Quote (duffman316 @ Feb 8 2023 06:50am)
Looks like there is a bullying harassment campaign underway against gamers daring to stream a game based on books by some woman.
How thoroughly unsurprising. All some people know how to do is attack, attack, attack.
Quote (duffman316 @ Feb 8 2023 06:50am)
Expecting hasan to get cancelled any time now for speaking on the matter.
That wouldn't be particularly surprising either. The Endless Purity Spiral never ends. You must be /pure/ or you will be cancelled.
Quote (duffman316 @ Feb 8 2023 06:50am)
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, also known as HasanAbi, has spoken out about the controversy surrounding Hogwarts Legacy. Many have voiced their concern about buying and playing the game due to author J. K. Rowling’s stance on the trans community, but others have insisted that should be free to play the new release, regardless of whether or not they agree with Rowling’s views.
I must have missed the part where J. K. Rowling had anything to do with the game other than signing off on getting another huge paycheck.
Quote (duffman316 @ Feb 8 2023 06:50am)
I must h
Hasan, who is a left-wing political commentator, had previously talked about getting a bunch of different content creators together to play the game, raising money for charities in the process. This idea was quickly squashed, as he felt a huge backlash for even suggesting the move. Now, he has responded to a clip of one streamer getting upset after being attacked in their stream’s comments for playing Hogwarts Legacy.
Crybabies gonna cry, they'd rather be mad on the internet than do good for others.
Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 8 2023 08:27am)
"just think about all of the harm this will cause when her billions of wealth get inflated by 3% and as a direct result 12,682 trans people commit suicide simply because people enjoyed the game"
Anyone this sensitive needs to permanently disconnect from the internet and never come back.
Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 8 2023 08:27am)
play if u want moral objection or not, or dont play for moral reasons, both fine. but claiming people playing are killing trans people? jesus. all because JK reacted to a story about a trans woman walking naked in a domestic abuse shelter.
Here in the real world, nobody has died because some guy enjoyed a game yet (other than dudes enjoying a game so much they actually die playing a game).
Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 8 2023 09:27am)
the timeline is pretty simple:
-JK rowling comes into existence, writes HP
-JK rowling spends 10 years or so retconning her own series with liberal ideas she didnt write into the book because she's a card carrying liberal
-JK rowling responds to a tweet that used the term "people who menstruate" basically saying "why cant we use women"
-trans people on twitter went wild
-JK rowling explains that her generation of feminists had to fight the social stigma of menstruation, and feels the phrasing is odd. ends the tweet by saying she supports all trans people and would march with them if their rights were under attack
-trans people on twitter seize on her feminist motivation to label her a TERF which at the time was an uptrending idea in queer spaces, continue to attack her online and make threats against her (not that she's foreign to that, Christian fundamentalists burned her books in the 90s and labeled her a satanist, surely she got death threats then, especially as she read a LOT of fanmail and responded to many people over the years)
-then over the years people "built a case", the idea she's a TERF and HATES TRANS PEOPLE just became fact. the actual words that she'd march with them meant nothing because she went on to be upset about a naked trans woman in a battered woman shelter, a cause she personally has experience with.
the contrast is pretty silly, a woman who was abused in her life physically who comes from a generation that was openly sexually harassed and shamed for menstruation has her perspective erased because she thought it was silly to use gen z PC language, all because she has money. it doesnt take long when you dig in to see people saying she's actually killing trans people with her words and causing them to be attacked.
its almost like if some group spent years attacking you, forcing you to be absent from the 20th year anniversary of your movies, forcing you to use pen names to write anything new, and forcing you off the PR tour for your new movies, while threatening your life and spamming anything you say with the accusation you're a trans murderer you'd grow resentful. and so far that resentment has manifested in a few off color tweets and 1 character from 1 book that crossdressed and killed people.
You know how it is, a certain group of people is desperate to avoid admitting that they created a successful and powerful enemy for themselves. Once you look behind the curtain the illusion is shattered forever, you know?
Quote (El1te @ Feb 8 2023 11:23am)
are the degenerates who bully people simply for playing a video game that is completely removed from J.K. Rowling other than being the creator of the IP not ginormous, colossal, and monomental bigots themselves?
Very much so. They know they have no ground to stand on, that's why they're so fragile about, well, everything.
Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 8 2023 12:45pm)
you're being overly defensive. i already admitted she started out as very blandly transphobic and through the attacks on her she's grown more so. i dont track it every day. if i learn she's now aligning with more seriously anti-trans people i lose nothing by simply saying since i last checked in she's moved further right.
Generally speaking, constantly attacking someone with death threats does not cause them to suddenly align with your views, especially if they have fuck you money.
Quote (SBD @ Feb 8 2023 04:39pm)
And the illusion comes crashing down anyway. Turns out most normies were just playing pretend all along.
In short, I'll buy a copy of the game even if I never end up playing it, should it come to PC.
Maybe stop making everything about you. You know who I mean.