Every article this writer churns out is essentially culture war nonsense that generate clicks and engagement. And to her credit, it works. Buy the game, or don’t. Both are fine, just shut the fuck up about it already.

You mischaracterized that and called it a reference when it is more apt to say it is a “potential allusion”. Take your L on that bud, cause he’s right. Be mad, but do it for the right reasons and don’t conflate/over-exaggerate. You’re just gonna end up driving people away by appearing dishonest around or over…

“A good faith discussion”? Seriously? You’ve been trashing this game to hell for 18 fucking months. Let’s not even get into the unbelievably naïve calls to divest profits from the game from the actual IP holder. A game that Rowling’s assistant’s assistant probably deals with. A game that Rowling probably can’t…

It’s really not, unless you are absolutely determined to impose those themes onto it, which it seems you are.

They probably didn’t receive a review code. 

This item in the game does not resemble a shofar (other than the fact both are horns, which is hardly somehow unique to Judaism) nor does it reference any sort of anti semitic violence.

Which is why I and every other trans person I know (ie, people who aren’t terminally online and weird) wish people would shut up and just buy the game. Or not. Literally do whatever you want, but please stop asking me permission to do something you’re going to do anyway lol

Thing is, nobody applies “ethical consumption” consistently. For example, there’s a pretty good chance that at least 70% of the stuff you own contains parts manufactured in China. Does that mean you automatically support totalitarianism, child labor, work camps, etc?

You summed it up really well, also the level of aggression theyre coming at this with is also only going to fuel the far right.

They bullied noncontroversial streamers like Girlfriend Reviews and Pikamee for playing or wanting to play the game. This is going very bad, very fast. There’s nothing activist about what they’re doing. This is 100% ‘I want to hurt you because I hate JK Rowling’s political stance’, and its starting to turn people…

Yep. It’s just a side effect of social media. People can pretend to actually ‘do’ something by posting a few words for everyone to see, get pats on the back and tell themselves how better they are than everyone else. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad and rampant.

It’s performative. All the hand ringing over this game is performative.

It’s very easy activism. You don’t have to do anything. Just don’t buy a game.

Pretty easy to make anonymous internet claims about what you’d do in a hypothetical situation. Guessing that time comes around and you don’t quit your job bubs.

“I would quit my job at a videogame development studio if I knew I’d have to work on a toxic IP”

I would quit my job at a videogame development studio if I knew I’d have to work on a toxic IP. I’d quit my job if I knew the outcome is the perpetuation of an IP that only serves to make a rich bigoted woman all that much richer.

Mutahar (SomeOrdinaryGamers) said it best, the developers of the game will suffer the most, while JK will be fine regardless of how this does.

My wife is a qedding photographer. A local couple will spin up a new website and use images ripped from other photographers on their website and blog. They will print out products to show to potential clients that are 100% other peoples work. They will book clients (because they charge less and “their” photos look…

When you can't argue a subject with logic or facts, use insults. (Or so they think apparently).

I think you’ll find in time that your wrong in that respect. AI is being used to make discoveries in a number of scientific fields at this point. Discoveries that many of the scientists involved say they simply couldn’t have made without the AIs help. In some cases they have even said the AI approached the problem in…