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

[Positron]

If he cared about "readership" at all, he wouldn't have pushed his abortion of a book in the world.

 

[Danger]

I really don't get his whole we fought Jack Thompson and Tipper Gore shit. I remember that and I don't recall movie Bob going in front of a senate sub committee. He read news articles and called Jack Thompson dirty words to his friends like the rest of us. As far as the console wars some kids had Sega and some kids had Nintendo. Sorta like some kids have a PlayStation and some kids have Xbox. There's not really a lot that's significant about this stuff.

 

[Gensdupays]

He seems like the kind of guy who really bought into marketing in the 80s/90s and had a really rough 00s where things "weren't as good" because like others said: he peaked during that time.

 

[A Random]

In his book, he treats the period between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy as the Dark Ages, where Nintendo was Jesus crucified until they miraculously came back some years later.

He's nuts, that's what he is.

 

[Positron]

He seems like the kind of guy who really bought into marketing in the 80s/90s and had a really rough 00s where things "weren't as good" because like others said: he peaked during that time.

A quote from his "book" (boldings mine):

But whatever. It was The 90s. Video games had “arrived” as the coolest ticket in popular culture (the Arcades were in the midst of a brand-new “boom,” driven largely by a new generation of more violent games aimed at teenagers), Mario and Nintendo were the acknowledged kings of video games, and Bob Chipman—formerly Bob The Dork Who’s Way Too Into His Dorky Video Games—was now Bob The Guy Who Knows Everything About The World’s Hottest ‘New’ Pass Time. “Why, yes ma’am! I CAN tell you the best place to build up your EXP in ‘Final Fantasy.” “What’s that, sir? You can’t quite make it through ‘TMNT II?’ Let me show you a code that might help.”

 

[Gensdupays]

I'm sure I'm late on this, but he's basically a Mario sperg like how most spergs are Sonic spergs?

A quote from his "book" (boldings mine):

So the kind of guy who wanted to be a "Game Counselor."

 

[Danger]

So the kind of guy who wanted to be a "Game Counselor."

Probably part of his love of the 90s. Back then you did have 1-900-vidjagametips where people would call and pay 99 cents a minute to hear cheat codes and how to beat stuff. Once the internet became wide spread Bob's dreams of running 1-900-beatallthelevels pretty much shattered.

 

[c-no]

I'm sure I'm late on this, but he's basically a Mario sperg like how most spergs are Sonic spergs?


So the kind of guy who wanted to be a "Game Counselor."

He may as well be a Mario sperg since his book does have a focus on Mario if I recall correctly. Not only that, he refers to Mario as "gaming's hero". Sure the plumber is a hero to some, but he isn't the hero to all who play video games. MovieBob may as well be the kind of person who obsesses over Mario that anything after say the 90's for Mario is just terrible. I could be wrong though.

 

[Gensdupays]

Is it really Mario or is it him being a huge "90s kid?" I agree with comments about how his ideal present is just circlejerking about how good it was 20 years ago and nothing else.

 

[Meowthkip]

Westernization and Bro-ification? Vidya originated in the west if I recall correctly, when some guy made a game on a game called "Tennis for Two". As for Bro-ification, wouldn't that at least existed before the the 360 came? Also, as a gamer, I think Bob is going to far with this.

Shit, dude, the first Madden game came out in fucking 1988.

Bro, do you even play Madden?

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Bob's a moron. He's ignoring a ton of games that have changed the gaming landscape to say westernization (wtf? That's racist reasoning and ignores the fucked up games that come from Glorious Nihon) and bro-ification (sexist btw) are harming the landscape.

 

[c-no]

Shit, dude, the first Madden game came out in fucking 1988.

Bro, do you even play Madden?

Yeah, sports games existed before the Xbox was even a mere idea in the head of its creator. The Atari 2600 had its own sports games.

Bob's a moron. He's ignoring a ton of games that have changed the gaming landscape to say westernization (wtf? That's racist reasoning and ignores the fucked up games that come from Glorious Nihon) and bro-ification (sexist btw) are harming the landscape.

Glrious Nihon does have games that would make people wonder why they exist. Even then, some games from Japan were inspired by games that came from Western countries. A game such as Dragon's Quest was inspired by the likes of Wizardry and Ultima. Really, MovieBob needs to at least look into some more video game history before he can spout things like westernization and bro-ification.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

In his book, he treats the period between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy as the Dark Ages, where Nintendo was Jesus crucified until they miraculously came back some years later.

He's nuts, that's what he is.

Between 64 and Galaxy? What the hell does he have against Sunshine, that was the best one!

 

[Meowthkip]

Yeah, sports games existed before the Xbox was even a mere idea in the head of its creator. The Atari 2600 had its own sports games.


Glrious Nihon does have games that would make people wonder why they exist. Even then, some games from Japan were inspired by games that came from Western countries. A game such as Dragon's Quest was inspired by the likes of Wizardry and Ultima. Really, MovieBob needs to at least look into some more video game history before he can spout things like westernization and bro-ification.

The "bro-ification" point is another oddity that sticks out to me, because as somebody who's so fond of gaming in the 90's, Bob should have been aware that video games were being marketed heavily to boys since the 80's (quite a few arcade and home consoles in the late 70's-early 80's were often advertised to whole families like board games, or to adults of either gender). Bob acts as though this only came about when the Xbox did. Dude lived through the period where girls were often ostracized for having an interest in games the most and yet he looks back on those days as the glory days (not so much by boys, who usually thought it was cool, but by other girls and adults, believe it or not). For me, I didn't really meet a whole lot of girls who played games outside of my sister and myself until middle school, in the late 90's. That was also when the internet was getting more accessible and I could connect with tons of other people with the same interests, including girls.

I think that's what bothers me about Bob. We're at a point where something like 40% of all gamers are women, with adult women being one of the fastest growing demographics. Even with all the GamerGate bullshit going on, the fact that very few people even raise an eyebrow at women playing vidya right now, that these women are totally up front about their love of games and not alone and isolated as they were back in the day, that's progress. I don't know what version of the 90's Bob went through. As nostalgic as I get for video gaming in the 90's, I like being able to know tons of other women who love games as much as I do, and see little girls with handheld consoles treated like they're totally normal. I guess that's why I feel Bob's injecting Nintendo characters and his own nostalgia into the issue patronizing and hollow.

I hope this make sense because it's late and I kind of have a headache right now.

 

[Linako 2.0]

What does "Bro-ification" even mean?
how is this a bad thing?
Why is "westernizing" a thing invented by the west bad?
What's with this guy trying so hard to consider video games "art".
Remember that one tweet where he claimed that gamer gate pushed gaming back 10 years?
how is that a bad thing? if anything that would be an improvement since five years ago,day one DLC "gamestop" exclusives wasn't so rampant.

 

[Hodor]

Moviebob is really a sad, sad story. Dude really obviously has some mental problems that he never got treated.

What does "Bro-ification" even mean?
how is this a bad thing?
Why is "westernizing" a thing invented by the west bad?
What's with this guy trying so hard to consider video games "art".
Remember that one tweet where he claimed that gamer gate pushed gaming back 10 years?
how is that a bad thing? if anything that would be an improvement since five years ago,day one DLC "gamestop" exclusives wasn't so rampant.

Never understood how would 'pushing gaming back' to 2004 be a bad thing, I mean really. 2004 was a great year for games.

 

[Arctic]

This is Bob.

 

[A Random]

Between 64 and Galaxy? What the hell does he have against Sunshine, that was the best one!

It's less him being against Sunshine and more the fact that the GameCube wasn't Nintendo's best console ever [nevermind that the N64 started Nintendo's 'lack of power' issues compared to the PlayStation and whatever else was in the market], and it was during the GameCube phase that Nintendo became even more of a niche compared to the PlayStation 2 [which was in every store].

Because of that, Nintendo lost power in the eyes of the rest of the gaming world [who wasn't interested in childish Mario anymore when they could have the ultraman that was Master Chief], and because of THAT, he felt ostracized because he didn't like those games.

2004 is when Halo 2, Doom 3, GTA San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within came out, so of course he'll be offended. It was a pretty dark and moody year in ways. [Yes, I know, GTA is just a parody, it's still got you dealing with you getting exiled from your own town and having to cross a freaking desert at one point. That's moody.]

That said, it's also the year of Metroid Zero Mission, Metroid Prime 2, Mega Man Zero 3 and Paper Mario 2. Though, as we all know, he hates Metroid Prime for being a first-person shooter, so he's just ultrabiased against them and thinks the only reason people play them is because they incite violence.

...damn it, he sounds too much like Jack Thompson, doesn't he?

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Moviebob is really a sad, sad story. Dude really obviously has some mental problems that he never got treated.

Sounds to me that even his family didn't help him growing up, and instead was just sick of his shit by the time he got older. Remember when he said in his "book" he played his vidya in the car late at night after work until everybody went to bed?

 

[Daario Naharis]

A quote from his "book" (boldings mine):

You know, when I read this and his saying "Can we start correctly identifying the Douchebag Hat as a TRILBY and not a fedora so I can start wearing my hats again"

Spoiler: On the topic of which

I'm no Fashion Guru, but I like to think I know how to dress. I'll point out that he doesn't really understand the problem with fedoras. See, it's not that the hats are a fashion faux pas because neckbeards wear them. It's that neckbeards wear the hats because they wouldn't know fashion if it burrowed up their asshole and started a colony. See, wearing a tri-force t-shirt, jeans, a trench coat and a fedora (Not a trilby, a fedora) doesn't look very good. Though as someone who has an appreciation for fashion, even if I'm not a expert on it by any measure, I enjoy this tendency among people like Bob to think if only people start calling neck-beard hats trilby's that fedoras won't be a fashion faux pas. But I do have a bigger point I want to make here.

it makes me think something about Bob.

I can't help but wonder... Is a part of the reason he is so vehemently against GamerGate because it makes it uncool to be a nerd? (To be honest, I'm amazed he doesn't idolize the 00s the way he does the 80s/90s. Geek chic was out in full force.) Oh I'm sure he respects women and doesn't like the behavior of GamerGate and all that good stuff... But when I look at some of his materials, little posters saying "Proud to be an American and prouder to be an American Nerd!" and this idea of his that back in the day gaming was the hot thing

Spoiler: They weren't, by the way

I dispute this claim, by the way. I would say Coffee Shop Culture was far far more prominent in 90s cool than vidya, and it still is today. This is independent of GamerGate and Anita and Geek Chic and all the stuff involved with geeks being cool, of which gaming is only one small part. Hipster (Or whatever they call/refuse to call themselves these days) culture still trumps it. But I think MovieBobs idea of cool is similar to his idea of fashion. If only neckbeards hadn't made fedoras uncool, I'd look so good in them. No you wouldn't. You'd look really silly. If only GamerGate hadn't made gamers so uncool, I would be the gatekeeper of the hot trend of the decade. No you wouldn't. You'd be regarded as old fashioned, if endearingly so, in a subsection of the overall idea of coolness. Incidentally, do we know how old Bob is? I'm wondering if he thought video games were the hot topic in the 90s because he was a 90s kid/teen and not a 90s 20/30 something.

and he suddenly became the gatekeeper of the hottest new trend ever.

Oh, by the way Bob, if you are reading this (I know you aren't, and I know you rile me up too much, but I still need to say this) on the issue of "Westernization" ruining video games.... RapeLay. That is all.

Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

This is Bob.

I regret that I can only rank this post agree once.

Anyway, is it weird that I'm spoilering my tangents? I figure it just looks a bit better than going way off topic and jumping back in.

Also, I really want to know - How old is MovieBob?