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[TuxedoSammy]

Doubtful. Any people purchasing this out of spite are probably the equal yet opposite to those boycotting it. Harry Potter is just massively popular.

I agree with your sentiment though. As a lifelong hippie, I just shake my head at the modern progressive movement as it is a weird amalgamation of something we would have seem from The Puritans. I try to remind myself that it is a vocal minority and the low barrier to entry gives idiots access to the global town square, but fuck me if they aren't annoying, spiteful and dangerous to the very things they are fighting for.

No, I agree with YOU!

 

[Dirk Benedict]

They have nothing. They show their own ass and their own ignorance. They only want people to be as hateful, miserable, and shitty as they are.

Because, there is an old adage.... Misery Loves Company.

 

[OmegaSpirit32X]

Ooh... you're *almost* there, aren't you?

Now, final step... can you provide me evidence that she is opposed to a law that makes trans people's lives much easier?

Here you go. The law in cuestion

Statement: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

Oral statement by Scottish Secretary Alister Jack to the House of Commons today in relation to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

www.gov.uk

I get the point that it could be easily abused, but I think they could find a way to prevent that while remaining tolerant.

 

[rofif]

Wired had its heyday back when simping over iPhone 4 drove clicks. Now it's mindless SEO clickbait bullshit. They're not journalists, they're pornographers. Tech hit saturation last decade and Wired hasn't had anything significant to say since.

Does anyone here actually go to old guard tech and gaming sites? And I mean apart from being tricked into it by clickbait showing up in a feed somewhere. Gamespot, IGN, Kotaku, Polygon, etc., I just don't see how they drive traffic with anything other than SEO trash that might as well be written by bots.

I don't visit any websites. I only go to forums, yt and twitch for the most part. Occasionally ratings for some hardware specs.

 

[Nydius]

I get the point that it could be easily abused, but I think they could find a way to prevent that while remaining tolerant.

Could be? It already IS being abused. Scotland is already using SelfID nonsense for their prison system. Go ahead and do a quick search on how that's working out for them.

Why the fuck should I be tolerant of a group of people that make up 1% or less of the western world trying redefine reality for the other 99% of us?

Especially when that group, and their "allies" have proven that "tolerance" is a one way street.

 

[OmegaSpirit32X]

Could be? It already IS being abused. Scotland is already using SelfID nonsense for their prison system. Go ahead and do a quick search on how that's working out for them.

Why the fuck should I be tolerant of a group of people that make up 1% or less of the western world trying redefine reality for the other 99% of us?

Especially when that group, and their "allies" have proven that "tolerance" is a one way street.

The actions of a few don't constitue for the actions of everyone, like I said they could find a way to make it work.

 

[Salmon]

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Lol idiotic and unprofessional, just refuse to review it if you're coherent. In this way they're using the game to get hits anyway.
Hypocrisy is such a bad thing.

Well that's the point they prolly couldn't give two shits about it. That's why they gave it a 1 for the bait and clicks.

 

[FunkMiller]

Here you go. The law in cuestion

Statement: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

Oral statement by Scottish Secretary Alister Jack to the House of Commons today in relation to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

www.gov.uk

I get the point that it could be easily abused, but I think they could find a way to prevent that while remaining tolerant.

The bill passing would have allowed trans people to change gender more easily. This is a vastly different thing from making 'their lives easier'. In fact, I'd argue that removing some of the barriers to gender changing could allow people to make potentially very large mistakes…

Some things need to be difficult to accomplish. I'd suggest that changing gender via medicine and surgery is definitely one of those things.

 

[Charles Brandon]

I'm in favour of self ID but the problem with lowering the barrier to entry is that the people you end up with will always include some more dubious, callow and mendacious individuals who have transitioned for reasons that may be less than ideal, eg fashion or perhaps bad intent. Especially with regard to the latter, it means that women's spaces where vulnerability is a factor eg prisons will therefore be less inclined to accept self ID as a determinant factor for access approval - because there is no rigour in the self ID process. And therefore there will be challenges elsewhere.

If you made ID much hard to get, say by requiring years of medical history and surgery then access would probably be more readily granted.

That said, these places like prisons and refuges etc are all fringe issues that won't affect most trans people, so self ID is the right way to go. So long as it is accepted that that means possible challenges later. If you can decide to be a woman on a whim, don't be surprised when that decision isn't taken that seriously when it counts.

 

[Balducci30]

The actions of a few don't constitue for the actions of everyone, like I said they could find a way to make it work.

They could but it hasn't happened - not in this bill that she's opposing.

This is not about physically transitioning, it is about changing what you are legally recognized as which results in greater access to women's spaces - and making the barrier to do so, way lower.

Don't have gender dysphoria? The entire basis of most trans people transitioning in the first place? ( being uncomfortable living as your birth gender and feeling like the opposite sex) - no problem. This bill eliminates that requirement.

This also makes your timeline three months, that's all it requires - three months commitment. I saw some guy reply "self ID just means if you permanently have been living as a woman for three months you get to change your birth certificate- that's it - before you had to get a psychiatric diagnosis" - as if 3 months is "permanence" or that changing your birth certificate won't have other wide ranging effects, or that gender dysphoria is unreasonable to expect when, as stated before, it was once the entire basis of belonging to this group.

As the guy above me also said, you make this too easy, then you make it taken far less seriously. That's how it goes.
It's not great to go - a few rapes are small potatoes compared to the many people this act would help - when it's arguable how much it'd actually "help" in the first place.

EDIT: also I believe it passed, the UK as a whole did not adopt it though - it is only in Scotland

 

[Cyberpunkd]

with how easy they would be legally recognized as a woman… earlier than they would've been… which would relieve their gender dysphoria faster

But if you feel like an opposite sex you want to also look like an opposite sex, otherwise what's the point? This opens a huge can of worms (let's use a biological woman here as an example) e.g. a biological woman identifying as a male is protesting and shaming heterosexual women for not going out with her or being attracted to her. See how much slippery slope this is?

I absolutely agree there should be a clear and fair process from changing your gender if it doesn't correspond to your actual one, but let's have some requirements as well for that. As with everything in life - if this is important to you you will find a way to make it work.

 

[Balducci30]

But if you feel like an opposite sex you want to also look like an opposite sex, otherwise what's the point? This opens a huge can of worms (let's use a biological woman here as an example) e.g. a biological woman identifying as a male is protesting and shaming heterosexual women for not going out with her or being attracted to her. See how much slippery slope this is?

I absolutely agree there should be a clear and fair process from changing your gender if it doesn't correspond to your actual one, but let's have some requirements as well for that. As with everything in life - if this is important to you you will find a way to make it work.

Yes I mean I agree that is the case - look you'd probably have to at least slightly look like the opposite sex to be considered as "living as woman" or "living as a man" for three months. Not a requirement, but I feel like the easiest way to show that is how you dress and talk etc - the question is at what point are you actually physically the opposite sex? Is it when you've had implants? Is it wearing make up and dresses? Is that even necessary that's not necessarily just women who dress that way - is it long hair? Is it removing your sexual organs, etc

There is already a clear way to change your gender that was introduced in the original gender recognition act - it just was a more difficult process.

 

[GymWolf]

Gif? My good man, I've got a timestamped video moment just for you.

You can almost feel the soy running through his veins...

 

[ManaByte]

Era to completely nuke their Rowling hate thread in 3...2...1...

 

[gaming_again]

Era to completely nuke their Rowling hate thread in 3...2...1...

Absolutely based and lawyerpilled.

 

[BigDeadFreak]

This will probably end up like a Dave Chappelle situation where the critic scores for the game are all 0 and the public give it a 10.

 

[HotSauceEnema]

Weird how they never have proof when asked...

 

[Dr. Claus]

Here you go. The law in cuestion

http://[URL]https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/statement-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill

[/URL]

I get the point that it could be easily abused, but I think they could find a way to prevent that while remaining tolerant.

Did you actually read the bill in questioN?

"The changes include reducing the minimum age a person can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate from eighteen to sixteen, and removing the need for a medical diagnosis and evidence of having lived for two years in their acquired gender."

This shit is fucking mental and should never be accepted. This doesn't' make trans lives harder. It just prevents children from being abused. Please read and use critical thinking before you make such horrendous accusations, kiddo.

 

[Fuz]

like I said they could find a way to make it work.

So, you mean that they have to rewrite that bill.
So you agree with JKR that the bill as it is isn't acceptable.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The bill passing would have allowed trans people to change gender more easily. This is a vastly different thing from making 'their lives easier'. In fact, I'd argue that removing some of the barriers to gender changing could allow people to make potentially very large mistakes…

Some things need to be difficult to accomplish. I'd suggest that changing gender via medicine and surgery is definitely one of those things.

Pharmaceutical industry loves it though. You have dependents for life, especially when you inundate children via media, schools, and indocrinated parents. And we know who lobbies pockets the most in the political spectrum.

This message was brought to you by Pfizer.

 

[Puscifer]

"The game is mid at best, and its real-world harms are impossible to ignore."

Jaina Rodriguez Grey is a product writer and reviewer at WIRED covering coffee, sex tech, and gaming.

She currently resides in Portland, Oregon with her partner and a pet rabbit named Lola.

I just read the opening, saw how the author was described and laughed my ass off.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I just read the opening and saw how the author was described and laughed my ass off.

It's literally a parody IRL.

 

[Hibs]

Era to completely nuke their Rowling hate thread in 3...2...1...

 

[FunkMiller]

The leader of the Scottish government Nicola Sturgeon just had to resign, at least in part, because she refused to say what gender a multiple rapist was.

This is the ridiculous end of the wedge when it comes to self ID, and it's about time people grew up and started thinking about it sensibly.

 

[HotSauceEnema]

The leader of the Scottish government Nicola Sturgeon just had to resign, at least in part, because she refused to say what gender a multiple rapist was.

This is the ridiculous end of the wedge when it comes to self ID, and it's about time people grew up and started thinking about it sensibly.

The reeee people are taking it as a sign of the end. The fact a rapist NOT getting to invade a womens prison is a sign of the end for them.... says a lot.

 

[FunkMiller]

The reeee people are taking it as a sign of the end. The fact a rapist NOT getting to invade a womens prison is a sign of the end for them.... says a lot.

Well, it's possibly the beginning of the end of the farcical ideology that a man can just say he's a woman, and be able to access women's spaces, like rapist Adam Graham did.

 

[HotSauceEnema]

Well, it's possibly the beginning of the end of the farcical ideology that a man can just say he's a woman, and be able to access women's spaces, like rapist Adam Graham did.

yep, the fact that it ending upsets them says a lot.

 

[Boneless]

Did you actually read the bill in questioN?

"The changes include reducing the minimum age a person can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate from eighteen to sixteen, and removing the need for a medical diagnosis and evidence of having lived for two years in their acquired gender."

This shit is fucking mental and should never be accepted. This doesn't' make trans lives harder. It just prevents children from being abused. Please read and use critical thinking before you make such horrendous accusations, kiddo.

I would agree. But in any case, these topics are complex and anybody making it out that "you are insane because you agree" or "you are a TERF/whatever because you disagree" are deafening a discussion. Being punished for having an opinion and having a vote is insane and has strong characteristics of fascism.

 

[StueyDuck]

Did you actually read the bill in questioN?

"The changes include reducing the minimum age a person can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate from eighteen to sixteen, and removing the need for a medical diagnosis and evidence of having lived for two years in their acquired gender."

This shit is fucking mental and should never be accepted. This doesn't' make trans lives harder. It just prevents children from being abused. Please read and use critical thinking before you make such horrendous accusations, kiddo.

It's funny that when arguing for legislature for "Trans rights" it basically means how to do things to kids...

Thats all it ever means.

I don't know why people aren't creeped out by that . It's like when old men vote on lowering the age of consent... It's just fucking creepy and mi5 and the fbi should be involved.

Why are political people so keen on predatory behaviors on kids

 

[kyussman]

Tavistock down,Sturgeon down.....Mermaids needs to be next before they fuck up any more kids lives.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

A pet rabbit named lola.

It seems like the writer and their partner may have watched a bit too much Space Jam and started a new fetish even naming their pet rabbit after that sexual cartoon.

I feel concerned for the rabbit, is it too late to call PETA?

 

[Brigandier]

I actually watched that and it was kind of funny. She might be a little bit more wound up on this topic than I had figured, LOL I don't actually follow her. That one group the vid said she supports has been found legally responsible for organizing violent acts of hatred, so, that's not so good (though I don't really know if it is accurate or not). But it still doesn't have much to do about a HP video game.

It's possible that in response to what she perceived were attacks against her that she has made some allies that are radicalizing her in the some way.

I'm confused here are you talking about J.K Rowling or Jim Sterling as Jim Sterling is the complete polar opposite to She/her.

I get where they're coming from, she's transphobe who uses her money to prevent people from getting basic healthcare for doing whatever they want with their bodies .

Link to this. Don't be like every other asshat who just spouts stuff they've read by other asshats on social media.

Link directly to your proof that Rowling has used her money to prevent people getting basic healthcare.

Let's see if you're as bad as all the others at providing evidence of your claims.

Yeah we are gonna be waiting a lonnnnnng time

 

[DemonGamerTTT]

Isn't this that shit tech news outlet that made video about building your own "tech" vibrator????


Who the fucks cares about what those morons say?

 

[SportsFan581]

I'm confused here are you talking about J.K Rowling or Jim Sterling as Jim Sterling is the complete polar opposite to She/her.

I was taking about Rowling, I had posted that I didn't think she had said this or that and then realized that I really did not know what she has and hasn't said. All the tweets of Rowling's that I've read myself have been tactful and respectful (other than the clap backs that she is so creative with, but those people attacked her first LOL), that's really all I could say on the matter. I've bookmarked the podcast though it seems interesting.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Era to completely nuke their Rowling hate thread in 3...2...1...

Someone send her the link to their hate thread.

 

[Lord Panda]

Someone send her the link to their hate thread.

I'm not a Twitter user so would someone do the honours? https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-...-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/

Resetera razed to the ground and reduced to a purple stain, would be an unsurpassing gift to humanity.

 

[OmegaSpirit32X]

Did you actually read the bill in questioN?

"The changes include reducing the minimum age a person can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate from eighteen to sixteen, and removing the need for a medical diagnosis and evidence of having lived for two years in their acquired gender."

This shit is fucking mental and should never be accepted. This doesn't' make trans lives harder. It just prevents children from being abused. Please read and use critical thinking before you make such horrendous accusations, kiddo.

I did, I see how it could easily be exploited by insane parents abusing their kids but I also think 16 is just mature enough for someone to transition if they really need to, you make it seem like it affects 6 year olds, and makes you look as sentimental and easily offended as those who harrass people for liking a kids game.

 

[EviLore]

16 is just mature enough for someone to transition if they really need to

16 year olds are known for their brilliant decision making when it comes to their sexuality, after all.

 

[anothertech]

The leader of the Scottish government Nicola Sturgeon just had to resign, at least in part, because she refused to say what gender a multiple rapist was.

This is the ridiculous end of the wedge when it comes to self ID, and it's about time people grew up and started thinking about it sensibly.

The reeee people are taking it as a sign of the end. The fact a rapist NOT getting to invade a womens prison is a sign of the end for them.... says a lot.

Tavistock down,Sturgeon down.....Mermaids needs to be next before they fuck up any more kids lives.

Guys!! Links please!! I need to see this in person!

 

[Dr. Claus]

I did, I see how it could easily be exploited by insane parents abusing their kids but I also think 16 is just mature enough for someone to transition if they really need to, you make it seem like it affects 6 year olds, and makes you look as sentimental and easily offended as those who harrass people for liking a kids game.

Mate, 18 year olds can barely function and make major life altering decisions. Hell, most of them can't even do the bare minimum of showing up to college classes. You really think a 16 year old is intelligent enough to alter their entire life with a bare min of "3 months"?

 

[Dr. Claus]

I would agree. But in any case, these topics are complex and anybody making it out that "you are insane because you agree" or "you are a TERF/whatever because you disagree" are deafening a discussion. Being punished for having an opinion and having a vote is insane and has strong characteristics of fascism.

There is a discussion to be had. However, when the person in question makes claims that someone is TRANSPHOBIC and can't even read the actual bill that they claim proves someone is TRANSPHOBIC, then there is nothing to really discuss with them.

 

[badblue]

I also think 16 is just mature enough for someone to transition if they really need to

At 16 years old most people don't know if they want to have kids or not. Who's going to pony up the funds to freeze the baby making stuff if these kids want a biological child 10-12 years later?

 

[Rubicaant]

Ok, an opinion piece on JK rowling, sure. But i thought this was supposed to be a game review?

 

[OmegaSpirit32X]

16 year olds are known for their brilliant decision making when it comes to their sexuality, after all.

Teenage years are precisely when sexuality has been developed, 16 is only 2 years from adulthood, and that's like saying minors should be banned from having sex with other minors even if it's safe sex with condoms, just because Teenage pregnancy is a huge problem. I do think 6 months would be a better timeframe though

At 16 years old most people don't know if they want to have kids or not. Who's going to pony up the funds to freeze the baby making stuff if these kids want a biological child 10-12 years later?

Most people don't know if they want to have biological kids at 18 years old or even at 20 years old.

There is a discussion to be had. However, when the person in question makes claims that someone is TRANSPHOBIC and can't even read the actual bill that they claim proves someone is TRANSPHOBIC, then there is nothing to really discuss with them.

They're not transphobic for not supporting the bill even though like I said it would make many people's lifes easier, but some of her reasons why certainly are, she thinks trans people being allowed in female spaces is dangerous and how women might have their rights practically revoked, even though trans people have used female spaces already for years, and statistics prove that the former statements aren't true. In the case of jail, if someone commits murder in jail, that convict's punishment is raised, and it's safe to assume that's the same case for rape. What Rowling wants is to keep trans people out of any space in general according to their identity and the bill facilitates that.

 

[EviLore]

Teenage years are precisely when sexuality has been developed, 16 is only 2 years from adulthood, and that's like saying minors should be banned from having sex with other minors even if it's safe sex with condoms, just because Teenage pregnancy is a huge problem. I do think 6 months would be a better timeframe though

16 years old is the age of making mistakes. And you're right, teenagers shouldn't be getting pregnant in the modern world, they should be given more time to live life free of crippling long-term consequences that they don't yet fully understand, while their hormones are making them do impulsive and crazy things.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Teenage years are precisely when sexuality has been developed, 16 is only 2 years from adulthood, and that's like saying minors should be banned from having sex with other minors even if it's safe sex with condoms, just because Teenage pregnancy is a huge problem. I do think 6 months would be a better timeframe though

Teenage years is when puberty occurs, yes - but most teens are often confused on their sexuality for years and dont' fully understand themselves. They are not ready for making choices like these, period.

Most people don't know if they want to have biological kids at 18 years old or even at 20 years old.

So then you think it is smart to give them the choice to transition at 16? With no diagonsis? After only 3 months of believing they are trans?

They're not transphobic for not supporting the bill even though like I said it would make many people's lifes easier, but some of her reasons why certainly are

Let's go through these "reasons" you think she is transphobic:

, she thinks trans people being allowed in female spaces is dangerous

No, she thinks that there are bad actors who would take advantage of it and harm women. Not the same thing.

and how women might have their rights practically revoked

She never said this unless I missed something. Provide evidence.

, even though trans people have used female spaces already for years, and statistics prove that the former statements aren't true.

Then provide those statistics. We already have numerous individuals in jail for doing the very thing she fears. Men dressing up as women, pretending they are trans, to be predators and watch women undress and bother them in bathrooms.

In the case of jail, if someone commits murder in jail, that convict's punishment is raised, and it's safe to assume that's the same case for rape. What Rowling wants is to keep trans people out of any space in general according to their identity and the bill facilitates that.

It literally does NOT facilitate that, she has never stated or tried to suggest that she wants trans people out of "any space in general according to their identity", she simply wants specific biological female-only safe spaces. She never once argued for removal of trans + female safe places, just that there *should* be biological female only ones as well.

 

[Secret of Evolution]

Whenever I see an argument for anti-trans popping up in here 9/10 times it just gives me massive flashbacks to how it's essentially the same exact arguments the Christian right trotted out in their anti-gay crusading for decades. Gays forcing it on people, not natural, only a very small % of the pop, mental illness, raping kids, blah blah. Same old stinking shit, different clothes.

 

[Kagey K]

This is why we need to play games in 2023 instead of listening to "reviewers"

Everyone rejoices E3 is dead, which means we all basically get the same access to games a reviewers so stop being sheep and make up your mind with your c9ntroller in hand.

 

[SlimySnake]

16 years old is the age of making mistakes. And you're right, teenagers shouldn't be getting pregnant in the modern world, they should be given more time to live life free of crippling long-term consequences that they don't yet fully understand, while their hormones are making them do impulsive and crazy things.

Precisely.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/162997951/teenage-brains-are-malleable-and-vulnerable-researchers-say

Teenage Brains Are Malleable And Vulnerable, Researchers Say

These studies have concluded that teens are prone to this sort of behavior because the so-called reward systems in their brains are very sensitive while circuits involved in self-control are still not fully developed, Casey says.

Also,

Though the brain may be done growing in size, it does not finish developing and maturing until the mid- to late 20s. The front part of the brain, called the prefrontal cortex, is one of the last brain regions to mature. This area is responsible for skills like planning, prioritizing, and controlling impulses.