like, it's one video game, you really don't have to play it. What the fuck are you missing out on? The blood libel plot? Pathetic. Because you like Harry Potter? Holy shit, lmao, you like Harry Potter? In 2023? :miyazaki-laugh:
I've simply not played hundreds of games for so much pettier reasons. Why do you have to play the wizard game? I would simply not give the TERF lady royalties. Not even just because she's actively harming trans people with that cash, but because Harry Potter is for fucking dweebs.
I've even seen like, radlibs pull this shit. Imagine pulling the "no ethical consumption under capitalism" line about Harry Potter. Are you hearing yourself? For Harry Potter? You're pulling it for Harry Potter? Of all things? Are you hearing yourself? Do you hear how you sound?
I'm going to be honest: this culture war issue just doesn't interest me anymore. I sort of wish I could stop reading about Harry Potter on here.
Honestly as a trans woman the blood libel thing is so much more concerning, and I dont mean to minimize the transphobia, its bad folks, but from what I've heard antisemitic caricature goblins literally try to steal the young protagonist's blood?
Corbyn says something mildly critical of Israel British press:Look at this raging antisemite! :NOOOOO:
JK Rowling doubling down and defending her Jewish caricatures British press: Haha, wholesome wizard fantasy land:so-true:
Blows my mind that she's surely heard criticism on that and then just doubled down to make the antisemitism even more obvious. Hands-down if being that antisemitic was as acceptable as transphobia now she'd be tweeting gross things about Jews too.
Liberals: "We support Jews, as long as they live over there and kill brown people. Any other position is antisemitism."
trans and Jewish :yea:
Honestly I’ve given up hope on gamers having media literacy so I’m just defaulting to bullying them to make them feel bad but what the actual fuck is that plot, that should set off immediate red flags regardless of the author :what-the-hell:
same, i actually would like to see a lot more outrage over how deeply fucking antisemitic it is. it's honestly nauseating how close to straight-up Nazi fucking propaganda it seems to be
If it wasn't a fantasy setting it would literally just be normal blood libel
The funny thing to me is the whole “the studio is a cash-in shovelware developer” thing but everyone’s acting like this is some prestige drop like a new dark souls or something lol
I genuinely think it’s because trans people are speaking out against it and they’re pearl-clutching to the extreme. Like, even if we’re considering the tie-in. You simply don’t get this kind of hype for a Marvel game, an infinitely more relevant IP in modern day than Harry Potter.
Probably the game will be below average but youtubies like the quartering will instruct their users to vote brigade the game review sites so the audience scores will be like 90% when the critic score is probably below 50%.
I see on android 100s of garbage shovelware games with 4.5/5 stars, so I'm use to it.
yeah this game only sells because people were against it publiclly.
You're telling people not to play the wizard game because the author is a transphobe.
I'm telling people not to play the game because Percy Jackson is the superior YA series.
We are not the same.
Me, before J.K. Rowling outed herself as a transphobe: Harry Potter is dumb and lame
Me, after J.K. Rowling outed herself as a transphobe: Harry Potter is dumb and lame and also J.K. Rowling is a transphobe
Harry Potter is dumb and lame
I'm still confused how it got so popular. Diskworld is right there.
Remember when everyone made fun of JK Rowling for stuff like making characters retroactively gay (but they never display it in the actual books)
OK, this is one criticism I will actually bother to push back on. Dumbledore/Gindenwald was absolutely subtextually gay in nature and a lot of fans were suspecting that Dumbledore was gay before it was confirmed by Rowling. I remember it distinctly.
yeah, dumbledore was definitely planned to be gay. it was because she needed him to be tempted by his evil nazi boyfriend, but it was definitely there
I’ve always preferred Seaweed Brain to Lightning McScar Face. So excited for the new tv show!
With Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus! Ding, ding, ding, that's the slop bell and I'm the hungry pig.
Someone on here called this 'Freikorps Wizard Simulator' yesterday and now I'm not able to refer to it as anything but that.
I think Magic Waffen SS is already some black metal band's name.
Your honor, my client cannot be criticized for attending a screening of Birth of a Nation. Simply, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism :saul-stare:
Me, buying and posting about my buying of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: who is to say what manner of consumption under capitalism is ethical?
nihilistic capitalist apologia from self-professed "left leaning" people is the one thing that boils my blood like nothing else. i cannot fucking stand people dropping that "no ethical consumption" line to justify them doing actively harmful things with their money. the fucking sentiment of that statement is meant to be that you cannot engage with a market in a moral manner, not that you should be completely excused from responsibility for your own actions because other people are also funding genocides :hypersus:
Being into Harry Potter in 2023? For the love of Inanna go read fan fiction about it like a normal person. As a plus that shit is way better written than what Rowling ever shat out.
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I got into a long argument with someone over using the no ethical consumption line for getting the Harry Shitter game.
They act like the game is as necessary as food. I'm also seeing people pop out of the woodwork in my own life who keep saying "oh but its important to me it was my childhood" from people who have never once uttered the words "harry potter" in all the time I've known them.
Anyway I'm bullying anyone who says they're getting the game.
every day i'm further coming around to the idea that 'no ethical consumption' does not apply to media whatsoever and people using it to run defense for their media consumption habits are extremely privileged and should not be taken seriously
It doesn't apply to media at all and anyone using it for that is just weak willed.
Also why perform mental gymnastics to say you're actually a good person really like just admit you don't care about trans people. Like admit you're selfish and want to play the game why such effort to convince others you are infact good.
The worst ones are the ones that try to fucking genuflect for permission to do the bad thing in marginalized spaces they don’t belong to and make a mockery of themselves for sympathy points. Like, holy shit, you pathetic fucking nerd, the world does not revolve around you and you are not a saint. And you know what, no, I don’t give you permission, what are you gonna do? Do it anyway? Of course you will. Coward.
I hate how JK Rowling is able pretends to be feminist and an anti-rape while still being friends with Marilyn Manson and just recently befriended a convicted statutory rapist that hates trans people. Like I thought being friends with Marilyn and Johnny Depp would end her popularity among TERFs but turns out I learned that once people TERFS their entire lives is just dedicated to make the world worse for trans people.
Can someone explain the blood libel / antisemitism aspect of this game? I'm only finding out about this now and I feel stupid because I don't really understand what's going on.
“The main scheme of the primary antagonist is to kidnap the player character, and harvest their blood for a spell that will wipe out his enemies while aligned with a number of dark wizards.”
Hook-nosed banking goblins seek to ritualistically harvest the blood of a child in order to cast a spell to wipe out their enemies alongside their evil magic collaborators :yea:
holy shit I hadn't heard that that was a plot point until now. There is no fucking way on this earth that that was not put in the game as an intentional dog whistle.
Big nosed, green skinned bankers who believe in the Labor Theory of Value hatch an insidious plot to steal the pure magic blood of a wizard boy and do world domination or something.
Quick, make a powerful slaver caste enforcer who can put down the gobleo-Bolshevik menace
They said it has "CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCE" but we can't even side with the goblins.
Also I heard this is a spoiler but screw it the evil goblin leader literally said goblins deserve their own fruits of labor/
the only choice is if you want to kill the goblins in a Liberal way or in a Fascist way
yes yes same picture etc.
Don’t think that’s a spoiler, goblin law is well known to believe creators have ownership
Big nosed banking goblins are basically Nazi depiction of Jews
bring back bullying people but specifically for continuing to indulge in content created by and/or directly supporting bigots. like yeah, I'll make you feel bad about your consumption choices. gonna cry? gonna piss your pants? your interests are lame and you're weird for them, get better interests. fucking loser :jetstream-troll:
I really don't get the hype, it looks like a shitty Souls knockoff but without any co-op or PvP or any of the multiplayer elements that make me love those games
Hell even just comparing the single player experience of any Souls game makes this look like the garbage it is, Harry Potter has always had terrible lore and almost non existent world building because the neoliberal TERF was just making shit up as she went along
I love how the sorting hat just decides that some children are ontologically evil (slytherin).
If they are so horny for an open world game about blasting magic - Forspoken is right there.
G*mers would play an adaptation of Mein Kampf if the gameplay was semi-competent
