There's a real clarity of purpose in having their prison system not be one focused on rehabilitation, or even simple confinement. No, we're going to suck any joy or spark you have left in you with monsters, to make sure you're all suffering.
There's a real clarity of purpose in having their prison system not be one focused on rehabilitation, or even simple confinement. No, we're going to suck any joy or spark you have left in you with monsters, to make sure you're all suffering.
The biggest thematic flaw with Potter was that it was never able to do anything interesting with how the fun escapism of the wizard school grated against the mounting evidence that the society they were training to join was a dystopian nightmare.
Remember that Troy Baker did digital redface for the last sucker punch game
Didn't the "Dark side" ending in that game have the lead character suddenly remember that he's native, go back to the tribe that hadn't been seen since the opening chapters of the game, and do a genocide?
It hadn't occured to me until now (likely due to Sony being a Japanese company) that Sucker Punch is a decidedly American studio making this deeply Japanese game.
My eyebrow raised the second I heard english voices with perfect english lip syncing.
Remember that Troy Baker did digital redface for the last sucker punch game
and a made-up tribe to boot!
I have previously complained about this myself, BUT I have in recent years learned that there can be legal liabilities to using real-life tribal nations, especially in anything that has characters from said nation undertaking criminal or otherwise "disparaging" actions.
Billions got sued by a real-life tribe, for a recent example. In that specific case, the show was REALLY DUMB and put real-life PEOPLE in a story about a tribal casino doing shady, underhanded shit, and THAT was the bigger problem. But legal departments get reeeeeeal gunshy.
Shit's complicated. I still prefer real tribes, but there are cases where the legal department ties your hands.
Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
When you have, say, the developers of the Killer Instinct reboot, a game with fuckin cyborg dinosaurs and battletoads and all manner of dumb shit, actually going to the effort to consult with the Nez Perce in an effort to build a more respectful representation of a native character, you do wonder what's SP's excuse especially with all that Sony money.
the thing is there is documented evidence in the books that Harry is a really good teacher and he fuckin' loves Hogwarts
You have to remember that there are a comically low amount of schools for wizards in this universe. And only high school. There's not wizard college or wizard elementary school so uh... yeah she didn't think things through at all. Where do Pure Blood wizard kids learn to read and do basic math? Certainly not to Muggle elementary like Harry and Hermione went to.
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did they ever explain why wizards need money when they can just make stuff with magic?
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pretty sure that if harry wanted the defense against the dark arts job that they would let him have the job
Curses are a real thing in Harry Potter, that job could legitimately be cursed. The history of the teachers there is certainly shocking. I don't think it'd be weird if Harry taught in his 40s, after spending two decades hunting Voldemort loyalists.
nobody actually needs money and jobs, it's just something we have to play along with to benefit the ruling class. the idea that even omnipotent wizards would still feel obliged to get up and go to work every day is actually brilliant anti-capitalist satire
did they ever explain why wizards need money when they can just make stuff with magic?
Cause they can’t make stuff with magic
there's a scene in the movie where some cups in a vault turn into like a thousand cups
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the thing is there is documented evidence in the books that Harry is a really good teacher and he fuckin' loves Hogwarts
i don't even like harry potter but harry growing up to be the defense against the dark arts teacher is so blindingly obvious that i'm baffled that it's not what happens
In book 4, there's magic leprechaun gold that disappears a few hours after they spawn it. This is actually the source of the big Harry/ Ron fight in that book because Ron paid Harry back for something with that gold and Harry didn't notice or care when it disappeared. Money has no value to Harry since he inherited incredible wealth in the first book. Ron is struck by the horrible unfairness of capitalism and directs that anger towards Harry. Harry's feelings are hurt and he thinks about income disparity for literally zero seconds ever. Including for the rest of the series. He occasionally buys his friends nice stuff (including funding the Joke shop in the later books) but often doesn't because of their pride. Which is also horrible, Ron goes most of year 2 with a broken wand which almost gets them killed in the action parts (and does save their lives at one point, in fairness).
the thing is there is documented evidence in the books that Harry is a really good teacher and he fuckin' loves Hogwarts
i don't even like harry potter but harry growing up to be the defense against the dark arts teacher is so blindingly obvious that i'm baffled that it's not what happens
Potter was written in that awkward era when social media was kicking off and tons of creators would abandon years of setup because someone “guessed” the obvious direction of the plot in their blog.
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the thing is there is documented evidence in the books that Harry is a really good teacher and he fuckin' loves Hogwarts
i don't even like harry potter but harry growing up to be the defense against the dark arts teacher is so blindingly obvious that i'm baffled that it's not what happens
Potter was written in that awkward era when social media was kicking off and tons of creators would abandon years of setup because someone “guessed” the obvious direction of the plot in their blog.
I mean, they probably still do that
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if I was a famous writer, writing a big ol' sprawling epic of a story, I definitely wouldn't change the plot. What I'd do is cite the person in a footnote on the page that their prediction happened on.
"holy shit he killed his mom!"*
*Scott Scottsman, tumblr 2019
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I mean for me when I read Harry Potter as a kid the parts I liked the most were all the normal school stuff, except instead of doing algebra they're learning how to fly and cast crazy spells.
It struck a good mix of regular school stuff that I could relate to, but also it's different cause magic.
Then the later books started going way more into the overarching plot of saving the world and focused less on them just being school kids which made them way less interesting to me.
Currently watching all the movies as background noise. The later movies are all dark and moody and by like movie 4 or 5 spells stop being fun or interesting entirely and everyone just uses their wands like guns. It could really be any movie about teens fighting big bad guy after like, goblet of fire.
DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
yeah even when I was a kid, I wasn't super fond of Harry himself.
I developed, in what must have been convergent evolution with countless other nerd children, the "Neville was the real Chosen One" theory and then I was like, "woah a message board about Harry Potter, I can't wait to tell them my- oh they did it already."
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i remember watching something where they commented on that part of the HP series. that in the beginning when they were doing wizard duels they di the disarming spell that seemingly only knocked the wand out of the other persons hand. then as the series went on that same spell seemingly was a catch all for "im shooting magic out of my wand at you" which did varying amounts of damage randomly. like sometimes when the bad guys used it and if it missed chunks of wall would explode and stuff.
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The biggest thematic flaw with Potter was that it was never able to do anything interesting with how the fun escapism of the wizard school grated against the mounting evidence that the society they were training to join was a dystopian nightmare.
and a made-up tribe to boot!
Didn't the "Dark side" ending in that game have the lead character suddenly remember that he's native, go back to the tribe that hadn't been seen since the opening chapters of the game, and do a genocide?
I'm told he also got digitally yellow-faced for Far Cry 4
ew, fucking really?
People just really like to ignore that actual, real life native people exist, huh
My eyebrow raised the second I heard english voices with perfect english lip syncing.
I have previously complained about this myself, BUT I have in recent years learned that there can be legal liabilities to using real-life tribal nations, especially in anything that has characters from said nation undertaking criminal or otherwise "disparaging" actions.
Billions got sued by a real-life tribe, for a recent example. In that specific case, the show was REALLY DUMB and put real-life PEOPLE in a story about a tribal casino doing shady, underhanded shit, and THAT was the bigger problem. But legal departments get reeeeeeal gunshy.
Shit's complicated. I still prefer real tribes, but there are cases where the legal department ties your hands.
He also did a Scatman Crothers impersonation to play Jazz in a Transformers game!
I—
Jesus lord
There's layers to that one
So, cowardice
But also, Harry Potter as a character is a shitty wizard who is only good at combating evil wizards, so it makes a sort of sense.
The bigger issue is that the Harry Potter universe establishes that there are maybe ten jobs for an adult in the wizard world.
You have to remember that there are a comically low amount of schools for wizards in this universe. And only high school. There's not wizard college or wizard elementary school so uh... yeah she didn't think things through at all. Where do Pure Blood wizard kids learn to read and do basic math? Certainly not to Muggle elementary like Harry and Hermione went to.
Cause they can’t make stuff with magic
Curses are a real thing in Harry Potter, that job could legitimately be cursed. The history of the teachers there is certainly shocking. I don't think it'd be weird if Harry taught in his 40s, after spending two decades hunting Voldemort loyalists.
there's a scene in the movie where some cups in a vault turn into like a thousand cups
Fake cups or some bullshit
I dunno, wizards aren’t known for their moral compasses
i don't even like harry potter but harry growing up to be the defense against the dark arts teacher is so blindingly obvious that i'm baffled that it's not what happens
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Potter was written in that awkward era when social media was kicking off and tons of creators would abandon years of setup because someone “guessed” the obvious direction of the plot in their blog.
if I recall the cups were also like, red-hot
the million burning cups were a security precaution.
I mean, they probably still do that
"holy shit he killed his mom!"*
*Scott Scottsman, tumblr 2019
Fuckin try to drink outta the fake wizard cup
Don’t blame me when your eyeballs turn into assholes
the character of harry potter as written in those books is a complete shithead
Currently watching all the movies as background noise. The later movies are all dark and moody and by like movie 4 or 5 spells stop being fun or interesting entirely and everyone just uses their wands like guns. It could really be any movie about teens fighting big bad guy after like, goblet of fire.
I developed, in what must have been convergent evolution with countless other nerd children, the "Neville was the real Chosen One" theory and then I was like, "woah a message board about Harry Potter, I can't wait to tell them my- oh they did it already."