see retirement, in the end nothing you did changed anything. Real, Neuromancer-style cyberpunk is the left's worst nightmare come to life. No one's nice and the only people with power that stick around for more than a week are exploiters and colonizers at BEST. But we all know Bob and his ilk only care about their bread and circuses, and oh what a circus it is when capitalism is completely unfettered.

 

[Law]

Real, Neuromancer-style cyberpunk is the left's worst nightmare come to life.

Bob probably looks at the corporation-worship in Shadowrun, Friend Computer, the rapacious hypercapitalism of Neuromancer, and the infantilized fatties of WALL-E with envy.
It's a utopian future for him cause he actually wants that.
He missed the parts where Shadowrun and Paranoia were satirical, Case's life sucks, and WALL-E wants you to put down your phone and learn to garden.
He probably read Feed and was happy that the girl died at the end because she was a Believer not a Thinker.
He can't get over how entertaining the Disney+ circus is, and have you guys tried this bread? It's so good! Oh, you're low carb, like some kind of fascist? Crawl back to the exclusive patrician confines of your "gym"!

 

[TopTierHealer]

What makes the Shadowrun comparison even dumber is every little phobia the left has is turned up to eleven. A deadly pandemic kills 1% of the world's population? Well, how about an intelligent, self aware nanobot plague with severe Pinocchio Syndrome that overwrites your personality, so you don't even die as yourself anymore along with diseases that can turn you undead and one that makes COVID just as dangerous as you wish it was (VITAS). Racism a problem? How about humans having to deal with other races that actually are stronger, smarter, faster, prettier, and longer lived than any other average human so the prejudice can be somewhat justified? Being underpaid getting you down? Congratulations, globalism won and we're now at the mercy of unaccountable oligarchs who's only concern is eating the orange and throwing the peel away. Enjoy your even lower pay and even longer workday with mandatory unpaid overtime! Nationalism and religion are evil? Well, let's replace all that with brand loyalties so severe most people can't even function without sucking capitalisms dick. Communism is the way? Nope, it's been outlawed by YOUR corporate masters. Give land back to the Indians? No problem, they took it back by force! Also they probably murdered your family with a magical ritual so big Cthulu woke up. Want to be the resistance fighting against a corrupt, sociopathic establishment and get paid for it? You can do that. Except your retirement plan is still going to be tied to the corps that pay the big bucks, and if you die they'll probably just chop you up and sell the pieces (literally!). And even if you do survive to see retirement, in the end nothing you did changed anything. Real, Neuromancer-style cyberpunk is the left's worst nightmare come to life. No one's nice and the only people with power that stick around for more than a week are exploiters and colonizers at BEST. But we all know Bob and his ilk only care about their bread and circuses, and oh what a circus it is when capitalism is completely unfettered.

Fuck me in the ass, I forgot about ghouls and goblinization and whatnot. I do remember that corposlavery was just neofeudalism under a new name and now I need you to correct me: one of the stories involved Dunkelzahn giving in his will stock shares to some hobo who in reality was the biggest financial genius of the century. The only time the world united as one was when the corps ordered an orbital bombardment from space on the guys home because he was such a threat to global finance.

Actual demons ripping through reality in Chicago? Whatever
Stonks going down? Turn Florida into a nuclear wasteland

Also, the Ghost Dance the first nations did....was it blood magic a la Aztlan or was it them bluffing? Basically, the representative of the injun tribes called the white house in 2020 and asked for their lands back or else. The white house told the to go pound sand. 1 hour later all of YellowStone volcanoes were ereupting. Whether they did it on purpose or it was luck it's still up for debate.

I remember reading the secrets of power a lot of years ago and their dance was nowhere near as big as the one that created the NAN.

Case's life sucks

His engram did get a happy ending tho.

Funny, R/Shadowrun had the exact same idea as blob.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/comments/sud3ch/time_to_pay_your_tithes_to_mickey_with_your/

 

[Law]

One of you autists needs to go start a Community Watch thread for STORYLIVING.
It probably won't ever come to fruition, but if it does, imagine the mi.lk.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

All of this dystopia talk makes me remind myself on how Bob thinks he’d be the Prophet of Truth minus the charisma; a delusional, paranoid moron who sits on his ass broadcasting his bullshit while delusional idiots follow him.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

Actual demons ripping through reality in Chicago? Whatever

Its hard for the denizens of Chicago to get excited about demons when they elected Beetlejuice into public office.

 

[EnemyStand]

Fuck me in the ass, I forgot about ghouls and goblinization and whatnot. I do remember that corposlavery was just neofeudalism under a new name and now I need you to correct me: one of the stories involved Dunkelzahn giving in his will stock shares to some hobo who in reality was the biggest financial genius of the century. The only time the world united as one was when the corps ordered an orbital bombardment from space on the guys home because he was such a threat to global finance.

Actual demons ripping through reality in Chicago? Whatever
Stonks going down? Turn Florida into a nuclear wasteland

Exactly. That's cyberpunk in a nutshell. Except it technically wasn't a nuke, it was a space laser so there was minimal collateral damage. It was Dunkelzahn's middle finger to the Big Ten, though for what purpose no one really knows. Was it to get them to work together? A warning that anyone could topple their little empires and they weren't invincible (my favorite interpretation, especially if you remember him and Lofwyr were friendly rivals)? A gambit to help out Lofwyr and Celedyr (who he was on decent terms with)? An attempt to give hope to the little guy? All of it? None of it? Whether or not Big D got what he wanted, ghost only knows. But hey, Ares is taking back Chicago. Aaaany day now...

Also, the Ghost Dance the first nations did....was it blood magic a la Aztlan or was it them bluffing? Basically, the representative of the injun tribes called the white house in 2020 and asked for their lands back or else. The white house told the to go pound sand. 1 hour later all of YellowStone volcanoes were ereupting. Whether they did it on purpose or it was luck it's still up for debate.

My guess is sacred land + intense emotion + a city's worth of ritual participants= setting off the Horrors alarm clock by erupting the Ring of Fire. I doubt they knew what kind of effect it would have, no matter what Howling Coyote claimed. They just got a bunch of power in one place without any real plan for what to use it for and...well all that mojo had to go SOMEWHERE and do SOMETHING. It's been claimed by Harlequin that Dunkelzahn's death was a heroic sacrifice to set the Horrors back another thousand years, but Harlequin's as crazy as the Joker and Dunkelzahn played his cards so close to his chest he was on the other side of the galaxy from the deck so who knows what the truth is.

I remember reading the secrets of power a lot of years ago and their dance was nowhere near as big as the one that created the NAN.

The Great Ghost Dance probably can't be replicated. It didn't stop the AmerInds from trying a couple of times over the years which feeds into my theory Howling Coyote and his freedom fighters had no clue/ conflicting ideas of what they were doing with the power they were building up. Every ghost dance since then had very specific goals in mind for what the power would be used for and the effect they hoped to have. Not to mention a city's worth of high level shadowrunners get hired to stop it whenever someone catches even a whiff of the NAN (or the PCC for that matter) deciding to try it again.

Funny, R/Shadowrun had the exact same idea as blob.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/comments/sud3ch/time_to_pay_your_tithes_to_mickey_with_your/

Of course they fucking did. Bread! Circuses! Cock chops and teet yeets for everyone! Hail Horizon Disney!

One of you autists needs to go start a Community Watch thread for STORYLIVING.
It probably won't ever come to fruition, but if it does, imagine the mi.lk.

Hmm...maybe I SHOULD stop just being a reply guy...

 

[Law]

I unironically love how this thread has devolved into fa/tg/uy Shadowrun autism.
Does Bloberto read his thread? Will we be treated to some Shadowrun refs from him?

 

[TopTierHealer]

Exactly. That's cyberpunk in a nutshell. Except it technically wasn't a nuke, it was a space laser so there was minimal collateral damage. It was Dunkelzahn's middle finger to the Big Ten, though for what purpose no one really knows. Was it to get them to work together? A warning that anyone could topple their little empires and they weren't invincible (my favorite interpretation, especially if you remember him and Lofwyr were friendly rivals)? A gambit to help out Lofwyr and Celedyr (who he was on decent terms with)? An attempt to give hope to the little guy? All of it? None of it? Whether or not Big D got what he wanted, ghost only knows. But hey, Ares is taking back Chicago. Aaaany day now...

My guess is sacred land + intense emotion + a city's worth of ritual participants= setting off the Horrors alarm clock by erupting the Ring of Fire. I doubt they knew what kind of effect it would have, no matter what Howling Coyote claimed. They just got a bunch of power in one place without any real plan for what to use it for and...well all that mojo had to go SOMEWHERE and do SOMETHING. It's been claimed by Harlequin that Dunkelzahn's death was a heroic sacrifice to set the Horrors back another thousand years, but Harlequin's as crazy as the Joker and Dunkelzahn played his cards so close to his chest he was on the other side of the galaxy from the deck so who knows what the truth is.

The Great Ghost Dance probably can't be replicated. It didn't stop the AmerInds from trying a couple of times over the years which feeds into my theory Howling Coyote and his freedom fighters had no clue/ conflicting ideas of what they were doing with the power they were building up. Every ghost dance since then had very specific goals in mind for what the power would be used for and the effect they hoped to have. Not to mention a city's worth of high level shadowrunners get hired to stop it whenever someone catches even a whiff of the NAN (or the PCC for that matter) deciding to try it again.

Of course they fucking did. Bread! Circuses! Cock chops and teet yeets for everyone! Hail Horizon Disney!


Hmm...maybe I SHOULD stop just being a reply guy...

Thank you for the effortpost, I love reading about SR stories because my knowlege is superficial at best. I'll stop derailing this thread with cyberpunk talk.

Back on track: moviebob is fat and no one would have sex with him.

I unironically love how this thread has devolved into fa/tg/uy Shadowrun autism.
Does Bloberto read his thread? Will we be treated to some Shadowrun refs from him?

That's the magic of Moviebob, he can unite people from different stripes into hating him; and I've learned a lot from the other anon's in this thread when they make a post to correct his fat ass.

 

[EnemyStand]

I unironically love how this thread has devolved into fa/tg/uy Shadowrun autism.
Does Bloberto read his thread? Will we be treated to some Shadowrun refs from him?

/tg/? Those amateurs?!

To get the thread somewhat back on track, I highly doubt it. Bob is a geek tourist. He probably heard of Shadowrun in passing and only knows it's cyberpunk + Tolkien (which is still wrong but it's the best way to sell it to people who've never heard of the game). He figured that since there's magic and Disneyland is the "most magical place on Earth" a combination of Superior Future technology and Disney Imagineering made it a really apt comparison. It's not, because he's overanalyzing the blue curtains again and it's closer to purist cyberpunk if anything, but allow me to reiterate: GEEK TOURIST.

Also he eats crayons and shits cubes.

EDIT: But if he does bring up anything in my effort post I humbly request someone with a Twitter account use a screengrab of said effort post to own him. I want to see him flap his arms and cry "I'M NOT ON KIWIFARMS! I'M NOT OWNED! CERTAINLY NOT BY A GUY WITH A STUPID NAME AND A ROBOT PREACHER AVATAR!" Then we'll find out who in Bob's circle is a Jojo fan.