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Asterite34 posted:How much can you multiply it? Can you turn a stray crumb into a whole loaf of bread? Can you homeopathy this poo poo and use the logic that "well there must be at least one molecule of food here somewhere?" Edit: see correction below, because my memory is apparently quite bad. Grundulum fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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I never understood how they never had enough food during the endless camping trip in the last book. Like, you can turn invisible and teleport and you have a Bag of Holding, surely you can just steal all you want from grocery stores and stuff?
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Apr 8, 2024 20:19
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Grundulum posted:In the books (I know I know) it’s mentioned that the more you multiply food, the less nutritive value it has. It tastes the same, but you don’t get anything out of it beyond the sensation in your mouth. Does that mean I could multiply some delicious pork ribs 500 times, gorge myself on them and barely gain any weight? Sign me up to this magic poo poo
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Apr 8, 2024 21:43
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I never understood how they never had enough food during the endless camping trip in the last book. Like, you can turn invisible and teleport and you have a Bag of Holding, surely you can just steal all you want from grocery stores and stuff? given the average wizard, let alone the average purebloods, ignorance of the non-wizarding world, they probably could have rented a hotel room for the whole quest.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:13
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Just remembered that in the last book, Voldemort cast a spell on his own moniker so that the Ministry and/or his minions gets alerted any time someone says it. It truly is the equivalent of Rowling egosurfing her own name on Twitter to see if anyone is mocking her lmao.
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Apr 8, 2024 23:14
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Grundulum posted:In the books (I know I know) it’s mentioned that the more you multiply food, the less nutritive value it has. It tastes the same, but you don’t get anything out of it beyond the sensation in your mouth. It doesn't actually say that, and specifically points out that you can multiply what you do have. Problem is they didn't have anything good tasting. By context Ron was complaining about taste not starvation. Hermione's response wasn't just about the magic, she also said he can cook it if hers tastes so bad. So I think the idea is you can magic up a pig, but not bacon. You have to butcher and cook it yourself, though you can use magic to help. Then once you have some, you have infinite
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https://twitter.com/judeinlondon/status/1777685128677892252
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amigolupus posted:Just remembered that in the last book, Voldemort cast a spell on his own moniker so that the Ministry and/or his minions gets alerted any time someone says it. It truly is the equivalent of Rowling egosurfing her own name on Twitter to see if anyone is mocking her lmao. I thought he always could and that's why everyone was so cautious about saying his name? Or is that more poorly-explained asspulls?
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Runcible Cat posted:I thought he always could and that's why everyone was so cautious about saying his name? Or is that more poorly-explained asspulls? When Voldemort and co take over the ministry they modify the thing that detects the use of magic by kids to find people who use his name.
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Runcible Cat posted:I thought he always could and that's why everyone was so cautious about saying his name? Or is that more poorly-explained asspulls? I thought this was the case too.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:13
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Runcible Cat posted:I thought he always could and that's why everyone was so cautious about saying his name? Or is that more poorly-explained asspulls? There's no indication that he did anything similar in the previous war. He was only able to do it the second time because he took over the ministry, which he hadn't done before. And the only reason he did it was that everyone was already scared of saying his name, so only his strongest enemies ever said it, making it useful for finding them. So why was everyone afraid of saying his name in the first place? No idea. Never explained.
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Runcible Cat posted:I thought he always could and that's why everyone was so cautious about saying his name? Or is that more poorly-explained asspulls? Nope, it was something added in book 7. Wizards being so afraid of a guy that they cringe and shudder when they say his name, despite there being no consequence for doing so, fits better back when the series used to be a whimsical children's series. Especially when the epithet they came up with for him was something as silly as You-Know-Who. It doesn't really work with the reveal of Voldemort hating his Muggle name so much that he turned it into a tortured anagram to fashion himself a new name. You'd think people refusing to spread the name Voldemort around would hurt your branding. Doctor Spaceman already mentioned the explanation book 7 gave as to how Voldemort's people can track down others. Execution-wise, you can tell it was something added as an excuse for Rowling to force the plot to move a certain way. Harry and the others got tracked in a Muggle cafe in London, so now they totally can't hang around in a comfortable hotel at all. Harry and Hermione got ambushed by Nagini when they visited the Potter's old home, yet they still didn't wonder what could have tipped Voldemort off they were in the area. And when Ron came back and warned them not to say the name, Harry had to slip up like an idiot just so they can finally finish the camping segment and move the plot to the Malfoy Manor instead. Either way, the idea that Voldemort thinking that only the people who are against him would ever say his name only sort of makes sense with what happens in book 7. It fails to consider that the people who hate his guts would have already come up with ruder names to call him by, especially teenagers. But when viewed in the lens of Rowling becoming Completely Online and scouring social media posts for people being mean to her? It suddenly makes a hilarious amount of sense.
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Narrator: "It was her."
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Apr 9, 2024 23:45
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Her books where people specifically can magically change gender
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Mx. posted:Her books where people specifically can magically change gender Again, I don't think that's the own some people think it is because the way that ability is used in the books is precisely the way that transphobes claim transpeople are using it IRL: as artifice to enable a deception.
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that's some bad writing, that is
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Again, I don't think that's the own some people think it is because the way that ability is used in the books is precisely the way that transphobes claim transpeople are using it IRL: as artifice to enable a deception. That, and because she and the transphobes believe the "true" gender is intrinsically tied to the genitalia they were born with. So yeah when Harry polyjuices into a woman he is still a "he", and that when someone transitions they are still the gender that "matches" the genitalia they were born with. It sucks.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The shift in how magic works is one of the weirdest things in the inconsistent world building of the setting. I guess maybe the problem was when she stopped drawing from children's lit where a lot of her more whimsical or supernatural ideas came from? The shift in book 4/5 is when you can tell she bought into the idea that she was writing the greatest modern fiction stories, so she needed to "adult up" the setting and 90% of fights became shooting magic bullets around. Because she's kind of dull, and wasn't referencing stories that used magic in an interesting ways, she couldn't contemplate the truly horrific potential magic opens up in a more "adult" setting. Or even one that's still approachable to all ages, but acknowledges the infinite ways magic could be used to hurt people, distort physical reality, and cause mass destruction in the wrong hands. This is great, and thanks for linking it, but for the love of god don't try reading it on that site, go for Mangadex instead.
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Nettle Soup posted:This is great, and thanks for linking it, but for the love of god don't try reading it on that site, go for Mangadex instead. Fair enough, I was trying to link a source that had the most recent chapters because Mangadex stopped updating theirs after there was an official online translation. Uh... I guess when you hit the brick wall of the updates stopping right at the high point of a crisis support the official platform... https://kmanga.kodansha.com/title/10065/episode/313463
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That makes sense! I don't mind pirating manga, but the fact it was using pages watermarked from a different site, it nagged me to donate all the time and it eventually locked me out behind some javascript bullshit "click here to continue (donate to us!)" annoyed me. I'm enjoying it a lot!
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uhh please try and keep your discussion of manga piracy more plausibly deniable 
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I'm going to accio manga from a store and then copy it with the copying spell
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Cranappleberry posted:I'm going to accio manga from a store and then copy it with the copying spell I'm going to Obliviate all memory of these books from our minds.
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I kinda think Dan and Emma are fine with this. https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1778448987626021341?t=ONVt40NrNhF2T-zA__Vuqw&s=19
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Air Skwirl posted:I kinda think Dan and Emma are fine with this. Imagine refusing to forgive someone for having the audacity to be decent human beings who treat a marginalized group with dignity and respect instead of bullying them and punching down.
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Women fought for decades for the right to deny HRT access to trans people, and now this hard-won woman's right is being eroded
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Air Skwirl posted:I kinda think Dan and Emma are fine with this. Oh no, they might suddenly lose out on absolutely nothing because of this!
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YaketySass posted:V*ldm*rt on magical tiktok they're taliing about Nonose and his Unalive Nommers
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Oh no, they might suddenly lose out on absolutely nothing because of this!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Oh no, they might suddenly lose out on absolutely nothing because of this! They'll be kicking themselves when they don't get cast in the Cursed Child movie in 2030.
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stev posted:They'll be kicking themselves when they don't get cast in the Cursed Child movie in 2030. Emma Watson isn't black though?
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PriorMarcus posted:Emma Watson isn't black though? the right makeup will fix that! Pass the boot polish!
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Apr 12, 2024 11:26
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Runcible Cat posted:the right makeup will fix that! Pass the boot polish! Golli Muto!
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Runcible Cat posted:the right makeup will fix that! Pass the boot polish! Calceus Polonica
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Jolsonify!
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Even before this I don’t think Daniel Radcliffe was coming back, no matter how many truckfulls of money you’d bring to his door.
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he's stuck on a bus. The same bus Tom Felton has been living on for 3 months.
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Ravenfood posted:That, and because she and the transphobes believe the "true" gender is intrinsically tied to the genitalia they were born with. So yeah when Harry polyjuices into a woman he is still a "he", and that when someone transitions they are still the gender that "matches" the genitalia they were born with. It sucks. As long as it's convenient. They're currently big on calling women dudes despite being assigned female at birth because they have medical conditions that generate more testosterone than average, and cheering international track orgs' decision to ban them.
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