You cant separate the art from the artist when the ‘art’ is what keeps her relevant and influential enough to promote transphobia on a massive scale.

As a prior victim of DMCA takedown abuse on YouTube, I thought we had it bad. But if any Joe Schmoe can use it to yoink entire games off storefronts too, then that’s absolutely fucking broken and a nightmare for game devs.

I’m loving the constant, constant handwringing about “bullying” now with regard to the game.

“We could excuse JK Rowling bullying trans people on twitter like it’s her full-time job at this point and giving to charitable organizations working against trans people, but the REAL bullying is saying we’re assholes for…

“Go live your life however you want and just leave us alone and let us game. Jesus.”

Republicans are literally trying to ban providing health care to trans people in 26 states right now. Like, that’s not hyperbole. They want trans people to just die.

*sigh* posting this is a mistake, because everyone on Kotaku is biased...

It’s ALWAYS ‘lives are on the line!’

“People get tired of it.” If you think it’s exhausting caring about genocide imagine how exhausting it is having to justify your right to exist every waking moment of every day. If your biggest struggle is “people on internet are mean about me enjoying genocide simulator that gives money to people committing genocide”…

Lol, shut the fuck up. If you hate trans people for simply existing, that isn’t a nuanced opinion, that is fascist bullshit. 

Indeed. Shame that the visual effects weren’t super movie/TV friendly at the time (nor was the sheer amount of content easy to pack into movies), or that the content might have been a bit to traumatic for most producers to pick up.

K.A. Applegate actually respects the intelligence of young adults, though, so it was…

The sheer number of books that are amazing, too.

Like, can K.A. Applegate and her work get even a fraction of this love that HP weirdly gets, please?

Unironically give her a tv show. Laughed real hard at her “audition”

I too can be an absolute dingleberry at times. I also say really stupid things with great confidence.

other contenders for “most thematically appropriate”:

I’m not buying Harry Potter, and I didn’t buy High on Life despite it being recommended by quite a few people.  Your move, bigot.

I have a move deck and sadly It only works about 1/3 of the time. It seems like I never draw the order I need to complete it. If everything goes as planned then yeah it runs how you said but its rare. 

“just ignore it and it’ll pass over time”

It’s not really “looking for reasons” when Rowling has very publicly made those statements…but this is all spoken like someone who probably has never had to deal with comments like these directed and them. Must be nice. 

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

Christ, right? “They sold out” is the counterculture equivalent of “well, when I was QB of my high school team...”