Echo… Echo… echo…
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Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months agoHogwarts came out a quarter of a year earlier and released on every platform compared to Zelda only being on one.
I wouldn't take that as a strong indictment that J.K.'s terf bullshit didn't have an impact.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 9 months ago
muse@kbin.social 9 months ago
Bigot...Bigot...bigot...
Badeendje@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sure call me a bigot. The point I was making is this is an echo chamber issue for people who want to eat others because they are not pure enough. And on that you come out swing with the same incessive echo put stuff I was pointing to.
No matter how much you hurt the people you say you are fighting for. Go ahead, run your inquisition on people to see if they match your purity standards, don’t be surprised if one day you end up in front of the inquisition yourself accused of being impure.
You spend time fighting with someone who might disagree with you in this fringe of society but still takes on the biggest fights out there… and you would rather burn them than focus on better, easier, more impactful targets.
Maalus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why, because they point out that the entire thing was a lound minority running in their own echochamber?
rab@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
And how’s your moral compass?
You didn’t play Harry Potter, but are you a vegan? You know animals have feelings right?
Have you volunteered this week? You have time to bullshit with randoms on lemmy, why not use the time to make the world better?
What other games do you play, do you like Blizzard games?
Maybe you have an Xbox, you know what Bill Gates is up to right?
Do you use Amazon? Ever heard of their CEO?
I can go on and on and on. Get over yourself.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Doesn’t seem to have had a big impact I’d say
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
You csn say all you like, we literally have zero idea how many lost sales they had.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
We know it didn’t prevent it from becoming the year’s most sold game, so whatever the impact it’s pretty easy to shrug off
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
Buddy, its the worlds 5 largest IP, id be shocked if it didnt sell millions of copies regardless.
For all we know it could have lost out on 20 million sales, but its an untrackable metric.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, and the fact that people basically can’t talk about this game without mentioning it got boycotted because one of the people who makes money from it is a massive piece of transphobic shit is a small step forward all on its own
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
In that sense, it worked. Let’s face it: The people who don’t care about the author’s raging bigotry were never going to be convinced regardless, but there were a lot of us who didn’t even consider playing it because of the TERF.
ramble81@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Anecdotally, everyone I’ve talked to about it doesn’t care. They don’t like she’s a TERF and some even condemn her for it, but every single person I’ve talked to separates the world of Harry Potter from her. It basically has a life of its own and the could care less about JKR now, that’s what I’ve been able to surmise of people’s view of it now. It’s like having racist parents but not being labeled as one because you’re a separate entity.
Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m a big gamer, and was a massive HP fan. I did not buy the game, or even consider it, specifically because of JKR’s bullshit.
I may be in the minority, but I guarantee I’m not the only one in this boat. So now you’ve talked to someone who cares, if you count this as talking.
And just to say a little more, no I didn’t crusade against the game, nor do I villainize people who bought it and enjoyed it. I do think it’s possible to enjoy art without liking the artist. Hell, my favorite book series of all time is the Ender’s Game series, and Orson Scott Card is probably just as bad as JKR, though maybe not quite as famous/public about it.
But I can’t bring myself to buy it. I’m trans, and her rhetoric, and how public it is, has been specifically harmful to me, directly. But that’s just me. I won’t tell other people how to live their lives or enjoy their free time, so long as they’re not actively hurting others. And no, I don’t consider buying a game where one person who is profiting from it might spend a sliver of that profit on anti-trans BS to be actively harming others, especially when she already has enough money to do whatever the hell she wants anyways.
This doesn’t make a dent, and ethical consumption under capitalism is impossible anyways. I just hope that some portion of people who bought the game heard about the protests and maybe donated a fraction of what they paid for the game to some pro-LGBTQ groups. I have to believe there’s at least a handful of people like that. I do believe that people are mostly good, and want to do good.
Yeesh, I wrote a lot more than I planned to here. I’ll stop now lol.
Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 9 months ago
Death of the author only applies if she's dead.
So unless there's been some good news in the last day, those people are just coping
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Lol I said the same thing a bit ago and was down voted for it.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, I didn’t consider playing it because I’ve never been a fan of Harry Potter, but Rowling’s ramblings definitely didn’t do anything to change my mind.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I was a moderately engaged HP fan before I learned what a colossally awful human the author is, but her TERF ramblings also made me realize there’s quite a lot of racial and ethnic stereotypes baked into the franchise. It’s probably the fastest I’ve ever totally abandoned an interest in a series. Even if we do separate the works from the author like so many fanbois suggest, they’re still awful.