• Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    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.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • Quimby [any, any]@hexbear.netM
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          2 years ago

          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.”

  • ShinyMew [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    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!”

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      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.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Abstraction [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      2 years ago

      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.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      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”.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Virginwarts (L)egacy:

    • Basically play as a death eater…but it’s good this time.
    • Boring gameplay
    • need wand to do magic
    • only hyped up because JK Rowling is a reactionary. The game isn’t good by its own merits.

    The Chad Scrolls V: Skyrim:

    • You play as the Dovahkiin, a bisexual rep from 2011
    • Your enemies include groups that seek to exterminate or dominate your fellow mortals: Dragons, vampires, and Thalmor
    • Don’t have to hold shit to cast spells
    • Dovahkiin can kick Harry Potter’s ass in a fight
    • So perfect of a game that they released it multiple times.
  • UglySpaghettiHoe [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    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

      • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        2 years ago

        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.

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    2 years ago

    I heard third-hand that the Harry Potter game’s official discord server has auto-banned the words “Jew” and “Jewish.”

    lol