Wait, did she actually say "playing this is a political statement?"
Not only is she TERF brained, she's g*mer brained too.
she said something about how people liking harry potter clearly means they support her transphobia, i haven't seen her comment on the game specifically
Fighting for the status quo by consuming treats and encouraging others to consume those selfsame treats as a political statement is next level status quo warrioring. :so-true:
French Monarch forcing his court to learn and perform his mediocre ballet vibes but now its sad capitalism
I'm very curious to see what happens with this sales-wise. The time for a successful high budget Harry Potter RPG, IMO, was 10-6 years ago, after the conclusion of the mainline movies (but not so long that they faded from public consciousness), buttressed by the new class of media like the first fantastic beasts movie, and relatively unplagued by Rowling's terfery and the critical analysis of the books it inspired. Now their new movies are dead in the water and Rowling is fairly radioactive compared to her previous reputation.
Is there a new school of Harry Potter fans that I'm missing, the same way that Pokemon keeps hooking in little kids? All I see are rapidly ageing Disney Adult types.
The Disney Adults keep buying the products for their very small children, kind of like how Star Wars survived during the "VHS era" with the exception that the kids actually liked star trek.
Also never forget that most people don't follow "the discourse" and while they might make approving noises about trans people occasionally don't know any (open) trans people.
Case in point, a fairly trad Catholic Church had to my knowledge 5 open trans/nb people in it. None of the congregation knew (save a few leftist holdouts) because they either came there after their transition or were heavily closeted when coming to church but no where else.
There is a supposed counter-boycott where chuds are just buying the game to own the libs. I haven't even really heard talk of an organized boycott in the first place - just a bunch of people independently saying "I'm not playing that" - so I've got to assume it's just marketing bullshit.
"Not EVERYTHING needs to be political" says the people that decry wokeness in everything.
It's kind of amazing how many boxes they ticked to make people not give a shit.
It's one thing to try and put something out and hope people ignore the transphobia of the franchise's creator, but you explicitly built the game around the anti-semitic stereotypes?!?!
explicitly built the game around the anti-semitic stereotypes
i haven't been following this, what?? :what-the-hell:
You play a first year student, during the goblin rebellion. If you take the hero path, you can help put down the rebelling underclass and their evil human allies with fire, bees, and other non-lethal spells. If you take the evil path, your 12 year old can murder loyalist goblins and their allies with mind control, torture, and murder spells.
If you take the evil path, your 12 year old can murder loyalist goblins and their allies with mind control, torture, and murder spells.
Wait, you get to join the goblins? :sicko-pig:
Only if we mod the game, which we should
Turn it into an anti Harry Potter game staring the kid from Bully who just beats up the other kids before they can cast their stupid spells
:fash-bash: shut up nerds
Remember, the difference between a submachine gun and a magic missile spell is that you can cast bullet several dozen times a day.
Or to quote one of my favourite trot authors, "no matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style."
Jimmy Hopkins is the master of befriending people by punching them until they shut up. He's anime as fuck.
Yes, but I got the sense that it's like a fallout style morality thing where supporting the goblins means you also support magic hitler and murdering kittens.
Only the murdering kittens part is speculation, the goblin uprising is framed as a ploy by magic hitler to weaken wizard society.
Oh my god they actually did everything they could to make it anti semetic. I don't hate the goblins, they are just weakening wizarding society!
:wall-talk:
The implication was that both "good" and "evil" imperialist tactics were used to put down those uppity goblins. :no-workers:
Unless you can join the goblins which of course has the "these are the evil people that are evil and deserve what's coming to them" implication. :obama-drone:
Goblin Slayer was also about goblins, and was very nonpolitical. :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: :scared-fash:
Goblins in Harry Potter are portrayed as a race of hook-nosed, large-eared, thick-lipped, hunchbacked, hand-wringing greedy bankers that are racially incapable of understanding human definitions of property rights and will therefore always try to fuck you over on every deal you make with them forever (like, they will literally keep looking for loopholes in a contract after several centuries because being scheming assholes that can't let go of their possessions is in their blood). In the movies, their bank also had a star of david mosaic on the floor in case the antisemitism was too subtle for some viewers.
In the new game, the main storyline is about violently suppressing their uprising against a society that treats them as second class citizens, and this uprising is now framed as a conspiracy by Magic Hitler who tries to use them to destablize wizard society.
Also note that in her more recent novels, J.K. Rowling goes to great lengths to portray leftist strawman characters that are totally not sexualized Jeremy Corbyn expies as being very antisemitic for being pro-palestine.
it's a game for babies. I can't believe I'm saying this, but only babies like magic and sparkles. real gamers would play a mature game where you can shoot people with guns. I see people trying to defend the game, but I can't understand what they're saying because they can only say "goo goo gah gah". the favorite show of people who play Hogwarts Legacy is Barney the Dinosaur.
But look on the bright side, there are like 3 cool hairstyles for poc characters
Just join the College of Winterhold, college is cooler than high school anyway
You technically don’t even need to cast a single spell to get a degree at Winterhold
Sounds applicable to real life, where all that's needed is money. :capitalist-laugh:
Winterhold? Come on the Mages Guild in Morrowind was way better and you also get to murder the asshole that sends you on a supposedly impossible fetch quest.
No I'm talking about mercing the Archmage in Morrowind my duelling him after he sends you to go solve the mystery of the Dwemer and then kill the Telvanni in the hope you will never come back/because he's incompetent.
yah. this shit isn't even worth pirating. so many other games to spend time playing right now instead
I should have worked harder on my magic college novel so I could had conflicted with the release date :/ It would have been a spiritual victory
Or I start no lifeing my writing right now
:pathetic:
Me to anyone buying, much less preordering, almost any game
I'm probably going to pirate it and then get bored after 6 hours and drop it. If it's good I'll keep playing it but I don't intend to pay for it
