Drinker's Chasers - The Hysteria Of Hogwarts Legacy
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Things have been getting kind of crazy in the world of gaming over the past few days with the release of Hogwarts Legacy, based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. So let's take a look!
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You know what’s a cool magic trick? If you stop using social media you don’t even know any of this stuff is happening.
Until you have to take that Diversity Inclusion and Equity class at work, and they force you to call 6'4" 300lb bearded men, "she".
This is the real secret to living your best life. Social media is a cancer on society.
… I said on a RUclips comment. Hey, nobody’s perfect.
So true. Lol. Unplug from the nightmare. Plug into the REAL world around you.
It doesn’t mean it isn’t going to affect your life.
People have had their lives ruined by these online mobs even though they have never engaged in these debates. Just because you don’t know it’s happening doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist nor be obligated to leave you alone.
EXACTLY!
“Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” -Mike Tyson
Over here in the modern developed world we don't punch people. You must be American
@@DonHavjuan I think you missed the point. Because you just made the point.
please tell me that's a real quote. I love it
@@Megarobotsquadron It is. Even funnier when you think about the fact that such people can't even throw a punch properly
@@DonHavjuan You poor child.
The Drinker said something very poignant around 5 minutes in. He said "Imagine basing your life around Harry Potter." I think that's the biggest reason why so many people are so angry at her. The bottom line is, they invested too deeply into this fictional universe. Now that they feel let down by its author, they should have to come to terms with their own obsession. But they just can't. That would mean self-reflecting, and it's just too difficult for them. It's easier to lash out at Rowling than to come to terms with their own issues, so that's what they do.
Well, not gonna lie- Harry Potter is VERY emotionally significant to my life. That being said, when people were mad at her for supporting Johnny Depp (I took that as a signal in his favor but ok), they would tweet "I don't feel safe at Hogwarts anymore".
Yeah, I wouldn't put it that way, that's so cringe.
It astonished me that people didn't go "hey, this person I deeply respect said this thing, perhaps I should listen." and just abandoned HP. It was odd. That's when I knew something bad was happening in the culture that people didn't take the time to perhaps change their own mind, but the world must be altered to THEM.
It's a religion and JKR is a heretic, if they could they would burn her at the stake.
I don’t agree with everything she said if anything, but I don’t care either, she wrote some books I like and from that came some films I love, I disagree with some of her points on trans issues ect, and that’s where I leave it, why can’t other people do the same? Lots of people simply can’t disagree with someone and still remain respectful to them these days, sad to see, but we have to remember there’s a lot of reasonable people out there too.
Bryan Cranston is an absolute insufferable moron but I still love Breaking Bad. 🤷♂️
Absolutely! Yes, this is so true. The fools are upset their fantasy mommy does not approve of every opinion they hold, and the rage becomes visceral.
They've even attacked a VTuber named Pikamee, who is not even involved with any of the drama and got her to cancel her stream. They even had a site dedicated to finding people who have streamed the game. It's not about streamers having their viewers turn on them, they're literally forming lynch mobs to hunt down anyone who plays the game.
They didn't get her to cancel her stream. She allowed herself to be bullied into it. That's not the same thing. Never bend the knee. Never explain. Just do what you want to do and your audience will respond. If you lose the woke and they're the majority of your audience, you cultivated them as they're a tiny minority IRL.
Witch hunt.
And yet they call themselves the victims - as they do everything they can to ruin innocent lives. They are pure evil.
....... wow that actually just annoyed the hell out of me. v-tubers are usually very wholesome and these people decide to come in and screw with people who are just about having good vibes. seriously, fuck these people.
@@JustAnArrogantAlien the Leftist crys out in pain as they strike you.
"They hate one of their own if they step out of line."
Very true, Drinker.
That's why it's pointless to try to comply with their standards.
I dont know what JK is like on social media (I've only ever seen the infamous trans post), but the Harry Potter series was an embodiment of the best of left-wing ideals. I think that's what they can't stand - someone who remains stubbornly unpolarised, with a middle finger in their general direction.
@@CarrionCrow993 exactly! People didn’t like Harry Potter or JK because she was showing left wing ideals. Now suddenly she is supposedly a far right extremist… it shows the terrifying shift of the left… it’s going radical and it’s so scary
Not just stepping out of line, but also not going that step further. There are still people who follow these trends but have boundaries, but when they say "this far and no further for me", it's the same like stepping out of line for the fanatics. Because the main problem of fanaticism is that someone always comes along who's even more fanatic and the rest has to follow or be rejected by the group/movement.
Imagine not being in a cult and holding people accountable for their actions, rather than worshipping people regardless of their actions, just because they are on "your team".
Just remember folks its always the people who constantly virtue signal about being "tolerant" and "accepting" that act the worst when others don't think like them. Don't be afraid to call them out on their hypocrisy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.
They are insane, and must force everyone else to accept their insanity.
It won't stop until we fight back, and return our culture to sanity.
Id love to see if theyd have any ability to see the irony of actualizing a quote from a republican president. “If youre not with us, then youre our enemy.”
They don't consider it hypocrisy. You say hypocrite, they say Nazi. It's like smashing your face against a steel wall.
I consistently call them out for being "kunts". They don't like that either.... Go figure!
Its easier to call them out given the game has an open lesbian woman and a trans character
Amongst all toxic fans, Potter fans are on a whole different level, demonising a woman for calling women, women is beyond madness. The worst are the 3 potter brats who sided with the haters instead of the woman who made them what they are.
The idea that buying and playing this game somehow makes a person “immoral” is so ludicrous it’s frightening. What’s even more ludicrous and frightening is that there are actual people in the world who believe playing and buying this game is some key indicator of a person’s values or psyche or their propensity to become radicalized by said game. That’s such a non-sequitur it baffles the mind.
Being part of the outrage mob is like riding a tiger, the minute you get off it’s going to rip you to shreds.
More like joining the zombie horde, thinking that will keep your brain safe.
It won't.
And HOW MANY 'anti-trans' comments did Rowling actually post?!? I thought she only really made ONE post on twitter that suggested she thinks there's a difference between being 'born' a woman and being a 'trans' woman?
Did she release a FLURRY of 'anti-trans' messages that I missed?
@@StreetPreacherr according to one person I was arguing with she "successfully instigated a genocide" lmao of course when I asked for any sort of example they shut down and called me a bigot.
@@StreetPreacherr she also said biological men shouldn't be allowed into women's spaces simply because they declare themselves trans. Which is common sense, we already have multiple examples of rapists abusing that.
@@AstroBimpson These idiots think if you say a man can't literally become a woman (because he can't) you're saying all trans people should be attacked. AKA they have a very hard time with coherent, logical thought.
The irony is the so-called "victims" in this scenario are acting like high-school bullies intimidating and threatening anyone who simply want to play a video game. What an insane world we live in.
Yep..lefty’s who can’t see they are actually like Nazis. “Think like us or we will wipe you off of the face if the earth”
They are acting like the fucking mafia.
They're all breaking TOS on youtube, twitch, twitter, and elsewhere. So they should all be banned from their accounts online.
@@Vecha302 I can see influence on Netflix and other venues. Someone is getting checks for pushing the message.
Woke ideology is VERY appealing to bullies.
Hogwarts Legacy is awesome! Thanks JK and Warner Bros. This was the Potter game I always wanted.
aw cute jk had nothing to do with the game
@@corpse1244 So why are you so adamantly against the game!? JK created a world that people love. Quick trying to take away things people love so they'll like you more. It doesn't work like that.
@@weschester5432 because they spend too much time on twitter and think that the world she created is transphobic, anti Semitic, and whatever other buzzwords I’ve forgot
@@corpse1244 nothing to do with game *development* . The game is based on her fantasy novel so yes she had something to do with the game
@@shell6467 _"nothing to do with game development . The game is based on her fantasy novel so yes she had something to do with the game"_
Not in that sense that she made anything for that particular game in the context of whole debacle and criticism and attacks towards the Hogwards Legacy game happened.
With that kind of logic that she created the Harry Potter universe we could e.g. say that parent's of the girl we know as "Mona Lisa" also had something to do with the famous painting about that said girl because they literally created the person who is depicted in the painting.
It would also be asinine to attack Leonardo da Vinci or the painting if e.g. "Mona Lisa's" mother was a racist/slave owner/killer etc.
Same way it is asinine to antagonize a game which is based on a world Rowling created just based on that connection between them.
Context matters (in this case too), not just if we are able to connect a thing A to thing B in some way.
I am one of the ones who bought out of spite. Never cared much about Harry Potter at all. Decided to give it a try, and I think it's a fantastic game. Really having a great time playing it. Mission accomplished, wokes!
I think MightyKeef hit the nail on the head. They chose this game as their battle, because it's easy. Boycotting and protesting any of JK's other revenue streams takes too much effort. With this game, people can just get out of bed and start raging on the internet.
Yup. 100%
That's pretty much how it is for the majority of their "causes".
It's easy to just pull out your phone and start raging from your soapbox about something you had no intention of every buying in the first place.
But what about the iPhone you're tweeting from? Supporting Apple means you're supporting slave/child labor in China.
What about TikTok? Well, that's a Chinese company, meaning the money they get goes directly to oppressing LGBT people, Uyghur minorities, and more child/slave labor.
You could go on and on with all the things they buy and support that are "problematic".
But the difference is not using those things is "inconvenient". Having to buy a new phone? NOooo, I'll just keep using my iPhone, and pretend Apple did nothing wrong.
Not use TikTok? NOoooooo, I don't wanna stop using that, so I'll just pretend it's okay.
Etc.
The wokescolds on twitter are all too eager to attack other people for not living up to the standards that they refuse to live up to themselves.
Because it's far more convenient to just yell and scream, and not think about how they're being massive hypocrites.
Not one single person who has decided to boycott this game was ever going to buy it.
Sales numbers are MASSIVE.
And they won. There's trans in the game.
Not only has giving the toddler the ice cream taught the toddler that screaming works, the toddler hasn't even stopped screaming.
but raging on the internet is a lot of effort too.....🤡🌍
It's utterly insane, I heard a freaking Gamestop employee say she wouldn't play the game simply because of J.K. Rowling and I was in the store when she said. Yeah because you not playing the game is clearly gonna affect one of the richest, most successful women in history.
It's nothing more than grandstanding, thinking they are making "a difference" when really they are just validating their fragile egos.
She already fucked up enough being a GameStop employee.
And giving her even more money does help things how? If you have to play the game, pirate it. It's the moral thing to do.
How so?
Even if in some other universe boycotting this game did anything the only people you’d be hurting are innocent developers just trying to make a living. JK has fuck all to do with the game and she’s set for multiple lifetimes. You aren’t hurting her.
@@4203105 That's only true if you think JKR is wrong.
Playing violent games is no more encouraging kids to become violent or perform violent acts than Tom and Jerry made kids want to perform violent acts. It’s all a smokescreen for people who want to control what others do with their lives.
No the whole violent media thing is a smokescreen for weapons manufacturer lobbyists to protect their bottom lines.
Don't get into the culture wars they are trying to pull you into.
THAT is the smokescreen.
Itchy & Scratchy made me become a violent person. Took years of reprogramming.
“Nothing ever bad has come from people being added to a list” I actually spit out my drink! Haha
that felt out of nowhere.. holy hell
then again it was the second of many references to a certain group of people in europe a few years ago
Except maybe a child or two being hunted by Nazis, but those are the good Nazis according to the US government.
It was never about justice, it was always about control
And revenge. Don’t forget revenge. Because they’re all “victims”.
We should send them to china.
Control = Power
Power = Corruption
u need a break from 4chan lmao
Maybe not even that. Maybe it's just about shoveling shinola to a niche audience.
Something i saw on twitter sums it nicely
"I hate JK cos she's a bully, so i'm going to bully those that play Hogwarts Legacy!"
Hypocrisy is the religion of the woke liberals ..... and they are devout. For people that ramble on and on about their identities they have an incredible lack of self-awareness, lol.
The funny thing is that this makes people not want to support your cause. Which is kind of the problem you see is that people undermine the very causes they apparently stand for.
Asmond was told that he deserved the death threats lol
Keep playing. Keep streaming. Who cares if crazies hate you. These are emotionally unstable adults who behave like children and should have been told NO more when they were growing up.
News flash. They already hate you.
@@A_RUclips_Commenter They hate everyone. even themselves.
True. But they also can be very well organized. Call your employer, your bank, your studio, your landlord and ask them to fire you and succeed. Deplatform you.
That didn't happen to Rowling, fortunately, but to others.
@@Coromi1 You're right, they can. The people in question amassed this power because they took an inch and no one said anything, so they took a foot and no one said anything. Now they take miles at a time and people are starting to speak up.
Your best defence remains to know your values as a person, know your platform/state/government/corporation's policies and be the adult in the room.
There are always ways to fight back or stem the damage they cause. I can elaborate further if you like?
@@jlokyo180 I can't do that. But we can. I am happy that there is a backlash in Britain on shutting down peoples' bank accounts. We don't have that in Germany.
It just fascinates me that a very small minute minority of people seem to have the biggest voices heard on social media and other media platforms yet somethings that you would think we should get past already and we haven’t and I’m just gonna leave it at that
It's their major strategy and they use it for everything.
Silence the opposition and screech even louder.
Yeh, one would think that 15-20% of the population is trans instead of
"I'm a fan of J.K Rowling"
"Oh, you mean Harry Potter?"
"Harry Potter?"
To be fair, it's possible that some people like her contemporary fiction rather than her fantasy stuff.
@@jrd33 I don’t even know who she is but magic go brrrrrr
Gatekeeping your hobby is the healthiest thing you can do for it. If someone wants to change the hobby itself, tell them to leave and go kick rocks.
Fuck yeah. Be bigoted. Gatekeep your hobbies. Get these freaks out of it!
The problem is there is bad gatekeeping, so it's easy to be label part of the problem I stead of the solution. The trick is to balance it
but I don't want to kick rocks, can we make it hug rocks instead? And look at all those violent rock kickers, they need to be cancelled, immediately.
@@carsandsports123 pretty much this. There’s gatekeeping to keep out disruptive elements, and then there’s gatekeeping over minutia, but where the line between the two is often hard to define.
@@Ebalosus what is an example of bad gatekeeping?
10:58 "They are trying to rewrite reality..." Nerdrotic -- I agree, and you can never win against reality. It's a foolish fight. .o0
The war on objective reality gets some push back but when they try to attack the world of fantasy, the one we go to for escape, they will be struck down in the same righteous fury they pretend to wield.
Amen, brother.
you truth-telling sunuvabitch. take my like!
They were once contained on Tumblr. They turned it into a nurgle hive and once they had grown fetid and fat off its corpse the gates opened once it died, unleashing them upon us
They infected Twitter and Reddit next. Via twitter they spread their dumb ideas to virtue signaling politicians.
i feel they are more slaneesh then nurgle cause their obsession with gender and sex honestly though they also most likely have aids so nurgle also makes sense well at least we know they do not have khorne or tzeetch cause they cannot put up a fight to save their life or they have no mental capacity to think and be mind broken by tzeetch
So that is what the damned stinky Morty was doing, eh? Brotha, there's no hug for you anymore, perish in flames
Someone needs to send Rowboat Girlyman into Nurgle’s garden again
They like to think they are Khorne berzerkers, but as a man cannot actually become a woman there is no regular blood for the blood God.
Once a Potterhead, always a Potterhead. I don't believe for one second they aren't all secretly playing.
Well, some of them are probably secretly wishing they were playing it. 😂
@@Peeps7468 I'm wishing I could play it lol
@@Gwenhwyfar7 yeah I was in a discord with some someone that was kicking off, saying any purchases of the game support that 'transphobic piece of shit' JK Rowling and she's evil. (I think the person identifies as non binary). And then the day after the game released they just quietly say they've finished the whole thing in a single sitting😅 what a hypocrite🤣
if they are playing it they're prolly telling themselves what a horrible person they are for playing it.
@@CreativeCache101Discord is full of diddlers and groomers
Another win for sanity.
People are putting their foot down and momentum is growing.
Gaming became "this" when Gen Z let it become their entire personality. Streaming culture has exploded and big media has a vested interest in claiming the youngest generation when they are the most influenceable.
There’s literally a trans character in the game. Like an OBVIOUSLY trans character. But it’s never enough. They’re now complaining because of the characters name, that it’s too masculine or has some sort of double meaning.
I thought it was an audio miscue
Yeah, not remotely subtle is it, ‘she’ literally has a deeper voice than me and I’m a 31 year old man 😂
This is why you don't cater to these people in the first place. You can't please them.
Ah yes trans people in the 1800’s
Needs to be at least 42% trans representation in game.
It's hilarious how Harry Potter went from being a hard right moral panic to a hard left one.
It all seems to come from the same place of attempting to control how people are allowed to live. Shame
I know right 😂
All moral panics are the same. Thats why I can never take any of it seriously, and I have to keep reminding people of the _previous_ moral panics and where they were coming from.
@@SvendleBerries why would you remind them of reality, they dont want that 😉
We cant reason with the unreasonable unfortunately
Still looks pretty right-wing to me. It's just the secular ones this time.
As an adult, i purchased every Harry Potter book and every DVD. JKR is an excellent writer.
She's excellent at worldbuilding, does prose well, and has a knck for developing friendships in her stories.
The rest, not so much. Especially the romance stuff, you'd think she'd be better at that with her knack for friendships but no.
@@davidwilson6577Harry ending up with Ginny was a horrendous choice, even she regretted it
Love all of you. Great collaboration! Melonie Mac - "John 1...17"? Nailed it, you're in.
I'm 19 hours in to Hogwarts Legacy. This game is amazing. I couldn't imagine handicapping my happiness over someone else's tribal identity politics.
This.
In an era where studios just throw out half baked games to make quarter earnings, Hogwarts Legacy is an oddly complete and highly polished game.
But does it have a spell that turns people inside out?
@@MattCrashBest Lol, it has spells to turn people into barrels and chickens, so yeah kinda xD
This game literally has so many different characters from all over the world and all skin colors and even a transgender thats actually likeable in this game....and they still mad...id go as far to say as the split between whites and all ppl of color in this game is easily 50/50 it's super diverse..ive heard atleast 15 different accents I know
That's the problem with staying stuck in a bubble or 'safe space' - you forget there's an entire world outside of it and end up convincing yourself your bubble is the entire world.
Oh top of that, running from anything that makes you scared/uncomfortable makes you weak. You get stronger by confronting your fears and understanding the things that scare you.
In answering the final couple questions regarding spells in the Harry Potter canon
1. There is no spell in the canon (at least not in the original 7 books) which "turns people inside out".
2. Sectumsempra - the spell that evicerates the target and "gashes them open", was created by Professor Severus Snape, not Voldemort.
3. The spell that was reffered to which "removes bones from peoples bodies" is called Brakium Emendo - Might acttualy be (and probably is) a spell that mends broken bones, but when it was cast in the second book/movie by the invenerable and unfathomably incompotent Gilderoy Lockhart (who pronounced the spell "Brakiam Amendo"), he botched the spell so hard that it completely removed the broken bone in Harry's arm.
(Perhaps) some fun little side notes -
"Brakiam" sounds a lot like "Brachium" which it the latin/medical terminology for fore-arm - the part of Harry's arm that was broken - before Gilderoy "fixed" it.
"Brakiam" also sounds a little like a shortened/conjoined version of "Brækket arm", which is Danish and means: Broken Arm.
"Amendo" means "amendment" in Esperanto - an amendment in common usage meaning; a minor change disigned to improve the subject.
Amendement is also used in french and english for the same meaning. Especially with law.
[ 7:25 ] EXACTLY! *"When did gaming became like this? 'cause it used to be like a subculture that was kinda edgy and it was like about artistic FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION and doing what was interesting and cool, and it was irreverent, and now it's become THIS, a cog in the machine, corporatism!"*
What a great vid. Not only true, but absolutely accurate too. Thanks for sharing. I'm grateful that there are still some people denouncing, pointing out and execrating these abominable realities, which are no less true because they are horrible. BTW: The writing in Hogwarts Legacy is really good, with excellent voice acting, no matter what haters say. It's a good game, it just is! Magnificent music, stunning visuals, gorgeous animations, certainly entertaining and interesting story, fun mechanics and progress, it's very good! whatever haters -and fanatics wanting to shove their political agendas into gaming- say.
I really respect JK for her ability to hold onto her property, now a days you are forced to sign away all your IPs but she manages to hold to her creation and it's inspiring.
there was a rumor she was offered a ton of money to sell the IP to Warner like Lucas sold off Star Wars. But since the backlash, I don't think she will ever let go of the IP, especially after the trans trolls threatened her kids, and even future grand kids just because she said people with a PENIS shouldn't be going into and exposing themselves in women's safe spaces.
yea i agree, even George Lucas gave away the Star Wars franchise to Disney for a buck. J.K. is also the only women in the top 15 all time wealthiest women on Earth that made her wealth off of something she created. All the other women were married to wealthy men n which the men died, and they inherit all the money, or they were daughters that inherit their parents' money.
"I retain all rights to my property" should be the standard, not the exception.
Whilst wholly dependent on individual circumstances in truth few independent creators are ‘forced’ into signing away anything, at least not in the literal sense.
No, most simply get dazzled by the stupid money big corps typically offer up for all rights and interests to their lucrative creations and happily proceed to sign it all away. To her credit Rowling is one of the few that has, so far at least, declined such temptations, although it helps being already filthy rich of course… 😉
Isn't JKR lib and she put some lib in Harry Potter? Didn't she say Dumbledore is homo changed Hermione to being African? So some libs would probably be ok with her.
'People weren't calling it out soon enough'. Amen. As a kid i was taught to be easy going to respect/get along with others. As an adult i realized being easy going with certain people just leads to them demanding/bullying for more (give an inch and they take a foot) and that i really don't care to get along with them anyway....i respect their right to have an opinion, but unfortunately don't respect them as a person. Not based on their opinions/beliefs- just their general 'crappiness'.
I say people can have their free speech but it's also mine to disagree. Free speech is for protecting disagreement. You don't need protection if you already agree with people.
@a apologies, but i don't really understand your response. wish you the best regardless 🙃
I respect them as a person, but I strongly disrespect their ideas
Don’t bend to the mob. Don’t let them intimidate you into not streaming this game. They want you afraid of them - that’s where they get their power. If we all laugh at them, ignore their temper tantrums, and move on with our lives, their grip is lost.
Did the fans already do that when the game sold thousands to billions of copies?
Most Twitter accounts are just troll bots.
Elon musk, exposed most of them.
I heard that in Hogwarts Legacy that you can transmorgify enemies into an exploding barrel and then detonate them, not only instantly killing them but killing their friends nearby...
My most favorite thing to do during combat is use disarming spell and then flinging their weapon back at them. Super satisfying
Its a blast
Imagine how much of a bad person I must be to just want to walk around a place I read about as a kid, I should be shot
You... you... MONSTER
"How dare you!"
-Greta Thunberg
You really need to read more books than that.
@@jimluebke3869 did I say I didn't? 👀
@@mikejardine9447 Sadly, a lot of people don't these days. =(
I've seen one Harry Potter movie once, I don't remember it at all and I think this game looks awesome.
I saw a great image of a framed cross stitch saying: You picked a weird hill to die on but at least you're dead.
The films are crap.
The story itself is OK, they just picked child actors more or less based on looks rather than acting ability or chemistry with each other.
Plus they made extremely weird and unnecessary additions to the scripts which add nothing to the films purely to add more unnecessary CGI VFX shots.
For the first 3 films it wasn't a problem, but it is from the 4th film and progressively worse from them on.
The adult actors do fine I might add - the problem is that most of the dialogue is the bad child actors.
@@mnomadvfx Couldn't disagree more with most of that. The trio was cast perfectly and Daniel Radcliffe IS Harry Potter, couldn't have made a better casting. I will agree that Emma Watson did show her inexperience but hey she was a kid she did well enough. That being said, I agree after the first 3 films, first 2 for me personally, the directors continuously went down in quality and changed way too much whilst including way too little from the books. The 4th film is the biggest disservice.
I agree with you about the movies
The books though get better and better after 3
The combat really is the best part. I haven't stopped having fun trying different approaches to enemies and situations. The gameplay loop is also really satisfying and keeps me entertained a lot longer than any individual aspect could possibly hope to.
"Even in the most radical of groups, you will find that if you stray from the doctrine, you'll see hard times" - Michael Franti in 1991
Truth ☝
I got it through preorder and played like four hours on the 7th and let me tell you, when I finally did get off my face was sore from smiling and it took me several hours to quit buzzing from it. It's pretty, it's fun to play and I'm looking forward to logging on for another several-hour session (just have to make sure my calendar is clear).
And yeah, if people hadn't whined about the game so much it would have totally passed a lot of us by because I had literally forgotten that it was even a thing until people started drawing lines in the sand. The Streisand Effect strikes again.
I could hardly contain my excitement when I first heard peeves being mischievous and exploring the castle and finding lots of little secrets.
As someone who’s been a massive Harry Potter fan since childhood, watching the movies and playing the other video games nonstop, I just want to enjoy a brand new game and ignore the people that are acting like idiots over things that don’t matter.
I heard a friend of a friend at the pub say JK Rowling was evil the other day. Just shows a complete lack of understanding of what evil actually is. Its honestly disrespectful to anyone who has actually suffered at the hands of evil
Astonishing.
The watering down of terms like "evil", "hate", "bigotry", and so forth by people with absolutely no sense of proportion and a grossly overdeveloped and completely unwarranted sense of self-importance is sadly nothing new.
I always point out the blatant homophobia of people who say JKR is evil. Shuts ‘em up pretty quick
As someone who has zero interest in Harry Potter, the campaign to cancel the game has only made me more interested in it.
I wouldn't have given it a second thought, but now, it has my attention, and it looks legitimately good.
Funny how that works.
As a Harry Potter enjoyed, I suggest reading the books and/or watching the films. If you can't, there are a few channels on RUclips like MovieFlame and Harry Potter Folklore and Harry Potter Theory that create content based on the source material. 👍
@@dresadan1387 This is really weird. I thought the movie series was okay, and some parts where really good. Got the game just to see what the buzz was about, and I love it! Getting the books tomorrow and like, Im not a reader. Also Im a "Ravenclaw" apparently 🤔
It almost sounds like a genius marketing strategy if you think about it.
@@lennyztrobos8678 The books are a lot better than the movies, trust me. I hope you have fun with them. ✌🏻
I read the first one when I was 11 and I'm 35 now, it's insane lol
@SpaceBird People becoming interested in media that other people are trying to bury or destroy has always been a thing, doesn't have shit to do with trans people. It even has a name, the Streisand Effect. People don't like to be told what they can and can't do, and are stubborn in the face of tyranny. Activists very much don't understand that and have been wreaking havoc on their own causes for years now because of it.
A lot of people wouldn't have known this game even existed had the drama not gone mainstream and put its existence in everyone's faces.
I'm one of them, I've never read the books or seen the movies and hadn't heard of this game before the controversy. I love RPGs but was under the impression that Harry Potter was more of a kid's thing that you'd have to be nostalgic for to enjoy, so I likely wouldn't have even considered playing it had I learned of it organically, but the reviews have all glowing and praising the open world so I decided to give it a shot and pre-ordered it.
She’s onboard with all that left nonsense for everything apart from 1 thing, and it’s still not enough for them!
110% conformity is required comrade.
@@Lonovavir you’re not wrong
It's never enough. Good thing is - that means they will eventually destroy each other.
Where the Eye of Sauron rests, you must be obedient! It doesn't matter how compliant you were in the past, on how many topics, if you don't back the Great New Thing.
She agrees with like 95% of Trans Politics as well. Her stance is also the stance the left has held for decades, yet because she refuses to update to their latest talking points she must be destroyed. The left stated for years that "Gender is not Sex" to defend their push to accept people claiming to be the opposite sex. Rowling is standing by that stance, she has made it clear that she supports trans people being their "real selves" but does not agree that Trans Women are Women.
I wasn't even going to play the game but after all that hysteria... I got myself the Deluxe Edition. Didn't even regret it, great game. It's like with the Parental Advisory sticker on music albums. Meant to do harm, became the best marketing possible ❤
Melanie hit it on the head. Gaming has become hijacked. Any avenue that we have for entertainment now has to be a test. Movies. Shows. Video games and right on down to even FRIGGING BOARD GAMES.
I'm enjoying Hogwart's Legacy so much!!
The fact that its success is also upsetting mentally unwell activists is a nice bonus. Those people are evil for harassing streamers and getting that Limited Run Games employee fired.
they literally harassed pikamee i will not allow that to happen again they touched the tea kettle so they deserve flames
How woke is the game?. Heard of trans character, can't choose white as race and not many non diverse characters?
What can you say about the gameplay and the story? Also, how does it compare to old Harry Potter games, what improvements are there?
@@mrdee2454 I am not incredibly far, but I can say that I am a white guy in the game. You don't actually pick a race, just a scale of dark/light you want your skin to be. And you don't actually pick a gender but do pick which gender dorm to be in. Everyone uses They/them pronouns to avoid getting specific but games have been doing that for ever. So all that saying it isn't too much in my opinion. At least not yet.
@@mrdee2454 its a video game dork, who cares
My one issue with this whole thing is when people like Pikamee gets bullied into canceling their stream, she’s too sweet for this nonsense.
As to the question "When did gaming become like this?", you can thank Zoe, Anita, and Brianna for ALL of that.
THIS
Ironically, probably one of the most inclusive games I've ever played (even goes out of the way to make sure the PC is non-Binary by default never referring to the player as him or her)
I watched a comic book creator get cancelled for "misogyny/transphobia" because he wrote a story that amounted to "Team 7 fights King Kong". Of course they'll cancel someone for playing the wrong video game! It's a religious cult.
Religion and a cult the total opposite
@@theenchiladakid1866 no. They are absolutely the same thing.
Andre speaks perfectly pronunciation, volume, tone etc , everyone’s great andre has a pleasant voice, thanks Y’all
Shame about the other 2
Drinker has the same idea about JK as I do. She is hardcore leftist on all kinds of things, but it's just ironic as all hell that the second she stepped out of line she got burnt for it.
It's honestly amusing to me.
If she's a hardcore leftist why is she a Corbyn-hater? If she lived in my country she would definitely have supported Hillary over Bernie. She's not left about anything except certain cases of bigotry, is she?
@@bronwynbeistle8317 Mate you think I give a fuck about her specific taste of leftist? All I know is she catered to the mob and messed up and got eaten by them.
@@bronwynbeistle8317 Lol 😂
I miss when video games were for nerds instead of a mainstream battleground for stupidity
I wish all wizard school enjoyers a very happy Hogwarts Legacy week.
I certainly will when it's finally available to play on my Xbox one which is couple months away😉
im waiting till the switch version comes out
I’m playing the fuck out of it, fuck the trans lefty mob
"He might have had a sudden attack of common sense." That's brilliant
He got a call from his lawyer. "Are you frickin' NUTS?!!!???! The first time someone on your list gets mugged in an alley, you're gonna lose your shirt in the lawsuit."
I wouldn't say "brilliant". Like IllTemperedCur says, nuked for self defense purposes.
It's an old pattern, it just gets spread further online. That crowd walks things back not because they realized they're wrong, but because it's "bad optics" or might cause them problems.
Clever line from the Drinker, but in all honesty, it seems like he shut it down because of the backlash. So it seems he couldn't even stumble onto common sense by accident.
It sickens me how many reviewers for the game feel the need to mention Rowling's "abhorrent views" yet can't provide any examples.
So I've been following this hysteria for last few days I feel compelled to give my 2 cents regarding this issue. As a black transwoman I 100% agree with you guys. Everybody has the right enjoy whatever game they purchase without being harassed and bullied. This hysteria over this game is disgusting. The fact that people totally ignore all of the other issues with Activision blizzard harassment nobody screaming boycott them. End of the day if you want to support trans people donate to charities, be supportive, friendly most of us just want to live our lives and mind our business. This whole thing is just horrible. I do appreciate the work are doing. Not all of us are crazy. Hopefully this improves and the woke crowd goes away so we can get good stories again. Minus the pandering. Sigh. Personally I love RPGs and I enjoy the Harry Potter series so naturally I plan to get it. :)
I've always said it's the vocal minority that causes all the hate. We had a similar thing happen at my high school back in 04-05. A vocal group from our LBGT+ students caused trouble for regular students just trying to get to class. Needless to say, the blowback put them in their place by the time all was said and done. I felt bad for those who were not part of that group, sure I didn't agree with them (at the time) but as far as I was concerned, they have the right to exist and enjoy life regardless. Unfortunately, they got hit just as hard if they we 'out' about it. all because a few morons couldn't behave. It would be really nice if we could get rid of that vocal trouble making group, all they do is cause trouble for everyone else.
Serves them right. Lots of Dev's worked really hard on the game and would have been affected more than JK ever would be if the game got cancelled. How do you like them apples?
And they made the devs bend the knee by putting trans in the game.
They won, and yet they still keep screaming.
It's time for them to start losing, and not stop losing until we live in a sane world again.
Well, they aren't actually "gamers". Just casuals who drools the moment a video game story/character is dark and edgy or super "anime-like" because that automatically makes it a 10/10 in their eyes and the people who disagree "just didn't get it".
They have no clue how game development works unless they decide to defend a dev studio, then it's somehow the rest who "doesn't know how game development works".
@@jimluebke3869 Oh wow, one trans person? Big deal. Not gonna let one trans character spoil the experience especially since there doesn't seem to be anything specifically egregious about it, and no they haven't actually won because people haven't been boycotting the game.
@@SteelValkyrie202 Why are you still pretending the slippery slope isn't real?
That's called "gaslighting".
gee Will, I don't like dem apples one bit....
Remember guys, of all the political issues from the Yemen genocide, the war in Ukraine, climate change, inflation, the Uyghur genocide or the fact our government’s more influenced by foreign lobbyists than actual voters, a Harry Potter video game should be the biggest issue right now.
I mean, you're on an entertainment critic's channel right now
@@james3876 I’m not necessarily mocking drinker’s chasers but everyone who’s into politics making this such a big issue. Why when the whole world is burning (ukraine war, potential war with china, covid causing inflation, the gap between the rich and poor growing wider by the day, BlackRock shenanigans) why do people primarily into politics waste so much time on this?
It mostly is feminists whining about this but a lot of right wing channels are feeding into it. I’m just saying, if your primary role is politics then focus on POLITICS. Not trivial non-issues.
@dylanbuchanan6511 But that requires intelligence, effort and research. It's easier to rant for one minute about bullshit.
@@Caffeine_Club exactly. These so called activists aren’t actually doing any journalism work or trying to change policy. I’ve begun to believe that one of the chief sins of man is sloth, and it explains the feminist mindset so well.
You see, they know themselves well enough that they don’t want to do research topics that affects people’s lives and aid the truly poor and downtrodden. It would require years of dedication and study that a slacker (or slacktivist, to be more precise) would never dream of doing. But they still want to be morally vindicated. Fighting forced prostitution, environmental damage or economic affairs is tough and mentally draining.
But they still want to FEEL like they’re doing something for the world and their fellow man even though they’re just too slothful to do just that. When you become an adult you having this longing for purpose and much of that purpose comes through aiding your fellow man. So when they recognize this desire within themselves but ALSO recognizes their laziness and apathy they have to meet somewhere in the middle and that mostly comes down to 1) trying to attack trivial/mostly harmless things like a Harry Potter video game and ruining real peoples’ lives 2) doing something to make people FEEL good that’s a token effort at best but accomplishes nothing in substance, such as making a black woman a super hero.
This nonsense is grade A slacktivism and it’s killing not only our youth’s sense of worse but political discourse as well. The day a nation is so spoiled that it can have its main issue of the day be the “transphobia” surrounding a Harry Potter video game is the day that nation deserves to be destroyed.
Their lives are easy so they have to make up problems to solve
Legit though the game is so good I think it deserves a Game of the year nomination at the very least if not a win tbh
Soo nice to see Melonie adding to the topic in such a positive manner!
I'm honestly surprised that the game is fun. Literally played it yesterday and so far, I'm already at level 18, or was is it 19, for my character
Is it worth the price point?
@FineCastle IE if I didn't have the Xbox pass, I wouldn't have bought the game. But if you want to wait for a sale, do it
Same. Got the game purely because of the controversy, went in with zero expectations. But damn this game actually fun and isn’t half completed or broken. Huge improvement from the regular trend of games we’ve been getting
@@finecastleie it is in my opinion and i haven't said that about a game in a while, barely a harry potter fan but the aesthetic alone is just incredible, super impressed with how glitch free all the magic is too.
@@finecastleieyes!!!! I bought the deluxe edition and it’s well worth it
It's been hilarious watching streamers try to cope and justify playing it. One guy who I'm not gonna name cuz i actually like the guy tried to say he's playing it so everyone can see it and they don't have to play it. Give me a break. You're doing it because you're gonna make a ton of money and exposure doing it.
Exactly. You could see the mental gymnastics coming from miles away. I'm actually shocked more people didn't realize this would happen lol. If they're not out already, you are going to see plenty of articles pop up like "it's actually a good game BUT......." etc etc.
@@sexistspaghettios it's absurd. All they have to do is say, "I'm not taking a political stance on this. I just wanna play this game." But they're so terrified that they're gonna be next on the chopping block that they wouldn't dare claim to not take a stance, even when it makes them a hypocrite. I'm so sick of it all
Girlfriend Reviews?
@@sherry356 Bruce greene... the guy that used to be on g4 and funhaus
I want someone, ANYONE, who streams to go "I'm playing because I want to. Die mad and cope." publicaly.
Drinker always reminds me of Rowan Bettjeman from VLDL. The similarity is uncanny XD.
About turning people inside out, I think in CoS, it was mentioned there is a very dark spell that can turn people inside out found in Magick Moste Evile...but I dunno if they'll include that in the Dark Arts pack XD.
First she gifted us the magic of Harry Potter, now she gifts us the magic of rationality and logic. JKR is the GOAT.
Hogwarts Legacy is another great example of the profitable combination of competent and dedicated teams giving the people what they want
I didn't want to see a transgender in a video game about children like there are in Hogwart's Legacy.
Basically. This game is *literally* the HP game fans on any level have dreamed of since childhood. They do not gaf.
Yeah. They need to be given every single franchise now 😆
@@IceQueen975 What Harry Potter fans dreamed of having a transgender in a Hogwarts video game?
Disney… pay attention to this!!
The game looks fun. Triggering wokies is a huge bonus.
I haven't played computer games for some time, but my friends who still play are saying the game is awesome.
It is good fun - the irony is the game is pretty 'woke' anyway - Hogwarts is a school where there seem to be no actual minorities, just an even balance of all cultures and creeds. When you create your character you can be trans too.
@@robsawalker and if you notice noone ever get's called he or she at any stage of the game which doesn't really affect anything but is a fun ironic tid bit i noticed lol
Want to trigger them some more?
Develop a mod that takes the trans character out of the game, and disables trans character generation. =)
@@jakewood281 that is not even remotely true. They use non-binary pronouns for some characters, everyone else is he or she :D but "they" gets thrown around some times
All these ppl have done is made me enjoy the Harry Potter universe even more.
Listening to this while playing HL and enjoying a glass of red wine. Ahhhh....so relaxing ✨💖😌
Cool.
Should be said that the VTuber Pikamee did not do this to herself, she didn't cultivate any of this, she just wanted to play a game and they came after her because she was an easy target.
If you cultivate the type of crowd that won’t scoff and laugh at people trying to cancel you over such things you get what you deserve.
@@hansmoleman2666That's a lot of assumptions. Most people I know take what followers/supporters they can get. They don't curate their audiences. You only get to do that if you're wildly successful.
@@hansmoleman2666 So you're victim blaming and justifying libs and bullies? People don't own and control their fans or who wants to be fans. Fans are not obligated to defend people they're fans of. You're acting like libs, overreaching and making up ridiculous accusations towards people.
All JK did was point out the obvious. There used to be a word for "people who menstruate". Biological sex is a reality, there's only 2 of them, and there can be labels for them both. If we made new labels, whatever those new labels are would just be the new "man" and "woman" label. (since the old ones have been hijacked to include anyone who simply wants to be called it, which makes them meaningless)
I've read about 100 Star Wars books. I didn't watch youtube recaps or anything, I read the lore straight through without any prior knowledge of the EU.
Now I wouldn't consider myself a normie anymore buft back then I was the same as anyone who's only seen the movies but with a greater love for the universe.
I've also read the Silmarillion and other adjacent books. I must admit I needed a lorecast to understand it all but I still read through. I didn't give up just because I didn't clearly understand two or thrsee things.
Stop babifying EVERYTHING.. Go away with the story mode or "complete retrospective" videos. Who tf are you to tell me I'm not good enough for a game or that I can or can't warch a movie because you said so?
"Isn't there a spell that can remove all the bones from your body, so you're like a jelly-man?"
That was a short story by Ray Bradbury. The "protagonist" develops a phobia of skeletons, and so finds a doctor repellent and unethical enough to remove all the bones from his body, leaving him an inhuman horror on the floor.
Is this a timely story? Nah, couldn't be.
Yeah, but when animated skeletons chase you around. They don't see you with eyes that they don't have. They're just communicating with the one waiting to get out of your body.
Kinda happened in the second HP book too, but it was only Harry's arm.
That happened to Peter in family guy
Ray Bradbury was ahead of his time
I've probably read a hundred of Bradbury's short stories by now, and it always amazes me to hear of ones I've never heard of. The guy was such a fantastic ambassador to writing.
I don't consider myself left or right but anyone with a brain can see who the bad guy bullies are in this situation.
Leftists are pure evil
as a former lib/centrist who became proudly conservative in 2016, you're going to start seeing that more and more... People try to shame me for it, or act like I'm stupid or ignorant for picking a team, but I'm a conservative because I am trying to conserve the liberals ideas of the Western Left before 2015... None of my positions have radically changed. None of my core beliefs have shifted. Radical leftism is just that; radical. That would be fine if the moderate left held any sway, such to the extent they had since their inception, but they just cede all their arguments and resolutions to the worst among them out of mere cowardice. Horribly saddening to see a whole political sphere I once loved fall into darkness. I am proud of believing and projecting conservative ideals, even if they might not align with every traditionally conservative perspective. It's been really heartening to see many people form all walks of life identify as conservative and bring their own ideas to the fore. We're not all straight white men.
When my friend asked me why I identify so strongly as a conservative I told him sometimes you have to pick a side if you want to have a say. You can't change the world in a democracy by not voting. Apathy is moral decrepitude.
It’s hilarious because if you don’t use Twitter or see any sort of video regarding this topic you would never know it’s happening. I had no idea until a few weeks ago.
The ironic thing is they increased the notability and awareness of the game exponentially by throwing such a fit about it. I don't follow gaming, or the Harry Potter-verse, so I never know about any game releases, yet I can't stop hearing about this one.
I can't wait to see what the guys at South Park do with this whole situation. I'd love it if they make it a Butter's special. lol
Lmao what do you think they’ll do, they’ll probably play the middle ground and then admit the Trangry boycotters were 100% justifies and right. South Park is woke garbage.
@@hansmoleman2666 🤣🤣you really must not watch South Park.
Omg brilliant
*In a Gimli voice* "YESSSSSS!!!!!"
South Park is too annoying to be funny. Screechy voices and shit animation.
There are very little triple A companies that produce entertaining video games these days.
Apart from your one or two outliers indie is probably the best way to play games. Made by real human beings that set out to make great games instead of companies who try and pander to every single group to make as much money as possible
Nintendo is still pretty normal at least.
This is true, but when those AAA companies do produce a really high quality and entertaining game (i.e. Elden Ring, GoW: Ragnarok, and now Hogwarts Legacy) the praise is always well deserved
Nothing says ‘dignified boycott’ like screaming spoilers to a video game all over social media. We all know those boycotters will end up playing it, and _hate_ themselves for it.
If they have the spoilers then they have already either played it themselves or watched a streamer who already finished it. Either way, they have either supported the game or the people who are playing it. If they had even a shred of self-awareness, they’d be hating themselves already.
What I love is nobody actually cares about storyline spoilers in an open-world game... you just go around doing whatever you want and get to the main quests when you get to them.
melonie mac has said several times that these movies/shows are targeting the smallest percentage audience. i STRONGLY DISAGREE. The production companies are targeting Blackrock financial as their target customer base. Anything else is irrelevant. The second Blackrock gets rid of its ESG system is the second all of this goes away.
I think the thing that disgusts me most about the whole situation is the bevy of articles that have come out essentially trying to imply 'Well, what REALLY made HP what it was was the fans and the community, so really this is more OUR thing than Rowlings".
Like... No. That's not how it works. People don't just get to CLAIM something because they would rather they owned it. I don't even like JK, but I can admit that she created a great world with memorable characters. That's her legacy and she worked incredibly hard on it. The level of entitled hubris someone has to have to think they're OWED ownership over someone else's work because it would be convenient for them is mind boggling, made all the worse by all of them piling on in lockstep as though they'll get their own way in that method. Absolutely disgusting.
It’s funny cause a lot of these dramas stem from twitter, but what a lot of media and people on twitter don’t realise is the large majority of people don’t use twitter or care about it because it’s not real life 😂
"Why are YOU defining that as your loss?" -MauLer
Great point!
"I burned all my Harry Potter books".
Yeah, and people burned their Beatles records when Lennon said, "we're more popular than Jesus."
Afterwards these same people went out and bought the albums AGAIN.
You know if RUclipsrs didn’t even cover this “controversy”, then we could’ve just left this to a couple thousand twitter users being mad inside a void.
Imagine being scared of the weakest humans in history. 😂
For reals. 😆
An apple a day keeps the bug eaters away
more like disgusted
I have never been so happy to part with $80s before.
Bonus, game is fantastic.
One thng about Hogwarts students one cannot say is that they never miss leg day. Especially the Gryfindors and Ravenclaws with thier common rooms in towers while the Hufflepuffs nestled in the kitchens and the Slytherins sulk in their dungeons.
This video is excellent. I love getting an insight into controversial topics such as these. I was extremely curious why jk had so much hate for a simple trans disagreement. I now have a deeper understanding. Appreciate the work all you guys go to to research and discuss these topics so I may increase my knowledge on them.
I originally wanted to buy it before the controversy because it looked cool. Spite is what made me pre-order the deluxe edition. The game is genuinely very good. Very immersive, good fan service, good combat that requires some attention and skill, good exploration.
Same. Deluxe pre-ordered just out of pure spite.
Funny thing is that the "boycott" gave the game more attention than it probably would have ever gotten by itself.
Streisand Effect
Not really, all of this online war between "left and right" is only a thing of internet culture, no real person out there gives a sh*t about it
@Antonio C.
Internet people are the ones who buy and play games. I never even heard of the game, nor cared, until the stupid controversy brought it to my attention. Now I'm considering buying it because it looks good. Could just be my arrogance assuming everybody is in the same boat as me, but I can't be the only one.
So I'm going to whip out my nerd card. Sectum Sempra was created by Snape and it's something like a slashing sword attack that inflicts massive bleeding.
There is the ability to transfigure enemies in the game, so not turning them inside out but you can make them into other objects and then throw them at other people.
Diffindo in the game feels like using Sectum Sempra
It was so awesome when Snape casually revealed to Harry "Oh yeah, Potter, I'm the halfblood prince" and just left
I love how the drinker is drinking on the job
Played it last night and this morning before leaving for work, it’s really cool so far and honestly darker than I initially thought it would be. Aside from no Quidditch, this is the game I’ve always wanted.
Yup it just keeps getting better and better too, hopefully we get a quidditch dlc someday
if enough people buy there's no doubt it will get the DLC you hope for: Hogwarts: Quidditch.
@@drlca6601 yeah I just hope it’s multiplayer