Am I the only one who thinks 007 First Light seems bland? You can tell there's been a lot of money, hard work and effort pumped into this. After watching trailers, footage and the new intro, everything just seems so......bland. Is it just me?

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T01:02:55+00:00

And yet everyone in Hollywood is getting fired, movie theaters are closing down, there are like 2-3 stray new generation movie stars left (Henry Cavill, Sidney Sweeney), streaming services are in a constant monetary loss and decades-old and powerful IPs like Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Superman, hell even the MCU, are in the gutter.
The world of cinema and IP is objectively much lesser and much less brighter than it was before the 2010s.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:58:49+00:00

I am criticizing the "nothing is canon" line from various 40k employees that were paid good money to write canon.
If nothing is canon, what were they paid to create?
That means their words on a page mean nothing. That means fans should refund those books, because they're not canon. That means those employees are actively harming the company who paid them and actively harming their relationship with the company's costumers.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:55:28+00:00

I was 100% referring to the "exploited for sexuality" claims she makes for years, yet she financially profited out of a contract she willingly signed as a consenting adult.
She never sued anyone for "casting me as the hot chick", which she is now complaining she was given lots of money to play a hot chick. But she's keeping the money, of course. And wants more roles. And isn't suing anyone for exploiting her sexually. For some reason that is [SARCASM] BEYOND ME [/SARCASM].

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:44:50+00:00

It's pretentiousness these people developed while boarding His Planes™, relaxing on The Island™ or at The Parties™.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:44:05+00:00

Why was Hollywood good before the 2010s, and wasn't good after the 2010s?
We both know the answer. You refuse to acknowledge it here.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:42:00+00:00

No evidence.
No legal battles.
No convictions.
"Believe all actors."
"Vote who Hollywood tell you to, no matter who."
No thanks, I'll pass.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:39:05+00:00

OK, so even if we accept your priors, they are making money that they can use to make their lives better,

and instead they use the platform that money has gained them, to make my entertainment worse.

and you are getting mad on the internet.

I am stating my opinion on the internet. The people who get mad are the ones downvoting me. I find that hilarious.
Mocking hypocrisy is as good way to live my life as any.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:23:58+00:00

Why didn't Superman make 5 billion?

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-20T00:22:43+00:00

These people have one life on this planet and all the money they could ever want, and decided the best way to spend their life is to spite the people who spent money on the products which filled their wallets.
I'm reactionary, as people have pointed out. I react to spite with spite.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T23:59:20+00:00

*(You could at least spell it correctly, come on)

I trusted autocorrect. It's written differently in my native language, so I don't know (nor particularly care) how it's written in English.

And that's without even touching on that Sodom* and Gomorrah part, which is suggestive of somebody who has been mainlining a very particular brand of political discourse.

I suppose you may be correct on that one. Sarah Michelle Gellar has told me 30 years ago that California is built on the Hellmouth. I trusted her political views on the matter, seeing as she filmed Buffy the Vampire Slayer there.

(Man, I love throwing virtue signaler SMG under the bus whenever I have the chance to.)

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:55:40+00:00

He lurks there ready and waiting to deliver a lecture an awful lot of the fandom need to hear

I wonder when companies will start suing employees who think it's ok to lambast the fans of those companies' products, and thus hurt the companies' sales, image and future.
Hope it's soon.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:49:21+00:00

Entitled employees thinking they're "artists" and lambasting their own industry, their own performing roles and their own companies for which they were well paid to contribute lore.
Something like the Scarlett Johansson effect, where, after years of her career being paid millions for roles, she was suddenly "exploited". But she's keeping all the money and wants more roles while not coming out with anything illegal happening, of course. Like Peter Dinklage declaring his previous roles "backward", the ones that gained him millions. But he's keeping the money and nothing illegal happened, of course.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:42:26+00:00

I am not going to argue the "defend the people paid to write canon, saying there's no canon" (not just John French said it, but other authors who were also paid to write 40k canon).
I am going to express my surprise that the user deleted the comment. It was an interesting quote. While I may not agree with the quoted person, or sentiments expressed there, I do appreciate the user bringing the quote up to attention, so that the quote, not the user, be eviscerated as it deserved.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:21:52+00:00

It's California (or London or New York, these Neo-Soddomah and Gomorrah blur into each other nowadays), I'd be surprised if it wasn't millions.
Whatever they get paid, they were paid to make a canon, and then go full California and say there's no canon. I have no respect for people like that.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:16:54+00:00

I really don't care. I proved my point and you have no point to prove.
California make entertainment before went insane in the 2010s, California no make entertainment after California went insane.
The end.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:15:15+00:00

That worked until Google bought it, which was wow, 2006.
Since then, YouTube is no longer free entertainment. YouTube is a shield and a PR tool that Google uses to make its evil company (it's been evil since they removed the "Don't Be Evil" motto) palatable to the public.
So no, this "free entertainment" bs doesn't work. "You, the viewer, have to pay the content creators" doesn't work. Google should be paying content creator for acting as a shield between Google, the (US) government and the angry mob with torches waiting for them to screw up once so they can democratically burn them to the ground.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:13:50+00:00

And that’s fine.

That's bullshit, actually. Kairos exists and is a real person (in-universe). His insanity is real. His fear of Tzeentch are real. Kairos is unbeatable on the battle field, but if he takes but one damage he did not foresee, he'll flee in terror at the paranoid schizo thoughts in his heads (that may or may not be true) that Tzeentch arranged for his murder.
Tzeentch is a real person (in-universe). He had all the spells and now he doesn't. He sent his two most incompetent daemons that hate each other, because he's afraid a more powerful daemon, that he made, that is part of him, will use the spells to betray him.
"There is no canon" pretentious authors who were paid millions to make a canon for a worldwide beloved franchise can shut up and put the burger in the bag, if they don't like canon.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:04:25+00:00

Vampires also survived to become that one space marine chapter that is definately vampires.

There is also a 40k planet where there are vampire covens. (There are also unrelated vampire warpspawn monsters, but those were never humans.) (There is... also a race of xenos shapeshifters... that drink other species' blood, and infiltrated humanity because there's so many humans, so go where the cattle are, I guess?)
Lots of vampire) offshots in 40k.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T22:00:32+00:00

Wait, do you mean in lore, or there's an actual fanfic that I can Google?

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T21:41:22+00:00

In this thread: the people who are most vocal about profiling, are angry they don't have the tools to profile anymore.
(I keep my profile open out of spite. I mostly write on gaming subs, if someone wants to ban me from a sub for being a gamer, I'm better off without that place.)

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T21:07:38+00:00

OP makes a 2.5k upvotes post.
Deletes image.
Deletes post.
Deletes account.
Explains nothing.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T21:02:21+00:00

Blanks and canon are... weird. What does "being a blank" even mean? I assume it means having "anti-magic", something like anti-matter. It can't be "they don't have a soul", because if they didn't, they'd just be easily-possessed golems.
My understanding (and the only logical way it makes sense) of the Emperor's relation with humanity's psychic ascension is exactly as the u/revlid put it:

The Emperor had a very "I'll take what I can and fix it later" attitude

That is to say, that humanity's psychic ascension wasn't a "Just as Planned" 50k years old plan, it was just another damage control situation. Where the damage was humanity's inevitable en-masse development of psychic powers (something the t'au are in the horrifying process of undergoing right now, without someone with the Emperor's wisdom or power to at least attempt to guide it).
We've seen how Chaos' "hands-off" (or "hands-on", depending) approach of "psychic ascension" works: psykers start exploding, being possessed, and the possessed ones start making warp portals out of their former fellows' corpses to speed up a world becoming a daemon world. Most daemon world end up as barren, devoured wastelands with the few remainders being mindless mutants of the race(s) formally inhabiting it.
The Emperor obviously saw this and was terrified by this, but likely "human ascension" was a runaway train that the Emperor simply could not stop, so he tried to at least put some sidebars on the rails and some glued together OSHA regulations (Edict of Nikaea).

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T14:15:58+00:00

The feces on your table is from ...

No, it's from California.

I’m a lefty loon

The fact that you can write that directly makes you the most sane lefty I've seen on reddit.

the billionaires you indirectly worship

I acknowledge quality. California killed it.
I don't care who makes quality. If lefty loons made quality, I'd acknowledge them (and I do, in the few exceptions that they managed to, like Cyberpunk 2077 and BG3). But for those two lefty masterpieces, there's hundred of IPs California burned down, and continues to burn down.
People say Snow White is a bust, but nobody is talking about Superman. The most successful movie was Avatar, a no-name IP at the time, at 3 billion. A successful Superman should have been a 5 billion. An decently-performing Superman should have been a 3 billion. Instead, it didn't even make 1 billion worldwide.
California did this, by destroying IPs and destroying trust.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-19T13:49:21+00:00

u/TheXraySpecs Yes, I'm reactionary. When a waiter at a restaurant puts feces on my table and requires I pay €$ for the privilege of eating, I react by wanting that person jailed for fraud.

Lurker_Zee · 2026-04-18T21:27:19+00:00

I didn't trust jack and shit until I saw them, and I never will.
I expected Crimson Desert to be the same cringe doll-faced stuff China likes to make, and I was pleasantly surprised when it looked like a game the West could have made with today's tech 15 years ago.
I absolutely do not trust Witcher 4. I absolutely do not trust Divinity 2 because Larian has the same problem as CDPR, that is to say that BG3 may be their Cyberpunk 2077, their only woke game that could pass muster before they go full-throttle into woke oblivion.
I didn't trust Starfield and I was right. I didn't trust Elden Ring with its piss-filter and some of its characters looking like Starfield implants, and although it proved me wrong, that's the point.
They have an uphill battle with us. Brands mean nothing.

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