“They misinterpreted me when I repeatedly promoted organisations that call the very existence of trans women a form of rape, and accused people who simply said ‘Don’t listen to me, I’m just a celebrity’ of being rape apologists with Prophet complexes, and accused people who explicitly said ‘I still own my HP stuff,…

lol, k

Thanks for proving my point!

Depends - is she setting up a bigoted foundation funded by Potterverse sales that will survive her? Because there’s no such worry with Lovecraft. He and his bigotry don’t benefit from you reading it. And the universe he originated was already open sourced while he was alive, people writing stories that Lovecraft had…

I’d like to think no-one’s genuinely stupid enough to think boycotting a bigot’s IP is the same as Nazis boycotting Jews. Unfortunately, too many people have proven me wrong, so...

I hope you know that she does, in fact, own the IP. She retains all intellectual property rights, but contractually grants Warner exclusive production rights.

Rowling gets a share of every sale, the devs include an alt-right design lead, they hired an MRA voice actor who can’t have custody of their kids because he threatened them, the game’s plot is lifted from antisemitic propaganda about Jews being to blame for the Black civil rights movement (bonus: Shofar labelled as…

The thousands of people who worked in this game got paid for their labour. Some higher ups might get bonuses if the game sells well, but the only people really profiting from sales are the multibillion dollar conglomerate that pays Rowling for her IP and the billionaire Rowling herself. And if the multibillion dollar…

People arguing against bigotry have annoyed me sometimes but I’ve never been driven to support bigots out of spite. Perhaps you should try having genuinely held beliefs instead of being a reactionary?

This ain’t about purity tests. No ethical consumption under capitalism and all that. This is about the absolute bare minimum - inaction. Simply don’t do the thing.

Bonuses. So they’re not getting bonuses. Which isn’t the same as saying they’re not getting paid. You know what people mean when they say that, and you’re arguing about bonuses instead.

Messianic Jews and Jews for Jesus are basically the same and share a common root. In the 1950s a few Jewish people converted to Christianity, became preachers, built congregations made up of regular ol’ (mostly white) Christians, and decided the best way to convert more Jewish people was to adopt some titles and…

Jews do believe in *A* messiah though.

All due respect to the Megaman fans, but those are very clearly Astro Boy boots.

I’m getting the impression they didn’t cave to Tucker Carlson so much as played him like a harp. They didn’t scramble to come up with this whole Maya Rudolph mascotless campaign in the wake of his overwhelming power, they had it ready to roll out as soon as he took the bait.

Yeah, if this was coming from a human comedian like Joe Lycett or James Acaster it’d definitely read that way. Coming from Dave Chapelle or Ricky Gervais, it’d come across as a lack of self-awareness. A generative AI character doesn’t really have a personality to provide context, so the monologue becomes a kind of…

Has there ever been a guy willing to defend himself by throwing a whole social movement under the bus who turned out to be innocent? You’d think by pure statistical chance there would be, but I sure can’t think of any.

That would be nice, but they’ve made a situation that demands they never release it. Once it’s written off for tax purposes it has to be destroyed, and they can never admit it could have even broke even let alone turned a small profit. Anything less is an admission that they committed tax fraud.

All these wrestlers-turned-actors have made themselves triple the size they were when they were actually doing athletic performances, and they just keep getting bigger. Maybe it’s time to dial it back a bit, so the focus isn’t on how they must be eating a flock of chooks and three barrels of fish each day just to keep…

John Cena’s probably a head above him at comedy specifically, but Bautista’s been showing range. Who would have thought The Rock would be the one trailing behind them both, coasting on brand recognition and integrated marketing?