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https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1770124704084263188 Carmack's such a dumbass lol
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YaketySass posted:I get the impression the LessWrong guys branched out of regular internet atheism culture pretty early. Definitely enmeshed with all sort of Bay Area creepiness though. Yep, that's the one I was thinking of. It's a smaller cult compare to Yud's, but it's no less stupid. Pththya-lyi posted:STRANGE AEONS has got you covered: I knew it was going to be good when they started the video reciting the group's marriage vows to Snape lmao
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you can understand why the guy started a site called 'less wrong' if the place his life was at was reading hundreds of harry potter fanfictions as a grown rear end man, i just didnt realise it was meant as a support group for him
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Was Jesus a wizard in the HP universe?
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bobjr posted:Was Jesus a wizard in the HP universe? more importantly, what was his Hogwarts house?
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Guy A. Person posted:more importantly, what was his Hogwarts house? Jesus was born before the founding of Hogwarts, but so was Merlin* (canonically a Slytherin) so who even knows. I'd guess Hufflepuff but he's going to be yet another Gryffindor if it ever comes up. *Yes, I know Merlin ages backwards in some myths. That's not the point.
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Jesus “Lion of Judah” Christ, belonging to a house with a badger as its animal? Not on Queen Terf watch’!
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Guy A. Person posted:more importantly, what was his Hogwarts house? Jesus preached to the poor, unremarkable, common clay of the world that nobody wrote anything down about. So Hufflepuff
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Alternate timeline where Rowling got really into edgelord atheism instead and keeps posting about how wizards invented all the world's religions by accident. Jesus was a wizard, Muhammad ran into some angel-looking critter, Abraham's sacrifice was the result of a botched Imperius curse, etc.
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BigglesSWE posted:Jesus “Lion of Judah” Christ, belonging to a house with a badger as its animal? Not on Queen Terf watch’! So you're saying the Gryffindor lion is Aslan
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YaketySass posted:Alternate timeline where Rowling got really into edgelord atheism instead and keeps posting about how wizards invented all the world's religions by accident. Jesus was a wizard, Muhammad ran into some angel-looking critter, Abraham's sacrifice was the result of a botched Imperius curse, etc. Whereas in this timeline, they only invented the beliefs of native Americans
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YaketySass posted:Alternate timeline where Rowling got really into edgelord atheism instead and keeps posting about how wizards invented all the world's religions by accident. Jesus was a wizard, Muhammad ran into some angel-looking critter, Abraham's sacrifice was the result of a botched Imperius curse, etc. Sorry, Wizards hunted Angels to extinction centuries ago, their feathers just made too good of wand cores to pass up
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there's a great meta story in harry potter about the way access to extreme magical power has made wizard society stunted and moronic. it's not just bad writing that the wizard world seems like a child's understanding of how a society operates, its just that all the wizards are manchildren whose failures are subsidized by arcane might
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The fact that the whole series ended up with the status quo being put in stone, kind of like the end of every wacky sitcom episode ever, might be the biggest strike against it IMO. Voldemort is dead, sure, but functionally society hasn’t evolved in any meaningful way. Which is not surprising knowing the author but it’s a wasted premise regardless.
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you can't get rid of hitler house, people love buying the hitler house merch
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They should have set the hat on fire again after the battle
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im going to kiss salazar slytherin on the lips
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I hear Salazar Slytherin supports trans rights.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:there's a great meta story in harry potter about the way access to extreme magical power has made wizard society stunted and moronic. it's not just bad writing that the wizard world seems like a child's understanding of how a society operates, its just that all the wizards are manchildren whose failures are subsidized by arcane might Well, again, this is Britain
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Harry Potter and also European politics: no hugging, no learning
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YaketySass posted:Harry Potter and also European politics:no
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BigglesSWE posted:The fact that the whole series ended up with the status quo being put in stone, kind of like the end of every wacky sitcom episode ever, might be the biggest strike against it IMO. Voldemort is dead, sure, but functionally society hasn’t evolved in any meaningful way. Which is not surprising knowing the author but it’s a wasted premise regardless. Kind of like how the third Fantastic Beasts movie seemed to be building towards Jacob being made WizPrez so he could bring better understanding between Wizards and Muggles but that can't happen so instead he just gets the okay to have a mixed race marriage (which is also kind of hosed up that that was illegal before.)
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What's happened to the role of WizPrez by the time of Harry Potter? Is that poo poo ever even hinted at? People walk all over Dumbledore.
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Of course they do, it's Dumbledore. What's he going to do about it, regret not doing the right thing in a few decades but consider it to have worked out for the best?
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Professor McGonagall teaching the woke TRANSmutation classes
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Feldegast42 posted:Professor McGonagall teaching the woke TRANSmutation classes McGonagall: “anything can be anything else” Rowling: “we’ll see about that bitch” *furiously drafts a chapter where McGonagall dies horribly*
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Guy A. Person posted:McGonagall: “anything can be anything else” I love the idea that Rowling would have a petty hissy fit over what a character she wrote would say.
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Again, a reminder that using Polyjuice to change genders is also canon and a plot point
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josh04 posted:Carmack's such a dumbass lol
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YaketySass posted:Alternate timeline where Rowling got really into edgelord atheism instead and keeps posting about how wizards invented all the world's religions by accident. Jesus was a wizard, Muhammad ran into some angel-looking critter, Abraham's sacrifice was the result of a botched Imperius curse, etc. 
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Regalingualius posted:Again, a reminder that using Polyjuice to change genders is also canon and a plot point To be fair it's used as a form of deception - exactly the method in which Rowling and most bigots view gender-affirming healthcare.
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shoves nerd into locker O'Goyle rules!
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Okay, so the Hogwarts Express leaves London at 11am and by the time it arrives at Hogwarts in Scotland it is dark out (which on September 1st is 8pm local time) so it is at least a nine hour train ride. Which makes perfect sense for a group that can teleport. Yes I know you can't teleport directly to Hogwarts but how far does that extend? Also you have to feel bad for anyone that doesn't live in the London area that has to go there first.
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Trapping hundreds of 11-17 year old wizards in such a small, enclosed space for nine hours, especially without any adult supervision, is a recipe for someone getting maimed and/or killed. Hell, Harry himself has been both victim and aggressor in those cases.
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muscles like this! posted:Yes I know you can't teleport directly to Hogwarts but how far does that extend? I feel like we see people walk to the edge of Hogwarts grounds (either front gate or forbidden forest) at some point to teleport out. We definitely see them teleporting in and out of Hogsmeade, which is where the train finally arrives. And while apparition isn't possible, we know there are other magical teleports in and out of Hogwarts that do work, like floo powder and portkeys and vanishing cabinets and house-elf teleports. And even the "apparition isn't possible" thing is a rule that can be temporarily disabled easily if they feel like it, since in book 6 they suppress it so students can practice apparition in a Hogwarts classroom. (Personally, I feel like it would have been simpler just to write that they walk down to the edge of the grounds and learn to apparate there.) Some of this is because the train is introduced in the first book, when not a single one of those teleports exists yet, and it's kind of implied that they don't exist by Dumbledore taking an hours-long broomstick flight to London for a meeting during the climax. It works fine in the first book, it just stops making sense with everything introduced later.
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Harry Potter isn't real.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Harry Potter isn't real. harry potter is real real dumb
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amigolupus posted:Trapping hundreds of 11-17 year old wizards in such a small, enclosed space for nine hours, especially without any adult supervision, is a recipe for someone getting maimed and/or killed. Hell, Harry himself has been both victim and aggressor in those cases. It causes less trouble for the staff if students get it out of their system and form their cliques before reaching school grounds.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Some of this is because the train is introduced in the first book, when not a single one of those teleports exists yet, and it's kind of implied that they don't exist by Dumbledore taking an hours-long broomstick flight to London for a meeting during the climax. It works fine in the first book, it just stops making sense with everything introduced later. It feels like almost every book introduces some new transportation method (depending on how you count various flying animals).
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Jesus was born of a divine (wizard) father and a human (muggle) mother. Making him a mudblood.
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