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[DeepEnigma]

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Dude is down to 800k subscribers now lol.

 

[SaucyJack]

As of right now, no. Neither Metacritic nor Opencritic have included this "review" in their score.

Wired has not had a review included in Metacritic since 2020 and only had 5 in total from 2018-20.

2017 and earlier their reviews were more frequent.

 

[SaucyJack]

It makes sense to have a prefix that denotes "non trans" to use when having conversations about gender, you ned one really or it gets confusing. Cis is as good as anything else. No need to get all fragile about it.

Nah. You don’t really need a prefix to describe 99.4% of the population.

 

[adamsapple]

For what it's worth, Opencritic has not included Wired's review in their aggregate.

Hogwarts Legacy Critic Reviews

Hogwarts Legacy has been reviewed by 158 critics and currently has a 'Mighty' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.

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[Charles Brandon]

Nah. You don’t really need a prefix to describe 99.4% of the population.

you do if the conversation is about gender issues. Obviously. It's not going to hurt you.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Ya.

I'm positive he had over 900k not far from 1M at one time He's at 800k flat. He was 802k last week when I did a post about him. He'll be in the 700s any day now. He's probably lost about 15% of his users in a handful of years, which is crazy since follower counts for people go up in time unless 1. It's a dead account for years and people eventually curate their followers list and cut off accounts. 2. It's such a heinous account to follow and people spend time deleting it from their lists.

Jim Sterling is #2.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Ya.

I'm positive he had over 900k not far from 1M at one time He's at 800k flat. He was 802k last week when I did a post about him. He'll be in the 700s any day now. He's probably lost about 15% of his users in a handful of years, which is crazy since follower counts for people go up in time unless 1. It's a dead account for years and people eventually curate their followers list and cut off accounts. 2. It's such a heinous account to follow and people spend time deleting it from their lists.

Jim Sterling is #2.

It's like a self-sabotage.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Nah. You don’t really need a prefix to describe 99.4% of the population.

In Latin based languages there are words that actually use those prefixes without any gender meaning.
Their use is not exclusive to gender related words.

 

[EliteClarity]

 

[Boss Mog]

Nah. You don’t really need a prefix to describe 99.4% of the population.

Probably closer to 99.9% if you only count the real trans people and not the pervy pedo weirdos masquerading as trans.

 

[Neff]

By far the best video covering Rowling vs her attackers that I've seen. Extremely well-researched and astutely, level-headedly observed-

 

[Kacho]

Ya.

I'm positive he had over 900k not far from 1M at one time He's at 800k flat. He was 802k last week when I did a post about him. He'll be in the 700s any day now. He's probably lost about 15% of his users in a handful of years, which is crazy since follower counts for people go up in time unless 1. It's a dead account for years and people eventually curate their followers list and cut off accounts. 2. It's such a heinous account to follow and people spend time deleting it from their lists.

Jim Sterling is #2.

He definitely had over 900k subs because he did a under 900k special to show how not mad he was.

Before he publicly came out as trans he was getting a lot of flak for being one note for his AAA capitalism bad schtick. Seems it was a one two combo that lead to people moving on. His Jimquisition videos used to average something like 500k-800k. Now he's lucky to break 200k views.

What an incredible fall from grace.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

I would really like to see the analytics from the game of players that chose one gender but used the opposite genders voice.

Spoiler

Probably like 0.01% ... waist of dev time

Did the dildo guy know you could do that?

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Ya.

I'm positive he had over 900k not far from 1M at one time He's at 800k flat. He was 802k last week when I did a post about him. He'll be in the 700s any day now. He's probably lost about 15% of his users in a handful of years, which is crazy since follower counts for people go up in time unless 1. It's a dead account for years and people eventually curate their followers list and cut off accounts. 2. It's such a heinous account to follow and people spend time deleting it from their lists.

Jim Sterling is #2.

I used to watch his stuff, haven't watched a single video since he came out as mentally ill.

 

[Charles Brandon]

No idea why anyone liked him/her at any point. He's/she's always been an abrasive nobhead

 

[GymWolf]

Ya.

I'm positive he had over 900k not far from 1M at one time He's at 800k flat. He was 802k last week when I did a post about him. He'll be in the 700s any day now. He's probably lost about 15% of his users in a handful of years, which is crazy since follower counts for people go up in time unless 1. It's a dead account for years and people eventually curate their followers list and cut off accounts. 2. It's such a heinous account to follow and people spend time deleting it from their lists.

Jim Sterling is #2.

I lost any hope after his review of knack 2 when he said that controls were not good.

 

[SubZero_Wins]

One of my Transwoman friend is literally playing this game right now. ERA, You lose. Assholes

 

[GymWolf]

I used to watch his stuff, haven't watched a single video since he came out as mentally ill.

I liked his intro song and the accent.

 

[Kacho]

No idea why anyone liked him/her at any point. He's/she's always been an abrasive nobhead

He used to be cool on Destructoid. Like 2007ish. He was one of the few people that wouldn't blindly shit on Dynasty Warriors games at the time.

 

[Charles Brandon]

He used to be cool on Destructoid. Like 2007ish. He was one of the few people that wouldn't blindly shit on Dynasty Warriors games at the time.

I remember arguing with him on their forums around that time because he was insisting that the UK should relax our gun laws and that he needed a gun for protection in South London. Complete and total nonsense and belligerent with it. I have borne this grudge for many a year now

 

[AcrosstheSea]

I spoke with a couple of psychologist about this subject while attending leadership seminars and what I found interesting is that it's a proven fact in the field of psychology that a lot of people exhibit some behavioral patterns that are characteristic to the opposite sex than what we are. However, my general unbiased conclusion from those discussions is that yes, it is possible for men to act more feminine or women to be more butch, but I don't think it's healthy to enable those kinds of people to go into extremes such as performing sex change surgeries or start dressing up like they're about to put on a show in a circus.

I believe that those people, on top of suffering from an identity crisis that's exacerbated by certain social expectations (eg. "you're male therefore you should thoughen up" or "you're female therefore you should be sensitive and caring"), they just suffer from varying degree of mental disorders that simply push them into those extremes. And everyone around them never stop to think about fixing the source of the issue - i.e. society's ultra conservative view on gender expectations - or extending actual psychological help to those who need it, and instead they just encourage those people to mutilate themselves and foster a culture of absolute lunacy, where it's fair game to attempt to destroy anyone who disagrees with leftist views.

Well that's the problem isn't it? When I was younger it was perfectly normal for a girl to be a tomboy and for a boy to have feminine traits. It's not insane to realize like opinions in life there's nuance. It isn't black and white like ...oh she's into sports so let's push her to get her breasts chopped off and tell her she's a boy. Extremism like that is dangerous. Letting kids be kids is extremely important but people take such hardline stances on every little issue now. I have no problem with someone identifying as whatever they want, I have a problem with parents claiming their 4 year old can make such a huge decision about themselves though.

JK Rowling's so called, "Problematic" views are centered around her wanting biological women to have their own space in life. For a biological man who identifies as a woman can't undress in front of/or watch biological women in locker rooms. Biological men who identify as women to compete in sporting events against biological women. That shouldn't be controversial. 5 years ago the idea of things like that, putting biological women in those instances would be considered sexist. The power being taken away from biological women. She's a classic liberal feminist who isn't sharing new views. She hasn't changed.



Biology isn't controversial, it's science. That doesn't mean ADULTS can't live the lives they want to live. It doesn't mean anyone should stop an adult from making such decisions in their life. What it does mean is trans women and biological women are still different, as are trans men and biological men. You can't just ignore science to placate people's feelings. So grouping them together in places of competition or in uncomfortable places like locker rooms isn't right. If you do think it's right than we should get rid of divisions like that entirely.

 

[Last Hearth]

Haven't watched Jim Starling for years,, my last memory was him dressed up in Nazi costumes for his videos. Ironic that he became the one calling everybody else Nazis.

 

[Kerotan]

They didn't give it a 0/10 so they partially support real world harms. Jokes on them.

 

[ShadowNate]

They didn't give it a 0/10 so they partially support real world harms. Jokes on them.

As a matter of fact they support those harms about as much as JK Rowling's percentage is from the sales.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Well that's the problem isn't it? When I was younger it was perfectly normal for a girl to be a tomboy and for a boy to have feminine traits. It's not insane to realize like opinions in life there's nuance. It isn't black and white like ...oh she's into sports so let's push her to get her breasts chopped off and tell her she's a boy. Extremism like that is dangerous. Letting kids be kids is extremely important but people take such hardline stances on every little issue now. I have no problem with someone identifying as whatever they want, I have a problem with parents claiming their 4 year old can make such a huge decision about themselves though.

JK Rowling's so called, "Problematic" views are centered around her wanting biological women to have their own space in life. For a biological man who identifies as a woman can't undress in front of/or watch biological women in locker rooms. Biological men who identify as women to compete in sporting events against biological women. That shouldn't be controversial. 5 years ago the idea of things like that, putting biological women in those instances would be considered sexist. The power being taken away from biological women. She's a classic liberal feminist who isn't sharing new views. She hasn't changed.



Biology isn't controversial, it's science. That doesn't mean ADULTS can't live the lives they want to live. It doesn't mean anyone should stop an adult from making such decisions in their life. What it does mean is trans women and biological women are still different, as are trans men and biological men. You can't just ignore science to placate people's feelings. So grouping them together in places of competition or in uncomfortable places like locker rooms isn't right. If you do think it's right than we should get rid of divisions like that entirely.

Exactly. I was ambivalent/leaning towards the general liberal (not leftist) consensus on this nonsense until I had a daughter. Now I'm always worried in the back of my mind that if she ends up wanting to wear her hair short or do something like take shop class that some wackadoo will try to get her to question her identity. I very much avoid talking about her interests now, her not liking Barbies and such.

 

[Ogbert]

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Dude is down to 800k subscribers now lol.

Silly fat cunt.

 

[Trumpets]

It's a shame Resetera banned discussion of the game as it would have been very entertaining, but this thread on a UK forum is its own glorious shitshow:

https://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?/topic/318192-hogwarts-legacy-sirius-discussion-only/

These people are insane.

 

[itsjustJEFF]

Not a good look for WIRED. You're "Journalists" so you're supposed to as objective as you can be. This makes them look unprofessional and childish.

 

[marjo]

The narrative that Rowling is transphobic is complete bullshit. All she said was that there's a difference between people who identify as women and biological women. Even if you disagree with her statement, to claim that she's 'actively killing trans people' with her views is absurd.

 

[tkscz]

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Dude is down to 800k subscribers now lol.

Completely forgot about them, and I'd like to go back to doing so. Sub numbers are pointless these days. You get better information from average viewer numbers.

 

[AcrosstheSea]

Exactly. I was ambivalent/leaning towards the general liberal (not leftist) consensus on this nonsense until I had a daughter. Now I'm always worried in the back of my mind that if she ends up wanting to wear her hair short or do something like take shop class that some wackadoo will try to get her to question her identity. I very much avoid talking about her interests now, her not liking Barbies and such.

Which is a reasonable concern. Someone wanting to identify as a totally different gender that can lead to having treatments done to them is a massive step and when you hear people saying, " well my 4 year old is trans...." then it becomes clear it's not being treated as a massive deicision. It's a legitimate concern particularly when some schools try to hide this stuff from the parents.

It's almost as if adults in the country stopped being adults all of a sudden and let the kids take the rein.

The only reason people attack JK Rowling so heavily is because no one wants discussions of these topics to happen. When you don't have a solid argument the best thing you can do is attack the opposition or BAN to prevent conversation from happening. People should argue, discuss, debate, and disagree. It's important for a society to be able to test peoples views and see how strong they are when held to scrutiny.

JK Rowling wrote a pretty in-depth blog about her views. Even if you disagree with her views, playing a video game based on something you loved growing up doesn't make you a bad person. God forbid people find joy in life. It's the people who shame you that are the bad people. They'd never live by their standards but they put their standards on you.

Anyways, read the JK blog for yourselves -

J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues - J.K. Rowling

Warning: The below content is not appropriate for children. Please check with an adult before you read this page. To go back to the children’s page, please click here. This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an...

www.jkrowling.com

 

[M1chl]

Is this soycott still going?

 

[Fuz]

you do if the conversation is about gender issues. Obviously. It's not going to hurt you.

"Straight"

 

[RoboFu]

"Straight"

 

[SaucyJack]

you do if the conversation is about gender issues. Obviously. It's not going to hurt you.

Nope, not even then.

 

[anthony2690]

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Dude is down to 800k subscribers now lol.

What was he at prior?

I personally can't stand Jim Sterling's content.

 

[diffusionx]

Which is a reasonable concern. Someone wanting to identify as a totally different gender that can lead to having treatments done to them is a massive step and when you hear people saying, " well my 4 year old is trans...." then it becomes clear it's not being treated as a massive deicision. It's a legitimate concern particularly when some schools try to hide this stuff from the parents.

It's almost as if adults in the country stopped being adults all of a sudden and let the kids take the rein.

The only reason people attack JK Rowling so heavily is because no one wants discussions of these topics to happen. When you don't have a solid argument the best thing you can do is attack the opposition or BAN to prevent conversation from happening. People should argue, discuss, debate, and disagree. It's important for a society to be able to test peoples views and see how strong they are when held to scrutiny.

JK Rowling wrote a pretty in-depth blog about her views. Even if you disagree with her views, playing a video game based on something you loved growing up doesn't make you a bad person. God forbid people find joy in life. It's the people who shame you that are the bad people. They'd never live by their standards but they put their standards on you.

Anyways, read the JK blog for yourselves -

J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues - J.K. Rowling

Warning: The below content is not appropriate for children. Please check with an adult before you read this page. To go back to the children’s page, please click here. This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an...

www.jkrowling.com

JK Rowling made the mistake of thinking we still lived in a reasonable society where people can disagree and talk about things as adults. That society hasn’t existed for a while now. I think she figured it out though which has if anything hardened and radicalized her, and it has for many others as well. The constant attacks on her certainly have not made her change her POV to that of the attackers. And, you know, that sort of situation is why people who advocated for free speech do so. It’s also the sort of situation that people warned would happen when people realized they could use tech companies to advocate for censorship and cancellation.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Cis and trans should have stayed in organic chemistry.

 

[Kacho]

What was he at prior?

I personally can't stand Jim Sterling's content.

Looks like he peaked at 928k subscribers in Oct 2020. Since then it's been a gradual decline.

 

[anthony2690]

Looks like he peaked at 928k subscribers in Oct 2020. Since then it's been a gradual decline.

Oh wow, that's quite the decline, I wonder if people got tired of his shtick?

 

[Sleepwalker]

He used to be cool on Destructoid. Like 2007ish. He was one of the few people that wouldn't blindly shit on Dynasty Warriors games at the time.

I have never watched him but I took a peak out of curiosity and all his most popular videos are from 5-7 years ago, so yeah. Fair to say his audience is going down the toilet.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Oh wow, that's quite the decline, I wonder if people got tired of his shtick?

I only saw a small number of his videos and even I got tired of it. It was silly too. And this was before his whole trans change.

All I remember is he'd stand on a stage or something wearing a loud black and red outfit yelling and lecturing people like he's some alternate universe version of Hitler. And it seemed the exact same persona every video I saw back then.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

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Dude is down to 800k subscribers now lol.

Wow the comments are off the chain. Don’t they live in Mississippi or Alabama, two of the least progressive states? If so, very brave.
I just don’t understand the level of anger they have for her, for simply stating a scientific fact, correct?
I feel like alot of the LGBT community really looked up to her for being a successful feminist author/movie producer and when asked a question (why was this question asked in the first place) she responded. It’s like a kid meeting his favorite action star in reality and leaves very disappointed lol

 

[IchibanKasuga21]

I don't even care about western games anymore, but I bought HOGWARTS LEGACY just to support the wonderful person that is JK Rowling.
That person made me enjoy reading when I was a kid and I will be forever grateful. God bless her.

 

[Boneless]

I just don’t understand the level of anger they have for her, for simply stating a scientific fact, correct?

Instead of believing that bad things happen for no reason, enemies give us a sense of control, allowing us to attribute bad things to a clear cause that can be understood, contained, and controlled.

One study found that people are more likely to bond over a shared dislike—rather than a shared fondness—of a third party.

 

[Dusktildawn48]

It's a shame Resetera banned discussion of the game as it would have been very entertaining, but this thread on a UK forum is its own glorious shitshow:

https://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?/topic/318192-hogwarts-legacy-sirius-discussion-only/

These people are insane.

The amount of times these people use the word problematic drives me fucking nuts.

 

[Kelegacy]

The only reason people attack JK Rowling so heavily is because no one wants discussions of these topics to happen. When you don't have a solid argument the best thing you can do is attack the opposition or BAN to prevent conversation from happening. People should argue, discuss, debate, and disagree. It's important for a society to be able to test peoples views and see how strong they are when held to scrutiny.

100% agree. Whatever happened to discourse? The "it is our way or no way" is pretty damning. Sites actively banning discussion of a videogame is worrisome. Debate would help out both sides, what are these places afraid of?

Newsflash, people have opinions. Living in an echochamber makes everyone worse off.

 

[semiconscious]

Speaking of…



Dude is down to 800k subscribers now lol.

the 'confused' uncle that i'll forever be grateful i never had growing up...

 

[Raven117]

The amount of times these people use the word problematic drives me fucking nuts.

problematic = "things I don't like"

 

[belmarduk]

I don't even care about western games anymore, but I bought HOGWARTS LEGACY just to support the wonderful person that is JK Rowling.
That person made me enjoy reading when I was a kid and I will be forever grateful. God bless her.

Not a single person has done more to promote childhood literacy in the world. Her work has brought immeasurable joy to so many children.

How selfish would someone have to be to try to take that away because they disagree with one of her opinions?