So much of the “sport” is LARPing. Which is great if that’s your thing. But to try to distance itself from the Harry Potter world kind of eliminates the main aspect of getting involved in the “sport” in the first place.

I have no problem with crazy made up sports but I feel like running around with a stick between your legs is quite an odd thing to strive for.

No no no it’s entirely a moral movement and not at ALL profit motivated. Don’t be ridiculous.

She had zero worldbuilding. Her entire setting didn’t make sense — why would people with magical powers basically obsess over their fake Eton? Like nothing else mattered -- not university nor careers. A.S. Byatt got a lot of grief when she wrote that in Tolkien the rivers ran and the trees grew and that the same…

It reads like one of those deliberately quirky things that Rowling just threw in there as a laugh and a bit of world building, but then she got weirdly obsessed with it, so we ended up with pages and pages devoted to a nonsense game. And the annoying part is you could tweak it into something sensible pretty easily. The…

I genuinely think the scoring is about making a sport look more interesting than it really is.

But it’s not though, she makes it clear that the match doesn’t end the snitch is caught.

I feel the name should refer in some way to the fact that they look like a bunch of onanists trying to invent rugby.

All sports are stupid nonsense when you get right down to it.

He’s a producer on the film (the question remains how much of an active producer he was, but this is still ultimately production’s fault) and was the one who pulled the trigger. Trolls are gonna troll regardless, Alec Baldwin is still a huge part of this story.

Hold on is it suddenly 1999 again?

“which he attended, at least in part, on a scholarship he received for his performance on his high school Quiz Bowl team.”

Well, my point was that it’s not necessarily a refusal to deal with rejection in a story sense, or character-identification sense (though of course, there’s plenty of that too), but a sense that the game is not playing fair as a game.

I agree with a lot of your points and can’t help but be infuriated by the fact that (potentially) good storytelling would have to be begrudgingly accepted like candy-coated medicine by giving the player a “treat”.

Why would anyone want to pay to get rejected? They can get that for free in real life.

Will be interesting to see what actually happens vis-à-vis his career… I mean, Weinstein and Cosby were convicted and sent to prison. Unless there is a criminal conviction there will be people (to be clear, not me) who simply don’t believe any of it to be true.

I’m surprised that no one in Finland thought this up

The recent events with Tekashi 6ix9ine reminded me that it’s actually really hard to “cancel” someone. R. Kelly was a practicing pedophile for 20 years, and we was only dropped by his label and management after he stopped having hits. 

Westworld now feels a little more “real.” That must’ve been an incredibly difficult role.

What’d Joe Elliot ever do to her?