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Now I want to buy and play hogwarts legacy out of despite of people who bullied pikamee into graduation, fuck alphabet bullies you just made your cause worst
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@kumicota Bro, don't bother. It's still goyslop.
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@mikuphile @kumicota it's also rather woke, don't spend your money on this
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@coolboymew @mikuphile @kumicota They put a tranny character in the game (even though it doesn't make sense in a universe where you could immediately change gender on a whim with a spell or potion) but I reckon that was only done to try and appease the Twitter freaks who hate Rowling. I saw people complaining about there being too many foreigners but, again, people can fly and teleport in this universe so it's not really surprising there'd be people from all over the world in the prodigious magical school. The schools janitor is Asian but he speaks with an extremely harsh Cockney accent. Rather than it being "woke" I think the creators were just trying to squeeze everyone in considering they were marketing the game to fans all over the world.
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@SADIDAS @kumicota @mikuphile it just comes off as very weird, especially if you compare it with the movies where Rowling said explicitly that she wanted this to be a British work, with British actor. But not too surprising once she went "Muh gay Dumbledore" and every dumb that came after just to excite the twitter crowd
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@coolboymew @SADIDAS @kumicota @mikuphile wasn't that why there weren't american kids in harry potter, where's my harry potter poochie
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@Moon @SADIDAS @kumicota @mikuphile pretty much
I generally don't feel sorry for Rowling because a lot of this shit has been of her own making. I suppose there was no predicting it, but, yeah
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@sim @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile I did that quest but I don't remember that line. I guess in this case I'm so used to being beaten over the head with LGBT stuff that when it's just a throwaway line with no further elaboration I didn't notice it.
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@SADIDAS @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile I have the opposite problem, I've been beaten over the head with it so much that I'm basically more attuned to those things happening. Not sure which one is worse.
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@sim @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile
>a woman just casually mentions that she has a wife to a minor
Admittedly I'm only about fourteen hours into the game and about 20% of the way through the story but I don't have any memory of this.
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@SADIDAS @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile I don't know if you've met Nora Treadwell yet... she introduces you to the Trials of Merlin.
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@coolboymew @SADIDAS @kumicota @mikuphile It's worse... this is supposed to be based in the late 1800's but it reads like it is from the 2000's. The writing just seemed off, especially where they inserted the political identity stuff. Like a woman just casually mentions that she has a wife to a minor. In the late 1800's!
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@sim @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile Usually when I see a gay person in media their entire personality revolves around being gay. I just watched a YouTube video of the scene and in this case the woman just casually drops having a wife into the conversation after talking at length about dark wizards and the Merlin mysteries so I guess it's nice that the character was just like a normal person and not an outrageous caricature.
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@SADIDAS @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile "The qualities which Slytherin prized in his "handpicked students" included resourcefulness, determination, and a certain disregard for the rules, along with the ability to speak Parseltongue. He also selected his students according to their cunning, ambition, and blood purity. His House within Hogwarts was symbolised by a serpent, with House colours of green and silver."
You may be onto something. Interesting that he was best friends with Gryffindor before he had a falling out about not accepting muggle-born students. Also, having the serpent as his symbol is often seen as a tell that they are the bad guys.
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@SADIDAS @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile I don't recall now. I read the books when I was younger, at a point when I don't think I was as attuned to those messages as I am now. I don't know if Slytherin counts as conservative, but they do attract more dark wizards and families more concerned with keeping their bloodline pure. I think the house is more about having ambition. Ravenclaw are more about wisdom and knowledge, Hufflepuff are more about loyalty and as we know, Gryffindor is more about courage. But either way, it makes more sense for Harry's time to be more progressive given that we were then.
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@sim @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile My interpretation of Slytherin was that they were inspired by (or perhaps a parody of) aristocracy and the tories with a bit of fascism thrown in so you know they're definitely the bad guys.
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@SADIDAS @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile Yeah, if it were set in the 2000's then I would not have a problem with that. But it is jarring in how it doesn't fit the time period it is set in... it doesn't seem necessary either. It's almost like an afterthought to be more inclusive in a setting that it doesn't fit in... even if this is the wizarding world.
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@sim @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile Aren't the witches and wizards in Rowling's books all super liberal and progressive with the exception of the conservative Slytherin aristocracy who are more interested in tradition and preserving bloodlines?
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@SADIDAS @coolboymew @kumicota @mikuphile "The British Ministry of Magic also seemed to have mildly favoured pure-bloods for many years before it was reformed after the Second Wizarding War, as there were still "pro-pure-blood laws" in existence, which Hermione later eliminated. Albus Dumbledore also once accused Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge himself of placing too much importance on blood purity, as Fudge was sided more with old, wealthy and influential pure-blood families such as the Malfoys, and looked down upon those who had less wealth and more affiliation with Muggles, like the Weasleys."
Looking at this part, I think that you might be right about them being based on the aristocracy. More trying to make a statement about racism perhaps.
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