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E: I posted a video of a Hogwarts Legacy Avada Kedavra spree but thought better of it because it really wasn't funny and actually stressed me out a little.
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I know it would probably ruin a lot of people's "immersion" but overall I think I like games better when you can't slaughter innocent NPCs.
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E: actually not that funny
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Hello Students, this is an important announcement. From hence forth, by decree of Republican state law, all Polyjuice ownage and usage will result in instant expulsion.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:07
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Applewhite posted:I know it would probably ruin a lot of people's "immersion" but overall I think I like games better when you can't slaughter innocent NPCs. 
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Mar 2, 2023 17:08
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Radio Paranoia posted:E: actually not that funny Right?
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American wizarding community likes hard warlocks who make tough choices like kadavring a few orphanages to get their necromancer
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Mar 2, 2023 17:11
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IIRC, wizards are so far removed from their host nation its unlikely an American wizard even knows what football is, let alone how a gun even functions
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Mar 2, 2023 17:38
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Applewhite posted:I know it would probably ruin a lot of people's "immersion" but overall I think I like games better when you can't slaughter innocent NPCs. Excuse me, but what they are doing to innocent beasts is shameful!
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ChickenHeart posted:IIRC, wizards are so far removed from their host nation its unlikely an American wizard even knows what football is, let alone how a gun even functions Find out with the guns-instead-of-wands mod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlTRS8XqYe0
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naem posted:this is by far the most realistic “magic exists” scenario i mean the main i have with potter(outside rowling being a transphobic dickhead) is it starts out as roald dahl type kids book universe and world building(wizard did it and look at all the wacky weird poo poo) but then 4 books in goes full grim dark and never tries to make the universe fit or have the characters queastion poo poo. idk i just read non fiction and warhammer.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:59
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The world building in Harry Potter gets progressively worse as the books go on. You can tell also that in book 1, wizards were, at least initially, much more integrated with muggle society. It looked like Rowling was going for the whole "you know all those people you think are weird/eccentric? They're secretly wizards!" Later books, from about book 3 onward, the wizards basically lived in a pocket universe and somehow lacked basic knowledge of muggle technology and society despite huge numbers of them marrying muggles who could easily just tell people like Arthur Weasley how these things work.
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Mar 2, 2023 18:19
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Applewhite posted:I know it would probably ruin a lot of people's "immersion" but overall I think I like games better when you can't slaughter innocent NPCs. Having the option for the people that want to is cool.
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In book 1 for instance, we have wizards tut tutting the people wearing robes openly in public to celebrate Voldemort's downfall, implying that wizards regularly go out in public wearing plainclothes, yet in later books wizards are so unused to muggle clothes that they don't know how to dress themselves.
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Mar 2, 2023 18:24
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sigher posted:Having the option for the people that want to is cool. Why?
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I guess for me it depends on the game. I guess if you're playing Elder Scrolls or something and you're a thief who shanks shopkeepers rather than bother with stealth it's one thing. But forgive me if it's weird to think Hogwarts Legacy, a game for children, shouldn't make it possible for the player to slaughter a bunch of other schoolchildren.
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Its a mod, bro
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Wizarding sounds cool but then you gotta wave around that little stick and it's like nah I'm good.
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Its a mod, bro Oh well that makes me feel better
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Still not gonna buy the game either way
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happyhippy posted:Hello Students, this is an important announcement. students protest in support of Fae marriage
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Applewhite posted:The world building in Harry Potter gets progressively worse as the books go on. You can tell also that in book 1, wizards were, at least initially, much more integrated with muggle society. It looked like Rowling was going for the whole "you know all those people you think are weird/eccentric? They're secretly wizards!" Probably because muggle society is getting more and more hosed as the books progress.
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USA wizards eschew broomsticks as "commie tree-huggin' bullshit" instead prefering their iconic boomsticks: 6 foot long shotguns firing continously to blast them across across the sky. The area around popular destinations is quickly smothered in a shimmering pile of magically-excreted shell casings and gunsmoke. They can roll coal too, somehow, but I didn't think to ask about how that works, it is magic after all and my ears were bleeding enough.
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Applewhite posted:The world building in Harry Potter gets progressively worse as the books go on. You can tell also that in book 1, wizards were, at least initially, much more integrated with muggle society. It looked like Rowling was going for the whole "you know all those people you think are weird/eccentric? They're secretly wizards!" I like the idea is that "the big indbred pure wizard families and their dickhead friends dont meet with mixed family wizards or interactic with non magic world, therfor they have no concept of what like technology is" that would be interesting to play with if rowling didnt suck poo poo. like to me, id just write some lore about "hundreds of years ago, muggles turned on wizards and killed tons of them, so wizards self isolated and give themselves bullshit reasons why they dont, and humanity forgot about wizards and poo poo outside top levels of goverment" Full Metal Jackass posted:Wizarding sounds cool but then you gotta wave around that little stick and it's like nah I'm good. apperently, if i remember correctly, you dont even need the wand, thats just like a focuser or some poo poo.
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Sophy Wackles posted:Probably because muggle society is getting more and more hosed as the books progress. LIveleak videos of people's heads exploding after someone points a stick at them. People getting ripped apart by invisible things, not knowing what the gently caress is going on. People laughing at the word 'muggle' as the lame insult that it is.
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happyhippy posted:LIveleak videos of people's heads exploding after someone points a stick at them. yeah, its just rich wizards going to the global south to kill muggles for or some sorta "prank show", Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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kntfkr posted:i got an idea. that's like saying we shouldn't talk about hitler because he made freeways without speed limits and people get killed by speeding all the time. what a dumb argument.
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Applewhite posted:The world building in Harry Potter gets progressively worse as the books go on. You can tell also that in book 1, wizards were, at least initially, much more integrated with muggle society. It looked like Rowling was going for the whole "you know all those people you think are weird/eccentric? They're secretly wizards!" It makes more sense when you realize purebred Wizards are heavily inbred. What I never got is how there was material poverty in wizard society when any ol' rear end in a top hat can create/transmute/copy/steal whatever they want with a basic K-12 education. Enchanted/Magical stuff? Sure. Only so many unicorns and wizards who know how to turn those into wands or whatever to go around. But mundane items should be trivially sourced by even a half decent wizard, why are the Weazleys broke as gently caress half the series and a bunch of other wizards living in poverty conditions?
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Applewhite posted:Still not gonna buy the game either way It's a good game.
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Smugworth posted:Will somebody please teach me the "Dongus Engorgius Maxima" spell Bump
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Deki posted:It makes more sense when you realize purebred Wizards are heavily inbred. The same reason we do? It’s a choice of capitalism. We also could provide all of our material needs but choose not to.
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The only ideologically-acceptable videogames are Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic and Goat Simulator.
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Deki posted:It makes more sense when you realize purebred Wizards are heavily inbred. This bugs the hell out of me constantly. It's canon in the books that there's an exchange rate between muggle money and wizard money. Why would a wizard ever be poor when they could just enchant an ATM to give them free money and then exchange it for wizard money. I'm also perplexed by the people who graduate from Hogwarts and then go and become bus drivers and bartenders and poo poo. In the movies we also see a bunch of magic security guards and it's like, are all these guards Hogwarts grads? You have mastery over the fundamental forces of the universe and you become a bank guard?
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Smugworth posted:Nobody will teach me the "Dongus Engorgius Maxima" spell It's "Dong-hardium Jizzy-Oh-Sir"
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Applewhite posted:I know it would probably ruin a lot of people's "immersion" but overall I think I like games better when you can't slaughter innocent NPCs. That's what makes games great. From Half Life to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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kntfkr posted:That's what makes games great. From Half Life to Red Dead Redemption 2. I amended my statement. It's context dependent.
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Applewhite posted:I'm also perplexed by the people who graduate from Hogwarts and then go and become bus drivers and bartenders and poo poo. In the movies we also see a bunch of magic security guards and it's like, are all these guards Hogwarts grads? You have mastery over the fundamental forces of the universe and you become a bank guard? it's really hard to get hired for a good job when your degree is from an unaccredited institution like Hogwarts
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Deki posted:It makes more sense when you realize purebred Wizards are heavily inbred. What are you, some kind of wizard communist?
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Applewhite posted:I'm also perplexed by the people who graduate from Hogwarts and then go and become bus drivers and bartenders and poo poo. In the movies we also see a bunch of magic security guards and it's like, are all these guards Hogwarts grads? You have mastery over the fundamental forces of the universe and you become a bank guard? The wizarding economy is pretty hosed, there's like two commercial districts in all of Britain, a comically inept government, a tabloid, and a private school as far as major employers go. When you're too dumb for wizarding society at large or are widely known as a goatfucker, you take what jobs you can get.
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Why don't any wizards in HP have wicked staffs like Gandalf? Like lol those little wands were beyond lame. Gtfo On a related note wizard staff is a great drinking game
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