Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When the series creator is vocally advocating to marginalize transgender people and financially supporting other members of the hate movement, it takes more than a token NPC to make up for it.

  Most likely that character is an insincere PR move from Warner Bros, but some trans people also pointed out that naming her Miss Ryan was probably done in bad faith. If anything, sounds exactly like the kind of tasteless thoughtless naming that JKR is infamous for.

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    don’t care

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    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a good way to get yourself blocked. Bye.

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      • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        don’t care

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  • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most likely that character is an insincere PR move from Warner Bros,

    There was a lot of that shoehorned in that made me wonder if it would’ve made sense in 1800s wizarding world.

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• gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank god tokenism is here to save the day again.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not what “TERF” means.

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Theyre trying to argue that JKR being a massive TERF is fine because theres one trans character in the game. The “I cant be racist, I have a black friend” defense.

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    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The “I can’t be racist, my book has a black guy AND an Asian woman!” defense too. Just don’t think too hard about what they’re named lol

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    • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t care for JK. But JK didn’t make the game. Hundreds of designers, artists and programmers did. And you think those people should be boycotted because one person is a TERF.

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      • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        She collected royalties from it. It doesnt matter if she had any input or not. Buying that game results in some of that money going into her pocket and I dont want to give her a dime. If she didnt get a dimefor it thatd be different but as it is she does and she revels in the shit stirring that shes done that resulted in blow back and I cant justify giving that troll the satisfaction of buying products that benefit her financially.

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      • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those people were already paid, and you can make a game about wizards and magic without licensing the Harry Potter IP and further enriching JK Rowling.

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The people who mattered dont get paid based on sales. So, fuck em, they got their bag just fine?

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      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The artists, programmers etc have already been paid as much as they’re going to get for it.

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