People Going Apeshit over Hogwarts Legacy

[Jarhyn]

if this game is loyal to the books I can understand why people love the series.

From what I've seen it is very loyal to the books, if taking place about 90 years before them.

Loved the books. The first two movies were great, but then they started having the problem of an accurate book to film would be about 6 hours long, so they started changing stuff. Still not bad, but would recommend the books to anyone interested.

Same. I wouldn't tell my kids not to read it, but I would also direct them to other literature as well, and have a conversation some time about certain things.

 

[Politesse]

I don't judge the quality of the work by the adherence to my social views.

Really, now? You don't mind the "Woke scourge" that so many of your conservative compatriots believe is "ruining art", etc? Both political factions seem to be ramping up on these kinds of arguments concerning books and media that offend them due to the perceived political leanings of the author.

 

[Jarhyn]

I don't judge the quality of the work by the adherence to my social views.

Really, now? You don't mind the "Woke scourge" that so many of your conservative compatriots believe is "ruining art", etc? Both political factions seem to be ramping up on these kinds of arguments concerning books and media that offend them due to the perceived political leanings of the author.

It's battle lines being drawn. Note, I think it pays to look at who is critical about calls to ban media.

Nobody but the really conservative Christians want Harry Potter banned, and the most that a lot of it warrants is a discussion about hidden antisemitic stereotypes.

In fact it's a tiny minority screeching about this game, too. As I pointed out in the OP, the game is actually pretty trans-affirming.

The reason I think the game is shit is the fact that on normally acceptable graphics settings, it was rendering anuses instead of eye sockets, and "medium" textures were just mutilated blurs.

 

[Politesse]

The reason I think the game is shit is the fact that on normally acceptable graphics settings, it was rendering anuses instead of eye sockets, and "medium" textures were just mutilated blurs.

I'm surprised when a modern game looks that bad, even on low settings. I tried to load up Age of Empires IV on an older computer while my proper one was on the fritz once, and hoo boy. Nothing but indistinguishable blobs on the screen. There's not really a point in having lower graphics setting as an option, if the game is unplayable in that mode.

It's battle lines being drawn. Note, I think it pays to look at who is critical about calls to ban media.

Nobody but the really conservative Christians want Harry Potter banned, and the most that a lot of it warrants is a discussion about hidden antisemitic stereotypes.

Personally I'm not a fan of Rowling, her series, or her politics, but I never really was to begin with, so that is not too surprising. I quite enjoyed the first few books, which I read all together after watching Alfonso Cuaron's excellent movie adaptation of book three. But I wasn't a fan per se, and I'd definitely caught on to the strong Thatcherite vibes by book three. She only doubled down, and I was beginning to get seriously annoyed with the series by the time I'd made it through the penultimate volume, having realized that the "heroes" of the books had no intention of solving any of the issues the books had posed - slavery, intolerance, child abuse, classism, time travel, warring houses, death and immortality - except by killing Voldemort. As indeed they did not. Off a bad guy and all your other problems will go away somehow, Reaganism in a jar. It's a book series positively stuffed with themes and plotlines that it never bothers to resolve, and consequently I enjoy fan works within the universe better than the books themselves. Other people just write the series better.

I'm not one to ban books, though, or for the most part, to tell others what to read. If anything, when I truly dislike a book or film or what have you, I want my audience to have read it, so they'll know what I'm talking about when I'm bitching about it. My dear long-suffering partner is accustomed to me texting some god-orsaken cryptofascist article from the internet basement and going "read this fucking shit!" But, I'm not playing an entire open world style game just so I'll have something to complain about!

 

[Gospel]

Honestly, all you need is about 30 people to make it seem like millions are protesting on the internet. Twitch streamers aren't known to have thick skins so just 30 people on popular streamers chat box being viewed by millions is enough to make it seem huge. Then our news media picks it up, other Streamers pick it up, content creators on YouTube pick it up, individuals post on Twitter, reddit & Facebook and next thing ya know BANG we got the appearance of multimillions of people upset over this game.

 

[Patooka]

Honestly, all you need is about 30 people to make it seem like millions are protesting on the internet. Twitch streamers aren't known to have thick skins so just 30 people on popular streamers chat box being viewed by millions is enough to make it seem huge. Then our news media picks it up, other Streamers pick it up, content creators on YouTube pick it up, individuals post on Twitter, reddit & Facebook and next thing ya know BANG we got the appearance of multimillions of people upset over this game.

Pretty certain most semi-known twitch players have some sort of moderator team to weed out the dickishness. It would require more than 30 people to accomplish what was done to Girlfriend Reviews, for example.

 

[Gospel]

I feel you on that. Too bad not all streamers are the same. What I said is exactly how this all unfolded. What's silly about this is J. K. Rowling has more revenue streams than this video game. She has, Universal Studios, Nintendo, Sony, Warner Brothers for example and the obvious ALL HER BOOKS yet all of a sudden, a singular video game is the focus of protests. Not to mention the irony of using Twitter as their platform to protest when Elon isn't exactly Trans friendly. It's just all so odd.

Edit: Reason I'm saying this is I don't believe this is coming from the usual well organized and focused groups representing the Trans community but it will reflect bad on them.

 

[marc]

Hmm.... could some of the outrage be phony? Like people who don't like Harry Potter because it teaches witchcraft egging on the trans community and supporters so we fight each other?

 

[Patooka]

Hmm.... could some of the outrage be phony? Like people who don't like Harry Potter because it teaches witchcraft egging on the trans community and supporters so we fight each other?

Absolutely 100% a lot of the outrage is phony. Being an absolute cunt on the internet was a concept that originally came from the gaming community and gave us such charming individuals like Sargon of Akkad and Davis Aurini. To add a bit of context, a lot of people who claimed to be outraged by this Harry Potter game will in a few days time are going to claim to be outraged when Atomic Heart gets released. Twitch gamers are already pre-empting the impending outrage over this one.

 

[Gospel]

Yes, Atomic Heart is definitely next. And with how incredibly stupid some of our government officials are, it has the potential to get dumber considering the controversy will be around Russia And Ukraine.

 

[TomC]

Pretty certain most semi-known twitch players have some sort of moderator team to weed out the dickishness.

Could someone explain the word "twitch" in this context?

Dumb it down enough for someone who doesn't know or care about video games, internet celebrities, or what is going viral since I woke up this morning.
Tom

 

[marc]

Pretty certain most semi-known twitch players have some sort of moderator team to weed out the dickishness.

Could someone explain the word "twitch" in this context?

Dumb it down enough for someone who doesn't know or care about video games, internet celebrities, or what is going viral since I woke up this morning.
Tom

Twitch is an application, can be used on computers, phones, game consoles, etc.
It started primarily of a way people could stream themselves playing video games. Any game you want you can do a search and find videos, live or recorded, of people playing games. Some set it up so you can see them playing as well as their screen, you can also see comments and submit comments as they are playing.

It can be used for other videos as well, such as a company putting up announcements of upcoming products, promotions, etc.

 

[TomC]

Pretty certain most semi-known twitch players have some sort of moderator team to weed out the dickishness.

Could someone explain the word "twitch" in this context?

Dumb it down enough for someone who doesn't know or care about video games, internet celebrities, or what is going viral since I woke up this morning.
Tom

Twitch is an application, can be used on computers, phones, game consoles, etc.
It started primarily of a way people could stream themselves playing video games. Any game you want you can do a search and find videos, live or recorded, of people playing games. Some set it up so you can see them playing as well as their screen, you can also see comments and submit comments as they are playing.

It can be used for other videos as well, such as a company putting up announcements of upcoming products, promotions, etc.

Thank you.
I appreciate your efforts.

It makes me even less hopeful about mankind's future, but still. Thanks for showing me yet another sub-basement in the abyss.
Tim

 

[bilby]

Pretty certain most semi-known twitch players have some sort of moderator team to weed out the dickishness.

Could someone explain the word "twitch" in this context?

Dumb it down enough for someone who doesn't know or care about video games, internet celebrities, or what is going viral since I woke up this morning.
Tom

Twitch is an application, can be used on computers, phones, game consoles, etc.
It started primarily of a way people could stream themselves playing video games. Any game you want you can do a search and find videos, live or recorded, of people playing games. Some set it up so you can see them playing as well as their screen, you can also see comments and submit comments as they are playing.

It can be used for other videos as well, such as a company putting up announcements of upcoming products, promotions, etc.

In my day we just leaned against the side of the cabinet and offered helpful advice like "Get the UFO! Get the UFO!", in case the person playing had suddenly and inexplicably been struck blind in the middle of a game of Space Invaders.

Those cabinets were huge and really heavy, because they had a giant black and white cathode ray tube screen in the base. This showed the game in reverse, and the player looked at a mirror that not only reflected the screen so that it was the right way around, but also had strips of coloured cellophane glued to it, so that graphics at different heights would appear to be different colours.

And when you finished playing, you could buy an ice cream, get the tram home, and still have change from a farthing...

 

[Jarhyn]

I feel you on that. Too bad not all streamers are the same. What I said is exactly how this all unfolded. What's silly about this is J. K. Rowling has more revenue streams than this video game. She has, Universal Studios, Nintendo, Sony, Warner Brothers for example and the obvious ALL HER BOOKS yet all of a sudden, a singular video game is the focus of protests. Not to mention the irony of using Twitter as their platform to protest when Elon isn't exactly Trans friendly. It's just all so odd.

Edit: Reason I'm saying this is I don't believe this is coming from the usual well organized and focused groups representing the Trans community but it will reflect bad on them.

It feels in many ways like an attack on the trans community seeing as the game is anything but anti-trans.

I repeat, you select the details about them before you put a gender on them, and there's some sort of trans character something?

People object to Rowling and Co's ham-handed tug at getting the state to weigh on "man" and "woman", but this feels like something done by an ad team to help a game that has horrible anus eyes monstrosities on medium settings.

 

[Gospel]

Here is decent coverage on the incoming Atomic Heart controversy.

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