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Data Graham posted:The American school would be called Thoughtsprayers Just sprayin' them thoughts willy-nilly, the cute lil' bastards
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Johnny Aztec posted:Im amazed Rowling hasn't pumped out books set at the other schools. in order to do that she would have needed to give them literally any thought other than "French school pretty girls" and "German school evil"
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Aug 11, 2020 02:46
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Memento posted:in order to do that she would have needed to give them literally any thought other than "French school pretty girls" and "German school evil" Hell if she ever gets old and sells rights to write in the franchise someone will do that poo poo in a heartbeat.
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Aug 11, 2020 02:56
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I thought it was "German school beefy dudes"
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Aug 11, 2020 03:05
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Did y'all forget this? https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1234558864575602688
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Aug 11, 2020 03:11
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Doesn't Europe have like 5 schools while Asia, and Africa have one each and the Americas have two? e: beaten like a dead horse 
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Aug 11, 2020 03:13
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bike tory posted:I thought it was "German school beefy dudes" There's German, Russian, and Bulgarian in there so I don't think it's supposed to be one specific Eastern European country only.
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ultrafilter posted:Did y'all forget this? Italians, Greeks, and Afghans aren't fully magic, I guess.
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MizPiz posted:Italians, Greeks, and Afghans aren't fully magic, I guess. All their magic points went into spices.
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Aug 11, 2020 04:29
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Johnny Aztec posted:Im amazed Rowling hasn't pumped out books set at the other schools. My understanding is that Rowling did what every wealthy Boomer does: assume that her success is a result of amazing talent and hard work, and not just reasonable skill combined with amazing luck and connections. Literally everything she's done after finishing Harry Potter has only shown that she wasn't all that great. She touched on the universe a bit afterwards, but I'm guessing she quickly found that she could only ever make it worse. To her credit somewhat I guess, she seems to have realized that she was the George Lucas of the Harry Potter universe earlier than George Lucas realized what he was to the Star Wars universe. The more she does with Harry Potter, the faster that legacy falls apart. She's only lucky it built up so high before she finished it. Though given how feverishly she seems to be making GBS threads on trans people and turning away her fans, maybe she hasn't learned as much as I'm giving her credit for.
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Aug 11, 2020 04:38
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Ah yes, the well known BFFs of Asia: India, Pakistan, and China.
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Aug 11, 2020 04:54
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Did she actually name the African school Uagadou? Does that mean it's in Burkina Faso and they teach all their classes in French? Or maybe one of the hundreds of languages in West Africa?
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Aug 11, 2020 04:59
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I think we had this derail like a week ago. I’m sure we can all find something more mature and productive to argue about in the funny pictures thread, where people post funny pictures and other people come to look at the funny pictures and laugh. 
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Aug 11, 2020 05:01
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ultrafilter posted:Did y'all forget this? There's 1 school for the 2.5 billion people in India/China. I'm beginning to think the author of Harry Potter isn't the mega brain genius I thought she was. But Japan gets its own loving school.
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The Maestro posted:I think we had this derail like a week ago. I’m sure we can all find something more mature and productive to argue about in the funny pictures thread, where people post funny pictures and other people come to look at the funny pictures and laugh. Agreed, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!
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Funky See Funky Do posted:There's 1 school for the 2.5 billion people in India/China. I'm beginning to think the author of Harry Potter isn't the mega brain genius I thought she was. It's even worse, that School #10 region is about 3.25 billion people, over 40% of the worlds population.
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Scholtz posted:If Hogwarts was an American school? Look at the station building just before the end of the second clip.
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bike tory posted:I thought it was "German school beefy dudes" "Durmstrang" is just a (meaningless) spoonerism.
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HPanda posted:Literally everything she's done after finishing Harry Potter has only shown that she wasn't all that great. She touched on the universe a bit afterwards, but I'm guessing she quickly found that she could only ever make it worse. To her credit somewhat I guess, she seems to have realized that she was the George Lucas of the Harry Potter universe earlier than George Lucas realized what he was to the Star Wars universe. Rowling deserves a little more credit than George, she managed to stick the landing with seven books and didn't start loving up till that stage play came out. George started screwing the pooch immediately after Empre released and never looked back since. Her first work outside the Potter bubble was The Casual Vacancy; George's was Howard the Duck. Not even the same ballpark of bad here. Once she got the ball rolling she started doing damage to her lore, just not at the same pace and level that Lucas did for, what, thirty goddamn years? That guy could write a book on how to murder a franchise. But yeah, the hot takes on the trans community have really not helped her one bit!
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I will, to my dying breath, defend Howard the Duck. 
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Aug 11, 2020 06:02
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hehehe, "maclunkey"
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Funky See Funky Do posted:There's 1 school for the 2.5 billion people in India/China. I'm beginning to think the author of Harry Potter isn't the mega brain genius I thought she was. Japan and Korea  I can only imagine the classes with the kids holding lethal weapons.
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Aug 11, 2020 06:34
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Funky See Funky Do posted:There's 1 school for the 2.5 billion people in India/China. I'm beginning to think the author of Harry Potter isn't the mega brain genius I thought she was. Man wait until you hear about how resources are distributed in the real world
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Aug 11, 2020 06:56
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I didn't know people still cared about Harry Potter Those movies were so drat bad
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Fartbox posted:I didn't know people still cared about Harry Potter The first few were okay adaptations, the problem was the books got progressively longer and they had to start gutting them to fit a 2-hour-ish runtime.
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Aug 11, 2020 07:02
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Without the movies we wouldn't have been able to see Voldemort sending Ron a vision of Hermione and Harry getting their gently caress on.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The first few were okay adaptations, the problem was the books got progressively longer and they had to start gutting them to fit a 2-hour-ish runtime. I feel like every other decade we get a creator with a runaway franchise success who manages to run it off a cliff. Lucas - anything after EST Rowling - post-Potter retconning George R.R. Martin - drops the ball to complete a book saga so HBO ruins it for him with his blessing
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Funky See Funky Do posted:But Japan gets its own loving school. And the name of the school is... Magic School.
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Aug 11, 2020 08:07
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"My wife is completely bone dry and she told me thats normal"
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Parrotine posted:I feel like every other decade we get a creator with a runaway franchise success who manages to run it off a cliff. I do hear GRRM has among other issues tried so hard to subvert expectations that he's written himself into a corner because he has no idea what to do next and probably can't remember half the plot points by now
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All I know is that the most recent book was a dog's breakfast and I'm not going to bother with the next one. Of course, at nine and a half years ago, "recent" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that last sentence. https://i.imgur.com/RXUqAjK.mp4 "help me! I'm getting away!"
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I can't stop giggling irl in awe of this thick frog's horny energy
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Chard posted:in awe of this thick frog's horny energy Pretty sure that makes it a toad
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Memento posted:
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Beachcomber posted:I'm so afraid for her. She definitely shouldn't be in the deep end flailing around like that. you see her bounce off the bottom she's fine
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do hear GRRM has among other issues tried so hard to subvert expectations that he's written himself into a corner because he has no idea what to do next and probably can't remember half the plot points by now So tired of people trying to do this. "Oh no, the infinite monkeys on Reddit guessed the big gimmick, better throw everything into the trash and push out some random garbage." The second season of Westworld is usually touted as a big example of this. But, given the third season, I'm not so sure any more. If people have used what is in your books/show to extrapolate where it's going, that means you've done something right. So what if a few internet nerds get to crow about how they "called it"? 99% of your audience will have never heard of them and will enjoy what you're making.
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