She explicitly said that she would use the royalties she gets from the game to lobby for transphobic organisations.
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dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoRowling having slightly more money makes no difference to her spewing her views, she is set for life anyway. Yes I’d like to avoid giving her money, but a much stronger signal I’d like to send is that a game with trans characters sells well.
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
dota__2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_capitalism
it means nothing besides them trying to profit from the nostalgia ridden queers. again, yall could support actual queer works instead of work with a thin veneer of it.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I am aware the motives behind it are profit driven. But that doesn’t make the message less valuable. People seeing themselves represented is helpful to them, and it normalizes them for other people.
dota__2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
oh boy! they see themselves in games while they’re literally getting depersoned by the politics of the creator! in a time where we are literally seeing what such wealth is able to enable you to do… literally buy the white house.
you can’t see the forest for the trees.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Again, she is not the creator and has nothing to do with the game other than the creators purchased the rights to the setting.