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.

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.

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.

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.

Johnny Dare

 Never knew a show that made feel the way they do, yeah they're nuts.

Harleys, aliens, transvestites and freaks, I'm telling you something, they're chuckle butts.

Some say they're weak, some say they're dumb, but look out baby cuz here they come.

Get ready, get ready...

Have you heard the story, about the crematory, the one that thought that burning bodies was a chore? They took the people's money, the next part ain't so funny, they threw threw threw the bodies out the back door...

SCP Item 8100201437060: "Hannigan."

 Item 8100201437060:  "Hannigan."

Class: Safe

Security Level: 1

Containment:  Minimal.

Description:  Bulky 1980's television set with wheeled stand and top loading Betamax player.  Requires electricity to operate.  Betamax tape winds and plays by itself, as if controlled by some otherworldly entity.  Attempts to replace the Betamax with a DVD or BluRay player, VCR or electronic gaming equipment have resulted in technicians contracting Egyptian plagues, which go away the moment Betamax is returned to the machine.

Displays one program, Hannigan, a plodding formulaic TV movie series which ran from 1968-2006.  Hannigan only has 21 episodes in total, but the anomalous television, according to most recent tabulation, has generated more than 367 variations on those 21 episodes, including several in which the detective is brutally murdered, loses his badge, or makes no appearance in the program whatsoever.

The effect of watching the program appears to be harmless.  Programming continues to play, regardless of whether anyone watches it or not.  The device seems to be merely a self contained universe of fictional characters embued with life through unexplained otherworldly energies.

SCP Item 38053563824: "The Death Collector."

Item 38053563824:  "The Death Collector."

Class:  Euclid

Security Level:  2

Containment:  Lock up.  Do not allow access.

Description:  Black Avaya conference phone with telephone headset and associated monitor and tower.  Object was acquired from the offices of Sunbank Private Label Credit Cards, now protected under bankruptcy, with name changed to (REDACTED).  Equipment uses telephone autodialing system to conduct collections calls with the deceased.  These business transactions sound completely mundane, often involving payments with real bank account numbers, but the person has recently died, and often the volume never rises above a whisper.  Customer audio can only be recorded with special equipment.  Only the operator's voice registers on standard recording devices.   

First recorded incident:  Grant Billington, 28, reported fraud on his grandfather's debit card two days after the man died from Hodgkins Lymphoma.  Telephone operator was subjected to disciplinary action, but management could not explain how the OP could consistently hold 5-10 minute conversations with someone they could never hear on recordings, and somehow acquire payment information, nor could they understand why their automated dialing system always appeared to send OP calls from a pool of live accounts, yet only record conversations between OP and seemingly nothing. 

Upon firing three OPS, Sunbank management decided the phone to be at fault, though no official apologies or reimbursements were sent to dismissed agents.