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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I am admittedly not british but I always figured that while quidditch culture was based on football, arcane quidditch rules were based on cricket. There's actually a lot of crossover there, though I think even in the UK cricket is mostly associated with old fucks and ethnic people (that is, it's still huge in the former colonies, likely as a way to get back at England) at this point. The rules and gameplay are more based on cricket thematically than they might first seem; mainly the theme that you've got players on the field with different specialties and tasks who have their own goals and priorities, meaning there's a lot potentially going on tactically and a lot of statistics to obsess over. Kinda like American football in that way.
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Cricket and baseball are like alt-universe versions of same game.Ghost Leviathan posted:There's actually a lot of crossover there, though I think even in the UK cricket is mostly associated with old fucks and ethnic people (that is, it's still huge in the former colonies, likely as a way to get back at England) at this point.
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I've got a soft spot for American football, it's like a real-life wargame. Though maybe mostly because it was the first sport that my Australian rear end wasn't expected to know by instinct. Actually got a couple cousins who've played it professionally, one against American teams. (apparently there's a bit of a AU-to-US pipeline, with rugby techniques getting adopted by American footballers as a result) The Ireland vs Bulgaria game was iirc portrayed more as Ireland having the obvious advantage and Bulgaria the underdog who pretty quickly started losing, with the Weasley twins specifically betting on 'Ireland wins, but Viktor Krum gets the snitch' as the outside bet. Seems like Krum is meant to be Bulgaria's Harry, a star Seeker on an otherwise outmatched team. Kinda get the feeling that Harry Potter has the vibes of what Traditional Games calls a 'Fantasy Heartbeaker'; a mostly cliched work that still has some decent ideas and motivation behind it, and could have been better if the author had actually tried to make it so and understood the pitfalls of the genre.
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Lmfao I'm almost at the end of the podcast and they literally described Snape doing a "Looney Tunes dive" through the window in his fake duel with McGonagall right before the battle. I swear to god I have posted the same thing. Am I brain poisoned by podcast strangers or are we all poisoned by Online? I enjoy the image of him using his Snape Cape to flap frantically away like a real bat instead of diving gracefully like Batman.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Lmfao I'm almost at the end of the podcast and they literally described Snape doing a "Looney Tunes dive" through the window in his fake duel with McGonagall right before the battle. I swear to god I have posted the same thing. Am I brain poisoned by podcast strangers or are we all poisoned by Online? The actual page had that bit describing a Snape shaped hole in the window. There is no ambiguity.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Am I brain poisoned by podcast strangers Yes. Absolutely. You. That specific podcast.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's actually a lot of crossover there, though I think even in the UK cricket is mostly associated with old fucks and ethnic people (that is, it's still huge in the former colonies, likely as a way to get back at England) at this point. Cricket is still big in general during the ashes and then everyone forgets about it. Few understand the rules. People just put it on tv and go about their business and act upset when we inevitably lose. Contrast this with soccer which, for a significant portion of the population, is a huge part of their everyday life.
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I found this version just a week or two ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSE0thGmcc I wonder how many House Points they lost for murdering Neville. Also Vernon just shoving a pistol in Harry's face while threatening him is totally in character.
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NikkolasKing posted:Also Vernon just shoving a pistol in Harry's face while threatening him is totally in character. Despite even owning a handgun being a massively serious Go Directly to Jail crime in the UK....
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Yeah, the Dursleys would have a respectable legal grouse-hunting rifle for Vernon to threaten Harry with.
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May 20, 2021 22:43
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I mean, Vernon Dursley does buy a gun when on the run from Hagrid. Definitely illegal under UK law even in 1991 but you tell me the Dursleys aren’t the type who think rules are for other people.
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It was funnier when we thought the Dursleys were an over the top parody but then it turned out people like them really do make up the majority of the UK
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Vernon has a complete breakdown caused by his nephew getting letters, and in his fit of madness decides to nail everything shut then buy a potentially illegal but definitely dangerous weapon, drive around all over southeast England with his terrified and confused family before settling on a lonely island with nothing but some potato chips. the whole time he is turning more and more purple, breathing heavier and heavier, his mustache growing bushier still. His head swivels slowly on his small neck with his piggy little eyes narrowing as they search for signs of who knows what. I understand why Petunia was so in love.
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Cranappleberry posted:Vernon has a complete breakdown caused by his nephew getting letters, and in his fit of madness decides to nail everything shut then buy a potentially illegal but definitely dangerous weapon, drive around all over southeast England with his terrified and confused family before settling on a lonely island with nothing but some potato chips. Imagine this but instead of wizards it's Polish people, and you have the average British voter.
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Hermione ranting over how she doesn't know anyone who voted for Brexit while Harry doesn't even understand what's going on but instinctively knew the public would choose the worst option.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Which characters were for Corbin? https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Eaters#Members
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Which characters were for Corbin? Grindelwald
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I assume anyone who avoided Azkaban the first time around was involved in the wizarding world version of Operation Paperclip.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I assume anyone who avoided Azkaban the first time around was involved in the wizarding world version of Operation Paperclip. You think wizards beat the US to the moon? I don't think there's ever a stated range limit on apparating, they could just blink up there whenever they wanted. ...now I'm picturing the moon's just littered with corpses from wizards throughout history making a big show of journeying to the moon, teleporting up there, and suddenly asphyxiating, without even enough atmosphere for the verbal components of, like, Bubble-Head Charms or whatever. And with how dumb wizards are about even basic mundane science, they probably STILL do that once in a while and all their wizard colleagues are wondering at the unknowable mysterious properties of the moon in the same tone as that Veil in the Dept. of Mysteries.
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Imagine their faces if they instead replace "Muggle," with the N-Word.
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Can you imagine the American Wizard President trying to explain the wizarding world to Trump when he took office?
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Who What Now posted:Can you imagine the American Wizard President trying to explain the wizarding world to Trump when he took office? The meeting probably started with "Well, I'm the President, so you should give me magic." and ended with "Gold coins, I like that. Many people have been saying America should use gold coins again, like we did in the days of our founding fathers, and I'm telling you, I think it's a good idea." Those were also the only topics discussed.
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You say that like Wizard President isn't also Trump
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There is no wizard president. Wizard USA is run by the speaker of Wizard Congress*, because JK Rowling is so uncreative that she can't even imagine a wizarding US, let alone an even more foreign country. *MACUSA, pronounced "makooza" just like how all americans pronounce the weird and obscure acronym "USA" e: also the sole american/canadian wizard school is a castle with four houses. gently caress that, give me the elite prestige NYC school along british lines, but also a hoodoo school in New Orleans and a magical creatures-focused school somewhere in the PNW, let the inuit have their own magic, and so on Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:00 on May 28, 2021 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There is no wizard president. Wizard USA is run by the speaker of Wizard Congress*, because JK Rowling is so uncreative that she can't even imagine a wizarding US, let alone an even more foreign country. JKR is a not-particularly worldly woman with a typical insular post-imperial English outlook, despite living in Scotland a significant portion of her life. Non-British cultures are inherently lesser to such a person.
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Yeah she was never a particularly clever person. The only thing that’s changed since she became rich is she’s shifted from absolute ‘status quo’ centrist to actively right wing. She kept the ‘sensible labour voter’ mask on just long enough to attack Corbin.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There is no wizard president. Wizard USA is run by the speaker of Wizard Congress*, because JK Rowling is so uncreative that she can't even imagine a wizarding US, let alone an even more foreign country. Nobody talks about it, but the wizard community of the America was taken over by japanese street gangs in 1985.
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Back in college when I played LOTRO, my lovely hobbit went to a regional hub; Bree. I announced loudly that LOTR ripped off Harry Potter, with the proof being that the One Ring was obviously ripping off the invisibility cloak and Gandalf is very obviously just Dumbledore. Two days later I logged back in and they were still at it. Two weeks later I said it again in Rivendell, and someone desperately tried to head things off at the pass and immediately got shouted down as the server erupted once again. I also found out how to play midi music with my lovely flute or whatever, found a bunch of lovely Journey midis, saw that the options for midi music at the time were either mute the game or leave the instance you were in, then found that the entirety of Moria was a single instance but that doesn't really have anything to do with Harry Potter. The whole game was a powderkeg. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 04:10 on May 29, 2021 |
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Compare LOTR to the equally ponderous Shanara series or something.
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because by comparison harry potter is nonstop action *dies sometime during book 5*
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RBA Starblade posted:Back in college when I played LOTRO, my lovely hobbit went to a regional hub; Bree. I announced loudly that LOTR ripped off Harry Potter, with the proof being that the One Ring was obviously ripping off the invisibility cloak and Gandalf is very obviously just Dumbledore. Two days later I logged back in and they were still at it. 
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So I have a question: Did anyone in this thread read the books after they were all released? Or start reading them as they were released when you were a teenager? I have a theory that the only people that Harry Potter really resonates with are people who grew up with the books, meaning you were probably between the ages of 7 and 12 when the first book was released. If a 10 year old tries to read the books now they’ll probably enjoy the first few and start getting freaked out by the later ones. Similarly, most teenagers wouldn’t have started reading a children’s book series because they’re not the target demographic.
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Ccs posted:So I have a question: Did anyone in this thread read the books after they were all released? Or start reading them as they were released when you were a teenager? I have a theory that the only people that Harry Potter really resonates with are people who grew up with the books, meaning you were probably between the ages of 7 and 12 when the first book was released. If a 10 year old tries to read the books now they’ll probably enjoy the first few and start getting freaked out by the later ones. Similarly, most teenagers wouldn’t have started reading a children’s book series because they’re not the target demographic. My partner works with kids aged like 8-12 and a bunch of current ones are still Potter nerds. Although I agree with you the first three in particular are fairly timeless and great kids books. The back half gets increasingly zeitgeisty for the early 2000s. Also for reference we're both 27, so it's entirely possible some of these kids have parents our age and are reading because their dweeb parents are indoctrinating them like my dad indoctrinated me into the Star Wars. Semi-relatedly, my cousin mailed me my ye olde original Potter copies and it made me curious what the original british versions looked like. The US ones genuinely ruled. The art is amazing and the book itself behind the dust jacket looks like a cool tome. The done thing circa 2001 was to take off the dust jacket and pretend it was your potions textbook or something. Clearly I'm nostalgia-biased for my own childhood wizard books but I think the US version art is genuinely definitive. For all I know it's the same art the british version had but Britain inevitably disappoints and the US art was perfect. Like here's a comparison shot to french versions:   Say what you will about Potter and Rowling but the US version blows it out of the water as a wizard book for children.
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