07Mar#05
A&N. There will be more Mario coming.
As people pointed out in the A&N thread, Nintendo has not had a good track record suing the U.S. government. The only legal battles they ever manage to win are against the little guys who can't muster up the money to fight back. Bob rooting for a megacorp because they make the bing bing wahoo games he can't stop fantasizing about is pathetically on brand for him.
And speaking of pathetically on brand:
07Mar#07
Bobby spots something else on the
SMB Galaxy movie poster, and he is crying happy tears again.
Bob, it's a fucking kids' game from the 80s. Get over yourself, you fucking manchild.
He's literally doing the "I SAW THE THING AND I CLAPPED" shit that RLM was making fun of years ago, and doing it completely unironically. He's like that guy with the gross wart (heh) on his face that cried over a Star Wars trailer. This shit is fucking pathetic, and I would be utterly mortified to admit to getting emotional over a cameo from fucking Wart from SMB2.
07Mar#11
More on Gen-X nostalgia
Now, I'm not a huge Transformers fan or anything, but after watching all of Cody Pointlesshub's videos on the movies (and the Gen 1 cartoon), I think I can defer to his expertise. I think it was the video on Transformers One where he talked about its poor performance despite the success of most of Bayformers. He made the point that Bayformers did not really grow the Transformers fanbase all that much, and that most people were going to see them because they were big Michael Bay blockbusters, not because they were specifically Transformers movies. When the movies started sucking because the writing got too bad to tolerate, people stopped going to see them, and the more dedicated fanbase isn't big enough to support the franchise on its own, hence the more modest box office takes of everything past Transformers 5.
This basically runs contrary to Bob's assertion that Transformers never stopped being popular because...well, it did. Gen 1 was a big success, but after the movie and killing off Optimus Prime, its popularity slipped pretty hard. They've continued making shows relatively continuously (because I'm sure toys still sell okay), but never with the same levels of popularity as the original run. But most kids grow out of it eventually and move on to other things, so there really isn't a huge amount of adults to go out and make a Transformers movie franchise do well...unless, of course, it's dressed up in cool Baysplosion action, but then it doesn't really matter what the movie is, people will see it anyway.
I dunno, this is kind of longwinded rambling, but the point I'm trying to make is that Bob is a fucking retard who seriously believes he knows anything about generational nostalgia despite making that pretty much the core of his brand.
