Wednesday, January 11, 2023

They lost

 Whoever put me in Facebook jail, I got the last laugh. Today, thanks to removing Facebook from my phone, I collected more money at my job than I've done all year.

Okay, so it's 99.9 percent God, for setting them all up like dominos, but it really helped to not be staring at stupid posts or news articles or bad dating ads when I'm supposed to be paying attention to the computer.

Facebook secret police

 I don't think Facebook mods have time to review every item every person has posted this year, especially on small unpopular pages like mine.

I'm fairly sure that it works exactly like Russian intelligence in the days of the USSR where fellow citizens rat other people out.

So when I commented on Christopher Walken's birthday, someone got upset and cyberstalked me to my personal page and reported a random unrelated post to the mods because they were somehow unable to on the original page.

The same thing must have happened when I commented on a post from a star trek group. They were talking about how they sent a ship full of social media influencers and artists into space, I said something they didn't like in response, so they cyberstalked me to my assignments for crazy people site, because they apparently can't do it directly on the post. And they don't understand how everything on the crazy people page was for humorous effect only and not something I want anyone to do.

Either that or a person who left my friend list really hates me, and was stalking the page for weeks trying to get revenge, and just now found something. 

I feel sorry for you girl. You need something better to do with your life than stalking me.

Also, I can live without dumb star trek memes anyway.

Another theory: I saw a video someone posted of a guy punching a woman. I commented that I was surprised I didn't have to click a box for sensitive content to view it. I think the person that posted it cyberstalked me in order to get revenge, because Facebook probably banned him. "You ban my video, I put you in Facebook jail too," says the woman beater.

Or, it could have been because my last name is Wagner and I posted a joke on my wall about not being associated with the Wagner Group and people thought I was actually tied to them and worked to get me banned because they're idiots and they don't know how poor and unconnected I am.

Last time I got in Facebook jail it was because of a post about mash being a war protest film. Facebook was unapologetic, I think because they thought I was not on the side of Ukraine. It doesn't make sense, but if we're going by idiotic algorithms, they probably picked up on words like war and protest and ignored important words like Vietnam and Korea, which took everything out of context.

...Unless Facebook does not allow you to say that the mash film and book were not funny. In that case, well, they should also ban users who badmouth the marvel movies because it's just as opinionated and arbitrary.

Can people see when you heart or haha a news article? There's a few times where I'd be the only one posting that reaction to a political article. Perhaps someone cyberstalked me for that.

Back in Facebook jail

 Website rules are arbitrary as hell. You can make a "no girls allowed" clause and ban women from your site if you want. I'm looking at you, Facebook.

I have a Facebook page called "assignments for crazy people". All the assignments on there are hazardous to your health. I didn't think it too unreasonable to post an assignment only crazy people would do, like blow yourself up with a car bomb. 

Do I need to constantly post reminders that only crazy people do these things? I should have been in Facebook jail years ago for some of those posts.

I mean, how would you do that anyway? And why? It's ridiculous as telling someone to pull their lip over their head and swallow.

But now I'm off Facebook for a month.

Well, I lost a lot of friends on there already, and I've found new things to do in reddit, woodoku and art websites, and more importantly, working on my art, writing and videos. Thank goodness I didn't tie my T##### account to Facebook or I'd be banned there too. 

Anyway, here's to doing something productive with my time.


Friday, December 16, 2022

Lego Masters: Woke for the wrong reasons

 Lego Masters is "woke" because black people simply can't win, and they're overcompensating to stay on the air.

When it comes down to it, wealthy whites represent the largest portion of people who can afford to buy thousands of Lego sets and have time to get good at sculpting with them. 

You can clearly see that the producers of Lego Masters attempted to diversify the contestants, but the non whites just weren't very skilled. It all boils down to economic factors.

Visually, you can tell who made a great build and who didn't, so the hosts knew they couldn't show preferential treatment to non whites or be accused of discrimination in reverse.

To overcompensate, they have attempted various "woke" things. While 90 percent of it is so subtle that I couldn't quite tell (other than the types of contestants selected) , the MCU themed episode was as obvious as a sledgehammer to the head.

The builds for the episode had one thing in common: Ethnic diversity.

I could tell something was up because each so called "unforgettable moment" from each movie was actually rather obscure and not something most fans would think of in connection to the films.  

At first glance, I didn't think much about it, but then my mind keeps going back to how much Amy stressed the name America Chavez, like it's her favorite superhero in the world.

I honestly doubt anyone's favorite is America Chavez. I think Miss Marvel is a better woke choice because she's not a damsel in distress/human plot device like America, and she's Pakistani.

America Chavez. Frankly, I haven't even thought about that minor side character until Amy brought it up.

Also telling of the show's unsubtle attempt to be woke, although Amy acted like America was her all time favorite, they didn't show any pictures of the character at all.

I like seeing the amazing builds, but this again reinforces why I sometimes don't care when the sound on my TV isn't working.

Monday, December 12, 2022

Avatar

As Avatar 2:  The Way of Water comes out in theaters, promising huge box office returns, I am once again reminded of how God prevented me from publishing a novel that could have potentially embarrassed the hell out of me in front of millions of people.
Long before the original Avatar got release in theaters, I wrote a similar story:  Guy gets cryogenically frozen and taken to an alien jungle planet full of "half human cat people" who ride flying creatures.  
The difference:  Mine was a combination science fiction and inspirational Christian romance...not some half baked Vietnam protest/save-the-environment story.
Also, awkward because I'm obsessed with The Neverending Story, and I thought writing a story about being shy around women would help me to face my fears.  By a similar token...pretend girlfriend.
In my defense, women write romance novels with lots of pretend boyfriends in them, and nobody thinks it's strange, but I'm a guy and this is embarrassing and probably not something I want the whole world to know about anyway.
That being said, I put a whole lot of work into the novel, edited it numerous times, and you're probably curious about how it may or may not resemble Avatar at all, so here's a site where you can read it for free:

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3365464/1/The-Quaceb

And here's a site where you can buy it in paperback to save yourself some eyestrain:

Book Link


By the way, I made changes to the plot after Avatar came out, mostly out of frustration about how many similarities I thought I saw.  But honestly, not getting recognized for this embarrassing piece of fluff is probably the best thing to ever happen to me.

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Judgmentalism

 People accuse me of being judgmental. I wondered why they kept saying this about me until I realized that just about everything on my Facebook feed has judgmental content on it, people mocking and criticizing other people for various things. It's funny, yes, but I blame Facebook for encouraging the constant judging of others.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Don't believe them

 I bought a digital camera that makes avi files that my Sony Vegas 9 program can't read. I saw a YouTube saying I could just go to sourceforge and get a x26yvfw codec, but it doesn't do anything at all. I still only get a red box instead of the video I recorded.

https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/sony-vegas-avi.html

Promised me a "perfect" solution for "free", but it's just trial software and if you don't pay for it, you only end up rendering a black one second video. Thanks for nothing, and no thanks to vmotal for their crap camera that only does avi.

I thought I found a fix for it by using vlc media player, but the program fails to make usable files from the avi. It takes forever, and all I got to show for it was another red video instead of the video footage I wanted.

I know the answer to all these problems, but I can't afford to buy new video editing software. It sucks. I spent a whole night trying to create this video, and I have absolutely nothing to show for it but sore eyes.