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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Woke Content Detector" screens games for wokeness Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:42:45 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: <vhll4k$96uh$3@dont-email.me> References: <vhafo0$368s$6@dont-email.me> <vhboa2$f1g7$1@dont-email.me> <vhbsi9$fkat$1@dont-email.me> <vhbv4e$g397$2@dont-email.me> <vhd25f$mmtf$3@dont-email.me> <lpurnhFepebU1@mid.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:42:44 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c701ac4fbee8210ae101f00fe100002a"; logging-data="302033"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4f2rpDerNyVW2mR5jOjmc" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rE/R0TJgm21JcQAt67DMVodhEDo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <lpurnhFepebU1@mid.individual.net> Bytes: 3274 On 11/17/2024 1:41 PM, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:29:54 -0500, DFS wrote: > >> Many important people are POC. > > Not a game but a TV series had one of the more jarring examples: > > https://joe-pickett.fandom.com/wiki/Nate_Romanowski > > You might have some preconceptions about what a guy named Romanowski looks > like. The character is present in most of C.J. Box's Joe Picket novels. > > https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/interview-with-c-j-box-joe- > pickett-novels/ > > "Unlike just about every other character in the series, Nate Romanowski is > based on a friend of mine although I’ve exaggerated (Thank God) his > personality. The buddy I grew up with was a big blonde middle linebacker > who later went on to join the military and special forces. He took me > falconry hunting and through him I was introduced to the very strange and > fascinating world of falconers and the mindset that goes with it. " > > The novels describe him as big and blonde. Box must have been told that > the series was sort of like a cop buddy show and one of the cops has to be > black. There is also another black character who portrays and ex Wyoming > game warden who is the unofficial mayor of a small town. Wyoming? Yeah, > okay. > > I gave up on 'Vikings: Valhalla' after the second episode. The female, > black jarl of 'Kattegat' was the last straw. Okay, the Kattegat is the sea > between Denmark and Sweden, not a historical town, and Lagertha may have > been a creation of Saxo, but I'll go with this version: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCQWyB1ssQg > > The History Channel has a passing relationship with actual history but > Netflix goes completely off the rails. My favorite is when Samuel L Jackson's movie characters have PhDs. He was a PhD mathematician in Sphere, and some kind of PhD in Deep Blue Sea. In real life, I'd be surprised if he could spell his own name. He's been in a lot of good movies, but he's only believable as a criminal or a crackhead.