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

[Furina]

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

No. All guns should be replaced by water pistols and all swords replaced by inflated balloons. It's the only logical answer.

 

[ActualKiwi]

No. All guns should be replaced by water pistols and all swords replaced by inflated balloons. It's the only logical answer.

And then they'll complain about people getting hypothermia and cold-related illnesses

 

[The Nothingness]

What a fucking hypocrite.

No surprise there.

 

[Malt Liquor]

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

When God distributed self-awareness,Bob skipped the line to play Mario and get diabetus

 

[UglyOldJafar]

In light of Bob and his fellows I can only think of one thing:

Jack Thompson's legacy lives on.
BTW, who wants to make a bet that he tries to shoehorn in the Orlando Shooting in a review of the new Ghostbuster that comes out in a couple of days?

 

[Ichimaru Gin]

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.

Under this line of thinking, we should stop using guns in movies and in books, even if the plot plain doesn't work without them.

Also, I find it kind of interesting that Bob wants to use a catastrophe from America to sell his point, completely oblivious to the fact that people develop FPS's everywhere in the world.

Shootings happen everywhere, Bob, not just in Florida.

 

[Ntwadumela]

Bob wouldn't like this than:

 

[Malt Liquor]

Bob wouldn't like this than:

That video reminded me of this:

There's enough to trigger Him to the moon

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Bob is aware that you can't just uproot an entire presentation because of a disaster that happened in another state, right? Sure, it's a pretty horrible thing, but E3 is one of the hugest public events that you can peddle your products out to probable investors. These people, y'know, kinda need to get paid.

Or would you rather that all of the devs that spent their time setting up presentations for the event and all of the people who put a lot of work into staging the event all get jack shit because of a horrible event because apparently a virtual gun might hurt someone's fee-fee's.

Don't worry, though. Anyone who willingly creates a product that involves shooting someone is probably evil anyway, and deserves nothing more than contempt.

 

[Lensherr]

Alright, let's analyze this shit. *Cracks knuckles*

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.”

Bobby, darling, you are aware that this shooting, as well as almost all of the most recent ones, took place in a gun-free zone? Maybe, just maybe, the problem is not guns, but deranged individuals driven by a holy doctrine that tells them to kill all non-believers, targeting these zones because nobody in them has the means to protect themselves.

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?

Changing your presentation because of a terrorist attack is the worst thing you can do. Putting aside what a logistical nightmare it would be, such a maneuver would only signal to savages like the one that shot up the club that they have won, that their fear tactics have been successful. By keeping things going as normal, we show them that we are not afraid.

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.

Isn't Blob one of those cows who's always harping on about "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the consequences of that speech"? Guess it was time for a taste of his own medicine.

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.

Once again, we cannot cave in to these camel-fuckers demands if we want to stand any chance of beating them.

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.

So only the right has ever attempted any kind of censorship? Bob needs to look into the mirror and realize that HE is starting to turn into Jack Thompson, what with his calls for the censorship of violent video games. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain I guess.

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."

There are other ways to show out support for the victims and their families than derailing E3 to soapbox about this event.

...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; ...

Or maybe some of us are trying to protect what we love from people like Bob who claim to be one of us but will constantly belittle us in order to appease who they see as the "cool kids".

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.

Kinda like how Bob played Mario in his parent's car all during his grandma's funeral.

 

[Ntwadumela]

Alright, let's analyze this shit. *Cracks knuckles*



Bobby, darling, you are aware that this shooting, as well as almost all of the most recent ones, took place in a gun-free zone? Maybe, just maybe, the problem is not guns, but deranged individuals driven by a holy doctrine that tells them to kill all non-believers, targeting these zones because nobody in them has the means to protect themselves.



Changing your presentation because of a terrorist attack is the worst thing you can do. Putting aside what a logistical nightmare it would be, such a maneuver would only signal to savages like the one that shot up the club that they have won, that their fear tactics have been successful. By keeping things going as normal, we show them that we are not afraid.



Isn't Blob one of those cows who's always harping on about "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the consequences of that speech"? Guess it was time for a taste of his own medicine.



Once again, we cannot cave in to these camel-fuckers demands if we want to stand any chance of beating them.



So only the right has ever attempted any kind of censorship? Bob needs to look into the mirror and realize that HE is starting to turn into Jack Thompson, what with his calls for the censorship of violent video games. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain I guess.



There are other ways to show out support for the victims and their families than derailing E3 to soapbox about this event.



Or maybe some of us are trying to protect what we love from people like Bob who claim to be one of us but will constantly belittle us in order to appease who they see as the "cool kids".



Kinda like how Bob played Mario in his parent's car all during his grandma's funeral.

To be fair though, the Quran verse where it states to kill Non-Muslims only applies when they have broken a peace treaty and killed Muslims as well. However good point either way.

 

[Lensherr]

To be fair though, the Quran verse where it states to kill Non-Muslims only applies when they have broken a peace treaty and killed Muslims as well. However good point either way.

I admittedly don't know much about the Quaran, so thanks for the correction.

 

[AnOminous]

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 like "racism." It's only bad when those bad people do it. When I do it, it's great!

 

[Gordon Cole]

So only the right has ever attempted any kind of censorship? Bob needs to look into the mirror and realize that HE is starting to turn into Jack Thompson, what with his calls for the censorship of violent video games. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain I guess.



Or maybe some of us are trying to protect what we love from people like Bob who claim to be one of us but will constantly belittle us in order to appease who they see as the "cool kids".

Now I'm legitimately curious if anybody takes this dumb fuck seriously regarding his opinions about games. Not just here, since the answer is a resounding "no", but among more mainstream websites.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Now I'm legitimately curious if anybody takes this dumb fuck seriously regarding his opinions about games. Not just here, since the answer is a resounding "no", but among more mainstream websites.

Some of the SJ-tards from Channel Awesome (Lindsay, Dan Olson, Todd in the Shadows to name a few) and some anti-Gamergaters do, but apart from that I think he's considered something of a liability among online media critics.

Also, waaa! I hate my beloved franchises from when I was a kid evolving and updating! Waaaaaaaaa!

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Some of the SJ-tards from Channel Awesome (Lindsay, Dan Olson, Todd in the Shadows to name a few) and some anti-Gamergaters do, but apart from that I think he's considered something of a liability among online media critics.

Also, waaa! I hate my beloved franchises from when I was a kid evolving and updating! Waaaaaaaaa!

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We sure this guy's not autistic? I mean he's clearly adverse to change and has no idea how to communicate in public. So it's either that, or he's extremely ignorant and dumb. Or hell, even both. I'm not picky.

Also, I've heard little about the new Zelda, so I have no idea of the specifics. But I'm pretty sure some franchises experiment with things to make themselves fresh. Zelda's done this often (Zelda 2; Windwaker; Spirit Tracks; Hyrule Warriors, just to name a few). So how's this the game that got Bob into a tizzy? Because I'm pretty sure Dark Souls isn't a FPS.

 

[Count groudon]

We sure this guy's not autistic? I mean he's clearly adverse to change and has no idea how to communicate in public. So it's either that, or he's extremely ignorant and dumb. Or hell, even both. I'm not picky.

Also, I've heard little about the new Zelda, so I have no idea of the specifics. But I'm pretty sure some franchises experiment with things to make themselves fresh. Zelda's done this often (Zelda 2; Windwaker; Spirit Tracks; Hyrule Warriors, just to name a few). So how's this the game that got Bob into a tizzy? Because I'm pretty sure Dark Souls isn't a FPS.

Dark Souls is still a game for big boys that Bob's manchild brain can't handle.

 

[TheImportantFart]

We sure this guy's not autistic?

No sign of a formal diagnosis, so the jury's out on that one. I think we can state categorically that he's afflicted by a far worse mental ailment that ends with -ism. Progressivism.

 

[Gordon Cole]

Dark Souls is still a game for big boys that Bob's manchild brain can't handle.

Add to that it came out within the decade. We just need it to be an FPS for the Bob Chipman Trigger Trifecta to be complete.

 

[Positron]

We sure this guy's not autistic? I mean he's clearly adverse to change and has no idea how to communicate in public. So it's either that, or he's extremely ignorant and dumb. Or hell, even both. I'm not picky.

I'm pretty sure "writing a text-only walkthrough of Mario 3 in book form" is one of the diagnostic criteria of autism.

Also, I've heard little about the new Zelda, so I have no idea of the specifics. But I'm pretty sure some franchises experiment with things to make themselves fresh. Zelda's done this often (Zelda 2; Windwaker; Spirit Tracks; Hyrule Warriors, just to name a few). So how's this the game that got Bob into a tizzy? Because I'm pretty sure Dark Souls isn't a FPS.

Because Link is not a girl, obviously.