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Subject: Re: "Woke Content Detector" screens games for wokeness
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:42:45 -0500
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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.