This is a bit off-topic but it’s been that kind of week and this one is more fun. Any blogger on a decent host has some kind of spam filter. WordPress, my host, uses Askimet, which doesn’t simply delete the spambots. It holds it in a folder to be checked, just in case an actual poster was accidentally sent to the spam folder. Most of the time they do okay, though every now and then one sneaks through and gets posted. Some of these spambots are rather amusing, and Gary over at Crisis At Earth Prime (check the RSS feed at the bottom of the page) shows off a few of these as well as the often scary search requests that bring people to his site. I’ve had a few of those but I’ve never had anything like this…a spambot who seemed more interested in reaching the webmaster than any posters.
I’ve had excerpts from a story about a Christian family sitting down to dinner and discussing God but they weren’t in any kind of order. However, this set of spam posts bounced around to numerous articles and the way it showed up in my filter actually gives a full article about tips for playing poker. I don’t play poker. If I ever went to a casino I might play a few hands of Blackjack, maybe roulette or the slots, but not poker. So I don’t know how useful it is. What I found fascinating is how this post, sent to random articles one paragraph at a time formed an almost complete article in my spam filter.
BW Vs Author Unknown: Is Geek Culture Left-Wing? (part 2 of 2)
You came back. I’m surprised part one didn’t chase off more readers. That’s one of the reasons I try to avoid politics in these discussions. To me political commentary trumping good storytelling (you can have good storytelling and still do social commentary if you try) is one of many problems I have, but this commentary is one that I felt needed to be had. Gatekeeping, excluding fans because everything needs to be made for you–especially if the original wasn’t, is not good storytelling. It’s also being a horrible person but hate is more important these days. It’s like a new take on the Monkees song “Randy Scouse Git”.
That was going up against stuck up snobs who looked down on hippies because in their mind they were all the same and not in a good way. I guess they just changed party affiliations. So we have “Author Unknown”, who put together a rant someone posted in image form on Facebook insisting that all geek media was immediately liberal and all conservatives are alt-right Nazis. This isn’t a political site nor do I intend to make it one. Tomorrow I’m discussing a song that have nothing to do with politics and getting back to the topics I love. However, you have to have an understanding of what a property is and what the intentions are if you’re going to do it justice, and that includes if the show or comic in fact IS liberal-minded or conservative-minded…or (*gasp*) completely neutral and just wants to entertain everybody because that’s where your heart (or at least your wallet) finds fulfillment. I’ve looked at half of this list and made my case. Let’s burrow through the rest. This time only some of them are the short sentences as we have some longer paragraphs to dissect. So let’s get this over with. Like how my dad pulls off adhesive bandages.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 23, 2020 in Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged Captain America, Captain Marvel, commentary, political commentary, Stan Lee, Star Trek, Superman, The Falcon, Wonder Woman.
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