My suspicion is that they’re making the cardinal error of looking at the memory-span of the General American Electorate, rather than the memory-span of the specific set of voters they just gutted & betrayed…

general declaration of hatred of trans people

Saltem una castratio amplius: hic vir monstruosus

Yes! I'd say one of the biggest self-imposed stumbling blocks of the Craig Era was how in Skyfall they established that, like, no, that's his real name and he's from Scotland and that's terribly sad, blah blah blah...

painted themselves into a real corner that should just be walled off & forgotten

Actually, I take it back... toughest fight in the game are a few of those goddamn mook rushes like the one before the High Halls song dude & the one in Deep Docks if you weren't smart enough to beat it pre-A3 &/or didn't know to take out the Void Mass before attempting it...

They were able to get over Brosnan para-surfing a glacier being melted by a satellite sunbeam fired by a North Korean general who had gene-therapy to become English... it'll be fine

I strongly posit that 007 fans aren't that terribly concerned about the franchise's...uh... commitment to realism or the consistency of its "universe"

Counterpoint: No, actually, beat his ass even more.

Alright, I conflated “retiring now” with “none of them will face voters for years at least”

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I’d misread, then

You've just thrown in the towel completely, you goof-ass corncob.

oh, absolutely go fuck yourself, Sheldon.

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you've absolutely killed any sense of momentum & taken the wind completely out of your own sails.