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it is not positive about the game, I promise. yes, you should still read it.
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Wild to see this in contrast to the IGN and Destructoid reviews that go "Wow, it's like I'm there" with the little lip service about the trans hate problem (but not the extreme antisemitism)
Every time I read some old HP fan talk about the damn things, I'm blinded by the lack of awareness they have to what seems obvious to me: All that magic, all those emotions, all the meaning attributed to it, was always coming from inside the reader. Not a single word of Rowling's every had the weight of consideration that people, particularly wounded children(!), supplied to them. Rowling just wrote badly and simply enough that a thoughtful child could do that to her work. Inject meaning and emotion into the spaces where Rowling failed to. Rowling's only real achievement was stumbling into the ideal self-insert template. Isekai fiction, or whatever it would've been called in the past, had already been around for as long as fiction had. Rowling's only noteworthy contribution to that tradition was writing characters so dull and empty it was a rudimentary job to replace them with oneself.
And the inevitable "what about Hogwart's Legacy" got asked on the work LGBTQ+ slack channel. Was handy to have this fairly readily to mind.
I don't know, the game seem to be doing really well commercially. So they will continue shilling this awful franchise, and more money will go toward bigotted organisation. A clever article can't change that. Plus the anti-trans leglisation that are proposed in many U.S. states, plus the U.K. blocking the scottish parliament to pass the Gender Recognition Reform, it's just one more shitty victory of their shitty belief. The future is not yet written, so things may change for the better, but right now, I can't see one article as a positive.
I'm not talking about the writing of the article, I'm talking about influence and how things that usually take decades are taking far less time to get to critical masses here. The game did not cause UK or US bigotry, and in terms of rowling's preexisting riches, isn't that big of a gain for them when it's becoming clearer and clearer that we've built enough and organized enough as a collective that anyone good managed to say no to the blatantly bad game, and blatantly bad movie, after just five or so years ago being disappointed in how many people who knew better worked on those.
personal gains are happening for rowling, while their stranglehold slips and falls behind. And I'd rather them shill games and books and movies than be out there propagandizing, honestly. It's good to keep everything in perspective, this is a campaign and not singular battles -- getting them to not sell a game isn't a win outside of harming their morale.
