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This is the Hogwarts legacy thread. All discussion about Hogwarts legacy goes here.TheDarkFlame posted:Here's the problem I have with applying the "no ethical consumption under capitalism argument", which is normally valid, to this specific situation. It's normally meant to kind of be acceptance for the unavoidable injustices in the society we live in, understanding that it's inherently part of participating in capitalism, by choice or otherwise. And you can't be held personally responsible for what happens three or four links down the chain of events that led to you, whether it's getting your clothes made by Indonesian children or your food farmed by workers struggling to get by in abhorrent conditions or whatever else produced and shipped to wherever else by whatever means. The abused labour, the dangerous raw materials, the ecological damage, these things are so far above you that you can't really be held responsible. You just have to make the best of whatever bad choices your personal standards of living allow.
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Transgender resources and support in the US: https://www.glaad.org/transgender/resources Transgender resources and support in the UK: https://www.tht.org.uk/hiv-and-sexual-health/sexual-health/trans-people/resources Please post others if you know them
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 12:54 |
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Thank you esco And thank you TheDarkFlame for writing such an amazing post fridge corn fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Bogfarts Poogacy
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:06 |
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*casts AIDS*
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:07 |
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this game is pogwarts
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:07 |
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My favorite part of the game is where you get to cozy up to the "Voldemort had some good ideas" guy and then praise the dementors because they bombed a children's hospital https://twitter.com/katamaridumassy/status/1546409336607481856 https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1621258923314655233
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:13 |
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If you have hogwarts please consult a medical professional immediately
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:13 |
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on a more serious note, I'm feeling slightly skeeved out by people buying the game and then immediately donating to trans charities. It smells of indulgences. That's how you get protestantism.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:24 |
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Game is looking a bit too much like those ubisoft games with collectibles vomited all over the map
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:35 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:on a more serious note, I'm feeling slightly skeeved out by people buying the game and then immediately donating to trans charities. Yeah but that's the thing with capitalism - it's moral relativism gets skewed with the economies of scale. What if I donated 1:1 the dollar amount of the game? What if I donated 10:1? 100:1? 1,000,000:1? What number, donated to a good cause, makes it okay to buy the game (assuming no donation for no buying)? (I have not bought this game nor donated to any cause - the most moral choice so far I guess)
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:40 |
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https://twitter.com/nelson_jimmie/status/1622618292165943297?t=HqRsFH9GpHag4vzarkJ3Dg&s=19 The devs seem happy with the response so far
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:43 |
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How do I learn the spell to make my poo poo disappear?
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:44 |
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Seesm to me you could donate to those charities and *not* play the game, too, so it doesn't get you any credit in my opinion. Play the game if you're gonna but don't try to make it better.
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HopperUK posted:Seesm to me you could donate to those charities and *not* play the game, too, so it doesn't get you any credit in my opinion. Play the game if you're gonna but don't try to make it better. Personally I'd rather trans charities get some money than no money. I'd prefer JKR getting no money but it's better than nothing
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:47 |
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I love bideogames!
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 13:57 |
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verbal enema posted:*casts AIDS* oh no now I’m a werewolf
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:05 |
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do not buy this video game, show some restraint in your consumerism for once in your lives
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verbal enema posted:*casts AIDS*
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sure okay posted:Yeah but that's the thing with capitalism - it's moral relativism gets skewed with the economies of scale. I don't think that's what capitalism is OP. That actually seems like some weird personal poo poo
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:11 |
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I was watching this on Twitch last night and it really does look like Ubisoft collect-em-all garbage, with some God of War knockoff systems like their inventory and gating puzzles, complete with Souls style roll mashing every combat. Harry was a big roller, you know. His rolling teachers all loved him. https://twitter.com/nelson_jimmie/status/1622618292165943297?t=HqRsFH9GpHag4vzarkJ3Dg&s=19 This makes me sad because I don't think it would hit nearly those numbers if it wasn't for the IP. People really love the magical boarding school vibes they read all about growing up, and any halfway decent content that puts them back there seems to get a huge leg up in reception. A lot of what's in this game feels like Valhalla 2.0, which itself already felt derivative and tired because of Odyssey and the others before. Different studio I know but man does this game seem so similar in loop to what we already have a billion hours of (talk to guy in stilted systemic cutscene, do thing for guy, go back to guy, get a quip and a reward) Sure whatever, but is watching on Twitch also bad? A view nets ad revenue for the streamer, who is then motivated to play more, which gives the game more exposure, which might entice a different viewer to buy it, etc. etc. sure okay fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Shoving JK Rowling off the side of a cliff for a minute and forgetting she exists - if only - I absolutely cannot believe that this game has got a positive critical reception so far. I mean like really.. I don't believe it. I'm really not one for the review score conspiracy game, primarily because I just don't give a poo poo, but that list of 9/10's is one of the most egregious games journalism things I've seen for a minute or two. People just loving love their walking around a semi-convincing world watching plastic looking faces deliver stilted dialogue before a non-threatning, single button action sequence.
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Bumhead posted:Shoving JK Rowling off the side of a cliff for a minute and forgetting she exists - if only - I absolutely cannot believe that this game has got a positive critical reception so far. If you look back what, 10 15 years ago when this all started, it makes sense considering that the people who are ~20 or ~25 would be nostalgic for that.
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https://twitter.com/GamesHubDotCom/status/1622550682363363335Bumhead posted:Shoving JK Rowling off the side of a cliff for a minute and forgetting she exists - if only - I absolutely cannot believe that this game has got a positive critical reception so far. worms butthole guy posted:If you look back what, 10 15 years ago when this all started, it makes sense considering that the people who are ~20 or ~25 would be nostalgic for that. https://twitter.com/TheGemAgenda/status/1622591615905792000 https://twitter.com/epistemophagy/status/1622592606915170305 https://twitter.com/epistemophagy/status/1622917707552419840 TheWorldsaStage posted:https://twitter.com/nelson_jimmie/status/1622618292165943297?t=HqRsFH9GpHag4vzarkJ3Dg&s=19 armpit_enjoyer posted:on a more serious note, I'm feeling slightly skeeved out by people buying the game and then immediately donating to trans charities. The devs are really proud of how they put the first trans character in Harry Potter into the game, and hooray for them and all, but unfortunately while they were developing the game for the past 6 years the whole issue shifted from "JK Rowling is getting kinda TERFY and her latest book seems to make a big deal out of a serial killer who dresses as a woman" to "JK Rowling is promoting fascists who incite terrorist violence against doctors and hospitals and is bankrolling the UK anti trans movement to the tune of millions of dollars" Assepoester fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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worms butthole guy posted:If you look back what, 10 15 years ago when this all started, it makes sense considering that the people who are ~20 or ~25 would be nostalgic for that. Sure, but nostalgia isn't new. I spent much of my youth convincing myself that generations worth of Star Wars games weren't hokey rear end poo poo, but that's on me. They weren't given a free critical pass for nostalgia reasons.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:28 |
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What about pirating the game so that JKR doesn't get royalties? What's peoples' stance on that? Not advocating piracy in general, just suggesting a lesser evil in this particular case for a game that is going to be ludicrously successful no matter what anyone does or doesn't do.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:36 |
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Are you allowed to play the game if you orchestrate the untimely demise of JK Rowling first
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:39 |
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JBP posted:Are you allowed to play the game if you orchestrate the untimely demise of JK Rowling first Yes, OP.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:do not buy this video game, show some restraint in your consumerism for once in your lives Trying to appeal to gamers that love Harry Potter to not buy this game for moral reasons is like telling a crackhead to get sober because cartels are evil. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s going on in their brain. (Note: this is not in defense of people who buy it) Starks fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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I won't be buying this, but not for any moral or ethical positioning but simply because I'm broke and it looks like it runs like poo poo on PC anyways. Can I pretend I did it for a good reason to get brownie points though?
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:42 |
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considering consoles are made with slave labor (nintendo, sony and microsoft) I think its pretty hollow to boycot HL and still play console games if you're going full on moral boycotting you might as well go the whole way
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Infinity Gaia posted:I won't be buying this, but not for any moral or ethical positioning but simply because I'm broke and it looks like it runs like poo poo on PC anyways. Can I pretend I did it for a good reason to get brownie points though? As a queer person, yes, OP. Congratulations
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Bumhead posted:Sure, but nostalgia isn't new. I spent much of my youth convincing myself that generations worth of Star Wars games weren't hokey rear end poo poo, but that's on me. They weren't given a free critical pass for nostalgia reasons. For example the Super Star Wars games were and are often given quite the critical pass and are generally well remembered even though as action platformers go they aren't that good. But they had good graphics, great Star Wars music, faux 3D technical wizardry, and lightsabers, so that was enough for the time. The Jedi Knight games have some terrible levels and the most player unfriendly design ever seen in the Quake 3 era of shooters, but you could turn on g_saberrealisticcombat and go to town cutting up stormtroopers, so they get a lot of love. Seems a similar thing is going on here where we haven't gotten an "open world" hogwarts for several generations so this is the first game to let you explore the harry potter world with next gen (or at least last gen) graphics, and even if the rest of it is just an average slightly buggy standard AAA open world experience, the world is enough to give it a positive impression. Oh and the WB payola. Can't forget that.
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The reviews really are "it's a 6, but holy poo poo you can do the thing from the book i read when my parents weren't divorced, so 9.5"
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worms butthole guy posted:considering consoles are made with slave labor (nintendo, sony and microsoft) I think its pretty hollow to boycot HL and still play console games if you're going full on moral boycotting you might as well go the whole way I like to be very specific with my outrage, thank you!
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 14:51 |
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I got sent a free copy and so far it's alright I guess.
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MorningMoon posted:The reviews really are "it's a 6, but holy poo poo you can do the thing from the book i read when my parents weren't divorced, so 9.5" jfc this is so true it hurts. Game looks like garbage anyways. Last good HP games I can think of were the Lego ones which is mostly because of them being lego games.
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thank you for those long rear end posts guy who used to be The United States
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https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1622729948963151872?t=51ckblBGLPUhX0Bc-IRz4w&s=19
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