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Bob Chipman's Twitter in 2017 summarized in three tweets:
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A black wizard who fucks around with time would catch my attention to be honest. Add eldritch abominations and I'm in
Bob by a country mile.
Phil is entertaining in how stupid he is. It's like an irl sitcom where we're seeing an incompetent narcissist spiral downwards with no signs of stopping.
This might be because I willingly subject myself to reading his bullshit everyday, but Bob manages to frustrate me without fail with his daily verbal diarrhea. Perfect transition to...
Him crying at a Bob's Burgers episode. You can't make this shit up:
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"Yeah, Stan Lee fucked over Jack Kirby, took credit for countless stories, and ran every other business he had into the ground, but he shittalked Liefeld! HE'S A GOD":
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A cow crossover with Peter Coffin, where they only make me more excited for The Last Night, solely out of spite:
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Bob explaining Ayn Rand to "art school brats". So much for opposing those dang, dirty Conservatives:
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Bob talking about a short film he wrote about The Hamburgular as V from V For Vendetta vs. Ronald McDonald, a "fitness-obsessed fascist who forced people to eat healthy food."
Draw your own conclusions:
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And here he is shit-talking Notch and his fans for Notch (rightfully) insulting Zoe Quinn, calling him out for "making ONE game" (Not true), calling him a rip-off artist (Like Bob would even give Dwarf Fortress the time of day), all with a dash of projection:
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Also, him trying to be funny. The key phrase is "trying to be":
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"I wrote a short story where the Hamburglar was a V-style dystopian revolutionary."
Of course Bob would do a exceptional story like this to McDonald's characters of all things. It's like he's trying to make it easy for us to mock him.
Apparently math is not part of the Superior Future™.
There are a couple of ways this can go.I'm hoping it's a success so we can see where this path will take the thread.
Bob hates underdog stories. That's it, really. If you look at what his "ideal" re-writes for stories are, most of the time they turn an underdog story completely on its head. Just to grab the most obvious example: his Terminator re-write is about an unstoppable metal killing machine turning those DANG DIRTY POORS to pulp for not rolling over and accepting that they're outmoded untermensch. Bob hates everymen because, most of the time, everymen star in underdog stories, while Bob wants stories about The Elites crushing the Untermenchen under their heel. It's just another extension of his revenge fantasies against the jocks who bullied him in high school. Of course, there ARE exceptions, but they seem to mostly function as "the underdogs THIS TIME are members of the Glorious Progressive Future crushing the Animals of the Regressive Past" (like Wolfenstein).
There are a couple of ways this can go.
If it's a shitty flop, he'll probably make a 20 minute video screeching about how he would have taken Mario into the Superior Future. He'd redesign the Rabbids as Nazi bunnies with Trisomy 21 who invade the Mushroom Kingdom in order to transform the landscape into something resembling the Midwest. Then Donald Trump himself would jump down from a flying pirate ship only to grab Princess Peach by her pussy and whisk her away to a Trump Tower that was personally given a makeover by King Koopa himself. Thus it would be up to the self-respecting player who has long since disassociated themselves from the gamer identity to defeat Trump's gun toting minions and hand the reins of society over to wizened elites.
if it's successful (which is likely because it'll be one of the few games the Nintendo Switch can hype), it'll be a little more difficult to gauge Bob's reaction. He'll try to play it cool. He'll make some shitty video trying to "intelligently" explain why injecting Rabbids into the Mushroom Kingdom was a mistake. But given how he deifies Mario, a few angry undertones will shine through his smug veneer. Trolls and Youtube commentators will notice and have some fun at his expense. It's likely that he'll dismiss his critics as mouth breathing subhumans with anime avatars. However he'll be spammed with Mario/Rabbid memes. This will persist until one day he's browsing Twitter and he finds that Mcdonalds is giving away Mario/Rabbid toys with their Happy Meals. Again he'll try to ignore this. But eventually he'll get hungry and find that the Mcdonalds drive thru is clogged with fifteen minivans with kids playing their Nintendo Switches. He walks inside only to encounter a display case showing a plastic character of a down syndrome Rabbid wearing a Mario hat. He fills three paper condiment cups and smears them all over the case, which attracts the manager's attention. He tries to explain that he'll bring about the Superior Future by doing what he did, but the manager politely yet firmly asks him to leave. He finally relents and walks towards the door. But before he leaves, he finds a kid playing his Switch as he waits in line for a Happy Meal. He slaps the console out of the kid's hand and shouts "You'll thank me for this!" Surveillance footage of the incident will leak to the internet, prompting dozens of trolls to report his fat ass to the Boston Police Department. Thus officially completing Blarms 2.0.
I can believe it after the wheat on the moon shit.There are a couple of ways this can go.
If it's a shitty flop, he'll probably make a 20 minute video screeching about how he would have taken Mario into the Superior Future. He'd redesign the Rabbids as Nazi bunnies with Trisomy 21 who invade the Mushroom Kingdom in order to transform the landscape into something resembling the Midwest. Then Donald Trump himself would jump down from a flying pirate ship only to grab Princess Peach by her pussy and whisk her away to a Trump Tower that was personally given a makeover by King Koopa himself. Thus it would be up to the self-respecting player who has long since disassociated themselves from the gamer identity to defeat Trump's gun toting minions and hand the reins of society over to wizened elites.
if it's successful (which is likely because it'll be one of the few games the Nintendo Switch can hype), it'll be a little more difficult to gauge Bob's reaction. He'll try to play it cool. He'll make some shitty video trying to "intelligently" explain why injecting Rabbids into the Mushroom Kingdom was a mistake. But given how he deifies Mario, a few angry undertones will shine through his smug veneer. Trolls and Youtube commentators will notice and have some fun at his expense. It's likely that he'll dismiss his critics as mouth breathing subhumans with anime avatars. However he'll be spammed with Mario/Rabbid memes. This will persist until one day he's browsing Twitter and he finds that Mcdonalds is giving away Mario/Rabbid toys with their Happy Meals. Again he'll try to ignore this. But eventually he'll get hungry and find that the Mcdonalds drive thru is clogged with fifteen minivans with kids playing their Nintendo Switches. He walks inside only to encounter a display case showing a plastic character of a down syndrome Rabbid wearing a Mario hat. He fills three paper condiment cups and smears them all over the case, which attracts the manager's attention. He tries to explain that he'll bring about the Superior Future by doing what he did, but the manager politely yet firmly asks him to leave. He finally relents and walks towards the door. But before he leaves, he finds a kid playing his Switch as he waits in line for a Happy Meal. He slaps the console out of the kid's hand and shouts "You'll thank me for this!" Surveillance footage of the incident will leak to the internet, prompting dozens of trolls to report his fat ass to the Boston Police Department. Thus officially completing Blarms 2.0.
It didn't take bob too long to express his opinions on the new Wolfenstein by proxy:
It shows how terrible he is as a critic as well. You don't need to be a genius to know that an all powerful government/entity casually crushing all dissent makes for a boring story. Stories in general need some form of obstacle for protagonists to deal with, whether successful or not, which is why underdog/everyman stories are extremely popular. You have a better story following the view of the dissent in such a world. Does Bob even understand how models like the Hero's Journey work? 99% of his favorites all follow that outline.Nail, head, etc. Bob's the kind of guy who would unironically root for the Empire in Star Wars if his social justice overlords didn't tell him that entity is a metaphor for Donald Trump.
Bob's naked antagonism towards people who want self-determination is shitty. As you point out, his Terminator idea is particularly offensive. A guy is mad because he loses his job to a robot. And that makes him the villain? Most liberals at least pretend they're empathetic. Bob is totally devoid of any compassion for people if they don't want his goddamn moon wheat.
I will still always love that despite he is one that believes in endless progress towards the "superior future", the man has rather retrograde views to video games. I mean it would be ok if he just preferred side-scrollers and platformers as everyone will usually have a preferred genre, but as a supposed critic, he surely does write off alot of genres.
It's like in his version of the future the USS Enterprise-D is this gleaming vessel of perfect diversity, probably with a black transgender lesbian as the captain, what few white working class people chained up to the warp core for emergency fuel, and the holodeck ripped out to be replaced with a dusty old NES connected to a 16" vacuum tube TV set.
And this tweet sums up Bob Chipman, a loathsome slob who will decry even his own idol when he dares pull out a gun (even if said gun is not realistic). Here is a man that claims to want a "superior future" where robots rule the world in a technocracy yet belittles Mario for changing beyond SMB3, which he calls the "Greatest Game Ever" in spite of Mario still being a young franchise in a time when console games were just starting to be more than to resemble arcade games meant to last only a few minutes.
If that was the case, Mario would have died a long time ago and certainly not remained as Nintendo's current mascot. The fact that Mario is such a flexible character when it comes to game play is why the franchise has thrived for so long. Not just with their numerous spin-offs but also their main series (Super Mario Odyssey looks to play differently from other games).I just don't get why Bob loves Mario so much. Mario has done the same bullshit for so many years, it's just not fun anymore.
Sonic, to its credit, has tried to do some new things to its gameplay. It's all done very poorly, but at least it's different (and can be good for a laugh). But Mario is just dull and it continues to baffle me how high of a pedestal Bob has put it on.
Bob hates underdogs because he was never one. He was just a dog.Bob hates underdog stories. That's it, really. If you look at what his "ideal" re-writes for stories are, most of the time they turn an underdog story completely on its head. Just to grab the most obvious example: his Terminator re-write is about an unstoppable metal killing machine turning those DANG DIRTY POORS to pulp for not rolling over and accepting that they're outmoded untermensch. Bob hates everymen because, most of the time, everymen star in underdog stories, while Bob wants stories about The Elites crushing the Untermenchen under their heel. It's just another extension of his revenge fantasies against the jocks who bullied him in high school. Of course, there ARE exceptions, but they seem to mostly function as "the underdogs THIS TIME are members of the Glorious Progressive Future crushing the Animals of the Regressive Past" (like Wolfenstein).
State of the Moviebob Central June 2017 said:Hey there! This may or may not get turned into an audio/video version for The ‘Tubes if I get a moment in what’s turned out to be a pretty busy work week. For now, have you seen the latest GAME OVERTHINKER LIST, IN BOB WE TRUST or heard me on This Podcast?
Okay, then. So… here’s how things are going, and some word about some issues, changes and general scheduling stuff…
REALLY THAT GOOD
Alright. I have no way of knowing if this was on the top of your concerns, but it’s the one that’s been weighing on me.
As you’re probably aware, I ended RTG: THE MATRIX with a tease for the next two installments, the first “normal” episode being for TRANSFORMER: THE MOVIE and a special one-time-only “REALLY THAT BAD” episode for BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE; with the plan being that BVS would hit first because it’s a little more topical and more of a “big deal” than the other. Also, I have A LOT to say about it and I felt a really urgent need to purge it all from my system. However, as I’m sure most of you have by now figured out, real life and perspective have a way of reorienting what you consider to be “urgent needs.”
In case you weren’t aware, we found out a week or so back that Zack Snyder was stepping down as the official director of JUSTICE LEAGUE (BVS’ direct sequel), with Joss Whedon stepping in to direct the latest round of “significant” re-shoots and supervise the final edit and release of the film. The reason: It was revealed that back in March (sidebar: genuine kudos to Warner Bros for successfully keeping this out of the public eye until the Snyders were ready) Zack and Deborah Snyder’s daughter was found dead from a suicide. And frankly, since this has transpired, I’ve found it next to impossible to properly revisit and write about the movie in the fashion “REALLY THAT BAD” demands.
Part of me really, really wanted to keep going: It’s about the movie, not the filmmakers, a commitment was made, etc. But the fact is, Snyder is one of those filmmakers where a deep-dive into any individual film necessitates a deep-dive into their recurring motifs and (in this case) shortcomings, obsessions… and trying to square the circle of not “compromising” the criticism and not sounding like I was kicking the crap out of a man going through a trauma I can’t even begin to imagine the pain of – I just couldn’t find a way around that. Plus, in more “practical” terms, it’s difficult to talk about BVS without talking about the general chaos that’s engulfed the “DC Extended Universe” project at the production level; but now there’s a VERY real question of how much of the “bad vibes” that had surrounded JUSTICE LEAGUE (work stoppage, media-blackouts, re-shoots, schedule shakeups, etc) were actually related to the director having to handle this personal tragedy; with Snyder having already stated that he tried to throw himself completely back into work as a kind of therapy and found that it wasn’t helping.
Bottom line: I have no reason to believe Zack Snyder would have ended up watching this show one way or another, but I just don’t feel right (many thanks to someone with a much better head on their shoulders than me, generally, for helping me affirm that this was the correct decision) putting a full-bore step-by-step dressing-down of a person’s work up for wide viewing under this context. I’m still going to do the episode, that hasn’t changed, I just want to give it some time both out of respect to the Snyder Family in their time of grieving and in order to take a step back and think through the approach on my end. So expect TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE first and (maybe – I stress, maybe) one other additional episode with “REALLY THAT BAD: BATMAN V SUPERMAN” coming after.
I understand that some viewers will be disappointed by this delay, regardless of the reason, and I’m genuinely sorry for that. I have wrestled with this and believe I’ve arrived at the only reasonable decision, but I apologize all the same.
GAME OVERTHINKER LISTS
The response to this has been… actually a lot more positive than I thought it’d be early on. I was reticent about lists because they have a bad reputation as YouTube filler content, but I’m proud of what I’ve been able to put out so far. For awhile, you probably noticed these going up twice a week on a fairly random schedule, which was mostly designed to bank a solid backlog of them to be playlist-friendly. Having now accomplished that, I’m going to be setting release to once a week going forward, now targeting Tuesdays as the regular spot. Let’s see how that goes.
I’m also going to stop (or, at least, try stopping and see what happens to the traffic…) dual-posting the LIST episodes into the “regular” GAME OVERTHINKER playlist. That was always going to be temporary as part of getting the LIST series in front of as many eyes early on as possible, and I’ve heard the feedback that fans who’ve been missing the more “traditional” episodes feeling bummed-out when it looks like a new one has dropped but it’s a crosspost of a LIST instead. I hear you, I get it, and I hope reading the next segment will be good news for you
P.S. Upcoming LIST topics (in no particular order) include “Favorite NES Games (Nintendo and non-Nintendo developed),” “Best TMNT Game,” “Best Genesis Exclusives,” “Best Non-Video Arcade Games,” “Best Ninja Game” (and “Best Game Ninjas!”), “Best Advertisement Games” and more. So… look out for those!
GAME OVERTHINKER 3.0
Like I said: I’ve heard you. You miss the classic-style “in-depth OverThinking” episodes, and I miss doing them. I’ve test-run slightly tweaked versions of a “comeback” by using the set-ups and music for gaming-related episodes of IN BOB WE TRUST, and while they take a touch more work than the average episode of that series it always leaves me eager to do more. However, what I’m finding is that I don’t have the time amid other projects to squeeze in either a new regular (even monthly!) series in addition to IN BOB WE TRUST – as is, the only reason the LIST episodes can be weeklies is that the format doesn’t require nearly as much prep-time now that the “outline” is locked in and B.) Since they aren’t current-events related I can keep a pre-written/pre-recorded backlog on deck weeks ahead of time.
However, one thing I’ve also been feeling the pinch on is that a 4-per-month schedule for IN BOB WE TRUST might be stretching that series a bit thin on my end in terms of subject, which has occasionally resulted in episodes coming in late because I couldn’t scrape a topic and script together until the last minute. So, here’s what I’m thinking: If and When the new iteration of OVERTHINKER is ready to launch on the reg (I’m thinking “GAME OVERTHINKER 3.0” as a tentative title), would you fans/viewers be amenable to IN BOB WE TRUST dropping to a 3-weeks-in-a-row schedule with “week 4’s” spot becoming a monthly OVERTHINKER 3.0 episode? As ever, I’m not necessarily putting this up for a vote – this is the move I want to make – but I’m curious to hear whether this would be welcomed or not.
IN BOB WE TRUST
Apart from considering going to a thrice-monthly schedule in order to incorporate a monthly OVERTHINKER episode, things are steady and stable for the series that’s basically the workhorse of my independent output. No spoilers for next week’s episode, but the “big” project in the offing is the (likely two-part) “HOW I’D HAVE FIXED SPIDER-MAN IN THE MCU” piece, which should be fun to make but I’m curious to see about the reception all the same.
Incidentally, you may have seen a few days back that I was soliciting opinions on whether or not I should be actively revisiting topics that were previously fodder for episodes of the old BIG PICTURE show. The response was pretty heavy in favor of “Yes, do it;” which doesn’t really surprise me all that much, and I went through my backlog and came up with a rough total of 37 topics worthy of revisitation at some point in the future of IN BOB WE TRUST. To reiterate: These won’t be “re-releases,” they’ll be new coverage of a topic covered once before with updated information where applicable.
I’d also stress that this won’t be the “majority” of IN BOB WE TRUST episodes going forward, for now the 37 in question are mainly additions to the “to do” pile and overwhelmingly represent TV/comics/film/etc “history” subjects and “this is a thing that exists” entries rather than topical rants, and I’m particularly interested in stuff where time has changed the narrative somewhat. For one example: A previous “history of Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)” ended with her having newly become Captain Marvel, so there’s a lot more to discuss there. See also: Green Lantern, The Tommy Westphall Universe, Spider-Man: One More Day (and Clone Saga!), the “lost” TMNT and SUPER MARIO BROS Anime movies, etc. (Speaking of TMNT, look for a “How To Fix” for that in the future as well…)
GOOD ENOUGH MOVIES
There was a period where I basically put everything else on hold to power through REALLY THAT GOOD: THE MATRIX and that meant production slowed a bit on the “other” semi-regular movie series. I feel bad about that, and I’m in the process of getting a new one up soon and seeing them hit more regularly after that. An amusing hurdle is that each one I do usually makes me want to pick another from the “to do” pile on similar lines, which I’m trying to avoid to keep things interesting.
MOVIEBOB SHIRTS
I still want Official MovieBob Merch to happen, I’m still soliciting advice and concerns. Ideally, I’d like to have at least an IN BOB WE TRUST and GAME OVERTHINKER shirts up for sale in some capacity for Holidays 2017. Still leaning TeeFury for the first crack at it, though if anyone knows a better method please don’t hesitate to reccomend.
GEEK.COM WEEKLY REVIEWS
This is going great! I only put it here at the bottom because I don’t have much news to report – I’m on this beat, it’s going well, PLEASE bookmark my page on the site and watch these and send them to all your friends so I can keep doing this!
...They're raped by the Atlanta Police Department?So, he can be shallow towards other people's arguments, but they can't towards his. Good to know:
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Georgia went for Trump, so I'm surprised he hasn't written it off as a Subhuman Meth Desert state:
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He also published this: