Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide
simple@lemm.ee 7 months agoIt’s genuinely amazing to me how some people are obsessed with the idea that buying a videogame based on the works of an author that wasn’t even involved in making the project makes you transphobic.
muse@kbin.social 7 months ago
She's literally said that people buying her shit proves she's right.
I'm sorry people have some more morals with their money and have trouble giving it to people who have made it their entire focus to shit on them and be called rapists by their former childhood heroes.
simple@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Your morals are fine, what isn’t fine is that most of the people boycotting the game are harassing people that buy it.
So what? Why is everyone giving some dumbass writer that hasn’t been relevant in 10 years so much attention?
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
They may not be bigots themselves but they happily give their money to a person well known for being bigoted that also actively tries to make the world a worse place for trans people. It is like buying a burzum album; you don’t have to be a nazi to do it but the nazi still profits.
rab@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
My girlfriend literally was bullied by coworkers for playing the game. And she is the absolute sweetest. It is completely ridiculous
If I cared, I could easily go into the above dude’s post history to find an example of his money going towards some bigot to prove he’s a hypocrite. It doesn’t matter what you buy, your money is supporting bigotry, because at the top of the human social hierarchy are bigots. Welcome to the world.
rab@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Why care about what a writer has to say about gender politics? I don’t. I don’t even know what she said specifically because it means nothing.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because she’s actively using her money to make trans people’s lives worse, and she’s influencing people by spreading her hateful views. It absolutely doesn’t mean nothing - she’s literally lobbying with the money you gave her!
rab@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Ok, but I mentioned this above, it’s literally impossible to live in society and not have your money funneling into a billionaire’s pockets who’s lobbying against your best interest.
Just in the realm of video games, probably buying the majority of games results in your money going to an objectively bad cause. Most rich people are scum.