IGN afraid of reviewing Hogwarts Legacy

Jimmyisback said:
i'm confused about this thread. ign is afraid of reviewing hogwards but i instantly see a review. ???? is this story bullshit
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Did you read the thread? The person reviewing the game on ign was on a podcast, and said they were only reviewing the game because the staff at ign was afraid to do the review.
 
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the review itself makes it seems like a 6-7/10 review, the score of 9/10 is fucking wild.

I know IGN is a pure meme at this point, but how on God's green earth can you be like "the story is boring, the enemy variety is lacking, its has performance issues, long loading time and lighting problem…9/10"

a review likes this makes me wonder if the score was paid or led by nostalgia?
 
Gideon said:
the review itself makes it seems like a 6-7/10 review, the score of 9/10 is fucking wild.

I know IGN is a pure meme at this point, but how on God's green earth can you be like "the story is boring, the enemy variety is lacking, its has performance issues, long loading time and lighting problem…9/10"

a review likes this makes me wonder if the score was paid or led by nostalgia?
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Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But I won't dismiss nostalgia. If someone really wants something, they may overlook the blemishes a bit more.
 
fart town usa said:
All these losers are sweating bullets over a controversy that doesn't exist. There is no valid reason to boycott Hogwarts over JK Rowling.

Why is it controversial for a woman to support woman's rights? Why is it not controversial to claim that biological men are capable of menstruating and getting pregnant and other things just as fantastical as waving a piece of wood and casting spells.

It's so stupid. The loonies on Twitter categorize anything outside their bubble as controversial because they want to control the narrative and if you step out of line they label you as hateful and try to cancel you. Fuck any outlet that claims the game is controversial and fuck the REEE-tier hivemind.
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Over the last few years, we have seen Rowling tiptoe forward from reasonable (if strawmanny) "I love and support trans right but I think their experience is different than ciswomen" to straight up "I think trans women are sexual predators invading women's spaces" over the course of a few years, and even writing a book about a cross dressing serial killer and kind of making the whole thing core to her identity.

But the question that I think critics need to ask themselves is how did she get there? Was this a gradual mask slip, or was she radicalized by the extremely toxic backlash to her initial comments, the waves of death threats and dehumanizing characterizations that followed?

I think the criticism is fair but the hysteria is just so counterproductive. The discourse itself is making things worse for trans people.
 
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How can anyone who believes in postmodern relativism (i.e., self-defined narratives, morality, and ethics) claim the moral high ground when their views are nothing but subjective opinions that vary from person to person?
"Influenced by the rise of postmodernism, our society has become relativistic when it comes to ethics and religion in particular. We're open to people having their own views regarding ethics and morality. What's good is what we ultimately want in life. If it feels good, it must be true. If we think it's true, it must be good. There's a subtle irony in this relativism when we consider modern empirical research and science. Our society isn't postmodern when it comes to technology and the sciences. We pursue hard facts with the scientific method. We believe in unchanging truth regarding how the world works. But this objectivity doesn't invade our ethics and moral understandings of the world." (Ethicist Jason Thacker)
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Krathoon said:
Gamespot is acting up.
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This framing of trans women versus women is a false one. While GCFs may believe that trans women are just men who cannot understand womanhood, the opposite is true.
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GS basically repeats the same stuff through the article with different words to make the scroll bar as small as possible. I'm surprised they didn't fill it with ads.
 
balls of snow said:
I checked, that waste of brain matter has only written two articles for gs. Both about jk rowling. I cant.
Really shows what spineless people the regular staff are. Tamoor Hussain and Lucy James where you at.
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Tamoor is the most arrogant dipshit on that/GB staff. He thinks his pedantic opinions are gifts from allah. Lucy James is about as milquetoast about this topic as it gets. Fandom will hopefully shut all that shit down soon enough anyway.
 
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mrmustard said:
And things like that are the dark side of the internet. If we had mid 90s this wouldn't even be a thing, because nobody would hear the minority of weirdos crying over almost anything.

Not enough genders? :messenger_face_screaming:
Not enough asians or black people? :messenger_face_steam:
Tits or butt too big? :messenger_pouting:
Women not ugly enough? :messenger_angry:
Not enough women? :messenger_loudly_crying:
Only heteros? :messenger_grimmacing_
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I'd gladly take being called a satanist for playing AD&D, and listening to Heavy Metal, over the bs of this generation. (which my mom was told by a friends mom that i couldn't hang out there becasue I was summoning the devil, due to my hobbies at the time)

At least people back then had a spine and didn't cave in like they do today. There also wasn't as many crazies. Today not so much. From Anita to burn the cities protest crowd, to the madness of reee.... to reddit and twitter crazies. I'd go back to the awesomeness of the 80s and 90s, even 2000s any day (just take the games and systems back with me.)
Whats sad is I think, at least for myself, took that time for granted.

AS for this game. Can't wait to play it. Just watched the movies for the first time last year. I thought it was a kids thing before so never bothered.
 
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For fucks sake. If these people had any idea the amount of carnage and horror they support overseas just by enjoying their modern western conveniences…..on second thought, no, they dont give a shit. JK Rowling and her Twitter posts are an easier target. Fucking armchair activists.
 
I just rewatched all of the movies so I'm ready for midnight tonight. The whole controversy is just so sad and stupid. People are dying in a war while others whine and are somehow offended with words.
 
mrmustard said:
And things like that are the dark side of the internet. If we had mid 90s this wouldn't even be a thing, because nobody would hear the minority of weirdos crying over almost anything.

Not enough genders? :messenger_face_screaming:
Not enough asians or black people? :messenger_face_steam:
Tits or butt too big? :messenger_pouting:
Women not ugly enough? :messenger_angry:
Not enough women? :messenger_loudly_crying:
Only heteros? :messenger_grimmacing_
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As someone with a gargantuan phallus I'm disturbed i'm not on your protected list. Groin ferrets rise up!
 
Jsisto said:
For fucks sake. If these people had any idea the amount of carnage and horror they support overseas just by enjoying their modern western conveniences…..on second thought, no, they dont give a shit. JK Rowling and her Twitter posts are an easier target. Fucking armchair activists.
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Right. All these morons posting to twitter from their iPhone, manufactured at a place that had to put nets outside the factory to stop people from killing themselves. Not to mention all the other atrocities that happen to afford us the luxury of modern life.

And these jackoffs make bank by simply talking about videogames but they seem to be the most miserable people on the planet, their heads are so far up their own ass it's not even funny. There's only two demographics I absolutely despise; communists and the Greg Miller's of the world. They bring nothing of value to anything and ride the coattails of people who actually create things.
 
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Gideon said:
the review itself makes it seems like a 6-7/10 review, the score of 9/10 is fucking wild.

I know IGN is a pure meme at this point, but how on God's green earth can you be like "the story is boring, the enemy variety is lacking, its has performance issues, long loading time and lighting problem…9/10"

a review likes this makes me wonder if the score was paid or led by nostalgia?
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???

Those things are why it's a 9 and not higher. He was explaining his score, I thought pretty thoroughly. Did you want it to be bad or something?
 
SF Kosmo said:
Over the last few years, we have seen Rowling tiptoe forward from reasonable (if strawmanny) "I love and support trans right but I think their experience is different than transwomen" to straight up "I think trans women are sexual predators invading women's spaces" over the course of a few years, and even writing a book about a cross dressing serial killer and kind of making the whole thing core to her identity.

But the question that I think critics need to ask themselves is how did she get there? Was this a gradual mask slip, or was she radicalized by the extremely toxic backlash to her initial comments, the waves of death threats and dehumanizing characterizations that followed?

I think the criticism is fair but the hysteria is just so counterproductive. The discourse itself is making things worse for trans people.
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Good post. Don't completely agree but you present an interesting argument.

Let's also look at Martina Navratilova and the immense backlash she faced. She merely said biological men in women's sports is problematic. She even fully admits she would have been destroyed in the vast majority of tennis matches if facing a biological male who went through puberty who had initially been a far lower rank in the mens circuit.

What she was saying seems like common sense and merely scientific fact to much of the World but she got absolutely demonized for daring to speak about it.
 
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Gideon said:
the review itself makes it seems like a 6-7/10 review, the score of 9/10 is fucking wild.

I know IGN is a pure meme at this point, but how on God's green earth can you be like "the story is boring, the enemy variety is lacking, its has performance issues, long loading time and lighting problem…9/10"

a review likes this makes me wonder if the score was paid or led by nostalgia?
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when will people stop looking at review scores?

game reviews are largely useless, review scores are 100% useless
 
SF Kosmo said:
Over the last few years, we have seen Rowling tiptoe forward from reasonable (if strawmanny) "I love and support trans right but I think their experience is different than transwomen" to straight up "I think trans women are sexual predators invading women's spaces" over the course of a few years, and even writing a book about a cross dressing serial killer and kind of making the whole thing core to her identity.

But the question that I think critics need to ask themselves is how did she get there? Was this a gradual mask slip, or was she radicalized by the extremely toxic backlash to her initial comments, the waves of death threats and dehumanizing characterizations that followed?

I think the criticism is fair but the hysteria is just so counterproductive. The discourse itself is making things worse for trans people.
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She didn't have a mask slip at all.
Constant threats and harassment by transgender people hardened her stances.
This isn't nothing. Look at what happened to Salman Rushdie.

She's wrong about transgender people being sexual predators but it's quite admirable that she isn't backing down. I wish more people were like that, whether I personally agree with them or not.
 
belmarduk said:
She didn't have a mask slip at all.
Constant threats and harassment by transgender people hardened her stances.
This isn't nothing. Look at what happened to Salman Rushdie.

She's wrong about transgender people being sexual predators but it's quite admirable that she isn't backing down. I wish more people were like that, whether I personally agree with them or not.
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I don't think changing or clinging to a stance is a virtue in and of itself. Being stubbornly wrong isn't courageous and being easily cowed or gullible isn't any better.

The challenge, I think, is being open to being convinced, while still maintaining the right bar to being convinced, and being able to engage with others with empathy and compassion even when that favor isn't always repaid.
 
MayauMiao said:
I remember Gamespot reviewed GTA V and the first one got voted down so much they had to do another video without the politics.
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I didn't hear about this. What did people take issue with? GTA isn't really meant to be taken seriously and takes the piss out of everyone. Who did it piss off?
 
Danjin44 said:
For fuck sake, can we have game get released without any controversy.....can we? Its really start to get tiring at this point. Worse part is most of the so called "controversy" surrounding these games are petty and just there for internet drama.
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What I am doing is noting down any outlet that refuses to have anything to do with this game and blocking them myself, I don't want their opinions on anything if they cannot seperate a game from the original creator who had little to nothing to do with it, if there that stupid, then I want nothing to do with them
 
SF Kosmo said:
Over the last few years, we have seen Rowling tiptoe forward from reasonable (if strawmanny) "I love and support trans right but I think their experience is different than transwomen" to straight up "I think trans women are sexual predators invading women's spaces" over the course of a few years, and even writing a book about a cross dressing serial killer and kind of making the whole thing core to her identity.

But the question that I think critics need to ask themselves is how did she get there? Was this a gradual mask slip, or was she radicalized by the extremely toxic backlash to her initial comments, the waves of death threats and dehumanizing characterizations that followed?

I think the criticism is fair but the hysteria is just so counterproductive. The discourse itself is making things worse for trans people.
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That's true actually. I would guess because it started with her piping up from the sideline and then getting more and more embroiled in it. She's got tons of vicious shit online for a few years now so I can see it getting more personal as time went on and her getting more antagonistic with it.
 
More like they're afraid of having their personal twitter accounts raided by the lunatics. If we got rid of social media over night we'd wake up to a much better world.
 
Moneal said:
Did you read the thread? The person reviewing the game on ign was on a podcast, and said they were only reviewing the game because the staff at ign was afraid to do the review.
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I bet you, that weirdo pony dude has dug his way to the other side of the Earth looking for an old tweet from the reviewer. :D
 
Droxcy said:
Imagine not being able to seperate the bullshit of this generation & society to review a goddamn game about wizards. People are wasting so much brain power on pointless fights.
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Agreed totally, but I'm mainly giving you a fire emoji because your profile pic is Yumi from Cody Lyoko....😁
 
SF Kosmo said:
Over the last few years, we have seen Rowling tiptoe forward from reasonable (if strawmanny) "I love and support trans right but I think their experience is different than transwomen" to straight up "I think trans women are sexual predators invading women's spaces" over the course of a few years, and even writing a book about a cross dressing serial killer and kind of making the whole thing core to her identity.

But the question that I think critics need to ask themselves is how did she get there? Was this a gradual mask slip, or was she radicalized by the extremely toxic backlash to her initial comments, the waves of death threats and dehumanizing characterizations that followed?

I think the criticism is fair but the hysteria is just so counterproductive. The discourse itself is making things worse for trans people.
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Rowling wants women to have access to women only spaces,same as all women fighting trans ideology.Seems pretty reasonable to me as someone with two daughters.
 
SF Kosmo said:
I don't think changing or clinging to a stance is a virtue in and of itself. Being stubbornly wrong isn't courageous and being easily cowed or gullible isn't any better.

The challenge, I think, is being open to being convinced, while still maintaining the right bar to being convinced, and being able to engage with others with empathy and compassion even when that favor isn't always repaid.
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She is one of the world's great philanthropists and certainly does not lack empathy or compassion.

JK Rowling is also a victim of rape and domestic abuse. She is more than entitled to her opinions on these matters, even if you or I disagree with some of her opinions.

She tried for a long time to respond respectfully to her critics and it accomplished nothing. The organized, relentless attacks and stalking continued and grew worse. If this had happened to you, the chances are very high that you would have reacted in the same way whether you want to admit it or not.
 
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