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flailing my arms. Moshing into all the furniture. Doing that dance where it looks like I'm scratching at the ground because I'm so loving pumped when I hear that Harry Potter theme come on.
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Vim Fuego posted:Harry Potter is good. Just finished the second book and it's a delightful magical journey into a world of whimsy and wizardry. It's no wonder the series captured the hearts of millions worldwide! I personally like the first four when they feel like weird fantasy roald Dahl books with more world set up but i think they get bad or annoying once they start getting more serious and darker and poo poo. One, i don’t think that poo poo held up as well and while i think Rowling had an ending in mind probably by book 3, it never felt like a great journey to get there. I also think the darker tone doesn’t help the loose weird Dahl esc world building. Like the weird house elf poo poo works when the world is just weird and wacky but the second you have serious facists show up and torture and murder and etc, it falls apart. The problem to me is Rowling wants both, she wants the grim dark tone but keep the world wizard world clean and wacky and not change the outlook of it to match the story, like it’s never a problem that half the government bends the knee to the Nazis or that the house elf freedom stuff is treated as a joke, a smarter book would probably have at least address that poo poo or make it a plot line. I don’t know how to describe it. Like it’s a massive tonal clash. I meant you can be weird and funny and have a darker tone. The Witcher books have that. But most of the books I like, have enough self confidence to either pick a lane or bridge the gap. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Sep 10, 2023 15:44
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I think Quiditch is a terribly accurate metaphor for the entire series. It's fun and quirky and make absolutely no sense if your spend more than a minute thinking about it.
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It's kind of amazing the negative character development that Harry gets over the series. In the first book, he has a huge rant about how they need to stop worrying about expulsions or losing house points because if Voldemort kills everyone then none of that will matter; by the sixth book, he disbands the learn-to-not-get-murdered-by-Voldemort group so that he can spend the time on the thing that's actually important: the Quidditch Cup. (He reasons that the DA won't be needed now that Umbridge is gone, but her replacement is known to be both a Death Eater and a terrible teacher — and even if it were someone good, would a self-defense club really be too redundant to be worth running in the middle of an open civil war with a genocidal cult?)
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you can like Harry Potter and be cool, or you can be a good person w/good values and constantly tell everyone how good you are. There is no in between
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*to someone who doesn't know their Hogwarts house*: wow, virtue signaling much!?
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Judging the absolute poo poo out of anyone who doesn’t know their patronus right now E: also postin from a long rear end plane ride right now and thread favourite podcast just dropped, I’m so thankful and also lollin at them figuring out what the actual plot of Catching Fire is Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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Air Skwirl posted:I think Quiditch is a terribly accurate metaphor for the entire series. It's fun and quirky and make absolutely no sense if your spend more than a minute thinking about it. see thats not even a bad thing ro harry potter works best when it was basicaly stupid willy wonka rules world where everything is just absurdism and weird and new and has a pastiche of fantasy poo poo and was about a bunch of characters loving around and having moments. it stopped being interesting when it got grimdark.
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it's not as though real sports and games have, and have always had, tons of reasonable well-thought out rules anyway. the problem with quidditch is that Rowling hated writing it, not how silly the game is
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My favorite dumb thing about Quidditch remains that there's an extremely lengthy and detailed list of actions that are officially recognized as fouls, and that players are not allowed to know what's on the full list of official fouls because "it might give them ideas."
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Asterite34 posted:Sadly Wizards never developed a prophylactic spell, finding it much more convenient to just post-coitus cast a variant of the Killing Curse that only affects sperm. Fetus Deletus
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Rockstar Massacre posted:it's not as though real sports and games have, and have always had, tons of reasonable well-thought out rules anyway. the problem with quidditch is that Rowling hated writing it, not how silly the game is i am surprised by that because its the better parts of the earlier books. quditch is a sport id probably watch if it was real and i am one of those non sports people.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Judging the absolute poo poo out of anyone who doesn’t know their patronus right now Lol-ing at Liz going "it would be funny" and then describing the plot of Catching Fire.
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W.T. Fits posted:My favorite dumb thing about Quidditch remains that there's an extremely lengthy and detailed list of actions that are officially recognized as fouls, and that players are not allowed to know what's on the full list of official fouls because "it might give them ideas." See, that is an actually kinda funny Discworld-esque side detail, do more of that and less slavery apologism and dull legalese, please
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i am surprised by that because its the better parts of the earlier books. quditch is a sport id probably watch if it was real and i am one of those non sports people. I’ve seen irl quidditch. It does not live up to expectations
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I’ve seen irl quidditch. It does not live up to expectations The kind with people hopping around with a normal broom between their legs? Because yeah gently caress that. Now have them on dirtbikes and have the Snitch be a gold-painted FPV drone, then it might be as interesting as the books
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Icedude posted:The kind with people hopping around with a normal broom between their legs? Because yeah gently caress that. The very same. Queens University Intercollegiate Quidditch Club. One thing I will hand to them, it’s kinda hilarious that the snitch is just a person in a high vis safety vest rushing around the field with two other people trying to own them
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W.T. Fits posted:My favorite dumb thing about Quidditch remains that there's an extremely lengthy and detailed list of actions that are officially recognized as fouls, and that players are not allowed to know what's on the full list of official fouls because "it might give them ideas." You know, the goon who occasionally points out the series is a searing satire of liberal centrism completely by accident has a good point.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I’ve seen irl quidditch. It does not live up to expectations Of course not, flying brooms are not a real thing so dumb college kids running around with a broom between their legs in a somehow worse version of Soccer is going to obviously look like poo poo. Ultimate Frisbee players look down on Quidditch.
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A bunch of teams have renamed it "quadball" because apparently they enjoy it enough while not wanting to have anything to do with Rowling Which raises the question, if every time you tell someone you play quadball you then immediately have to explain it's like quidditch but you don't call it that, how much have you actually renamed it. Though it's more opportunity to insult jk rowling at least
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Angepain posted:A bunch of teams have renamed it "quadball" because apparently they enjoy it enough while not wanting to have anything to do with Rowling Just be a normal college dork and play Ultimate Frisbee or hacky sack or any of a dozen other sports that don't involve running around with a broom between your legs but are still niche enough the actual jocks won't be good at it, so you can feel special.
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Air Skwirl posted:Just be a normal college dork and play Ultimate Frisbee or hacky sack or any of a dozen other sports that don't involve running around with a broom between your legs but are still niche enough the actual jocks won't be good at it, so you can feel special. I'll bet you anything no collegiate quiddich player has smoked the devils lettuce.
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Asterite34 posted:See, that is an actually kinda funny Discworld-esque side detail, do more of that and less slavery apologism and dull legalese, please You beat me to it! Man, I miss Terry.
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Air Skwirl posted:Just be a normal college dork and play Ultimate Frisbee or hacky sack or any of a dozen other sports that don't involve running around with a broom between your legs but are still niche enough the actual jocks won't be good at it, so you can feel special. let people have fun
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Why not skip a step and just magic the poo from your colon
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What will the rich families make the house elves clean up then?
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Feldegast42 posted:let people have fun Muggle Quidditch makes Ultimate Frisbee look like NBA play off games.
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I feel like it's a game played by geeks with a lot of rules-lawyering and I will not be disabused of this notion
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Feldegast42 posted:let people have fun no
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bobjr posted:What will the rich families make the house elves clean up then? Don't worry, all the kids who are under age to use magic will still be making GBS threads on the floor constantly
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When I went to a large state school, even the ultimate frisbee team was composed mostly of people who'd played sports in high school.
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Yeah the ultimate frisbee teams absolutely have jocks now
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The year is 2031. Collegiate quidditch is dominated by jocks. Nerds are forced to find an escalating series of dorkier and more embarrassing sports in which they can still be competitive. The current hotness is final fantasy blitzball, in which players are required to make exaggerated swimming motions with their arms and glooping faces like they're fish.
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Angepain posted:A bunch of teams have renamed it "quadball" because apparently they enjoy it enough while not wanting to have anything to do with Rowling Yeah, at the very least even if you like some of the unique rules enough to keep playing, at the very least get rid of the loving brooms between your legs. That can't actually add anything to the game and it is 100% there because the game is about roleplaying that you are flying a broom like in Harry Potter.
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they should do it on bikes
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YaketySass posted:they should do it on bikes That would actually look kinda cool and probably stupidly dangerous, so I'm favor of it.
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pretty sure motorbike polo is already a thing.
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do it on bikes but keep the brooms and use them for wheel sabotage
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