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I feel like that his new profile picture makes him for like a sexual predator than a manchild like the other.
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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Ok I've heard this kind of thing more than once and... I don't know Halo lore and don't have a fuse with a rating high enough to wade into the autism of a wiki. Can someone sum up with 20% more detail?
Holy cow! I've been away too long! Remember the LAST time you tangled with a major conservative, Bob?
Oh yeah... I'm going on a hunt to see if there's more...
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It’s a laughing matter. We watch the maestro conduct the wondrous symphony, with our minds occupied with the clutter of bills, domestic violence, and invading faces bearing the opinions of others. All the while, life’s up front. Open your eyes: light the fireplace, brew the tea (crack open the beer, perhaps), turn the page. Yes, turn the page! This one, or any great work likewise! Have we grown blind to beauty? One should live for it. If you’ve ever cried while listening to a great piece of music, you’ve lived your life already. But don’t be afraid to take more: life extends a hand with the palm faced upwards. The notion of greed doesn’t apply to this sort of eagerness. Life is a series of free lunches, but you can only choose from the menu if you’ve got the cash. Worry about cash in turn. If one becomes homeless through the tunnel of focus, rejoice! You’ve shrunk the tree through its roots, down to the seed. You’ve sucked at the marrow, and the maturity to your face will make this apparent to all. Have you seen the flower bud? Have you been there through the stages? Oh, you had bills to pay? Get out of there. Become a painter. Luxury used to be bestowed to those with the capacity for it. Now it is bestowed with the roll of the dice, or what the wrinkled old demon calls chance. He’s elderly. His threads can’t hang on for long. Learn to be compassionate towards his feeble attempts. If this is called conceit, then so be it.
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I can give it a shot. I've not played a Halo game since reach so if my memory is off or things were retconned let me know.
The backstory of Halo is pretty standard sci-fi. There is a group of religious aliens called the covenant that absorb other races into their race by force or by choice. They are led by "the prophets". There religion is based around "the forerunners", ancient long extinct aliens who left a bunch of tech around. They believe it is their destiny to activate this tech that will lead them on "the great journey".
Humans go into space and meet the covenant. Not only does mankind not like the idea of becoming serfs, but it turns out certain humans can use the forerunner tech. Because of this the prophets declare a holy war and try to genocide humans.
To fight this war humans are losing badly they create the Spartans. Super soldiers in power armour. Master Chief is the last surviving one of these.
Halo 1 takes place on a forerunner ring world. It's revealed to be a super weapon built by the forerunners to kill all life in the galaxy/universe as a last ditch measure to stop a race of parasitic alien space zombies (the flood) from destroying everything by cutting off their supply of hosts. You blow it up.
Halo 2 the covenant find Earth by accident. The only thing keeping humanity alive this long is the covenant didn't know where they lived. During this one of the alien races in the covenant is betrayed, learns the prophets are fakes, and shit hits the fan.
You find out there are internal rebellions and wars. The Elites were the prophets favourites because they manage to put down the grunt rebellion (grunts are the weakest but most numerous race and are implied to be slaves). You also fight a cell of apostates who tried to leave the covenant.
Halo 3 was set on earth, and revealed that the Halo was one of a series of rings. You kill off the prophets, the flood, and live happily ever after.
All following games were prequels until Halo 4 which I never played.
Humans go into space and meet the covenant. Not only does mankind not like the idea of becoming serfs, but it turns out certain humans can use the forerunner tech. Because of this the prophets declare a holy war and try to genocide humans.
To fight this war humans are losing badly they create the Spartans. Super soldiers in power armour. Master Chief is the last surviving one of these.
Halo 1 takes place on a forerunner ring world. It's revealed to be a super weapon built by the forerunners to kill all life in the galaxy/universe as a last ditch measure to stop a race of parasitic alien space zombies (the flood) from destroying everything by cutting off their supply of hosts. You blow it up.
Halo 2 the covenant find Earth by accident. The only thing keeping humanity alive this long is the covenant didn't know where they lived. During this one of the alien races in the covenant is betrayed, learns the prophets are fakes, and shit hits the fan.
You find out there are internal rebellions and wars. The Elites were the prophets favourites because they manage to put down the grunt rebellion (grunts are the weakest but most numerous race and are implied to be slaves). You also fight a cell of apostates who tried to leave the covenant.
Halo 3 was set on earth, and revealed that the Halo was one of a series of rings. You kill off the prophets, the flood, and live happily ever after.
All following games were prequels until Halo 4 which I never played.
So from that, Bob takes it a non-canon advertisement showing the Spartan creation process turning their eyes blue and the fact the covenant are made up of a number of different races and declares humans the bad guys. Ignoring that it's religion based genocide and that most of the races are either slaves or serfs operating under a caste system.
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That sum up is more coherent and richly detailed that Bob's BVS videos.
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Humanity didn't create the Spartans to fight the Covenant, they developed the Spartans because humanity was embroiled in various insurrections where the insurrectionists were at various points nuking cities. Also, Master Chief is not the only surviving Spartan, others were incorporated into the post-war Spartan-IV program.
There are a lot more questionable details regarding that, particularly how 150 Spartans (at the most optimistic of figures) were going to stop an insurrection that spanned numerous planets and was apparently going to lead to the destruction of humanity according to the Psychohistory-style predictions made by Dr. Halsey, the chief scientist lady who headed up the Spartan program.
There are a lot more questionable details regarding that, particularly how 150 Spartans (at the most optimistic of figures) were going to stop an insurrection that spanned numerous planets and was apparently going to lead to the destruction of humanity according to the Psychohistory-style predictions made by Dr. Halsey, the chief scientist lady who headed up the Spartan program.
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Where is this “yellow vest = far right” bullshit coming from? I’ve not seen any respectable news outlet report that they’re far right.
What I see are working class people fed up with cost of goods skyrocketing, taxes going up, government spending out of control and working class people unable to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.
It’s hard to believe in France there are tens of thousands of far right people protesting. The French protest as a sport, same with overthrowing their government. This is a normal Tuesday for them, not some right wing nationalist movement.
Pokemonquistador
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Bob doesn't care about boots-on-the-ground facts. He just wants to be part of that ivory tower elite that looks down on the unwashed masses of humanity. He wants to sit in a richly appointed basement penning screenplays of political, pop-culture crossover movies, and tweeting the kinds of Deep Thoughts that are appreciated by self-righteous snotrags like himself. Bob does not care about the poor, nor does he care about any of the minority classes. He'll support anyone or anything that enables him to live his dreams of social justice moralfagging and unlimited crapulence, and will attack anyone or anything he views as being a threat to them.
As populism grows, it's going to be a genuine pleasure to see Bob's vision of a Superior Future crumble into dust. Ironically, a world where the (real) working class has greater power will be a far better and freer place for Bob's younger relatives to live in than the corrupt, outrage-driven, elite-run hellhole that Bob wants to impose on the world.
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The shortest and simplest answer is this.
The Covenant are a Genocidal, Slaving, Theocratic Empire. They either absorb other species by force and make them worship their corrupt and deadly religion or in the case of Humanity just try to wipe them out.
Said Holy War lasted close to 30 years and claimed 23 billion human lives. They also hate one another and fall into a genocidal civil war which ends the Covenant.
Oh and that religion of theirs? If followed through to its stated goals it would mean the end of all life in the Milky Way.
Why Bob thinks this is A a depiction of Multiculturalism and B a positive one at that is known only to himself.
Others have already explained this with more detail further up page but I though I would give my own little TLDR.
Rei is shit
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Controversial video game opinions that range from easily proven wrong(no one is good at smash) to super autistic (rockstar being named rockstar)
Only moviebob could put so many bad takes I mean god damn
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Sometimes, ones opinion are just wrong.
edit. Also, I have no idea what the fuck he means by "unintuitive". It is not even a real word.
for those who are curious, here the definition of intuitive: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/intuitive
edit. Also, I have no idea what the fuck he means by "unintuitive". It is not even a real word.
for those who are curious, here the definition of intuitive: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/intuitive
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Is Bob saying "nobody is good as Smash Bros" because he genuinely believes it, or is it just because he is bad at the game?
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Given that it is Bob, you've got 70/30 odds he's never played it.
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What’s with him and not liking 3D visuals? Is his diabetes affecting his opinion on them or does he have his nostalgia classes on?
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Like all things that require hard work, time, and skill Bob believes that being good at video games is a myth created by people he doesn't like to attack others.
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not necessarily: there is a hereditary form of syphilis
you can bet your bottom dollar he listens to the Super Mario Bros 3 soundtrack and nothing else
not to mention the time her government abolished metropolitan county councils (GLC, West Midlands, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire etc.) due to their political dissidence
plus, she was a woman, so in his eyes she could do no wrong whatsoever
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As a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, I will openly admit that the majority of the games in the series are mediocre or downright shit, but (most of) the original Genesis games were the among the best of their time. I will go one further and really twist the knife into Bob, I argue that the original Sonic the Hedgehog was a far more innovative and culturally/historically significant than his beloved Super Mario Bros. 3. While a standard platformer, Sonic the Hedgehog added momentum physics and top-notch level design to match. The graphics were at par with what the SNES could do despite the Genesis' inferior hardware, and the music gave each level its own distinctive character. That combined with the inspired art direction gave the Sonic series more personality than the Mario series in many respects. Hell, one comparison I like to make is that Sonic is the Looney Tunes to Mario's Mickey Mouse.
Meanwhile, SMB3 built on the foundation of the original game and was one of the NES' top selling games, but it was hardly a cultural phenomenon and the cameo it made in the Wizard didn't even make a ripple in the wider popular culture of 1989. Sonic the Hedgehog was more of one because it was the first game to challenge Nintendo's dominance and helped the Genesis outsell the SNES for a short time. Granted, Sega imploded due to bad decisions stemming from the Sega of Japan/Sega of America rivalry, it still drew first blood and gave Sony (whom Nintendo spurned over the scrapped SNES CD add-on) an opening to dominate the fifth generation of video games. Nintendo never recovered its former glory after that.
As for Mega Man 3. The fanbase seems fairly split over it and Mega Man 2 so there is no consensus on which game is better. However, Keiji Inafune himself is not fond of 3 because of the drama behind the already rushed production. Plus, 2 sold 1.51 million copies while 3 sold 1.08 million--nearly half a million more--and it was the Mega Man game chosen for the NES Classic. Given how Mega Man 2 saved the series from obscurity, the bumpkin from Bumblefuck, Massachusetts can get stuffed.
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