Parvati was the only light in the darkness for me. I love her and her quest line, and hope there’s more good ace rep like her in other media.

I stopped playing the game as soon as I finished her quest line because I was bored with everything else =\

No thanks. The first was not good enough to warrant buying the second at $60, let alone $80.

He has always had a strong “sex pest” kinda vibe about him…

Good.

$80? Nah, I’m good.

I’ll stick to little indie-to-AA games at a lower price point and continuously making new stardew saves without actually making much progress as a break between them.

For real though, I’m so glad I got out of consoles haha.

I hauled more dirt than that in my 2010 sedan last weekend to fill a couple of new garden beds.

The thing is - there are millions of other things that you could find enjoyment in that don’t actively harm other people.

How about, for example, the plethora of IP that JKR plagiarized to create the HP franchise? Or anything that doesn’t have harmful stereotypes of various marginalized peoples? Or one that doesn’t degrade women’s roles in society by actively mocking main characters, or even passively by only having a grand total of 28 named women characters across over the one million words that make up the series?

Edit: apologies, I misremembered. There are 28 named women characters within the top 100 named character as listed by number of total mentions within the series.

Even if she weren’t a bigot, and she didn’t use her money to actively harm people using the money she makes, you would still be better off finding some other form of media to enjoy. You don’t have to land on one thing and make it your personality for the rest of your life. It’s okay to grow as a person especially if you’re an adult.

While I don’t disagree I think it’s important to keep in mind that kids and teenagers aren’t stupid - they are capable of understanding that you shouldn’t allow a bad person to continue to be a bad person if you have a conversation about why what JKR is doing is bad. Most of the vocal pushback that I’ve experienced offline has actually come from teenagers.

The problem lies squarely with millennial parents who continue to buy books/movies/games/merch for themselves or their young children because of nostalgia. They are old enough to know better, and should be held responsible for their actions.

The reason is simple: she’s a bigot. She has been successful at pushing her transphobic agenda into UK law, and she will continue to move across the spectrum because hate only knows how to hate even when they succeed.

This is exactly the reason I’m shifting from just warning people that buying her shit is immoral so outright calling them bigots for supporting bigotry. If they don’t want to be bigots they can stop giving her their goddamn money.

I won’t stop protesting until we make actual progress. Trump/Musk out of office, and constitution amended to prevent this dumpster fire from ever happening again. Not until people can afford places to live, and food to eat. Not until health care is guaranteed for all, not just for those who can afford it.

We can’t stop just because the government changes over. We deserve better.

The record was broken and he’s still going!

He is more coherent after 24 hours standing and speaking than Trump is on his best days.

Are we seriously back on this again?

OMG.

I want to spin yak hair (? Wool? Fleece?) into yarn so bad. That looks like so much fun.

I do not understand why people are crazy for eggs. I haven’t purchased eggs since the pandemic and I’m not even vegan.

Back when I did buy eggs it was because I had a single recipe that needed them, and then I would struggle to finish the carton before they went off. Now I just don’t bother and replace eggs in baking with a lentil replacement mix. It’s so nice to have several dozens of eggs worth of mix in a small bag that’s shelf stable.

Yeah, as an ex GS employee - GS does not have the profit margins on new games to do a sale like that on new games. Only used games get put on buy two get one sales, and those can be returned.

So this is definitely a /thathappened moment.

Also like… How old is this post? Even when I worked at GS years ago parents knew what CoD was. The first CoD came out in 2003 it is not the kind of obscure that parents would ask about.

RIP maxis. May you one day be reborn. 😔

Mmm, nah. I’m not giving money to EA for the sims. I will continue to get every new install of sims and sims 2 from the open seas and play them with WINE without issue like I have been.

I see you EA, trying to get an emergency cash injection via nostalgia after flopping with the veilguard. This won’t keep you off the chopping block forever.

I will continue to not play any of my Sony games on PC until after I see this implemented. I didn’t wait out origin on steam to be bamboozled into PSN on steam. They should’ve seen this coming and never tried it, the stupid assholes.

We already know they’re Nazis. No PR stunt should ever be able to save them.