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[-] TransDesiTrekkie@startrek.website 60 points 2 months ago

It’s awful seeing a game based on a bigots work being bestselling.

It just feels like a reminder that so many people don’t care about trans people at all because of “nostalgia” and not caring that Rowling benefits and hurts us.

sighs I’m sorry for that rant just sad/disappointed/angry to see this.

[-] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Harry Potter was such a crucial part of my childhood and teen years. I cried when Dumbledore died. I read several of the books over a dozen times, and did an annual reread of the whole series for awhile.

I'm not trans but that TERF cunt will never see another cent or good word from me. I spit on her name as she spit on my childhood. Solidarity, friend.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

From a trans girl: thank you. <3

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

You will be surprised to know that you don't agree on much of anything with most people.

Why tf do we need to investigate every damn niche of a creator's mind before deciding to buy?

Idgaf he's a bigot, a cow or a racist. If I like x thing that was made, and them being a bigot, cow or racist does not impact the product I'm buying, then I'm buying it.

Every day we use products that were made under the control of CEO's that would shit on us rather than shake our hands, that have ruined so many lives you can't count them because it's probably "illegal" since they sleep with everyone in power, but somehow we draw the line at bigotry.

If you don't like supporting bad people you better move in a forest and start raising some chickens because almost everything we buy supports some form of moronity that we can't even comprehend. That one product you don't buy won't make a sliver of difference.

You not buying it is whatever, but expecting others not to is really pretentious.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Idgaf he's a bigot, a cow or a racist. If I like x thing that was made, and them being a bigot, cow or racist does not impact the product I'm buying, then I'm buying it.

Congrats on perfectly respresenting the core of what is wrong with modern society.

"If it doesn't get in the way of my mindless consumerism, I'll happily support people who are openly racist"

People like you, more so even than the bigots themselves, are why society is turning to shit.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also congratulations on completely missing my point

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

No I understood the point of your comment perfectly, it's the old "well we can't complete fix every problem with society magically overnight with 1 action, so we shouldn't try to do anything" argument. With perhaps a dash of "you want to improve society, yet you participate in society, curious" thrown in as well.

Basically if everyone were to have the same attitude as you literally nothing would ever get better.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Well thank god you're not buying anything from thisi artist. You singlehandedly fed like 1000 children who now don't get free lunches at school in america.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

The problem with Rowling is she has a massive influence over the space.

It’s not like some random black metal artist who lives in a cabin that no one’s heard of. She’s quite literally a billionaire from this franchise and spends a ton of that wealth lobbying against Trans people.

Quite literally the profits from Harry Potter are going towards hate.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess you don't care about a lot of the other categories either.

  • Rank 1, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 are developed/published by a patent troll that stifles the whole games industry with frivolous patent suits and milks their audience dry while investing hardly anything into their games.
  • Rank 5 and 6 are published by a corporation widely known for their leadership being extremely misogynistic and exploitative.
  • Rank 17 is published by a corporation that's known for being extremely exploitative.

Btw, most of the corporations on the list donated to Trump, spy at their customers, use anti-competitive tactics, overwork and exploit their developers, employ psychologists to squeeze as much money out of vulnerable customers (e.g. those with psychological issues) and so on and so on.

And you apparently don't care about any of that. The only thing you care about is that a game that actually includes a trans character is based upon a 20-30yo book series that contains no anti-trans content, but was written by an author who later went on to post some anti-trans garbage years after the series was done and dusted.

Tbh, that's concerning, that you prefer games that directly benefit a transphobe regime over games that are remotely related to a transphobe influencer.

[-] TransDesiTrekkie@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago

I haven’t played 99% of the games listed here. Pokémon Shining Pearl has been the only one I played.

I don’t support any of the other companies either and I’m well aware they donate to fascists.

The reason I brought up the HP game is because the author directly has been doing a lot of harm to trans people. This doesn’t condone what these other companies are doing but I find that many people tend to look the other way with the HP franchise as a whole.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People look the other way with literally everything.

They happily shop at Amazon, even though they are the modern-day equivalent of slavery.

They play Minecraft even though it's been developed by a white supremacist.

They use Windows even though Microsoft is complicit in a list of all sorts of horrible things too long to list here.

They use Whatsapp/Facebook/Meta VR even though this corporation has done more for the errosion of democracy than any other entity so far.

They buy Nestle, even though it's going so far as to cut off local populations from their water supplies.

The list continues on and on. Name a single corporation where people en large have done a real, long-term boycott for moral reasons. The only thing I can think of that kinda happened was when Tesla sales fell a little bit for a few months after Musk did a literal Hitler Salute on the largest stage he could find, but even that wasn't a lot and it's pretty much over already.

People, by and large, don't prioritize morals over comfort. They will always choose the best deal they can get, no matter what the long-term or moral effects are. People who put morals over comfort exist, but they are very rare.

And in most cases, people who shout for boycotts the loudest were never customers to begin with (e.g. me, who has never bought a Tesla, saying I will never buy a Tesla because of Musk. Well, I wouldn't have bought a Tesla anyway).

You, not having played a single game on that list (1% of 20 games is 0.2 games, so none) seem to be firmly in the camp of "I'm not a customer so I can feel morally superior by not changing anything I do".

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Some chunk of that is from counter-boycotters and anti-trans NGOs (allegedly even some GONGOs like citizengo), who bought up a lot, then dumped them onto G2A, gifted them for cheap, etc.

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