You do know that Casino Royale is based on a novel right, the first story with James Bond at that.
And most of the things you call out (like the romance arc) are damn near verbatim from the novel? I don't think there's an attempt to undermine the character because at that point Bond is more inexperienced and the whole him being more dominant force in relationships is the result of Vesper's death and him becoming numb to relationships.
Like it's not subverting decades of established tropes when it's supposed to be the first Bond story. Even the shaken or stirred line has it's origin here and the "do I look like I give a damn" makes sense with the events of the movie at that point.
Yeah the way we're speed running the Weimer Republic and how absolutely based and conservative the generation after Gen Z seems to be we might get one.
Probably would be. I remember people having a similar reaction about the female Shepard from Mass Effect 3 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey along the lines "The female character is canon and everyone agrees!!l
And when they released the stats they had, 80% of people always choose the male character.
That definitely explains things. It's just weird to me that their foothold is a PSP release from 14 years ago. As someone who used to play a lot of import releases and japanese games for the Playstation Portable adding a female mc or other routes was bog standard for most of the releases of the time.
Which makes sense, they needed something to get people to buy re-releases or portable ports.
Yeah my generation honestly worries me sometimes. It's like the girls I see my age who will post online that they're latest relationship didn't work out because they're zodiac signs or didn't match. Like you're nearing 30, I'm sure there is other reasons it didn't work out.
I agree but from what I recall and again this was years ago I read it, the Playstation I guess helped smooth over the outside noise whether it was the compression needed or something with the sound processor. When they tried moving it to the gamecube it just didn't work.
The Twin Snakes was an interesting case. From what I recall they revoiced it because when the original playstation recordings were brought to hd standards they found they could hear literally everything in the recording booths or something so it makes sense why they wanted a re-recording.
Yeah this is the game that in battles you point a gun to your head and commit suicide to summon your demon pokémon.
Like I get it people sperg about videogames for various reasons, I've just never seen so much concentrated vitriol over the smallest thing. Like the character their losing it over was from a game from 14 years ago, so if you played the original in your teens, you'd be well in your late 20s, early 30s now. Like seeing 30 y/o's losing it over twitter and reddit just makes me not even want to play games anymore.
I do find it hilariously ironic considering that the Nazi's were vehemently against deviant sexual degeneracy and most of the books they actually burned were pedo or trans shit of the time. Like if you really wanted to LARP the only correct course of action would be turning your own gun onto the Western coalition overlords.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
NATO had a closed doors meeting and announced it was 100% Ukraine and Zelensky and co cried for days "It was Russia!" even when every piece of evidence said otherwise.
Although I sadly think Nato will eventually be dragged in. There is no off ramp to this conflict and it escalates every week. I mean could you ever imagine seeing the headline "Moscow hit by drone attack" or "The Kremlin hit by drone" by a Nato backed country in your lifetime? I certainly didn't :/
Yeah Russia was always gonna win this war. I mean it does seem the Ukies want to drag in the US and NATO especially with stupid shit like today drone striking Moscow but if we do manage to stay out this, this war was only ever gonna go one way.
It's also eerily similar that before the Cuban missile crisis there was the Cuban Revolution which only happened because Cuba was totally being fucked over by the US and was being used as America's playground.
Ukraine is the same situation, how many Democrats and Republicans had their hand in that cookie jar? I mean christ the President of the United States put his fuck up son on a energy board there. Just like Cuba we're risking a nuclear war because a few senators and other politician's wallets went lighter.
Just like Soledar.
"Not strategically important", but once the Russians started stockpiling all their ammo in the salt mines all the Himaris'o'clock memes and Himaris strike footage completely stopped.
Gotcha. I just find it funny that yesterday they were like "Yes the city is fallen" to today being like "The entire Russian army is being encircled rn" and "Don't worry guys, Steiner IS coming and will save the day".
Right? I thought Wagner was down to suicide charges with shovels? Why do they need F16s if they're winning so hard? Why do they need all these arms and billions of dollars?
Why even have air alerts? They can shoot down 20 out of 6 hypersonic missiles right?
Have you actually looked at the maps? Even the most pro ukie ones show there's literally no "encirclement" and they've lost the city. It's literally Soledar all over again with how much cope is being made right now.
"Ukraine is counterattacking along the flanks" "Ukraine is encircling the city" <- You are here
"A countattack will definitely happen once Wagner leaves, they are just waiting"
"The city is worthless anyway, a strategic retreat was needed, the forces are needed elsewhere"
"The city was never strategically important"
Insert next ukie city stands! "Slava Ukraine!"
I mean "modern" women are on drugs in general. The last number I saw that categorized how much of the female population that was on some kind of medication was staggering. Like there's even research now that just their birth control has a wild effect on them and can effect their mood, decision making, and even who they're attracted to.
Yeah they're pretty terrible in that regard. Some of their steam recommendations and reviews are okay but they always seem to be sandwiched between their social justice wank.
Why do you think the moon landing was a conspiracy theory? I mean right now in your pocket is probably a phone with gps that only works because we put satellites in orbit. It's not much harder to put up a rocket to something that orbits our planet already. Rocketry is not space magic, it's just physics.
That's even ignoring the incredible idea that somehow the greatest enemies in the cold war would somehow work together to embarrass one of them for reasons. Like the soviets never once doubted the moon landing. If they thought it was fake why not embarrass the US and take home the biggest propaganda victory in history. It's just pants on retarded.
At the end of the day it's just pattern recognition which ex-military, mental health professionals, and autists have in spades. I don't think you need to be booted out of society for it, just that when you have or adopt that mindset you start noticing so many things that people tune out on a daily basis. There's probably a component of mental trauma there because those three groups also usually have them as well.
The thing is that it's not a dream job to them and not because they want to mandate things. Oppressinator hit the head on the head above.
Imagine being a journalist and going to school for years, being in debt from it and being introduced at parties and to family members as they guy who has to write about Pokemon vidya. Someone once brought up the point to me once that really made sense is that the reason why these journalists hate their audience so much is because they hate themselves most of all.
Didn't GTA San Andreas do that? Like if you kept hitting the drive through you got fat as fuck and if you biked everywhere you got thinner? I don't remembered if it affected gameplay though.
The Sims did too, at least the older ones. Like if you became a fat fuck you were more likely to die early and no one would sleep with you iirc.
This. As I said in a comment below, alot of homeless people want to be homeless. They want to be free of responsibility and be able to drink/do drugs. The homeless vets who worked or went through the programs earnestly didn't stay homeless for long.
I don't agree with you on a lot but you are not wrong here. I worked with homeless veterans as a vet a couple years back and they fell into three categories.
The dudes who would go out with signs or cups did not want to work period. Any change given would go straight to cigarettes, alcohol or coffee. They had no intention of finding a job or fixing any of their issues.
The guys who either already had a job or were just pushed out by batshit s/o's would continue or find work and get out of the shelter extremely quick. They would never be caught dead with a sign.
The last group were guys who were living innawoods and only came back because of medical issues. They usually would get fixed up, make some money to get more supplies and then go back to the woods. They also would never beg or use a sign.
Not just that but there's no real study I know about the emotional effects. My ex was on and off birth control and it was like she was two completely different people when she was on and off. Her interests, preferences for food, etc like it was like I was dating two different people and I had two keep both sets of that in my head.