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CareercowRobert 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
What, you don't have stacks of consoles lovingly arranged around your TV? I can't find the picture, but there's an old pic of Bob's 'living' room and it's just sad. A dozen or so different vidya consoles around a TV in a dark, cramped space. It's what greasy nerds like Bob call home decor.
Well, at least he can pass them down to his children someday.
Heh. I don't mean it as a PC Master Race thing (although I definitely prefer PC gaming), I just don't have the budget to blow on more than one system, so PC it is.
What the fuck is the connection Robert made between someone not wanting to eat bugs and people wanting businesses to open back up? This complete mouthbreather is still stuck on that "Lobsters are bugs" thing, isn't he?
I can't think of anything that more perfectly encapsulates the essence of everything that makes Bob so deeply unlikable than him dropping his incessant militant atheism and identifying as Catholic again just so he can feel superior to other groups over some stupid bullshit that he has zero actual involvement in.
His complete lack of principles and moral character, slimy disingenuousness, totally unjustified superiority complex and need to constantly feed it, even his mindless satisfaction over consooming product. It's all there.
Heh. I don't mean it as a PC Master Race thing (although I definitely prefer PC gaming), I just don't have the budget to blow on more than one system, so PC it is.
It's amazing how much money you have to spend on vidya when you have no girlfriend to spend it on, no friends to spend money socializing with, minimal rent because your landlady relative cuts you a deal for being a loser, your palate is so unrefined that you're happy with the cheapest garbage you can slide down your maw, and you have no hobbies but passively watching movies on TV and spewing your hate all over twitter (that one's free!).
Come to think of it, I doubt Bob does spend much on vidya. I think Bob's biggest expenditures are on booze and food. He doesn't make much money at all. Maybe 42, 43 K pre-taxes? I dunno, maybe he's such a big asshole that his aunt charges him the full market price for his rent.
Bob hasn’t been to one protest over George Floyd’s death or to any Juneteenth marches. All he’s done is retweeted shit ad nauseam. It’s almost like he’s a fat lazy POS who has a firm policy of doing the bare minimum at all times and never, ever feeling uncomfortable.
Also: @Karl_der_Grosse, your last two posts made me lol so fucking hard and loudly. TYFYS.
I never played The Last of Us (and boy, do I feel smug about that right now), but based on what you're saying it sounds like you could make a great story out of this character facing up to doing her duty -- going against her natural proclivities and sacrificing her own happiness so that the human race can survive. It'd be like arranged marriages in political dynasties throughout history where there was no love or affection, just the required breeding to produce an heir and a spare. Plenty of closeted homosexuals of both stripes can be found in the historical record, and likely even more we don't know about.
Of course, introducing something like this would provoke a REEEEEE that would shatter the very heavens, so there's another intriguing story burnt at the stake of idpol.
I haven't played it either, but I've heard about the story.
So you're this older guy who lost his daughter in the apocalypse, so the first game is about you bonding with this girl about her age and becoming a new father figure to her and learning to love again.
The plot driving everything is a rumor of someone working on a cure. (the "fireflies" i think or something) Well when you get there after all the game play, you come to find out that your adopted girl is immune to the plague screwing up society, and the scientists there think they can cure it - using her - oh and the procedure is fatal.
So you go ballistic and wipe out the compound to save your new daughter and go on to live happily ever after in the wasteland.
From my understanding, the main girl character in the game had no sexuality in the first. It was in the DLC and second game that they made her a lesbo. (unless I'm wrong)
And if you didn't see the thread on here, apparently one of those scientists you killed at the climax of game 1? They have a trans kid. Who then goes on to get revenge on the first game protagonists. It successfully kills Dad, so then it's a fight between it and Daughter. Hadn't checked the thread in awhile so no idea if you actually get to play as the trans hunting down Daughter, or if you play as the Daughter struggling against the trans.
Oh yeah, you also get to kill dogs in game 2.
Once upon a time there were fungal zombies in the series.
In Bob's world you're either a dudebro or you're not. I wonder if he has any idea that all kinds of people like MCU movies....right leaning people included. They make shit loads of money, they aren't indie movies.
And at times it still seems like he thinks it's 2005 and creationists vs. evolution is still the big culture war.
I never played The Last of Us (and boy, do I feel smug about that right now), but based on what you're saying it sounds like you could make a great story out of this character facing up to doing her duty -- going against her natural proclivities and sacrificing her own happiness so that the human race can survive. It'd be like arranged marriages in political dynasties throughout history where there was no love or affection, just the required breeding to produce an heir and a spare. Plenty of closeted homosexuals of both stripes can be found in the historical record, and likely even more we don't know about.
Of course, introducing something like this would provoke a REEEEEE that would shatter the very heavens, so there's another intriguing story burnt at the stake of idpol.
I did play The Last of Us and found it pretty mediocre. IIRC it came hot on the heels of both Telltale's The Walking Dead and Bioshock Infinite, which also featured a surrogate father/daughter bond as the core emotional impact of the story; for whatever failures it may have had, Bioshock Infinite offered a much more vibrant and interesting world than TLOU's Walking Dead/The Road plagiarism and TWD was a much more compact, streamlined experience that offered the same "end of the world in modern US" cliches. If you've played either of those you won't get anything new out of The Last of Us.
The shooter gameplay is somehow a big downgrade from Uncharted.
I did play The Last of Us and found it pretty mediocre. IIRC it came hot on the heels of both Telltale's The Walking Dead and Bioshock Infinite, which also featured a surrogate father/daughter bond as the core emotional impact of the story; for whatever failures it may have had, Bioshock Infinite offered a much more vibrant and interesting world than TLOU's Walking Dead/The Road plagiarism and TWD was a much more compact, streamlined experience that offered the same "end of the world in modern US" cliches. If you've played either of those you won't get anything new out of The Last of Us.
The shooter gameplay is somehow a big downgrade from Uncharted.
If that was all you picked up from The Last of Us, you either weren’t really paying attention, or may be on the spectrum.
As for the gameplay, the whole point is that Joel isn’t a trained soldier and usually avoided fighting, so you start out with a bit of awkwardness to the shooting controls and with upgrades over the course of the game, it improves a lot. The other thing with the combat is that it’s intended to make you want to avoid fighting if you can and put you in situations where you’re as likely to die as you are to win. Both of those choices were made to tie the gameplay to the storytelling and world building, and very few games have ever tried that sort of thing.
If that was all you picked up from The Last of Us, you either weren’t really paying attention, or may be on the spectrum.
As for the gameplay, the whole point is that Joel isn’t a trained soldier and usually avoided fighting, so you start out with a bit of awkwardness to the shooting controls and with upgrades over the course of the game, it improves a lot. The other thing with the combat is that it’s intended to make you want to avoid fighting if you can and put you in situations where you’re as likely to die as you are to win. Both of those choices were made to tie the gameplay to the storytelling and world building, and very few games have ever tried that sort of thing.
That’s about the only other example, but in Silent Hill you never get better at combat. TLOU is the first action game I’ve played where the progression of character skill ties to the plot progression like that.
That’s about the only other example, but in Silent Hill you never get better at combat. TLOU is the first action game I’ve played where the progression of character skill ties to the plot progression like that.
Of course, Lester the Unlikely was widely derided as having the control scheme of a zamboni on hot coals, so there's probably a reason you never heard of it.
I'm surprised we haven't heard Bob gushing about this game, since it's about a nerd rescuing a brave Princess of Color and finally getting some. Someone needs to make a MovieBob game where he shuffles around his basement, avoids falling pyramids made of cans, and tries to keep his couch from floating away in a basement flood. In between levels there could be cooking segments where Bob has to marinate food as long as possible before ptomaine poisoning sets in, and fashion segments where Bob has to compete with other famous Youtube incels to come up with the most obnoxious look possible. (Bob always wins.)
That’s about the only other example, but in Silent Hill you never get better at combat. TLOU is the first action game I’ve played where the progression of character skill ties to the plot progression like that.
Bob hasn’t been to one protest over George Floyd’s death or to any Juneteenth marches. All he’s done is retweeted shit ad nauseam. It’s almost like he’s a fat lazy POS who has a firm policy of doing the bare minimum at all times and never, ever feeling uncomfortable.
Also: @Karl_der_Grosse, your last two posts made me lol so fucking hard and loudly. TYFYS.
That's because he's "immunocompromised". Which I still think is just his excuse for "I'm fat and diabetic, all stories about losing weight and diabetes in remission were lies, and I'm scared that if I get the Coofs I'll die of a liquified lung and there's nobody around who'd find my body before it starts smelling up the entire neighbourhood".
Think about it for one moment. If Ellie really is immune to the plague, then besides slicing her head open, another way to save the human race would be for her to have lots and lots of children. (say, a dozen) If even at least some of them inherit her immunity, then they can pass it on to their kids and so on and so on until the population is finally immune.
But her being a lesbian means the human race is still doomed - because now there won't be immune kids born. (Instead you'd have to wait for another random mutation, AND for that person to then also survive to breeding age, etc etc) You really think any modern day idpol people want to think about not only the responsibility of breeding, but how heterosexuality could save the human race?
Hmm.... can't imagine why Bob loves the story of tLoU2 and really wants to avoid thinking about it...
I mean you could twist that into a message that "Sure, that would be nice, but how would you like it for your life to be radically altered for some arbitrary collective desire that might turn out to be bullshit anyway?", but that's a little too libertarian for Bob.
I admittedly completely forgot about this, kinda astounding how it got memory holed. Listening to Nick and the other guy go over the lawsuit filled me with both anger and dread at the power of just one institution that is so big and influential that it can basically bend the law to it's whim. However, the biggest thing that stuck out to me was the sheer arrogance of the hospital and the commonwealth of Massachusetts saying "we don't care if she was diagnosed differently. We say you're telling your kid she's sick and if you try to tell anyone about this we will take your kid away from you." and by god they did. They were explaining in the stream that Mass has all these great and amazing Ivy league schools and institutions that are known through out the world. What happens if one of those institutions are wrong? What if they're so wrong they permanently cripple a girl because they think that they're right?
My point to all of this: What if what we're missing is that Bob is just a distillation of all these horrible traits of Boston, boiled down into one fat, white trash concentrate? The arrogance, the refusal to accept something that challenges him or his preconceived ideas, the willingness to have others suffer and die because they think differently? I'm not saying that everything else is moot, the potential autism, the stupidity, the fatness. I'm suggesting what if this super focused Bostonian attitude, #NotAllBostonians, is the lemon zest in the shit cake that is Bob that brings it all together?
Something that had to be pointed out to me, these people who are donating money to the "cause" are all essentially getting scammed. BLM has no headquarters, no leader, no structure. Nothing. I mean we just saw that Minnesota defense fund or whatever it was called get exposed as to taking in millions and not sending anything for legal defense or bail for the rioters. There's no way for them to be accountable with the donations they're not a real organization. I never thought of it as I don't donate to shapeless mobs who don't have plans but have goals, and I don't hate myself so much that I need to do slacktivism on the internet by throwing money at a faceless group to prove I'm a good ally.
Back in February, he had a big brain take just as big regarding remaking an old exploitation kung-fu movie called The Crippled Masters. Just another billion dollar idea Robert's just handing out to hollywood.
That sure does explain the "Superior future" meme. It's possible that when the attitudes of upper-middle-class Massholes filtered down to him he was naive enough to think their arrogance was warranted, and that they really should have the arbitrary control over the affairs of the country that they seem to desire.
I wouldn't say marketing has much to do with that though. There are terrible games with big budgets like Andromeda that had good ideas (dialogue choices influence your passive dialogue, good combat.) No one cares about a good idea if it isn't implemented well or the product sucks overall
Heaven help me, but I can't recall in recent past a character that brought on so much autism on the table like Harley Quinn. No wonder her movie bombed, any normie can just groan hearing her name.
So that is what you did with your shot at a bankable character DC? You made it to be all about the stupid shippers. Fuck, you deserve to be sold out to any rinky dinky pattent holding company, and scraped out to cheap licenses and re-prints of watchmen and Dark knight Returns.
