Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

MODS????? HELLO?  CAN WE GET SOME MODERATION ON THIS SHITHOLE FORUM FOR ONCE?

Always demanding some DEI shit, fine:

Italy’s creative spirit is known worldwide, and today it also thrives in video games. From small independent teams to established studios, a new generation of Italian creators is shaping distinctive worlds, bold ideas and unforgettable stories.

The fifth edition of Games in Italy invites you to explore this vibrant landscape: a curated selection of titles that reflects the breadth and personality of our national game development scene. Whether you enjoy narrative-driven experiences, stylish action, thoughtful strategy or atmospheric adventures, Italian developers have something unique to offer.

Discover new voices, revisit fan favourites, and dive into the many faces of games Made in Italy. Your next great journey may start here.
Enjoy!

[benji]

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/

It might be a stretch, but does it sometimes feel like HP is an Atlas Shrugged that tries to sucker the left?

The ego-stroking, ableism, pseudo-intellectualism, etc.

And the reason it didn’t get as much flack was because it was at first promoted just for kids…

Class action lawsuit (or the British equivalent) against Rowling

JK Rowling has defamed many trans women and their allies. Why won't they do a class action lawsuit?

Adventurous-Bike-484
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26d ago
Rowling is rich

DorisWildthyme
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26d ago
Because she has flipping great wodges of cash to fling at very expensive lawyers, whilst she is very careful not to defame anyone who might have the same kind of money.

Glad-Bike9822
OP
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25d ago
True, but a class action can involve some very good lawyers.

rabbles-of-roses
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25d ago
Defamation laws are very different in the UK than in the US, and also money.

riflow
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25d ago
They're not really very common here, and it'd be super difficult to win between the establishment and gov stacked against trans folks rights rn. :c

This may be an odd question but does anyone else want to tell someone in their life about this/discuss it with someone in their life but hesitate because they’re somewhat afraid of that person’s potential response?
I mean my parents don’t seem to know much about what she’s been doing lately, and when I’ve tried to bring it up it hasn’t really gone anywhere. We were all fans of the books back in the day, but I can’t see them the same way anymore. On the other hand, that’s probably not true of my parents (that said it’s not as big a deal to them anymore either). My father is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and they inducted(?) their first trans bishop a few years ago, and neither of my parents expressed any opposition to it at the time, but more recently I felt the need to interject into a conversation they were having (though I’m not sure about what precisely) to note that I knew a couple non-binary people and “trusted their judgment.” Ultimately my parents are nice enough that it’s hard to picture them fully supporting all this insanity, but my mom has defended some of the less extreme things she’s said and insisted that the whole situation is “probably overblown,” so I’m not sure what to think.

Phonecloth
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1d ago
It came up in a discussion with my dad a few months ago. He was suggesting I should try to make money with creative writing (which is something I have done somewhat), and said 'like that woman who wrote Harry Potter'. I immediately replied with 'Oh, she is such a bitch,' and then he snapped at me and said 'you can't say that!'. I forget where the discussion went next.

Every time I see a queer person reference HP it feels like an arrow to the chest.

J.K. Rowling is the definition of getting rich solely through incredible luck and then cosplaying as a poor rags to riches women

So first of all: She was incredibly lucky that English was her native language and that she wrote HP in English. If someone had written basically the exact same story but in Bulgaria/Mongolia/Botswana it would have never become an international bestseller, let alone a global one.

Second: HP was rejected by 12 different Publishers. Not 2 or 3. But 12. The 13th only published it because he gave it to his daughter to read and she happened to like it.

So if the kid daughter of publisher Nr. 13 had not liked wizards, or just had a bad day, J.K.s little idea would not have been published.

Perhaps the 14th Publisher she would have approached would have published it. But it is also entirely possible that no one else would have ever published it. Or a different publisher, years later under different circumstances, leading to such changed parameters that it would not have become a global success.

Third: She had a lot of free time on her hands to write down her little Idea. Most people dont have this luxury. She claimed how poor she was yet she moved a lot (with what money?) and she worked very little (how the hell did she live then?). Her Biography sounds like poor cosplay to me with a lot of inconsistencies:

- She went to University in the 80s and studied abroad in Paris for a year - hardly "poor"

- She moved to Porto from Manchester in 1991 after losing her job? What the hell? How is that possible? With what money? No one who is poor can just move to another country. Especially not in the 90s.

- After her marriage she moved in with her sister. But then she got an appartment despite getting just 70 Pounds a week? So she + her daughter were living off just 70 pounds/week? Giant BS.

- Then a friend borrowed her 600 Pounds and this enabled her to get a better appartment? More giant BS.

- Then she didnt work for 2.5 years. She - somehow - was able to not work for 2.5 years with a child. Suuuure. Why she had to write the Novel in a Cafe when she had an appartment? Who knows. Why didnt she get a part time job that would have brought her more than social benefits? Who knows?

- Oh she also could afford 9 months of therapy. With what money? I thought she was poor. The state doesnt pay 100%.

- In mid-1995, a friend gave her money that allowed her to come off benefits and enrol full-time in college. Must have been an awful lot of money. I suspect the "friend" was daddy who was actually quite wealthy.

- The initial publishing Number for HP was just 5000 copies. Only when a US book publisher paid her 100k for the rights, did she take off.

Her story doesnt make much sense. Her wealthy dad probably supplied her with money. She was never poor. And she got incredibly lucky that her Idea was eventually published and took of. And now she behaves all high and mighty. Disgusting frankly. 0 Humility. 100 Arrogance.

And absolute worst are her bootlicking "fans" who claim that it was all hard work and no luck involved and that she is the very definition of "hard work leads to success" and "you make your own luck"...

She is the 1 in 100 Million person. The very definition of survivorship bias. There are Millions of people out there who wrote better stories, but due to a variety of factors not aligning, their stories were never published or they remained in obscurity.

Si you think Rowling is a pervert?

I mean, she's literally obsessed with genitals of other people and sexuality.

Tweeting over 5 years about it it's not normal.

I think there's an inherent contradiction in still being a Harry Potter fan, and I want to talk about that

I was a really big Harry Potter fan growing up. I'll never feel bad about that - I had quite an unhappy childhood and those books got me through some tough times, especially because I started reading them around the time that things started happening to me that caused me to be unhappy. I was never really into any aspect of it except the books though - I was the kind of fan who'd constantly criticise the films every time a minor change was made, and I didn't particularly go in for getting lots of bits of merchandise and things. (There are positives and negatives to that. The positive is that I can be safe in the knowledge that I haven't contributed to Rowling's fortune all that much. The negative is that it's been harder for me to accept how awful she is - for a long time whenever I saw anything negative in the Harry Potter story, I'd be insistent that that all came from Warner Bros and wasn't part of Rowling's original vision, so realising that's not true was a bit of a bitter pill.)

For a while after Rowling came out as a vile transphobe, I tried to still be a Harry Potter fan. I did not try to separate the artist from the art as I've never thought you can. It was more like, 'Well, she's got some views I really strongly object to, but still, people are complicated, and she must have something decent to her if she was able to write such wonderful stories, right?' But, knowing what kind of person she was, I came to realise that I just wasn't able to enjoy the books anymore, even though I tried. Every time I tried re-reading them, I saw another problematic dogwhistle that I'd never seen before (Stonewall, the secondary school near the Dursleys where kids constantly get attacked in the toilets, was one that really made me open-mouthed). Plus, I'm a Ravenclaw, so I like analysing things in complex detail and trying to learn more about them. It very quickly became apparent to me that Harry Potter was a judgemental and narcissistic manifesto that did a fairly decent job at pretending to be a progressive text before we knew the kind of person the author is, and once we know we can't pretend otherwise (the Invisibility Charm has worn off, hehe).

More to the point, I internalised a lot of personal moral values from Harry Potter, and learning that the author doesn't hold the same values as I do doesn't change the fact that I internalised them at the time and still try to live by them. The Rita Skeeter storyline I understood as a statement about the importance of speaking truth to power and to not believe everything you see in the media. Dumbledore's comments about the importance of choosing between what is right and what is easy, and that when you make the wrong choices innocent people like Cedric get hurt, stood out to me and it's something I still try to do. I don't feel I've stopped being a Harry Potter fan in spite of my former appreciation for it, but because of that. I believe in standing up for the underdog (and trans people are absolutely the underdog just now) and in challenging anyone, even people that in the past you've respected, if they're doing something that is below the belt and morally bankrupt. JK Rowling taught me those values, even if she doesn't live by them herself.

What I can't understand is the number of Harry Potter fans devoting themselves so strongly to steadfastly ignoring this. It makes me think, 'So what was it about the books you liked then?' It seems incredibly contradictory - they still talk about Harry Potter as though it's this beacon of progressive values and the importance of standing up for what you believe in, but they'll very studiously ignore any concerns that are raised about it. The Harry Potter sub has strict rules about not mentioning modern politics or any of JK Rowling's values, and to me that flies in the face of any kind of literary discussion at all - I love analysing books in the context of both the sociopolitical zeitgeist at the time, and in the context of what has come since. It makes books far more interesting. I'm not in favour of censorship at all (in truth, apart from the fact it makes Rowling lots of money, I think everyone should read Harry Potter - and analyse it in detail, with JK Rowling's identity and positions on things included in that). Although I don't enjoy the stories anymore in the way I once did, there's another way in which I enjoy them more now - I really like the discussions we have on this sub, looking at very minor characters and how they're depicted and what it says about JK Rowling and our society in general. That's the point of literature, isn't it? That's what makes us better people. If anyone defended continuing to enjoy Harry Potter from that angle, I'd be patient and I'd listen - but they aren't doing that, they're trying to consciously avoid that.

And this brings me to my next point. I once heard someone say that although you can very rarely separate the artist from the art, Harry Potter is one of the few works where you can - because a lot of the sensation came not from Rowling, but from the fans. Much of the nostalgia associated with Harry Potter isn't just from reading the books and watching the films, but the amount of community that came with it. The internet forums, the fanfic, the knitting of a Gryffindor scarf, trying to write a Butterbeer recipe, and so on... there was so much more to Harry Potter than just what Rowling brought to it. Although I didn't really subscribe to that stuff, I can acknowledge that I've had friends that I first got talking to because we both liked Harry Potter, and that's important too. But the people who still call themselves Harry Potter fans don't seem to value that kind of thing anymore. On the contrary, they're trying to gravitate more towards JK Rowling than they did in the days when she was still cool. They're the ones obsessing about the new audio releases and the new TV series, and the constant merch releases. It doesn't seem the slightest bit grounded or fan-produced anymore, and it's certainly not critical-thinking (which I think it kind of was in the old days, particularly with fanfic writers - you have to have a certain level of reasoning and criticism skills to be able to write a good story). This is just sycophantic, and it's not interesting or logical at any point.

I thought of this when I heard Tom Felton asked about JK Rowling's views on trans people and he dodged the question, saying instead that the franchise has united the world more than anything else he's ever known and he'll always be grateful for that. I thought, if the franchise genuinely has uniting power as strong as you say it does, surely it will withstand anything, so why are you so scared of discussing the problematic aspects of it and its creator? Isn't the fact you're so reticent to do so evidence that it isn't uniting the world?

Is she even happy nowadays ?

I can't imagine Joanne being genuinely happy with the style of life that she has now, if we can even call it a style of life. I imagine that her days go like this : Waking up - tweeting some vile shit - vaping - drinking wine - vaping again - bullying India Willougby - worshipping the mold - eating dinner - bullying random trans people - sleep. Rinse and repeat.

Even when she's on her yacht she thinks about trans people ! I swear she must have some weird love-hate relationship with LGBT people because it's abnormal to be that focus on anything (as an autist person, even with my special interests I'm not that obsessive and I don't bring them up publicly)

It really feels like she can't live without trans people !

What do you think ?

HideFromMyMind
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1mo ago
I feel like she’s gonna be an interesting historical case in the future. How does one write one of the most popular book series in existence, basically ride that high for another decade, then suddenly decide to devote their whole life to hating a minority? It makes no sense.

Do NOT promote Harry Potter on adverts before Wicked For Good!!!!

Why on Earth... Wicked is a really LGBTQ story, why would you advertise that awful woman on there?!

A strange pattern to Rowling's behaviour, both on social media and in the Harry Potter books.

Rowling's apparent mindset towards anyone who disagrees with her on Transgender rights, to me suggests deep insecurity, and/or a deep fear of anyone who disagrees with her.

But there is something else going on, which can be seen both in her social media feed, and also within the Harry Potter books themselves. Rowling appears to regard shared bathrooms/changing rooms as dangerous places, where very bad things happen to people. She returns to this notion over and over again.

In the Harry Potter books, the examples of this are:

Book 1 - Hermione Granger is nearly killed by the troll in the girl's bathroom on Hallowe'en night. Her likely death is only prevented by Harry and Ron - who seconds earlier had unknowingly locked her in - bursting in and coming to her rescue.

Book 2 - Moaning Myrtle is killed by the basilisk in a girl's bathroom. 50 years later, her ghost still haunts it, disrupts Harry, Ron and Hermione's secret potion making, then provides the crucial clue as to where the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets is - in the same bathroom. Ginny Weasley also both tries to dispose of Tom Riddle's diary, and is taken into the chamber of secrets (effectively the chamber of horrors here) in the same bathroom.

Book 3 - After Gryffindor lose to Hufflepuff at Quidditch, and Harry is attacked by the Dementors during the match, one of the Weasley twins darkly remarks to Harry in the Hospital Wing that Gryffindor Quidditch Captain Oliver Wood is still in the showers, deeply upset, "we think he's trying to drown himself." That hint of suicide is a very dark image, even if it is said with grim humour.

Book 4 - Harry's unexpected reunion with Moaning Myrtle in the shared bathroom as he tries to solve the riddle of the dragon egg. In the book, and especially in the film, this scene has a teen sexual undercurrent which is funny, but in an uncomfortable way.

Book 6 - Harry confronts Draco Malfoy in the boy's bathroom, attacks him, and nearly kills him with a spell originally created by Severus Snape during his time as a student at Hogwarts. This is one of the darkest scenes in the whole series of books.

All of these scenes take place in shared bathrooms, which given the huge, secret room/passageway-riddled nature of Hogwarts, seems like a remarkable coincidence.

There are other things about the Harry Potter books which also seem odd, such as:

The after-effects upon Hermione of the troll-attack in the first book. Such a traumatic experience would surely have had lasting emotional and mental consequences for Hermione, yet not once are they even hinted at, let alone discussed.

The likely trauma suffered by Ginny Weasley after her possession by Tom Riddle in book two. The fact that she was misled, emotionally manipulated, and used as a tool to do terrible things to other people in the school, including Hermione - who later became a good friend of hers - by Lord Voldemort himself, surely would have left Ginny with deep, painful scars which would have taken years to heal, if they ever fully did. Yet, apart from confronting Harry with this in brief in book six, this is never really explored at all.

The chilling comparison between what happened to Moaning Myrtle, and what nearly happened to Hermione in the first book. One girl died in a bathroom, while the other narrowly escaped it. Astonishingly, this very obvious comparison is never - once - mentioned by either Harry, Ron or Hermione in book two, when surely at least one of them would have realized it, and voiced it out loud.

Hermione's petrification in book two. From Draco petrifying Harry on the train in book six, we know that Hermione would have been conscious throughout the weeks that she was petrified, but left helpless, and totally unable to communicate with Harry and Ron, in any way, when they visited her in the Hospital Wing. Those feelings of sheer helplessness, frustration, and fear of something happening to them, while being totally powerless to help, would surely have haunted Hermione for years. Yet, like Ginny's trauma after book two, Rowling never goes into this, even in book six when Harry tells Hermione and Ron that Draco petrified him on the train. That Hermione never uses this chance to tell them what happened to her during her own petrification four years earlier is truly astonishing. Why is it not brought up in that moment, or before it?

Was Rowling just not skilled enough as a writer to notice these oversights, not clued-up enough on what she could have written about, or is she just not comfortable writing about trauma, even when the narrative would be deepened by doing so?

Now, long after she finished the seven Harry Potter books, Rowling is still returning to the idea that shared bathrooms/changing rooms are dangerous places, where, particularly if you are female, you are in real danger. It surfaced again during her vicious public attack on Emma Watson a month ago, following Emma's most recent attempt to reach-out to Rowling during her Jay Shetty podcast. After working so closely with Rowling during her 12 years as Hermione in the films, the total, and public collapse of that relationship in the past few years is clearly - and deeply - hurting Emma. Rowling's behaviour towards Emma in particular has been cruel, petty, and astonishingly shallow, like those 12 years of working so closely means absolutely nothing to Rowling anymore.

Because of this obvious pattern, in both the Harry Potter books/films, and her social media output, to me - although I could be totally wrong about this - I am finding it harder not to think that past trauma might be at the heart of Rowling's present attitude towards the LGBT community, and seeming paranoia towards anyone who publicly supports it. Was she herself attacked or assaulted in a shared bathroom at some point in her past, and lasting trauma from it is making her react in fear towards anyone who disagrees with her on the transgender issue?

Her public opposition to the transgender issue seemed to become really loud from 2020 onwards, which just happened to be the year in which the Scottish Parliament proposed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which would have legally recognised transgender people in Scotland, including their right to use the toilet of the gender which they chose to identify with. Maybe the implications of the Bill, by removing the previous, clear distinction between men and women's toilets in Scotland - where Rowling lives - really stirred-up Rowling's long-lasting trauma (if she is suffering from that), and she's been freaking-out over the issue ever since.... Despite the Bill being effectively abandoned due to UK government opposition in 2023, which should have eased her fear, Rowling has not calmed down since, and is still, almost, seizing every chance she gets to voice her opinions on the issue. Her astonishingly vicious, petty, vindictive, even childish behaviour towards anyone pro-Trans, even publicly cancelling Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Dan Radcliffe, and others whom she worked so closely with, and who treasure that connection to this day, makes it hard not to question her current mental state.

If, however, she is suffering from trauma related to something which happened to her many years ago, then it becomes easier to understand.

Noticing alot of adverts for the audiobook, series, studio tour, partnerships with shein etc. and I believe this is good. As this aggressive advertising and manufacturing of goods and content, comes across as a sale for a company/brand going bust, and loosing relevance. Like trying desperately to get milk out of a dying cow. Like it just seems too forced and sudden. Anyone else interpreting it like this?

Okay at this point, how is inviting Prince Andrew to the set of the HP show not suspicious? And also literally encouraging people to take photos of women using public toilets to begin with...

[malfoyking]

Wow there's a wholeass reddit sub dedicated to her? holy shit.

Edit: also when did prince andrew visit the hp set? or is that another lie from them? i know kate middleton and her kids did.

[HaughtyFrank]

[quote=https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/comments/1pechtl/fandom_problems_aside_evangelion_feels_like_a/]

Ah, the classic message of Neon Genesis Evangelion 

"just get over your depression you fucking pussy ass loser"

[Snoopy]

Ree is weird as fuck - 

I've never asked my friends politics, and I don't actually like having adult conversations so it's never going to come up and if it does I likely won't be paying attention. So I'd say stay friends and not talk about it.

what?

Yea I'm not gonna sit down and have a serious mature conversation. That ain't me. Never has been, never will be. I do it at work because I'm paid to. But in my free time around friends? Nope. I'll 100% ignore the entirety of it and do anything else. Or I'll just leave if they're gonna do that.

You've never had a mature conversation with your friends? Huh?

Not really, no. They've tried but, they know I'll get up and leave and I'm not kidding about that. Adult conversation/mature here meaning a conversation about usually mature subject matter that requires tact and understanding where I have to actively listen and think for more than 5 seconds about a response or form an argument or critically engage with the content.

I'm just not going to do that. Now if you catch me like in a text where I can respond like days later or just give a yes or no answer, I might engage. If it's a light hearted subject that I can just kinda spout out whatever I'll probably engage. Like we can debate golden age Superman vs silver Age all day. But don't ask me about did you see the news or what do you think about this (topic that deserves measured response and respect). I don't want to do that. And my friends respect that. And yes I understand it's odd and they basically treat me like a child, but I'm more than okay with that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-keep-close-friendships-with-people-who-have-vastly-different-political-beliefs-than-you.1374736/page-2#post-148533232

[Besticus Maximus]

Over time I’ve learned to whittle my friends down to those who only exactly agree with me. As it happens, the only friends I ever really had were in my feminist anime tiddies discord so it was fairly easy overall 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sydney-sweeney-shares-emotional-response-to-controversial-american-eagle-jeans-ad-im-against-hate.1375153/

Sweeney has to apologize for something they all declared to be manufactured outrage by the right. One of the most impressive instances of cognitive dissonance on resetera

[Nintex]

Well that's it for Sweeney.

It's never good enough dear. You have to ignore them your life is now a living hell. Next you'll have to apologize for your magnificient rack. Good luck.

[Propagandhim]

MODS????? HELLO?  CAN WE GET SOME MODERATION ON THIS SHITHOLE FORUM FOR ONCE?

Always demanding some DEI shit, fine:

Italy’s creative spirit is known worldwide, and today it also thrives in video games. From small independent teams to established studios, a new generation of Italian creators is shaping distinctive worlds, bold ideas and unforgettable stories.

The fifth edition of Games in Italy invites you to explore this vibrant landscape: a curated selection of titles that reflects the breadth and personality of our national game development scene. Whether you enjoy narrative-driven experiences, stylish action, thoughtful strategy or atmospheric adventures, Italian developers have something unique to offer.

Discover new voices, revisit fan favourites, and dive into the many faces of games Made in Italy. Your next great journey may start here.
Enjoy!

And now he's exploiting our excellence (Mario AND RABBIDS?!) to make content for his forum.  the italynoir never fkn ends here.



It's called excellence.  Maybe learn it?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sydney-sweeney-shares-emotional-response-to-controversial-american-eagle-jeans-ad-im-against-hate.1375153/

Sweeney has to apologize for something they all declared to be manufactured outrage by the right. One of the most impressive instances of cognitive dissonance on resetera

"I don't support white supremacy. I don't support racism."

But no, instead let's twist ourselves into a pretzel not saying that but decrying the "views" and the "motives" and the "labels."

She's still dogwhistling.

You were saying, chudlord?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Meanwhile in the Quentin Tarrantino shits on Paul Dano thread:

finding out this may be due to QTs zionism tracks, he can eat fucking dirt

Esp when you find out his punk ass enjoyed his performance too.

Igit Dope has a hunch

[kaleidoscopium]

Only retards on the far right and far left were reading the Sweeney jeans ads as anything more than she’s hot and wearing jeans

[Propagandhim]

J.K. Rowling is the definition of getting rich solely through incredible luck and then cosplaying as a poor rags to riches women

So first of all: She was incredibly lucky that English was her native language and that she wrote HP in English. If someone had written basically the exact same story but in Bulgaria/Mongolia/Botswana it would have never become an international bestseller, let alone a global one.

Second: HP was rejected by 12 different Publishers. Not 2 or 3. But 12. The 13th only published it because he gave it to his daughter to read and she happened to like it.
So if the kid daughter of publisher Nr. 13 had not liked wizards, or just had a bad day, J.K.s little idea would not have been published. Perhaps the 14th Publisher she would have approached would have published it. But it is also entirely possible that no one else would have ever published it. Or a different publisher, years later under different circumstances, leading to such changed parameters that it would not have become a global success.

In which reddit embraces atomic determinism and the lack of free will.  Most sane people acknowledge that luck plays a role in everything.  Nobody picks their genes and environment.  That's just called human life.  Why not just go the full monty and say, “If you did not choose your genes or upbringing, then you deserve zero credit or blame for anything".  So nobody is reproachable or credit-worthy at all.  Sure it's confusing, "You didn’t choose your starting point" with “nothing you ever do within that starting point makes any difference” which is a non sequitur, but let's all just say it's part of the causal chain you inherited from circumstantial luck - so fuck everyone who ever succeeds at anything.  They didn't do shit, really.  And I get to whinge about it on the innanets.

[Nintex]

I'm not realy sure how I feel about Netflix buying WB.

makes it more convenient to have one service with all the slop, than 8 services with 8 types of slop.

I have a physical 4K Blu Ray collection to last me a lifetime and good films are still being made.

[HaughtyFrank]

J.K. Rowling is the definition of getting rich solely through incredible luck and then cosplaying as a poor rags to riches women

So first of all: She was incredibly lucky that English was her native language and that she wrote HP in English. If someone had written basically the exact same story but in Bulgaria/Mongolia/Botswana it would have never become an international bestseller, let alone a global one.

Second: HP was rejected by 12 different Publishers. Not 2 or 3. But 12. The 13th only published it because he gave it to his daughter to read and she happened to like it.
So if the kid daughter of publisher Nr. 13 had not liked wizards, or just had a bad day, J.K.s little idea would not have been published. Perhaps the 14th Publisher she would have approached would have published it. But it is also entirely possible that no one else would have ever published it. Or a different publisher, years later under different circumstances, leading to such changed parameters that it would not have become a global success.

In which reddit embraces atomic determinism and the lack of free will.  Most sane people acknowledge that luck plays a role in everything.  Nobody picks their genes and environment.  That's just called human life.  Why not just go the full monty and say, “If you did not choose your genes or upbringing, then you deserve zero credit or blame for anything".  So nobody is reproachable or credit-worthy at all.  Sure it's confusing, "You didn’t choose your starting point" with “nothing you ever do within that starting point makes any difference” which is a non sequitur, but let's all just say it's part of the causal chain you inherited from circumstantial luck - so fuck everyone who ever succeeds at anything.  They didn't do shit, really.  And I get to whinge about it on the innanets.

I'm a bit offended that they left out the sperm race and that Rowling was incredibly lucky that her sperm reached the egg before the thousands of other ones.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maga-melts-down-over-netflix-deal-%E2%80%98obama-taking-over%E2%80%99.1374835/page-2#post-148545484

Daily dose of meltdowns.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/paramount-considering-hostile-takeover-of-warner-bros-discovery.1375018/

[Propagandhim]

J.K. Rowling is the definition of getting rich solely through incredible luck and then cosplaying as a poor rags to riches women

So first of all: She was incredibly lucky that English was her native language and that she wrote HP in English. If someone had written basically the exact same story but in Bulgaria/Mongolia/Botswana it would have never become an international bestseller, let alone a global one.

Second: HP was rejected by 12 different Publishers. Not 2 or 3. But 12. The 13th only published it because he gave it to his daughter to read and she happened to like it.
So if the kid daughter of publisher Nr. 13 had not liked wizards, or just had a bad day, J.K.s little idea would not have been published. Perhaps the 14th Publisher she would have approached would have published it. But it is also entirely possible that no one else would have ever published it. Or a different publisher, years later under different circumstances, leading to such changed parameters that it would not have become a global success.

In which reddit embraces atomic determinism and the lack of free will.  Most sane people acknowledge that luck plays a role in everything.  Nobody picks their genes and environment.  That's just called human life.  Why not just go the full monty and say, “If you did not choose your genes or upbringing, then you deserve zero credit or blame for anything".  So nobody is reproachable or credit-worthy at all.  Sure it's confusing, "You didn’t choose your starting point" with “nothing you ever do within that starting point makes any difference” which is a non sequitur, but let's all just say it's part of the causal chain you inherited from circumstantial luck - so fuck everyone who ever succeeds at anything.  They didn't do shit, really.  And I get to whinge about it on the innanets.

I'm a bit offended that they left out the sperm race and that Rowling was incredibly lucky that her sperm reached the egg before the thousands of other ones.

Or the cup of coffee she drank on October 13, 1991, which increased her dopaminergic signaling and modulated gene expression and neural activity, that generated Harry’s mother’s backstory that resonated with readers.  They don't have a culture of drinking coffee in Bhutan, so can we really say JK Rowling is owed any credit here if she could've been Bhutanese?

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[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sydney-sweeney-shares-emotional-response-to-controversial-american-eagle-jeans-ad-im-against-hate.1375153/

Sweeney has to apologize for something they all declared to be manufactured outrage by the right. One of the most impressive instances of cognitive dissonance on resetera

Were's the American Eagle CEO apology? Sydney Sweeney starred in the commercial, but she didn't write and direct the shit. 

Weird that she's the sole target of this (manufactured, false, right-wing misinfo) campaign!

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sydney-sweeney-shares-emotional-response-to-controversial-american-eagle-jeans-ad-im-against-hate.1375153/

Sweeney has to apologize for something they all declared to be manufactured outrage by the right. One of the most impressive instances of cognitive dissonance on resetera

Were's the American Eagle CEO apology? Sydney Sweeney starred in the commercial, but she didn't write and direct the shit. 

Weird that she's the sole target of this (manufactured, false, right-wing misinfo) campaign!

They just want to see someone wince. They are like gladiatorial spectators who crave blood. That is why they amass mobs and harass indie devs who use generative AI, then huff and puff when they hear about Capcom, Bethesda, and Take-Two admitting to using it (even though they will buy their games anyway).  What matters is having someone to punish - that's the payoff, and they deliberately pick targets that will make the punishment visible to them.  Sweeney is one person that can express that show of punishment in a way a faceless corpo or insulated business exec can't.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sydney-sweeney-shares-emotional-response-to-controversial-american-eagle-jeans-ad-im-against-hate.1375153/page-2#post-148546618

one of the most successful ad campaigns in modern history, in large part because b/c people couldn't shut the fuck up about it, as I tried to argue in the original thread. I would imagine other marketing teams are thinking about how they can recreate it

Yes, relying on white folks to defend white supremacy and ignore marginalized voices as Right wing grifters use our voices as fodder in a culture war when we poke fun at something to say, "Yall ain't Slick." to foment rage is a very effective and always has been.

[HaughtyFrank]

Is there any brave soul who can make a thread about this on RE. The takes would be amazing

My favorite bit from the story

Edwards defense attorney Daniel Small reportedly told the jury that his client was approaching Howard to see if he would trade his knife for cigarettes.

"HEY WANT TO TRADE THIS KNIFE FOR SOME CIGARETTES????"

[TylenolJones]

Former President Joe Biden Receives Chris Abele Impact Award for Historic Leadership on LGBTQ+ Equality

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-president-joe-biden-receives-chris-abele-impact-award-for-historic-leadership-on-lgbtq-equality.1374832/



Everyone’s mentioning the genocide in Gaza, but they’re forgotten they had a thread stickied about a Trans Genocide happening while Biden was president

[filler]

None of these people crying about “the death of cinema” today actually give a shit. Most, if not all of them, skip original IP’s when they hit theaters, say they’ll catch it on streaming and then some variation of “saving my trip to the theater for Avengers Doomsday BAYBAY!!”

Ask 5-10 of these morons what they thought of a movie like Bugonia and 8 or 9 short circuit while the 10th knows of it because of a just about bald Emma Stone on the poster.

Somehow, MAGA is also crying.  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maga-melts-down-over-netflix-deal-‘obama-taking-over’.1374835/

But here comes Rioutous to remind them that Netflix also deserves a cancellation 

They want the woke out of movies and TV shows, hence everyone wanting Paramount to take over. CNN wasn't the only thing they wanted run by MAGA billionaires.

The really silliness is in the fact Netflix is hardly some beacon of woke-ness. They have a massive spectrum of content including bigoted comedians specials.

Is not like Paramount is MAGAland, they just are very blatant in sucking Trumpy’s tinny dick.

more reeeeotus pls 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sydney-sweeney-shares-emotional-response-to-controversial-american-eagle-jeans-ad-im-against-hate.1375153/page-3#post-148546900

She was in not one but two full news cycles over this ad

Speaking out now after the second run is just trying to get attention again, nothing more

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-president-joe-biden-receives-chris-abele-impact-award-for-historic-leadership-on-lgbtq-equality.1374832/#post-148546039

I dunno I'm trans and I'll appreciate the presidents that let me exist

I wonder how the LGBT population of Gaza feels about this

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-president-joe-biden-receives-chris-abele-impact-award-for-historic-leadership-on-lgbtq-equality.1374832/#post-148546039

I dunno I'm trans and I'll appreciate the presidents that let me exist

I wonder how the LGBT population of Gaza feels about this

The LGBT population of Gaza doesn't seem to be all that outspoken so it's hard to know. Even long before Ocotober 7th. I wonder why that is?

[TylenolJones]

After a three day ban the Dr is back doing what he does best; tutorials on how to spend thousands of dollars to play a game. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-is-how-you-emulate-your-switch-library-in-stereoscopic-3d-using-rendepth-reshade-on-your-pc-vr-xr-play-metroid-prime-4-in-3d.1375225/

I would accuse most people using an emulator this close to launch of pirating the game, but I know the Dr. paid for the $400 collectors edition.

[Propagandhim]

After a three day ban the Dr is back doing what he does best; tutorials on how to spend thousands of dollars to play a game. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-is-how-you-emulate-your-switch-library-in-stereoscopic-3d-using-rendepth-reshade-on-your-pc-vr-xr-play-metroid-prime-4-in-3d.1375225/

I would accuse most people using an emulator this close to launch of pirating the game, but I know the Dr. paid for the $400 collectors edition.

He sounds exactly like I thought he would.

[kaleidoscopium]

After a three day ban the Dr is back doing what he does best; tutorials on how to spend thousands of dollars to play a game. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-is-how-you-emulate-your-switch-library-in-stereoscopic-3d-using-rendepth-reshade-on-your-pc-vr-xr-play-metroid-prime-4-in-3d.1375225/

I would accuse most people using an emulator this close to launch of pirating the game, but I know the Dr. paid for the $400 collectors edition.

He sounds exactly like I thought he would.

Had the exact same thought 😂