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

[Spellskite]

So Moviebob expressed his interest in an upcoming videogame, Watch Dogs 2:

And I was like "Holy cow, Bob actually thinks a game where you shoot a ton of people looks good? Even after his E3 sperging?"

Then I realized he was probably just stoked because of Ubisoft's potshots at Trump in the form of a corrupt politician you have to take down:

So yeah, Bob's talk of being sick of violent shooters falls by the wayside once he found one that panders to his mindset.

 

[Ntwadumela]

So Moviebob expressed his interest in an upcoming videogame, Watch Dogs 2:
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And I was like "Holy cow, Bob actually thinks a game where you shoot a ton of people looks good? Even after his Orlando sperging?"

Then I realized he was probably just stoked because of Ubisoft's potshots at Trump in the form of a corrupt politician you have to take down:
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So yeah, Bob's talk of being sick of violent shooters falls by the wayside once he found one that panders to his mindset.

What a fucking hypocrite.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Then I realized he was probably just stoked because of Ubisoft's potshots at Trump in the form of a corrupt politician you have to take down:
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/1465854679582-jpg.103833/

So yeah, Bob's talk of being sick of violent shooters falls by the wayside once he found one that panders to his mindset.

I'd have a minuscule degree of respect for him if he'd just come out admit this. Trying to slyly sneak this under the radar and pretend he likes the game for other reasons is just dirty though.

 

[Super Collie]

Perennial snark Guru Larry recently digged at Moviebob in his most recent episode of Fact Hunt, "Top 5 Stupid Things Said By Game Journalists". While the episode was in production, fans linked him to comments by Moviebob. Guru Larry responded with, "I asked for journalists".

 

[sparklemilhouse]

^ Bob looks so stupid with that facial hair in that video thumbnail. I wonder if he keeps it because he's lazy, or he really thinks he looks like da Mario with it.

 

[DrunkTails]

When there is no more booze in hell, the drunk will rise once again.

That and the sad recent mass shooting.

I want to say that Bob's sudden Jack Thompsonish move suprised me in a horrific manner, but I cannot say that. I knew that he would do that. I knew that he would use the latest mass shooting as a platform for his war against gamers, just as his journo buddies have mostly done.

As a gamer and a person who cherishes both artistic and the triple a, I have no sympathy left for Bob.

Perennial snark Guru Larry recently digged at Moviebob in his most recent episode of Fact Hunt, "Top 5 Stupid Things Said By Game Journalists". While the episode was in production, fans linked him to comments by Moviebob. Guru Larry responded with, "I asked for journalists".

Technically speaking Bob is part of journalists. If not a journo himself he is their useful idiot who drools his way on the front lines and decries gaming at every turn. Larry could practically make a top ten Moviebob stupid things he said, if not twenty.

 

[StarvingAutist]

You can write an entire book of Stupid Shit MovieBob Has Said.

A series, even.

 

[ActualKiwi]

You can write an entire book of Stupid Shit MovieBob Has Said.

A series, even.

MovieBob: The Movie(bob)

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

MovieBob: The Movie(bob)

So when can we expect it to be a trilogy, with extended editions?

 

[Ntwadumela]

^ Bob looks so stupid with that facial hair in that video thumbnail. I wonder if he keeps it because he's lazy, or he really thinks he looks like da Mario with it.

He's fat enough.

 

[tarni]

He's fat enough.

Probably can't jump high enough to stomp a turtle, though

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

^ Bob looks so stupid with that facial hair in that video thumbnail. I wonder if he keeps it because he's lazy, or he really thinks he looks like da Mario with it.

Probably a little of both.

 

[José Mourinho]

New blog post is up by MovieBlob:

http://archive.is/cgcOQ

Choice quotes:

(Note: Referring to the Orlando shooting) It’s completely horrible, there is no upside, it’s a shitty thing made even more shitty by the fact that these things could be mitigated if not prevented outright by fairly simple measures that most other civilized countries have already put in place but we refuse to because enough of our population still somehow believes that the word “Ammendment” means “Sacred Unchanging Writ Seared Into The Immortal Rock By Fucking ZEUS.”

Since a plurality of games likely to be shown off at this show involve looking down the barrel of an automatic weapon to some extent because video games have gone from being a fertile and endlessly creative space to… NOT that… wouldn’t it be just one more layer of horribleness if one of these presentations was to come off inadvertently in “poor taste?”

but still… we can all agree that shit would’ve been awkward as hell, right? Big presentation about how fun it is to pretend to the shoot-up Florida within hours or days of some asshole ACTUALLY shooting-up Florida?

when I said THIS... (Note: Followed by this tweet) ...and was immediately set upon by people eager to prove themselves as embodying the worst possible stereotype of a gamer: Death threats, accusations of attempting to "censor" the medium, fat jokes, racial slurs, all the tactics you'd expect.

The SUM TOTAL of what I said was "Hey, people about to make a public presentation about stuff involving guns? Maybe take one more pass on your preparations and see if anything in there that was fine YESTERDAY might make you look like an asshole. You know, what P.R. people are *supposed to do.* Or what no less than GEORGE CARLIN did when he revised his standup set for a special recorded in the immediate aftermath of 911 out if sensitivity to the victims because he was a fellow New Yorker and also just a DECENT GODDAMN HUMAN BEING.

What we call "gaming culture" NOW evolved from gamers first coming together in the 90s and early-2000s to oppose the very REAL censorship threats from the likes of right-wing political agitators like Jack Thompson, and the idea of never giving an inch or admitting that ANYTHING involving games might be in bad taste for fear of awakening The Demon is deeply ingrained in gaming's psychological DNA - even though the last "game censorship" controversy anyone who matters gave a shit about was a Japanese dev pretending to be afraid of censors as an excuse not to hire a localization team.

And I come to realize that what's so depressing isn't the anger... it's the lack of EMPATHY. All I or anyone else suggested was that people about to have a HUGE platform think about the feelings of others, and THAT somehow triggered an ignorance-fueled backlash about "censorship."

...but geek culture in general has a real problem with the concept of empathy. You can see it in the micro where forum cultures like reddit and 4chan or social-media harassment movements like You-Know-Who attack the very idea of earnest feeling or sincere emotional investment in ANYTHING other than snark-for-snarks sake "lulz" as a sign of intellectual weakness; ...

Folks... its one thing to "escape" into a place, it's another to STAY there, build a fort around it and try to shut the world out permanently - that's not escaping anymore, that's HIDING. And it's also denying that same escape to people who might need it as much or more than you did.

 

[TheImportantFart]

What we call "gaming culture" NOW evolved from gamers first coming together in the 90s and early-2000s to oppose the very REAL censorship threats from the likes of right-wing political agitators like Jack Thompson

> Decries Jack Thompson for wanting to censor violence in video games
> Made a twitter post saying developers should censor violence in their video games

 

[Foltest]

In blobs world, only "rightwinger" try to censor video gamers. Left Wingers are can't do it, as they are the "good guys".

 

[Emperor Julian]

No Bob we're not getting rid of Fp because you miss the 90's it doesnt matter how much you try and link it with mass shootings and 4chan.

 

[Positron]

Folks... its one thing to "escape" into a place, it's another to STAY there, build a fort around it and try to shut the world out permanently - that's not escaping anymore, that's HIDING. And it's also denying that same escape to people who might need it as much or more than you did.

Is he saying that having his fat ass in the Mushroom Kingdom precludes other (presumably more needy) people from playing Mario games?

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

...and was immediately set upon by people eager to prove themselves as embodying the worst possible stereotype of a gamer: Death threats, accusations of attempting to "censor" the medium, fat jokes, racial slurs, all the tactics you'd expect.

That's all you got, Bob? That was all of it? Nobody chimed in with suggestions about timing your comments so they won't be construed as you using the bodies of dead homosexuals as a soapbox? Or maybe explaining that your influence to change the presentations of AAA publishers, made weeks in advance, is basically nil? Did nobody note the fact that none of the participants at this trade show are in the business of selling firearms, Korans, empathy pills or dead faggot body bags?

None of them?

Shame. Would have made for a better, more self-reflective blog post.

 

[Furina]

In blobs world, only "rightwinger" try to censor video gamers. Left Wingers are can't do it, as they are the "good guys".

It's standard issue double think. Basically it goes that when I or my friends do THING, it is an honest form of expression and by trying to silence us you are being an oppressive shitlord worthy of all the punishment we wish to heap upon you.
If you or your friends do the SAME THING, you are only doing it because hate me and my friends and are looking for an excuse to oppress us. You are incapable of honest thoughts. Only we can do that.

 

[Ntwadumela]

New blog post is up by MovieBlob:

http://archive.is/cgcOQ

Choice quotes:

(Note: Referring to the Orlando shooting) It’s completely horrible, there is no upside, it’s a shitty thing made even more shitty by the fact that these things could be mitigated if not prevented outright by fairly simple measures that most other civilized countries have already put in place but we refuse to because enough of our population still somehow believes that the word “Ammendment” means “Sacred Unchanging Writ Seared Into The Immortal Rock By Fucking ZEUS.”

Since a plurality of games likely to be shown off at this show involve looking down the barrel of an automatic weapon to some extent because video games have gone from being a fertile and endlessly creative space to… NOT that… wouldn’t it be just one more layer of horribleness if one of these presentations was to come off inadvertently in “poor taste?”

but still… we can all agree that shit would’ve been awkward as hell, right? Big presentation about how fun it is to pretend to the shoot-up Florida within hours or days of some asshole ACTUALLY shooting-up Florida?

when I said THIS... (Note: Followed by this tweet) ...and was immediately set upon by people eager to prove themselves as embodying the worst possible stereotype of a gamer: Death threats, accusations of attempting to "censor" the medium, fat jokes, racial slurs, all the tactics you'd expect.

The SUM TOTAL of what I said was "Hey, people about to make a public presentation about stuff involving guns? Maybe take one more pass on your preparations and see if anything in there that was fine YESTERDAY might make you look like an asshole. You know, what P.R. people are *supposed to do.* Or what no less than GEORGE CARLIN did when he revised his standup set for a special recorded in the immediate aftermath of 911 out if sensitivity to the victims because he was a fellow New Yorker and also just a DECENT GODDAMN HUMAN BEING.

What we call "gaming culture" NOW evolved from gamers first coming together in the 90s and early-2000s to oppose the very REAL censorship threats from the likes of right-wing political agitators like Jack Thompson, and the idea of never giving an inch or admitting that ANYTHING involving games might be in bad taste for fear of awakening The Demon is deeply ingrained in gaming's psychological DNA - even though the last "game censorship" controversy anyone who matters gave a shit about was a Japanese dev pretending to be afraid of censors as an excuse not to hire a localization team.

And I come to realize that what's so depressing isn't the anger... it's the lack of EMPATHY. All I or anyone else suggested was that people about to have a HUGE platform think about the feelings of others, and THAT somehow triggered an ignorance-fueled backlash about "censorship."

...but geek culture in general has a real problem with the concept of empathy. You can see it in the micro where forum cultures like reddit and 4chan or social-media harassment movements like You-Know-Who attack the very idea of earnest feeling or sincere emotional investment in ANYTHING other than snark-for-snarks sake "lulz" as a sign of intellectual weakness; ...

Folks... its one thing to "escape" into a place, it's another to STAY there, build a fort around it and try to shut the world out permanently - that's not escaping anymore, that's HIDING. And it's also denying that same escape to people who might need it as much or more than you did.

Should we go back to using swords and bows than? People have been killed by those weapons too.