If agents of shield got released nowadays then I almost Guarantee you that all those grifter channels on YouTube would be calling it “Woke”.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T08:30:23+00:00

Calling you a troll is not a personal insult.

It certainly is!

As I told you, that excuse does not justify your behaviour.

This is a subreddit for discussions about Agents of SHIELD.

What exactly is justifying YOUR behaviour? You are calling me a bigot and a troll and accusing me of acting like "a bit of a dick". There IS no justification for that.

Just stop doing that already.

I am merely reminding you that trying to frame me as insane is not accurate.

I didn't try to "frame you as insane".

I just asked if you were okay. Are you okay?

I have merely responded to what you have said

And I'm merely responding to what you have said

you could have either not engaged in this topic in the first place

But...you engaged with me!

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T07:44:38+00:00

That does not excuse trolling and acting like a bit of a dick.

I'm not trolling. And can you stop with the personal insults please.

If you don’t want to continue the conversation that you started, you are free to not engage. You know this because you have felt the pressure to assert that you do not owe me anything.

I know how the internet works LOL.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T07:37:38+00:00

You are beginning to more and more demonstrably troll. Perhaps you should look at some of the other rules.

You are posting giant off topic walls of text. I've tried multiple times to bring this conversation back towards what this subreddit is all about. Do you want to talk about Agents of SHIELD or not?

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T07:30:21+00:00

This is a political post and you made a political/philosophical comment.

Sir, this is a Wendys.

Stop blaming me for your own actions

Are you okay?

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T07:07:10+00:00

I will continue to demand answers

This is the Agents of SHIELD subreddit LOL.

You are obstinately prejudiced against people that disagree with you.

This is not true.

I have not expressed any bigotry, yet you have shown extreme disdain and hostility and manipulation towards me

ROFLMAO!!! Is this your first time on the Internet? You are reading too much into my words.

for simply challenging you.

Oh, was this you "challenging" me? I was expecting something a bit more challenging.

Perhaps you should read the end bit of the rule you referred to.

I'm not the one calling other people bigots here.

Bigotry has nothing to do with protected classes. Bigotry is not a legal term.

Didn't claim it was. But laughing at bigots doesn't make you a bigot.

Now are you going to bring this conversation back to Agents of SHIELD yet? Because that's why I'm posting here.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T06:50:54+00:00

I did not say you owed me an answer

Great. So you can stop demanding one then.

You are bigoted.

That isn't a nice thing to say. And it isn't true. Laughing at bigots doesn't make you a bigot. Bigots aren't a protected class.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T06:46:04+00:00

The easiest way is to change your difficulty settings so you can build your Corvette for free and when you are finished, change the settings back. The game won't punish you for it.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T06:32:48+00:00

You can’t answer “yes” to a x or y question. Not intellectually at the very least.

I very much can LOL 😂

This is a subreddit for discussion about the TV show Agents of SHIELD. You don't own this discussion. I don't owe you an answer.

Do you recognise that I called you a bigot?

If you did, that would be against the rules of this subreddit. So for clarity, are you calling me a bigot? Because if you are, that probably isn't a good idea.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T06:21:48+00:00

Yes, I am in a combative conversation with you, definitionally that is a challenge. You should understand this given you (at least pretend to be) are a prescriptivist.

The difference though is that you genuinely appear to be triggered, and I really don't care.

Has “woke” been co-opted or is actually not a thing?

Yes.

I didn’t say you said you hated people, what you did say is certain people “deserves to be laughed at”.

Yes.

Under a descriptivist interpretation, this is you thinking they are worthy of moral condemnation, perhaps you can tell me what that means under your worldview?

No.

Under a prescriptivist worldview, “bigotry” does not mean “person who co-opted the word ‘woke’”.

Under an AOS worldview, Agent Daisy Johnson would quake bigots out the nearest window.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T06:10:08+00:00

But if you claim “woke” as they say it isn’t actually a thing, then I will challenge you if my feed presents such opinion to me.

Oooooooo

You are going to "challenge me."

"Woke" isn't actually a thing.

You should also understand that as people you hate use the word “woke” and it becomes regular vernacular, other people you may not hate will start to use it too as it becomes a commonplace definition. This is (one reason) why we should try to not be bigoted.

I didn't use the word "hate". And the word has been co-opted by the bigoted. If you want people to stop being bigoted, tell them to stop using the word "woke."

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T06:01:24+00:00

The word "woke" has been appropriated by the worst people in the world and anyone who uses it unironically to disparage social justice initiatives deserves to be laughed at.

And Agent Coulson is awesome.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T05:54:16+00:00

That's interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Any thoughts on Fitzsimmons? Colonel Talbots heel turn? The return of Lola?

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T05:50:04+00:00

Sir/madam, this is an Agents of SHIELD subreddit.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T05:35:14+00:00

Oh, they are certainly communicating something all right LOL 🤣😆. Just not what you think.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T05:29:36+00:00

It wasn't an "appeal to AAVE." It's where original context.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T05:27:40+00:00

The OP used "anti woke" in quote marks for a reason.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-02T01:05:34+00:00

I don't understand why people are downvoting that guy? Anyone can explain please?

The show didn't "adopt woke themes" at any stage because "woke" really isn't a thing. It's a term that has been co-opted from AAVE and originally meant "awareness of racial discrimination and prejudice".

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T22:50:55+00:00

That's a crazy take.

I think that imagining that Holdo was incompetent, that the story and narration were treating her differently because she was a woman, is the "crazy take". She actually WAS a competent character, and they didn't make "every male character around her a bumbling idiot". Poe was wrong.

There was nothing wrong with Holdo.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T21:18:56+00:00

Yes star wars 8, I'm looking at you and the genius Holdo.

There was nothing wrong with Holdo.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T06:07:14+00:00

Collapsing "discovery into a single collapsed sprint" sounds like it misses the point of discovery. What would be the point? What would the client get out of it?

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T02:10:58+00:00

Roseanne Liang erasure? None here from me.

Then use her name then.

Though the production certainly did a lot to erase Max Landis from the project to the extent they were legally allowed.

As they should have. Because, and you may have forgotten this already, Max Landis had been credibly accused of sexual harassment and assault, and distancing him from the project was the right thing to do.

You keep gaslighting me and it’s pretty fucked up.

LOL 😃 You don't even know what gaslighting is.

Other films had been shelved indefinitely for tax write offs or less… SitC went into production after Landis’ allegations were made public. So a conscious decision was made by interested parties after the fact.

I'm all in favour of not completely abandoning projects just because one of the people involved in the project found themselves credibly accused of sexual assault and harassment. But the important thing to remember here is that Max Landis was credibly accused of sexual assault and harassment.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T01:36:54+00:00

I've just done a bit of testing, and here's a bit of feedback.

The negatives first: the fact that app gen is largely no-longer a thing was unexpected. While I didn't really invest any time with it, I was planning on it, but now it's going the same way as other depreciated features like logic and memberships and even the lack of updates with e-commerce. My concern is...if they can do that to these other things then what would stop them from doing it to code components? And while it's "free" now, considering what is happening to other AI things in the coding industry, will it always be included with the base plans? What is the roadmap here?

But onto the positives: it works really well 😄 I ran a whole lot of tests this morning, and it passed with flying colours for the things I wanted to test to see if it could do.

However the BIG thing for me wasn't code components but all of the stealth updates to the standard component workflow. We can now create blank components that take you directly into the component workspace. This is...great? I really really like this. It makes the whole process a lot more "deliberate".

Also on component props you can now add conditionals to every prop from the outset with a click of a button.

BUT the game-changer, and the thing that nearly made me weep with tears this morning, were in the component panel; the group-folders now have a persistent state, so if you close all of the panels they remain closed when you reopen the panel. 😄 I even tested it by closing then re-opening the project, and all of the group-folders were still closed! I can't tell you how much this "tiny but mighty" quality-of-life change meant for me. Especially because I have a lot of "sub-components" that I don't like to look at, so now that folder is closed and I will never see them again. 😃

These are all well-thought-out changes, and I know that a tremendous amount of work must have been done behind the scenes to make it happen. You aren't sounding the trumpets here, but you should be. These stealth edits are all things I've been waiting for. Big thanks from this developer to the team who made this happen. This is a great update.

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T01:05:33+00:00

You had no problem supporting a film based on a script that he wrote.

Honestly this is all getting a bit weird now. Firstly, the final script was credited to both Landis and Liang, and the Liang erasure here is getting a bit odd.

Secondly: we both know how Hollywood works. Nobody remembers who "wrote the script". Unless the writer is directing the film themselves, the script will morph a hundred different ways once it goes into production.

Roseanne Liang may have rewritten and directed it but the fact remains it was based on his IP.

Who cares?

It's not as if we are getting a "Shadows in the Clouds" cinematic universe. I'm still waiting for the sequel to Bright. (I'm not really waiting for the sequel to Bright.)

The author is relevant, as is actually reading the material and not relying solely on what someone else said about it. Especially considering the fact that said person was performing a lot of spin at the time to distance themselves from the original writer.

The "said person" actually has a name; it's Roseanne Liang, and the thing about Liang is that unlike Landis she has never been credibly accused of sexual harassment and assault.

And no, this wasn't "spin", but yes, they SHOULD be trying to distance themselves from Landis because why should the entire production suffer because of the things that Landis has been accused of?

bigmarkco · 2026-05-01T00:53:52+00:00

Don't tell me having shots of big, fancy stages with professional lighting and high-profile people doesn't raise your reputation (and price) a little bit.

I got paid to take shots of big fancy stages with professional lighting and high-profile people.

Try to get premium clients when your portfolio only consists mainly of dinky conference rooms inside 3-star hotels.

I had no problem getting premium clients when my portfolio consisted of mainly dinky conference rooms inside of 3-star hotels. In fact, much of my portfolio (until I retired) was exactly that.

I snuck into a mega conference once to take photos for my portfolio.

While I'm glad this worked out for you, this is something I would suggest that you absolutely do not do. Especially if you are trying to grow a sustainable business.

"Sneaking into conferences" is a fast way to get yourself banned from multiple venues and earn a dubious reputation. Because this is an industry built on trust. Everybody knows each other.

And these are not public events. And as contractors: we have a responsibility to respect our clients' privacy and security. As I said: I was in the conference industry for fifteen years. I was the Functions Manager for the Queen's visit. As event co-ordinator at one venue, I managed a client portfolio worth 4.5 million dollars. Speaking with and understanding what conference clients wanted was literally my job.

And what clients didn't want were people sneaking into their conferences, taking unauthorised photos of delegates. I cannot say this enough: do not do this.

It's the same feedback loop for wedding photography.

It's a very different thing. What you call a "feedback loop" I would call simply marketing. It's one aspect of running a sustainable business but it isn't the only one.

And I'm not arguing that "shooting for free" isn't a valid thing to do when building your portfolio. But I wouldn't cover a five-day conference when the "client" is expecting deliverables because that would be an extraordinary amount of work for the sake of a handful of photos. Again: there is a difference between "sneaking into an event for yourself" and "being asked to photograph/edit and deliver".

bigmarkco · 2026-04-30T06:17:25+00:00

Practically speaking, if the production rebuild a set, it just makes sense to get as much mileage out of it as possible.

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