(06-28-2023, 09:22 AM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Idris Elba: 'I didn't want to be James Bond because these fucking weirdos on the internet just focused on the idea of me as a black man and like I'm an actor and it's a major character and ultimately his race kind of doesn't matter beyond the brute fact of it, so it wouldn't have worked for me'
Resetera: 'He's not talking about us, shut up'
Honestly, I think Idris is great, but the people still suggesting him as Bond don't quite get that the Producers want a young guy for the role so they can get 5-6 movies out of him and Idris is only a few years shy of Craig in terms of age. I legit don't get why the Bond Writers never put both him and Clive Owen (another Bond Candidate for years back) in as other 00 agents into one of Craig's films as a nod at some point.
It's almost bizarre that they didn't attempt a 00 cinematic universe back when everyone else was trying for one.
They could've had 007 movies, 005 bbc miniseries, 009 netflix animated series etc, etc.
Was that due to tactful restraint, or simple lack of resources I wonder?
06-28-2023, 11:27 AM
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(06-28-2023, 11:15 AM)MJBarret wrote: It's almost bizarre that they didn't attempt a 00 cinematic universe back when everyone else was trying for one.
They could've had 007 movies, 005 bbc miniseries, 009 netflix animated series etc, etc.
Was that due to tactful restraint, or simple lack of resources I wonder?
Ultimately it boils down to nepotism and mismanagement. Fleming was a true blue blood and the property has been controlled by people who had a vested interest in presenting the britain that they felt Fleming had captured; the kind where posh spies run around having non-consensual sex and murdering but get away with it with a fist bump from the king because they're good chaps who went to the right school.
Bond is now in this weird nexus where they're ashamed to go to the source material and frit at the idea of doing something radical like making it a period film, as they obviously should and the novels kind of demand.
(06-28-2023, 09:29 AM)jooseloose wrote:

But which Bore?
(06-28-2023, 11:15 AM)MJBarret wrote: It's almost bizarre that they didn't attempt a 00 cinematic universe back when everyone else was trying for one.
They could've had 007 movies, 005 bbc miniseries, 009 netflix animated series etc, etc.
Was that due to tactful restraint, or simple lack of resources I wonder?
Think that was the intent with Halle Berrys character in the last Brosnan Bond? Might be one of those urban legends.
Fun to think about franchise plans that went nowhere. Like setting up Jeremy Renner to take over for an aging Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 4. But here we are a decade later and Cruise is still jumping off trains and shit.
I don’t think we should directly bully anyone Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) even if they are batshit
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These are adults afraid to say Hogwarts.
Because the man babies with mental health issues will screech out at them
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Idris Elba: 'I didn't want to be James Bond because these fucking weirdos on the internet just focused on the idea of me as a black man and like I'm an actor and it's a major character and ultimately his race kind of doesn't matter beyond the brute fact of it, so it wouldn't have worked for me'
Resetera: 'He's not talking about us, shut up'
Yeah the thread is a great read. Maybe instead of just taking traditional characters who are white “Bond” and putting a black actor in the role for “diversity” isn’t the play. Right them their own stories.
06-28-2023, 12:28 PM
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(06-28-2023, 11:58 AM)BIONIC wrote: I don’t think we should directly bully anyone Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) even if they are batshit yeah that's pretty shit, problem is it could be anyone who is aware of this site and doesn't necessarily even have an account here, could even be false flagging trying to get this site in trouble
dumb how people are immediately like "oh that person's from the bore" when anyone can sign up to twitter as anything they want, I don't think most people here would cosign that
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I don’t think we should directly bully anyone Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) even if they are batshit yeah that's pretty shit, problem is it could be anyone who is aware of this site and doesn't necessarily even have an account here, could even be false flagging trying to get this site in trouble
dumb how people are immediately like "oh that person's from the bore" when anyone can sign up to twitter as anything they want, I don't think most people here would cosign that
I agree, it’s totally a false flag. Just like how none of the “good guys” were the ones that were harassing Hogwarts streamers.
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ultimately doesn't even matter, it's "well regardless you fostered an environment that led to this" etc. etc.
gay ops on the bore?
06-28-2023, 01:10 PM
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Gotta agree, on the chance that it's a member from here, don't engage people directly, that's shit
(06-28-2023, 12:57 PM)Puffy Fucking Baby wrote: gay ops on the bore? 
bore needs more homoerotica these days tbh
(06-28-2023, 11:37 AM)NekoFever wrote: Hate website/forum: an internet site where the members and "staff" do not wish for and cheer the death and suffering of others. Especially not groups of others based on superficial characteristics.
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based on the holy principles of Karl Popper, a guy I know nothing about but have been told he was very smart and wrote a particularly insightful quote that you can revise your entire morality around, I suppose we shouldn't wish death for anyone but those who wish for the death of others, in which case it's fair game
06-28-2023, 02:17 PM
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Fuck android Sophia and their plural system bullshit. Got no sympathy for people that claim made up shit for attention.
06-28-2023, 02:34 PM
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(06-28-2023, 02:08 PM)Uncle wrote: based on the holy principles of Karl Popper, a guy I know nothing about but have been told he was very smart and wrote a particularly insightful quote that you can revise your entire morality around, I suppose we shouldn't wish death for anyone but those who wish for the death of others, in which case it's fair game  I think the gist of what Popper said wasn't that it was fair game but that you were morally, ethically and scientifically required to wish death on them. And that you could simply infer if they were wishing death on others rather than having to wait for them to actually express their intolerance.
Those who refuse to wish death upon others, only wish death upon themselves.
Wishing death is for pussies.
Ya gotta arm up and inflict death, before they genocide you or release a Chapelle special or something!
06-28-2023, 04:09 PM
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I hate these wankers enough without people giving them free moral high ground
Let us mercilessly brutalise their thoughts and silly opinions, and in some cases horrendous personalities, but in such a way that we are not worse than they. Or something.
Interacting with the genuinely mentally ill ones is like what Lyndon Johnson had to say about wrestling a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-subsidize-e-bikes-clive-thompson-medium.735939/
entremetGPT
Quote:Go Denver! Amazing program and amazing results so quickly. I'm sure that will also lead to more bike infra being built in Denver--idk I'm not from there.
I've been reading Clive Thompson for a while now. He makes good points here. We do subsidize EVs in many states and I think you can also write them off on your federal taxes, but subsizing ebikes, which are even more environmentally friendly, seems a better solution.
Remember, most car trips in the US are under two miles.
Also, micromobility isn't about replacing the car completely. That's especially hard in North America due to our zoning. It's about reducing the need of car trips for everything.
Moreover, it's great that the Denver program went to many of low income. Operating a vehicle is not cheap! And the need to operate a vehicle in many places in the US puts a huge financial burden on low income folks.
I don’t hate Android Sophia, I mostly feel sorry for her. She was decent user at Gaf and she actually tried to reflect about Trans Activism before she was brainwashed by her fellows. Is sad to se her with fall to the plural gang bullshit.
But, people should remember, now that KiwiFarms is exiled to TOR, RE is going to search for new visible “hate sites”.
06-28-2023, 04:43 PM
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JNH wrote:I woke up and Moscow still not on fire.
Wagner ! Prigozhin ! What are you doing ? >:(
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JigglesBunny wrote:I thought about tacking on another two inches just for the heck of it but the surgeon advised me that there was no practical use for a 16” rod.
(06-28-2023, 04:47 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/inside-the-secretive-world-of-penile-enlargement.735123/page-2#post-108037995
Quote: User Banned (1 Month): Dismissive Drive-By; Inappropriate Joke; Ignoring Staff Post; Prior Ban for Dismissing Toxic Masculinity
JigglesBunny wrote:I thought about tacking on another two inches just for the heck of it but the surgeon advised me that there was no practical use for a 16” rod. One ban closer to a perma for that user. Thank god Nepenthe.
Weird how all her personalities have the same values. You'd think at least one of them have some self awareness to be fine with a peanut gallery making fun of their weirdness. Unless its all fake, of course.
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PlanetSmasher, post: 108153027, member: 6260 wrote:What a healthy industry this is. So healthy, so fun to follow. Definitely not miserable and exhausting, nope.
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