Let’s not forget that a literal Nazi worked on the game in addition to JK being a giant piece of shit.
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MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I’d like to ask you a favour, please 🥺. Can you please avoid talking about the TERF game? I don’t like it when people are reminded about it, because they might give money to the TERF. Can you be extra nice and pretend the game doesn’t exist?
boaratio@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I’m trans and I see where you’re coming from. I was boycotting the game ahead of launch because I didn’t want to support J.K. Rowling, who has based her career off of making our lives harder.
But…it’s been two years. We lost the battle. The boycott led to the Streisand effect and the game sold insanely well. Trans people got a ton of negative press converage. We were made out to be intolerant and cruel because one trans person said something that made the GirlfriendReviews lady cry. It seemed like after that, GamerGate 2 went into effect and so many games with diversity are getting preemptively reviewbombed, like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, leading to layoffs and shuttered development teams, while games like Black Myth Wukong with a known sexist director are insanely popular.
Hogwarts Legacy seems like such a small issue now. Now it’s 2025 and we’re quickly losing all our rights in an ongoing Constitutional crisis. These days, while I’d prefer if cis people buy the game used and maybe add disclaimers to the posts they make about it, I’m too exhausted to care about the Wizard game.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hey sis, I feel where you are coming from and I truly understand, there are a lot of scary things happening in the world and what others do with their time isn’t something you should ever worry about.
I have a lot of emotions when I see people talk about HP, primarily dissapointment, my guess is that all trans folk do. But it wasn’t a fight we lost, because it wasn’t a fight, but slow incremental progress. If something simple as media choices are a stumbling block for “allies”, then they are just fairweather friends. Naturally people react defensively to criticism, such as GirlfriendReviews, but that doesn’t make make giving money to those that persecute us any less valid.
You’re exhausted, so am I, we all are. Transphobia is rampant, yet it’s better than ten years ago, better than 30 and better than a 100. The progress is slow, but talking about the ways our community is harmed is the way to make the next 100 years better.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
That’s okay, you can take a break. I’ll fight for you.
heads@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Can you grow up and stop pretending to take the moral high ground on every issue?
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Just say you dont give a fuck about trans people being attacked daily on every god damn right wing news station, being too scare to use public bathroom, and being threatened on their right to exist. JKR is obsessed by attacking trans identity. To the point every actors of the movies have distance themselves from her. There’s ton of great games to play out there, when you pick that one you say, I really dont care about trans people. So just say you don’t care, and I’ll have a little more respect for you than if you call people pretentious for pointing out jkr is transphobe.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Fun fact! She’s rebooting the series as a TV show so she can put new lead actors on the branding, because Daniel, Rupert, and Emma are woke.
I want to dismember her