01Mar#14
He really is unwilling to ever take an L, isn't he?
Nobody in their right mind counts Generations as a TOS movie, Bobbo. Shatner was the only TOS selling point for the movie (woah Kirk and Picard are teaming up!), and aside from him, they only got two cast members to cameo at the very beginning. 90% of the movie is the TNG cast doing stuff, and then Kirk shows up to get a bridge dropped on him at the end.
Y'know how else I know Generations isn't considered a TOS movie? It's not numbered Star Trek VII.
On top of that, Bob really seems to think that movies supersede everything else in the pop culture consciousness; note his insistent belief in Brick by Brick that a property only truly "made it" when it got a movie. I can guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that more people care about Star Trek TV than they ever did the movies. If you need proof, consider that the movie we're talking about, Generations, didn't even crack the top 10 box office gross in 1994, after TNG's very successful run and with Kirk involved too. It did okay relative to its budget, but it wasn't a smash hit.
The guy he's replying to is right, most people really don't care about the TOS movies beyond 2 and 4, and by the time they were overlapping with TNG, they were already running their course. TV has and likely always will be the main driving force for Star Trek, no matter how much Bobby insists otherwise. And speaking of:
01Mar#15
Star Trek has room for silly things, sure, but the norm has always been to take things seriously and keep it grounded, and thus offer up thought-provoking television, or at least entertaining. Everything I have heard about Kurtzman's latest cinematic vomit (and all of it, for that matter) is that it is stupid, dumb, loud, obnoxious, and most of all retarded. To imply that people who have a problem with the direction of the franchise under his tenure are stupid because "lol Star Trek has always been goofy!" is a bad faith argument of the highest order, and this tard should throw himself off a bridge.
01Mar#19
I don't think anyone needs to hear the opinions of a soy-guzzling Nintendo fanboy, so I'll give my take instead: console war faggotry was and always has been stupid shit that only turbo nerds cared about. Most kids either got one system and lived with whatever was on that console's library, or they picked the console they wanted based on the games it had, or they got multiple. Nobody ever cared about what consoles the other kids at school had, and it was often a blessing if a friend had one you didn't because you got to experience other games.
As for the modern era, not only are console wars over, there isn't even really a winner. Nintendo merged their home console and handheld markets together with the Switch, and despite various lackluster aspects like mediocre specs and terrible controllers, it still sells because of bing bing wahoo. Xbox has shit the bed hard for multiple generations in a row, mostly thanks to the continued jeetification of Microsoft fueling a bunch of bad decisions, and now that there's a jeetess in charge, they will probably exit the console business entirely. That just leaves Sony, who pretty much wins by default thanks to their only competitor being completely fucking retarded. Though I will say it's a comfortable win, with PS5s outselling the Series X/S three to one; still quite a bit behind the Switch, but again, basically a different market.
Going forward, it remains to be seen if game consoles will continue to be a thing. Outside of whatever Nintendo's doing (and even then), consoles have been glorified PCs for a while now, which makes it easier than ever to make games multiplatform with the PC. Smart gamers can play plenty of titles through Steam with a computer that's competitive in price with a PS5 (well, maybe before the RAM shortage, but that could hit console prices too), and still have the computer for other tasks. And we're reaching a limit with how good graphics really need to get, so throwing more hardware in there is going to continue to have diminishing returns. Either way, I'd expect to see Microsoft quit the hardware business within a few years (likely phrased as a pivot to focusing on software (hahaha)), Sony to continue to stick it out but not release a PS6 for a while, and Nintendo to keep being anti-consumer while tards like Bob eat up whatever they shit out.
