J.K. Rowling is a transphobe who uses the success of Harry Potter to claim her vile views are justified. Hogwarts Legacy is a game that supports and benefits her, and as a trans person I really need to talk about that, the trolls rallying around it, and the “allies” who sold us out for the sake of a media product.
For most people, it’ll always be “just a game.” For those of us threatened by the vicious little monsters Rowling emboldens, it’ll always be something more.
OK but aside from the funny, this is the gorilla doing its best to correct a gorilla faux pas! Gorillas don’t make eye contact except as a challenge. They avoid looking at each other directly as much as possible. So this fella just accidentally slid forward and looked the human right in the eye and went “oooooops” and turned FULLY around to go “I have no quarrel with you!”
The funniest part of the “your teacher dies in every possible ending” copypasta btw is that it doesn’t really sell how generic the fucking Wizard game is plot wise on that front.
Like, we have two major spoilers, Rockwood curses Anne and blamed the Goblins for it, and Professor Fig dies regardless of ending. You’d expect therefore two very simple things from this reveals:
1) That this would lead to the classic mid story twist that the “oppressed minority doing terrorism was actually being manipulated the whole time and you the white saviour help them after realising they aren’t so bad.”
And 2) That the game has multiple endings that are shaped by your actions in the story, despite how in all of them your mentor dies (probably for different reasons each time).
This is however not fucking the case lol.
Because guess what.
Hogwarts Legacy has only two endings.
There is the “Good” ending, where you decide to keep the status quo as is and prevent systematic change, and a “Bad” ending where you “free the ancient magic” and change the status quo, but then promise to work to set ip up back as it was before.
NOTHING you do in the game changes this. Every decision, spell choice, side quest, NOTHING influences these endings. There is no Karma Meter, or checklist of decisions to have to pick the best possible ending ala Witcher, nothing, you are given ONE decision right at the end of the game, between breaking the status quo (bad) or keeping it as is (good) and that’s the extent of player choice on what ending you get.
TWO ENDINGS.
ALL BASED ON YOUR FINAL CHOICE.
MASS EFFECT 3, INFAMOUS FOR DOING THIS VERY SAME SHIT, HAD THREE.
And after you have this choice, your mentor dies, and you fight the evil goblin leader who is evil because he was once the victim of a violent hate crime so now he sides with Wizard N*zis and wants to genocide all wizards, and who is, yes, the main villain of the game, not the guy who cursed the girl, nope, we’re still murdering an evil minority rebellion leader with a large hooked nose as he’s being powered by the status quo breaking “Ancient Magic” the hero is treated like a villain for if he decides to “share with the world.”
And then there’s a generic eulogy for mentor followed by the house cup being won by your fucking house as a “true” ending, which happens regardless of what choice you pick, and that is a “post credit scene” ending after finishing all collectibles and side quests, just to give the illusion of having 3 endings.
This game is shallow and mediocre beyond belief yet we have people fucking frothing at the mouth for being told they shouldn’t fucking play the mid wizard game. You have streamers crying at the gentlest fucking pushback, people going “I can excuse transphobia and anti semitism but I draw the line at spoilers,” for one of the most soulless, generic pieces of videogame media of this year.
“Boycotts don’t work if the product is good just look at chick fill a” the product isn’t fucking good the product is mid the product has an extremely shit plot baked in anti semitism and with boring “twists” and even if it was the fucking masterpiece some of those people claim it is have a minimum of moral fucking backbone and if you can’t help yourself PLAY OR EAT SOMETHING ELSE.
just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol
apparently that’s exactly how they met. bindi just happened to be giving tours the day his family visited. love is unreal. how is this not a teen romcom yet
My favorite part of the story of how Steve and Terri met is that it was literally love at first sight. He saw her in a crowd and froze. Which was a bad thing, because he was sort of wrestling a crocodile at the time.
Aussie fairy tale
“He saw her in a crowd and froze. Which was a bad thing, because he was sort of wrestling a crocodile at the time.”
this sentence has the same kind of comedic timing and humor style as douglas adams
just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol
apparently that’s exactly how they met. bindi just happened to be giving tours the day his family visited. love is unreal. how is this not a teen romcom yet
My favorite part of the story of how Steve and Terri met is that it was literally love at first sight. He saw her in a crowd and froze. Which was a bad thing, because he was sort of wrestling a crocodile at the time.
okay now imagine for a moment that teen titans came out 10 years later
do you guys think this ugly motherfucker wouldve been a tumblr sexyman
yes and killer moth would be the fandom dilf
Killer moth would’ve been huge if that episode came out around the peak of tumblrs cryptidcore mothman era for sure. The spider boyfriend from that episode too
