3nd0rph1n's comments

Yep. These are basically the people that never bring any value during incident response or when any crunching time needs to be put in. The problem with title inflation is that on a surface level they’re indistinguishable from actual professionals, so there’s no way to skip the interviewing part.

> European history should be portrayed accurately, be it fantasy or reality. It seems that those that shout loudest about cultural appropriation are the first to glorify cultural appropriation when it suites their world view.

This so much. Mixed skin color withing the same race in a fantasy world makes little to no sense to me. Also the fact that dumb characters (say the hobbit girls for example) are always depicted as white to avoid cheap woke backlash is so much of a clear sign of woke appeasement. At least give African mythology a chance and bring it to our screens, that'd make a lot of sense and would also bring a breath of fresh air to the fantasy world. Wokewashing a LoTR series adaptation gives me vibes of forced and lazy inclusivity.

> How do black dwarves make sense? Their entire species lives deep underground and never sees the light of day, so they don't need to evolve to protect their skin from UV rays.

This is EXACTLY my issue with the show. This kind of forced diversity fuccs up the lore and detaches me from the depicted universe. At least make them all of the same skin color so it is coherent.

I swear a lot of Amazon stuff just looks so bland it might as well be AI-generated. "It is a wax museum of a show" is the best wording for that!

Diverse casting is in fact the laziest form of racial inclusivity possible. PLEASE make movies and series stemming from African tradition and mythology, and rightfully cast black people for that. The problem with forced diverse casting is that I can't bring myself to imagine how and why dwarves/elves/etc.. can be both black and white, since they all come from the same land in the LoTR lore. At least pick a lotr race - skin color pair and only cast people of that skin color for a determined race, I'd be ok with that. It just messes the lore for me, nothing more nothing less.

Interviewing processes have really gotten out of hand as of lately. I've recently witnessed the new practice of having candidates take online personality tests which claim to be able to determine my personality by having me answer to multiple choice questions like: 'I like arts' or 'I trust my parents' (ref.: https://www.hoganassessments.com/). I've had a hard laugh at this, while talking about it with a psychiatrist friend: how are you able to give value to said answers without any clue of context? I've spent most of my life dealing with my parents' alcohol abuse and suicidal tendencies, how am I gonna get judged by how much I trust them? How does it take my therapist so long to delve into such delicate topics, while HR can have me take a 10 minutes online test and get my life sorted out? I swear, I respect all crafts, but I swear HR is always the scummiest department wherever I go. It's basically -with due exceptions, like always in life- unskilled people lobbying to make each other look professional, while assuming they're CEOs, psychiatrists and technical leads, despite having chosen the HR career path on the sole basis of not having any expendable professional competence to apply in any field. And I don't say this with resentment, I've aced the hogan tests for all my interviews.