Outside of the controversy, this game really feels ten years late.
It also just doesn't look like a good game :edgeworth-shrug:
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really the case for anything and everything Harry Potter.
I have genuine fond memories of reading them with my mom and class as a kid, as well as seeing the movies, but they really didn't age well, which has only been aggravated by Rowling being a bigot.
it's really incredible how much Rowling managed to fuck up her legacy and the legacy of her books.
Like, if she'd just been generally supportive of inclusion or even just kept her dang mouth shut, people would probably still love the HP stuff. Collectively, people were ready to give her a pass for the mediocre writing, shitty naming, and even the more problematic content. But she turns out to be a massive TERF and everyone just went "ok, you know what? yeah. let's talk about it. you suck at writing and your books are pretty damn racist."
Something that doesn’t get mentioned in this Hasan/Streamer controversy regarding the game.
The fucking developers recognise the importance of Twitch. They are giving exclusive benefits to Twitch viewers who watch people streaming the game.
But somehow streamers say it doesn’t matter if they stream the game or not.
The mod queue in r/gamingcirclejerk reaches 100 roughly an hour. :blob-help:
the tweets about this game are honestly top shelf.
my favorite so far is "once you beat the game, you're taken back to the character. there, you can decide whether your character was actually gay this whole time!"
Can you imagine these leftists who argue for this game actually trying to organize? Someone whose reaction to this is "Uh actually it's a consumer boycott and therefore not effective🤓" must be just incapable of solidarity of any kind. Genuinely, unironically doing the "there are starving people in Africa" argument at trans people asking for recognition. Absolutely 0 self-awareness.
At no point did anyone on the left call it a boycott. At no point was anyone seriously trying to boycott the game but instead to simply tell people they're being dicks to trans people if they pay for the terf game.
Boycott was a word given to it by the right, probably thought up by some pretty good strategists who knew full well that it could convince some leftists and libs to play it because "boycotts don't work".
I can't wait to until these leftists find out what happens to actual effective leftists movements hand wringing about something easy and safe while all the time insisting that they really want to do what is necessary to get organized state violence at their door.
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This "Goblin Artifact" is in fact an ancient Jewish musical instrument. A Shofar.
The team that made this game has explicitly leaned into the "goblins are jews" antisemitism.
just following in the movie's footsteps with putting six-pointed stars in the bank when that was never in the book
Tbf that is just the floor of the actual building that was filmed in.
But hey maybe uh, pick a different filming location. Or cover it up.
I thought Rowling had a reputation for demanding close control over her movies, though. Considering her track record of high-visibility dogwhistling (like her pen name), I have a hard time believing that the stars of David weren't a factor in choosing the set location
If it was a coincidence, then she must have been over the moon about her luck
Oh absolutely. At the very best it was something that someone should’ve noticed and said “Hey maybe we should cover that up” but I 100% think Rowling saw it and was like “This set’s perfect!”
What’s her name a dog whistle for?
Since 2013 she's been publishing her pulp mystery as Robert Galbraith
The most notable person with that name is the MKUltra-ass psychiatrist who invented 'gay conversion therapy', Robert Galbraith Heath
There's gotta be what, like 5 other video games that you could be playing instead of the wizard game. Tetris, Farming Simulator 19, Jagged Alliance 2, Myst (1993), and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. There might even be more than that but I'm not sure.
Dwarf Fortress is the only state approved game.
:1984: keep your cats indoors. wash your ass. dont stack rocks. dont play the nazi wizard game. :19: :84:
was there an actual struggle session I missed about whether or not people should wash their ass
Not really. A user got really into the idea that bidets are bourgeoise decadence but everyone on that thread was pro washing their ass
Did your food have pronouns? :vegan-v:
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Replying with spoilers for transphobic game to everyone defending it in reddit
Update: banned from subs, whiny responses and reddit suicide awareness bot sent to me
Unironcially how we should troll people. Telling people that the game has a nazi agenda will only improve its popularity, or people will get off on being bad by playing the game.
If you tell them spoilers, CHUDs actually occasionally drop their smug, always-in-control grin. Nothing is more satisfying than watching them undergo narcissistic injury.
what are the spoilers? I also want to do this
Eleazar Fig dies at the end of the game. This happens on all possible endings and can't be changed. Also, the fact that Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne.
Is the copy paste
Tbh Sirona Ryan seems like a decent name all things considered, Sirona apparently has a buncha mythological shit behind it so that's on brand for transfem names.
Totally get why people are clowning on it though, pretty funny.
if a real woman chose it as her name i wouldn't be shocked, but as is i wouldn't be surprised if someone leaks that it was an actively malicious choice
Sirona is also a goddess of snakes, eggs, and mimicry so uhh
Is it even worth pirating? It seems like they distilled all the current gaming trends into a mediocre game and painted hairy poter over it. That IGN article read like they didn't like the game but weren't allowed to score it less than a 9
Game reviews are legendary for being bought and paid for, the only thing that's gotten better is at least they're not printed on paper anymore
The reason gamergate was able to use "ethics in games journalism" as an effective trojan horse is because it was a real grievance that gamers had.
Of course we will now see how that crowd drops that facade like a rock when it's convenient to prop up a transphobic game.
Bullying works. Streamers mad they can't play Hogwarts.
https://nitter.net/Dexerto/status/1622993029584809985 https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1622993029584809985
Frankly it’s sad that hasan’s only reason is because of chat yelling at him and not because of the obvious problems of the game. But that’s why I don’t follow politics streamers.
I heard third-hand that the Harry Potter game's official discord server has auto-banned the words "Jew" and "Jewish."
lol
I don't think that's uncommon. A lot of pre-populated ban lists will do stuff like that to try to head off nazi shit-flinging before it starts.
are they going to ban "goblin" because the dogwhistles are built into their own lore
That's probably why those words are banned.
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