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u/UwU_Zhenya15 Overly attached girlfriend Feb 01 '23
Waiting here for the special đ award to be given to this post
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u/Notafuzzycat Feb 01 '23
It won't hurt their sales .
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u/emitwohs Feb 01 '23
Iâve seen a lot of posts about boycotting the game because of her tweets, and some people certainly will. But out of the 100 people that say they will, only 1-2 actually will. This is one of those things people say publicly for social credit but in private, donât go through with it. (Iâm specifically referring to the purchase and playing of the game)
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u/Yoyo_boi202 Feb 01 '23
Yes, this has given them more free advertising. I feel conflicted about it myself as I don't have anything against the creators, but obviously do have something against jk. I might just pirate it and that's it XD
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u/Gort_baringa Feb 01 '23
JK already has her money dude. Sheâs incredibly wealthy. Donât hurt the developers who have their own bills to pay
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u/Qbertjack Feb 01 '23
The actual programmers and artists aren't getting paid per-sale, they'll be fine either way.
As for the dev company: What a loss, we may never see another Disney tie-in cashgrab from them again đ
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u/ParadoxSociety Feb 01 '23
bonuses based on metacritic scores, units sold, etc are common in the industry at studios of that size/budget
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u/Gort_baringa Feb 01 '23
If the company closes it still hurts the programmers and other staff employed with them.
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u/RedN0v4 Feb 01 '23
I heavily encourage you to purchase the game as opposed to pirating it. The developers are given a yearly bonus based on the sales of the game, and JK Rowling likely got her royalties ahead of time (even if she didn't, she'd still get very little overall per-purchase). Pirating games that are being sold by driven and passionate developers is just stealing from hard working individuals, which is a rather shirty thing to do. I'm not saying you need to love JK Rowling, but don't hurt the livelihood of hard working individuals who are relying on sales to make a living (that yearly bonus is a huge part of a developers paycheck considering the horrible hours they have to work to make games like this).
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u/synister29 Feb 01 '23
That hurts the developers a lot more the JK Rowling. She has fuck you money and this is meaningless less to her
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u/crunchyshamster Feb 01 '23
I'm going to donate the amount I spend on the game to the Trevor Project to try and offset it a bit
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u/Yoyo_boi202 Feb 01 '23
Yeah I mean honestly, most people who will buy it are probably buying it for their children so I doubt they even know or care about jk
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u/superhappyfunball13 Feb 01 '23
She's been filthy rich for years. She continues to make over 50 million a year from book sales, movie sales, and theme parks. Not buying a Harry Potter video game will not affect her in any way.
Thinking not buying this game is going to stick it to a billionaire is almost as stupid as thinking her tweets are hateful.
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u/Paleodraco Feb 01 '23
Exactly. It looks like it'll be a decent game and everyone has pretty much already decided whether they'll buy it or not.
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u/Youngerdiogenes Feb 01 '23
Nope. Iâm still picking up a coffee and I support the trans community.
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funny thing is the devs have been actively donating ot trans community also. they CBF Rowlings views and just making a fun game.
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u/Trick-Analysis-4683 Feb 01 '23
Just asking: What do Redditors consider to be the one very worst, most "anti-trans" tweet she ever made?
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u/awesomedan24 Feb 01 '23
Good question. I'm not sure, but some are pointing to this "anti-trans manifesto" on her website
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u/DawdlingScientist Feb 01 '23
Iâve read halfway through this thing and I canât find the part where sheâs a monster yet. Can someone please forward me the section?
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u/chugonthis Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 02 '23 •
She's not remotely a monster, she just deos not agree 100% with their agenda and they don't like it.
The difference is that she's so rich they can't cancel her no matter how hard they try so they attack those making products related to her books.
These people are pathetic.
Edit: all of you are weak for reporting self harm and suicide shit
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u/Akbidi13 Feb 01 '23
Thatâs exactly the thing. She has not said anything hateful against trans people. She doesnât promote violence. She is just against trans idea
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u/mulethedestroyer Feb 01 '23
She's not against trans people, she supports them. Her 2 issues is that a trans woman is not exactly and literally the same thing as a biological woman and that men should not be trusted with the honor system to access women only spaces.
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u/CountryInteresting Feb 01 '23
Well. A trans woman isn't the same thing as a biological woman. It's obvious. It's not pro or against. It's just a fact. An obvious one
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u/RosePhox Feb 01 '23
Does constantly hyperfocusing on "dangerous trans people" and framing everything in an oversimplified manner, to the point of misrepresentation, not scream hate to you?
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So you make a meme about J.K.Rowlin being transphobic and how she should shut the fuck up but dont know anything transphobic she said?
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u/Kazushi_Sakuraba Feb 01 '23
You know⌠I actually agree with a lot of that.
If lesbian women donât want to have sex with trans women, they shouldnât have to. Just like if men donât want to have sex with trans women they shouldnât be labeled bigots either.
In fact, Iâll take a step further: demonizing these people, going after them, because they donât want to have sex with someone is fucked up as hell.
Can someone explain how this is even âanti-transâ
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u/RosePhox Feb 01 '23
For starters, her bringing up lesbian women being forced to have sex with anyone was a major unprompted straw.
That, by itself, is proof of extreme bad faith.
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u/frostedcinnamoneggs Feb 01 '23
Are there any anti-trans tweets you can point to, OP? Your meme makes the claim that she makes them daily. Should be easy for you.
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u/Myth_Avatar Feb 01 '23
I've read that whole thing, it's not anti trans.
Point to me which line is anti trans.
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u/Kazushi_Sakuraba Feb 01 '23
I open up this âanti-trans manifestoâ.
Imagine my surprise when the âworstâ thing she says is that people shouldnât be labeled bigots for not wanting to have sex with trans people.
Honestly everyday it gets closer to âI can follow all my feelings but if you follow any of yours youâre a terrible personâ
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u/DawdlingScientist Feb 01 '23
Man that last sentence is really spot on.
I read through half that thing so far and it seems very well though out and thorough so far. Not super bigoted, at least I donât think so.
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u/Dr_Ugs Feb 01 '23
âI would have been remiss had I not considered social contagion and peer influences as potential factors.â
Imagine if you called being gay a social contagion.
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u/Burrito-Creature Feb 01 '23
i may not be the greatest at reading comprehension but that honestly doesnât sound very transphobic to me. Heck I believe in part of it she directly states that trans rights are human rights and that trans lives matter.
Or maybe sheâs just saying that sarcastically and implying thatâs the most accepted statements. It ainât the vibe I got from it but maybe Iâm just stupid lmbo. Feel free to tell me if she did actually say something horrendous and I just glossed over it somewhere.
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u/chugonthis Feb 01 '23
Nothing she has said is anti trans, she's pro woman and most people are trying to force women to accept biological males into their spaces.
People even get mad at lesbians who don't want to date trans women that still have a penis which is just ridiculous.
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u/MindlessMoss Feb 01 '23
The more i read of this, the more it sounds like the trans activists are in the wrong and I should buy this game to stop their hate from being successful
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u/SadFox-29 Feb 01 '23
...This isnât an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know itâs time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity....
damn, that's so hateful...
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u/fibstheboss Feb 01 '23
She is not openly anti trans but it seems like whenever she talks about trans people she calls them predators and specifically mentions trans rapists which is I think quit harmful. Itâs like saying all black people are criminals or white people are colonizers.
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u/Difficult-Brick6763 Feb 01 '23
Yeah if you're posting tweets on the reg like, transwomen are just men who put on dresses to rape women...I mean, I think that counts as being anti-trans.
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u/Ill-Manufacturer8654 Feb 01 '23
This is like when flat earthers say "Just show me a picture of curvature" and you show them a picture of earth from space. Then they just ignore it.
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u/CountryInteresting Feb 01 '23
Yeah. Why don't you start with showing up just one incriminating tweet? One thanks
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u/Mister_Way Feb 01 '23
No, it is not like that.
You can't even come up with a single tweet, can you?
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u/CataclysmDM Feb 01 '23
It really isn't like that. "Anti-trans" is extremely subjective and varies wildly from person to person. It's a concept, not a provable fact.
The curvature of the earth is a provable fact.
Your statement is fallacious.
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u/_--00--_ Feb 01 '23
If you don't just agree with people talking about any trans related issue, you are literally Hitler
Making enemies of reasonable people for asking questions because we don't understand. And if you don't understand in 5 seconds, you're still Hitler.
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u/RosePhox Feb 01 '23
Constantly pearl clutching over trans people existing and always bringing up cis women safety whenever the topic of transgender comes up, even when it has nothing to do with the subject, isn't enough?
That's like asking why libs of tiktok is homophobic, even though most of her posts are centered around portraying every move a gay person makes, an instance of grooming.
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u/Thenewdoc Feb 01 '23
When she constantly calls trans people "rapists and groomers". Just go on her Twitter and you can see the insanity.
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u/mercilessfatehate Feb 01 '23
Literally no one cares though. The people who are gonna buy it are gonna buy it either way, the people who arenât are still not going to.
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u/i-spill-soup https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Feb 01 '23
Thatâs what Iâm thinking. If you really feel conflicted to not buy the game because of this, go ahead. Isnât she already almost a billionaire so like, idk if thatâs gonna do a whole lot
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u/mercilessfatehate Feb 01 '23
Yeah, sheâs not even profiting off the game lol. She profited long ago when she sold the rights. Buying it or not buying effects her in no way
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I wasnât going to buy it, but personally I might do so anyway just to piss off whiny basement dwellers with nothing better to do than shame other people for their purchases. Itâs a game you fuck-sticks. Itâs not that serious.
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u/mercilessfatehate Feb 01 '23
Yeah Iâm getting it for sure. I have 2 Xboxes so Iâm probably gonna get it twice
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u/SomeRandomEntity44 Feb 01 '23
I don't read tweets. I read the books. I watched the movies. That's my involvement. So I see a game on this stuff, I buy it.
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u/Jhyxe Feb 01 '23
This. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. There just can't be. If you're legimately interested in the franchise, or just looking for something new to experience, then buy it. But don't be one that guy that I've been seeing that are like "wait you're boycotting this because of that? I'm gonna but it just to spite you." (Seriously, this mentality is ALL over Twitter. Stupid culture shit leaking into gaming...)
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u/CountryInteresting Feb 01 '23
Oh go read the tweets. There is nothing transphobic. People are idiots
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u/watch_over_me Feb 01 '23
A single subreddit boycotting a game isn't going to do shit. This game's about to do great in sales, and that sub will just have to eat it.
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u/Fat_Penguin99 Professional Dumbass Feb 01 '23
Exactly, lets be honest, Reddit is just some Echo Chamber in most cases
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u/jiwjh380 Feb 01 '23
Yeah hogwarts legacy is like the number two most sold game on steam right now . It isn't even out yet.
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u/Rich-Ad5109 Feb 01 '23
Theyâll be fine. I have friends whoâve never watched a Harry Potter movie or read a Harry Potter book a day in their lives and they wonât stop talking about buying the game.
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u/CCSest92 Feb 01 '23
No one cares, AVADA KEDAVRAâ¨
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u/awesomedan24 Feb 01 '23
Is it considered threatening speech to cast a death curse on someone via comment? đ¤Ł
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u/Jaaj_Dood Feb 01 '23
Why the downvotes ? OP's just following the joke
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u/TheHighBuddha Feb 01 '23
Probably, people who also downvoted the post, but it just feels better to see an actual negative count on the person you disagree with.
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I wish trans people all the best but I wanna fly around Hogwarts on my broomstick so I am buying the game.
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u/honeysmacks18 Feb 01 '23
We donât care about trans stuff, we just want a good game
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u/Skullsaber Feb 01 '23
but does she?
I mean, I don't give a fuck about twitter, and outside twitter and like 2 or three corporate clickbait "entertainment news sources", no one says shit about shit on this.
It's almost like She has nothing to do with the actual game.......
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u/SkilletBillet Feb 01 '23
No one is going to not buy that awesome looking game because she tweets that women shouldnât be raped in prison by biological men.
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u/CrimKayser Feb 01 '23
That's a joke sub.
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u/LetsDoTheCongna Identifies as a Cybertruck Feb 01 '23
Itâs starting to blur the line between a funny circlejerk and a genuine unironic circlejerk though
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u/CrimKayser Feb 01 '23
Only if you take it seriously lmao
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u/MorbillionDollars Feb 01 '23
when did people forget that any sub with circlejerk in its name is all satire
Theyâre just baiting for reactions
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u/HeresyCraft Feb 01 '23
Not anymore. GCJ has undergone the AHS takeover after which their knee-jerk contrarianism is no longer ironic.
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u/BookishBrendan Feb 01 '23
Oh, Jesus. Get over yourselves. She has opinions. You have opposing ones. Who cares? Honestly.
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u/Mister_Way Feb 01 '23
They don't even know what her opinions are. They only know what they've been told about her, without reading anything she actually said on the issue.
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u/VerDouwSyndrome Feb 01 '23
90% of people agree with her. They just don't live on Reddit.
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u/Fun4-5One Feb 01 '23
I just looked her up... nothing, she doesn't post daily and mostly just replies to people calling her names
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u/UnorthodoxMind Feb 01 '23
What has she actually said that was anti trans?
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u/Maggots4HB Feb 01 '23
Closest thing I could find is where she doesn't want trans (female to male) people in male prisons, because they tend to get raped.
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u/chugonthis Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Counterpoint: she hasn't posted a single anti trans, everything has been pro woman.
Edit: all of you are weak for reporting self harm and suicide shit
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u/CeciShy_17 Feb 01 '23
This makes me want to follow JK Rowling on Twitter to check if she's really the anti-trans people say or if it's just one twit and people started hating and making it bigger like a snowball down a mountain.
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u/joausj Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Probably free advertising. Let's be honest how much of the games target audience (that being people that grew up in the 1990s and 2000s reading/watching Harry Potter) are actually going to boycott the game?
We're talking about people that lined up outside of bookstores in the 2000s and 2010s who are now in their 20s-30s that have nostalgia towards the franchise and likely has never heard of the whole JK controversy (which seems a bit overblown imo, worst ive seen is stating that biologically male athletes should not be in female sports).
1%? Maybe 5% max? That's probably gonna be made up by the people buying the game to "spite the sjws" and "own the libs" who would likely have given 0 shits about the game now that the trans community made it a political thing.
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u/pandemicv97 Feb 01 '23
I mean she can express her opinions however she likes unless it encourages violence or hate towards someone or break twitter's rules and that's not the case so where is the problem here ? lol.
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u/Just-JOE-Kin Feb 01 '23
Game is gunna make millions and JK would still be rich if the game didnât sell one copy so might as well just buy them game or a second hand copy lol
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u/Sorengetsu Feb 01 '23
i bought it bcuz of the controversy. its a good advertisement imo.
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u/frostedcinnamoneggs Feb 01 '23
Me too. I was going to wait until players reviewed it, but I am now the proud owner of the most expensive editions on several platforms.
God Bless J.K Rowling. Thank you for creating the Harry Potter universe.
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u/candyvulture Feb 01 '23
probably going to lose a lot of karma for this but i canât understand why you would do this. i get if you find people getting offended cringe or something but this just makes it feel hateful and unnecessary
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u/tamamandeska Feb 01 '23
Nowadays everything that doesnât correspond to the collective opinion is directly view as bad and gets cancelled. There isnât such a thing as free speech
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u/platypottamus Feb 01 '23
The same people complaining about rowling probably eat chick fil a. We are all in the same world and you cant just avoid the side you dont like forever. Im not buying the game when it comes out either, just because I know that in five years itâll be cheap as dirt
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u/pulsatinpussygoesbrr Feb 01 '23
as soon as it was annouced the 3 unforgivables will be in the game that made me 100% guaranteed to buy it
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u/Xtra_Tomatillo_Sauce Feb 01 '23
Imagine a world where being a feminist is like being a Nazi.
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u/kridjok Feb 01 '23
I wasnt planning on buying or playing it but now im preordering the Extra Special Deluxe Edition
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u/ExtraExperience1994 Feb 01 '23
Funny how it's the other way around for once
It would usually be supportive comment towards trans not the opposite
Either way it's crap
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u/sirAwittgenstein Feb 01 '23
Idk about you guys but if Kotaku is mad about a game i'm tempted to pre-order it.
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u/FriskyBubby Feb 01 '23
Itâs her own opinions idk why everyone gets riled up about it. If you donât like it ignore it. The game is probably not affected by her tweets as everyone makes it out to be.
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u/Pinkcop Feb 01 '23
Thank God for her. Might be the one person to save women from the lunatic generation....
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u/Vickyinredditland Feb 01 '23
I tried to ask my daughter what bad thing she actually said, but everything she showed me was just...nothing. Harry Potter is brilliant, stop ruining good things, you little turds đ
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u/ChalupaPickle Feb 01 '23
Honestly they are getting more people buying the game because of the anti trans tweets by jk Rowling. The game was already going to be the most sold game ever and now itâs getting even more buyers just to piss off the libs. Legacy developers should give a thank you to her.
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u/isnoe Feb 01 '23
JK Rowling doesnât dig the whole trans thing. So what?
Itâs a game and sheâs a billionaire. Just leave the lady alone man. Yâall out here sending death threats over her not wanting to say things she doesnât believe in.
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u/Master_Freeze Halal Mode Feb 01 '23
stop making memes about a fake situation
i donât think anyone is associating the harry potter franchise to be cancel worthy bc of jk rowling
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u/Dudeinpajamas Feb 01 '23
WHAT!?!?!? SOMEONES OPINION DOESNT EXACLTY MATCH THE CURRENT NARRATIVE!?!?!?! OFF WITH HER H3AD!
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u/Frankincense-n-Mur Feb 01 '23
I keep reading sheâs âanti-transâ but the issue sheâs talking about seems so much more complicated and the trans community is being essentially manipulated to actively shut her up. Genuinely, not trying to be a shit here.
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u/AppleBevom Feb 01 '23
Why do people even care about Rowlingâs views? Did she like even do any actions that actually hurt a transgender? Like I swear to God r/gamingcirclejerk acts like she murdered a transgender person or some shit.
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u/SandyEskimo Feb 01 '23
aside from saying biology is real like real-born females are not the same as the fakes what else did she say? I'm behind with all the woke nonsense
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scroll of truth time:
ITS A FICTIONAL STORY BOOK!
like it or hate it HP is just a book... it doesn't matter enough to devote world around it or the author and what they did or did not do. read it or don't cause you like books; play game or don't cause game looks fun. just don't worry on the so called politics as they don't actually matter.
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u/Brownie122806 Feb 01 '23
I was going to comment something here. But then immediately remembered that this is reddit. The hivemind would kill me for thinking rationally before I could eat dinner tonight
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u/CajunRabbit Feb 01 '23
Here is a crazy idea..... who cares what JK Rowling says. Like... seriously... who the fuck cares
You can still enjoy the books and movies and games and still not care at all about her.
They are not her's anymore.. the general public owns them.
People need to just start ignoring people.. it's wildly effective
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u/rockmeNiallxh Feb 01 '23
I honestly don't think she's anti trans, and i share most of her views. She's quite balanced imo
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u/Leaf-01 Feb 01 '23
I left iFunny like two years ago to get away from the terminally online internet idiots. Seems like this subreddit is just as bad looking at all these comments
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u/Crissan- Feb 01 '23
I don't understand why anything she says would affect anyone's opinion of a game that she had nothing to dig with, it's ridiculous, the developers are not too blame for what she says or does.
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u/Sorry-Examination766 Feb 01 '23
I mean we're all free to speak our mind . Well maybe not on Social media anymore. FB would throw me in FB jail all the time . But just in general it's ok to have your own opinions no reason to boycott a product. All I know is if it's a good game I'm playing it . Fuck the left
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u/Spamtonpamton Feb 01 '23
I love harry Potter, but I don't want ppl to think I'm mean because if it : (
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hey no hate, free to enjoy what you like.
liek for me i don't hate HP but i also don'r rate it. more a tolkien/lewis fan with a dablle of Robin Hobbs.
but that doesn't mean you and I can not be friends and enjoy our mutual love of fantasy genre.
people just get too caught up in a fictional story world is all.
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u/Donotcomenearme Feb 01 '23
She did just save 100 female lawyers and their families from the Taliban recently; with her own money and in secret.
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u/TheHighBuddha Feb 01 '23
Didn't even know about this game until redditors started complaining about it. Now I'm definitely buying it.
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u/Hephaestus_God Feb 01 '23
JK is just Oprah but gives out being gay and straight to any character she wrote 15 years ago at a whim
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u/WickedFox1o1 Feb 01 '23
I don't really care what JK tweets, however I do like the wizarding world and the game looks like a lot of fun that's what I'm basing my purchase on
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u/Call_Me_Steiner Feb 01 '23
this is literally where all the hate she receives comes from. In what world is this bad?
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u/WickedFox1o1 Feb 01 '23
Compared to some other things I've seen on Twitter that's pretty tame honestly. It's probably just Twitter people who are chronically online freaking out
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u/Call_Me_Steiner Feb 01 '23
Same as the guy who made this meme, claims that she publicly hates all trans people and they can never provide any evidence. Meanwhile, I can, in 1 Google search, prove the opposite.
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u/WickedFox1o1 Feb 01 '23
A lot of the time it seems people kinda jump on a band wagon. I can't really say what she's done is bad or good as I've done zero research and I doubt JK saying anything will affect the game negatively I think it was the most wish listed game on steam or something like that for a little bit
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u/Thenewdoc Feb 01 '23
There are so many people who are misinformed about Rowling in these comments. She is actively hateful and transphobic, this is a fact.
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u/ClickDisDotCom Feb 01 '23
Kanye's manager when Kanye starts talking/tweeting: