You cant honestly be comparing Rowling with Goebbels or Himmler. Trans people are not being rounded up, I refuse to believe that you're serious.

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…

If people want to selectively buy or boycott things, thats fine I have no problem with it, more power to them. When they’re aggressively going after individuals who use that product or service they can fuck right off.

It does make me wonder, even if she’s already rich, could it be effective to stop supporting work she’s associated with in order to reduce the negative effects.

Shit like this game allows people to pretend they’re making a difference and so they inject an unhealthy dose of moral superiority into their already overinflated egos. They claim it’s about trans rights but they won’t actually lift a finger in any way that actually makes a difference. Not buying the game is easy.…

I created a trans woman wizard and the game automatically chose to use they pronouns for me. It wasn’t an official trans option, I just picked the model that looked like Aubrey Plaza, gave her lavender hair and a voice that sounded like it was once a man’s but is now a woman’s thanks to hormones and the ability to…

It sounds like they did the second best thing - creating a system where gender identity is untethered from the options available in the character creator. It's something that feels like it should be the baseline at this point, but it's satisfying to see it implement in this franchise.

There is a trans NPC in the game. Not a particularly important person in the narrative, but the dialogue makes the trans identity clear.

For those who wish to play the game without enriching Rowling: buy a physical used copy from a non-professional reseller (or an independent game store who deserves your money). EA/Rowling see not dime one from such a purchase. Even better, if your local library has games to borrow, borrow the game from there. In both…

Maybe I’m wrong but, if a human said that string of words I would understand it to mean “What do comedians do when nobody thinks they’re funny anymore? What jokes will they tell out of sad desperation?”, that it wasn’t an “anti-trans” joke but an “anti-trans-jokes” joke.

Yep - I’m probably overly-sensitive to these kinds of things (I’m a woke cancel culturer, I guess), and I thought this was... actually kind of insightful? “My comedy sucks, so I’m thinking of trying these hacky jokes, but nobody’s laughing. Hey, where are you all going?”

Yeah, it definitely appears like the punchline is: there’s nothing funny about transphobia, albeit through the clunky delivery of AI.

That was my interpretation as well. I don’t know what it says about me but I 100% took that as a subtle jab at hack right-wing “comedians”.

Yep, that was my take.

“So, this is my stand-up set at a club,” Larry said. “There’s, like, 50 people here and no one is laughing. Anyone have any suggestions? I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone or something…

Yeah, it scans to me as “these kinds of jokes would absolutely bomb because they’re actually not funny” but seems like kind of a gray area to attribute to an AI. You’d probably prefer it just doesn’t wade into those waters at all unless it can much more confidently stick the landing.

Honestly, that bit comes off almost like an insightful joke about how washed-up aging comedians try to stay relevant in 2023. “No one is laughing at my jokes. Maybe I should try saying hateful bullshit about trans people and liberals.” Just replace Jerry with Dave Chapelle or Louis CK and you’ve practically got a…

I may be using this term incorrectly, but that seems like a “meta” joke to me; a joke about how bad those ideas are for a joke.

Maybe AI isn’t that advanced yet. I don’t even know if I understand the concept of “meta” humor.

Is it just me, or did it sound like the AI was almost riffing on transphobic comedians? “No one was laughing.” Like it was pointing out that that shit isn’t funny.

Because, shocker, other people are different than you, some people sweat at night more than others.