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Maybe he thinks the shadows are a perfect camouflage to his baldness?
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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Doesn't speak very well for "Comic-Con" if Bob is actually called on to be a panelist.
I try to avoid exaggerated "nerd/geek" cliches, but Bob is basically all of those cliches wrapped up in one overweight package.
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I never read that but my sister told me she absolutely hated the ending and the death toll was so high that the heroes winning at the end didn't even matter. Is she right?
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That Barbarian Queen poster looks kinda sexist, Bob.
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If only he’d spent tens of thousands of dollars on a filmmaking degree.
Oh, wait.
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Clownfish TV's video talking about how virtual Comic Con sucks has about sixty times more views than Robert's contribution to the con does.
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Not surprising, the main purpose of conventions, in general, is the fact that you go to hang out with people that travel all over to attend it. So since large gatherings (with some special exceptions) are not allowed during this time and were pretty much made to switch to online, it loses the spark and all you get is just like when they release a record of a panel.View attachment 1476571
Clownfish TV's video talking about how virtual Comic Con sucks has about sixty times more views than Robert's contribution to the con does.
Plus Bob's panel is about online journalism which everyone has slightly unfavorable opinions on, so not surprising no one's going to watch it,
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Fans of YA shit typically want happy endings and Hunger Games didn't have a very happy ending, so I guess in that sense she's right and I can understand why a lot of typical YA fans didn't like it. But Hunger Games is baby's first dystopian novel, and if you've read other dystopian novels like 1984 or Brave New World, there's rarely a happy ending. Hunger Games's ending isn't all the bad compared to 1984's.
That's why I respect Hunger Games more than most YA shit, including all the shitty copycats that came after it. The author actually tried to make it a genuine dystopian novel for a younger audience and mostly succeeded. Sure, there's the usual YA shit: teen chosen one main character, overly long love triangle, and so on to get the lowest common denominator readers in, but it actually does what all the major, meaningful dystopian novels do: take fucked up things about modern society, turn them up to eleven, and deconstruct them. The stuff about reality TV (now it's more internet streaming, but the principle is still around), cults of celebrity, and the rural/urban cultural division (Robert would hate how the books handle that, which might be why he's never mentioned this series, even in passing) are still pertinent today.
Compare and contrast with the bullshit teen dystopian novel imitators afterwards, which had almost nothing to say but, "Totalitarianism is bad, m'kay?" Oh wow, thanks for the insight. What an interesting, controversial message.
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Lmao I started watching that Comic Con panel to see how bad it was. I only made it five minutes, approximately half of which was Bob making an elaborate excuse for why he hasn’t seen Artemis Fowl. Jesus he’s defensive about anyone ever thinking he isn’t clued in on some topic. And pithy he’s not.
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Is a very common trope and an easy but entertaining way to add a layer of complexity to the story but as it has been pointed out
That was sort of the twist behind Bioshock: Infinite.
You play as Booker, a former Pinkerton. Pinkertons were the guys hired to break up union strikes, basically protest-busters.
Booker is sent to a fantasy city of Columbia, a flying utopia built in the 1900s by uber-patriots who still practice segregation against blacks and the Irish.
Over the course of the game you're blackmailed by the leader of the rebellious Vox Populi into getting her enough guns to take down the Founders.
The Vox later uses this arsenal to enslave and humiliate the citizens of Columbia in turn, showing that they can be just as bad as their oppressors.
The backlash against Ken Levine for this twist is likely part of the reason why he doesn't make games anymore.
People don't really like it, specially between the transition from kid to adult media (in most cases) and archetypes.
Now, I know fiction is not as important a reality but I'm not the one who underestimates art's ability to work as an avatar of reality, so when you're above the age of 21 and the reality of multilayered morals as represented in a work of fiction makes you legitimately pissed is just childish.
Kids like to be pampered and agreed with, so they would get mad if suddenly after supporting the protagonist they're scolded for their actions and even worse if it was all a Pyrrhic victory, so what for... normally anyone above the age of 15 would be a moment to reflect on their emotions or actions, a childish person would just be offended.
There's nothing wrong in enjoying simple capeshit at 40, but getting legit pissed because a work of fiction doesn't agree with you or the simple division between good and evil is not right. Of course, Hollywood and their different media parallels likes to promote simple morals in their stories because is just so much easier to make, and the result is grown adults who believe they can't do wrong as long as they're on the good side
Like I just noticed in the US "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is prohibited in schools from places all over the political spectrum for different reasons each all of which are really a fucking reach, is crazy.
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I haven't read the books but I did like the movies somewhat, the thing I always remember is when Katniss kills Coin when she was supposed to kill Snow and the enraged people run to kill Snow with their own hands. For me, credits should have crawled with that as a background then and there and it with today's standards it would've been considered a cinematic classic.
But we get like 15+ minutes on "will they, won't they" with the two romantic alternatives which I don't remember at all.
Though I'm more of an F-451 type of guy, which is kind of a serious version of Idiocracy, yeah the government is shit but because people prefer it that way because they are fucking idiots who punish people who want to be better.
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That's pretty much Hunger Games in a nutshell. There's a great story in there, but it's severely watered down by teen romance and drama designed to appeal to the Twilight audience. It's not as bad as the Twilight romance stuff, but it definitely weighs down the story and robs the actual effective moments of a lot of impact. But if it hadn't had all that stuff to sell to the Twilight crowd, it wouldn't have been as commercially successful, and who knows if it would have gotten all the attention, movie deals, and so on. So what can you do?
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Well, that's war for ya, for the most part, it's not all parades and rainbows after conflicts like in the Hunger Games its burying the dead and figuring out how to set up a new government and so on.
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Now I'm imagining a young Bob telling the teacher "The dog ate my homework! And the dog was a Republican!"
Brevity is the soul of wit, and Bob's as soulless as they come.
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Yeah. A few years ago, a scientist was drummed out of his space project because he dared to do a TV interview while wearing a shirt with scantily clad women on it. And yet Bob is allowed to do a lazy panel on the world's laziest kind of journalism with the same kind of sexy art displayed behind him. What does it take for the Culture to finally cancel Bob? He doesn't have the immunity that attractiveness would grant him. He doesn't have any influential friends besides the occasional washed-up lefty celebrity tweeting back at him. The breadtubers all hate him and even the feminists prefer to stand just out of the reach of his hoverhand. Either Bob is too low on the totem pole for the wokemob to bother about or Bob has a DSP-like penchant for escaping from sure career-death situations.
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Online journalism has always been about insecure millennial brats whose parents buys them crap being high on their own farts.
I can’t think of any that isn’t garbage.
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I think it's a little of column A, a little of column B. A third factor I'd like to add: lefties might see him as a useful idiot, in a manner of speaking. His vitriolic blathering about how he wants to see the red states crushed under the boot of the glorious Democrat government really is what they all want to say, but the fact he says it out loud means they have someone to distance themselves from and make themselves seem more reasonable. A refuge in absurdity, or something along those lines. "Oh, that Bob guy is going on about robotic police dogs killing all conservatives? No, we'd never want something like that, that's just ludicrous! Please ignore us as we continue to support the complete replacement of the government with our commie shit."
But I think it's mostly that he's just too pathetic to cancel. You really only get canceled for wrongthink or sex perversion, and Bobby's a virgin who's spouting most of the correct things, so he's safe for now.
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Apparently the whole love triangle and dumb teen drama were never supposed to be there in the first place. Gale and Katniss were originally supposed to be cousins and he was just protective over her as any good older cousin would be, not because he was madly in love with her. The publishers told her that they wouldn't publish it unless she wrote a love triangle into it since Twilight was getting insanely popular right about at that time and love triangles were all the rage. They were worried that without all the trappings of what we know as modern YA, it wouldn't be able to sell well.That's pretty much Hunger Games in a nutshell. There's a great story in there, but it's severely watered down by teen romance and drama designed to appeal to the Twilight audience. It's not as bad as the Twilight romance stuff, but it definitely weighs down the story and robs the actual effective moments of a lot of impact. But if it hadn't had all that stuff to sell to the Twilight crowd, it wouldn't have been as commercially successful, and who knows if it would have gotten all the attention, movie deals, and so on. So what can you do?
Suzanne Collins kind of referenced this fact in the books themselves, with the Capitol spinning Gale and Katniss' friendship as them being cousins since Gale was too much of a handsome manly man (I'm paraphrasing, but that was essentially their reasoning) and was thus a threat to Peeta and Katniss' onscreen relationship.
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Imagine what Bob would say about anyone who’d tweeted something like this from Charlottesville:
Bob will never, ever stop trying to get Lindsay Ellis to notice him. I have rarely cringed so hard.
He can’t find it or can’t buy it because of the bill collectors he tweeted about dodging? Either way, what’s absurd is how tone deaf this ugly fatso is. Tens of millions of people are out of work, struggling to feed their families, and the inability to get an old movie is driving him to mad-tweet. This manchild will never grow up and thank God he has never had the chance to procreate.
Bob will never, ever stop trying to get Lindsay Ellis to notice him. I have rarely cringed so hard.
He can’t find it or can’t buy it because of the bill collectors he tweeted about dodging? Either way, what’s absurd is how tone deaf this ugly fatso is. Tens of millions of people are out of work, struggling to feed their families, and the inability to get an old movie is driving him to mad-tweet. This manchild will never grow up and thank God he has never had the chance to procreate.
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