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Ghost Leviathan posted:I thought the city was New York when I was a kid. It does have a subway, I'm not sure if any PNW cities do? same. i always assumed they lived in new york or on the east coast. i guess not. Roth posted:https://twitter.com/nibellion/status/1277596002892079104?s=21 i thought it was supposed to take place in 19th century or some poo poo.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 02:18 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 03:09 |
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StratGoatCom posted:Apparently the devs are getting distressed by jk's antics. dont loving blame them at all. Sydin posted:Yeah Rowling is way too popular and brings way too many eyes to twitter for them to ban her. At most she might get the Trump treatment of having a tweet or two flagged as hate speech, which will naturally just allow her to play the martyr even more. yeah. i do think she will now be remebered as just as hosed up and lovely as lovecraft if not worse in someways.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2020 04:28 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:He did recant a bit by his death, but he died still cartoonishly racist by 1930s standards. excactly, and he mostly kept it private and mostly came off as some weird ill loser with delusions of grandure that his friends felt bad for. JKR is just a self important rear end in a top hat picking a hill to die on because she thinks she will be a "feminist" hero. StratGoatCom posted:If this game ends up good, I'm still waiting for it to be the monthly free one on EGS. i am more excited for batman WB game because i am a loser and if the game does end up good. i will buy it used at some point and play it with my gf.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2020 18:23 |
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seems like a typical pre covid american school to me.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2020 04:17 |
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Big Dick Cheney posted:I think after a year at Hogwarts most kids would be bored with it again yeah, like also i feel like the magical would just be mundane to most of them too. "look jerry used a spell to make my rear end in a top hat try to me from the inside and scream slurs at me, better go to the nurse AGAIN". Sydin posted:Harry's gimmick is that while he's not a super genius wizard or anything, he's reasonably talented and can generally get good results at whatever he bothers putting his mind to. It's just that the list of things he puts his mind to is pretty short because he's lazy and entitled. I do like how at the end of Goblet when the main villain reveals himself, he just absolutely lays into Harry for being a layabout who took zero initiative to prepare for any of the tournament challenges, and so the guy had to bend over backwards to feed him helpful hints. the only reason he wins at the end is because he gets lucky because the wizard nazi was dumb poo poo and hosed himself and the ugly joke kid rolled a bunch a 20s in a row. Zore posted:I also love that Harry and Ron choose to do blow off classes for their electives explicitly yet neither chooses to do Muggle Studies. You know despite Harry growing up as a muggle and Ron being inundated in all the muggle poo poo from his dad. i like to think muggle studdies is just gilded age style anthropology type bullshit where they think every muggle is moron and the professor is some wizard who inject magic cocain and is basicaly rons dad but dumber.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 02:44 |
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muscles like this! posted:New Harry Potter game got officially announced at the Sony PS5 event going on right now. wernt like death duels and death curses legal until like the 1900s or some poo poo. Sydin posted:So it's set in the time period when wizards didn't have bathrooms and if they had to go they'd just drop trow where they stood and then vanish their piss and poo poo away to uh, somewhere? maybe theirs an abillity to seal opponents assholes shut.
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2020 21:28 |
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:Ron is a bit of a mess. He's super poor, except he gets 1%er vacations, has his own room, and is only affected by it a couple times (broken wand, bad sandwiches). He goes from a good chess player to magical world historian/cultural expert (but fails these classes because he's a worse student than Harry). Book 5-6 his character basically exists so Harry has someone to talk to and his response is 'whoah harry, that's cool you're the greatest'. i always assumed it was one of those he is "poor for a wizarding family" type deal. like are there "homeless" wizards because i feel like magic and poo poo can take care of basic needs and you can like make a tree turn into a house in like a day or two.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 07:01 |
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Harry potter sucks poo poo. if you want to read a good YA fantasy book thats old but actually holds up and the author isnt a chud, read the last unicorn. its not super long and its mostly lots of characters talking and good writing, it is melancholy as gently caress throughout though.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2023 19:27 |
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Kojiro posted:Or the Bartimaeus triology, which has a much better idea of how a society of imperialistic British wizards would go, and what an rear end in a top hat a teenage boy would be if he had that kinda power. Cool. Thanks for suggesting.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2023 20:58 |
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GodFish posted:Seconding these. Loved them as kid, I should revisit them sometime. Sydin posted:Yeah can't stan the Bartimaeus Trilogy enough. It's a very different story than HP but it does so many of the same themes and ideas in a much more interesting and fleshed out manner. Really the only part of the whole trilogy I'd say drags is the first half of book 2 where two of the main characters are kinda aimlessly farting around Prague and the third main character's been just introduced and their arc hasn't really gotten off the ground yet. nice. ill have to try it on audible sometime. id still stan for last unicorn. made me feel poo poo. probably should have read it during a depression episode lol. its one of those books that works way way more when your older.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2023 23:13 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I liked Artemis Fowl but I don’t remember anything except the dwarf making GBS threads dirt isn;t the kid actually decently evil until like book 12 or something?
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 01:18 |
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Vim Fuego posted:Try separating the art from the artist? ? Peter beagle is fine. I was just saying the book is melancholy as gently caress. Rowling sucks and went full super terf and probably way worse now.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 12:32 |
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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 |
# ¿ Sep 10, 2023 15:44 |
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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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# ¿ Sep 12, 2023 22:28 |
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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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# ¿ Sep 13, 2023 13:56 |
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BigglesSWE posted:https://twitter.com/je_somerton/status/1707220016960000071?s=46&t=G1x8XWIwrNxUQoXItlkh2w i dont even hate the first couple books but like lol at the first sentence being a magical poo poo. its not bad but yeah no. amigolupus posted:It's notable in book 2 that Harry listens to Dobby recounting how much it sucks to be a slave and asked how he can help break him out of it. Book 4 Harry has forgotten all of that and was fine with how house elves were slaves. Dude didn't even get mad about how Winky was publicly fired and how wretched she was about it. i think thats kinda the issue i have as the books go on. there is lots of whimsy and but also empathy towards the hosed up parts of that society. by 4 when rowling commited to grim dark. that poo poo went away.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2023 17:10 |
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Sydin posted:Harry gets less emotionally mature as he he physically matures. Like in book one he's actually really good about navigating complex social situations, particularly for an 11 year old. Meanwhile later books Harry is an asocial rear end in a top hat who even when he correctly deduces people's feelings does not give a poo poo. Book 1 Harry happily spends a ton of his own money buying a load of sweets off the Hogwarts Express lunch trolley and shares them freely because he wants to try and help Ron feel better about being poor and stuck with some dogshit leftover sandwiches his mom made him. Book 4 and beyond Harry in the same situation would have an inner monologue about how embarrassed he is about the huge wealth gap between himself and Ron and also wow those sandwiches really do look like crap, but then not act on it at all and just sulk about how annoying it is when Ron gets like this. i mean part of that is he is like a 17 year old teenager type deal. I was a selfish dickhead when i was a that age. I think the problem is the world tries to make it self more dark(widespread slavery thats just accepted, nazis on the rise that arnt just token inbred bully) but it never doesnt stop treating alot of the world building as weird whimsical joke, Like harry potter is the type of fantasy thats very much a patiche of various different fantasy/myths/etc, like shrek or witcher or last unicorn or etc. except all of those pieces of media actually do something with the pastichie and play with it and deconstruct it. Harry potter, just keeps trying to "OOOOH WONDERS UPON WONDERS" poo poo but it grows stale after book 3 when you get more detailed with the world building but never idk build upon it outside weird magic poo poo. like witcher books and games sorta treats it like the mundane, hell half the reason witchers are dying out is because armor and tech has advanced enough that you can arm a bunch of soldiers and kill a griffon and only lose half of them. there are tons of "oh poo poo uknown magic/monster poo poo" but alot of the world has taxonomies and poo poo. people go to college for degrees in monster studies and poo poo. i feel like harry potter needed to either lean into the "magical mundaity/horror of the magical mundaity" with the heavy world building she wanted OR she goes the beagle route and focuses on characters and themes and emotions and the "mysteriousness" of magic". Edgar Allen Ho posted:TPS started with the Vernon pov and was pretty fun i agree with this. its why i think the first 2 genuinly hold up. the vernon poo poo is great because he is rich upper middleclass dickhead who reads the sun and then he starts seeing all this weird poo poo happen and suddenly he has this kid at his front door with a letter and so he just abuses the kid because he is dipshit. like yeah you can see the beginnings of the issues with the series, but like that all was fine when it was roald loving dahl books. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 4, 2023 |
# ¿ Oct 4, 2023 18:13 |
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YaketySass posted:The thing with stuff like Hogwarts having its own service of House Elves is that it doesn't even affect the plot: all the uglier aspects of wizard society is just there as texture, showing that Harry is increasingly aware of the bad parts of a world he used to think of as just an escape. yeah. like i think the issue is less "lol libs"(thought has some merit) and more that rowling wanting to balance grimdark poo poo with the roald dahl wackyness/imagination. like i very good microcosim of the issues are with the beasts movie. the first one is genuinly good and its probably my favorite harry potter thing. it has a bunch of issues and tonal poo poo but the main character stays a good person through out and alot of it is him having weird wacky animal adventures. the main plot is simple and while their is darker poo poo in the background. its not overwelming. in 2, its just overly and stupidly grimdark and up its own rear end. hell they straight up murder a child. and most of it just doesnt go anywhere. i think the issue is that the world can have dark undertones and can be left unremarked upon but once it goes grim dark and doesnt have like 40k type excuses. you need to have the characters at least point poo poo out.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2023 21:32 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 03:09 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I'm going to assume the fandom wiki is being updated by fans sufficiently obsessive to have this right: so does all the harry potter poo poo canonically take place in like 1998? like i guess that makes sense.
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2023 14:26 |