Is it normal to spend three years recording voices, or does this mean that there were rewrites?
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A Gamergater was lead developer and got fired when his history came to light too.
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Sure, let’s keep shoveling money at transphobes and anti-semites!
As long as a cis ally is welcome to help!
Why is that so difficult!
Ah… the non-pology finish to excusing a bigot who is contributing to violence against an entire community!
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The point of my initial post was to criticise people who are claiming to be trans allies but then justifying still wanting to play the game. My apology was genuine because if I continue to try and justify a line that wasn’t meant to offend then I’m no better than the people I tried to criticise. I messed up, I’ll do my best to not mess up in the future.
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But you also continued to double down after people pointed out just how awful Rowling was and continues to be… Over SEVERAL posts… saying “i’m sorry you’re offended” is a well known non-pology format, so best avoided. Just apologize or don’t.
And things are getting very, VERY bad out there for our trans brothers and sisters. We need to step up, and the very least we can do is NOT make excuses for people like Rowling, and show them that we care about their well-being.
That’s all any of us can do.
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This is beautifully put.
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Not mine, I’m afraid. Lifted from the opening of The Go Between by L. P. Hartley.
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
When I came upon the diary, it was lying at the bottom of a rather battered red cardboard collar box, in which as a small boy I kept my Eton collars. Someone, probably my mother, had filled it with treasures dating from those days. There were two dry, empty sea-urchins; two rusty magnets, a large one and a small one, which had almost lost their magnetism; some negatives rolled up in a tight coil; some stumps of sealing-wax; a small combination lock with three rows of letters; a twist of very fine whipcord; and one or two ambiguous objects, pieces of things, of which the use was not at once apparent: I could not even tell what they had belonged to.
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The Rowling specific part that you added, however, is sublime
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See, I was ready to give you credit. I’ll add you to my short list of people I’m confident are not a George Santos alter-ego!
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Once you get past the fact that we look nothing alike it can be hard to tell us apart. There are a few small differences though; for instance, I only steal from the best, while George-Anthony ripped his whole shtick from a dollar store Donald Trump impersonator.
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Standards are important!
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Of course it is, because Nazis
From the article: “Hogwarts Legacy achievement and trophy statistics have revealed that the most popular house in the game is Slytherin.”
Linking article just to source - no reason to actually click on it. I have extracted the important juice
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Part of me just thinks that’s the urge to explore the villains more closely and experience something new, since stories are most often told from the heroes’ point of view. It’s why games where you play a criminal like the Grand Theft Auto series are engaging, or why TIE Fighter is a way more interesting game than X-Wing.
Then I remember that to even purchase this game to begin with, players have to be, in real life, either bigots, bigot-friendly, or privileged airheads who never have to worry about politics and are oblivious to the entire issue. So… yeah, because Nazis. Sigh.
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Same here. And I saw this recently from Briana Wu
Superficially, Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter have a lot in common. Both are born special. Both are thrust into generational conflict. Both have abusive families. Both are self-inserts.
But, Star Wars and Harry Potter have very different messages.
To my mind, Star Wars is ultimately a story about duty and sacrifice at the expense of the self. Leia, Han, Obi-wan and even Luke are all forced to make choices that require a deep cost.
This is far less true with Harry Potter.
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In Star Wars, Empire is specifically coded in a way that lacks diversity. The heroes are ones from diverse backgrounds with diverse points of view.
In HP, generally, the diverse world is played for spectacle and laughs. …
There are very different messages in these franchises about what being “special” means.
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In the end, Luke wins because of the character he shows and his choice to not embrace the worst version of himself. It inspires someone to turn from their darkest self.
Harry beats Voldemort because the rules that apply to others don’t apply to him.
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Oh the books are weird for me. I’m too old for them but only by a few years. So I tried so hard to like them and felt compelled to defend Rowling against what at the time were, to be fair, often completely sexist attacks on her writing all the while feeling a little sad that I hadn’t had a franchise to get into in my actual childhood. But the writing was something I couldn’t get through. To put it in perspective I read return of the king three times but couldn’t finish goblet of fire once. And now I feel like a tool for defending Rowling at all frankly.
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No, he’s fibbing there. He would have been brought in for two or three sessions (four or five at the most) to record all the lines. Because he did so many characters, some of those characters were likely added later in development so he’d be brought in again. He’s being disingenuous saying he “worked in the game for three years”. The game’s development spanned three years and he was brought in a couple of times during that period, is all.
Well-run games and games with big stars in them get it done in one session because big talent and studio time are very expensive.
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I have a co-worker whose a gamer. He loves it. Recommended it to everyone he knows who plays video games. I think it’s gonna go gangbusters regardless of protest non-purchases.
I’m not sure how this relates to its actual or expected sales (whether certain properties are just tagged for it ahead of time, whether the most promising titles get more love; or whether it’s used in an attempt to salvage weaker titles); but I’ve been struck by just how heavily this one has been getting advertised.
I basically can’t touch gaming youtube(including channels run by people who specifically declined to touch the game because of Rowling) without getting absolutely swarmed about it; with a mixture of standalone and playstation-crossover versions of the ads. I would have mistaken it for a key launch title if I didn’t know that the PS5 released some time ago.
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