Hey everyone I am creating a temporary containment thread for all posts related to the WB video game releasing this week.
All posts after this one will be removed, consider donating to aid groups for the earthquake.
Here is a pretty exhaustive list that hasn't really been researched in depth or vetted, please let me know if there are any terrible links and I'll remove them
the tweets about this game are honestly top shelf.
my favorite so far is "once you beat the game, you're taken back to the character. there, you can decide whether your character was actually gay this whole time!"
I have genuine fond memories of reading them with my mom and class as a kid, as well as seeing the movies, but they really didn't age well, which has only been aggravated by Rowling being a bigot.
Is it even worth pirating? It seems like they distilled all the current gaming trends into a mediocre game and painted hairy poter over it. That IGN article read like they didn't like the game but weren't allowed to score it less than a 9
There's gotta be what, like 5 other video games that you could be playing instead of the wizard game. Tetris, Farming Simulator 19, Jagged Alliance 2, Myst (1993), and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. There might even be more than that but I'm not sure.
Unironcially how we should troll people. Telling people that the game has a nazi agenda will only improve its popularity, or people will get off on being bad by playing the game.
If you tell them spoilers, CHUDs actually occasionally drop their smug, always-in-control grin. Nothing is more satisfying than watching them undergo narcissistic injury.
Eleazar Fig dies at the end of the game. This happens on all possible endings and can't be changed. Also, the fact that Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne.
Tbh Sirona Ryan seems like a decent name all things considered, Sirona apparently has a buncha mythological shit behind it so that's on brand for transfem names.
Totally get why people are clowning on it though, pretty funny.
if a real woman chose it as her name i wouldn't be shocked, but as is i wouldn't be surprised if someone leaks that it was an actively malicious choice
Can you imagine these leftists who argue for this game actually trying to organize? Someone whose reaction to this is "Uh actually it's a consumer boycott and therefore not effective🤓" must be just incapable of solidarity of any kind. Genuinely, unironically doing the "there are starving people in Africa" argument at trans people asking for recognition. Absolutely 0 self-awareness.
At no point did anyone on the left call it a boycott. At no point was anyone seriously trying to boycott the game but instead to simply tell people they're being dicks to trans people if they pay for the terf game.
Boycott was a word given to it by the right, probably thought up by some pretty good strategists who knew full well that it could convince some leftists and libs to play it because "boycotts don't work".
I can't wait to until these leftists find out what happens to actual effective leftists movements hand wringing about something easy and safe while all the time insisting that they really want to do what is necessary to get organized state violence at their door.
Frankly it’s sad that hasan’s only reason is because of chat yelling at him and not because of the obvious problems of the game. But that’s why I don’t follow politics streamers.