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If Hillary had been the one to take the oath of office, the only difference we would see today is the media (and Bob) calling it a nonissue.
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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If Hillary had been the one to take the oath of office, the only difference we would see today is the media (and Bob) calling it a nonissue.
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Bob's door was locked so I broke open the window and took his stuff.
It's totally okay! Open borders and shit!
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He is such a despicable person that he won't even accept people coming over to his side, he wants to gas them anyway.
In Bob's Superior Future there is no debate and no changing of opinion, only ideologues and blind loyalty.
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But note like all hypocritical bullies, it's perfectly okay -- even admirable! -- for Bob to shift his views. Observe his stance on Jack Thompson vs. Anita Sarkeesian.
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ROFL. Yeah right! There was a big layoff right before Bob got fired. The one where Sterling and a number of others got let go. Bob had survived that. Heck Archon was working hard to keep him because his stuff brought in more than he cost. (And I heard that straight from Archon). Then he started tag teaming the Gamers on Twitter with Faracci. Calling them ISIS Nazi's etc. Bye Bye Bob!
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@Jaimas can provide more info than I can, but I believe that Sterling left of his own volition because The Escapist started giving interviews to pro-GGers.
Who's Archon?
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I believe his argument is basically Anita was good because she was doing it "for women" meanwhile Thompson doing it for "family values" makes him wrong. That makes all the difference in the world to him.
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Yep. To Bob, literally the only thing that mattered was the motivation, regardless of whether the end result was the same -- i.e., censorship de jure or de facto of video games. For the same content, even -- they both had objections to sexuality and violence. Same old Puritan song and dance.
That was my introduction to MovieBob. I have not seen any improvement since.
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Alexander Macris. Then the Defy Media Manager who was the Publisher/Boss. And Sterling didn't "leave of his own volition" well at best it was mutual. He was upset about the GG'ers and did something in a fit that cost the Escapist a big looming ad buy from Microsoft. That loss of ad revenue is what led to the sudden layoffs. Oh and that same "something" that he did is also a large part of the reason why a lot of publishers would not give him review copies when he left the Escapist and went on his own. Or so rumor has it
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Alexander Macris. Then the Defy Media Manager who was the Publisher/Boss. And Sterling didn't "leave of his own volition" well at best it was mutual. He was upset about the GG'ers and did something in a fit that cost the Escapist a big looming ad buy from Microsoft. That loss of ad revenue is what led to the sudden layoffs. Oh and that same "something" that he did is also a large part of the reason why a lot of publishers would not give him review copies when he left the Escapist and went on his own. Or so rumor has it
Internet celebrity apparently does not prepare you for functioning in the real world. Who knew!
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Feminist.
Well then, idiocy is hereditary.
Well then, idiocy is hereditary.
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Bob's ancestor was literally the guy so stupid he fell off the boat and almost died. The problem wasn't the pilgrims, it was Bob's bloodline being tainted by stupidity.
And now it's also tainted with insulin resistance.
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None of original pilgrims had truly intellectual professions like a superhero film reviewer or Nintendo game Youtuber. QED, racists.
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Feminist.
What the fuck is a CUTN?
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Holy shit, I didn't even catch that.
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Plus he always brought a woman to orgasm every time.
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I mean sure, they just managed to make a successful colony in 100% untamed land with barely any assistance from their homelands that was several months away by ship. Clearly only idiots could have built proper shelter and made deals with natives who didn’t speak their language in order to properly survive. Let’s just pretend all the other failed colonies like Roanoke didn’t count.
Seriously though, as far as European settlers go, the Mayflower pilgrims were some of the most successful in the early days. And every last one of them was more qualified to start a civilization than Bob will ever be.
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Sure thing. This one's for you, @RodgerDodger.
Before I continue, I need to point out that when it comes to the kind of behavior that got a bug up GG's collective asscrack, Jim Sterling and Bob Chipman may as well be patient zero and patient alpha: Both provably had involvement with Feminist Frequency and Anita Sarkeesian long before GG ever happened (with Jim in particular throwing shade for her and declaring her to be a "monster that gamers created," ignoring that she was getting perpetual coverage just by claiming to have been harassed). Both were waist-deep in the clique that caused GG to blow up the way it did, both actively tried to do their part to hamstring the movement, and both wound up losing their job with The Escapist because of it - Bob because he was fired, Jim because he quit. Jim is IRL friends with many people who had major parts in GG opposition, including Zoe Quinn, Leigh Alexander, Ben Kuchera, Patrick Klepek, and more.
All of which brings us to what happened with his quitting the Escapist. When GG was in full swing, lolcow chronicleers of the time noted that Jim Sterling was actually on-board with GG-related discussion happening on The Escapist (he did a Jimquisition he doesn't like to talk about where he said to let the discussion happen, so long as it really was about ethics), before promptly doing an about-face after the clique called in their marks and and condemning it a few days later. At the time The Escapist was one of the few sites not to kowtow to the Game Journo Pros team and mass-censor discussion of Quinn (and subsequently, Gamergate), and they were planning to do an article set where both sides of the GG divide were going to get a chance to say their peace.
....Anyone familiar with Anti-GG at this point knows what that means.
For the unfamiliar, Anti-GG did everything possible to prevent Gamergate from gaining a mainstream presence, to the point of shutting down discussion on numerous platforms and actively going after anyone who had a big enough audience that they could reach others. One of the Pro-GG names they were considering was Slade Villena - AKA Roguestar, who, while a fucking asshole, pretty much called every fucking thing that happened with GG opposition over the next few years. Quinn and friends, eager to shut down a potential way of GG reaching an audience, had Bob and Jim sperg the fuck out, and try to prevent the event on the grounds that Villena was a "serial harasser." While the pair did succeed at getting the article series cancelled, several pieces of the pro-GG side had gone up by the time they did so, and the Internet has not forgotten. Both he and Bob were ultimately told to knock off the horse-shit by corporate since they were rapidly turning the bulk of The Escapist into a shit-show and making the work environment toxic (much as Dan Olson and Kyle Oancitizen did at channel awesome in the same way at the time, by trying to force everyone to take their side of the conflict).
Bob grumbled and promised to back off (he didn't, and would later get fired), but Jim decided he was the king of fuck and wanted to play hardball, and apparently was convinced corporate would cave if he threatened to leave. I'm not sure if he thought that his being a comparatively big fish in a relatively big pond would grant him special status, or if he was just convinced that this was the right thing to do, but what we do know is the hilarious aftermath.
See, while Jim was relatively popular, somewhere like 93% of the Escapist's income is from Yahtzee alone, and Yahtzee himself is pretty much pro-GG in everything but name, having zero respect for SJWs and having gone on record with saying that the correct response is to make fun of them. Yahtzee also constantly takes potshots at Jim's clique buddies. Suffice to say, Jim basically tried to force The Escapist into the choice of mass-censoring the site to appease Jim's journo buddies and Indie Dev friends (many of which visibly tried to pressure Greg Tito in the GJP leaks), so the at-the-time head of The Escapist knew fucking exactly what was going on, and given the choice between siding with their actual customerbase and siding with Jim and friends, they wisely decided to side with their customers.
Jim was not pleased, and promptly attacked The Escapist:
Jim left The Escapist the following day.
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