I made a point of reading JK Rowling's writings about this subject and couldn't find anything close to objectionable. What actually is very frightening is the idea that there are people that want to give hormone blockers and perform radical surgery on little boys who might be temporarily confused in regard to their sexuality and/or gender. That idea is truly nightmarish.
I call folks (normies not activists) out all the time on what she has said , none ever have a response , they are just bandwagon jumping morons, the kind of people that hate on someone just cause everyone else Is , with zero real reason ..sheep
It's also important to point out that Rowling is a progressive leftist feminist and a gay rights ally... and it's still not good enough because she didn't keep her mouth shut.
The thing is you can't shame gamers to influence their purchasing decisions, gamers have been the central figure of hate for every moral panic since the 80's, the result, gamers are based, they just don't care anymore (if they ever did), tell them buying a game will make them a bad person, it's content is wrong or it'll promote bad think and the response will pretty universally be, 'That sounds awesome, where do I buy it?"
Damn, you just reminded me of "Night Trap". When the censors lost the fight over MKII, they turned their ire against "promoting violence against women" on Sega CD. Good member berries there. Just people trying to tell people what they can and can't make, and it's been going on for decades.
@@Sentinel82 This post caused me to watch the YT vids for both Night Trap full-run, and all of the Game Over sequences. I actually enjoyed it. Thanks, Harry Potter Biggots, you just reminded me of a hilarious game that I would LOVE to be re-issued. It’s like Stranger Things meets one of those Babysitter movies. MORE THINGS LIKE NIGHT TRAP PLEASE!
@Red Devil Yeah, although the manipulation tends to be less effective as time has gone on, the cynisim has really set in the last few years, even game play trailers aren't trusted and the the long term effects of manipulation tend to be very negative to sales (just ask Bioware how its been going since Mass Effect 3) and with a lot of the censorship (for PC at least) there is a mod or edit which removes it
Anybody that goes to Universal Orlando and tries to navigate through the massive crowds at Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley knows that nothing these activists say about Rowling matters.
Bingo! I was there earlier this month and had a great time. Everyone was so chill and friendly. I met a family who came all the way from Italy to visit the park.
Went to the Warner Bros Studio Tourn in Watford on the weekend. Place was rammed, with kids and even adult dressed up in wizard costumes and languages from all over the world. No-one in the real world gives a shit about these incel TRAs and their neurotic hissy fits
"Kotaku trans writer makes a living streaming on platform that directly donates to the Equality Act while having EPIC MELTDOWN over Hogwarts Legacy, proving we only fight convenient fights"
You know what's even more blatantly transphobic? Gender-segregated dormitories. The stairs themselves turn into slides whenever they detect someone who isn't a woman trying to enter the girl's dorms!
“It doesn’t mean that you’re not a human being, and that you don’t deserve rights. But that’s what they’re trying to push” hit the mail on the head. We don’t hate these people, but they have grown a hatred for most of us and we’re just sick of it and we’re standing up.
Their idea of "trans rights" is the right to deny biology and force compelled speech. They already have every human right everyone else does, they want extra privileges. Nobody cares if these people want to take hormones and use whatever pronouns, but it is literally impossible to change your sex and males shouldn't be in female spaces. If you disagree with them, they scream, they threaten, they even resort to violence.
Speak for yourself. If someone tries to force me to follow their personalized arbitrary emotional rules, I hate them. How dare someone try to manipulate me to be an object of their affirmation? How self absorbed are these people?
@@johndodo2062 mot people are satisfied. There are demands for improvement, but that happens with most games, and the mods are rolling like crazy, so people can look forward to play the game as they best see fit (not necessarily how the devs expected them to).
What do you mean 0/0 every time someone plays Hogwarts it kills a mentally I'll person (oops I mean trans) so with millions of copys sold it must be at least 36 million mentally I'll (oops mean trans) get killed every day! YOU MONSTERS!! if you are not trans you are not valid!
My younger son and a female work colleague of his were discussing the game. He was telling her he loves the game and she said, she wants to play it but doesn't want to support JK. The end. That's how you deal with it. Boycott it all you want and you can tell people why you're doing that. just don't be harassing, doxing etc other people in to doing it too.
A friend of mine can't stand Rowling. We disagree on whether or not what she said is transphobic, and I'm trans. We're in a race to see who can find everything and have many civil conversations daily. It's really not that hard to co-exist.
I'm convinced a lot of these people think Rowlinf said something totally different from what she actually said. Just like how the media lied about what a certain president said every day for 4 years...
I love the Sebastian side quest with his sister. Did you help him? Tried to stop him? Maybe did both? And what is the right thing to do? That's the discussion I've had with my friends about this game (even some trans people). Gamers don't care about politics and if they do they don't talk about or want it in their games.
The only “politics” I’ve ever cared about in games is in RTS where you play as a democratic nation vs a kingdom vs communism or different factions. Civ games, Sudden Strike, Tropico etc.
Yes, but she didn’t go far enough. She disagreed with them on one thing, so she is an automatic enemy for them. Nothing is ever enough for the outrage mob.
Not precisely she's a leftist femmimist yes .. but But feminism has been hijacked by the trans movement , so she has rejected that , so the wokes have turned on her , and I doubt she's a post modernist (woke), certainly nothing in her books suggest that
@@JadeRunner minus the generation of brainwashing fascism is not right nor left. It was a Roman concept where free men came together to achieve a common goal. Symbolized by a bundle of sticks. Many a portrait of the founding fathers has them holding a this Symbol. So sure I guess he was a lefty who cares.
“Hogwarts Legacy” has wingardium leviosa-ed Warner Bros. Games’ sales, earning $850 million in global sales and moving more than 12 million units in just its first two weeks post-launch. - Boycott failed.
The fact both Hogwarts Legacy and Atomic Heart are selling is hilarious, all those californians screaming on twitter was useless. If anything both games are selling even better precisely because of their nonstop annoying words.
This genuinely gives me some hope for the games industry. A lot of devs have been been seriously destroying game quality by injecting their hyper-progressive politics and disdain into everything, and now a super controversial game comes out and makes nearly a billion dollars. All the execs care about is money, and the woke shit has been crashing and burning for years, while ignoring the work mob is proving to be profitable. Hoping they notice this quick and make funding decisions accordingly.
The Scottish politician in the clip is Kate Forbes currently in the running to replace Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister of Scotland. She's a devout Christian with personal views that run counter to 'the message'. Sadly she'll likely loose and the current favourite is Humza Yousaf who thinks Scotland's institutions are too white, despite 96% of the Scottish population being white, and who used the Scottish court system engage in a personal vendetta against people he felt had slighted him.
Imagine that, a white European country having a mostly white population who are the majority represented within institutions in that country...fuckin racist is what it is 🤣
Calling a "trans _woman_ " a biological _male_ is now controversial? Boy, I sure do miss the simpler times where I was called a conspiracy theorist spilling slippery slope fallacies and strawman arguments when I'd say that as soon as the alphabet legions secured an inch of a beachead with "sex and gender are different", they'd start asking for miles, eventually circling back to "sex and gender are the same". Good times.
For someone of my age, the irony of these people and their takes is pretty amazing. They are just the modern versions of Jerry Falwell, Jim Baker, and the rest of the "Moral Majority" of the 70's and 80's. I spent my youth hearing how D&D was devil-worshiping. (I even watched the bad Tom Hanks movie about it) Listening to Ozzy was devil worshipping. Playing Mortal Combat was going to corrupt me. These are the SAME types of people, using the SAME types of arguments. They have just replaced satanists with racists. In 40 years we will all look back on these fools just like we look back on the others now.
Bullying Rowling for not wanting to be referred to as "a person who menstruates" by a bunch of men in skirts is not much different than Whoa Vickey or someone wearing black face calling black people the N word. The ONLY difference is that one of these is oddly enough tolerated.
Honestly these activist are making me more anti trans than I could have ever imagined , at first my theory was I don't care what an individual does behind doors but they felt compelled to tell me what , how , and when I should think and feel and I'm not having it.
Well done! You’ve noticed that the aim of this kind of propaganda is to create antipathy to the subject ostensibly being praised in order to create a social backlash.
So what you're saying is that you're an emotionally oversensitive animal that's not smart enough to realize that this is the vocal minority and is by far not the majority as a whole.
@@patmack2871 The fact you're bitching about how you're starting to become anti-trans because of a minority of people is itself an emotional response, because if you were actually logical, then you would understand that the majority aren't like this.
Why do I get the feeling these wackos who are claiming you can’t divorce Rowling’s “controversial” views from her art, are the same people who would call you a troll for calling out _The Last Jedi’s_ poisonous messaging? (The difference being that Rian Johnson’s politics were _all over_ that movie, whereas _Hogwarts Legacy_ has nothing to do with Rowling’s comments.)
This might seem random, but anybody remember Eminem and his rap songs in the early 2000s. Fuck, these lyrics were so smart, edgy, funny and provocative. Pure creativity. Now compare that with today’s entertainment industry. It has been severely dumbed down and homogenized. Everything creative is now problematic. Do I as a grown ass woman need to be constantly coddled by being shown the same regurgitated but “acceptable” shit over and over again?
The trans drama is largely artificial, and pushed by the perpetual victim spiteful mutants. But I still refuse to buy the game for promoting White Erasure.
We are expecting people with serious mental disorders to think and act rationally. History will not look kindly at us for not helping these people. I told my family if I ever start to say I'm orange juice get me help don't ask what brand I am.
I was thinking of telling them that if comments are allowed. She just went after someone in the UK for doing that. Don't know if she cares what US publications say but maybe she just doesn't know about it. They made a statement of fact they can't back. I know they think their opinions are facts because a few mates agree with them but it won't make it so.
This take on Rowling is, of course, insane nonsense -- drummed up by the cluster-B, histrionic personality crowd .... but one thing in the text, that I am glad that Gary at least passingly commented on was the tone and wording of: "...platform afforded her by her fame and wealth...". As if her fame and wealth weren't direct biproducts of writing one of the most popular and well received narratives of all time. I'm no Rowling fan; I'm not even really a potter fan, but her platform isn't 'afforded her' by fame and wealth -- it's a platform that she earned (along with her fame and wealth) through craft, skill, and actual achievement. To my knowledge she's the first author EVER to become a billionaire from her work alone. She was a secretary and now has more cash value than the queen of England. Yes, the primary thrust of this article is puerile and unfounded, but I think it's also a weirdly valuable in way because -- as you go line by line -- you can see exactly how epistemically poisoned this kind of person is. Their basic operating system rests on top of all kinds of assertions that are just wrong, untrue, and factually incorrect. They've just taken bad, flimsy ideology as self-evident truth and built their entire existence on it.
You know how it is, over a certain level of wealth you aren't a successful person who beat the odds, you're just privileged. Crazier still, JK even does exactly what they say rich people should do with their wealth...as in she's given a significant amount of it away to charitable organisations, she is a successful woman, who made a fortune and uses that fortune to help the less fortunate...and she's still a villain somehow for recognising that reality exists.
God I remember when Kotaku actually wrote about games and gameplay, and how cool the Loot Cave was in Destiny 1..... then something changed and it felt icky.......
I think that the overwhelming success of this game is proof positive that internet blog sites DO NOT in anyway affect the actions or opinions of the masses. Sites like Polygon, IGN, Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, etc. are not mainstream, they're just noise. 99% of people don't give a f*** about anything those sites are writing about.
You nailed that one. "Authenticity" is why I'm here and why I keep coming back. I have trouble watching stuff like "New Rockstars" channel anymore after I've seen the difference between it and this. Watching them makes me feel like an idiot drone now, it's so soulless and fake.
I feel bad. They could be such a force for POSITIVE CHANGE in the world. Volunteering, helping others, instead of walking around always seeking agitation and hurt where none exists.
it's really simple, if you are a critic critique the game only. What political beliefs the developers or Rowling herself have is inconsequential to the merits of the game itself. Even communists were occasionally capable of creating things of beauty. "making trans persons "OTHER". If some people are not other how do we have diversity? Sorry the T's of the alphabet soup club are a small minority of an already small minority. Trans people are other, DEAL WITH IT! Besides if there are more than two genders, why do I have a lack of options at a gender reassignment clinic?
Calling these articles "hatebait" made me realize something: Brad Warner, author of the book Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and The Truth About Reality, wrote on his patreon page the following, which I'll paraphrase: In the pre-internet days, if a written article you submitted to a publication was accepted, you were paid, end of story. Nowadays, if an article you submit to a website is accepted, you get paid nothing until it reaches a pre-determined like/share/view threshold. Based on this video, the solution to corrosive woke journalism is simply to pay upfront for quality writing.
And that's only on the Ps5, Xbox Series X, and PC. They still haven't released the game on the Ps4, Xbox One, OR the Switch yet, so there's going to be even more players as those console versions get released.
I'm actually playing Hogwarts, its fantastic. I never heard of HP till the movies came out, never read the books. I am only a mild fan of the movies, but the game is excellent. If you love the franchise, you should buy it. Friend of mine cried flying on a broomstick for the first time, he's from England though. Not really surprised
The video from Danks is itv news interviewing the potential 2nd Female First minister candidate (Kate Forbes) (replacement) after the first one stood down - because of her Presbyterian belief of man+woman = married couple etc the main ruling party in Scotlands own members and msp’s slaughtered her for stating biological fact, it’s the same going for the second female candidate Ash Regan - the male hopeful is Humza Yousaf who although didn’t vote on the original gay marriage bill about ten years ago (because of his Muslim religion forbidding it) is now all for trans rights, which if you look his name up on Twitter you will find his Anti-White speech whilst I think he was justice minister during him introducing the very much hated - Hate Crime Bill..
I was in primary school when the first book was released 1997; my teacher read us the book from start to finish. I have a 10-year-old daughter who loves Harry Potter; we have read all the books. I'm not a massive fan, but her work has influenced generations of children. No one needs to listen to these people; it isn't their place to tell people what they should and shouldn't support.
When your screaming at a kid and calling them sexist for playing a game you would think something would click in there mind like maybe im the one in the wrong here?
Nah man, that kid is a literal Nazi and maliciously oppressing fully grown adults and causing them physical and emotional harm...by playing a video game which is tangentially connected to someone who's opinion they don't like.
Im glad that shes getting a taste of her own medicine--seeing the vitriol shes spewed towards conservatives and President Trump is coming back on her own head.
I use to love Kotaku. Somewhere down the road they became stupidly political, particularly left winged, and then they made commenting approved only and started filtering out anyone that didn’t fit their narrative. So I never went on their site again.
What the fuck is the point of a discussion when everyone agrees goin in? It's nuts "unless you're gleefully smelling the journo's farts and telling them how wonderful, stunning and correct they are, you can't speak" no wonder these dickheads melt down as soon as anyone disagrees with them.
I suspect some insidious hidden agenda in the woke movement with this game. It’s a decent game, but my god is it woke. So far having played over 30 hours of it, I’ve met TWO Scottish characters…in Scotland! There’s more LGBT representation than Scottish people in a game set in Scotland in the 19th century. And nobody is talking about it because the woke movement are set so against the game. Even generously extending that population out to characters from the whole UK, I’m not sure they number in the region of 50%. In the late 1800s no less! Its a good game still, lacks a little soul maybe, but two Scottish people in the whole of the Scottish highlands slightly breaks the immersion.
And this is the first time I ever became aware that Hogwarts was located in Scotland...although I too couldn't help but marvel at how diverse people seem to believe the UK was in the 1800s
"WAAAAAH THER'S GAY PEOPLE IN MY GAAAAAME! I DON'T LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY SCARE ME AND THEY'RE ICKY!" Anyone that uses woke serious is either a child or has some sort of brain damage. Either way, you're an oversensitive snowflake that's bitching about a small group of LGBT representation because you've deluded yourself into thinking there's some sort of agenda. When in reality you're just not smart enough to realize that there's nothing remotely like that anywhere in this.
So far, the game is awesome. Very engaging, massive in size (though definitely not as big as Red Dead Redemption 2's map), very enjoyable in every way and definitely keeps drawing me back in for more exploration and story.
You can easily see him, Google Maulr face reveal should come up in the first page of images. I always try to see what UA-camrs who don't show their have look like
Why attack the streamers? They’ve already purchased the game, it’s not like they’re going to purchase another copy. To the people who you ticked off, they may purchase another copy to tick you off even more.
I've been immersed in the trans world. I even considered myself trans for a while. I don't anymore. I was going through a rough time. I let my own dysphoria take over (and that is a real psychological thing, but as with all mental conditions, it can be overcome through shadow work), so I fell into that trap. This whole trans movement (along with neo-feminism) is what I'd call an epi-eugenics agenda (getting the herd to cull itself). This community didn't just emerge randomly, it's the result of ongoing social engineering to weaken the species, to further disconnect people from the sacred masculine and sacred feminine, to create an easily controlled new generation of androgynized people. Much of this "community" embraces socialism, moral relativism, and has zero understanding of what Rights actually are and where they come from (NOT government). They are disconnected from objective reality and truth, and it's all by design. It's also a huge divide-and-control agenda. The more we can be divided by and in conflict with all these different ego-identities (race, gender, religion, etc), the easier we can be manipulated and duped into furthering our own enslavement. It's all Satanic. The first two tenets of Satanic ideology are Ego (ME ME ME thinking, self-preservation as the highest goal, the survival and pleasure of the physical self is more important than what's right and true) and Moral Relativism (morality is what WE say it is and we can change it anytime we want). And you'll see this mentality everywhere, not just these social movements. Most of society is inculcated by it. It's all pure evil, and we need to say NO to it. We need courage, conscience, care and immense will power to stop this shit from getting worse. All arrows point to the children. They are the ultimate prey in this agenda in more ways than one.
This needs to be shared more often as 'normal' people don't understand just how deep this goes and where it's coming from. It's the good old "hide your head in the sand' problem once again.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to get this *exact* point across. I’m definitely shadøwbanned from yt for saying as much many times over. So well said and bravo. I’ve also tried telling people about “The 45 ¢ømmunist gøals for America.” Entered into the congressional record in the 60’s, they tried warning the people of the dangers of the ideølogy. Their goal was to subvert our culturaI educational, and governmental institutions. They not only infiItrated all aspects of American society and cuIture but they flourished. Social Media expedited the process exponentially. With technocrats that subscribe to it all at the helm, they were able to suppress free speech and the truth, while simultaneously spreading “the message.” Their job is *not* finished until our RepubIic is completely demoIished and remade in their image. As far as legacy media talking about “viø-Ience” against “T’s” 9:14 they leave out the fact that most of it is committed against them by *people they know,* aka domestic viø-Ience *not* by random strangers. The statistics prove as much but the narrative is more important to them than truth or reality.
Add Universal Studios to the list. Rowling gets a royalty off every ticket sold because of Harry Potter Land in the theme park. Where are all the activists boycotting Universal Studios?
They ignore that their Toxic behavior towards others who want to play this game is doing more to harm Trans rights than the game is. They are literally hurting their own cause and are too ignorant to notice it and doubling down.
They are not ignorant - that’s exactly the result that they want. It’s a form of propaganda designed to create animosity in the general population and a backlash against one particular group.
The hilarious part to me is when reading steam forums before release, a lot of people were saying they were boycotting the game because it was too woke. So, people want to boycott the game for being transphobic and other people want to boycott it for being too woke. I would love to see a person from both sides in a room argue who is right. I imagine it would be quite comical considering it's a game about a fictional Wizarding world and not an interactive documentary. Personally I don't care about any of it. All the attacking by both sides has literally only accomplished making me not care about anything that doesn't personally affect me. I'm gonna do my thing, enjoy what I want to enjoy. The rest is just noise.
And then they wonder why nobody is clicking on their articles anymore. If they allow obvious low quality garbage like that on the site, nobody is going to trust that any of their staff know what they're talking about. They're trashing a decent game because they don't like the politics of the person that penned the original IP. At this stage, ALL of their ratings are suspect.
You're absolutely right about the segregation and authoritarianism unfortunately the bulk of humanity if you will doesn't see what's going on or understand we've been so numb to buy these things we hold my hands and talk on and watch on
I made a point of reading JK Rowling's writings about this subject and couldn't find anything close to objectionable. What actually is very frightening is the idea that there are people that want to give hormone blockers and perform radical surgery on little boys who might be temporarily confused in regard to their sexuality and/or gender. That idea is truly nightmarish.
Wild isnt it? You can be branded the world over as a bigot without actually saying anything of the sort.
I call folks (normies not activists) out all the time on what she has said , none ever have a response , they are just bandwagon jumping morons, the kind of people that hate on someone just cause everyone else Is , with zero real reason ..sheep
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It's also important to point out that Rowling is a progressive leftist feminist and a gay rights ally...
and it's still not good enough because she didn't keep her mouth shut.
The thing is you can't shame gamers to influence their purchasing decisions, gamers have been the central figure of hate for every moral panic since the 80's, the result, gamers are based, they just don't care anymore (if they ever did), tell them buying a game will make them a bad person, it's content is wrong or it'll promote bad think and the response will pretty universally be, 'That sounds awesome, where do I buy it?"
Damn, you just reminded me of "Night Trap". When the censors lost the fight over MKII, they turned their ire against "promoting violence against women" on Sega CD. Good member berries there. Just people trying to tell people what they can and can't make, and it's been going on for decades.
Shaming gamers hasn't worked so much. But censorship, and manipulating gamers absolutely has.
I remember that with mortal Kombat
@@Sentinel82 This post caused me to watch the YT vids for both Night Trap full-run, and all of the Game Over sequences. I actually enjoyed it. Thanks, Harry Potter Biggots, you just reminded me of a hilarious game that I would LOVE to be re-issued. It’s like Stranger Things meets one of those Babysitter movies. MORE THINGS LIKE NIGHT TRAP PLEASE!
@Red Devil Yeah, although the manipulation tends to be less effective as time has gone on, the cynisim has really set in the last few years, even game play trailers aren't trusted and the the long term effects of manipulation tend to be very negative to sales (just ask Bioware how its been going since Mass Effect 3) and with a lot of the censorship (for PC at least) there is a mod or edit which removes it
Anybody that goes to Universal Orlando and tries to navigate through the massive crowds at Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley knows that nothing these activists say about Rowling matters.
Bingo! I was there earlier this month and had a great time. Everyone was so chill and friendly. I met a family who came all the way from Italy to visit the park.
Yep. These extreme activists can't stop the signal. They're only helping to boost it.
Even better, bet that some of these "slacktivists" are actually still buying the merch and going to the theme park.
They are. An ultra left place that banned discussion of the game (but took money to run ad banners) were playing it.
Went to the Warner Bros Studio Tourn in Watford on the weekend. Place was rammed, with kids and even adult dressed up in wizard costumes and languages from all over the world. No-one in the real world gives a shit about these incel TRAs and their neurotic hissy fits
'Kotaku Trans Writer Has EPIC MELTDOWN Over "Hogwarts Legacy"!'
Good. More of that please.
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"Kotaku trans writer makes a living streaming on platform that directly donates to the Equality Act while having EPIC MELTDOWN over Hogwarts Legacy, proving we only fight convenient fights"
@@Delta9Church "Kotaku trans writer joins the 41% club."
@@admontblanc those are rookie numbers, got to pump them up.
They are all whacked.
God forbid they have segregated bathrooms by sex in a video game. HOW DARE YOU!? 😂
The game is woke af chief
Can't say the same for the Dead Space remake, unfortunately.
There were already gender-exclusive bathrooms in the books.
You know what's even more blatantly transphobic? Gender-segregated dormitories. The stairs themselves turn into slides whenever they detect someone who isn't a woman trying to enter the girl's dorms!
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Not to mention dorm rooms magically protected by staircases that turned to slides.
I heard that Melanie Mac's character is called Ima Biggot. Epic trolling.
It is it’s great
That sounds godly.
@@ChadKakashi it’s glorious
Maybe the real bigots are the friends we made along the way.
“It doesn’t mean that you’re not a human being, and that you don’t deserve rights. But that’s what they’re trying to push” hit the mail on the head. We don’t hate these people, but they have grown a hatred for most of us and we’re just sick of it and we’re standing up.
Their idea of "trans rights" is the right to deny biology and force compelled speech. They already have every human right everyone else does, they want extra privileges. Nobody cares if these people want to take hormones and use whatever pronouns, but it is literally impossible to change your sex and males shouldn't be in female spaces. If you disagree with them, they scream, they threaten, they even resort to violence.
Speak for yourself. If someone tries to force me to follow their personalized arbitrary emotional rules, I hate them. How dare someone try to manipulate me to be an object of their affirmation? How self absorbed are these people?
Just for the record: _Hogwarts Legacy_ actual K/D count to date: 0/0.
Satisfied _Hogwarts Legacy_ players: over 17 million.
12 million
And i highly doubt most are actually satisfied
@@johndodo2062 mot people are satisfied. There are demands for improvement, but that happens with most games, and the mods are rolling like crazy, so people can look forward to play the game as they best see fit (not necessarily how the devs expected them to).
What do you mean 0/0 every time someone plays Hogwarts it kills a mentally I'll person (oops I mean trans) so with millions of copys sold it must be at least 36 million mentally I'll (oops mean trans) get killed every day!
YOU MONSTERS!! if you are not trans you are not valid!
Pretty sure there's probably some woke nutcases who committed suicide over this. These spineless idiots have next-to-no mental fortitude.
Trans writer? Was he a reader before transitioning then? 😄
Trans writers are biological readers pretending to be writers.
The comedy writes itself.
He's going to become a writer one day
@@TheWatcherxx99 after his writer affirming surgery?
😂😂
How dare you exclude the non-writer/readers!
My younger son and a female work colleague of his were discussing the game. He was telling her he loves the game and she said, she wants to play it but doesn't want to support JK. The end.
That's how you deal with it. Boycott it all you want and you can tell people why you're doing that. just don't be harassing, doxing etc other people in to doing it too.
A friend of mine can't stand Rowling. We disagree on whether or not what she said is transphobic, and I'm trans. We're in a race to see who can find everything and have many civil conversations daily.
It's really not that hard to co-exist.
Tell her JK already got paid for the license, her money is worth jackshit to the little radfem JK
@@GLoLChibs they (media, elites etc) don't want us to co existent. They want us at each others throats so we don't hold them accountable.
I'm convinced a lot of these people think Rowlinf said something totally different from what she actually said.
Just like how the media lied about what a certain president said every day for 4 years...
She better never watch any WB content, netflix or amazon or anything since they all make a small amount of payments to her.
I love the Sebastian side quest with his sister. Did you help him? Tried to stop him? Maybe did both? And what is the right thing to do? That's the discussion I've had with my friends about this game (even some trans people). Gamers don't care about politics and if they do they don't talk about or want it in their games.
The only “politics” I’ve ever cared about in games is in RTS where you play as a democratic nation vs a kingdom vs communism or different factions. Civ games, Sudden Strike, Tropico etc.
The irony here is that JK Rowlings politics are virtually identical to those of the article writer.
Rancid indeed.
JK strayed from the path...doubleplusnotgood
Yes, but she didn’t go far enough. She disagreed with them on one thing, so she is an automatic enemy for them. Nothing is ever enough for the outrage mob.
Not precisely she's a leftist femmimist yes .. but But feminism has been hijacked by the trans movement , so she has rejected that , so the wokes have turned on her , and I doubt she's a post modernist (woke), certainly nothing in her books suggest that
@Real Talk
It is 5.
That's _my_ truth...
Woke on woke crime
Useless writers doing useless things.
Bought it, played it, enjoyed it. Nobody died.
AVADAKADABRA
they did but no spoilers
Kotaku is a rage bait site.
this channel is almost the same - it's rage bait with humorous meta commentary
He says in a Nerdrotic comment section.
Are...are you just figuring this out now?
They need to rage quit.
It is a miracle that Kotaku is still alive.
The sheer impotence of this hate mob has given so much encouragement to real people in dark times.
Goebbels' official title in the Nazi regime was "Games Journalist", true facts.
Cool I like that guy more and more these days. Ye was right
Gobbles was actually a staunch Leftist who hated Right-wingers. Fact.
@@JadeRunner minus the generation of brainwashing fascism is not right nor left. It was a Roman concept where free men came together to achieve a common goal. Symbolized by a bundle of sticks. Many a portrait of the founding fathers has them holding a this Symbol. So sure I guess he was a lefty who cares.
Good 2 know.
“Hogwarts Legacy” has wingardium leviosa-ed Warner Bros. Games’ sales, earning $850 million in global sales and moving more than 12 million units in just its first two weeks post-launch. - Boycott failed.
It's their most successful game ever not featuring Batman 🤣
The fact both Hogwarts Legacy and Atomic Heart are selling is hilarious, all those californians screaming on twitter was useless. If anything both games are selling even better precisely because of their nonstop annoying words.
This genuinely gives me some hope for the games industry. A lot of devs have been been seriously destroying game quality by injecting their hyper-progressive politics and disdain into everything, and now a super controversial game comes out and makes nearly a billion dollars. All the execs care about is money, and the woke shit has been crashing and burning for years, while ignoring the work mob is proving to be profitable. Hoping they notice this quick and make funding decisions accordingly.
It's leviosaaaaHHhh
This stream is LITERALLY SAVING LIVES !
I'm not a Potter fan at all but I'm so glad the game is a huge success while the boycott failed. JK Rowling must be laughing at those weirdos.
If you haven't played it you should even if you arent a harry potter fan, it's a great game in all aspects.
The Scottish politician in the clip is Kate Forbes currently in the running to replace Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister of Scotland. She's a devout Christian with personal views that run counter to 'the message'. Sadly she'll likely loose and the current favourite is Humza Yousaf who thinks Scotland's institutions are too white, despite 96% of the Scottish population being white, and who used the Scottish court system engage in a personal vendetta against people he felt had slighted him.
Imagine that, a white European country having a mostly white population who are the majority represented within institutions in that country...fuckin racist is what it is 🤣
"Authenticity is the currency of the future." I love that.
Their tears and impotent rage are my aphrodisiac.
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Weird fetish but okay. No judgement 😂
Calling a "trans _woman_ " a biological _male_ is now controversial?
Boy, I sure do miss the simpler times where I was called a conspiracy theorist spilling slippery slope fallacies and strawman arguments when I'd say that as soon as the alphabet legions secured an inch of a beachead with "sex and gender are different", they'd start asking for miles, eventually circling back to "sex and gender are the same". Good times.
All we hear is the continuous crying of an oversensitive snowflake that cares too much about what other people do that doesn't concern them.
"Maybe the rotten core was the friends we made along the way."
-- MauLer, 2023
Does this mean that J.K. Rowling can body slam Kotaku just like Hogan did to Gawker? If so I am looking forward to it.
For someone of my age, the irony of these people and their takes is pretty amazing. They are just the modern versions of Jerry Falwell, Jim Baker, and the rest of the "Moral Majority" of the 70's and 80's. I spent my youth hearing how D&D was devil-worshiping. (I even watched the bad Tom Hanks movie about it) Listening to Ozzy was devil worshipping. Playing Mortal Combat was going to corrupt me. These are the SAME types of people, using the SAME types of arguments. They have just replaced satanists with racists. In 40 years we will all look back on these fools just like we look back on the others now.
Bullying Rowling for not wanting to be referred to as "a person who menstruates" by a bunch of men in skirts is not much different than Whoa Vickey or someone wearing black face calling black people the N word. The ONLY difference is that one of these is oddly enough tolerated.
Honestly these activist are making me more anti trans than I could have ever imagined , at first my theory was I don't care what an individual does behind doors but they felt compelled to tell me what , how , and when I should think and feel and I'm not having it.
Well done! You’ve noticed that the aim of this kind of propaganda is to create antipathy to the subject ostensibly being praised in order to create a social backlash.
So what you're saying is that you're an emotionally oversensitive animal that's not smart enough to realize that this is the vocal minority and is by far not the majority as a whole.
@@evarchavex4800 no emotion behind it just sick of hearing about it, yeah we're all animals.
@@patmack2871 The fact you're bitching about how you're starting to become anti-trans because of a minority of people is itself an emotional response, because if you were actually logical, then you would understand that the majority aren't like this.
@@evarchavex4800 I'm an illogical wolf
Why do I get the feeling these wackos who are claiming you can’t divorce Rowling’s “controversial” views from her art, are the same people who would call you a troll for calling out _The Last Jedi’s_ poisonous messaging? (The difference being that Rian Johnson’s politics were _all over_ that movie, whereas _Hogwarts Legacy_ has nothing to do with Rowling’s comments.)
Mauler is awesome manages to say a lot without saying that much
"....Maybe the rotten core was the friends we've made along the way" Class!!!
To all the games urinalists out there, you navigate the game with this thing called a controller.
Easy there, that's already to advanced for ""game journalists""
I'm no gamer and yet I've watched every hour of Az's marathon Hogwarts stream - that's how much I've enjoyed it.
I really hope this game hits one billion dollars. The tears will be great
I never read anything gaming journalists write. They don't even know how to play videgames so their opinions don't mean anything.
This might seem random, but anybody remember Eminem and his rap songs in the early 2000s. Fuck, these lyrics were so smart, edgy, funny and provocative. Pure creativity. Now compare that with today’s entertainment industry. It has been severely dumbed down and homogenized. Everything creative is now problematic. Do I as a grown ass woman need to be constantly coddled by being shown the same regurgitated but “acceptable” shit over and over again?
Speaking facts right there. 🤙
Such a sweet melody, the unhinged screeching of woke windowlickers.
The trans drama is largely artificial, and pushed by the perpetual victim spiteful mutants.
But I still refuse to buy the game for promoting White Erasure.
“Man pretending he’s a woman hates something created by a woman who states it as an actual fact”
Fixed your title for you.
We are expecting people with serious mental disorders to think and act rationally. History will not look kindly at us for not helping these people. I told my family if I ever start to say I'm orange juice get me help don't ask what brand I am.
@@puglife5966 don't paint all trans people with a broad brush.
"Useless defect doesn't understand basic concepts that fall out of their 2x2 sized world view."
And we made a title for you~
@@evarchavex4800 nobody asked.
@@evarchavex4800 I’m glad that made you feel better. He’s still a man.
Kotaku being relevant is the funniest joke here
Kotaku better get that checkbook out, as they will probably get sued for slander.
I was thinking of telling them that if comments are allowed. She just went after someone in the UK for doing that. Don't know if she cares what US publications say but maybe she just doesn't know about it. They made a statement of fact they can't back. I know they think their opinions are facts because a few mates agree with them but it won't make it so.
This take on Rowling is, of course, insane nonsense -- drummed up by the cluster-B, histrionic personality crowd .... but one thing in the text, that I am glad that Gary at least passingly commented on was the tone and wording of: "...platform afforded her by her fame and wealth...". As if her fame and wealth weren't direct biproducts of writing one of the most popular and well received narratives of all time. I'm no Rowling fan; I'm not even really a potter fan, but her platform isn't 'afforded her' by fame and wealth -- it's a platform that she earned (along with her fame and wealth) through craft, skill, and actual achievement. To my knowledge she's the first author EVER to become a billionaire from her work alone. She was a secretary and now has more cash value than the queen of England.
Yes, the primary thrust of this article is puerile and unfounded, but I think it's also a weirdly valuable in way because -- as you go line by line -- you can see exactly how epistemically poisoned this kind of person is. Their basic operating system rests on top of all kinds of assertions that are just wrong, untrue, and factually incorrect. They've just taken bad, flimsy ideology as self-evident truth and built their entire existence on it.
You know how it is, over a certain level of wealth you aren't a successful person who beat the odds, you're just privileged.
Crazier still, JK even does exactly what they say rich people should do with their wealth...as in she's given a significant amount of it away to charitable organisations, she is a successful woman, who made a fortune and uses that fortune to help the less fortunate...and she's still a villain somehow for recognising that reality exists.
God I remember when Kotaku actually wrote about games and gameplay, and how cool the Loot Cave was in Destiny 1..... then something changed and it felt icky.......
I think that the overwhelming success of this game is proof positive that internet blog sites DO NOT in anyway affect the actions or opinions of the masses. Sites like Polygon, IGN, Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, etc. are not mainstream, they're just noise. 99% of people don't give a f*** about anything those sites are writing about.
"Authenticity is the currency of the future." I'd never heard that before, but I like it.
Welp, there's another person who is going to be sued by Rowling, given that she's been going on a lawsuit spree because of articles like this.
You nailed that one. "Authenticity" is why I'm here and why I keep coming back. I have trouble watching stuff like "New Rockstars" channel anymore after I've seen the difference between it and this. Watching them makes me feel like an idiot drone now, it's so soulless and fake.
I feel bad. They could be such a force for POSITIVE CHANGE in the world. Volunteering, helping others, instead of walking around always seeking agitation and hurt where none exists.
You think they care about making a positive change in the world?
Oh my sweet summer child...🤣
They want to be angry and miserable.
"Kotaku Trans writer"
we all know what we are getting from this 🤡
I wish I can could back ten years where these people weren't so entitled and demanding.
How amazing would it be if Hogwarts Legacy ended up being Game of the Year? It won’t but that would be the cherry on top!
The decepticon’s shenanigans should not be effecting the rest of the normal world.
The hate is REAL.. When the order goes out to hate a thing, the followers with comply like brown shirts. No questions asked...
They DO act like brown shirts, don't they.
it's really simple, if you are a critic critique the game only. What political beliefs the developers or Rowling herself have is inconsequential to the merits of the game itself. Even communists were occasionally capable of creating things of beauty. "making trans persons "OTHER". If some people are not other how do we have diversity? Sorry the T's of the alphabet soup club are a small minority of an already small minority. Trans people are other, DEAL WITH IT! Besides if there are more than two genders, why do I have a lack of options at a gender reassignment clinic?
Calling these articles "hatebait" made me realize something: Brad Warner, author of the book Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and The Truth About Reality, wrote on his patreon page the following, which I'll paraphrase: In the pre-internet days, if a written article you submitted to a publication was accepted, you were paid, end of story. Nowadays, if an article you submit to a website is accepted, you get paid nothing until it reaches a pre-determined like/share/view threshold.
Based on this video, the solution to corrosive woke journalism is simply to pay upfront for quality writing.
You know they’re loving the 12 million copies sold and $850 million in revenue
And that's only on the Ps5, Xbox Series X, and PC. They still haven't released the game on the Ps4, Xbox One, OR the Switch yet, so there's going to be even more players as those console versions get released.
The Twitter weirdos are equating disagreement with hate and fear. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean you hate them.
time for JK to sue this person. Sounds like defamation.
Well said Az. Hater society has no boundaries.
Wizard lives matter
I'm actually playing Hogwarts, its fantastic. I never heard of HP till the movies came out, never read the books. I am only a mild fan of the movies, but the game is excellent. If you love the franchise, you should buy it. Friend of mine cried flying on a broomstick for the first time, he's from England though. Not really surprised
I guess I am jaded because, I just don't understand how people can care so much about a children's book
Sounds like they want to issue a public apology. Lol JK has had enough of the bad mouthing and has gotten lawyers involved. 😬
I could careless about Harry Potter and because of this controversy I’m a now level 12 Hufflepuff. 😂
HUFFLEPUFF BABY, WOOOOO
Level 32 ravenclaw with 32 hours of gameplay. Loving this game so far.
The person who wrote that article, Carolyn Petit, used to write for Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency. That's really all you need to know. lol
I am not a rattlesnakephobe. I am not a ratpoisonphobe. I am not a sewerwaterphobe. I am not a homo or transphobe. I just like to avoid trouble.
The video from Danks is itv news interviewing the potential 2nd Female First minister candidate (Kate Forbes) (replacement) after the first one stood down - because of her Presbyterian belief of man+woman = married couple etc the main ruling party in Scotlands own members and msp’s slaughtered her for stating biological fact, it’s the same going for the second female candidate Ash Regan - the male hopeful is Humza Yousaf who although didn’t vote on the original gay marriage bill about ten years ago (because of his Muslim religion forbidding it) is now all for trans rights, which if you look his name up on Twitter you will find his Anti-White speech whilst I think he was justice minister during him introducing the very much hated - Hate Crime Bill..
Being Scottish is shyte by the way 😂😂😂
I was in primary school when the first book was released 1997; my teacher read us the book from start to finish. I have a 10-year-old daughter who loves Harry Potter; we have read all the books. I'm not a massive fan, but her work has influenced generations of children. No one needs to listen to these people; it isn't their place to tell people what they should and shouldn't support.
When your screaming at a kid and calling them sexist for playing a game you would think something would click in there mind like maybe im the one in the wrong here?
Nah man, that kid is a literal Nazi and maliciously oppressing fully grown adults and causing them physical and emotional harm...by playing a video game which is tangentially connected to someone who's opinion they don't like.
@@cptsteele91 haha well put
Every time someone plays Hogwarts Legacy an activist gets a knot in their shoelaces. You're evil for inflicting this inconvenience upon them
"Activists" these days don't care. They don't need their shoes while they sit in front of a computer.
they don't wear shoes with laces, they wear crocs
Pretty sure they still wear Velcro shoes
Kotaku is more toxic than Flints water
Im glad that shes getting a taste of her own medicine--seeing the vitriol shes spewed towards conservatives and President Trump is coming back on her own head.
I find it hilarious that she pandered to these people only to get attacked by them. However the troons are worse
I use to love Kotaku. Somewhere down the road they became stupidly political, particularly left winged, and then they made commenting approved only and started filtering out anyone that didn’t fit their narrative. So I never went on their site again.
What the fuck is the point of a discussion when everyone agrees goin in?
It's nuts "unless you're gleefully smelling the journo's farts and telling them how wonderful, stunning and correct they are, you can't speak" no wonder these dickheads melt down as soon as anyone disagrees with them.
I suspect some insidious hidden agenda in the woke movement with this game. It’s a decent game, but my god is it woke. So far having played over 30 hours of it, I’ve met TWO Scottish characters…in Scotland! There’s more LGBT representation than Scottish people in a game set in Scotland in the 19th century. And nobody is talking about it because the woke movement are set so against the game.
Even generously extending that population out to characters from the whole UK, I’m not sure they number in the region of 50%. In the late 1800s no less! Its a good game still, lacks a little soul maybe, but two Scottish people in the whole of the Scottish highlands slightly breaks the immersion.
And this is the first time I ever became aware that Hogwarts was located in Scotland...although I too couldn't help but marvel at how diverse people seem to believe the UK was in the 1800s
"WAAAAAH THER'S GAY PEOPLE IN MY GAAAAAME! I DON'T LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY SCARE ME AND THEY'RE ICKY!"
Anyone that uses woke serious is either a child or has some sort of brain damage. Either way, you're an oversensitive snowflake that's bitching about a small group of LGBT representation because you've deluded yourself into thinking there's some sort of agenda. When in reality you're just not smart enough to realize that there's nothing remotely like that anywhere in this.
So far, the game is awesome. Very engaging, massive in size (though definitely not as big as Red Dead Redemption 2's map), very enjoyable in every way and definitely keeps drawing me back in for more exploration and story.
Well, I for one have to congratulate the publisher for such a successful use of outrage marketing.
sometimes watching the 4 of you talking and laughing is magical too, also hopefully one day Mauler will show himself
I never want to see mauler. But apparently you can find his face if you look for it
I see Mauler's face everyday - in the gentle clouds above, in a garden of flowers in bloom, on the smile of every baby.
You can easily see him, Google Maulr face reveal should come up in the first page of images. I always try to see what UA-camrs who don't show their have look like
@@TheWatcherxx99 I know what he looks like, just sometimes its nice to see a person when they talk
Why attack the streamers? They’ve already purchased the game, it’s not like they’re going to purchase another copy. To the people who you ticked off, they may purchase another copy to tick you off even more.
I couldn't care less about Harry Potter, but I do enjoy watching the transaxles melt down over this game.
I've been immersed in the trans world. I even considered myself trans for a while. I don't anymore. I was going through a rough time. I let my own dysphoria take over (and that is a real psychological thing, but as with all mental conditions, it can be overcome through shadow work), so I fell into that trap. This whole trans movement (along with neo-feminism) is what I'd call an epi-eugenics agenda (getting the herd to cull itself). This community didn't just emerge randomly, it's the result of ongoing social engineering to weaken the species, to further disconnect people from the sacred masculine and sacred feminine, to create an easily controlled new generation of androgynized people.
Much of this "community" embraces socialism, moral relativism, and has zero understanding of what Rights actually are and where they come from (NOT government). They are disconnected from objective reality and truth, and it's all by design. It's also a huge divide-and-control agenda. The more we can be divided by and in conflict with all these different ego-identities (race, gender, religion, etc), the easier we can be manipulated and duped into furthering our own enslavement. It's all Satanic. The first two tenets of Satanic ideology are Ego (ME ME ME thinking, self-preservation as the highest goal, the survival and pleasure of the physical self is more important than what's right and true) and Moral Relativism (morality is what WE say it is and we can change it anytime we want). And you'll see this mentality everywhere, not just these social movements. Most of society is inculcated by it.
It's all pure evil, and we need to say NO to it. We need courage, conscience, care and immense will power to stop this shit from getting worse. All arrows point to the children. They are the ultimate prey in this agenda in more ways than one.
This needs to be shared more often as 'normal' people don't understand just how deep this goes and where it's coming from. It's the good old "hide your head in the sand' problem once again.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to get this *exact* point across. I’m definitely shadøwbanned from yt for saying as much many times over. So well said and bravo.
I’ve also tried telling people about “The 45 ¢ømmunist gøals for America.” Entered into the congressional record in the 60’s, they tried warning the people of the dangers of the ideølogy. Their goal was to subvert our culturaI educational, and governmental institutions. They not only infiItrated all aspects of American society and cuIture but they flourished. Social Media expedited the process exponentially. With technocrats that subscribe to it all at the helm, they were able to suppress free speech and the truth, while simultaneously spreading “the message.” Their job is *not* finished until our RepubIic is completely demoIished and remade in their image.
As far as legacy media talking about “viø-Ience” against “T’s” 9:14 they leave out the fact that most of it is committed against them by *people they know,* aka domestic viø-Ience *not* by random strangers. The statistics prove as much but the narrative is more important to them than truth or reality.
yeah get off the internet, after what you christians did to turing you realy don't deserve to benefit from his legacy.
its moments like this that tell me i have a brain and can think critically
Add Universal Studios to the list. Rowling gets a royalty off every ticket sold because of Harry Potter Land in the theme park. Where are all the activists boycotting Universal Studios?
I'm honestly not trying to be mean, does Xray normally not speak or react to what's going on? It's not a big deal, just found it peculiar.
They ignore that their Toxic behavior towards others who want to play this game is doing more to harm Trans rights than the game is. They are literally hurting their own cause and are too ignorant to notice it and doubling down.
They are not ignorant - that’s exactly the result that they want. It’s a form of propaganda designed to create animosity in the general population and a backlash against one particular group.
8:45 Ooh, please say Kotaku's going to be sued into oblivion!
4 out of 5 dentist agree that Kotaku causes tooth decay.
Sexual Identity Disorder sufferer not trans.
The hilarious part to me is when reading steam forums before release, a lot of people were saying they were boycotting the game because it was too woke. So, people want to boycott the game for being transphobic and other people want to boycott it for being too woke. I would love to see a person from both sides in a room argue who is right. I imagine it would be quite comical considering it's a game about a fictional Wizarding world and not an interactive documentary. Personally I don't care about any of it. All the attacking by both sides has literally only accomplished making me not care about anything that doesn't personally affect me. I'm gonna do my thing, enjoy what I want to enjoy. The rest is just noise.
Seems the Kotaku publication contains libel material...
2:23-
truer words have never been spoken.
Justice for Pikamee.
This is hilarious. Nothing warms my heart like upset people.
And then they wonder why nobody is clicking on their articles anymore.
If they allow obvious low quality garbage like that on the site, nobody is going to trust that any of their staff know what they're talking about.
They're trashing a decent game because they don't like the politics of the person that penned the original IP. At this stage, ALL of their ratings are suspect.
That river and waterfall brought me to new missions.
I'd rather call them gender pretenders.
Ironically, I quit Kotaco specifically because it became total hatebait
You're absolutely right about the segregation and authoritarianism unfortunately the bulk of humanity if you will doesn't see what's going on or understand we've been so numb to buy these things we hold my hands and talk on and watch on
Love Az's passion. I feel exactly the same.
Really grasping at straws, aren't they? Not that I've come to expect anything else from these people.
1 they or many theys ?
Who is funding these companies??? Qui, qui?