Guru Larry wrote:Can anyone explain to me what Moviebob's character actually is? What is his schtick?
He's like the Qui Gon Jinn of internet reviewers, no one can explain his personality.
Like Qui Gon, the reason they can't explain his personality is he doesn't have one.
He's a damaged individual who was bullied during his childhood for being a loser, supposedly was saved from suicide by Mario 3 of all things. One assumes his home life was also bad since he is SO fucked in the head. He believes nerd culture is his precious safe space and refuge from the things he doesn't like, and topping that list are 'jocks' (mainstream men who he imagines are similar to the boys who bullied him, when the reality is most bullies grow up and move on and become nice enough people) and nonliberals. This precious '80s FAB CARTOONS NINTENDO NINJA TURTLES dream must be protected at any cost from the attention of people who aren't like him, except in the case of Anita Sarkeesian, who was born with a sideways smile and thus enjoys exclusive honorary membership in Bob's treehouse, far away from those disgusting pig males who watch porn and enjoy sports, the swine!
Whenever he perceives a video game or movie might have some appeal with one of those two groups (jocks and nonlibs), he goes apeshit and starts projecting like mad. He shits on mainstream games/movies and especially western games, partly because he's a weeb (nintendo whore) and partly because mainstream guys can enjoy a game of competitive FPS together. It's also clear he doesn't play western games, since his opinions on western games are woefully misinformed in general. It's shameful for a games journalist to not know, for example, what the hell BIOWARE are all about.
I don't believe that the aspects of Blob Chipman I just discussed are a troll, because it comes through in ALL his videos, from Game Overthinker to modern shit. The trolling is when he deliberately says incendiary shit about video games, movies, computers, whatever he thinks will piss off fans. His strange insertion of his childhood bullying and fantasies about beating up said childhood bullies don't have any relevance to attention whoring and I therefore conclude they are part of his warped personality.
TL:DR Moviebob is a stock college liberal who worships Nintendo, was bullied in school and, unlike his bullies, never grew up and moved on.