Like this is the embodiment of first world problems, and in the grand scheme of things a non-issue. But to tl;dr it - it really sucks how fashies being fashy can get in between you and something you'd probably otherwise really enjoy.
This is about how I'm finally feeling bad that Hogwarts Legacy sucks.
Honestly, when it got announced I completely wrote it off the way you'd expect when you here the Loudest TERF On Twitter has a new media project.
I didn't even really bat an eye when it turned out one of the leads was a gamergater, or when the plot was just "do a fucking racism" at a fundamental level. Like it sucked that it existed, it sucked that asswads were going to throw money at it to prove a point. But like, I was ready to just move on with my life. S'not like there aren't a million other games out there made by people who aren't the loudest shitters around.
And then, today, I learned that the game's probably gonna suck. The Dev team has no experience making a game of this scale. The UI is ugly as hell. Every part of me is going "holy shit this looks so bad I want to watch the Speedrun break the shit out of it"
Except no. This is the game made by one of the loudest voices on the planet who wants me dead, by people who think "hey a good idea for a plot is putting down those Jewish-coded people who just want basic rights".
I'm not gonna play it. I'm not gonna watch videos of it. The most I'll engage is reading folks here talking about what they've heard! It still is politically awful at it's core as a piece of media!
And yet there's a part of me that weeps for what could have been. A badly made game based on one of the most popular franchises in the world that we can all experience the jankiness of together without every mention of it growing the neo-nazi machine that's consuming the world. I wish I could experience that game (and that game's Speedrun - like can you imagine how broken it'd be? Just look at Pokemon BDSP)
Sadly, life's too short to play games directly influenced by people who wish me - and many people I care for - dead.
