PeregrineFalcon

In theory I definitely agree with you. However, in this specific instance, I don't think I do. I think that if Disney is really interested in rehabilitating Star Wars in the eyes of the fans the best thing they could do is to fire Kennedy immediately. After all, what exactly is she going to teach her successor? How to ruin a franchise? How to insult the fans of an IP on social media? Of course I don't think that Disney leadership is trying to rehabilitate Star Wars, or any of their once popular franchises, in the eyes of their fans. I think they're going to stick with their "we know better than you do" attitude. And they're going to continue to either lose money, or not make nearly as much money as they'd like, for the next couple of decades. Star Wars losing money didn't teach them. Marvel movies losing money didn't teach them. A state taking away their tax-exempt status away, thus adding tens of millions to their overhead, didn't teach them. At this point I no longer think it matters when Kennedy leaves. Because whoever replaces her will be just as bad, if not worse.

Kathleen Kennedy just did an interview where she said: "The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies." And: ". . . I’m continuing to stay at Lucasfilm . . ." Now before you jump in and "Holy shit! Peregrine Falcon was right, again." Well, not quite. She then goes on to equivocate ". . . we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road." https://deadline.com/2025/02/kathleen-kennedy-clarifies-lucasfilm-exit-star-wars-future-1236304421/

Gene Hackman, great actor and US Marine (46 - 51).

/FF, along with the Leadership pool and the Medicine pool, is very good at keeping MM pets alive. /dark and /sonic are also good, but not as good as /FF.

How much did this movie cost to make again?

You're right that it refers to Nessy of Scotland. By American culture I was referring to the tons of constantly televised Big Foot and Loch Ness Monster 'documentaries' that were very popular during the 90s in America. And speculation on the retail forums that this is why the devs included Sally, and the easter egg that she was targetable and had an associated badge. Sorry, I should have explained that better in my last post.

To be fair to Zaslav, Monolith, Player First Games, and WB Games all lost money in recent years. Hogwarts Legacy is the only good game they've put out in years. It turns out that making crap games and then insulting the customers on social media for not buying said games, isn't a great business model. And they're even in denial about it: "In a statement to Bloomberg, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. Games said the shutdowns were “not a reflection of these teams or the talent that consists within them.”" I don't understand the mental gymnastics behind that statement at all. Let me see if I can follow the logic here. A team of game developers gets put together, under an experienced leader, and they create and publish a video game. Said video game bombs. Then a PR person says "Oh, it's not their fault their product sucked." Ok, did I get that right? Well whose fault is it then? If it's not a reflection of the talent on those teams then is it a reflection of bad choices on the part of the C-Suite? You know as well as I do that's not what Mr. PR meant by that, so who was he referring to? Whose fault is it? WB PR spokes-clown is blaming the customer for this. You might be right about that. Personally I think it's more likely that the development teams for these companies sucked, made sucky games, and the studios were shut down because it's the easiest way to fire a bunch of "creatives" who suck. And it allows WB to get a tax write off for a "failed business venture."

The good news is that you two have entertained me greatly for the last half hour. So there's that, right? 😁

This is most definitely not a dead horse. Please continue. I find this whole conversation very entertaining. 🤣 You know, I don't think I've used Secondary Mutation since the retail servers. I'd kinda forgotten about it. Now I'm thinking about giving it a try again. Mostly so I can prank my friends with it. What? Now that's just victim blaming. How dare you!

Yeah. People online have been saying "Oh, she's gonna get fired any day now!!!" for 8 or 9 years at this point. I hope she does but, after 3 movies that had 'meh' box office performance, which should have done way better than they did. A line of Star Wars toys that flopped and took the entire Toys R Us company down with it. And several Star Wars spin off series that have been very hit and miss. I said many years ago that she had something on someone in the C-Suite at Disney or she would have been fired long ago. And I stand by that. She's literally cost Disney billions of dollars, possibly tens of billions of dollars. The fact that she hasn't been fired and sued after all of that just reinforces my belief that she has some blackmail material on a C-level exec. So will she really leave Disney at the end of the year? Or will this turn out to be yet another article promising that "oh, she's really gone this time"? We'll see I guess, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Ok, now you're just lying about me and I'm done responding to you.

Yes, and a million people clearly agree with your definition of misogyny as "any time a man doesn't worship a woman." Which is why I said, at the beginning of this thread that I entirely discount the use of the word misogyny because it's been changed to the point as to be meaningless, and it gets thrown around at the drop of a hat. However, the more than a billion of us who agree that misogyny means "hatred of women" reject your new "current year ideology" definition of misogyny. And until the dictionary does get updated to reflect your new definition it's wrong. Because the dictionary is the arbiter of language, you are not. PS. I rode my unicorn to work today. Actually I drove a car, but whatever. I can redefine words on a whim just like you can, right?

What?!? How daaaaaaare you use the accepted definition of a word! How daaaaare you use a word in the same way that over a billion English speakers on the planet use it! You're supposed to use that word the way that this one person on this one forum defines it as. Because he's the "arbiter of language", not the dictionary! Do I really need to add /s?

Perhaps I should clarify that I have never read the books. So my impression of James Bond is entirely from the movies. It seems like that makes a difference. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of the Bond movie audience has never read the books either. So if Amazon gives Bond the "Power of maaaaaany" make over and tries to make him into a secretly villainous Jedi or a not so villainous Sith, they're going to lose money on those movies just like they've lost money on the last couple of series they've done that got unceremoniously canceled. That's certainly possible. Or, it's possible that he just uses the women he encounters in order to complete his mission. Either way, audiences love this bad-ass, extremely charismatic man who kills men and seduces women. That's the formula that has made a ton of money for the Bond franchise over the last 70 years. And that's the formula that's made James Bond as famous as Captain Kirk, Darth Vader and Elvis. If Amazon screws that up it'll be yet another sure money making IP that Amazon has lost money on due to their own incompetence.

Having watched all of the Bond movies, most of them when they originally came out in theaters, I vehemently disagree with your assertion that he's a sociopath or a misogynist. First, he appears to care a great deal about the people of his country, so much so that he risks his life on a daily basis to protect them. Sociopaths, by definition, lack empathy and the capacity to care about others. Also, he exhibits none of the anger management issues typical of sociopaths. As for misogynist. Well, people now days throw that word around at the drop of a hat. Men now days get accused of misogyny for simply looking in the general direction of a woman. So yeah. I disagree with your entire premise and stand by what I said. James Bond is a hero, perhaps a morally gray one, but a hero nonetheless, and I disagree with trying to rewrite him as Hanibal Lector in a tuxedo.

I don't understand the urge that so many folks have now days to turn heroes into villains. Bond's not a villain, he's never been portrayed as a villain, and he should not be rewritten as such just because you're mad about some of the stupid things Ian Flemming wrote nearly a century ago.

When I saw the headline this morning I didn't have time to read the article, but my first thought was the exact same as yours. I really hope that they'll keep the Bond franchise true to the original, instead of trying to put a "current year" spin on it. Thanks for posting this.

The character who ended up becoming my main on the retail servers was an Invul/EM Tanker. And it was the first character I recreated on Homecoming. I love the combo. Will you burn down entire groups of enemies as quickly as /Fire would? No. But you can drop a single boss, or even EB, a lot faster than /Fire or even /SS can. More importantly, the pom-poms of death are just fun to play with.

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Why not? I have so much info that I could add to it, with screenshots and everything! 😄

I have list of UI settings that I import to all of my characters via a macro. I seem to remember that I did something like reduce the overall UI scale to 90%, and then used a specific setting to increase the size of just the mission text window to like 150%. This keeps the UI pretty small and still lets me read mission text even if I don't have my glasses on.

He understands. He's deliberately trolling you for his own entertainment.

Gatekeeping is not a thing that happens, or that can happen, on this forum. We do not have the ability to prevent the developers from seeing your suggestion thread. We do not have the ability to prevent the developers from implementing your suggestion should they choose to do so. Either of those would be an actual example of gatekeeping, but since neither of those are possible then gatekeeping is also not possible. People disagreeing with your suggestion is not gatekeeping. In fact, a moderator actually posted that disagreeing with suggestions is specifically allowed. Yes it is. However, this is also a forum. If you're upset that people are responding to your post then I don't think you understand the purpose behind a forum. None of us are responsible for the 'tone of voice' that you hear in your own head when you read our posts. If it helps the 'tone of voice' that you should hear when you read my post should sound like Mr. Spock. However, if the past is any indication, the 'tone of voice' that you'll actually hear when you read my post probably sounds a lot more like R. Lee Ermey. And that's not my fault. I am not responsible for how the voices in your own head sound, or for what they say. That's entirely on you.

IGN gave it a whole 2.