Hairy Blotter and the Hogwash Legacy containment thread

Hey everyone I am creating a temporary containment thread for all posts related to the WB video game releasing this week.

All posts after this one will be removed, consider donating to aid groups for the earthquake.

Here is a pretty exhaustive list that hasn't really been researched in depth or vetted, please let me know if there are any terrible links and I'll remove them

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This "Goblin Artifact" is in fact an ancient Jewish musical instrument. A Shofar.
The team that made this game has explicitly leaned into the "goblins are jews" antisemitism.
- just following in the movie's footsteps with putting six-pointed stars in the bank when that was never in the book
  
  Tbf that is just the floor of the actual building that was filmed in.
  But hey maybe uh, pick a different filming location. Or cover it up.

Outside of the controversy, this game really feels ten years late.
- It also just doesn't look like a good game :edgeworth-shrug:
- :this:
  really the case for anything and everything Harry Potter.
  
  I have genuine fond memories of reading them with my mom and class as a kid, as well as seeing the movies, but they really didn't age well, which has only been aggravated by Rowling being a bigot.

the tweets about this game are honestly top shelf.
my favorite so far is "once you beat the game, you're taken back to the character. there, you can decide whether your character was actually gay this whole time!"

Ukraine Mega topics are getting weird

🅱️arry 🅱️otter
I have nothing intelligent to contribute to this conversation

The mod queue in r/gamingcirclejerk reaches 100 roughly an hour. :blob-help:

Is it even worth pirating? It seems like they distilled all the current gaming trends into a mediocre game and painted hairy poter over it. That IGN article read like they didn't like the game but weren't allowed to score it less than a 9
- Game reviews are legendary for being bought and paid for, the only thing that's gotten better is at least they're not printed on paper anymore
  
  The reason gamergate was able to use "ethics in games journalism" as an effective trojan horse is because it was a real grievance that gamers had.
  Of course we will now see how that crowd drops that facade like a rock when it's convenient to prop up a transphobic game.

Something that doesn’t get mentioned in this Hasan/Streamer controversy regarding the game.
The fucking developers recognise the importance of Twitch. They are giving exclusive benefits to Twitch viewers who watch people streaming the game.
But somehow streamers say it doesn’t matter if they stream the game or not.

Can you imagine these leftists who argue for this game actually trying to organize? Someone whose reaction to this is "Uh actually it's a consumer boycott and therefore not effective🤓" must be just incapable of solidarity of any kind. Genuinely, unironically doing the "there are starving people in Africa" argument at trans people asking for recognition. Absolutely 0 self-awareness.
- At no point did anyone on the left call it a boycott. At no point was anyone seriously trying to boycott the game but instead to simply tell people they're being dicks to trans people if they pay for the terf game.
  Boycott was a word given to it by the right, probably thought up by some pretty good strategists who knew full well that it could convince some leftists and libs to play it because "boycotts don't work".

There's gotta be what, like 5 other video games that you could be playing instead of the wizard game. Tetris, Farming Simulator 19, Jagged Alliance 2, Myst (1993), and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. There might even be more than that but I'm not sure.
- Dwarf Fortress is the only state approved game.

Tbh Sirona Ryan seems like a decent name all things considered, Sirona apparently has a buncha mythological shit behind it so that's on brand for transfem names.
Totally get why people are clowning on it though, pretty funny.
- if a real woman chose it as her name i wouldn't be shocked, but as is i wouldn't be surprised if someone leaks that it was an actively malicious choice
- Sirona is also a goddess of snakes, eggs, and mimicry so uhh

Replying with spoilers for transphobic game to everyone defending it in reddit
Update: banned from subs, whiny responses and reddit suicide awareness bot sent to me
- Unironcially how we should troll people. Telling people that the game has a nazi agenda will only improve its popularity, or people will get off on being bad by playing the game.
  If you tell them spoilers, CHUDs actually occasionally drop their smug, always-in-control grin. Nothing is more satisfying than watching them undergo narcissistic injury.
- what are the spoilers? I also want to do this
  
  Eleazar Fig dies at the end of the game. This happens on all possible endings and can't be changed. Also, the fact that Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne.
  Is the copy paste

:1984: keep your cats indoors. wash your ass. dont stack rocks. dont play the nazi wizard game. :19: :84:
- was there an actual struggle session I missed about whether or not people should wash their ass
  
  Not really. A user got really into the idea that bidets are bourgeoise decadence but everyone on that thread was pro washing their ass
- Did your food have pronouns? :vegan-v:

Virginwarts (L)egacy:
Basically play as a death eater...but it's good this time.
Boring gameplay
need wand to do magic
only hyped up because JK Rowling is a reactionary. The game isn't good by its own merits.
The Chad Scrolls V: Skyrim:
You play as the Dovahkiin, a bisexual rep from 2011
Your enemies include groups that seek to exterminate or dominate your fellow mortals: Dragons, vampires, and Thalmor
Don't have to hold shit to cast spells
Dovahkiin can kick Harry Potter's ass in a fight
So perfect of a game that they released it multiple times.

I heard third-hand that the Harry Potter game's official discord server has auto-banned the words "Jew" and "Jewish."
lol
- I don't think that's uncommon. A lot of pre-populated ban lists will do stuff like that to try to head off nazi shit-flinging before it starts.
- are they going to ban "goblin" because the dogwhistles are built into their own lore
  
  That's probably why those words are banned.

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