• AluminiumXmasTrees [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I know someone who watched Moviebob try and flirt with a cosplayer in a cafeteria at a convention by making fun of a kid who had bought soup and bread (the cheapest thing on the menu) and paid for it in coins they'd clearly scraped together.

    Moviebob thought the best way to endear himself to an attractive woman was to make fun of a poor person who'd obviously spent all their money just getting to the convention. Moviebob thought that woukd be funny and endearing.

      • AluminiumXmasTrees [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        100%. It's fucked.

        I can't imagine being that kid and spending nearly all my money on con tickets and travel and finding I have just enough money to eat something as well if I add up all my coins... Only to be made fun of for it by someone who isn't a convention attendee but an actual convention guest who is there to meet his fans who is being fucking paid to be there. Like how much of a prick do you have to be to try and make someone feel bad for eating soup and bread alone and paying in coins to begin with? But to assume that making fun of a poor kid was so universally acceptable it would be a good way to try and flirt with someone is just... Fuck moviebob. Seriously.

        When someone told me this, I thought it was gonna end with Bob paying for his meal and that I would have to admit that I had misjudged Bob. It didn't even occur to me that it would end another way.

      • Blarglefargle [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Remember when a queer southerner told him he’s generalization of the south as deep fried religious bigots lead to genuine discomfort for those like them and Bob’s response was to go “I’m allowed to because people make fun of me as a city elite”

        That was a moment

      • EvilCorgi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        He's the classic nazi nerd. He was bullied in high school, got a complex about how much smarter and superior he was to those rubes and jocks, then he entered the real world and his expectations were not met. Instead of sobering up and facing the music, he decided that someone must have taken his rightfully earned success and they should be punished