J.K. Rowling: My Comments About Real Women Being Real Women Have Been "Profoundly Misunderstood." Please Don't Murder Me.

She says her comments about sex being real have been "profoundly misunderstood."

Author J.K. Rowling has made a shocking revelation about her past controversial comments, claiming her statements about transgender people have been "profoundly" misunderstood.
"I never set out to upset anyone," she said in the trailer for her forthcoming podcast, "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling." "However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal."
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The podcast, which premieres Feb. 21 on The Free Press, will be hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper, who was raised as part of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church known for protesting LGBTQIA+ beliefs and later left the congregation to write the memoir "Unfollow" about her experience.
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It all began in 2020 when she claimed that the "lived reality of women globally is erased" if "sex isn't real," referring to trans women.
"I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives," she added at the time. "It isn't hate to speak the truth."
The novelist also boldly declared on Twitter that "sex is real," while arguing that grouping cisgender women and trans women together erases her lived experiences of "being female."
At the time, she was mocking the phrase "people who menstruate," sarcastically writing that there "used to be a word for these," referring to the term "women."
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She cited concerns for "current trans activism," which she argued was "pushing to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender."
"I'm concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility," she wrote at the time.

The Trans Extremists continue attempting to bankrupt the world's wealthiest self-made woman. Oh well, no one ever accused them of hoarding sanity.

The Wired blog -- I won't call it a "magazine;" it's a blog -- ran a review of the new Harry Potter video game "Hogwart's Legacy."

That's a lie -- it was a review of J.K. Rowling herself, which pretended to "review" the game in between shrieking that J.K. Rowling doesn't want trans people "to exist."

The review was written, of course, by a "trans woman" (government name: man) who usually reviews sex toys (what a shock) and computer hardware but decided that he just had to review a video game this one time.

This man attempts to inflict Actual Violence on J.K. Rowling and Cause her harm by giving the game a 1 out of 10 score -- which is unheard of, because, as I recently mentioned, video game scores are known to be inflated and basically start at a 7. Only the very worst, no-effort-put-into-them games get a failing score of 6 or even 5.

But this trans extremist wouldn't know that, of course.

Yikes, y'all. I don't even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. We're here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy, and to do that we need to discuss the whole mess. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into a pillow (or the abyss), because this one's gonna take a lot out of both of us. (Or get heavy.)

Very professional review. I love it when reviewers make the review about themselves instead of the thing I'm actually interested in.

Jesse Singal
@jessesingal
Wired's review of Hogwarts Legacy gives it 1/10 because in part because "its real-world harms are impossible to ignore."
The first sentence is literally "Yikes, y'all."

There's a subset of writer who is now beyond parody.

And now: On to the review of J.K. Rowling's belief that she is a woman and that sex is real, even if mentally-ill delusionaries shriek that a vagina is a social construct.

Hogwarts Legacy is a third-person action-RPG set in the same universe as the classic Harry Potter series of children's books. In case you need a refresher, those books, the Wizarding World setting, and the Harry Potter film franchise are all the intellectual property and brainchildren of author J. K. Rowling. This is important because she's always been inseparable from her work and from work that she's inspired (and licensed), for better and now mostly for worse. Nothing with a Wizarding World stamp on it can be viewed outside the context of it being a product of Dame J. K. Rowling, CH, OBE.
Within the pages of her books, she made the ordinary seem extraordinary. She created a place where weird lonely kids would be told they were special, where kids who had survived abuse were more than just fundamentally broken. Since 2019 though, the once-beloved children's author has--well, she's had some opinions. About people like me. And whether or not we should exist. She's even gone as far as to suggest that we're inherently dangerous, a threat to real (ouch) women everywhere.
When I was a kid, every word that flowed from J. K. Rowling's pen wrote magic into my world, but now every word she puts out just hurts my heart. Every homophobic or transphobic thing queer kids hear growing up becomes a voice that follows them for a long time. We hear relatives, friends, and parents say awful things about us and to us. For a lot of us, we fight those voices every day. When one of those voices comes from the author who taught you about accepting yourself, a person you thought truly saw you and kids like you, it hurts in a way I honestly hope she never understands. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I don't believe this woman-abusing thug wouldn't wish pain on J.K. Rowling. That's obviously what this toxic man is attempting to inflict on an actual woman right here, right now.

By the way, those last couple sentences are repeated and spotlighted in the "review" with boldface and large type.

When one of those voices comes from the author who taught you about accepting yourself, a person you thought truly saw you and kids like you, it hurts in a way I honestly hope she never understands. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Lie.

I don't hate her. It would honestly be easier if I did.

You do hate her and you find it very easy to attack a woman who doesn't reciprocate your affections. Like an incel.

Oh, and by the way: this is a game review.

Did you forget that? You'd be excused for forgetting it's a game review, because the "game reviewer" did.

Inside me somewhere, there's a kid who still loves her despite everything. That kid has a lot of experience loving people who hurt her. She never asks why; she just wants to know what she did wrong and how she can fix it. It's hard to tell her there's nothing left to fix. And that there are places we can't return to. Places like Hogwarts.

I remember when the first book came out. The gangly boy on the cover illustration. The school book fair....

He goes on for two paragraphs about his memories of buying and reading the first Harry Potter book, in order to heighten his feeling of betrayal by J.K. Rowling.

Who, by the way, had nothing to do with this game, apart from licensing it to another company.

Remember, this is a game review.

I avoided press about Hogwarts Legacy when it was first announced. I didn't want to see the gameplay, I didn't want to be awed by trailers. I avoided them like the plague because I was afraid I would be conflicted, that I'd see a game that captured the magic of the books and my heart would leap out of my chest. I was afraid to see the lavish visuals of the films recreated on modern gaming hardware, realized in 4K and full HDR. I was afraid I'd have to tell 12-year-old me that she couldn't play it, and explain why. So when I got a code for Hogwarts Legacy, I braced myself.
I thought I'd spend a lot of time in this section nitpicking. Going over every grievance I have with how this game deviates from the source material, how dated it looks and feels, and how every character just feels like an animatronic Chuck-E-Cheese robot waiting for you to come by and put a quarter in so it can say its one line of dialog and perform a grim, herky-jerky facsimile of a living being. But there are no nits to pick, it's just lice all the way down.
The longer I spent in this version of Hogwarts, the more I could feel a tangible absence. There's definitely something missing. I thought maybe it was the lackluster art direction, the one-dimensional characters that feel like store-brand versions of the ones we know and love, or even the conspicuous lack of the iconic John Williams score. But there's a bigger absence here.

Have you considered that you are just an extremely emotionally upset and therefore biased "reviewer," and therefore journalistic ethics would demand that you refrain from "reviewing" the game at all?

This is cute: Here in the article is the rating, set aside in a call-out box. Usually they also have a link to the game, if readers reading this "review" want to buy it.

Instead, the link to game directs you to a trans charity. Your are denied the opportunity to buy the game:

Rating: 1/10
Buy at Donate to Trans Lifeline

He swapped a link to buy the game from online retailers to a donor button for a trans charity.

Laughably, the Wired blog then says this:

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED

Oh yes -- let me "support [your] journalism."

Here is the "game review" part of this "game review."

He contrives an "anti-Semitism" complaint out of thin air, in case people aren't upset enough that J.K. Rowling believes that physical sex is real and has profound psychological and characterological implications.

He says the game is "anti-Semitic" because... it's about a "cabal" stopping a global slavery ring.

Which obviously makes it anti-Semitic, because, you know... Jews and the slave trade!

There's a hole where this game's heart should be. You can't see it at first. You have to really feel around its edges, stop looking for what is there and start noticing what isn't. There's no sense of place. The world is lifeless. Character models and facial animations are present but somehow absent. The characters are animated, but they certainly don't feel alive.
There's a hole where this game's heart should be.
The story, besides being rooted in anti-Semitism (a global "cabal" is trying to end slavery but that's bad because the slaves like being slaves), doesn't even feel compelling.

Remember, it's this game which is dealing in anti-Semitic tropes. A story about a "cabal" of powerful people are trying to do something with slavery and that's obviously all about Jews.

The comments relating to the game itself are cursory at best -- a series of conclusary denigrations without any evidence offered to support them, or any suggestions about how the game designers could have done better. These are routine things in game reviews -- if you say characters are without depth, you then provide examples, describing the flatness of particular characters and quoting banal dialogue from them.

If you're trashing a several-tens-of-millions-of-dollars game that people worked on for five years, you back up your negative statements. (Also, if you're recommending that readers spend $60 of their hard-won skrill on a game, you also back up your positive statements.)

But this isn't a review of a game. This is a review of J.K. Rowling, so none of that is here. Just a checklist of negative remarks this Sex Toy Reviewer has seen in other game reviews, and just spams out for this "review."

One strongly suspects that the comments about the game were only added after an editor suggested, "You know, this would have more credibility if you said something about the game."

After babbling another paragraph spamming out unsupported criticisms, he gets to the real complaint:

For that reason alone, I can't in good conscience recommend spending your money on it. Combined with who this game helps and who it harms, well, it's definitely not worth it unless your goal is to cause harm.

Remember, it's J.K. Rowling attempting to cause harm to the transgenders, not vice versa:

A few of Scotland's wonderfully progressive and kind politicians, posing proudly in front of banners calling for women to be decapitated and eaten. pic.twitter.com/satQhRojbA
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 21, 2023

The trans extremists are all out there with this "causes harm" and "causes actual violence" lunatic ~~talking~~ babbling point:

Lauren Ingram
@laureningram
Ultimately as a cis person it's not up to me to decide if Hogwarts: Legacy is transphobic. The trans people in my life, and online, have told me it is. So I won't be buying it.
By buying the game you are supporting its transphobic creator, and encouraging her to continue her horrific crusade against trans people. She has literally tweeted as such.
If you support trans rights, and are thinking about purchasing the Hogwarts: Legacy game, consider this:
Will it directly harm you to not play this game? Because it will directly contribute to continuing harm of trans people if you do.

Now he's going to review the newer Wizarding World movies.

Remember, this is a "game review."

This is a familiar problem though. It's one we see in the latest Wizarding World films as well.
The new movies are bad. Not just bad morally, but bad qualitatively. They're not fun to watch. There's spectacle, but it all feels flat and kind of confusing. If you look closely, you can see the steady decline in quality as the new movies go on, with IP owners trying to wring any remaining semblance of life from a franchise all but poisoned by its owner, despite attempts to right the ship. Some reviews chalk it up to Rowling having more direct control, and fewer people to tell her no or give her edits. The George Lucas problem. But Hogwarts Legacy makes me think this isn't the case.

The first Wizarding World movie was scatterbrained but cute. The Muggle and his romance with the sexy witch was adorable. They should have been the leads instead of the bland zombies the movie thought were the main characters.

The second movie was just convoluted exposition and exposited convolution. I didn't bother with the third movie and its implied gay romance.

None of the films' problems are due to Rowling "poisoning" the franchise by insisting that WOMEN ARE REAL AND NOT "SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS."

There's a direct correlation between how open Rowling becomes about her bigotry, and how flat and heartless Wizarding World media becomes. I don't think that's a coincidence. I think it's because LGBTQIA+ people and genuine allies are some of the best creative minds in the world, and these films and this game were made largely without them.

This is a "game review," remember, in case you've forgotten. And I wouldn't blame you for having forgotten.

The game industry is far queerer than most people realize. All the things you know and love about your favorite games were made by queer people. I don't just mean directors or executive producers. I mean the concept artists who bring your favorite games to life, the sound designers, the engineers, the technical artists, the composers, the musicians, the writers, the testers, the producers--the hands that make the best games in the world are queer. We're the life, the heartbeat, and the magic of great games.

Magic = queerness. Got it.

In the yawning emptiness at the heart of Hogwarts Legacy I see the quiet solidarity of queer people and our allies in game development. The people who just said no when the job offers came their way. The ones who didn't answer the emails from Portkey Games, the ones who politely let their coworkers know that working on a Harry Potter game would be harmful to the trans community, the ones who listened and said, "Okay, yeah, thanks for letting me know." The people who put their morals, and their loved ones, above an easy paycheck.

We're very used to leftwing game "journalists" writing screeds about their personal politics under the guise of "reviewing games" or "doing games journalism."

I guess this sex toy expert should be praised for dropping the pretense altogether.

The editor in chief of the Wired blog defended this "review," thereby destroying any remaining credibility of Wired:

Gideon Lichfield 🇺🇦🌻
@glichfield
Even if you're a Hogwarts Legacy fan, read @goodjaina's review and try to hear what it's saying. This gets deep inside some of the paradoxes of JK Rowling fandom, as well as making a key point about how much the games industry depends on queer creators.

What you're describing is not a review. If "Jaina" wanted to tell us that Magic Is Queerness and write about his personal JK Rowling odyssey, he could have written a political screed. I mean, he could have written a political screed that admitted it was just a political screed.

But he wanted to write a fake "review" to reduce the very-high average ratings the game was receiving, and you let him.

Because he told you that he felt "literal violence" and "actual harm" or what Woke Warriors always claim.

Or did you already agree that the game caused you Literal Violence, Gideon?

You've shown your penchant for hysterical overreaction before.

Gideon Litchfield is also "a gay, bi, or trans person," as he tells us in this rewrite of the "First they came..." poem to feature Trump in the place of the Nazi Party.

These monsters have destroyed journalism completely, wearing it as a skin suit as they use the word "journalism" to hide their nakedly political hate-rants, and then they have their buddies in the "disinformation" and "fact-check" rackets deplatform you for noticing.

By the way, they already cancelled one of the game developers. They were angry that Warner Bros. wasn't bending the knee and cancelling a game they'd already spent millions on, as the trans extremists demanded, so they hunted through his years of social media and found a single "problematic" statement and then got him fired.

Who are the bullies here, again? Who are the people causing Actual Harm?

Posted by: Ace at 04:35 PM

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1 In heaven, CS Lewis and Tolkien are watching while enjoying a beer and a smoke.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2023 04:38 PM (44ww/)

2 Good afternoon everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 04:38 PM (qoGsy)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2023 04:39 PM (T4tVD)

4 I read the content ! DUH !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2023 04:39 PM (T4tVD)

5 I'm just going to put it right out there. This guy has issues.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 04:40 PM (guGkK)

6 It's going to be no good without a good struggle session.

Posted by: Axeman at February 15, 2023 04:41 PM (krQz2)

7 By reading the 'news', it would appear there are some folks monumentally concerned about things I care nothing about as I feel them meaningless.

Interesting.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 04:41 PM (qoGsy)

8 I'm tempted to buy the game as a middle finger to the "trans" activist crowd, but at the same time I don't want to give the raging feminst JK Rowling any money.

It's a conundrum.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 15, 2023 04:41 PM (Bd6X8)

9 Xe seems nice.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2023 04:41 PM (PiwSw)

10 We're going to need a ~~bigger boat~~ lot of new mental institutions.

The literally insane are clogging our means of communication.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2023 04:41 PM (lTGtQ)

11 I will say that those trans activists are a quite a handsome lot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 04:41 PM (guGkK)

12 J.K. must mean Just Kidding.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 15, 2023 04:42 PM (y/a4v)

13 Listen, the only thing that is going to solve this is Armadas of Industrial Wood Chippers ridding the world of the crazies and evil doers alike.

Anything less than that is masturbation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 15, 2023 04:42 PM (up/3i)

14 off pants shitting sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2023 04:42 PM (y/a4v)

15 "I love it when reviewers make the review about themselves instead of the thing I'm actually interested in."

Gotta make the required word count somehow. Lotta writing like that.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at February 15, 2023 04:42 PM (24fqN)

16 I just can't bring myself to care. This is just like Chappelle's war with trannies. It is competing progressive factions wrestling for supremacy. I want both sides to lose, but not before bleeding one another horrendously.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 15, 2023 04:43 PM (ppBhU)

17 If you ever say anything rude about trans people, you are responsible for the death of all trans people.

Trans people should have utter and complete censorship over everything said in society, since if their feelings are hurt, they are likely to commit suicide in response.

Posted by: Trans People! at February 15, 2023 04:43 PM (2tUFv)

18 Example #4, 432,678 of why the only correct answer is "so what" or "f*ck off"

The moment you engage them they win. They don't care. They can't be reasoned with or persuaded. They're not acting in good faith. Tell them to f*ck off and go on with your life.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 04:43 PM (0fs9V)

19 This post is a classic example of Fisking, at its best. Who remembers Fisking?

Posted by: Dig gp Must at February 15, 2023 04:44 PM (24fqN)

20 I remember when they lied that Sarah Palin wanted to ban Harry Potter. My how times have changed.

Posted by: ... at February 15, 2023 04:44 PM (UhouA)

21 Trans people should have utter and complete censorship over everything said in society, since if their feelings are hurt, they are likely to commit suicide in response.

If you look at it correctly, it seems like a self-limiting problem.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 04:44 PM (guGkK)

22 Too late, Rowling. You're now on the Salman Rushdie plan.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 04:44 PM (YqDXo)

23 I don't hate her. It would honestly be easier if I did.

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Easier to murder her?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 15, 2023 04:45 PM (FVME7)

24 This post is a classic example of Fisking, at its best. Who remembers Fisking?
Posted by: Dig gp Must

"Oh! I thought you said 'Fisting'. My bad."
-- Sec of Transportation

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 04:45 PM (qoGsy)

25 J.K. Rowling, who created the entire Harry Potter universe?

Yea... she can fuck right off with that shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 15, 2023 04:45 PM (Q4IgG)

26 "Wow, this Wired review is suffused with politics and has nothing to do with the game. I'm sure their articles about actual politics are well written and considered, though."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 15, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

27 Trans people should have utter and complete censorship over everything said in society, since if their feelings are hurt, they are likely to commit suicide in response.
______________

Damned civic-minded of them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

28 Trying to care...
*Grunts*
Uuunnnngggghhh

Sorry.
Don't care.

Posted by: Careless at February 15, 2023 04:45 PM (K7s34)

29 Speaking of offended, I am definitely offended by alphabet people parading their degenerate lifestyle in front of me and my children, and demanding that I abnegate my first amendment right to free speech and call them what they want, and celebrate their debauchery.

Where is MY right to speak, where is MY offendedness on the scale, and where is MY justice?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2023 04:46 PM (lTGtQ)

30
I wonder how much fake period blood the reviewer expelled during his prolonged spell of high moral dudgeon?

Ketchup based or chili pepper based?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2023 04:46 PM (pNxlR)

31 So this is a review of the new Hogwarts videogame??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 04:46 PM (Vwz3I)

32 thereby destroying any remaining credibility of Wired:

Wired destroyed its credibility a few years ago when they published an article explaining that Venezuela was having rolling blackouts because the economy was doing so gosh-darn well that of course they were running out of electricity. These were
prosperity blackouts, you see.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 04:46 PM (2tUFv)

33 tempted to buy the game as a middle finger to the "trans" activist crowd, but at the same time I don't want to give the raging feminst JK Rowling any money.

It's a conundrum.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Yeah, there used to be a thriving community dedicated to such things. "oh, don't do that! The multinational corporations that hate you need your money to develop more games pushing things like top scars and breast binding in video games for children!"

Hopefully people are still sailing the seven seas.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (0fs9V)

34 Imagine all the money psychiatrist's and psychologists can make if they went back to treating Trans as a mental problem.

These people are sick and need to be treated.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (WsJuq)

35 Never play video games, but have read all the books and seen all the movies. I like JK Rowling for what she has created and what she has accomplished for hersef. But I do have a question, what the heck is a TERF?

Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (MF3yS)

36 This post is a classic example of Fisking, at its best. Who remembers Fisking?
Posted by: Dig gp Must

Ah...no school like the Old School.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (BTgKJ)

37 34 Imagine all the money psychiatrist's and psychologists can make if they went back to treating Trans as a mental problem.

These people are sick and need to be treated.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (WsJuq)

=========

"We make more by cutting off the dicks and then providing medical care to the wound for decades later."
-Hospitals

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

38 Confusedus say man who eat Yak have hairy potty.

Posted by: Confusedus at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (iayUP)

39 I don't care what happens to her.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (y/a4v)

40 I was of sound reasoning when I turned away from all the Tolkienism, boardgameitis and other such fantasy pursuits, back in da days of my yoot.

Not saying they were evil, I didn't know one way or another. Nor useless, or misguided. Just was of no interest to me.

Besides. I was wrapped up with getting to work soon as the schoolbell rang, so I could max out the hours and help put food on the table at home.

My priorities didn't allow *time* for fantasical pursuits. And so, I didn't.

I've seen a couple Potter films, and the Tales of Narnia thing they filmed down in Aussie. I get the draw to some of that, now. But still don't delve in.

All that said, I do home Sarah Hoyt becomes a millionaire, many times over. I haven't read one of her books, but she's Horde, so she's got my vote, regardless.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (e6UQI)

41 There seems to be a subset of humans who's greatest desire is to be beat to death with a lead pipe. What an odd kink but who am I to judge.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (sAmhv)

42 Trannie groomers vs Ukraine groomers

Discuss

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (0fs9V)

43 But I do have a question, what the heck is a TERF?
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (MF3yS)

Stronk powerful wimmenz who won't agree that men are teh wimmenz too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (guGkK)

44 Another milestone on the road to Dystopia.
A spectacularly rich woman can’t even feel safe giving her opinion.
Congratulations, leftists, on making people like me think that the road to freedom goes over all your dead bodies.
Is that what you were trying to accomplish?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (d6Z76)

45 Jesse Singal @jessesingal
Wired's review of Hogwarts Legacy gives it 1/10 because in part because "its real-world harms are impossible to ignore."

The first sentence is literally "Yikes, y'all."

Sounds like WeirdDave

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Frozen Tundra at February 15, 2023 04:48 PM (aA3+G)

46 35 Never play video games, but have read all the books and seen all the movies. I like JK Rowling for what she has created and what she has accomplished for hersef. But I do have a question, what the heck is a TERF?
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (MF3yS)

"Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist," i.e a normal woman.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2023 04:49 PM (PiwSw)

47 mentally-ill delusionaries shriek that a vagina is a ~~social~~ surgical construct

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

48 @glichfield
Even if you're a Hogwarts Legacy fan, read @goodjaina's review and try to hear what it's saying.

Well done Glichy!
Way to dehumanize the Tranny!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 15, 2023 04:49 PM (CE3HD)

49 JK Rowling has written a fantasy series about people who can do things that no real person can do.

He's upset because he's a person pretending to do something no real person can do.

I'm not sure he's thought this through.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 15, 2023 04:49 PM (eOEVl)

50 Raquel Welch R.I.P

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (pohLc)

51 But I do have a question, what the heck is a TERF?

Trans-Exclusionist Radical Feminist.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (Bd6X8)

52 Lessee here, video games and the authoress of children's books.

Taps GAS-meter. Nope. Nuthin'.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (YqDXo)

53 Speaking of offended, I am definitely offended by alphabet people parading their degenerate lifestyle in front of me and my children, and demanding that I abnegate my first amendment right to free speech and call them what they want, and celebrate their debauchery.
. . . .
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Well Honey, you choose to live a deviant lifestyle and piss on everything we taught you. So, don't be surprised at normal society's reaction to you."

*Things I say to my blue haired, very unhappy daughter*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (qoGsy)

54 so JK is your position that females have vaginas or penises further as a follow on you do understand all of this is a logical outcome to the goals you have backed with your donations yes?

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (Lzpvj)

55 So a tumblr review that's presenting itself as a trans Wired video game review

Posted by: Blanco at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (F0+HC)

56 Tortious interference would be on the table if it were me. Lawfare works both ways.

Posted by: Kestrel.986 at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (wyl5F)

57 Why would a trans person be a sex toy reviewer?

(Pause)

Oooohhhh.

Posted by: Mike Stoklasa at February 15, 2023 04:50 PM (zcPgo)

58 Apparently the game is really excellent, for those who are into that sort of thing, which makes this even funnier.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (2tUFv)

59 "I was afraid I'd have to tell 12-year-old me that she couldn't play it, and explain why."

12-year-old you: I'm a what now? Fffffff....

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (KbCG3)

60 But I do have a question, what the heck is a TERF?
Posted by: Eromero at February 15, 2023 04:47 PM (MF3yS)

Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (or something like that).

I think the trans-weirdos use the term to refer to lesbians that don't want to have sex with "trans-women" (i.e., people of penis playing at being women)

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (pJWtt)

61 Imagine all the money psychiatrist's and psychologists can make if they went back to treating Trans as a mental problem.
-

You're looking at it in a limited, simplistic view.

Imagine all the money from treating the family of the person after they destroy bonds between members and eventually kill themselves and everyone blames themselves and each other.

Four or more patients > one patient

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (0fs9V)

62 Take a look at "Lily"...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 17h
Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested for making online bomb threats.

Arkansas 'Woman' Arrested, Accused Of Making Bomb Threats In Mississippi - Breaking911
OXFORD, Miss. – Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...
https://tinyurl.com/yckn2x6v

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (Vwz3I)

63 "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist," i.e a normal woman.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2023 04:49 PM (PiwSw)

Well...a normal LEFTY woman, anyway.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 15, 2023 04:52 PM (DRSnL)

64 I don't care about Rowling. You lay down with the dogs you get up with the fleas. And fleas bite.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 04:52 PM (pohLc)

65 Rowling is still on the Alphabet train so, frankly, I want her to feel this pain.

Its the same thing you wanted to inflict on normies until the Alphabet train got too absurd for even you Ms Rowling.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 04:52 PM (lc5cP)

66 "the author who taught you about accepting yourself,"

Ugh.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at February 15, 2023 04:52 PM (24fqN)

67 Arkansas 'Woman' Arrested, Accused Of Making Bomb Threats In Mississippi - Breaking911
OXFORD, Miss. – Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...
https://tinyurl.com/yckn2x6v
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (Vwz3I)

Smiling for a mugshot. *chef's kiss*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (PiwSw)

68 I like to think that this kind of garbage is going to turn a lot of folks from "keep my head down and avoid the crazies" to "war it is, to hell with this". But I tend to be wrong a lot. Folks have an amazing capacity for talking themselves out of doing the sane and right thing. This century to date is manifest proof.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (OUMaO)

69 She is wealthy enough to get the off social media and stay there. And yet she is exposing herself to this nonsense, imaginary world. Her choice.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (V13WU)

70 What a stupid time to be alive

Posted by: It's me donna at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (bs+z0)

71 Arkansas 'Woman' Arrested, Accused Of Making Bomb Threats In Mississippi - Breaking911
OXFORD, Miss. – Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...
https://tinyurl.com/yckn2x6v

A shame to see such a fine looking woman end up ruining her life. I tell you what if I was a younger man and she wasn't a terrorist well...the sparks would fly.

Posted by: David French at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (lc5cP)

72 Arkansas 'Woman' Arrested, Accused Of Making Bomb Threats In Mississippi - Breaking911
OXFORD, Miss. – Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...

Posted by: andycanuck

That's a man Baby!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (qoGsy)

73 Epic fisking. Glorious cruelty!

I'm sure VDH would approve!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (BpYfr)

74 65 Rowling is still on the Alphabet train so, frankly, I want her to feel this pain.

Its the same thing you wanted to inflict on normies until the Alphabet train got too absurd for even you Ms Rowling.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 04:52 PM (lc5cP)

========

She feels no pain. Every day she gets massively wealthier. Her income streams are absurd.

I think she needles with trannies because she's bored of firing arrows at her servants' heads.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

75 I have to say I'm quite an aficionado of leftist food fights.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

76 "Inside me somewhere, there's a kid who still loves her despite everything."

Shouldn't that read, "Inside me somewhere is a profoundly disturbed freak with significant sexual issues compounded by serious psychiatric illness."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (XIJ/X)

77 Not the first back- peddler

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (xhxe8)

78 Scotland the Morbidly Obese.

*hums into kazoo*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (UQUAY)

79 Related! Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 37m
WATCH: Arkansas state Sen. Matt McKee, at hearing on bill that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors, asks transgender woman if she has a penis
https://tinyurl.com/2skrptun

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (Vwz3I)

80 I wonder just how bad Sodom and Gomorrah were compared to the US and Europe today, because I could see fire and brimstone cleaning this up.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (lTGtQ)

81 65 Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 04:52 PM (lc5cP)

The nice bit of sport is does she win by forcing the He/Shes to self-immolate or do one of the trannys get by on elan and throw a hail mary and actually assault her?

Trannys vs Idiots no matter who wins mankind loses.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (Lzpvj)

82 Raquel's 10,000 BC bikini needs retired to the Fap Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (y/a4v)

83 One would think "Trans" freaks are 90% of the population

Posted by: It's me donna at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (bs+z0)

84 Folks have an amazing capacity for talking themselves out of doing the sane and right thing.

The left figured out how to destroy our leaders and organizations.

Recall into the 80s you can see major anti-abortion protest movements engaged in civil disobedience.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (lc5cP)

85 I've said it before. I will say it again.

The only thing that the anti-bullying crusade of the last decade or so has done is change who the bullies are and give them great power.

We are well on our way to Fahrenheit 451.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (vivhj)

86 Steam has 77,082 reviews of Hogwarts Legacy, and 94% of the reviews are positive, which is a very high number for a Steam review.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (2tUFv)

87 Arkansas 'Woman' Arrested, Accused Of Making Bomb Threats In Mississippi - Breaking911
OXFORD, Miss. – Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...

Jack Black's uglier sister.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (guGkK)

88 Arkansas 'Woman' Arrested, Accused Of Making Bomb Threats In Mississippi - Breaking911
OXFORD, Miss. – Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...
https://tinyurl.com/yckn2x6v
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 04:51 PM (Vwz3I)
_______________

"Mom, Dad, I'd like you to meet ..."

"AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

89 Never play video games, but have read all the books and seen all the movies. I like JK Rowling for what she has created and what she has accomplished for hersef. But I do have a question, what the heck is a TERF?

A lesbian that only wants women with a vagina on the factory build sheet, not as a dealer-installed option.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (ZGrMX)

90 I do feel sympathy for these people. It must be a real bitch to be a mental defective around which the universe spins.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (KbCG3)

91 She feels no pain. Every day she gets massively wealthier. Her income streams are absurd.

I think she needles with trannies because she's bored of firing arrows at her servants' heads.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 15, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

She needs to buy and island and hunt idiots for sport. Plenty of idiots out there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (UQUAY)

92 "Rowling is still on the Alphabet train so, frankly, I want her to feel this pain."

I wish I was feeling the pain her financial portfolio feels. I assume any public engagement she does with critics is just to build buzz. She has FU money cubed; what should she care?

Posted by: Dig gp Must at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (24fqN)

93 86 Steam has 77,082 reviews of Hogwarts Legacy, and 94% of the reviews are positive, which is a very high number for a Steam review.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (2tUFv)

=========

When normies review bomb something, it suffer greatly for it.

When leftist freaks review bomb something...no one notices because they're an army of roughly 12.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)

94 Lily Mestemacher, a 29-year-old from Conway, Arkansas, was arrested by the Conway Police Department for making...
https://tinyurl.com/yckn2x6v

That's Jack Black. Change my mind.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (ZGrMX)

95 I read the Potter books and saw the movies. Enjoyed them as they created a solid universe and told good stories. But that's it. The trannies are off their meds because reality doesn't agree with them. Suggest stronger meds

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (StQQf)

96 The editor in chief of the Wired blog

==

apropos...why do all insane lunatics on social media sport a uke flag ? nevermind....

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 04:57 PM (V13WU)

97 Hang in there. These are just the birth pangs.

There is more to come ...

Posted by: Revelation at February 15, 2023 04:57 PM (WmGrA)

98 The anger towards Rowling is because so many of these nutters were enabled by reading Harry Potter. It's a world where certain people are born special. Where, once they're discovered, they're whisked off into a magical life surrounded by others like them who are separate (and better than) the mundanes who make up the mass of humanity. You dress differently, you speak a different language, you live almost entirely apart... heck, your whole economy is nearly separate.

Compare that to Lord of the Rings, where the emphasis was on the fact that the hobbits weren't special. They were nobodies who wished to live quiet, peaceful lives, but were forced by circumstances into an adventure and heroics, and rose to the challenge.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (wmDcS)

99 Once they get their Communist overlords installed these people will find their fucked up asses in the fertilizer mill.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (pohLc)

100 Raquel Welch R.I.P
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (T4tVD)

101 Game over, the crazies won.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (cMXNt)

102 where weird lonely kids would be told they were special, where kids who had survived abuse were more than just fundamentally broken
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"More than just FUNDAMENTALLY broken"

What?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (iKBwy)

103 Its windy out thar......

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (T4tVD)

104 98 Compare that to Lord of the Rings, where the emphasis was on the fact that the hobbits weren't special. They were nobodies who wished to live quiet, peaceful lives, but were forced by circumstances into an adventure and heroics, and rose to the challenge.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (wmDcS)

========

The celebration of the British yeoman. Samwise Gamgee was just a gardener, not a warrior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 15, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

105 Pssst....Dooooood...I feel yer pain, it must REALLY suck to get hit with the double whammy of "YOU are not a girl, and YOU are not a Wizard" at the same time....to soften any future blows , allow me to point out "Reality is Real", anything else is NOT, fantasy is not, pretend is not, actors are NOT the people they portray, nor are you. Where the voices in your head tell you something different? Those voices are not real. Pollyjuice Potion isn't real, you didn't turn into something or someone else when you read about drinking it...and that "Pain" that has you so contorted is not from a Cruciatis curse, it is all IMAGINARY.
Imagine that.

Posted by: birddog at February 15, 2023 04:59 PM (uAI4S)

106 A lesbian that only wants women with a vagina on the factory build sheet, not as a dealer-installed option.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 15, 2023 04:56 PM (ZGrMX)

But do go with the airbags and heated seats.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 15, 2023 04:59 PM (wmDcS)

107 apropos...why do all insane lunatics on social media sport a uke flag ? nevermind....

Snowden posted a video recently from the 80s of some CIA agent talking about how he planted news items in major newspapers.

A media bubble head responded, "But do we know if that actually affected how people viewed the world?"

Someone else said in response, "Hey I see you have a Uke flag in your profile so apparently the answer is yes"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 04:59 PM (lc5cP)

108 85: We are well on our way to Fahrenheit 451.
Posted by: Just Lily
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And Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, 1984, Hunger Games, etc. Our ruling class views dystopian novels as how too guides

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (sAmhv)

109 I've said it before. I will say it again.

The only thing that the anti-bullying crusade of the last decade or so has done is change who the bullies are and give them great power.
-

That's a great point. It would be interesting to go through history and see if "bullying" was always essentially the same. I'm betting it was, and I'm betting there is a social need for it. I'm serious when I say that, too. I'm betting it helps teach and reinforce norms at the micro level. There's no way anyone could research that and ever work again, of course.

And we took it away, and nature abhors a vacuum.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (0fs9V)

110 She is wealthy enough to get the off social media and stay there. And yet she is exposing herself to this nonsense, imaginary world. Her choice.
Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (V13WU)
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She strikes me as a creator that appreciates and values her fandom. I think she enjoys interacting with them on social media. However, there are obviously perils in doing so.

She doesn't seem like the type to become a social recluse, but if this keeps up, she might do so out of disgust or even out of physical necessity if she is continually threatened.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (BpYfr)

111 I'm trying to recall the last time I heard "Dude Looks Like a Lady" on the radio. Been awhile, its probably banned now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (lTGtQ)

112 Once they get their Communist overlords installed these people will find their fucked up asses in the fertilizer mill.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Yep. And my Give-a-Fuck meter hasn't worked in a decade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (y/a4v)

113 You lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.

So I don't give a crap about Rowling. She's part of the problem. Looks like she's taken that first backtracking step that she'll be supporting trannies in another six months.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (OY44N)

114 blue on blue destruction. encourage this. as much as possible.

Posted by: another sock in the drawer! at February 15, 2023 05:01 PM (89Sog)

115 apropos...why do all insane lunatics on social media sport a uke flag ? nevermind....

The strongest argument against supporting Ukraine is the people supporting Ukraine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 05:01 PM (2tUFv)

116 Sometimes I think, people who say "literal violence" have not experienced such. Or have not remembered well enough. Just a hunch.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 15, 2023 05:01 PM (NW9xb)

117 the real damage is done to the allegedly professional critic class.

the only real sign of a good IP is the delta between the critic score and the customer score.

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 15, 2023 05:01 PM (MLrvz)

118 As an avid gamer, I saw Hogwarts Legacy coming and though "Well that's going to sell like hotcakes, but Harry Potter isn't really my jam."

Then the bullshit started happening, and I reflex bought the thing mostly to tell the Woke to piss off.

And since I've already gotten it, I've played it. Why not? I mean, if I was going to pick a fictional wizard world to play in, I'd prefer the Dresdenfiles universe, but whatever.

This game deserves all the praise it can get and more. Its absolutely gorgeous, the internal systems are fun, and its clear the people making it loved the IP.

For some people, this thing is going to be their Witcher 3. Civilization, Doom The defining moment of gaming for them for years. And it is definitely going to set the bar for the next few years.

And the fact that it is going to succeed despite the woke, is just icing on the cake. Rowling should have just gone to sleep on her pile of money, and not given them an inch.

Posted by: FrozenTech at February 15, 2023 05:01 PM (ESZMY)

119 Steam has 77,082 reviews of Hogwarts Legacy, and 94% of the reviews are positive, which is a very high number for a Steam review.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (2tUFv)

Is that also a large number of reviews?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (XIJ/X)

120 And Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, 1984, Hunger Games, etc. Our ruling class views dystopian novels as how too guides
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (sAmhv)
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After watching Zardoz last night, it showed a blueprint of what the WEF hopes to achieve -- immortality and a life of leisurely pursuits for a select few while the lower echelons are encouraged to remove themselves from life, for the good of the planet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (BpYfr)

121 A lesbian that only wants women with a vagina on the factory build sheet, not as a dealer-installed option.

We went from "the love that dare not speak its name" to "the love that wouldn't shut up" to "those f*cking cis-h8ters need to sip my ladypenis" in just about 10 years.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (lc5cP)

122 We are well on our way to Fahrenheit 451.
Posted by: Just Lily
-------------------

I thought you were just arrested?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (OY44N)

123 Compare that to Lord of the Rings, where the emphasis was on the fact that the hobbits weren't special. They were nobodies who wished to live quiet, peaceful lives, but were forced by circumstances into an adventure and heroics, and rose to the challenge.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 15, 2023 04:58 PM (wmDcS)

that's why "The Scouring of the Shire" was my favorite chapter in the whole book. They thought they were done, but, nope, one more thing to take care of.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (UQUAY)

124 The anger towards Rowling is because so many of these nutters were enabled by reading Harry Potter. It's a world where certain people are born special.
-

His midochlorian levels is off the charts!

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (0fs9V)

125 The celebration of the British yeoman. Samwise Gamgee was just a gardener, not a warrior.
____

And became an even better gardner when he came back. Settled down with his sweetheart Rosie and had a bunch of kids.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 15, 2023 05:03 PM (fs1hN)

126 She is wealthy enough to get the off social media and stay there. And yet she is exposing herself to this nonsense, imaginary world. Her choice.
Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 04:53 PM (V13WU)
_______________

She's a woman, and a lot of women are very sensitive to social pressure. Now most men in the same situation would look at their bank balance and tell critics to pound sand up their asses, because they don't care whether other people hate them. See, e.g., George Soros.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 05:03 PM (YqDXo)

127 and when they all go broke and they lose their "jobs" they'll whine about that too. meanwhile the normal people are like "learn to latte, bitch"

Posted by: joe fingerblaster at February 15, 2023 05:03 PM (3TalN)

128 Gamers game. That's what they do. And they've long ago realized it's best to ignore 'journalists' opinions. They get better reviews from Steam's rating systems or Reddit.

Never kneel. You'll never get up, JK.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 15, 2023 05:04 PM (G0bXQ)

129

Raquel Welch passes away at 82. RIP

In the sidebar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 15, 2023 05:04 PM (x0n13)

130 "Pleeeease don't murder me."

-- J. Garcia

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 15, 2023 05:04 PM (iKBwy)

131 so, that's it. there's no mute button for these lunatics?

Rowling can make bizillion dollars on this game and it's still controversial? We have to pretend that any dollar not made is a protest dollar?

the lefts' total and utter scorched earth, total war against normalcy and sanity should...at some point...have a backlash?

these leftists spend their lives complaining that God...instead of gifting them glorious western civilization and lifting the heathen poor out of the worst of poverty and savage nature instead complain that "you know, acksullay, that was literal violence against marginalized peoples" just fucking stop and leave.

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 15, 2023 05:05 PM (MLrvz)

132 Most women are hopeless slaves to social pressure. It is pitiable.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 05:05 PM (pohLc)

133 or, at this point, I'll leave. is there any country left on earth to go to?

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 15, 2023 05:05 PM (MLrvz)

134 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 05:03 PM (YqDXo)

What we call FU money.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (OY44N)

135 127 and when they all go broke and they lose their "jobs" they'll whine about that too. meanwhile the normal people are like "learn to latte, bitch"

////

we covered this earlier...these whiners are the hellspawn of rich liberals. couldn't care less, just satanic dilettantes

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (MLrvz)

136 Hahahaha, good.

Be an ally, JK. Pass the mic. And then suck that ladydick.

Watching her get eaten alive by the Monster Babies she helped create is pretty suh-weeeet.

I hope now that the Monster Babies smell the blood of apology, they give her the full treatment and completely cancel dat wrinkly old ass.

Lie down with commies, get fleas, gurl. It's not fair for you to advocate the Jacobin way of life for decades, while only your perceived enemies get to suffer for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (oINRc)

137 "Mom, Dad, I'd like you to meet ..."

"AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!"
-----------
Guess Who's Cumming to Dinner 2!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (Vwz3I)

138 So I don't give a crap about Rowling. She's part of the problem. Looks like she's taken that first backtracking step that she'll be supporting trannies in another six months.
Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (OY44N)

Watch for the release of Harry Potter and the Weeping Mangina, coming to a bookstore near you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (guGkK)

139 I do feel sympathy for these people. It must be a real bitch to be a mental defective around which the universe spins.

I don't. No more than I pity a rabid dog.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (9KRwM)

140 After watching Zardoz last night, it showed a blueprint of what the WEF hopes to achieve -- immortality and a life of leisurely pursuits for a select few while the lower echelons are encouraged to remove themselves from life, for the good of the planet.
___

Altered Carbon is similar. First season was in the film noir style, not bad. I heard 2nd season sucked (change of actors and premise).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (fs1hN)

141 She strikes me as a creator that appreciates and values her fandom. I think she enjoys interacting with them on social media. However, there are obviously perils in doing so.

She doesn't seem like the type to become a social recluse, but if this keeps up, she might do so out of disgust or even out of physical necessity if she is continually threatened.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (BpYfr)

I don't know. It is possible. What is also possible is that she has a coterie of publicists and handlers who decided that she has to be on "the socials". I mean she is paying them to keep her in the news and all, because lets face it , Harry Potter kids grew up, wizards got stale and Superheroes are it.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (V13WU)

142 I would like to strangle the next person that says "unchartered waters".

Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (iayUP)

143 Separate and apart from whatever the tranny's position is, it's writing is abhorrent. People who write this way have no chance of convincing me of anything.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 15, 2023 05:07 PM (sWM8x)

144 Most women are hopeless slaves to social pressure. It is pitiable.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 05:05 PM (pohLc)

Pitiable? Or did you misspell profitable.

Posted by: The Democrat Party at February 15, 2023 05:07 PM (guGkK)

145 >>> 85 I've said it before. I will say it again.

The only thing that the anti-bullying crusade of the last decade or so has done is change who the bullies are and give them great power.

We are well on our way to Fahrenheit 451.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 15, 2023 04:55 PM (vivhj)

>>> 109

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That's a great point. It would be interesting to go through history and see if "bullying" was always essentially the same. I'm betting it was, and I'm betting there is a social need for it. I'm serious when I say that, too. I'm betting it helps teach and reinforce norms at the micro level. There's no way anyone could research that and ever work again, of course.

And we took it away, and nature abhors a vacuum.
Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (0fs9V)

Expecting immigrants into the US to assimilate into our culture is RAYCISS.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (llON8)

146 The company that made this game is new. Rare they would be so successful - I wonder if the actual developers are people known in the video game world?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (lc5cP)

147 Is that also a large number of reviews?

Europa Universalis IV, which has been out for a decade, and is the uber-game for people who like extraordinarily complex historical simulations, has 78K reviews and 76% favorable.

So Hogwarts has picked up as many reviews in a few days as the extremely-well-regarded Europa Universalis IV has gotten in a decade.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (2tUFv)

148 that's why "The Scouring of the Shire" was my favorite chapter in the whole book. They thought they were done, but, nope, one more thing to take care of.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 05:02 PM (UQUAY)
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That, too, is one of my favorite chapters. It's a reminder that war touches the folks back home and it's important to take care of our communities. It's also another example of the illusion of power evil wields over the hearts of sentient beings (hobbits in this case, but also men, dwarves, and even Elves).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (BpYfr)

149 I hope the GOP helps out with a subpoena...

@WashTimes 2m

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz snubs Sen. Bernie Sanders’ request to testify over coffee chain’s anti-union moves

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (XF9Gj)

150 Most women are hopeless slaves to social pressure. It is pitiable.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 05:05 PM (pohLc)
____________

Not really. My conjecture is that it's biological in origin. For most of human history a woman's life was dominated by pregnancy, child bearing, and child rearing, all things that require social support. A woman on her own wouldn't survive a week, so being attuned to social interactions was a survival skill.

That's my guess.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (YqDXo)

151 She writes fairy tales. Who cares about any of this?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (CYNYK)

152 I would like to strangle the next person that says "unchartered waters".
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:06 PM (iayUP)

How about unexplored territory?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:09 PM (OY44N)

153 or, at this point, I'll leave. is there any country left on earth to go to?
Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy

Da!

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 15, 2023 05:09 PM (iKBwy)

154 Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz snubs Sen. Bernie Sanders’ request to testify over coffee chain’s anti-union moves
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (XF9Gj)

That will ruffle Bernie's hair...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2023 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

155 he's a woman, and a lot of women are very sensitive to social pressure. Now most men in the same situation would look at their bank balance and tell critics to pound sand up their asses, because they don't care whether other people hate them. See, e.g., George Soros.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 05:03 PM (YqDXo)

lol

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:09 PM (V13WU)

156 Rowling is pro-trans, or was. She committed the sin of putting rape victim's trauma above trans-woman acceptance. Meaning, she didn't think that a rape victim should be considered a bigot if she felt unsafe around large male bodies and deep voices.

I'm starting to think that it's possible to identify who really does have gender dysphoria even if they look like a craggy old man with a wig, they're understanding and nice and think about OTHER people and how they must be feeling.

Imagine being a "woman" and your reaction to a rape victim isn't compassion or understanding, but anger that she freaks out hearing a baritone from a looming figure who could break her in half without trying.

Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:09 PM (BD/yx)

157 I started into the content and quickly realized I know nothing about any of this subject other than trans people are typically annoying.

Posted by: DanMan at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (DB6tu)

158 I saw Yikes open for Tears for Fears at The Forum in '83.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (44ww/)

159 151 Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (CYNYK)

rather she wrote tales for fairies....

similar not the same.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (Lzpvj)

160 Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (CYNYK)

So, we should only care about people being bullied and threatened with death if they write non fiction?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (D+F6R)

161 Is that also a large number of reviews?

Europa Universalis IV, which has been out for a decade, and is the uber-game for people who like extraordinarily complex historical simulations, has 78K reviews and 76% favorable.

So Hogwarts has picked up as many reviews in a few days as the extremely-well-regarded Europa Universalis IV has gotten in a decade.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (2tUFv)
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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been out since 2011 and has received 170,000 reviews in 12 years, compared to Hogwart's Legacy, which is over a third of the way there in less than a week.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:11 PM (BpYfr)

162 So Hogwarts has picked up as many reviews in a few days as the extremely-well-regarded Europa Universalis IV has gotten in a decade.

BTW, Steam reviews indicate how many hours you've played the game. The tradition with Europa Universalis IV is that after you've played the game for 2,000 or 3,000 hours, you post a review simply stating: "It's OK."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 05:11 PM (2tUFv)

163 She writes fairy tales. Who cares about any of this?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (CYNYK)
________________

The fairies?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

164 So, we should only care about people being bullied and threatened with death if they write non fiction?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (D+F6R)

You know the term Strawman?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (OY44N)

165 Rowling has broken the cardinal rule of dealing with these people. She's engaging with them. Soon she'll give in to small demands about how she phrases things, and once she does that she'll be headed down a linguistic road she can't exit without looking like the asshole.

She's right about trans activists erasing women, and her best strategy would would be to refuse to budge.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (wGeit)

166 She writes fairy tales. Who cares about any of this?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (CYNYK)

people who found that appealing are now in their 30s ? so , good question.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (V13WU)

167 160 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (D+F6R)

You remember Timmy Treadwell ma'am when I brought up Grizzly Man in my darker hours?

If a person takes up juggling chainsaws while lighting themselves on fire for a hobby am I to always rush in with the fire extinguisher and the trauma bag?

Like Gramps said, "you have to let stupidity be its own reward."

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (Lzpvj)

168 132 Most women are hopeless slaves to social pressure. It is pitiable.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 15, 2023 05:05 PM (pohLc)
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Actually I believe it has been an evolutionary plus that had an important purpose. She had to run the family and enforce social norms with the other women, while their mates were off hunting and defending.

Men need to step up and defend women when they are attacked like this, but that isn't happening. Men have been cowed into submission by these cry-bullies because men have been conditioned to back off at the sight of tears.

It's a mess but you can't blame it all on the girls.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (vivhj)

169 BTW, Steam reviews indicate how many hours you've played the game. The tradition with Europa Universalis IV is that after you've played the game for 2,000 or 3,000 hours, you post a review simply stating: "It's OK."

Of course with Paradox games there are a bunch of people that have put that many hours into EACH of their games.

Note, its called Europa Universalis IV since its the fourth one. All of their other big name properties have 2 or 3 sequels as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (lc5cP)

170 Game is breaking record sales in UK.

Posted by: A person afraid of the LGBTQ lobby at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (5DTn7)

171 158 I saw Yikes open for Tears for Fears at The Forum in '83.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 15, 2023 05:10 PM (44ww/)

IIRC there actually was a new wave band called Yipes circa 1979-1980. Being a college radio music director and DJ, Remember that stuff.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (x0n13)

172 So the trannies won’t be buying the game? Sales will dip by .000003%

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (u73oe)

173 I find it rather weird reading about all of these trans people who seem to think that the message of the HP books was that they were actually not mentally ill because they wanted to cut their dick off or have someone cobble them up a field expedient vajayjay.

I mean, it's not like the book continually refers to wizards and witches and applies those descriptors in the books to obviously male and female characters. Yes, the books follow a long-standing trope in writing where the central character turns out to be the chosen one who is special because of their bloodline, their abilities, or some prophecy that they're supposed to fulfill.

There's a distinct lack of Western literature in the last 2000 years wherein the central character finds out he's really supposed to cut his dick off and get a bolt on set of boobs.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (wb1YC)

174 "Hogwarts Legacy Launch Sales Break 22-Year-Old Record, Demolish Elden Ring"

No one outside of 0.0000001% of the population care about this "anti-trans" nonsense.

Posted by: gimpymcgimpo at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (vh5dR)

175 Allowing men convicted of violent or sexual crimes claim to be female to be imprisoned in women's prisons is beyond unacceptable. Particularly the cases (case?) we've heard of where it was a juvenile facility!

My solution is simple. Transgender activists insist that transgendered people are not predators. I'm willing to accept that. Therefore, anyone who IS a predator doesn't get to claim to be transgendered.

Easy peasey and simple as pie.

Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:14 PM (BD/yx)

176 In the long ago people would read dozens of works deeper then Harry Potter in their youth.

And yet we have a significant portion of people under 30 who at best have only read that one.

No wonder the yutes know no history, philosophy, or theology...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:14 PM (lc5cP)

177 151 She writes fairy tales. Who cares about any of this?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:08 PM (CYNYK)

This attitude is why conservatives have been losing the culture war at every turn. She may write about faeries, but her books, fictional as they are, shape the minds of children at impressionable ages. Those kids are going to be voters in a few years.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 15, 2023 05:14 PM (wGeit)

178 These weirdos really get off on wrapping their viciousness in victimhood

Posted by: UGAdawg at February 15, 2023 05:15 PM (tRd71)

179
or, at this point, I'll leave. is there any country left on earth to go to?
Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy

Not where you can enjoy the absolute standard of living you have here, unless you're exceedingly wealthy. If you can look past that you'll be fine in a lot of pretty cool places.

As long as you can overcome the language barrier (doable), and the fact that no country on earth except the US allows you to just waltz on in because you don't love it back home (more of a challenge).

But given that this is no longer a country that wants me, if I had a choice (I don't), I'd be out of this bitch like a shot. Czech Republic or Israel are high up on the list. But many options are available.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:15 PM (oINRc)

180 "Hogwarts Legacy Launch Sales Break 22-Year-Old Record, Demolish Elden Ring"

///

if this is real, then gamergate 3.4 continues to destroy gheywoke, riotgrrrrlboss journalism. what's the point?

just go find your fav youtuber and see his review

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 15, 2023 05:15 PM (MLrvz)

181 No one outside of 0.0000001% of the population care about this "anti-trans" nonsense.

***

Think you're missing a few more zeros.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 15, 2023 05:15 PM (wb1YC)

182 TERFs are women that think only real women are women.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 15, 2023 05:16 PM (2PcUr)

183 Feel-good story of the day: "PALMDALE, Calif. - A man is dead after trying to steal a catalytic converter from a Ford SUV while the driver was inside, asleep. She woke up and backed up over him."

Posted by: Dig gp Must at February 15, 2023 05:16 PM (24fqN)

184 I looked up the latest Call of Duty game on Steam - which is probably the most well know, most mainstream game out there and after six months it has 180K reviews.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (lc5cP)

185 Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:12 PM (Lzpvj)

I don't see what Timothy Treadwell has to do with the books of J.K. Rowling, and not being an expert on her political opinions I have no idea what her views on other things Maybe she's evolved. But "who cares? She writes about fairies" seems to be a tad dismissive. Good thing Tolkien and C.S. Lewis aren't alive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (D+F6R)

186 177 Posted by: Ace's liver at February 15, 2023 05:14 PM (wGeit)

and they are magic thinking cargo cultist economic retards....

I get what you are saying, I even agree to a point I very seriously think the anti-bullying campaigns, the eradication of parents teaching their kids to read with Grimm's Fairy Tales, and generation participation trophy are why we are here....

all that said there is no set of circumstances in play that will ever make her an ally nor have her reexamine her morals.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (Lzpvj)

187 There's a distinct lack of Western literature in the last 2000 years wherein the central character finds out he's really supposed to cut his dick off and get a bolt on set of boobs.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 15, 2023 05:13 PM (wb1YC)
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Yet another reason why Wester literature is being "decanonized." For the teachers in K-12, this is a problem that can only be fixed by removing books about classic stories and replacing them with updated, diverse stories that relate to the tranny youth of today. Seriously.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (BpYfr)

188 Rest assured when some asshat says "we're in uncharted waters" you can be certain we're not only on a very well worn path they were repeatedly warned "don't fucking do that, and here's why" over and over and over and they fucking did it anyway because they are idiots.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (tmARj)

189 You know jack and shit about my attitude. My comment was regarding the hue and cry surrounding this nothingness - that takes up the bandwidth of people everywhere - when the world is collapsing. But you do you liver.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (CYNYK)

190 TERFs are women that think only real women are women.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

So would I be a TERM' then?

It is so hard to keep up.

* HeyOhhhhhhhh! *

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (qoGsy)

191 But given that this is no longer a country that wants me, if I had a choice (I don't), I'd be out of this bitch like a shot. Czech Republic or Israel are high up on the list. But many options are available.

Israel went more Mengele on the clot shot then the US did. I wouldn't want to live there.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:18 PM (lc5cP)

192 She writes about fairies and fags. I care less about this than the Stuporbowl.

Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:18 PM (iayUP)

193 >> calling for women to be decapitated and eaten.

The Scottish protestors have definitely eat women-sized portions.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 15, 2023 05:18 PM (uWF4x)

194 Men need to step up and defend women when they are attacked like this, but that isn't happening.
-

Same reason no one can research bullying that would show it is vital to appropriate societal development.

That man stepping up to defend this billionaire would also need to be wealthy, because he'd l never work again.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:19 PM (0fs9V)

195 ^ eaten

Damnit.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 15, 2023 05:19 PM (uWF4x)

196 Of course with Paradox games there are a bunch of people that have put that many hours into EACH of their games.

For me:

Europa Universalis IV (Renaissance) 1,200 hours
Hearts of Iron IV (WWII) 1,300 hours
Stellaris (Science Fiction) 800 hours

I'm a lightweight, compared to a lot of people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 15, 2023 05:19 PM (2tUFv)

197 Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (CYNYK)

I simply asked a question.

Not real fond of liver unless it's served with bacon and onions.
Have a good day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:19 PM (D+F6R)

198 "Hogwarts Legacy Launch Sales Break 22-Year-Old Record, Demolish Elden Ring"
_____

A huge majority is on our side, let's demonstrate our power by boycotting one of the most popular literary franchises in history. We'll be stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love us and despair!

Well, that didn't work out exactly as we wanted it to.

Posted by: Union of Transsexuals and their Allies at February 15, 2023 05:19 PM (fs1hN)

199 I'll say it again and I know many disagree, but the US on its worse day is better place to live than any other country. For now.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (OY44N)

200 If she had any balls she would write a story about some wizards that got tired of this shit and started throwing lighting bolts.

Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (iayUP)

201 178 These weirdos really get off on wrapping their viciousness in victimhood
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 15, 2023 05:15 PM (tRd71)

I think they do.

Understand that I have trans friends and family members who I love dearly who are wonderful people who are understanding of what is going on with them and I'd like them treated well.

But this BS about Rowling is hurting them. It doesn't help anyone. It truly does seem to be vicious people who enjoy the excuse for their viciousness. And you know, figure this too. Female to Male transgender is by far more common than Male to Female. Do we EVER hear from trans-men?

Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (BD/yx)

202 I liked the Harry Potter books... I don't have to like the Author to enjoy them...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (bs+z0)

203 I often have weird dreams wherein I am trying to get somewhere, but keep getting diverted by badly designed staircases, or abrupt blank walls. Often this is coupled with me trying to call my wife on my phone, but my phone has been corrupted and I can't get a hold of her to tell her that all is well.

Turns out I feel the same gut-wrenching frustration when I am awake.

Fucking clown world.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (UQUAY)

204 185 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (D+F6R)

Sometimes a person works hard to and deserves to be eaten by the bear.

Further I did not dismiss her for writing fairy tales or tales of fairies I mocked her writing tales for fairies.

Not the same thing, at all.

If you'd like to have an extensive literary discussion on lewis, tolkien, anthony, or leiber at any point I am game...let's throw in mallory as well.

The myths and values we allow our children to have their tea steeped in determines tomorrow.

We allowed a lunatic communist symp to form the kids' values-frankly I AM THRILLED she gets to face her "students."

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (Lzpvj)

205 "The game industry is far queerer than most people realize. All the things you know and love about your favorite games were made by queer people."

Guessing this goes a long way to explaining why games from Western developers have sucked for the last decade.

What shim\sher fails to say is that these "queers" were hired for very much the same reasons that the writers at Marvel and DC were hired. Damn sure wasn't merit.

Posted by: Kitchener Lesley at February 15, 2023 05:21 PM (CgQvH)

206 TERFs are women that think only real women are women.

****

I seem to recall a lot of people trying to tell the radical feminists about the slippery slope they were on.

Spoiler alert: the slippery slope turned into a cliff.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 15, 2023 05:21 PM (wb1YC)

207 I often have weird dreams wherein I am trying to get somewhere, but keep getting diverted by badly designed staircases, or abrupt blank walls. Often this is coupled with me trying to call my wife on my phone, but my phone has been corrupted and I can't get a hold of her to tell her that all is well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

You're eating pizza right before bed, aren't you?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 05:21 PM (qoGsy)

208 People are buying the game in part because they are pushing back against trannies and censorship.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:21 PM (D+F6R)

209 133 or, at this point, I'll leave. is there any country left on earth to go to?
Posted by: sockamster,
--------------

No

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 05:21 PM (sAmhv)

210 I want to purchase the maximum possible copies of the game so I can inflict the maximum possible imaginary, non-occurring, entirely fictional harm on the LBGYQWTFBBQgofuckyourselves "community."

Posted by: Sick of these sick fucks at February 15, 2023 05:22 PM (7b+Kq)

211 I just can't sympathize with her. She is part of the problem. Gay wizard ? why ? why do kids need to entertain thoughts about ghey wizards ?

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:22 PM (V13WU)

212 Posted by: Pug Mahon

You're eating pizza right before bed, aren't you?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 15, 2023 05:21 PM (qoGsy)

Naw. Just nachos with lots of jalapenos.

why?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (UQUAY)

213 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:15 PM (oINRc)

Why don't you have a choice? You always have a choice .

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (OY44N)

214 Fuck these fools with a blow torch. . . .right up their dirt chutes. . . . .(can't say front hole, since who knows who really has a real one)

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Insane Liberals (redundant) at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (5DfsO)

215 but trans is a bridge too far for her ? ok then.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (V13WU)

216 Do any of these fuckheads even try to be vaguely feminine.
Posted by: ejochs

Yes, sSaw one in the VA, asked the guy working with *him* and found out he was a tranny.
Heels, dress, makeup and the body was blockish; but, not obviously male.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (CE3HD)

217 Posted by: It's me donna at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (bs+z0

But it's taking up too much bandwidth to discuss fairies, elves and magicians in fictional books and trannies freaking out about J.K. Rowling.. There are more important things to discuss/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (D+F6R)

218 Gay Wizard > Fruity Magician

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (CZBWZ)

219 I liked the Harry Potter books... I don't have to like the Author to enjoy them...
Posted by: It's me donna

There's a fanfic rewrite of the whole story called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationally. I rate it even better than Rowling's original. Amazing, intelligent writing. She liked it too.

hpmor.com

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 15, 2023 05:24 PM (iKBwy)

220 "We make more by cutting off the dicks and then providing medical care to the wound for decades later."
-Hospitals
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Brought to you by Pfizer.

Posted by: Pfizer at February 15, 2023 05:24 PM (vcOmj)

221
Israel went more Mengele on the clot shot then the US did. I wouldn't want to live there.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:18 PM (lc5cP)

I like Israel a lot. But, yes... there are many things I don't like about it, too.

But it's a much easier legal path to citizenship than I'll find in most places. So it may become necessary in the long run. I've got it as a contingency plan... even if I have to flee overland to Mexico first, I can probably make it. When things here go *really* dark.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:24 PM (oINRc)

222 Understand that I have trans friends and family members who I love dearly who are wonderful people who are understanding of what is going on with them and I'd like them treated well.
-

All they have to do is mind their own business and understand that they are outliers and Americans are generally very polite.

Ignoring them is being very nice in most circumstances.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:24 PM (0fs9V)

223 Gay Wizard > Fruity Magician
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (CZBWZ)

Trans Fairy > Gay Wizard > Fruity Magician

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:24 PM (V13WU)

224 Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (Lzpvj)

So everybody who likes J.K. Rowling's books is a fairy or a trans supporter?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (D+F6R)

225 ..Fuck these fools with a blow torch. . . .right up their dirt chutes. . . . .(can't say front hole, since who knows who really has a real one). Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Insane Liberals (redundant) at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (5DfsO)

Use that torch long enough, 10 minutes or so, and they will. All of them will.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (e6UQI)

226 182 TERFs are women that think only real women are women.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 15, 2023 05:16 PM (2PcUr)

TERFs are radical lesbian feminists who actually do hate men. Like, no woman actually likes sex with men and we're just coerced into it by society, etc. OF COURSE they don't accept trans-women. But these nutbars are calling all women, even women who like men and even women who would be on their side 100%, like Rowling, TERFS because it's a bad name and everyone is supposed to pretend that humans aren't sexually binary and we're only "assigned" sex at birth and our bodies aren't different.

Except if our bodies aren't different, why is it necessary to change your body? Hmm?

Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (BD/yx)

227 215 Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (V13WU)

Yup...glee is great, screw traditional males, I'll make the redhead black, of course that other kid was gay the whole time...this one is a tranny but don't YOU DARE here in the real world put one of the freaks I enabled in a position of academic power, or in the wrong bathroom stall!

//JK Rowling

Ah I see so every other pile of shit smells sweet JK but that THAT turd in particular is one scent too far?

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (Lzpvj)

228 Turns out I feel the same gut-wrenching frustration when I am awake.

Fucking clown world.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw

I have the same frustrating tech dreams too, Pug.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (iKBwy)

229 211 I just can't sympathize with her. She is part of the problem. Gay wizard ? why ? why do kids need to entertain thoughts about ghey wizards ?
Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:22 PM (V13WU)

So they can be properly groomed to believe that sexual attention from old men toward 12-year-old boys is normal and healthy, of course.

Posted by: I mean, duh at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (7b+Kq)

230 What would these snowflakes do if they had to read The Jungle Book?

Oh, I forgot, we already got Megan Fox at PJM's meltdown.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (TgBWG)

231 all that said there is no set of circumstances in play that will ever make her an ally nor have her reexamine her morals.
Posted by: sven

Neo-Maoists know they've won when you try to explain yourself or negotiate with their demands.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (XF9Gj)

232 Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (BD/yx)

No because they are trying to act like men.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (OY44N)

233
Why don't you have a choice? You always have a choice .
Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:23 PM (OY44N)

I suppose. Don't care to uproot part of my family and abandon the rest at this time. Some things are more important than the country you live in. But that could change, and likely will. Don't really want it to be the country I get murdered in, either.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (oINRc)

234 I liked the Harry Potter books... I don't have to like the Author to enjoy them...
Posted by: It's me donna

Yup, I read them to my kids.
No obvious wokeness and no alphabet soup, just a well written tale of good and evil.

Later J.K. came out and said Dumbledore was male-attracted; but, it didn't come out in the Potter books.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 15, 2023 05:27 PM (CE3HD)

235 224 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (D+F6R)

She has enough money to literally fund a space program and interferes in politics with her money and social influence.

One of the liberating things that the last year has taught me if nothing else is I am allowed to give as much a fuck about the status of the great folk's personal woes as they give about the culture I have spent a lifetime defending.

None.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:27 PM (Lzpvj)

236 149 I hope the GOP helps out with a subpoena...

@WashTimes 2m

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz snubs Sen. Bernie Sanders’ request to testify over coffee chain’s anti-union moves
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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I'm very sorry this is happening to you. Good luck

-based politician. (Don't remember who said it)

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 05:27 PM (sAmhv)

237 I have decided to buy the game and play it, even though Potter-type Wizards isn't what I normally pay attention to. Because fuck those whiny obese purple-haired faggots, that's why.

Posted by: A Night Elf Mohawk at February 15, 2023 05:27 PM (gaSe6)

238 Singapore is nice but they like their guests to leave. Same with Japan. Hungary, Poland, Greece, Croatia (Dalmatian coast)?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 15, 2023 05:28 PM (fs1hN)

239 "The game industry is far queerer than most people realize. All the things you know and love about your favorite games were made by queer people."

***

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The first God of War game was released in 2005 and had a scene in there where Kratos, in order to complete one of the tasks in his quest, had to knock the bottom out of Aphrodite in her bedroom.

Contrast that with 15 years later with The Last of Us 2 released in 2020.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 15, 2023 05:28 PM (wb1YC)

240 231 Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (XF9Gj)

I'm just tired of designated heroes and villains, it is evidence of weak writing.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:28 PM (Lzpvj)

241 Now wait a minute. I'm a supporter of Faries, elves, and magical little people of all creeds. Except the Leprechauns. Fk the Leprechauns.

Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:28 PM (iayUP)

242 Sidebar on old letters cleared up things on old manuscripts I always wondered about

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2023 05:28 PM (xhxe8)

243 One thing I can say is that Brit, or I guess UK actors are consummate professionals and a joy to watch.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (V13WU)

244 Ain't that right , TJM ?

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (V13WU)

245 My worst nightmare is I'm in a gunfight or possible gun fight and my weapon is firing its bullet at only 100 fps and the bad guys have AKs .

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (OY44N)

246 So everybody who likes J.K. Rowling's books is a fairy or a trans supporter?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:25 PM (D+F6R)

Yes. That is exactly what Sven meant.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (XIJ/X)

247 241 killin' me. . . . . .props. . . reveling in all things Hordenian

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Insane Liberals (redundant) at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (5DfsO)

248
All they have to do is mind their own business and understand that they are outliers and Americans are generally very polite.

Ignoring them is being very nice in most circumstances.
Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:24 PM (0fs9V)

And they DO, which is my point. But then there are these complete assholes who want to saunter around women's locker rooms waging their dong and demanding that no one complain or else and everyone gets very RIGHTLY pissed off at them and their complete perviness and then everyone trashes on transgendered people.

Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (BD/yx)

249 There's a fanfic rewrite of the whole story called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationally. I rate it even better than Rowling's original. Amazing, intelligent writing. She liked it too.

hpmor.com
Posted by: Taq

It is good; but, it is a bit shorter!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (CE3HD)

250 Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:27 PM (Lzpvj)

Of course. Who's disputing that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (D+F6R)

251 I am not a huge fan of Leprechauns. Because Irish....NO IRISH !

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:30 PM (V13WU)

252 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (XIJ/X

Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:30 PM (D+F6R)

253 Huh. I just realized what "in the closet" was /is.

"in the closet" is being decent and respectful of others and not forcing your bullsh*t on everyone else. And everyone already knew, but they were also being polite because that's what Americans used to do. When you are no longer "in the closet" it makes everyone else cater to your crazy.

In the closet was part of Heritage America, too, I think.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:30 PM (0fs9V)

254 "In the closet was part of Heritage America, too, I think."

Now they burst out of the closet in a cloud of confetti and froth.

Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:31 PM (iayUP)

255 246 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (XIJ/X)

Absolutely it is also why in the course of my professional scholarship I have read Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Hitler, and Tojo as well.

*or*

I am simply saying "not my circus and not my monkey."

If I spend all my time sticking little sven into light sockets, I should not be shocked when eventually one is live.

JK found the live socket.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (Lzpvj)

256 One thing I can say is that Brit, or I guess UK actors are consummate professionals and a joy to watch.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:29 PM (V13WU)

I think the Brits treat acting as a craft...perhaps even a trade, and they train for it.

American actors seem too obsessed with their emotions and egos...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (XIJ/X)

257 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:26 PM (oINRc)

If you believe it to be that bad and dangerous wouldn't you be doing your family right by re-locating?

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (OY44N)

258 254 "In the closet was part of Heritage America, too, I think."

Now they burst out of the closet in a cloud of confetti and froth.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:31 PM (iayUP)

Glitter. Lots of glitter.

Posted by: They've ruined glitter at February 15, 2023 05:33 PM (7b+Kq)

259 "Glitter. Lots of glitter.
Posted by: They've ruined glitter "

It's in the froth.

Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:33 PM (iayUP)

260
Valentine's Day's over
Time to go on a bender
From listening about lunatics'
Imaginary gender

Happy Day After Valentine's Day Everyone!!!

Here's a bowl of chalky-tasting Mutilated Candy Wangs and Amputated Boobs for Y'all.

Eat up!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 15, 2023 05:33 PM (KLPy8)

261 I'm very sorry this is happening to you. Good luck

-based politician. (Don't remember who said it)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 15, 2023 05:27 PM (sAmhv)

IIRC, Sen. Tom Cotton

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 15, 2023 05:34 PM (ZSK0i)

262 Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (Lzpvj)

I was being sarcastic, although I do understand your point.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:34 PM (XIJ/X)

263
I don't think Harry Potter fans are necessarily queer or trans. I do think if they're over the age of about 15, they have a problem.

If they're grown adults, that's a *bad* problem.

If they're grown adults who can get worked into a frothy lather because the author of the children's book they still love for some reason doesn't agree with them about dickchopping? That's an irreparable problem. That's a total loss of a human mind.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:34 PM (oINRc)

264 256 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (XIJ/X)

English actors getting *ahem* groomed in the craft go hungry and have to be rather exceptional to make a living at it.

Our American lads and lasses use the furniture and screen presence and are told they are a beacon to light the way.

One side of the pond understands their job is to inhabit the part's world and world view and judgement, while their cousin's think first on the message and the residual.

They are not engaged in the same acitivity, damn near at all.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:35 PM (Lzpvj)

265 The left rolled trans into abortion so the money keeps flowing into their causes, mostly on your dime.

She, Bette Midler, Macy Gray & others are being called TERF for views that views that "deny transgender people their full humanity and go against what the medical community today has accepted as scientific fact around gender and sex." USA, 7/5/22

Most insurance plans and state Medicaid programs cover PrEP. Under the Affordable Care Act, PrEP must be free under almost all health insurance plans. That means you can't be charged for your PrEP medication or the clinic visits and lab tests you need to maintain your prescription. (CDC)

How about your necessary meds? Can Type 1 diabetics get free insulin? "You may be able to get help with the costs of insulin and medication through drug assistance programs from pharmaceutical companies, known as patient assistance programs (PAP). Each program has its own eligibility requirements for people with type 1 diabetes, so it's important to check those details."

Posted by: Lola at February 15, 2023 05:35 PM (Wxlzw)

266 I often have weird dreams wherein I am trying to get somewhere, but keep getting diverted by badly designed staircases, or abrupt blank walls.
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I'm on meds that make me pee a lot. Now all my dreams are about looking for a place to pee.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 15, 2023 05:35 PM (sWM8x)

267
If you believe it to be that bad and dangerous wouldn't you be doing your family right by re-locating?
Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (OY44N

I only think about that every single day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:35 PM (oINRc)

268 I don't care at all about anything Harry Potter/J K Rowling or about Putin/Ukraine. Kinda glad I'm 29+ so I don't see the absolute end of the USA.

Posted by: free tibet at February 15, 2023 05:35 PM (iNp3L)

269 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:34 PM (XIJ/X)

And so was I when I said "Thanks for the clarification".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2023 05:35 PM (D+F6R)

270 262 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:34 PM (XIJ/X)

I know, and I thank you for the assist.

I appreciate it, I am probably just about done in my life tilting at windmills at the drop of a hat.

Hope you are well.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:36 PM (Lzpvj)

271 If they're grown adults, that's a *bad* problem.

-

Hold our wine coolers!
- those adult women (and gay adult men) who can't get enough of the teenage vampire movies. Oh, and who vote.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:36 PM (0fs9V)

272 Now wait a minute. I'm a supporter of Faries, elves, and magical little people of all creeds. Except the Leprechauns. Fk the Leprechauns.
Posted by: fd at February 15, 2023 05:28 PM (iayUP)

One St. Patrick's day I asked about Leprechauns from a Mexican lady I used to work with, leprechauns in Spanish are "Duendes" and they are evil little f*ckers. Worse than hadas (fairies and elves) She talked a bit about them and how they live in cenotes, and her run in with a possessed garden gnome at her sister's house.

God I loved working with her, she was dead serious.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2023 05:36 PM (xhaym)

273 The funny thing is, the game itself is mildly woke. It's billed as being set in Victorian-era Hogwarts, but the sensibilities are all modern - including woke stuff. Talking with one very minor character can have her mention her wife in an easily missable conversation. A more prominent supporting character is voiced by a transwoman (something I noticed immediately when listening to the character, and later confirmed on IMDB), and eventually makes an off-hand comment revealing that she's trans. Both of these things would have been viewed as completely absurd (and illegal in the first case) during the real-life Victorian era.

BTW, the modern sensibilities don't just extend to political hot-button stuff. For example, one fellow student has been bragging about going to a dangerous location in an attempt to prove his courage. But he's never actually been there. An actual Victorian would have asked for you to accompany him while he goes. But instead, he asks you to go there alone and retrieve something that he can present as proof that he made the trip. Unfortunately, the game never provides the opportunity to call him a fraud.

Posted by: junior at February 15, 2023 05:36 PM (PTw5h)

274 Doesn't everyone know Harry Potter and Hogwarts is fictional? How can anyone immerse themselves in this?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 15, 2023 05:37 PM (a3Q+t)

275 From the review I get a sense we're going to be told that "trans people built America." That's going to lead to a lot of fun when the BLM brigade shoots back. My money is on the latter.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 15, 2023 05:37 PM (TgBWG)

276 Does anyone here have the game? Is it any good?

I don't play these games and didn't know trans turds cared.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 15, 2023 05:37 PM (DcKNO)

277 Crap. Am I going to have to buy this now...?

Posted by: richardmcenroe at February 15, 2023 05:37 PM (8fxF+)

278 Hope you are well.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:36 PM (Lzpvj)

I am. Spending too much money on guns, but that isn't new!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:38 PM (XIJ/X)

279 I think the Brits treat acting as a craft...perhaps even a trade, and they train for it.

American actors seem too obsessed with their emotions and egos...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 15, 2023 05:32 PM (XIJ/X)

Quite.

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:38 PM (V13WU)

280 @241 Now wait a minute. I'm a supporter of Faries, elves, and magical little people of all creeds. Except the Leprechauns. Fk the Leprechauns.

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Yet another sad example of how the Irish are discriminated against in this country...

Posted by: junior at February 15, 2023 05:38 PM (PTw5h)

281
Nood ... more Biden roadblocks to border enforcement

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2023 05:38 PM (USJFV)

282 The game Hogwarts Legacy has a fuck ugly lesbian and a tranny bartender that when it talks sounds like a man who smoked cigars for 40 years

And they’re saying this is not enough

They want something like Far Cry 6 where they have a mission which you must acquire hormone blockers for a tranny who is a deranged psychotic that literally kills a white woman for using the wrong pronouns

And no you can’t skip the mission either, it’s literally required to complete the game

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 15, 2023 05:39 PM (VTu1l)

283 Yet another sad example of how the Irish are discriminated against in this country...

==

i read that as "decriminalized" ....

Posted by: runner at February 15, 2023 05:40 PM (V13WU)

284 @276 Does anyone here have the game? Is it any good?

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I have it, It's a lot of fun. It's got rave reviews from pretty much every reviewer who isn't woke. You'll definitely get a lot more enjoyment out of it if you're a fan of the Harry Potter stuff in general. But it's a fun game even without that.

Posted by: junior at February 15, 2023 05:40 PM (PTw5h)

285 I grew out of a fascination with fairies and elves and flying witches around age 10. It amazes me how many supposed adults have not.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 15, 2023 05:40 PM (wQ0cM)

286 I have a large group of meatspace non-woke friends and live in Texas ( though it's Houston) so I admittedly don't experience the same frustrations many others do living in Blue states or having woke relatives.

Posted by: polynikes at February 15, 2023 05:40 PM (OY44N)

287 Thank you, Junior.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 15, 2023 05:41 PM (DcKNO)

288 Um, this whole "stochastic terrorism" thing they keep blathering about? Where mean tweets about someone is tantamount to threatening that person's life and must be censored and eliminated? Do you think they're talking about themselves (their favorite topic; the only one on which they are knowledgeable) again. Except this persynthang is not just meantweeting but is actually threatening Rowling's life.

Posted by: AMartel at February 15, 2023 05:42 PM (bBOtY)

289
I know a lot of Morons are pretty well traveled, and know that people are bastards all over.

But ask yourselves: is there anywhere you've been, where the average man on the street is as liable to be a total psycho as he is here? Is there anywhere where the leadership classes are as haunted by visions of dominance as they are here?

We have an increasingly insane population, led by a completely insane ruling class, and all of that whack-o shit is only kept in check by the dwindling number of normals. This is why I worry.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:42 PM (oINRc)

290 I worked int eh game industry for years before I switched to film effects. There was one gay guy, he was a producer. He was a good producer but would have been just as happy in any other middle management job, he didn't care that much about games. He wasn't the 'heart and soul' of the company, so that's a stupid lie by a fat lunatic in a dress.

You know who does make that industry run? White, socially awkward heterosexual males. Basically nerds like me, and a few female or Asian nerds like me, at a ratio of 30/1. We're the 'magic', you little bitch

Posted by: amos at February 15, 2023 05:45 PM (7nlP8)

291 I'm amused by political commentators saying that's its great Nikki Haley has entered the presidential race and that she gives Republican women someone to vote for. Republican women have Nikki's number and very few will be ticking her box.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 15, 2023 05:47 PM (3JfbU)

292 They want something like Far Cry 6 where they have a mission which you must acquire hormone blockers for a tranny who is a deranged psychotic that literally kills a white woman for using the wrong pronouns

Was it Far Cry 5 where they tried to make evil Christian fundamentalists and they are more appealing still then the government?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:48 PM (lc5cP)

293 109 I've said it before. I will say it again.

The only thing that the anti-bullying crusade of the last decade or so has done is change who the bullies are and give them great power.
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That's a great point. It would be interesting to go through history and see if "bullying" was always essentially the same. I'm betting it was, and I'm betting there is a social need for it. I'm serious when I say that, too. I'm betting it helps teach and reinforce norms at the micro level. There's no way anyone could research that and ever work again, of course.

And we took it away, and nature abhors a vacuum.
Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 15, 2023 05:00 PM (0fs9V)
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Your point reminds me of C S Lewis's essay on Kipling.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 15, 2023 05:48 PM (TgBWG)

294 289 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 15, 2023 05:42 PM (oINRc)

Juarez Mexico, there are lots of bad places in lots of places.

Hell the wrong sector of Malmo in Scandia will get you stabbed. America on the whole is a safeish place.

Our government has just decided to empower foreign invaders, sexual deviants, and 13% to play anything goes.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:49 PM (Lzpvj)

295 From the review I get a sense we're going to be told that "trans people built America."

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We built this city
We built this city without cock or balls

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 15, 2023 05:49 PM (FVME7)

296 I grew out of a fascination with fairies and elves and flying witches around age 10. It amazes me how many supposed adults have not.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 15, 2023 05:40 PM (wQ0cM)

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Me too, and then I discovered historical novels and then historical romances and then ...

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 15, 2023 05:51 PM (3JfbU)

297 From the review I get a sense we're going to be told that "trans people built America."
[/iu]

Out: George Washington

In: Madeup Someoneian - who was totally a real person that built this country. With hormone blockers.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:51 PM (lc5cP)

298

Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:51 PM (lc5cP)

299 One St. Patrick's day I asked about Leprechauns from a Mexican lady I used to work with, leprechauns in Spanish are "Duendes" and they are evil little f*ckers. Worse than hadas (fairies and elves) She talked a bit about them and how they live in cenotes, and her run in with a possessed garden gnome at her sister's house.

God I loved working with her, she was dead serious.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 15, 2023 05:36 PM (xhaym)
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Many, many people around the world are dead serious in their beliefs of the Fair Folk, even if they are devout Christians. The Fair Folk are *NOT* to be trusted or fucked with. Disney, of course, made them "cute" and "friendly" and "heroic." All of mythology paints them as devilishly cruel and uncaring towards humanity, using us for their own entertainment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 15, 2023 05:52 PM (BpYfr)

300 ... and then there was Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Sussan and so on but I drew the line at Jackie Collins.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 15, 2023 05:55 PM (3JfbU)

301 Does anyone here have the game? Is it any good?

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It's an OK game. A might juvenile but that's to be expected. It has the perfect setting for the tutorial portion; you go to class and learn spells from professors.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 15, 2023 05:55 PM (FVME7)

302 But ask yourselves: is there anywhere you've been, where the average man on the street is as liable to be a total psycho as he is here? Is there anywhere where the leadership classes are as haunted by visions of dominance as they are here?

Nowhere I've been - South America, South East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Here is rich and crazy like nowhere else I've seen. But I haven't been to Western Europe, where I suspect its the same.

We're seeing the sudden collapse of White Western Civ.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 15, 2023 05:58 PM (9KRwM)

303 If you removed the mental illness from that "review" you would literally be left with an empty page.

Posted by: Thatch at February 15, 2023 05:59 PM (qVsb2)

304 all that said there is no set of circumstances in play that will ever make her an ally nor have her reexamine her morals.
Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 05:17 PM (Lzpvj)

Oh, that's certainly true. But I'm willing to form temporary alliances on particular issues. If these crazy people are allowed to bully someone like Rowling into silence, they won't stop there. They'll move on to the next battle and bully everyone into some other face-palming policy. They'll push to get rid of homeschooling, say, or mandate X% of corporate boards be alphabet people.

It sounds crazy, sure, but we find ourselves in a legal environment that would have been held unbelievable by most people even five years ago. Enough is enough.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 15, 2023 06:00 PM (wGeit)

305 304 Posted by: Ace's liver at February 15, 2023 06:00 PM (wGeit)

She is in the UK, she has enough money to buy a Barristry office.

JK will be okay without me.

Posted by: sven at February 15, 2023 06:01 PM (Lzpvj)

306 Was it Far Cry 5 where they tried to make evil Christian fundamentalists and they are more appealing still then the government?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:48 PM (lc5cP)

Same Game that made some song that Made fun of Right Wingers and their love of guns but Everyone on the Right Loves it. And it drives the Creators crazy that they like it. KEEP YOUR RIFLE BY YOUR SIDE. Is the song

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 15, 2023 06:18 PM (dKiJG)

307 I blame the oh so reasonable crowd. It is a very pale demographic.

Posted by: DOYLE at February 15, 2023 06:18 PM (Z8Yh2)

308 Understand that I have trans friends and family members who I love dearly who are wonderful people who are understanding of what is going on with them and I'd like them treated well.

But this BS about Rowling is hurting them. It doesn't help anyone. It truly does seem to be vicious people who enjoy the excuse for their viciousness. And you know, figure this too. Female to Male transgender is by far more common than Male to Female. Do we EVER hear from trans-men?
Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2023 05:20 PM (BD/yx)

It is important to remember that these 'leaders' of the trans community don't represent them in the slightest. The whole idea of trans, bent as it is, is to try and *fit in and be accepted* in current society. These activists feel no such need, and I question if any of them even do the surgeries and such. I'd think the maiming would cut into your time lurking in gyms and threatening rich authors.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 15, 2023 06:19 PM (eoQWY)

309 Was it Far Cry 5 where they tried to make evil Christian fundamentalists and they are more appealing still then the government?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 15, 2023 05:48 PM (lc5cP)

Same Game that made some song that Made fun of Right Wingers and their love of guns but Everyone on the Right Loves it. And it drives the Creators crazy that they like it. KEEP YOUR RIFLE BY YOUR SIDE. Is the song
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 15, 2023 06:18 PM (dKiJG)

Even the authors couldn't keep up the anti right message - the baddie is a crazy preacher forming a cult by predicting a nuclear war - and the game ends with a nuclear war, proving the baddie right all along.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 15, 2023 06:21 PM (eoQWY)

310 41% of the time the trans issue takes care of itself... that is all.

Posted by: Drew in MO at February 15, 2023 06:23 PM (jJXlx)

311 OK, so slaves built the US and queers built the Internet.

I guess us straight, white, free guys don't do anything.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 15, 2023 06:43 PM (UJJWg)

312 But ask yourselves: is there anywhere you've been, where the average man on the street is as liable to be a total psycho as he is here? Is there anywhere where the leadership classes are as haunted by visions of dominance as they are here?

The Middle East? North Africa? The tribal hell-holes of Africa? The tribal hell-holes of South America?

Stop buying into the lies of the left. They're amplifying their own lunatics to make them seem like the majority -- a trick they learned from the Bolsheviks.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 15, 2023 06:48 PM (UJJWg)

313 Shut up

Trans is a Menstrual Show. It's insulting and weird. Insane.

Zero sympathy, bully.

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