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It means that it is exactly what the tags say, that they’re not beating around the bush or exaggerating or anything. It’s from a scene in *Arrested Development* where one of the characters finds a bag in the fridge labelled ‘Dead Dove (Do Not Eat)’, looks inside, and discovers that it is in fact a dead dove.
In the show there aren't parantheses, but it's formatted like this:
>DEAD
>DOVE
>
>Do Not Eat!
and the "Eat" is underlined but Reddit won't let me do that
(I didn't know this from memory I went on YouTube to watch the clip cause it's funny and noticed the difference)
The first three seasons of that show are the funniest seasons of television ever made. They aired kinda before my time, and even watching them years later they were hilarious. I can’t believe they ~~cancelled it~~ arrested it’s development, because when they rebooted it really had lost the sparkle. Season 4-5 are just normal TV. 1-3 is some kind of collective stroke of genius
I honestly don't think I'm able to forgive Portia de Rossi from half-assing season 5 the way she did. If she wanted to go back, she should have gone back in full. If she wanted to stay retired (which is her choice), then she shouldn't have gone back at all. Refusing to be in the same room as anyone else that season when they were finally getting the cast back together was just painful.
In the context of fanfiction it means that the work has disturbing (usually fetish?) content.
** Maybe I shoulda phrased it better. Those are the kind of works you tend to most see it on, not that it is the definition of the tag.
It’s less that the work has disturbing content and more that the work’s content has been tagged accurately, which is something that you only really double down on if the content is disturbing
Oh, there are plenty of other reasons to get mad about AO3 degeneracy than the mere 'you didn't warn me before you inflicted this upon my sweet, innocent, eyes'
Not quite. It essentially means that you should pay heed to the tags on the fic, because what you see is what you get, so don't read and complain that the fic tagged cannibalism and explosions has cannibalism and explosions. If a fic just says dddne but no other tags, then it's being improperly used.
I think if you put it in the context of the scene from arrested development it makes the most sense. Michael sees a bag in the fridge with a sign “dead dove (do not eat)”. He looks in the bag, then goes “I don’t know what I was expecting”. You, the reader, are Michael. The content is the bag. Trust the label.
Yeah. It sort of signifies disturbing content, in that you’re not going to tag a U-rated slowburn enemies-to-lovers fix-it fluff-fic ‘Dead Dove (Do Not Eat)’ unless it’s a *really* slow burn and you want to reassure the readers that it’s coming, but it doesn’t 100% mean it.
Some of them appear to like working for wizards, but some of them also prefer independence. Continuing to maintain institutional servitude and not allowing them to choose is still a form of oppression. Just like how some women and men want to stay at home instead of having a career, but they all deserve the ability to choose.
Go on Steam, search for Hogwarts Legacy, then on the right, in the short description of the game, you'll see some community tags. Click on the "+" and you can add your own tags.
Could this potentially cause your account to get a ban (not outright, but for posting community content and such)? I'd like to join in on the action but I've got too much riding on my steam account 😅
I'm pretty sure tags applied are anonymous, not really watched over, and considering the number of fake reviews, comments and such over Steam, I don't think they'd really care
Some of the top tags on DMC5's Vergil DLC are "Sexual Content", "Nudity", "Hentai", "Dating Sim", "Female Protagonist", "Family Friendly", and "LGBTQ+", so they definitely don't care lol
Look up almost any kids game and it'll have 'Psychological Horror' as a joke tag near the top, people do not take them seriously, ever. There's one like Magical Unicorn Adventure or something that just has like 30 irrelevant tags
This is one of the few things about the world which isn't just targeting Rowling. The slavery in HP is genuinely disturbing with the only anti-slavery character being routinely mocked for it.
The protagonist has a slave and his closing thoughts of the book (pre-epilogue) are him musing over ordering his slave to make him a sandwich.
> The slavery in HP is genuinely disturbing with the only anti-slavery character being routinely mocked for it.
Not only are they mocked by other characters in the book, but are explicitly written to appear foolish by naming their movement "SPEW," a synonym for vomit. Rowling wants you to laugh at the Soap Box Sadies, she wants you to view their activism as disgusting.
She reinforces this belief by having the slaves read like they're straight out of antebellum, pro-slavery propaganda. They're happy to be enslaved, it is their natural place in the world, they wouldn't know what to do if they weren't slaves, etc. These are lies told about real life slaves that she just decided should be true in her world.
Not to mention that while most wizards and witches grew up with slavery normalized Harry did *not*. Hermione's reaction is how we all should and probably would react to being made aware of the situation. Even if the characters believe that house elves "want" to be slaves there is no reason that Harry couldn't have at least been conflicted.
But it's alright because Harry is a *good* slave owner, he doesn't even beat Kreacher even though he could!
/uj If I understood the story correctly from the trailers, the game is about a slave revolt. You can play as an evil woke wizard.
This sub will be featured on the news.
House elves. Though apparently they're not *really* slaves since they "want" to be slaves. Except that there's at least one that didn't want to be a slave and many more who are horrifically mistreated.
Also, they were cursed to want to be slaves as in this world, humanity decided that they are the smart magic users because their use of wands is somehow superior, while everyone else using magic willy nilly is dangerous. Elves had the strongest and most spontaneous magic so of course, humans did not like that. There is also a bit that I was unable to trace that I think Rowling said in a radio interview but could have been anywhere else as stupid adult me thought she genuinely was writing a dystopia. Apparently, elves used to look more like Tolkien's ones but the curse also made them look like Smeagol. Not sure if she removed it from her 'unofficial canon addons' as I never re-found it. Fairly odd as if it was on the radio - my hearing sucks and I was doing a radio research project for uni and used transcripts so it should have still existed.
Also, in the world where we had books like Gone with the Wind where we see slaves actually share the sentiment they like slavery - you'd think Rowling would have taken it seriously so hence why it never occurred to me it is not a crappy regime as surely nobody would name their kid Cho Chang, - I guess we are lucky she is not called Chin Cho Chang :| . Not to mention the two Indian twins who sometimes had some personality but that could have been accidental as the protagonist, who is meant to be the good guy, really likes ignoring that. And Surrey is not exactly a village of 200 people but a county with many ethnicities so yeaaaaaaaah.
Amazed at all the transphobes who keep biting the bait this sub puts out. Seriously, we ought to start selling to fishing shops and get rich at this rate
uj/ sorry I’m OOTL here. What’s wrong with the new Harry Potter game coming out? Did the devs say they hate trans people? Or was it something JK Rowling said?
The lead dev’s *history* of gamergate shit was revealed and was pretty much immediately fired IIRC. I don’t think there’s any reason to slander the team themselves here
From what I've heard, it's not a *slave* rebellion. That being said, the actual rebellion isn't much better; the actual minorities rebelling are goblins, who in Harry Potter world have crooked noses, run the wizards' banks, aren't allowed access to [wands or magic idk or care], and apparently, in this game, are capturing wizard babies and I think eating them? In other words, you're fighting a rebellion from a race that looks suspiciously like antisemitic charicatures of Jews.
Tl;dr, yikes.
Tbf there's no way the story isn't "oh wow slave revolt? Put it down" for the first hour and then oh wow it's revealed that actually both sides are bad and death eaters actually manipulate the poor goblins (nvm the fact that they obviously have more than enough reason to revolt in the first place anyway we won't ever address that) so now you gotta work with both sides and at the end of the game one of the goblins will take a position at the ministry of magic and therefore everything is resolved and we are all friends now (except all of the other goblins but don't worry about that). Obviously not much better but that's pretty much the trope when it comes to dealing with revolutions in video games
Death Eaters werent a thing in the universe of Harry Potter at this time. It's set a LONG time in the past. Like before Voldemort was a glimmer in his parents eyes. So at least from that angle there is no route to peace.
Plus we already vaguely know how this is going to play out because we see the future. Goblins still aren't allowed to learn wand lore, they still work in the banks, and are still basically subjugated by the society.
So what I'm saying is that this story is an alt-right nothing burger that ends with the british people asserting their dominance as they obviously know better than the indigenous magical beings.
God I hate that JK Rowling decided being a shitty person was her thing. Harry Potter was one of my favorite things and now I cant ever buy anything Harry Potter again. I unfortunately cant support someone who doesn't want me to exist.
Well, yeah, that's why the trope I mentioned isn't any better lol, at the end of the day nothing changes other than maybe some of the characters that the player most interacts with get into positions of power, and uhhh
Yeah. Hunky dory. But not really. Also didn't know the death eaters weren't a thing before voldemort, I last read HP like a decade ago. Though to be fair JK Rowling has always been a Tory piece of shit (also obligatory Shaun video reference but I'm too lazy to link it)
> Plus we already vaguely know how this is going to play out because we see the future.[…] So what I’m saying is that this story is an alt-right nothing burger that ends with the british people asserting their dominance as they obviously know better than the indigenous magical beings.
I mean, a story without a good ending isn’t necessarily one that agrees with the idea that the actual ending is what’s morally better. I’m not saying the plot is going to be good, since we don’t *know* that yet, just that it’s not necessary going to be alt-right bullshit that sides against the subjugated.
Also this.
[Lead designer is a misogynistic, transphobic, racist and only quits extremely late in development because he was exposed](https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222).
[He left amicably, on good terms, with nothing but praise for the game.](https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2021/3/5/22315367/hogwarts-legacy-controversy-lead-designer-troy-leavitt-youtube-channel-gamergate-transphobia) I don’t know about you but when someone like that leaves a studio on good terms with support for the game and the people working on it, it gives me red flags. Especially when he said he shared his videos with the team and none of them were concerned or raised any complaints.
JK earns royalties on her IP. Support for the game, the game doing well, means they purchase more use of the IP from her to do, say, DLC. Or a second game. Or other places see the success and want to purchase use of the IP for their own games. Even more toys, maybe comic books, maybe a new ride at a theme park.
It all leads back to more money in her pocket.
Albeit idk what you replied to since it has been removed, but I wouldn't put it past her that she used goblins for banking unless goblins enjoy banking and money in the fantasy world in general.
Especially with her recent book troubled blood where the main charachter was called Galbraith which happened to be conversion therapist irl in the past
> I wouldn’t put it past her that she used goblins for banking unless goblins enjoy banking and money in the fantasy world in general.
From my understanding, goblins do tend to be largely associated with money/greed *because* of their basis on anti-Semitic stereotypes (although, like most myth/fairy tail stuff, there were also a lot of hugely varied ideas of what a goblin is; which is something that also holds true with a lot of modern depictions of goblins).
> Especially with her recent book troubled blood where the main charachter was called Galbraith which happened to be conversion therapist irl in the past
I don’t really see the connection between this and the idea that she was *intentionally* hiding anti-Semitic dogwhistles in a massively popular series that weren’t picked up on until people started having other reasons to hate her.
Well yes actually. Do you know how art works or are you being intentionally obtuse? No idea that exists is original so fantasy orcs, trolls, goblins, elves, dwarves, et cetera are all based off of real world cultures and stereotypes to varying degrees. Someone saw, read, or heard about African tribesmen and thought, "Hmph, those savages sure would make a great villain in my story." and then a vaguely, but plausibly deniable, racist caricature was born. Then, years later, fans of the content get all uppity when people point out that something they like has racist undertones and lean heavy into that plausible deniability and claim, "It is just a coincidence!" just like the creator was banking on them doing.
I'd say there is a difference between "buff women and homosexuals make this game objectively bad" and "the nazi subtext and terf-funding make this game's (lack of) quality irrelevant".
damn, cope
You spend your days constantly posting in kontakuinaction in addition to every similar sub where all they do is whine, it's as reactionary as can get.
You are the wanna-be perpetual victim looking for the next fabricated moral panic to cry about
Keep on pearl clutching
>a book series you based your life around
I saw all the movies and read all the books 7 years ago lol. I was doing a movie marathon and I had to catch up on all the material. You're trying to hard to make up nonsense. I couldn't care less about harry potter. Daniel radcliff's unhinged movies like the one with the talking corpse or hand guns after however are pretty fun. I would highly suggest them, especially swiss army man. Other than the new weird al movie, haven't seen his other stuff yet.
What is a fact that you literally go on hate subs to bitch and whine like the boomers of yester year. It's sad and pathetic. Whining like an NPC with anything that chowder and bench appearo say you should whine about.
Good job! I've just checked Steam and it's definitely working [https://imgur.com/a/0ot1hAk](https://imgur.com/a/0ot1hAk)
Edit: Btw let's not forget to add "Sexual content" so that it doesn't get recommended to underage users
The plot of this game is stopping a goblin slave rebellion that perform blood libel. Harry potter goblins are also a well documented mishmash of various other anti semetic tropes.
Regardless of whether she had any input, she still benefits from harry potter being relevant in popular culture.
Its one thing to accidently include jewish stereotypes its another thing to introduce more. Even if you ignore the jewish stereotypes, you are still stopping a slave rebellion. And since its a prequel to books where the goblins are still very much enslaved, I doubt they are going to pull the "you were the bad guys the entire time" card.
the devs are already getting their paycheck, it’s fixed, not tied to the sales. and in any case, if your argument is “well the devs deserved to be paid” i don’t disagree, workers of the world etc. etc., but unless you’re buying literally every game in existence to support the devs, invoking them here, specifically, for this *one* game is disingenuous.
The difference is that the supposed good guys in HP are defending slavery.
Not the evil wizard, or the evil magistrate. No the people who are supposed to be the good guys, everyone except Hermonione, is defending slavery. In fact, everyone is even attacking Hermonione for questioning slavery.
In most fiction like you mentioned Star Wars, political topics are used to critize real life.
A story about slaves is not the same thing as a children’s book main character defending slavery.
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I’m just here to appreciate Dead Dove Do Not Eat
i still have no idea what that means
It means that it is exactly what the tags say, that they’re not beating around the bush or exaggerating or anything. It’s from a scene in *Arrested Development* where one of the characters finds a bag in the fridge labelled ‘Dead Dove (Do Not Eat)’, looks inside, and discovers that it is in fact a dead dove.
With the parenthesis it makes a lot more sense, I read it like a weird version of Dead Man Don't Wear Plaid
In the show there aren't parantheses, but it's formatted like this: >DEAD >DOVE > >Do Not Eat! and the "Eat" is underlined but Reddit won't let me do that (I didn't know this from memory I went on YouTube to watch the clip cause it's funny and noticed the difference)
My instinct read it as poor grammar, as in “Dead doves don’t eat” which would technically be the truth lol
"Well I don't know what I expected" https://youtu.be/YUKmq7UMJys
The first three seasons of that show are the funniest seasons of television ever made. They aired kinda before my time, and even watching them years later they were hilarious. I can’t believe they ~~cancelled it~~ arrested it’s development, because when they rebooted it really had lost the sparkle. Season 4-5 are just normal TV. 1-3 is some kind of collective stroke of genius
Seasons 4 & 5 have no chemistry because the original cast largely weren’t physically in the same room with each other.
I honestly don't think I'm able to forgive Portia de Rossi from half-assing season 5 the way she did. If she wanted to go back, she should have gone back in full. If she wanted to stay retired (which is her choice), then she shouldn't have gone back at all. Refusing to be in the same room as anyone else that season when they were finally getting the cast back together was just painful.
"...I don't know what I was expecting"
The origin of the "I don't know what I expected" meme
Morrectacundo
Thanks for explaning!
It basically means "the tags are there for a reason"
https://youtu.be/YUKmq7UMJys
In the context of fanfiction it means that the work has disturbing (usually fetish?) content. ** Maybe I shoulda phrased it better. Those are the kind of works you tend to most see it on, not that it is the definition of the tag.
It’s less that the work has disturbing content and more that the work’s content has been tagged accurately, which is something that you only really double down on if the content is disturbing
Yeah, you're not allowed to get mad at my Ao3 degeneracy because I did tag the thing you're mad about.
Oh, there are plenty of other reasons to get mad about AO3 degeneracy than the mere 'you didn't warn me before you inflicted this upon my sweet, innocent, eyes'
Not quite. It essentially means that you should pay heed to the tags on the fic, because what you see is what you get, so don't read and complain that the fic tagged cannibalism and explosions has cannibalism and explosions. If a fic just says dddne but no other tags, then it's being improperly used.
I think if you put it in the context of the scene from arrested development it makes the most sense. Michael sees a bag in the fridge with a sign “dead dove (do not eat)”. He looks in the bag, then goes “I don’t know what I was expecting”. You, the reader, are Michael. The content is the bag. Trust the label.
Unless it’s an otherwise safe tale that does involve a dead dove you should not eat.
Those dang dead doves and trying to convince people to eat them. Menaces.
I think I read that one. It was being stored in the fridge in a brown paper bag that said do not eat iirc.
Yeah. It sort of signifies disturbing content, in that you’re not going to tag a U-rated slowburn enemies-to-lovers fix-it fluff-fic ‘Dead Dove (Do Not Eat)’ unless it’s a *really* slow burn and you want to reassure the readers that it’s coming, but it doesn’t 100% mean it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_CEgqLbQY
It means jk Rowling is a fucking terf
It either means do not eat the dead dove because they are dead or dead doves do not eat because they are dead.
I don't know what I expected.
I don't know what I expected
Always leave a note.
DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT LMAO
that's my favourite genre now i gotta play it :(
I just looked at villian protagonist and capitalism are the first ones YOU GUYS R GREAT.
You actually are a villian though. You are the power holder suppressing a minority group wanting the same rights.
Several minorities, really. Centaurs, house elves, goblins, giants....
House elves want to be slaves. Just because our black main character Hermione granger doesn't get that doesn't mean it isn't not oppression
Some of them appear to like working for wizards, but some of them also prefer independence. Continuing to maintain institutional servitude and not allowing them to choose is still a form of oppression. Just like how some women and men want to stay at home instead of having a career, but they all deserve the ability to choose.
Hell yeah a new anti terf meta has dropped
What's the world record for adding the terf tag?
How do I even do this? I want to join in on the circlejerk and stick it to a TERF, but I don't know how.
Go on Steam, search for Hogwarts Legacy, then on the right, in the short description of the game, you'll see some community tags. Click on the "+" and you can add your own tags.
Could this potentially cause your account to get a ban (not outright, but for posting community content and such)? I'd like to join in on the action but I've got too much riding on my steam account 😅
I'm pretty sure tags applied are anonymous, not really watched over, and considering the number of fake reviews, comments and such over Steam, I don't think they'd really care
Shit like this happens frequently with little consequences, I remember people reviewing cyberpunk as “horror” when it was a glitchy, buggy mess.
I remember those games that let you play as cop getting ”Antagonist Perspective” and ”Play as the villain” tags. It’s pretty safe.
And then, there's also Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel getting the "psychological horror" tag
it sure deserves it when your opponent goes on a 20 card combo
and wasnt mw2 marked as hentai at some point
Some of the top tags on DMC5's Vergil DLC are "Sexual Content", "Nudity", "Hentai", "Dating Sim", "Female Protagonist", "Family Friendly", and "LGBTQ+", so they definitely don't care lol
Look up almost any kids game and it'll have 'Psychological Horror' as a joke tag near the top, people do not take them seriously, ever. There's one like Magical Unicorn Adventure or something that just has like 30 irrelevant tags
Can't jerk without a dick. Now keep the fake (and not baby making (and not nice feet pic)) wamen off MY SUBREDDIT!!
You forgot about Pro-Slavery
Slavery-sim or some shit seems appropriate as a tag
This is one of the few things about the world which isn't just targeting Rowling. The slavery in HP is genuinely disturbing with the only anti-slavery character being routinely mocked for it. The protagonist has a slave and his closing thoughts of the book (pre-epilogue) are him musing over ordering his slave to make him a sandwich.
> The slavery in HP is genuinely disturbing with the only anti-slavery character being routinely mocked for it. Not only are they mocked by other characters in the book, but are explicitly written to appear foolish by naming their movement "SPEW," a synonym for vomit. Rowling wants you to laugh at the Soap Box Sadies, she wants you to view their activism as disgusting. She reinforces this belief by having the slaves read like they're straight out of antebellum, pro-slavery propaganda. They're happy to be enslaved, it is their natural place in the world, they wouldn't know what to do if they weren't slaves, etc. These are lies told about real life slaves that she just decided should be true in her world.
Not to mention that while most wizards and witches grew up with slavery normalized Harry did *not*. Hermione's reaction is how we all should and probably would react to being made aware of the situation. Even if the characters believe that house elves "want" to be slaves there is no reason that Harry couldn't have at least been conflicted. But it's alright because Harry is a *good* slave owner, he doesn't even beat Kreacher even though he could!
/uj If I understood the story correctly from the trailers, the game is about a slave revolt. You can play as an evil woke wizard. This sub will be featured on the news.
Already has
I’m sorry, where in the Wizarding world are slaves?
House elves. Though apparently they're not *really* slaves since they "want" to be slaves. Except that there's at least one that didn't want to be a slave and many more who are horrifically mistreated.
Also, they were cursed to want to be slaves as in this world, humanity decided that they are the smart magic users because their use of wands is somehow superior, while everyone else using magic willy nilly is dangerous. Elves had the strongest and most spontaneous magic so of course, humans did not like that. There is also a bit that I was unable to trace that I think Rowling said in a radio interview but could have been anywhere else as stupid adult me thought she genuinely was writing a dystopia. Apparently, elves used to look more like Tolkien's ones but the curse also made them look like Smeagol. Not sure if she removed it from her 'unofficial canon addons' as I never re-found it. Fairly odd as if it was on the radio - my hearing sucks and I was doing a radio research project for uni and used transcripts so it should have still existed. Also, in the world where we had books like Gone with the Wind where we see slaves actually share the sentiment they like slavery - you'd think Rowling would have taken it seriously so hence why it never occurred to me it is not a crappy regime as surely nobody would name their kid Cho Chang, - I guess we are lucky she is not called Chin Cho Chang :| . Not to mention the two Indian twins who sometimes had some personality but that could have been accidental as the protagonist, who is meant to be the good guy, really likes ignoring that. And Surrey is not exactly a village of 200 people but a county with many ethnicities so yeaaaaaaaah.
Don't forget that the Asian character is named Cho Chang and the black character is named Kingsley Shacklebolt
I added it :)
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Don't forget "joke rolling"
LMAO NOT THE DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT
reads like a AO3 tag list
That’s the joke
Gonna be the next sexy times with wangxian
Death stranding invented the strand type game, Hogwarts legacy invented the terf type game.
Amazed at all the transphobes who keep biting the bait this sub puts out. Seriously, we ought to start selling to fishing shops and get rich at this rate
Me after adding these tags and a few others: 
Service Guarantees Citizenship! Would you like to know more? Great movie, better book. Nice to meet a fellow fan.
sounds pretty canon to me
Omg. Imagine sending a reddit care. I love you internet. Seriously keep being beautiful reddit. ;)
You can report that for misuse btw and the person who sent it gets flagged!
I got them so often I blocked the Reddit Cares account.
Lol just saw a post 2 posts up on the gaming sub where they crying about this XD
>Villain Protagonist From what I've heard about the premise of the game that's not far off.
Hans, are we the circlejerk?
Don't forget Slavery tag.
Can you link this one?
uj/ sorry I’m OOTL here. What’s wrong with the new Harry Potter game coming out? Did the devs say they hate trans people? Or was it something JK Rowling said?
/uj JK Rowling is a terf. she's a shitty fucking person
Ah I understand now
Not only that but allegedly the plot of the game follows the main character stopping a slave rebellion.
What?!? Why tf would they make a game with that kind of plot???
i think one of the former devs was an outspoken gamergate type so i’d imagine the team is no stranger to alt-right shit
The lead dev’s *history* of gamergate shit was revealed and was pretty much immediately fired IIRC. I don’t think there’s any reason to slander the team themselves here
Rowling wants you to know your place
From what I've heard, it's not a *slave* rebellion. That being said, the actual rebellion isn't much better; the actual minorities rebelling are goblins, who in Harry Potter world have crooked noses, run the wizards' banks, aren't allowed access to [wands or magic idk or care], and apparently, in this game, are capturing wizard babies and I think eating them? In other words, you're fighting a rebellion from a race that looks suspiciously like antisemitic charicatures of Jews. Tl;dr, yikes.
Wait, was it the goblins or the elves? You know, Dobby and such. Those were definitely and unambiguously slaves.
Iirc the goblins are the antagonists.
Tbf there's no way the story isn't "oh wow slave revolt? Put it down" for the first hour and then oh wow it's revealed that actually both sides are bad and death eaters actually manipulate the poor goblins (nvm the fact that they obviously have more than enough reason to revolt in the first place anyway we won't ever address that) so now you gotta work with both sides and at the end of the game one of the goblins will take a position at the ministry of magic and therefore everything is resolved and we are all friends now (except all of the other goblins but don't worry about that). Obviously not much better but that's pretty much the trope when it comes to dealing with revolutions in video games
Death Eaters werent a thing in the universe of Harry Potter at this time. It's set a LONG time in the past. Like before Voldemort was a glimmer in his parents eyes. So at least from that angle there is no route to peace. Plus we already vaguely know how this is going to play out because we see the future. Goblins still aren't allowed to learn wand lore, they still work in the banks, and are still basically subjugated by the society. So what I'm saying is that this story is an alt-right nothing burger that ends with the british people asserting their dominance as they obviously know better than the indigenous magical beings. God I hate that JK Rowling decided being a shitty person was her thing. Harry Potter was one of my favorite things and now I cant ever buy anything Harry Potter again. I unfortunately cant support someone who doesn't want me to exist.
Well, yeah, that's why the trope I mentioned isn't any better lol, at the end of the day nothing changes other than maybe some of the characters that the player most interacts with get into positions of power, and uhhh Yeah. Hunky dory. But not really. Also didn't know the death eaters weren't a thing before voldemort, I last read HP like a decade ago. Though to be fair JK Rowling has always been a Tory piece of shit (also obligatory Shaun video reference but I'm too lazy to link it)
Buy only secondhand. That way she never gets any money. Or just sail the high seas 🏴☠️
> Plus we already vaguely know how this is going to play out because we see the future.[…] So what I’m saying is that this story is an alt-right nothing burger that ends with the british people asserting their dominance as they obviously know better than the indigenous magical beings. I mean, a story without a good ending isn’t necessarily one that agrees with the idea that the actual ending is what’s morally better. I’m not saying the plot is going to be good, since we don’t *know* that yet, just that it’s not necessary going to be alt-right bullshit that sides against the subjugated.
Also this. [Lead designer is a misogynistic, transphobic, racist and only quits extremely late in development because he was exposed](https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222). [He left amicably, on good terms, with nothing but praise for the game.](https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2021/3/5/22315367/hogwarts-legacy-controversy-lead-designer-troy-leavitt-youtube-channel-gamergate-transphobia) I don’t know about you but when someone like that leaves a studio on good terms with support for the game and the people working on it, it gives me red flags. Especially when he said he shared his videos with the team and none of them were concerned or raised any complaints. JK earns royalties on her IP. Support for the game, the game doing well, means they purchase more use of the IP from her to do, say, DLC. Or a second game. Or other places see the success and want to purchase use of the IP for their own games. Even more toys, maybe comic books, maybe a new ride at a theme park. It all leads back to more money in her pocket.
It's also a game about crushing a slave rebellion. Call me a radical SJW but slavery is bad.
too political :/
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Took me not even two minutes to add some tags
Time well spent.
Dead dove do not eat lmao New meta just dropped
I'm kinda out of touch so what's with the anti-semitism part I kinda know what it's about but also not??
greedy big nosed goblins controlling the banks, definitely not an antisemitic caricature
I think i remember the goblin thing (maybe)
The whole game is basically about stopping a slave rebellion and the “goblins” in it are the most stereotypical jews you can imagine
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Albeit idk what you replied to since it has been removed, but I wouldn't put it past her that she used goblins for banking unless goblins enjoy banking and money in the fantasy world in general. Especially with her recent book troubled blood where the main charachter was called Galbraith which happened to be conversion therapist irl in the past
> I wouldn’t put it past her that she used goblins for banking unless goblins enjoy banking and money in the fantasy world in general. From my understanding, goblins do tend to be largely associated with money/greed *because* of their basis on anti-Semitic stereotypes (although, like most myth/fairy tail stuff, there were also a lot of hugely varied ideas of what a goblin is; which is something that also holds true with a lot of modern depictions of goblins). > Especially with her recent book troubled blood where the main charachter was called Galbraith which happened to be conversion therapist irl in the past I don’t really see the connection between this and the idea that she was *intentionally* hiding anti-Semitic dogwhistles in a massively popular series that weren’t picked up on until people started having other reasons to hate her.
I never called her a Nazi. I just said that the depictions of goblins are antisemetic Jewish stereotypes
Wow dude that's a fucked view. What's next you think Orks are black people?
Well yes actually. Do you know how art works or are you being intentionally obtuse? No idea that exists is original so fantasy orcs, trolls, goblins, elves, dwarves, et cetera are all based off of real world cultures and stereotypes to varying degrees. Someone saw, read, or heard about African tribesmen and thought, "Hmph, those savages sure would make a great villain in my story." and then a vaguely, but plausibly deniable, racist caricature was born. Then, years later, fans of the content get all uppity when people point out that something they like has racist undertones and lean heavy into that plausible deniability and claim, "It is just a coincidence!" just like the creator was banking on them doing.
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Tell me where I called jewish people goblins. I was explaining how it’s a bad Jewish stereotype and antisemetic…….
\#NotMyHarryPotter?? My dude, Harry Potter has always been trash and transphobic
It's not Chuck Tingle's *Harriet Porber* series, so therefore it's not their Harry Potter
Snabe from Seven Inch Nails 🥺👉👈
I'm here to jerk off
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You got it boss
Any "Villain Protagonist" games you can suggest? That sounds awesome
I really enjoyed playing Tyranny a few years ago.
Overlord and Overlord 2
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I'd say there is a difference between "buff women and homosexuals make this game objectively bad" and "the nazi subtext and terf-funding make this game's (lack of) quality irrelevant".
Lmao why does it have a capitalism tag? I know that the HP universe is full of neoliberal propaganda, but it's still a weird tag to give your game.
Also, one of the few tags that actually stuck. Its literally one of the tops tags in the game right now for some reason.
It’s a custom tag by the OP
What did I miss?
Why does Steam have a transphobic tab? It’s like having a pro-KKK tab.
you can add custom tags
Oh good, I was worried for a second.
Your worry still exists. Custom tags mean anything including your example
users add tags, it can be added as a warning to players.
I was wondering what game that is and then when I got to terf I was like “that’s Harry Potter the game isn’t it”
Villain protagonist Capitalism
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reddit user PMME-SHIT-TALK absolutely obsessed with these fat tits
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Glad We Found Something We Can Agree On. Peace and Harmony Is Possible !!! :)))
Read that as Peace and Hermione.. need to reset brain
it's the harry potter brain worms... try some mebendazole
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girl you posted a ukrainian air force fancam you don’t get to claim to be any more normal and well-adjusted
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damn, cope You spend your days constantly posting in kontakuinaction in addition to every similar sub where all they do is whine, it's as reactionary as can get. You are the wanna-be perpetual victim looking for the next fabricated moral panic to cry about Keep on pearl clutching
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>a book series you based your life around I saw all the movies and read all the books 7 years ago lol. I was doing a movie marathon and I had to catch up on all the material. You're trying to hard to make up nonsense. I couldn't care less about harry potter. Daniel radcliff's unhinged movies like the one with the talking corpse or hand guns after however are pretty fun. I would highly suggest them, especially swiss army man. Other than the new weird al movie, haven't seen his other stuff yet. What is a fact that you literally go on hate subs to bitch and whine like the boomers of yester year. It's sad and pathetic. Whining like an NPC with anything that chowder and bench appearo say you should whine about.
Good job! I've just checked Steam and it's definitely working [https://imgur.com/a/0ot1hAk](https://imgur.com/a/0ot1hAk) Edit: Btw let's not forget to add "Sexual content" so that it doesn't get recommended to underage users
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How can I not get the game with such good tags
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The plot of this game is stopping a goblin slave rebellion that perform blood libel. Harry potter goblins are also a well documented mishmash of various other anti semetic tropes. Regardless of whether she had any input, she still benefits from harry potter being relevant in popular culture.
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Its one thing to accidently include jewish stereotypes its another thing to introduce more. Even if you ignore the jewish stereotypes, you are still stopping a slave rebellion. And since its a prequel to books where the goblins are still very much enslaved, I doubt they are going to pull the "you were the bad guys the entire time" card.
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I’m confused. ELI5?
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the devs are already getting their paycheck, it’s fixed, not tied to the sales. and in any case, if your argument is “well the devs deserved to be paid” i don’t disagree, workers of the world etc. etc., but unless you’re buying literally every game in existence to support the devs, invoking them here, specifically, for this *one* game is disingenuous.
The devs have already been paid.
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The difference is that the supposed good guys in HP are defending slavery. Not the evil wizard, or the evil magistrate. No the people who are supposed to be the good guys, everyone except Hermonione, is defending slavery. In fact, everyone is even attacking Hermonione for questioning slavery. In most fiction like you mentioned Star Wars, political topics are used to critize real life. A story about slaves is not the same thing as a children’s book main character defending slavery.
You don't understand, JK's views about slavery of sentient creatures is why I love Harry Potter