Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion

• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seeing how the game prominently features trans characters and that Rowling wasn’t involved in making it, it probably doesn’t bother many people.

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  • dota__2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hogwarts is not the place to do that then. there are plenty of other queer games out there to support queer game dev. instead of pretending that giving money to rowling is doing anything to support trans people.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would be ridiculous to pretend so. Giving money to trans-supportive games absolutely does though.

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      • dota__2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        you are giving money to rowling with the purchase of any offically licensed harry potter product. that allows her to continue pushing her bullshit.

        there are actual trans-supportive games out there to support and stop trying to make excuses for your inability to get past your nostalgia.

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  • 3xBork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rowling has enough money to donate to shitty politics for the rest of her life ten times over.

    Attempts to “not support her” are about 3 decades too late and entirely irrelevant at this point beyond making people feel good about themselves.

    We’re talking about the world’s first and only writer to become a billionaire with her books here.

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right message. Wrong tone. Assuming you want people to fork less money to the transphobic piece of shit.

  You do want that, right?

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh shit, the tone police are here. I’m not under the impression the person I’m responding to is going to change their behavior after this has already been widely talked about to death for years, and so I really don’t care what tone I use. This person is helping make the lives of real, actual, perfectly innocent trans people (and especially the lives of trans women) hell because they a) don’t care about those people or somehow more pathetically b) do can’t restrain themselves from buying a children’s toy to that end.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get it. Venting online is way cheaper than therapy and twice as effective.

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  • dota__2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    coddling the oblivious to enable the bigots has not been a winning strategy on any front if you simply look around.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I imagine, and I’m no English expert, that there’s a line somewhere between coddling and mindless rant.

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