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

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"near-empty, non-productive regions stop wielding most power"
So does that mean we should not let homeless people, people on welfare, and people who don't make actual, exportable goods the right to vote? Because if that's the case, I'm pretty sure that's going to cripple the fuck more out of the blue states than it does the red, Chips Ahoy.

Hell, if that's the case, then Bob probably wouldn't have the right to vote since the entirety of his existence is to have opinions on things.

 

[Keystone]

Remind me, did this basement dwelling retard actually vote last month?

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Remind me, did this basement dwelling exceptional individual actually vote last month?

He didn't need to vote personally, his twitter tirades convinced hundreds if not thousands of people to vote Hillary over Trump. "You know what? That fat virgin loser is right, I am a dumb racist yokel and his inferior", they thought to themselves as they pulled the lever for Clinton.

Or at least that's how it played out in Bob's mind.

 

[cypocryphy]

What's his reason for hating Dark Knight?

Batman and the Joker have a pretty interesting psychological battle and it's not colorful Marvel people with powers fighting eachother just because. ok,that's my own bias in that one.

 

[Count groudon]

In what way do those empty regions have any power? Those states don't even have much power as it is, even with the electoral college, but that at least gives them a voice. The deciding states are usually places like Florida, Michigan, and Texas, you know, places that are actually large and populated. You can't blame Trump winning those states on the basis they have too much power, it's because Hilary did not appeal to them, simple as that.

Also Bob how would you intend to sort votes based on intellect? That sounds basically impossible, given how 1) we've stopped all barriers that prevented citizens from voting decades ago and 2) it's not like we can get any information on someone's intellect based on who they vote for.

Oh wait, it's Bob's standards of intellect, which means anyone who votes anything other than extremely left Democrat is subhuman.

The other problem with that and the thing Blob seems oblivious to is that intellect is something that is notoriously difficult to measure. Something snooty "haha I'm so much smarter than you" cunts like Chipman and his ilk don't seem to realize is that there are many different ways of being intelligent. Some people are artistically intelligent, some are mathematically intelligent, some people are logically intelligent, etc. and because of this it's very hard to measure exactly just how intelligent a person is with a simple process. Einstein is a very good example of this. Despite being a mathematical genius he wasn't an academic and thus his grades in all other subjects were usually poor, but despite that he's considered to be one of the most intelligent, if not the most intelligent human beings to have ever lived. Hell, I know someone who struggles with basic grammar, but at the same time can take a car apart and rebuild it into a machine that's twice the car the original was. I also know someon who is a certified engineer who is working his ass off to help produce an endo suit that could allow a normal human run like cheetah and and move things around with the strength of a roided up gorilla, but at the same time he's notoriously bad with computers and frequently needs help with the most basic things dealing with them. Both of them are undoubtedly intelligent, but if you were to just focus on their shortcomings you could be lead to believe they're complete idiots, and that's the main problem with labeling people intelligent, it's relative to the limited information the person labeling them knows and because of that it can be very difficult to measure things like that.

 

[NARPASSWORD]

He even has little to no experience on some Nintendo games, considering his hatred for Metroid Prime.

I'm quoting myself just to add some more clarification. Moviebob isn't really a Nintendo fanboy. He's only a fanboy of a specific part of Nintendo; The 80s period, with the DIC cartoons in particular. He simply can't grow out of his childhood, which is least partly why he died inside when the Mario cartoons were officially declared non-canon.
The other reason is simply a possible resentment towards the newer fans of Nintendo's IPs. Compare to the crappy DIC shows, and to a lesser extent the NES games, Nintendo's newer entries in their old IPs have a more sleek, sophisticated, and perhaps even mature take on their series. And there's a reason for that.

Spoiler: A side by side comparison to the craptoons and now

Mario

The Legend of Zelda

Metroid

Kid Icarus

Just from screenshots alone, those 80s cartoons look positively lame at best by comparison, something people like Moviebob and Tom Preston can't seem to understand.
Kids and Teenagers that play the new Nintendo games are only aware of the DIC cartoons through mocks and YouTube Poops, many adults that did grew up on these have move on, and even Nintendo themselves seems to be ashamed of this era (there's a reason why the Mario World cartoon took so long to get a DVD release, after all).
This is also why Blob has shown no interest in Star Fox, Fire Emblem, Pikmin, or even Kirby and Animal Crossing; They were made past the point of the 80s style of camp. Nothing more, nothing less.
Movie Blob hates growing up, and hates that the games he's played since childhood has grown up without him.

 

[Absolutego]

What few opinions from Blob I've seen on FPS and 3D games gives me something of a vibe like Egoraptor. He's probably totally shit at that them and instead of admitting it he goes to great lengths to justify not liking those sort of games.

I sincerely doubt he's actually played enough of an FPS to come to that conclusion. He hates 3D everything and FPS games in particular because the people who bullied him as a kid and ostracized him in high school got into gaming during the PS1 era, so anything tangentially related to the gaming scene in the late 90's triggers him. As with his politics and film taste, he filters whether something is worthy or not almost entirely based on who he assumes likes it. Hillary Clinton was an awful candidate and has been an awful politician for decades, but the right people like her, therefore she's great! He initially liked the Dark Knight after watching it, but when it became clear that the normies also liked it he had to find a way to be needlessly contrarian and, of all things, praise the fucking Schumacher films (which kind of conflicts with his mantra that everything in the 90's was terrible, but I imagine crippling cognitive dissonance is Bob's normal mental state).

This does make him easily predictable, though. For example:

Spoiler: Bob's 2017 film opinions, 4-9 months early

Power Rangers - expect hackneyed references to the 90's being terrible and how the original show was dumb so who cares
Ghost in the Shell - guaranteed to complain about the casting and will probably hate the film no matter what
Fast 8 - he'll praise the self-parody of the movie while finding a way to complain about its original fanbase
Wonder Woman - he's in a bit of a catch-22 here. He hates DC fanboys and the DC universe, but this is their major feminist film. I expect regardless of the film's actual quality he'll praise it as an ambitious movie for women's rights weighed down by having to be part of the grimdark DC universe.
Spider-Man: Homecoming - he'll love it. No matter what. Expect him to praise the diversity and crow about how lucky Sony is that Marvel swept in to save them
Any other Marvel movie - he'll love it (but you didn't need me to tell you that)
Dunkirk - endless moaning about too many WWII films and cawadoody fanboys
Jumanji - he'll praise the Rock for being cool and get assmad about 90's reboots. Even odds he makes some awkward tribute to Robin Williams while deriding the original film

 

[The Nothingness]

Any other Marvel movie - he'll love it (but you didn't need me to tell you that)

Did he sing high praise for Guardians of the Galaxy? I can see him interpreting Drax as the dumb jock character.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

He did. I can't remember what exactly he said about it since it's been too long since I saw the review initially, but I don't think he ever talked about Drax. As far as I can remember he praised it for being a fun action movie.

 

[Absolutego]

He praised it for - what else - being an 80's nostalgia fest done right.

With that in mind, I'm actually shocked that he hasn't reviewed Stranger Things in some capacity. While a good tv show, it's 100% designed to appeal to people like Bob.

 

[TheImportantFart]

With that in mind, I'm actually shocked that he hasn't reviewed Stranger Things in some capacity. While a good tv show, it's 100% designed to appeal to people like Bob.

He'd hate it for portraying the jock character sympathetically. And not enough Mario.

 

[TonyTopps]

i hope bob realized that one day that if there was an intelligence test required to vote, he would not be passing it
and a lot of people he doesn't like, will be passing it

That is something that I try to point out to people, like Bob and other libs, that having some sort of test would hurt their voter base. The most basic test would have to be a reading or grammar test. A certain "urban" demographic would largely fail and if it was only in English, the largest demographic of immigrants, Hispanics, would not do well either. After a basic reading test, a basic math test would probably be next which even if it is basic elementary math more of the Democrats base would fail compared to the Republicans. I am actually in favor of a test but Libs like Bob don't realize that it would effect them negatively.

 

[Reality]

scorsexy thread when? Bitch sounds like a fucking goldmine.

I used to watch his movie reviews back when he was on the Escapist (this was well before I realized how much of an idiot he really was, and I wasn't very smart back then either) and looking back he always had this air of pretentiousness to him when in reality he mostly reviewed the mainstream mass-market movies (sans this one Bollywood movie he reviewed, Dhoom 3). He treated summer blockbusters like how Roger Ebert would treat an art film; I realized this when he praised the gun control themes and "deepness" of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, an otherwise shallow and emotionally hollow summer flick. Or how much he enjoyed Captain America: Winter Soldier, and don't get me wrong it is a very enjoyable movie, but Bob treated it like high-class entertainment, which it very much isn't.

This is a guy who only understands movies on a surface level and has the mental capacity to understand summer blockbuster movies and little beyond that.

The same goes for his video game opinions, which would explain why he's a console babby and doesn't "get" PC games or more "hardcore" titles as those platforms were more about obscure and esoteric types of games that were (and still are) the gaming equivalent of independent films, documentaries and basically anything outside of the Hollywood sphere. This goes for popular genres as well, as the only first person shooters that reach the sales records of Blob's beloved mascots are the ones that veterans of the genre actively disavow (e.g. Call of Duty and Halo).

 

[Gordon Cole]

Did he sing high praise for Guardians of the Galaxy? I can see him interpreting Drax as the dumb jock character.

Believe it or not, it was actually his favorite film of 2014, when it wasn't even the best blockbuster of that year.

He praised it for - what else - being an 80's nostalgia fest done right.

With that in mind, I'm actually shocked that he hasn't reviewed Stranger Things in some capacity. While a good tv show, it's 100% designed to appeal to people like Bob.

Bob also has a weird hateboner against most modern serialized television, and'll crow endlessly about how film is better. So he'll praise Marvel Movies to high heaven and ignore/marginalize smaller, more compelling programming.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Bob also has a weird hateboner against most modern serialized television, and'll crow endlessly about how film is better. So he'll praise Marvel Movies to high heaven and ignore/marginalize smaller, more compelling programming.

Which is weird because most people in the industry will tell you television is the better route right now. Shows are getting more funding, there's more access, and producers are backing off and giving writers more control in television. IIRC it was Dustin Hoffman who complained about how every movie is basically made the exact same way by the exact same people now.

 

[Assorted Nuts]

Matey Potatey is such an idiot. He probably thinks TV is only good for shitty cartoons like Captain N. We already know he has a stupid, narrow view of what games and movies should be so it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Yeah, back when I watched him he seemed incredibly dismissive of Breaking Bad. I remember him making a crack in his Godzilla review that Bryan Cranston became a more respected actor after he started wearing a funny hat. He made other dismissive comments about Breaking Bad, clearly showing he never watched it, but that one in particular stood out to me.

 

[Reality]

He probably thinks TV is only good for shitty cartoons like Captain N.

Wouldn't that be an argument for the medium coming from Blob?

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Yeah, back when I watched him he seemed incredibly dismissive of Breaking Bad. I remember him making a crack in his Godzilla review that Bryan Cranston became a more respected actor after he started wearing a funny hat. He made other dismissive comments about Breaking Bad, clearly showing he never watched it, but that one in particular stood out to me.

I mean that is technically true. Brian Cranston was basically doomed to the C-Lister graveyard until Breaking Bad happened. The guy was making made-for-TV Christmas movies after MitM ended. His career was saved because the creator of Breaking Bad wrote an X-Files episode featuring Cranston a million years ago and decided he was perfect for the role.

I've never watched Breaking Bad but it doesn't surprise me Blob hates it. He reminds me of Dobson: he can only enjoy entertainment marketed at the 10-12 demographic.

 

[NARPASSWORD]

I can only imagine Blob's taste in television being a bland mush of marvel cartoons, toyetic cartoons from the 80s, and generally kiddy shows that appeal to nobody his age, considering his taste on movies and vidya.