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

[Pokemonquistador2]

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on artificially extending daylight hours:
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Suffice to say, Moviebob must have only read Whitehouse's post without watching the video:
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It looks as if Moviebob considers Daylight Saving Time bad for America. My response:
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I absolutely DESPISE Daylight Saving Time; it's a scam, and I would happily support any non-Democrat who proposes a permenent end to it.

There's a saying I read ealier this year that compares DST to a blanket. I don't remember the wording per se, but I seem to recall the context being that DST is like cutting a piece of yoru blanked off at one end, sewing it back on at the other end; you may now claim to have a longer blanket when you really don't.

(Besides, as bad an idea as Daylight Saving Time is, wouldn't it actually make more to "fall forward" in November and "spring backward" in March?)

It seems there's a bit of confusion here. DST is the deviation from Normal Time. It happens in the Spring and Summer and makes it so that the sun goes down an hour later than it normally would. This gives us more light in the evening. When the clocks go back to Standard Time, it results in less light in the evening and more light in the morning. This was done as a way to save energy costs with artificial lighting, by adjusting the working hours to the times of the day when the sun is up.

Spoiler: Some Time Sperging...

This was set in place about 100 years ago. Society has changed since then. Most people don't start their days at the asscrack of dawn anymore. A lot of people work office jobs that start about 8 or 9-ish and end about 5 or 6-ish. A lot of people (myself included) would also like to have an hour or so of daylight after work is done, in order to exercise , do yardwork, or travel outside. The way things are now, during the winter solstice, it's possible to go to work when it's dark and go home when it's dark, thus, never experiencing a single minute of direct daylight outside. In Europe, things are even worse then they are in America, since most of it's at a more northernly latitude. (Minnesota is at the same latitude as Milan, Italy. ) Thus, in places like England, the sun can set as early as 3:30pm.

The lifestyles of most people have changed since 1900, so it's reasonable to expect our relationship to the clock to change as well. This change should also be latitude-dependent. People on the Northern side of the 48 contiguous states could probably use an extra two hours of evening daylight, while people in Arizona (where they get abundant sunlight all year) probably don't need any clock-altering measures, ( and they haven't observed DST since the 60's anyway.) Having to deal with horizontal winter timezones can get just as confusing as dealing with vertical, longtitudinal timezones, especially in the age of global communications, but our computer systems could probably handle it.

That said, MovieBob's rant is so confusingly worded, that I'm not sure he's FOR the DST change or against it. It's possible he doesn't realize that the DST is what's giving us more daylight in the evening because, well, he's MovieBob.

 

[glib]

I just don't understand why studios insist on their movies having such massively inflated budgets. Do they even realize that having a smaller one would actually increase their profits, since the movies wouldn't have to make as much money to be profitable. Like, Joker made over $1 billion on a $90 million dollar budget, which is an insane amount of profit that it wouldn't have obtained if its budget were bigger. And on that note, The Batman's budget is only around $100 million from what I've heard, so I definitely think that Warner Brothers realizes on some level that they need to be smarter about financing their movies.

This is a complex question to answer, but it has to do with the cost to do business with unions, permits, producers not knowing the value of objects and time, re-writes, re-shoots. Not to mention this movie had a rather large cast of "Whatever-listers" (I don't know who is famous anymore nor do I care).

Costs keep going up, profits keep going down. They're throwing money at the problem. Marvel is like Harry Potter was for the UK. Nearly everyone you've heard of is in this thing.

With all that said, the movie is complete, now you have to market it which costs an enormous amount of money in practicality. The rule of thumb is to double the production budget when estimating the total cost to create and market the piece. That means that organizations need to plan their movies out with enough stopgap measures so that if they have a few bombs they also have a few wins.

The only way this changes is if the industry collapses, which it might considering how selling new movie "tickets" on streaming services is not as lucrative as box offices. Not only are people less likely to spend ~20-$30 to watch a new movie on their sub-standard TV or tablet, they're also not spending 12 dollars on popcorn and soda.

Oh yeah and if something is streamed, that means it can easily be pirated without setting up a camera in the theater. Why bother paying at all for a new movie if someone drops the 2160p HBO MAX rip on the pirate bay within a few hours or so of release?

The business is all about getting as much as you can, which is why this is all happening.
Beat a dead horse.
Squeeze blood from a stone.
Remake/Adapt/Reboot everything you think is going to be a sure thing.

It's not about entertainment, it's about how much you're willing to pay for entertainment.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Am I the only one who kinda likes when it gets dark earlier?

 

[A Very Big Fish]

Am I the only one who kinda likes when it gets dark earlier?

I like the changing seasons in general. I just hate getting to wrok while its dark and leaving and its still dark. It makes me feel like my life is stuck on repeat.

 

[Laughingjoke2]

Am I the only one who kinda likes when it gets dark earlier?

Anyone named Chipman must like it given light isn't exactly their friend.

 

[Nobue]

Am I the only one who kinda likes when it gets dark earlier?

I can't ride my bike after work anymore

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

It's not about entertainment, it's about how much you're willing to pay for entertainment.

And with the quality of entertainment produced steadily going down, anyone reasonable wouldn't pay to watch garbage for a couple of hours. The people with resources and time would most likely go to film festivals and look up something new and not made in Hollywood to have a breath of fresh air, but most mainstream mass media is stale as a loaf of bread that has sat in your bread box for a year. You have those when you're starving for entertainment.

And on the subject of daylight, like @Pokemonquistador2 said, during the winter times in northern Europe you can expect it to be night by 4 in the afternoon and day starts at 8 in the morning. This was the average when i was in Germany while in Spain, at 6 it's already night. This is also the reason alcoholism and suicide are a huge problem in Sweden, since most people (mainly old people) stay inside during the winter months with nothing to do.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Case in point - if you asked Bob what exactly modern American society was doing that was preventing "natural selection" from eliminating the rural voters and thus preventing his beloved Superior Future from coming to fruition, he would probably do one of two things:

1. List off "subsidies" that when you press for details, just mean funding for public schooling, infrastructure, and safety - the exact same fucking things that are expected to be provided for in his beloved urban bugman enclaves. But because he's an exceptional manchild, he'll explain that funding that in the cities is good because people in the cities are good, and funding that in the rurals is bad because people in the rurals are bad. When you press him on why city people are good and rural people are bad, it will simply be because he says so. You will then have to restrain yourself from violently bashing in this subhuman mongrel's skull in order to rid the human genepool of such repulsive stupidity.

2. Stare at you blankly and possibly drooling like the sub-80 IQ degenerate cow that he is, then make some smug babbling and grunting noises. You will then have to restrain yourself from violently bashing in this subhuman mongrel's skull in order to rid the human genepool of such repulsive stupidity.

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on artificially extending daylight hours:
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Suffice to say, Moviebob must have only read Whitehouse's post without watching the video:
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It looks as if Moviebob considers Daylight Saving Time bad for America. My response:
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I absolutely DESPISE Daylight Saving Time; it's a scam, and I would happily support any non-Democrat who proposes a permenent end to it.

There's a saying I read ealier this year that compares DST to a blanket. I don't remember the wording per se, but I seem to recall the context being that DST is like cutting a piece of yoru blanked off at one end, sewing it back on at the other end; you may now claim to have a longer blanket when you really don't.

(Besides, as bad an idea as Daylight Saving Time is, wouldn't it actually make more to "fall forward" in November and "spring backward" in March?)

For both of these, it's about the farmers and how much he hates them.

In the first quote, Bobby believes all subsidies to middle America are going to obsolete farmers, when techniques like Hydroponic vertical farming is obviously superior because they can be done in cities and involve more "science". If we just get rid of subsidies to middle America, then the farmers will magically teleport to the coastal regions and start making food there... Yes he actually believes this.

As for DST, I'm pretty sure he knows that one of the reasons it was put in place was because of farms, so he thinks taking it away will hurt the obsolete CHUDS he hates so much. And that's all he wants.

 

[Flexo]

2. Stare at you blankly and possibly drooling like the sub-80 IQ degenerate cow that he is, then make some smug babbling and grunting noises. You will then have to restrain yourself from violently bashing in this subhuman mongrel's skull in order to rid the human genepool of such repulsive stupidity.

I assume this is bob's standard response to any questions.

(also I suffered through the whole thing - they actually spend like the entire first two thirds of the review bullshitting about EVERYTHING ELSE but the movie)

I can't ride my bike after work anymore

Instead of altering the clocks, I wish we could just permanently adjust times. Instead of 9-5, just make it 8-4. It would be the same difference and wouldn't involve permanently screwing up what is supposed to be a measurement device.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Am I the only one who kinda likes when it gets dark earlier?

I prefer it when the sun rises later, because nothing exacerbates a hangover quite like sunlight.

 

[Red Hood]

I'd have to disagree. The script was a complete fucking mess and there were way too many characters, but I'd take Eternals and their dozen plots over Thor 2 and it's half a plot. At least everyone here has a defined win condition.

That said, Bob is exceptional if he thinks it's deep. The basic question is a trolley problem, and even that has to get forced by script fiat. I can't even begin to imagine what "esoteric philosophy" he imagines is in there. The characters struggle with some existential questions (not for long enough because there's fucking 10 of them trying to resolve 2 and a half plotlines in as many hours Christ this needed to be a TV show) but the actual conflicts, once revealed, are incredibly straightforward.

Thor 2 was the best Disney Star Wars change my mind.

Part of Bob liking newer Simpsons is his contrarianism and probably assuming that only "bros" don't like newer Simpsons (pssst...it's almost everybody, Bob).

I'm a bro. He's a bro. She's a bro. Cause we're all bros, hey!

 

[cypocryphy]

What does Bob care about clocks going backward or forward anyway? It's not like he goes anywhere or does anything.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

I was doing some yard work today and decided to listen to a read-through/commentary of Brick by Brick (the one Procrastiara did) while I worked and one thing I found interesting was that Bob mentions his grandmother's passing. Bob wrote something that just hit me in the worst way.

Bob makes a comment about hating western death pageantry or something to that effect. And I get not liking funerals, obviously someone's dead, and they aren't fun (well, depends on your family). But when he said that it was some exclusively western thing, that really irked me. I am not aware of a single culture that doesn't celebrate/mourn death. Sure, a sky burial looks nothing like a Christian funeral, but both are fulfilling the same psychological need according to their culture's religion/tradition. It is something so intrinsic to humanity that I think Bob may be the only person I've ever heard with such an issue with it, and if I didn't see him write about it, I'd have thought that this take was like something out of a Chick Tract mocking atheists. I'm guessing that it is entirely to do with his own terror at his rapidly encroaching mortality.

To elaborate about how basic and intrinsic the idea of mourning life lost is to any type of sapience, even animals have been observed to mourn and have ritualized death. Its been seen in some monkeys, magpies, and elephants. Personally, I think there's something real and beautiful in how much life matters, even to animals, and I'm not saying death isn't scary, hell its one of the most common fears. But if you're going to live your life on the hope that someone's gonna invent the magic bullet to kill death, then find religion. As it stands, whatever you think happens after we kick the bucket, living your life in abject fear of it isn't worth it.

Everyday we get closer to joining the choir invisible, but on the plus side, you have your whole life left to live. Besides, its not like those that die are lonely, everyone's doing it.

 

[Tronathon242]

Bob saying Aaron Rogers is someone you wouldn't want having kids? Like I don't know much about him, but at least if he has a kid, they're probably getting a pretty good set of genes, and unless he spends like an idiot, Rogers probably has more than enough cash to secure a future for his family. What does Bob have to offer a hypothetical child? Cravings for too much McDonald's and his religion of Marvel consoomerism?

But I think Blobert is just mad that one of the "jocks" called out the exact stance on vaccines that Bob had.

Also, the "people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to have kids with" is such a dumb take. If I want to have kids, than I'm not gonna try and hit up the person who is a-okay with violently dismembering a fetus. Its self defeating, yeh?

Speaking as a Bears fan and a guy who hates Green Bay with a passion, Rogers is absolutely a guy that should that have lots of kids. He's one of the best QBs of this generation, perhaps besting all but Tom Brady, and a no doubt Hall of Famer. So any offspring of his would inherit athleticism. Plus, he's been a pillar of the local community and went out of his way to save smsll businesses suffering from the WuFlu lockdowns. So that's good moral fiber that can be passed along as well.

Am I the only one who kinda likes when it gets dark earlier?

If it means a return to frosty air, then yes. I function much better in the cold than the heat.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

I assume this is bob's standard response to any questions.

It's a comfort to me that even though I am older than Bob I shall always look considerably younger.

 

[Carlos Thin]

I assume this is bob's standard response to any questions.
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He monke

 

[JayHarrison]

Translated from Stupid to English: "If more people had believed Führer Hillary's lies about Donald Trump's ties with Russia, I'd've already been in my rightfully deserved private spaceship right now."

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Why can't the heart attack come a tiny bit quicker? I want this fat fuck to get a burly Latina nurse to tell him to shut the fuck up, lol.

 

[Koby_Fish]

For both of these, it's about the farmers and how much he hates them.

In the first quote, Bobby believes all subsidies to middle America are going to obsolete farmers, when techniques like Hydroponic vertical farming is obviously superior because they can be done in cities and involve more "science". If we just get rid of subsidies to middle America, then the farmers will magically teleport to the coastal regions and start making food there... Yes he actually believes this.

As for DST, I'm pretty sure he knows that one of the reasons it was put in place was because of farms, so he thinks taking it away will hurt the obsolete CHUDS he hates so much. And that's all he wants.

it doesn't actually benefit farms, as one farmer the family knew said, "Cows don't know it's an hour earlier or later (for milking)".

 

[Big Nasty]

Bob is the best living example of the fact that a limitless supply of entertainment breeds twisted and joyless people.

I saw a sign at an indoor amusement park in a shopping mall earlier this week that made me think of Bob. It said something like this:

If you're always being entertained, you no longer know when you're having fun and when you're not. It is important to just be bored sometimes.