Luckily, a lot of us commentators will look at the pending comments, and when they’re thoughtful and in good-faith like yours? That comment’ll likely get ungreyed.

Disney got that deal specifically so that they would develop what was essentially an utterly barren wasteland in the middle of nowhere, which they proceeded to do, pouring millions upon millions upon millons of dollars into Florida’s economy, providing innumerable jobs and making the Orlando area pretty much the…

“That new Marvel film had two dudes holding hands in the background. Also, why does everybody in Wakanda need to be black? Your permit to repave the parking lot at Animal Kingdom has been denied because you’re too woke.”

I have loosely followed the JKR/Hogwarts drama since it was announced, but I was not terribly informed about the specifics. Some people have been extraordinarily upset, and I had expected some vile stuff from her.

Right!

Mr. Miyamoto’s Mario Megacorp Mention Makes Man Moan Maniacally

Okay, well, that’s your trans friends. And if that’s your experience, then that absolutely makes sense for you. But, again, buying Hogwarts Legacy isn’t “only a LITTLE support” for transphobia, it’s none, in and of itself. The same way your purchase of idk, let’s go with tea, is no support for slave labor and…

Tell your trans friends that you want to play a game so much that their agency is secondary to you.

The last mainline Harry Potter movie grossed 1.3 billion dollars! If you add up every single “HP fan club” we’re still talking about a tiny, tiny fraction of the actual base of Harry Potter consumers. Again, it’s a minority of people that have even ever encountered the term “TERF”, nevertheless knowing what it means…

I may be misreading it, but it sure sounds like the implication is that HP itself is disposable, it happens to have a lot of supporters, and because of that WB has no problem “aligning with a transphobe”, as if that was the decision being made. Which is just, again, ridiculous.

The reality is to people on Kotaku and…

“Psych.” Please stop perpetuating this ridiculous misspelling.

All that murder looks so cheery

Just some information to put context behind this story; I was never actually SWATed, but I did go through a 7 year campaign of stalking and harassment over criticism of a Kickstarter scam game, Shroud of the Avatar, which included SWAT threats, 3 days before the fatal SWATing in Wichita, which lead to Reddit having to…

Time for Anonymous to step in and expose these Kiwi Farms users.

“Pay to win” depends on what it is you’re winning. Commenters seem to not understand the authors have been “winning” in the game this entire time without having to pay. I know plenty of people making their way through the game winning and winning.

I’m a little confused as to the conclusion here. If they had dressed/acted in way that would make you think “they were connected to this world,” that would have of course been castigated for appropriation. To treat it more or less like any other fantasy setting, they “they fail to present us with anything of…

Your money is actually a scam. It’s nothing. The title to your house is nothing, a piece of paper. It has no value. ALL ownership is arbitrary rulemaking. You and Kotaku seem to miss this point over and over and over.

This is audio pareidolia. It’s often done visually when we see a face on a piece of toast, a butterfly in a cloud, or your dad being fucked by your uncle in an blot of ink. A random sound, but we’re trained to identify spoken language, and so we hear it.

Oh, sure. Go to magical college. Take out a magical loan. Get a worthless magical degree. Graduate into the worst magical economy in half a century. Fail to get a good paying magical job. And finally get burdened by debilitating magical debt. 

At the end of the day, I think half (or more) of your questions can be answered with: sometimes I just want to run around in a better world for a while.