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?!?!
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.
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.
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:
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 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?!?!
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.
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:
:this-is-fine:
It's story is about the goblins, apparently.
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.