Transphobes lead to dead trans kids. Highlighting this fact, and calling attention to deadly transphobes, is not bullying, it's a ducking public service, you concern-trolling goober.

“Bully” hahahha Trans people literally kill themselves because of harassment and real bullying caused by people like JK Rowling but sure, this is “bullying”

Here’s the thing though, they’re not “just playing a game”, they’re actively choosing to play a game on a platform where they can profit themselves from it. That platform allows users to voice their opinions to those streamers. Further, there are a multitude of options for streamers to avoid these people while still…

Gamers need to know what their purchase is funding, whether it makes them uncomfortable or not.

Yeah, sorry, but I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the people who have been brought to tears just because they want to play a video game as opposed to the people literally being murdered just for wanting to exist.

Deepfake shit really needs to be legislated around. That’s functionally identity theft at the very least when using real people, in addition to being kinda super really fucked up.

It’s almost as if all this will be Hogwarts Legacy.

Oh my, theres a far right in the greys confidently claiming biology “facts” as if it’s not at all in any way more complex than that taught to 14 year olds in biology class.

If getting called out for doing something by a marginalized group makes you not wanna support that group, you didn’t support that group in the first place. You were just looking for an excuse.

This.

This is why I’m grumpy.

I honestly do not care if people buy the game.

I just want them to stop rubbing it in my damned face constantly while I’m facing the threat of death.

People have watered down the intended meaning of that phrase to the point that it’s basically just this now:

Needs to be in 80 point font, bold, and underlined for clarity.

I’m trying so hard not to judge people for playing this shitty wizard game, but the more I hear about it, the worse it sounds. Setting aside JKR’s awful dehumanization of trans people like me (which really can’t be set aside, but I’m doing it for the sake of argument), it’s a buggy mess with like 2 enemies, heaps of…

Sure, you could make the connection that buying the Harry Potter game directly lines She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’s pockets, but as we know, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Harry Potter was always a neo-liberal hellscape of bigotry.

Sorry.

Death of the author is stupid, especially when that author is alive and kicking and using her billion from her literal castle to actively alter the course of politics against us and getting us killed.

The game is inherently political, which as you correctly point out, they all are. This one just happens to be made by a neo-Nazi head dev and have Nazi stereotypes and shit in it, which is why any gaming group worth their salt has just straight up banned the game.

Cho Chang! Never forget what a hack she is even without the classism, colonialism, neoliberalism and transphobia.

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…

I’m for it. The less I have to hear about “a boycott isn’t actually hurting her” or “you’re actually a hypocrite” level brain-rot, the better. Fuck the transphobes; let them talk only about gameplay and see how pissy they get when they can’t preen about what shitbags they are.