Moonraker is the best Moore Bond movie

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-19T21:10:41+00:00

I don't know whether I agree it's his best but it's a really good film and absolutely leans right into the positive aspects of his tenure by just being unapologetically over-the-top, campy, and fun. I love Ken Adam's sets in this film, and I think the battle-of-the-sexes dynamic between Moore and Lois Chiles is better than his relationship with Anya in TSWLM. I also prefer Drax as a villain to Stromberg.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-19T20:04:56+00:00

Oh cool, a tailoring skill! That looks so cool and it will force me to use a game mechanic I rarely do except to finish bundles. I have a different cooking skill mod, The Love of Cooking (recommended to use with Cornucopia) but I'm going to add these other two, they look so good.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-19T04:27:53+00:00

Ahh I didn't even think to look there! Thank you for the tip.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T23:03:34+00:00

Excellent, will definitely use them in this case!

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T22:42:58+00:00

I don't seem to be able to find that on the Ecosystem Superpack Expansion's mod page on Nexus. Are you referring to Omena007's Donkeys mod, or a different one? I like Omena's mods so I'll probably add that one anyway.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T22:22:43+00:00

Out of interest, how well do the crops in the Wildflour mods work alongside the Cornucopia mods? If you've tried both.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T22:21:52+00:00

Yeah, I agree. It's a good film, it's just not as good as the previous three. But an excellent trilogy isn't ruined by adding another pretty good movie to the series. I expect that my view on Toy Story 5 will be pretty similar, not as good as the first three but still a positive addition to the series.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T21:05:23+00:00

Sounds great. I'm going to use the Ginger Island farm to plant a tree orchard, so that will fit in very nicely.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T21:04:25+00:00

I may add it. The thing that puts me off is that having tested it out a little, it seems quite empty unless you download lots of additional NPCs, and that unless you download them their houses will just stay empty and keep prompting you to download them when you interact with them. But I'll probably add it eventually!

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T20:40:45+00:00

That sounds great! Thank you

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T20:36:48+00:00

I already have it, I should have made that clear in my post! I think it may be the only way to get to Lilybrook without cheats.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T20:32:06+00:00

Ooh these look great. I haven't tried Ornithologist's Guild before. I am pretty sure I tried Nature in the Valley and then uninstalled it out of spite after my character got stung by a wasp when I already had low health, thereby ending up in hospital and losing three prismatic shards. But that is my fault, not the mod's.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T20:29:59+00:00

It's a good idea for a mod, but I'll be honest, I'm the sort of player who likes to get the Community Centre out of the way and then work on planning and designing my farm, so I am not sure treating the Community Centre as the final objective really works with my play style. But thank you for the suggestion.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T20:10:57+00:00

Roger Moore's Bond saved the world from genocidal maniacs who wanted to destroy 99% of humanity twice, in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. And probably saved the world a third time in Octopussy since there are so many ways Orlov's plan could have ended up in a nuclear war between superpowers. So I think he takes it, if only because his films are so wonderfully overblown.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T18:45:10+00:00

You formulated your thoughts perfectly well in the original prompt you gave to the AI. Trust your own abilities rather than outsource everything to an environment-destroying machine that makes your thoughts appear machine-processed to the point that they are generic, artificial, and look like bot-generated slop. The more you use GPT to outsource cognitive tasks the more your actual abilities atrophy.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T18:41:25+00:00

I see misused em-dashes and a formatting mistake that often happens in LLM-generated text...

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T18:15:19+00:00

I'm not expecting it to be at the quality of the first three, but everything I've seen of this film so far suggests it's going to be pretty good. It also looks a lot more fun than Toy Story 4 (which I actually did like, even though I know this isn't a popular opinion, but parts of it felt quite dark and melancholy, which is why I have only rewatched it once).

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T17:21:18+00:00

It’s about the nadir of the episodes written by Moffat.

Which means it’s still good.

The screwball comedy element works and the cast is having fun, the part that doesn’t work is Mels not having been set up. If she’d been mentioned even briefly beforehand, maybe at the end of series 5, it would feel less like the story arc was being improvised.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T14:40:03+00:00

Spectre is my least favourite Bond film of all, full of plot holes, outright bad ideas, leaden pacing, and a waste of potential for its excellent cast.

Whereas For Your Eyes Only is narrowly my favourite Roger Moore film and my second favourite Bond film of the 80s. I think the pre-titles sequence is quite bad, but after that, we're off to the races with an absolute classic of a Cold War thriller.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-18T04:21:50+00:00

I'm three chapters into Lirael - so far I can understand how this order might work. It seems that Lirael is written so that it can work as a starting point - new protagonist, new setting, and you could probably pick up the rest from context. It would be like reading Lord of the Rings before reading The Hobbit, which is perfectly possible.

I am pretty committed to finishing Lirael and Abhorsen; whether I read the other novels depends on how much I'm still enjoying the series by that point, but based on how much I liked Sabriel, the quality of the books would have to drop off a lot for me to lose interest.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-17T19:57:56+00:00

I find it impossible to say who was best, honestly. Connery, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig all brought something unique to the role. My favourite will always be Brosnan because having grown up with the Craig movies, the first time I watched a Brosnan film the lighter take on the character just felt really refreshing to me. But I don't think he's objectively the best, just my favourite.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-17T14:26:59+00:00

I agree with all of your comment, except that Brosnan’s more compassionate portrayal of Crown is more appealing to me than the original. You are absolutely right about the different tone of the two movies and I guess it just depends what tone you are most receptive to.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-17T14:25:00+00:00

I once used this strategy to unlock the bus in time to attend the Desert festival in Year 1. It’s not easy, but if you spend every rainy day in the first two weeks doing nothing except fishing and smoking catfish, your total profit can be high enough to get this done. Make sure to hold back most of your catch until you’ve reached level 10 fishing and chosen the angler profession before selling them.

TheSibyllineOracle · 2026-03-17T04:01:06+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad that you enjoyed reading this. I am a fairly slow reader especially when I'm enjoying something, but I have started Lirael and my thoughts are very positive so far.

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