They're both too old already. Hardy will be almost fifty by the time that movie comes out. I'm tired of seeing such aged Bonds.

Also, Yaphet Kotto, who played a Bond villain, was right about a black Bond.

James Bond cannot be black. Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. He was established by Ian Fleming as a white character, played by white actors. It’s silly. Play 003 or 006 but you cannot be 007. A lot of people say we should be allowed to play everything. Don’t be ridiculous. If I say I want to play JFK I should be laughed out the room. Why should James Bond be black? It’s silly.

I don’t think it’s right for black actors or writers to do roles that whites have made historically white heroic roles. These roles are not written for black men. Black men should stop trying to play white heroes. We have pens. Put a black man in a role that no one else has established.

Sadly, I do think the next Bond will be brown. The filmmakers aren't based enough to go against the tide. I can already imagine the vocal minority froth at the mouth and make such a stink if it's another white guy.

But La La Land doesn't have much singing. That's my main problem with it. I don't know how you can call it a musical. It has huge chunks of story that are just them talking and when the musical numbers do begin they don't even sing half the time.

I don't know if I wanna watch How the West Was Won flat. I wonder how complicated it would be for my brother to set up on his Oculus Rift if I asked nicely. It looks ridiculous. Wider than Ben-hur. I've never seen so much eagle effect in a movie.

How funny. I just said this again yesterday:

"Plus, I hate cars. The amount of space that's needed to accommodate them, all those wide roads, all those huge parking lots. Being unable to walk anywhere without having to wait for so many traffic lights. I hate all the noise. I hate that my city is covered in smog. Towns and cities are so damn ugly and excessively stretched out because of cars. My utopia would have an elaborate public transit system and no private cars."

Yup. To hell with cars.

At least you're just skeptical and don't just take it as fact. Way too much of that around. Yeah, that documentary, from everything I heard and watched about it, was a sham, and it seems suspicious that everybody who didn't already think MJ was a pedophile had such a change of heart right after.

There isn't much to compress with simple assets. Still, game sizes are ridiculous. Patch sizes too.

1. Decide to give Elite Dangerous another shot.

2. Needs to install 5 or 6 GB patch, even though I just played it two months ago. Probably for something I don't even have access to as a base customer.

3. About fifteen minutes later, it's done. But I'm already distracted by something else.

4. A week passes. Still haven't played it.

Modern gaming...

My boxset was printed a bit later than the initial runs and so came with the tenth season. I never watched the eleventh, because I found the tenth so poor, and I wasn't going to pay the price it's going for. Maybe one day I'll watch it with my Hulu trial, if it's still being streamed there. As aimless as the original series was, I still prefer its ending over Carter's continued cliffhangers and retcons in the revival. He just made a mess messier.

I'm so glad I bought the X-Files when I did. One of the Fox titles that unfortunately went out of print with the Disney buyout. The Blu-ray collection I paid 87 dollars for just two years ago now costs between 320 and 360 dollars. Took me about a year to rewatch all nine original seasons. You're going to tear your hair out at some of the things that happen later, if you're already bothered about Scully's stubborn skepticism. Carter got greedy. Shame he couldn't just lay out a concrete plan with an end earlier.

That's part of what I like about being on a gamer forum that isn't so commercial. They post nudes (2D and real life) in the dedicated threads all the time. I've posted a few myself.

About 007... I wonder if EON Productions has made so many of these strange decisions for the last several years, culminating with what happens in No Time to Die, because they are bored of producing these movies for thirty (Barbara) to forty (Michael) years. The Broccoli siblings have made almost nothing else. It must get tiring. So why not fulfill your own desires by changing it into something people barely recognize as Bond instead of, you know, giving the reins to someone else, who has the passion for Ian Fleming and Albert Broccoli/Harry Saltzman's version? The more I think about it, the more I really believe that's a part of it.