Low content post. Ban this man!Don't mind me, just snagging that #1000.
Low content post. Ban this man!Don't mind me, just snagging that #1000.
Quidditch has a reputation for looking more complex than it actually is and I think on some level people expected like Wizard soccer or Wizard cricket.If you start taking out stupid things that make no sense, well...
But I don't think it's an issue, or poor writing. I think it's a prequisite of fantasy : it's just not sustainable without some shallowness. The fact that fantasy stuff do not exist in the real world is generally linked to the fact they would not function when articulated to all aspects of reality. Fantasy is all about the "let's assume that thing which does not make sense". Magic, trolls living under bridges (or black knights living on them) staunch on never letting people through, ghosts (or spirits or creatures) of pure evil, animals too big to fly or to be sustained by their legs. Pure postulates, pure what if, pure fairy tale stuff, which "explanations" are solely, exclusively, "once upon a time". And we roll with it. It's bound to contradict other elements, if we thing about it too much. Fantasy universe have implicit rules about where to speculate and where not to (where get aaall the way off their back, so that the story can happen - it's comical but not illegitimate). We do it for the physics, psychology, sociology, astronomy, sociology and everything of that universe.It is as shallow as many other things.
Poor Pikamee. She was honestly sweet and fun, she didn't mean to harm anyone and didn't deserve the hate. Going after V-tubers and voice actors isn't how you stop JKR.I feel so bad for pikamee, is now being used for ammo for homophobes even though this had nothing to do with the Wizard game.
Which is kind of super weird because she's quitting her job as one of the most successful Vtubers on the planet at present and a very lucrative job I'd imagine just because she's graduating?Lol, wut? She's just quitting her job
I have 1-5 but have never played them. Is any one of them better than the others? Moral conundrums are my specialty.You people should really play the Geneforge series. If you haven't, they will blow your minds. They're essentially house elves moral conundrums simulations.
People wanted this fight.
So now they're doxing. People are cheering this on even though I highly doubt 4chan (a site that is completely sympathetic to trans people/s) have listed only harassers
The thing with Kreacher is he did want to serve but he wanted to serve his mistress (the painting on the wall of a long dead woman). Kreacher was literally some-one from generations of House Elves in a family all serving a family who had certain views about the Wizarding world and so Kreacher picked them up too and so years on he's suddenly faced with massive changes (first with Sirius and now with Harry whose not even technically part of the Black family) and hence his position towards them for a while"Few" is the key word in that sentence.
Who? Certainly not the Hogwarts house elves. Certainly not Winky. Certainly not Hooky. Kreacher and Dobby, sure, but again, the exceptions.
The thing with the house elves isn't that they're being forced against their will, it's that by their nature, they're in a position where that good will can be abused.
Sounds a lot like PETA on about working animals and even pets.........Because people who can't recognize their own interests, people who can't take responsibility for their own actions, people who lack the mental capacity to understand what appropriate or respectful treatment looks like exist in our world too, and it's not legal to use them as slave labour. Exploiting someone who doesn't know that exploitation is bad doesn't absolve you of responsibility for exploiting them.
Sounds a lot like only viewing people with learning disabilities as animals or pets...Sounds a lot like PETA on about working animals and even pets.........
I can't really really say. Better ask Thaluikhain, who seems to have played more of them than me. I played a couple of them, was highly impressed but also under the impression that they were too similar in story... So maybe not to play back to back.I have 1-5 but have never played them. Is any one of them better than the others? Moral conundrums are my specialty.
Your argument would land if that was actually my point. My point was not whether the stereotype was invoked at all, but rather in what context, why, what thematic purpose it serves, whether that thematic context is well-founded, what message does that invocation convey, and whether that invocation was therefore justified.
Historically, Jews were excluded from any gainful profession and guild, and forced into moneylending and tax collection specifically because Catholic dogma forbade it. Which in turn made them easy targets for further dehumanization and demonization, and even easier to steal from, expel, and murder when it came time for (predominantly Christian and noble) debtors to actually pay up.
And when Jews actually did what you would expect any reasonable person to do under those circumstances -- resist and revolt -- it "proved" they were really "nothing but" greedy usurers loyal to no one but their own. Thereby turning justified acts of resistance against oppression against the oppressed, to rationalize further oppression. And in the post-industrial world, that centuries-long externally-enforced stereotype -- and its ramifications -- were weaponized against them to justify further antisemitism, up to and including the Holocaust itself.
You know, kind of like how goblins are portrayed in the damn books. But naw, just the mere invocation of the trope means Wizard Book Bad, Wizard Book Lady Bad, regardless of any actual context that might make us consider how some of these stereotypes came to be, and what it says about us as a people.
Case in fucking point about this whole "analysis" being superficial, reductive, and denialist towards any deeper context.
Or are you going to argue HDC's don't face educational and social disadvantage, that plays an integral role perpetrating generational poverty and downward social mobility?
Can't help but notice those folks only come up now, once you need a shield against criticism. As opposed to other groups who tend to suck all the oxygen out of the room, and pull attention away from people who actually need help.
Sounds like you got that one on lockdown already and don't really need my input on the matter.
So, let me see if I get this straight. Wizard Book Lady invokes stereotypes that are harmful against people in the real world, perpetuate bigotry, all that good stuff, but now -- only once someone suggests n actual, critical, thematic analysis -- and only now is it just a book that doesn't really have anything to say? Yeah, that absolutely doesn't punctuate my point all this is a reductionist smoke screen to keep people from thinking too hard about it on threat of being labeled a bigot.
This is about as far from an "oompa-loompa" situation as it gets, given what I already mentioned about how internalized oppression destroyed Winky's life, and how Dobby and Kreacher resisted servitude and poor treatment in their own ways. And I really have to wonder about those who treat the two identically.
Or, the systemic change she's after is to stop getting wizards to conceptualize their relationship to house elves as slavery. You know, attacking the root cause -- the underlying psychology on the part of wizards that strips house elves of individuality, agency, dignity, and thereby enables the abuses against which she takes issue.
Kind of like how in the real, post-industrial, world there will be no progressive movement towards equitable treatment of underclasses (in the west, defined by work in the service industry) until the citizenry stops conceptualizing them as a servant class.
You mean, calling the situation for what it actually is?
Would you care to posit a reason there were blacklists of streamers, content creators, and social media personalities being shared online other than to invoke a chilling effect on game coverage, perchance?
Do they need to is the question?Would be a fantastic point if the books or game *did* anything with that. But they didn't, so...
Actually not, of Spiderweb games I've only played Exile 3 all the way through. Played the demos of the first few Geneforge games (and some of the Avernums and Nethergate), but I just liked the old E3 and BoE interface, and there's so much fan created BoE stuff out there I stuck to that.I can't really really say. Better ask Thaluikhain, who seems to have played more of them than me. I played a couple of them, was highly impressed but also under the impression that they were too similar in story... So maybe not to play back to back.
I don't expect the impossible from fantasy fiction. Sure, there is some vagueness in places that is useful. But when i compare HP to e.G. "Ascendance of a bookworm", another many books spanning series which includes a magic school as important setting, then the quality of the worldbuilding of the latter is vastly superior. And that is actually very good for immersion. HP chases instead the sense of wonder alone, introducing new fantastical elements all the time but never exploring them or putting them together in a way that makes sense. There is a lot to see in the Potterverse but no matter where you actually look the smoke and the mirrors are obvious soon and you are reminded hat you are just reading a book.Anyway, in that context of treating magical things as if they were natural objects, readers are encouraged to expect from them more sense, more coherence, more explanations and causalities than they can provide. It's both the nature of nerdism (internet! forum! geeks!) and the nature of this hybrid genre (magic! science!). It doubly exposes itself to overthinking. But this overthinking slides very easily outside the frame of relevance, like an in-universe tex avery character skidding out of the reel. It is bordered by necessary shallowness which, I think, should be respected as the author's own boundaries of inner logic. Else, absolutely every fictional universe can be accused of implied horrors - which, in practice, happens only depending on the author's real world public opinions.
Really? That's usually my first expectation with fantasy fiction.I don't expect the impossible from fantasy fiction.
HP has a lot of very weird nicknames for things, I like it for the sheer creativity. My favorite has to be the Moaning Myrtle. The jokes practically make themselves.I did! There was a kid at my school we called Winky Bumsniffer because he had a persistent hard wink (which i now recognise was a twitch and was cruel of us) and was constantly ramming his hands in the back of his pants then sniffing them (that one wasn't our fault).
Edit: in my defence, and this isn't a particularly good defence, i had loads of twitches as a child, new one every week. Parents despairing.
It's genuinely hilarious that you want to pretend that "woke" lefties are singularly to blame for introducing doxxing and harassment to the discourse, as if we're blissfully unaware that those tactics have been the bread-and-butter of aggressive online right-wing communities for absolutely ages.For fucking years a certain ideological group [...]A certain ideology has chosen mutually assured destruction.
You say this as if it was a bad thing.mutually assured destruction.
Oh you mean in response to physical attacks on innocent people who happened to be left wing?It's genuinely hilarious that you want to pretend that "woke" lefties are singularly to blame for introducing doxxing and harassment to the discourse, as if we're blissfully unaware that those tactics have been the bread-and-butter of aggressive online right-wing communities for absolutely ages.
Blah blah blah, denial and deflection. Anyone paying the scantest bit of attention is well aware doxxing and harassment were widespread and commonplace in online right wing communities for an age, and you're not going to make people forget that by slinging mud now.Oh you mean in response to physical attacks on innocent people who happened to be left wing?
How evil of the online right wing communities to want a person who beat an innocent person over the head with a bike lock to face some kind of repercussions.
Doxxing was reserved for situations when people had clearly crossed lines. Not masses of people sharing the info just because they disagreed with a person and oh say falsely reporting the person to child protective services and trying to get his recently born son taken away from him because he dared make video critical of Anita Sarkeesian..........