3xBork

@3xBork@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One could also argue that language degrades. Just a matter of perspective. Evolution implies it’s good, but a lot of this evolution is little more than losing language features or clarity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-intellectualism has been on the rise for decades and spelling gets worse? I am *shocked *I tell you!

  Also: inb4 the “language evolves!” crowd arrives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the feeling it’s the native speakers who are the worst offenders. The ones using English as a second language at the very least made an effort to learn the language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t because they’re not really comparable.

  There are many other electrics cars, many of them better and/or cheaper and entirely interchangable. Boycotting Tesla just means getting a direct substitute instead. There aren’t any substitutes for HP games because the IP itself is the whole point.

  Another point where they’re not comparable: Tesla isn’t the problem here, Elon is and he needs to go. And he can be gotten rid of, which is the entire point of the boycot. Meanwhile, there is no mechanism legal or otherwise to remove Rowling from the equation. The only thing boycotting HP products achieves is making the companies involved fail and preventing any further HP products from being developed. So what does that achieve?

  So: given that boycotting Tesla is both easy and effective, while boycotting HP is a personal sacrifice for no real effect, surely you see the difference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah so are about a thousand other people who worked on the franchise/product in question and may be very positive influences on the world.

  Trying to deny a literal billionaire money is symbolic at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s about a thousand and one other people involved with the franchise after 8 movies, 3 spinoff movies, a play and a dozen or so videogames.

  Rowling is pretty much irrelevant and people aren’t into the HP stuff because they particularly want to give her money.