Literally just pirate it if you can't control your desire for treats God people are nuts
disconnect the artist from the art
1 - That's a reasonable stance in terms of media criticism. The question wasn't media criticism. Don't give money to people who will then use it to fight against trans rights.
2 - Having separated the artist from the art, this is a game about oppressing bags of antisemetic stereotypes.
Oh bless me trans queen, give me permission to play the Harry Potter game! I promise to whip myself in penance.
GO TO THE TREAT GULAG ARCHIPELAGO G*MER! YOU SHALL NOT DRINK ZE TRANSGAMERGURL BATHWATER YOU LIKING THINGS IS EVUL!
I think we've helped embolden a lot of trans people to stand up for themselves on this because of the noise that has been made whereas before they might have shriveled up and gone quiet about it when asked in order to avoid any potential trouble. Much easier to hold your views and stick to your guns when you're emboldened by a large crowd of supportive people via the internet.
This is something I want to eventually achieve with people and openly being proud of being communists instead of the shriveling up about it so many do. Pushing it into the mainstream in the same way as this isn't quite there yet partly because we don't have large enough platforms (yet) but I think we're on the way.
I'm british so it's a bit different over here, we start from a position of no red scares and half the population generally having a good opinion of "socialism" even if they don't fundamentally know what that means. There's considerably more understanding of class politics here so starting from an explanation of class and private property is simple. I never really start with an explanation of communism, I always start with an explanation of capitalism, its class system and property creating an exploiter and exploited relationship then move onto how you can change that that.
The people genuinely feeling that exploitation will be really into it and the people not feeling that exploitation because they're too comfortable will either be reasonably positive but with the wrong conditions to be revolutionary or they'll be like "But what about 100 gorillion dead?". Depending on the result I'm then either trying to send them to follow social media / content creators that they might view daily/weekly where their understanding will then expand over time and they'll interact with other communists who will also teach them. Or I'm moving on and not wasting my time further.
Occasionally I'll go out of my way to intentionally give someone an extremely negative experience if I think it's what's necessary to open up that person. I don't look at my interactions with others as existing in a vacuum, we are a movement made up of millions of people and your interaction with someone is unlikely to be the only interaction that person ever has with a communist or anarchist. A negative experience might encourage a person to behave slightly differently for the next person than they did for me, making it more possible for that person to make a breakthrough where it was very obvious I could not due to the bs being pulled. That's a very personal and careful judgement I make based purely on vibes though.
The key for me is really teaching them some of the basics and then getting down to something that person physically feels. You get a pretty clear idea of what kind of person you're dealing with once you get to the point where they will or will not have direct experience with the feeling of exploitation you're talking about.
I'm extremely dismissive of people when they try to go to China propaganda. Literally to the point of eyerolling and laughing at them about listening to rightwing media. A firm anti-media position is all that can be done. Depending on who I'm talking to I might respond with "oh you're willing to dismiss the obvious propaganda when it's terf shit but not when it's anything else lol".
How young are we talking? I think people in 15-30 age range haven't hit the wall in terms of their careers and still have a bright eyed view of their potential futures. Once people hit that 30+ mark things start to significantly change as changing careers becomes less likely and doorways start to close. The reality of the exploitative system they exist within settles in.
Comfortable middle income Brits are absolutely a lost cause all they do is go on holidays and watch Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent or other drivel on tv. You won't even get them to acknowledge flying is a major ecological problem because they do it every year even if they agree climate change is real and a crisis. They're some of the most selfish fucks in the country firmly entrenched in a petit boug mindset even if they don't have petit boug incomes. It's why they fucking love neoliberals like Starmer so much, he's playing into them and expecting the rest of us to fall in line behind "not the tories" despite despising him.
I am extremely self-confident and completely willing to stand my ground but that also comes from having engaged in discussion enough to feel confident in either dismissing or handwaving when necessary. Ultimately if you do it enough you build up your responses and ability to handle situations, you get better at it. Pretty much all these conversations have a flowchart that you eventually build out and become repetitiously better and better at.
Haha it's ok I do get some of this. There is an entrenched belief among a lot of people in the country that they "understand economics" and yet they'll use the BBC's old description of the national debt being like household debt whenever you talk about spending. They are people that fundamentally know nothing but believe they are very knowledgable.
I aim to get away from this crowd and deeper into poorer groups. I particularly like getting into the community via allotments, which tend to have pretty strong networks of people that you can tap into to meet groups of very poor but well connected people in a local area. The poorer people in an area tend to know shit-load of the locals because I guess when you're poor your social group forcefully must be closer and closer to home.
There's a lot of brainworms that exists in these spaces, especially if they read anything american, I come across q anon stuff more frequently than I want to, but they're easier people to talk to because they fundamentally feel that SOMETHING is fucking them over. A lot of them redirect that to a vague "establishment" or illuminati conspiracyism and shit but it's the feeling of exploitation. If you know any people into that kind of shit, they can be redirected towards marxist things that better explain the feelings they have more clearly.
I do think the way you carry yourself is a major factor here too. Being entirely unflinching and unembarrassed tends to get me a much better response from people than many years ago when I carried myself with more uncertainty. People feed off of it in one direction or the other.
Local trans girl bullies landlord to tears by telling them repeatedly to “get mao’d”. When pressed the assailant described her vicious attack as “exercising more confidence” in herself.
Lmao I don't tend to be quite like that, just unashamedly "I am a communist, the communist view is xyz". Then I'll sidestep or go into topics based on whether I think it's worth it or not.
I had a few people come asking me for my blessing to play it and still be allies
IT'S NOT ABOUT UR PERSONAL VIRTUE JFC I HATE LIBERALISM, I HATE INGRAINED CALVINIST WORLDVIEW
Like they could play Star Wars: Jedi Tweenager or something. There's a ton of good wizard games like Noita or, hell, Magicka. There's Cult of the Lamb if you want zany magic horror comedy. There's Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. There's Elden Ring. There's tons of games that aren't the terf blood libel game. This shouldn't be hard.
Plus you get to beat the shit out of those prep school pricks with a giant tree branch.
The three pillars of civilization
1.) Do you return the shopping cart?
2.) Did you buy the terf blood libel game?
3.) Do you wear a mask?
Maybe throw in something about leaving the toilet seat up, too.
I’m planning to pirate it because my partner and I want to see the trainwreck
Vanguarding works folks, even in the digital space.
I genuinely don't think this would be happening at resetera if we didn't drum all of this up using GCJ first. And you have to think of the knock on effects, a lot of industry people are openly active at resetera. While I'm sure that some lurk GCJ it's quite easy for that platform to get fobbed off for being a joke, but when it is the tip of the spear for others following through the influence on industry workers is significant.
If it makes some workers out there question the content and themes that they're putting into their games more, there's a win in that beyond just the anti-JK bullshit.
Every time I hear this I bring up Kanye and ask if they think people should still buy his shit after "I like Hitler".
Once they establish that there is a point at which it is ok to start thinking that stuff is unacceptable you're just haggling for how unacceptable it needs to be. They then have to admit that they're ok with fucking over trans people but not ok with hitler, it forces self-reflection.
Spoil that ending for me? I tapped out near the annie* reveal
I'm also very surprised by this. It won't stop things entirely, but I hope you're right and more people actually analyze how messed up this game is.
Can't wait to :snipes-hesitation: unfollow every twitch streamer who decides to play it. Hasan included.
I don't understand why Europeans and Americans are so allergic to pirating shit, just use a VPN, we don't care at all here in South America.
i hear that one person is trans. so its a toss up between them doing this to fuck jowling or not doing this because they find it lame. fingers crossed.
Resetera may be the most libshit forum imaginable, but every now and then they can do something based.
The thing is most gaming spaces online are at best Libertarian at worst outright chuds. Resetera just being obnoxious libs makes them almost good on many gaming takes....just dont talk with them about politics or China or really anything other than gaming.
They seem to have multiple threads a year arguing about whether RedLetterMedia is alt-right
Restera is the kind of place that is still mourning over her :hillary: loss
literally the only "content creators" i wouldn't drop for playing this would be the shriekcast. even if it's pirated! just don't play the wizard game, it looks bad and even pirating it makes me not trust you
Good. Fuck J K Rowling. Fuck her legacy (pun intended) She made her bed. Now she can lay down in it.
I say this as a guy who loved the first four books as a kid. I like Black Metal but it's a problematic genre so I do my research to make sure my money isn't going to bigots. Never assumed I'd have to do the same for a series of kid's books about a magical orphan. World is a fuck.
More valuable to have it here and have it be explicitly negative no?
Resetera's decision seems like a good approach to just eliminating it altogether along with any issues that might arise with people trying to rehabilitate it if it turns out to be good. Over here we can just ban any fuckers that try to do that and gain much more by being a vanguard discussion space where things get discussed initially in a safe environment before calcifying into something that spreads elsewhere. I would argue that if this place didn't exist, and CTH before it, this wouldn't be happening on GCJ and wouldn't be happening on Resetera. This space and the space before it have been preliminary influencers of this.
yeah nobody is gonna show up here and be like "hey, uh, does anyone think that the magical beast cruelty tree is OP? I'm doing a magical race slurs build and..."
Game looks boring so no big loss anyways, avoid a shitty game and you don't support a tranphobe
win win
because trans people don't want to see the jk rowling game be successful, especially when a gamergater was one of the lead designers
Rowling's transphobia and also the plot of the game is to suppress a revolt by an anti-semitic stereotype (Goblins)
The big-nosed bankers who control all the gold are also kidnapping wizard children for unspecified reasons.
