You asked for comments from those with multiple letters after their name. I have a BA, two Masters and a PhD in social sciences. My academic assessment is, "Them bitches be crazy..." Hope that helps clarify the issue.😀
Sadly, we cannot dismiss so casually, however tempting it is to do so. We must find ways of conveying our perspectives to militant trans activist. We must find ways to tell them - even though many people will not accept their chosen gender identity, most people do not hate trans people.
"I really don't want to get involved in this..." "If you don't pick a side, you're a bad person! Not picking a side is picking a side!" "...Fine. I'm against you." "[shocked face] Whuh? B-but... Why?" "Because the side that's against you didn't demand I pick a side."
First comment in a while that literally made my eyebrows lift a bit. Seen something like this before somewhere, but spot on in terms of this video. kudos!
Precicely why transphiles are just as harmful to the transgender community as transphobes… maybe even more so cause we at least are willing to leave people alone.
common reaction honestly from the loonies, they are always shocked when their well planned harassment and personal attacks all fail. Reminds me of religious people who they to debate atheists without realizing that their arguments only work on their religious friends.
pretty much, I completely forgot the game was coming out and I never even planned on getting it. Because of all this I actually saw some gamplay thought "oh this might be interesting but at 50% discount". Then I remembered I don't like harry potter that much.
The publisher is quite happy for the faux controversy. But, in the end, we just caused more tribalism. Humans aren't evolved enough to handle social media.
My wife who somehow manages to stay away from the circus of social media and its stupidity says to me "So what did Rowling say that's so hateful and has people trying to boycott her?" "She said there's only two genders." "And....?" "That's it." "They call that hate speech?" "I told you, facts are now hate speech." "Oh, well now I want to go rewatch the movies." "I'm proud of you."
It is so funny, because she never even said anything remotely trans-phobic... Her statement was more accurately "My experience as a woman is valid." And that was said immediately after pledging her support for the trans community. If you haven't seen the post that started this whole thing here it is. Just for context. "I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so." -J.K.R.
That's sorta the problem though innit? Just saying it point blank like that doesn't actually resolve anything. If someone disagrees with you, then you're just ignoring their perspective to be comfortable in your own. Now, I'm by no means one of the weirdos who won't play a videogame cause of some views of an author... but to file it down to just 'she said there's only two genders' is a bit simpleminded and insincere. Rowling's said A LOT of things to continually push that section of society further away. It's a moot point anyhow. Hogwarts Legacy was always going to sell like hotcakes. Anti-Anti-trans folk like to say the backlash to the game is why it's selling like hotcakes, but the raw facts are... anything Harry Potter related was going to sell like hotcakes... they made a f'kn amusement park based on Harry Potter for crying out loud, people are crazy about this series.
@@lenajohnson6179 People lost their jobs. People had their lives and reputation ruined. The activist lunitics started all of this over a simple tweet.... here it is for context in case you haven't read it on your own. "I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so." If you think that was anything but supportive to trans people and pro-feminist, then you are the one in an echo chamber, hiding from facts that make YOU feel uncomfortable. Let's be clear here. You haven't read anything compared to what I have regarding this issue. I promise you that you will NEVER find a directly insulting or trans-phobic statement made before this woman was attacked for saying "My experience as a woman is valid." Dont come into a thread and post righteously, virtue signaling unless you can be sure the other participants have not done leagues more research than you have. I have looked on both sides and I promise you that you wont convince rational people that the things J.K.R. said at any point, are anything but fact. If you want to ridicule her for one thing she said, you have to be willing to celebrate the good things she said as vigorously. Your side of the table wont do that because it utterly destroys the victim narrative. Dishonesty is dishonesty no matter how you try to justify it.
I asked some 20-somethings at work why so much controversy. They told me JKR was evil and said horrible things. When I asked what those horrible things were, they had trouble getting to exact examples. Just vague comments about anti-trans stuff. So, they hate, but don't know the exact thing that makes them hate. This is the danger of blindly accepting what you see online.
That is what ticks me off the most about this stuff. The folks who actually do or say horrible stuff are extensively quoted. But the less dire the statement, the more likely it is that it will be alluded to with opinionated words like racist, misogynistic, or transphobic, but not actually quoted for folks to make their own assessment.
This is like those anti-Trump protesters that were holding "Trump is racist" signs but couldn't produce examples when asked. I mean, who better to know about the topic than people protesting about it, right? So how could they not know examples of the very thing they're protesting about?
I think they have a pretty good handle on the situation. JKR basically has a history of saying vague anti-trans comment. She just throws them out there whenever talking about the subject, stuff like transwomen are not women. You don't need to memorize the exact comments to have an opinion on it.
And the bullies saying the same thing. Like old school bullies who did actually discriminate against the geeks violently in school for well, being dorks, and geeks ect… though we do also have some of the same idiots who are now just making fun of us on the inside now that geekdom culture and video games are mainstream and stuff. Plus a lot of geeks are also handsome looking folks who do read comics ect….
So a bunch of guys that get dressed up in black uniforms, go around beating up political opponents in the streets and lying about their intent and the "crimes" they are fighting against call themselves anti-fascist. Well this is a society that uses the Alanis Morissette definition of irony.
The Italian fascists were buttressed by a goon squad--the Black Shirts. It was the inspiration for the SA or the Brown Shirts in Nazi Germany. I've always said that history is cyclical.
@Jimbo Bimbo I dunno, speaking as someone who doesn't like antifa, and BLM, and the LGBBQ crowd, I think cops are bastards too. Btw, Daily reminder: the ATF has never done a good thing in their entire existence and actively murdered women and children.
The three most important philosophical structures to ever exist: Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs Ron Swanson's Pyramid of Greatness Chato's Heirarchy of Stupidity.
This all boils down to tribalism. No matter how far we progress technologically and scientifically, fundamentally we feel comfortable and valued in 'tribes' with similar people - and vindicated to attack other tribes who are different. LGBTQIA+ is just another tribal group in a succession of many over the history of our species. We need to grow up.
I'm the UK, there are at least 2 groups who have separated from the tq+etcetc because the nut job activists accused some lesbians of being transphobic cos they didn't find a bloke identifying as a woman to be attractive. Yes, they are a bat sh1t crazy bunch
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Exactly. 'Us vs Them' is so deeply ingrained in our mammalian brain parts and aggression in our lizard brain parts that it will be very very hard to change this through culture alone. It's also why sexuality tends to go like it has always gone in the past 100,000 years and no amount of social or cultural reprogramming will change that.
The Mary Sue published literally dozens of articles about this game and how it is "problematic". The most ironic of them was written by one of their editors lamenting how the movies were "spoiled" for her so she wrote an entire article to spoil the game's story for others.
That's exactly what activists love to do. They want to spoil everybody's fun. They are miserable and they want everybody else to be just as miserable, which gives them a self-righteous glow of satisfaction because they feel they have just protected a marginalized group, which makes them feel a tiny bit better and more determined to ruin more people's fun - a vicious cycle.
Apparently the people writing on the "Mary Sue" (didn't know it existed until your post), don't understand being called a "Mary Sue" is not a compliment. The writing can best be described as "sophomoric" and I mean that with peace and love.
There's also a Jewish angle... You know the goblins being an antisemitic trope? As a Jew is disagree with it... Same for many Jews. Again, activists who are most of the time not even Jews themselves... If they actually cared about supposed antisemitism in her work... They would use the *death Curse* as an example. It is *litterally* dictionary deginition of litterally, a Jewish Kabala *Healling Blessing.* Of which name she used to name a *death curse.* An *officially ubforgivable* curse. Also, they want Homophobia? The Only gay pairing that can be inffered in the work are all not *only* disfunctional. They litterally *only* can be evidenced in the most disdunctional points in the characters lives. Lets see. Dumbeldore and Grindelwald. Grindelwald litterally pushed Dumbeldore into the dark path, and possibly got his sister killed. Then they broke up, *& then Dumbeldore became the Hero of the Wizarding World By Defeating Grindelwald. Not in the book, JKR said it later... Next *Couple* Harry and Draco- first Draco was obssesed with Harry, and thus his own life went progressively *worse* the more he went down that path. Wben he had morw important things to worry about, *Harry becams obssessed himself* ibcluding dreaming about him. Guess what was happening to his own life at this time. And in the Happy Ever After? Both Married to Women. Again, when their interaction would litterally read like a slowburn enemies to lovers if one of them was a girl, they were both *the worse versions of themselves.* Ron and Crum: Ron is his fanboy to the point that if he was a girl you would expect her to try to get in Crums pants. Interprating this as *interest on his part* would litterally make his falling out with Both Harry *&* Hermione make far more sense. That Harry was *chosen by the Hat* was by this point expected. Ron is already known to both have Strategic thinking(chess) and native knowkedge of the Wizarding World. It makes zero sense of why he turned on Harry at that point. But If not only is Harry going to *have fun?* but he's going to be in the same *space* as *the Crum.* That is *too much.* Then *Hermione* went with Crum to the Ball... And *Now* him being barely communitive in the Ball makes actual sense. Yeah he liked her, but by this point, and for quite a bit after, frankly, he barely gave indication that he knew she was a girl. After this, well, a dude going foe a girl because she reminds him of a boy was actually an active litteraly trope at the time. Two examples *The mists of Avalon* Sir Lancelot only went for Guinevere because she reminded(was the wife of) Arthur. Plain text. Not subtext. In the Assassin series by Robin Hob, The antagonist of the book has raped a woman because she reminded him of her brother. Both Books were written a bit before HP Book Four. Just the examples I can think of right now. Back to Rons obbsession with Crum. After his fight with Hemione over Crum, is when he began to repare his relationship with her, and his most sympathetic bits and developments, involve getting closer to her. Ron *&* Harry- Every stupid thing Ron did was always involves trying to impress Harry. NOT Hermione. Harrys Boy Fans- The Colin and Dennis Died. Both brothers were fans of harry that are almost *universally* in the canon disrespected *for that.* So yeah. *Any* Character that can possibly read in a *queer light* those scenes *never* bring those characters in their *good* moments. None of those people even mention *any* if this. But they will read into F'ing Goblins Antisemitism, anf a not nice lady they will cast as Trans so they can find their Transphobia. Please.
I have lived through and survived a cult -- this is what they have become and it will get them nowhere with people not caring of the cause. Making lists and being the new Red Guard of Twitter isn't the way!
The leftists eat their own. They have no tolerance or forgiveness for anyone, meaning that when they ultimately put their foot in their mouth, they will get attacked by not just their fellow leftists but all those they have attacked in the past. They're like the TV evangelists who yap about sin then get caught committing them.
I literally consumed this product because they told me not to consume the product. I hate when people wanna boss me around lol. Also I knew this was going to make them mad. Everyone hates "holier than thou" people. Praise JKR, she is cool and badass for not caring about the woke mob thats what I respect.
"Those making lists are dangerous", amen to that Chato. Enough examples of that fact. I Bought Hogwarts Legacy yesterday and am enjoying this game. Not because of al the ruckus surrounding it, nope. it's just a good and fun game. It takes me away from the everyday grind and relaxes me.
@@lidu6363 Sweet jesus, if you look at those goblins and see jews, you're the problem. If you knew anything about Harry Potter, you'd know goblins and wizards have been on bad terms for a while. There have been 2 rebellions from the goblins, maybe even more, in the past. This is just the third and odds are won't be the last. Goblins are just goblins, you know like fantasy things? Next thing you're gonna say is "A game that allows the killing of werewolves is a direct assault to furries" Despite werewolves existing long before furries became a thing.
@@lidu6363 You're quite the antisemite, aren't you. I've not seen anything resembling a caricature of a Jewish person in the game yet. If you're hearing a "dog whistle", I think you're the one with the antisemitic tendencies.
If I have to guess, some people have gotten quite used to be able to boss around enormous organizations about what they can't do, what their customers want and what they need to change. It must be intoxicating, to have your opinion over pettiest of things heard and obeyed. And then, suddenly, people are not listening the message and bullying and insults intensify. The saying is about how power reveals character, but for some people, illusion of power is sufficient.
That's true, isn't it? Bossing around big organisations. Didn't it start with said organisations naively asking customers: how did we do? or: tell us the name of the member of staff who did a good job. That led to ugly-souled nasties who thought it'd be fun to threaten low-paid waiting staff to provide them with a free meal or be crowd-reported and sacked - and look how it's escalated!
For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn’t.
As best I understand it, this decision was appealed, and Maya Forstater's belief (and most other people's) that biological sex is real and is not trumped by gender identity has been confirmed as protected by law against discrimination, including in employment. For which, cheers.
@@anelbegic2780 Just in case this is in error, we'd probably better double-check and get a link to that ruling. If we still need to fight this, we need to know.
I am kind of odd on this one, in 2001 I had just barely caught my breath after liberating Kuwait, literally, so much smoke LOL. And then was trying to save, and go through a divorce, that while I knew of potter, And admired the writer for getting kids to read, I just never got into it. I am sure I watched some of the movies with my kids, and even sister, whom I had adopted by that point, But it was just a thing. Not like ST TOS had on me as a kid, or even Stargate did when I was older. But I bought the game the other day, and man, It made a 52 yo man a fan of the series, over night.
I'm 46... I support JKR and the game, but personally I just can't get into it. I was a Tolkien kid and Harry Potter was always kids stuff to me. It does look like a pretty good game, but I have a dozen other games that need playing, and I don't think I'd get as much out of it as an uber fan. Glad you're enjoying it though.
@@mercster One more minor observation, did anyone else feel like Potter was just kind of like Star Wars in many ways. The original trilogy that is. Loner kid, learns he has a special power, recruited by an old man, his friends are a beast tamer , a kind of dorky but lovable scallywag, and a gal who you have no idea who she is going to go for...
@@stephensmith6660 I don't know any of the story, so I dunno :-) But Star Wars is the classic hero's journey, so you will find parallels with it in lots of stories...
It's ok. They bought it to so they could review bomb it not realizing that it's the equivalent of book burning where you bought the book just to burn it - paying everyone who created it.
In reality there aren't many boycotters. Most of the people who say they'll boycott it would have never bought it in the first place. Its like me who has never smoked claiming I'm quitting smoking for a New Year's resolution, they just like to squeal and join the unwashed masses
@@arkainin4638 I was just saying how I liked him mentioning strange and hostile beings transporting in from another dimension. There was no political statement in there.
The funniest thing to take away from the fake Hogwarts Legacy drama is that the intended boycott has had the opposite effect. The people that they convinced not to buy the game would have been minimal to zero, but the people that didn't know about the game and found out about it through the crazy people and then pre-ordered it because of them is lots.
It is almost enough for me to believe it was manufactured by Portkey to promote their game. That is if I wasn't already aware of how self sabotaging idiotic those people are.
A society is truly decadent and spoiled when this is what we are concerned with in the present day. When the crap really hits the fan, this lunacy will cease to exist as we deal with real problems and issues that concern everyone. Too much time on our hands and a ruling class that watches things burn like ironically Mr.Burns. Great video Chato!
JK Rowling is quite culturally, politically liberal herself, so her struggles with other leftists is analogous to factions of Stalin, Hitler or Mao fighting among themselves. If I'm overstating the ideology in 2023, then: Today's exaggerations are tomorrow's reality.
Most likely the maps mentioned are progress maps of the "final solution" I don't know the correct English term. So basically evidence of the crimes of that era
Paul, when you mentioned your family's plight, it reminded me of something. The social, cultural and political extremists from either end of the spectrum don't believe that anything can be learned from history. Their view of the past is that it either didn't happen, or was completely wrong on all levels. Sometimes, they hold both opinions simultaneously, of course rhetoric, debate and irony are foreign to them. It makes one long for the old days, when the public's only forum was the letters to the editor page.
It's also said that the winners get to write the history books, and in modern times, that saying seems to have been inverted so it's those who write the history books who get to decide the winners. Learning from history seems like a perfectly logical way to guide your life, except it implies that the history that you learn hasn't been fabricated or twisted by someone with an agenda [cough] _1619 project_ [cough]
@@whitworth5s248 first the winners write the history books and then the next generation rewrites them in the opposite direction and enough generations on, the books are finally written by people who have no skin in the game anymore and they tend to be pretty good finally. I am not too worried about the history books. History is luckily not the only source of learning. As a historian I can actually testify to that it's REALLY boring to learn from history.
@@n.d.m.515 It's not like you volunteer for that group, you get shanghai'd based on immutable characteristics (but expelled at a single instance of expressing the wrong opinion)...
Thank you for mentioning your Hungarian family who perished in Europe. A day did not go by, that mine were not in the hearts of my family members who were lucky enough to be living in American 🇺🇸
I’ve never hit LIKE on a video so fast in my life. Thank you and bless you, Chato! Thank you for your kickass rhetoric, your kindness, and your general logic during unbelievable hysteria. My parents grew up during the Cold War, so they told me horror stories about U.S.S.R.’s “lists”. My grandparents told me about the even MORE horrifying Nazi “lists”. So on and so forth. I knew this JKR/Hogwarts Legacy stuff was a crock of cow pies, but for too long, I was terrified by the witch-burning, hysterical mob of our “Brave New World” that has “such people in it”. I’m finally standing up for Harry Potter and JKR, despite what people may think/how they will react. I’ll be damned if I’m going to bow down to hysteria while my friends are (figuratively) being stoned for imaginary sins. Thanks for making me more bold and courageous. More compassionate to normal Trans folks who don’t want to force people to hunt witches. Thanks!
Reminder that it is not only "okay", it is in fact always morally correct and necessary to gatekeep hobbies, interests, and media from outsiders. If a new "fan" doesn't like the thing you like, they are not a fan, they are an infiltrator who seeks to destroy your joy in this life. Root them out and forbid their input
Frankly, I’m enjoying every bit of this. Awful people being exposed for being awful people. People getting hate from the audience they cultivated. It’s just so beautiful to see! I couldn’t be happier, ESPECIALLY with Hogwarts Legacy 😂
I had exactly the same thought you had in your video: This "list" certain people of a certain group get put on reminds me of certain lists we had in a past not so long ago. Do we have to hail the Pronoun Reich real soon? It's frightening and sickening.
You'd like Lawrence Fox and Harry Miller; they raised this last year and one was arrested and charged for making the comparison, via a flag. It got a lot of coverage in the UK for the heavy-handed and effectively extrajudicial nature of the policing.
Why isn't gender appropriation a bad thing!? Never mind, I know how tribalism works. Anyhow, Potter was a great story ... and she actually finished it! Game of Thrones was half-written, taken over, and finished by budget fiat ruining a hugely great story. We should shame the unfinishers!
The best part: the JKR derangement folks drove Hogwarts: Legacy sales to the number 1 position on Steam. lolololololololololololololololololololololololol
"If anyone discovered what the universe is for and why its here, it will dissapear and be replaced with an even more bizzare and inexplicable universe." Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Explains why nothing makes sense anymore, someone figured it all out.
I can't help see the irony in Chato trying to use logic, reason and common sense with people who pretend so hard to be something impossible that they could be, they cut their own gonads off. That is funny; sad, and funny.
Thank you. It’s so good to hear some form of common sense and sanity. This is getting beyond ridiculous and this group has to be seen as what they are. New sub by the way!
Keep preaching! This is one of the many reasons why i decided to delete my social media 3-years ago. Its toxic, negative and full of folks trying to pretend to be something they are not. Myself i look forward to playing this after a long weeks of hard work, it’s purpose is to entertain people. Thats the key word “entertain”.
I am somewhat curious as to how the colleges became such a breeding ground for this fanatical liberalism. Yeah they’ve always been liberal, but it was the generation of students about 13 years ago that came in with exactly no sense of humor, getting professors fired over Halloween costumes and being told to lighten up. Expecting safe spaces and rejecting cis white male history. My point is they came into the colleges with these attitudes and transformed the colleges from liberal bastions of learning to neo liberal bastions of brainwashing. It didn’t start in the colleges it just incubated there. My friend likes the term Transvangelicals and I’m sort of rooting for Transfanatics as the term to delineate the special forces of the Wokewaffen.
I have a BA and an MA and it's stupid and a classic example of the Streisand Effect as well as cult mindset. By throwing their shit fit so virulently on social media, they helped propel this game to the top of the sales charts. JK Rowling is still as lefty as ever, and you are right that they have never forgiven her for that sin. There are vocal people who are content to harass those who dare enjoy something that only tangentially relates to Rowling. It's in her world but she had no direct hand in this game's production. This game is more woke than it is based. These activists are setting back trans acceptance and have no self-awareness.
Sad to see you haven’t got your 100K yet. This channel is just getting better and better, and it was already well worth a few minutes of anybody’s time.
If your involved in a cult or a extreme political entity,the way to raise your status or visibility is to take a position that that moves the discourse to a more radical position.All Revolution movements follow this pattern till a tipping point is reached.”The Revolution devours it’s own children”.
I bought two copies myself and I'm not a fan of Harry Potter either. I just wanted to vote with my wallet on this one. Hope publishers can see where their bread is buttered.
In continental Europe there hasn't been so much chaos surrounding the game, but since we are culturally downstream from America it's just a matter of time
I believe the argument goes something like this. Saying that medically experimenting on children is maybe not a good idea means that someone in another part of the world will be murdered. As far as attitudes changing goes it has been my experience that it's always darkest just before it goes completely black. The last days of a great struggle are always the most difficult. Your opponent always looks invincible right up to the point where they fall apart.
as far as I can see the prevlance of this argument in the media and social discourse is being pushed hard by the media so that people are distracted by that from all the other stuff people who own the media do. just like the case with the chinese baloon. Way too much attention for what it was.
Sobering words about people and lists. It's kind of sad that most people skipped the day the rest of us were covering the topic of critical thinking and independent thought.
Honestly, it is kind of complicated, but by the same token, She's a billionaire that is punching down and that's never going to be a good luck. TERFs aren't particularly moral people and whether one is accepting of trans people, or just acknowledges that men have value, her views are repulsive. Without those people she wouldn't be ultrawealthy and it's a bad look to be so unappreciative. That being said, boycotts are basically the only option that's left in many areas to register ones distaste for the actions of the ultrawealthy.
I have 2 BA's and a J.D. (Juris Doctor). I agree with the Real Killer B that "Them bitches be crazy." I also have a trans member of my family, who was trans before trans was cool, and I know she'd agree with me. Not everyone is a prancing pony or an activist. Some folks are just humans who are trying to lead a non-controversial, happy, quiet, loving life.
It's weird how these people all have the exact same bios. Pronouns, flags for the same movements, emojis for the same movements, vote for the same politicians, same profile picture, and they even use similar speech patterns. It's like a hive mind. I hope the people who got bullied realize these people aren't their real friends and find better ones.
mass psychosis for minds control. the global elites 🤑 dont need to do effort to comunicate or to debate any of their particular ideas (for example changing 30 centuries of western culture 🤓 into post-apo movie wasteland) 🤬 to sell it to every individual - including average Americans. 🤣They just invent a cult of smt horrible or a fashion of smt horrible (like cancel culture or transgenderism or political correctness) and throw it randomly in internet and ppl pick it up and make it their own and begin selling it to younger generation and so on :)
@@christerjakobsen8107 IMO probably the methods of spread of such illogic ideologies were tested in 80s and 90s on all those terrible mad sects in USA, the ones who ended by killing themselves or being killed by police. I think that the creation of such sects was some sort of CIA or FBI or whatever agency testing ground how to spread idiotic believes and illogical thinking or how to make mass psychosis. Now that they got it all tested on small groups they can spread it on many nations. :(
Hogwarts Legacy is a GREAT GAME on it’s own merit and does not need backlash against trans-activists to bolster it’s success. It is an incredibly detailed world lovingly hand-crafter by fans for fans. If it does not get nominated, much less awarded GOTY it will finally prove without question that video game “journalism” has little to do with video games.
CHATO, thanks for sharing your key insights. I can't help but wonder what Rowling feels, about this travesty of her franchise. Having written one novel myself, I am fiercely protective of the ideas incorporated into it. GOOD USE of Maslow's hierarchy! Once more, you shed light on a sham of a philosophy.
I dig your Andey Rooney-esque delivery if by accident or design it brings me back, and it's appreciated. Straightforward and sarcastic, just the way I like it. 👍
I just had this weird thought as to why the game is so popular and best seller, what if these woke idiots are buying multiple digital copies thinking that if they buy enough of them, the company will run out copies to sell! I want to see someone legitimately convince the cultists that this will work.
i saw this on an episode of Millennium. a Scientology expy cult in the show attempted to buy all copies of an offending book, just to keep it from the public consumption. i believe that was the funniest episode of the series. poor Lance Henriksen...
The problem is that the hard working people like you and I have built a world in which all these lunatics have absolutely no real problems. In response, they have far too much time on their hands and feel compelled to cause havoc.
As an avid fan of Harry Potter and active video game player I got the game as I would any other game. I honestly expected it to bomb but that was not the case. It's freaking awesome and the developers at Avalanche studios deserve high praises. On top of a highly accurate Hogwarts grounds and castle they've been able to make not just a walking simulator but an excellent RPG game. The surrounding world is free to explore and the puzzles and combat are fun. And something new in gaming as a whole. For fans, it's almost as good as a new movie. I'm not sure why everyone is so upset. Its a video game and one that after a long drought of content is much appreciated. Everyone should just go play the game and stop letting things hurt their feelings.
As an uneducated working class white man in a service job in a medium size town without any higher learning colleges i'm rarely exposed to the chattering classes and their lunacy, but as i was in London last week and visited a bakers for some rolls the acolyte behind the counter said "Hi, i id as they how can i help you today" to which i replied "yeah, i'm an atheist son, give us 6 white and two brown rolls". This confused the lad no end, but he gave me my rolls and i left. I view all this identity/trans stuff as just another religion, i see no difference between some numpty saying their a woman/man and Catholics declaring the bread is now the body of Christ ( transubstantiation) sadly this means these idiots will be with us for decades to come, but i for one will not bend a knee to any religion, which is all most of us can really do.
I've been saying this for years. They're religious fanatics. And all religions that don't keep a firm hand on their fanatics start to develop purity spirals where there the only people left are the quick psychopaths and the dead victims of the psychopaths.
Whenever I hear about this, I always think about how good society is. If this is the worst problem that some people have to worry about, then we're living in a great time. Plagues, wars, and famine were the reality most people had to live with. Maybe, we should go back to those times, just so people have something real to worry about.
@@n.d.m.515 The elite probably are NOT trying to bring us back to that time. If, for nothing else, self preservation. One of the "hobbies" of the bad old days, was revolution, and chopping off the heads of tyrants. Not exactly something they want to encourage. Instead, they probably want people fat, lazy, and disinterested in changing anything.
@@kidicarus2215 The elites are trying to kill as many people as possible and keep people from breeding. This reduces the number of people able to revolt and increases what the elites can own. Remember, the masses will eat locusts and own nothing, and be happy.
Now....Mr. Chato....your channel is on MY list of things to check out when I log into You Tube.....I would like to think I am one of the good guys...... ("Contretemps: a minor dispute or disagreement" I have never heard that one before today. I SHOULD be keeping a list of all these new words you are bringing to my personal lexicon.)
Great point about lists and totalitarian regimes. Initially, those list start in order to just harass but end up much worse. Eventually totalitarian regimes kill hundreds of thousands to millions of people on those growing lists. Yes, those lists grow because they hold people to account to impossible standards that can never be met 100% and even a 1% disagreement can mean death. Just upgraded my entire Harry Potted film collection from DVD to 4K Blu Ray. Also bought Hogwarts Legacy. All this to just piss of the trans-activists. Even LGBTQ community is turning against the trans-activists including many trans who just want to be. When one pisses off the 99% you will lose.
@@Gambit771 What is misguided are you extreme leftists. Your leftwing agenda is enforced through bullying and intimidation. The reason for this is you people are wrong on everything. Your leaders lie about everything. Facts have borne out every charge against President Trump was a lie from Russia Collusion, the Steele Dossier, the two impeachments were all partisan lies. Only Satan would lie so much. COVID-19 came out and was said to be natural from wet market. When people said it might be from lab they were suspended from Twitter, post blocked on Facebook, and TH-cam demonetized. Then we find out it was a lab leak. Same as when we said it was man. Then we found out it was created through gain-of-function research. Then President Trump touted the benefits of Hydroxychloroquine and when we talked about the benefits we were again cock blocked by the left. Now we find out the drug and others could have been used more widely and saved potentially hundreds of thousands of lives in US alone. Yet we were blocked. Now we have media, schools and government programming children with gay and trans porn to become trans. And we are attacked for questioning gender affirmation and saying that there is an underlying cause associated with gender dysphoria and these are mental illnesses/conditions such as Autism, ADD, ADHD and DID. And we are harassed, harangued and bullied for it by those pushing the trans agenda. This isn't hysteria. These are facts. If you think this hysteria, then think of this. If it is not okay for an adult to inappropriately touch a child because the child is too young to consent then what makes these people think that a child can consent to having their body mutilated?
@@ChuckJansenII I'm not a leftist. Your very first sentence shows you know nothing about what you are talking about. It shows how your entire argument against me if wrong. Congratulations. Like I keep saying, left or right, you are both the same in how you conduct yourselves. In your hysterics, in your court minds, in how you both have hive minds and it is either you think like me and agree with me on everything otherwise you are the opposition. You prove that people that pigeonhole themselves by being right or left are stuck in a cult, lack critical thinking. Now, I await your apology.
@@Gambit771 You are a leftist. if you talk down about right wing. So live with your new label. Do you think it is okay for these lists about Wizard Game streamers to be made and used for harassment. I have news for you. my argument and examples are valid and true no matter how you try to demean me. I really don't care what you think of me. Tell where I am wrong specifically instead of demeaning me. You are making a hasty generalization. I will not apologize to a baiter like you. You must be a master at it.
yes, I remember bits of it too. :) Then it was becouse in the bullies opinion SF/F was stupid becouse its not real stories - those bullies usualy were school teachers and writers of surprisingly mediocre real stories :D - and they told us we should read smt real. And now its becouse its not enough political or post-modern, or whatever. Or maybe its becouse its actualy too much NOT political or anti-political ? Becouse AFAIU SF/F is escapism art :) And escapism art is actual opposite toward political art (which also can be valid). IMO its like a spectrum of art - the one extreme of it is political art (telling about what should be done in politics - whatever I think about it), in the middle of the spectrum is realism art (telling about what it is in actual reality, as far as a writer can figure it out) and the other extreme is escapism art (with all the genres of myth, fairytale, fantasy), telling us or remembering us about the highest of high and the lowest of low of humanity's abilities by creating worlds of fantasy in which we can remember who we are. Its like this - the 3 points of the spectrum of stories is about "what can be" (politics), what is (realism), and what should be (myths, sacred story, escapism) :) Becouse IMO the area of politics (its philosophy -> ideology -> narration, done by psy-ops, by mass mind control, by mass psychosis) its the story about spreading power and control over minds of masses. Politics is a story about using a Ring of Power to enslave minds to control minds. But you know what ? Escapism art is not about this. To speak it clear - escapism art tells of FREEDOM. And thats why the politics areas want it so bad to be erased or used as their tool, or censored or smeared as smt bad. Becouse IMO the more politics the less freedom, the less politics the more freedom (esp of individual person, and of freedom of mind). The politicians and their shills - they hate escapism becouse thats the last fortress of a free mind :)
The "lists" observation was eye-opening and chilling, in spite of the light-hearted delivery. I have a few relatives that were on lists myself, and it ends rather poorly. I'm trying to think of a counter-argument, a list-making scenario that went well. I'm coming up empty.
transplant lists are a more or less positive. There are a bunch of others like that but most of the time the lists are there because there is not enough of something to go around and so people must be on the list to wait for it. But you could argue that having those lists is a negative because that means there is not enough of something and some people might never get it or just can't wait that long for it.
@@KatamuroTheFirst Hrrrm yes, there are plenty of good lists. I was thinking more along the lines of lists of people who are perceived to be negative in some light. I guess a list of wanted criminals is the answer I'm looking for. That's necessary for the good of society, I'd argue. Obviously this is all just a thought exercise.
I bought the Playstation version of this game for my daughters. I unfortunately had people on my "friends" list saw that I bought this game and had achievements pop up on my profile. They had the audacity to message my profile with the usual vitriol of the usual blue-haired checkmark. My daughters sadly saw said messages, and the absolute insanity and inane mental gymnastics over this game is surreal. Because I will occasionally play with console friends (but I'm predominately on PC), I got to work blocking and deleted these now former friends on PS, bought the Steam copy where I have zero people on my friends list on my second PC, and now my girls can play in peace. This is just dumb honestly. And it's saddening to see people who you thought you knew, out themselves as part of the logic impaired performative outrage Twitterati.
@@AlejandroDiazadiaz201 unless you have the power to shut down production or distribution of books, all people have a right to decide what can and cannot be available in public places, or even have private book burning parties. All banning of books discussed every year are not true bans.
You asked for comments from those with multiple letters after their name. I have a BA, two Masters and a PhD in social sciences. My academic assessment is, "Them bitches be crazy..." Hope that helps clarify the issue.😀
Perfect. Hahaha. Thanks.
Sadly, we cannot dismiss so casually, however tempting it is to do so. We must find ways of conveying our perspectives to militant trans activist.
We must find ways to tell them - even though many people will not accept their chosen gender identity, most people do not hate trans people.
@@plipogamez3173 Most trans people hate themselves so... does that count as hating a trans person?
The BAMMPhd Community has been marginalized for too long! :D
"No man can serve two masters well."
*"THAT'S RACIST!"*
_"Simple, direct, and appropriate!"_
-- FRAGGLE ROCK 😉
"I really don't want to get involved in this..."
"If you don't pick a side, you're a bad person! Not picking a side is picking a side!"
"...Fine. I'm against you."
"[shocked face] Whuh? B-but... Why?"
"Because the side that's against you didn't demand I pick a side."
excellent reasoning 👍
First comment in a while that literally made my eyebrows lift a bit. Seen something like this before somewhere, but spot on in terms of this video. kudos!
Precicely why transphiles are just as harmful to the transgender community as transphobes… maybe even more so cause we at least are willing to leave people alone.
common reaction honestly from the loonies, they are always shocked when their well planned harassment and personal attacks all fail.
Reminds me of religious people who they to debate atheists without realizing that their arguments only work on their religious friends.
you naive little sterling7, using rational thought and common sense with these woke lunatics.
This faux controversy is the best promotion Hogwarts Legacy could get.
"There is no such thing as 'bad publicity.'" P.T. Barnum?
pretty much, I completely forgot the game was coming out and I never even planned on getting it. Because of all this I actually saw some gamplay thought "oh this might be interesting but at 50% discount". Then I remembered I don't like harry potter that much.
@@KatamuroTheFirst "Sometimes it's about the journey."
The publisher is quite happy for the faux controversy. But, in the end, we just caused more tribalism. Humans aren't evolved enough to handle social media.
Yep. If they were looking for a way to guarantee that I buy it and all the DLC the studio can pump out, they couldn't have done more.
My wife who somehow manages to stay away from the circus of social media and its stupidity says to me "So what did Rowling say that's so hateful and has people trying to boycott her?"
"She said there's only two genders."
"And....?"
"That's it."
"They call that hate speech?"
"I told you, facts are now hate speech."
"Oh, well now I want to go rewatch the movies."
"I'm proud of you."
Saying there is a difference in women and trans-women is an unforgivable curse these days...
Sir you are blessed
It is so funny, because she never even said anything remotely trans-phobic... Her statement was more accurately "My experience as a woman is valid." And that was said immediately after pledging her support for the trans community. If you haven't seen the post that started this whole thing here it is. Just for context.
"I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so." -J.K.R.
That's sorta the problem though innit? Just saying it point blank like that doesn't actually resolve anything. If someone disagrees with you, then you're just ignoring their perspective to be comfortable in your own. Now, I'm by no means one of the weirdos who won't play a videogame cause of some views of an author... but to file it down to just 'she said there's only two genders' is a bit simpleminded and insincere. Rowling's said A LOT of things to continually push that section of society further away.
It's a moot point anyhow. Hogwarts Legacy was always going to sell like hotcakes. Anti-Anti-trans folk like to say the backlash to the game is why it's selling like hotcakes, but the raw facts are... anything Harry Potter related was going to sell like hotcakes... they made a f'kn amusement park based on Harry Potter for crying out loud, people are crazy about this series.
@@lenajohnson6179
People lost their jobs. People had their lives and reputation ruined. The activist lunitics started all of this over a simple tweet.... here it is for context in case you haven't read it on your own.
"I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so."
If you think that was anything but supportive to trans people and pro-feminist, then you are the one in an echo chamber, hiding from facts that make YOU feel uncomfortable.
Let's be clear here. You haven't read anything compared to what I have regarding this issue. I promise you that you will NEVER find a directly insulting or trans-phobic statement made before this woman was attacked for saying "My experience as a woman is valid."
Dont come into a thread and post righteously, virtue signaling unless you can be sure the other participants have not done leagues more research than you have.
I have looked on both sides and I promise you that you wont convince rational people that the things J.K.R. said at any point, are anything but fact.
If you want to ridicule her for one thing she said, you have to be willing to celebrate the good things she said as vigorously.
Your side of the table wont do that because it utterly destroys the victim narrative.
Dishonesty is dishonesty no matter how you try to justify it.
I asked some 20-somethings at work why so much controversy. They told me JKR was evil and said horrible things. When I asked what those horrible things were, they had trouble getting to exact examples. Just vague comments about anti-trans stuff. So, they hate, but don't know the exact thing that makes them hate. This is the danger of blindly accepting what you see online.
That is what ticks me off the most about this stuff. The folks who actually do or say horrible stuff are extensively quoted. But the less dire the statement, the more likely it is that it will be alluded to with opinionated words like racist, misogynistic, or transphobic, but not actually quoted for folks to make their own assessment.
Thats also how easy uneducated crowds get easily controlled by propaganda.
This is like those anti-Trump protesters that were holding "Trump is racist" signs but couldn't produce examples when asked. I mean, who better to know about the topic than people protesting about it, right? So how could they not know examples of the very thing they're protesting about?
I think they have a pretty good handle on the situation. JKR basically has a history of saying vague anti-trans comment. She just throws them out there whenever talking about the subject, stuff like transwomen are not women. You don't need to memorize the exact comments to have an opinion on it.
@@Lilitha11 well thats just the biological facts. doesnt make one a hater or transphobic.
"I am bereft, for my pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Sad is the person that cannot hear wisdom." Well done, Chato.
Imagine coming to the point in history where the geeks, the dorks, the fans are the ones who have to say "Calm down, it's just make believe."
Ahh....way too funny inkblot
As Chato once noted, we should never have given wider society our toys.
We have all been saying that since the days of the satanic panic in the 80s.
This comment wins!
And the bullies saying the same thing. Like old school bullies who did actually discriminate against the geeks violently in school for well, being dorks, and geeks ect… though we do also have some of the same idiots who are now just making fun of us on the inside now that geekdom culture and video games are mainstream and stuff.
Plus a lot of geeks are also handsome looking folks who do read comics ect….
I really like the Brownshirt comparisons of the zealots. Not sure how many people will get that
I like forcing people to look stuff up. Thanks for the comment.
I'm hoping "brownshirt media" becomes a phrase now.
So a bunch of guys that get dressed up in black uniforms, go around beating up political opponents in the streets and lying about their intent and the "crimes" they are fighting against call themselves anti-fascist. Well this is a society that uses the Alanis Morissette definition of irony.
I call them neo sans culottes.
The Italian fascists were buttressed by a goon squad--the Black Shirts. It was the inspiration for the SA or the Brown Shirts in Nazi Germany. I've always said that history is cyclical.
"People who put people on lists are not the good guys." Is the truest statement ever uttered.
Except Schindler, but that's another story..
@Jimbo Bimbo I dunno, speaking as someone who doesn't like antifa, and BLM, and the LGBBQ crowd, I think cops are bastards too.
Btw, Daily reminder: the ATF has never done a good thing in their entire existence and actively murdered women and children.
Yeah that Santa guy just knows to much about everyone.
The three most important philosophical structures to ever exist:
Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
Ron Swanson's Pyramid of Greatness
Chato's Heirarchy of Stupidity.
This all boils down to tribalism. No matter how far we progress technologically and scientifically, fundamentally we feel comfortable and valued in 'tribes' with similar people - and vindicated to attack other tribes who are different. LGBTQIA+ is just another tribal group in a succession of many over the history of our species. We need to grow up.
I'm the UK, there are at least 2 groups who have separated from the tq+etcetc because the nut job activists accused some lesbians of being transphobic cos they didn't find a bloke identifying as a woman to be attractive. Yes, they are a bat sh1t crazy bunch
That’s not accurate though. It’s leftism, not being gay. The LGBTQblahblah label is just the cult’s way of not calling themselves communists.
You cannot {always} ignore 4+ million years of evolution.
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Exactly. 'Us vs Them' is so deeply ingrained in our mammalian brain parts and aggression in our lizard brain parts that it will be very very hard to change this through culture alone. It's also why sexuality tends to go like it has always gone in the past 100,000 years and no amount of social or cultural reprogramming will change that.
Bravo
The Mary Sue published literally dozens of articles about this game and how it is "problematic".
The most ironic of them was written by one of their editors lamenting how the movies were "spoiled" for her so she wrote an entire article to spoil the game's story for others.
That's exactly what activists love to do. They want to spoil everybody's fun. They are miserable and they want everybody else to be just as miserable, which gives them a self-righteous glow of satisfaction because they feel they have just protected a marginalized group, which makes them feel a tiny bit better and more determined to ruin more people's fun - a vicious cycle.
Apparently the people writing on the "Mary Sue" (didn't know it existed until your post), don't understand being called a "Mary Sue" is not a compliment.
The writing can best be described as "sophomoric" and I mean that with peace and love.
@@LTNetjak that's exactly why I think they did so many articles on it, it's practically the only topic that got any engagement for them.
There's also a Jewish angle...
You know the goblins being an antisemitic trope?
As a Jew is disagree with it...
Same for many Jews. Again, activists who are most of the time not even Jews themselves...
If they actually cared about supposed antisemitism in her work...
They would use the *death Curse* as an example.
It is *litterally* dictionary deginition of litterally, a Jewish Kabala *Healling Blessing.*
Of which name she used to name a *death curse.*
An *officially ubforgivable* curse.
Also, they want Homophobia?
The Only gay pairing that can be inffered in the work are all not *only* disfunctional. They litterally *only* can be evidenced in the most disdunctional points in the characters lives.
Lets see.
Dumbeldore and Grindelwald. Grindelwald litterally pushed Dumbeldore into the dark path, and possibly got his sister killed.
Then they broke up, *& then Dumbeldore became the Hero of the Wizarding World By Defeating Grindelwald.
Not in the book, JKR said it later...
Next *Couple* Harry and Draco- first Draco was obssesed with Harry, and thus his own life went progressively *worse* the more he went down that path.
Wben he had morw important things to worry about, *Harry becams obssessed himself* ibcluding dreaming about him.
Guess what was happening to his own life at this time.
And in the Happy Ever After? Both Married to Women.
Again, when their interaction would litterally read like a slowburn enemies to lovers if one of them was a girl, they were both *the worse versions of themselves.*
Ron and Crum: Ron is his fanboy to the point that if he was a girl you would expect her to try to get in Crums pants.
Interprating this as *interest on his part* would litterally make his falling out with Both Harry *&* Hermione make far more sense.
That Harry was *chosen by the Hat* was by this point expected. Ron is already known to both have Strategic thinking(chess) and native knowkedge of the Wizarding World. It makes zero sense of why he turned on Harry at that point. But If not only is Harry going to *have fun?* but he's going to be in the same *space* as *the Crum.* That is *too much.*
Then *Hermione* went with Crum to the Ball... And *Now* him being barely communitive in the Ball makes actual sense. Yeah he liked her, but by this point, and for quite a bit after, frankly, he barely gave indication that he knew she was a girl.
After this, well, a dude going foe a girl because she reminds him of a boy was actually an active litteraly trope at the time.
Two examples *The mists of Avalon* Sir Lancelot only went for Guinevere because she reminded(was the wife of) Arthur. Plain text. Not subtext.
In the Assassin series by Robin Hob, The antagonist of the book has raped a woman because she reminded him of her brother.
Both Books were written a bit before HP Book Four.
Just the examples I can think of right now.
Back to Rons obbsession with Crum.
After his fight with Hemione over Crum, is when he began to repare his relationship with her, and his most sympathetic bits and developments, involve getting closer to her.
Ron *&* Harry- Every stupid thing Ron did was always involves trying to impress Harry. NOT Hermione.
Harrys Boy Fans- The Colin and Dennis Died. Both brothers were fans of harry that are almost *universally* in the canon disrespected *for that.*
So yeah.
*Any* Character that can possibly read in a *queer light* those scenes *never* bring those characters in their *good* moments.
None of those people even mention *any* if this.
But they will read into F'ing Goblins Antisemitism, anf a not nice lady they will cast as Trans so they can find their Transphobia.
Please.
You do realize that even spending a second knowing Mary Sue exists is a waste of time, much less actually reading that effluent, right?
I want a tee shirt that says "Regimes that put people on lists are NOT THE GOOD GUYS!!"
What you're saying is, "But muh emotional comfort genocide simulator game!"
If only we had examples of people doxxing harrassing and bullying trans people - and PUTTING THEM ON LISTS.
Though to be fair, Schindler had a list, and it was a good list and movie.
@@lidu6363 How did you get that giant strawman in here without anyone stopping you for trying to get a strawman in here?
@@lidu6363 "There are two genders" is a phrase equivalent to genocide now?
Even if people were unware that good guys rarely made lists of targets, it should have been obvious that no good person harass someone else.
I have lived through and survived a cult -- this is what they have become and it will get them nowhere with people not caring of the cause. Making lists and being the new Red Guard of Twitter isn't the way!
@@arkainin4638 "derp hurd! am posteen kontrarian opeeniunz withoot futher eexplanatiun zo im smartur that eberibody elze"
-The comment
Mormons or witnesses?
Lol When they are so confused they start canceling themselves it's a beautiful thing
from the outside its hilarious but from the inside its complete chaos.
@@NoahGooder and that is referred to as, I believe, A Good Thing.
The leftists eat their own. They have no tolerance or forgiveness for anyone, meaning that when they ultimately put their foot in their mouth, they will get attacked by not just their fellow leftists but all those they have attacked in the past.
They're like the TV evangelists who yap about sin then get caught committing them.
@@NoahGooder It's like manna from heaven for me, a balm for the soul. I say we fucking floor the accelerator and speed up the chaos!
@@christerjakobsen8107 thats honestly fair because then they can rebuild after the dust settles
So impeccably put as always. I work in the industry and she is nothing like how they are painting her.
I literally consumed this product because they told me not to consume the product. I hate when people wanna boss me around lol. Also I knew this was going to make them mad.
Everyone hates "holier than thou" people. Praise JKR, she is cool and badass for not caring about the woke mob thats what I respect.
she does have enough money that pretty much nothing she does from this point on is going to impact her life. That helps a lot
Same, and I love the game despite having a meh attitude towards the franchise. It’s game of the year material.
Same. I enjoy the franchise. Wasn't on my must have list. But bought it out of spite (well...I do enjoy a good fantasy game).
"Those making lists are dangerous", amen to that Chato. Enough examples of that fact.
I Bought Hogwarts Legacy yesterday and am enjoying this game. Not because of al the ruckus surrounding it, nope. it's just a good and fun game. It takes me away from the everyday grind and relaxes me.
"It is so relaxing to fight against Jewish caricatures" 🤔🤔🤔
@@lidu6363 Sweet jesus, if you look at those goblins and see jews, you're the problem. If you knew anything about Harry Potter, you'd know goblins and wizards have been on bad terms for a while. There have been 2 rebellions from the goblins, maybe even more, in the past. This is just the third and odds are won't be the last. Goblins are just goblins, you know like fantasy things? Next thing you're gonna say is "A game that allows the killing of werewolves is a direct assault to furries" Despite werewolves existing long before furries became a thing.
@@lidu6363 Who said that?
@@lidu6363 You're quite the antisemite, aren't you. I've not seen anything resembling a caricature of a Jewish person in the game yet. If you're hearing a "dog whistle", I think you're the one with the antisemitic tendencies.
"Always follow the money" - Truer words have never been spoken..
If I have to guess, some people have gotten quite used to be able to boss around enormous organizations about what they can't do, what their customers want and what they need to change. It must be intoxicating, to have your opinion over pettiest of things heard and obeyed. And then, suddenly, people are not listening the message and bullying and insults intensify.
The saying is about how power reveals character, but for some people, illusion of power is sufficient.
That's true, isn't it? Bossing around big organisations. Didn't it start with said organisations naively asking customers: how did we do? or: tell us the name of the member of staff who did a good job. That led to ugly-souled nasties who thought it'd be fun to threaten low-paid waiting staff to provide them with a free meal or be crowd-reported and sacked - and look how it's escalated!
Power and control -- and the need for it -- are at the center of abusive behavior.
@@jjhh320 and entitlement... never forget entitlement.
For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is determined by biology is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn’t.
As best I understand it, this decision was appealed, and Maya Forstater's belief (and most other people's) that biological sex is real and is not trumped by gender identity has been confirmed as protected by law against discrimination, including in employment. For which, cheers.
@@hopehoping Excellent, a win for free speech and the 1st & 2nd ammendment.
@@hopehoping can you cite the case for me? I'd like to read the decision and archive it, for.... reasons.
@@hopehoping Got links? TQ
@@anelbegic2780 Just in case this is in error, we'd probably better double-check and get a link to that ruling.
If we still need to fight this, we need to know.
I am kind of odd on this one, in 2001 I had just barely caught my breath after liberating Kuwait, literally, so much smoke LOL. And then was trying to save, and go through a divorce, that while I knew of potter, And admired the writer for getting kids to read, I just never got into it. I am sure I watched some of the movies with my kids, and even sister, whom I had adopted by that point, But it was just a thing. Not like ST TOS had on me as a kid, or even Stargate did when I was older.
But I bought the game the other day, and man, It made a 52 yo man a fan of the series, over night.
I'm 46... I support JKR and the game, but personally I just can't get into it. I was a Tolkien kid and Harry Potter was always kids stuff to me. It does look like a pretty good game, but I have a dozen other games that need playing, and I don't think I'd get as much out of it as an uber fan. Glad you're enjoying it though.
Love Stargate
@@mercster One more minor observation, did anyone else feel like Potter was just kind of like Star Wars in many ways. The original trilogy that is. Loner kid, learns he has a special power, recruited by an old man, his friends are a beast tamer , a kind of dorky but lovable scallywag, and a gal who you have no idea who she is going to go for...
@@stephensmith6660 I don't know any of the story, so I dunno :-) But Star Wars is the classic hero's journey, so you will find parallels with it in lots of stories...
Constitutions in liberating Kuwait all by yourself. 🙄
I bought 3 copies of this for the wife and kids. Also to cancel out 2 boycotters.
It's ok. They bought it to so they could review bomb it not realizing that it's the equivalent of book burning where you bought the book just to burn it - paying everyone who created it.
In reality there aren't many boycotters. Most of the people who say they'll boycott it would have never bought it in the first place.
Its like me who has never smoked claiming I'm quitting smoking for a New Year's resolution, they just like to squeal and join the unwashed masses
We all know that 95% of the boycotters were never going to even buy the game in the first place.
I love the Warhammer 40k-like description of how wokeness entered the empire of man.
The Emperor Protects.
Exterminatus would definitely get rid of the problem
Praise the Omnissiah!
@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming Chato protects
@@arkainin4638 I was just saying how I liked him mentioning strange and hostile beings transporting in from another dimension. There was no political statement in there.
A neutered bull is not a cow.
The funniest thing to take away from the fake Hogwarts Legacy drama is that the intended boycott has had the opposite effect. The people that they convinced not to buy the game would have been minimal to zero, but the people that didn't know about the game and found out about it through the crazy people and then pre-ordered it because of them is lots.
It is almost enough for me to believe it was manufactured by Portkey to promote their game. That is if I wasn't already aware of how self sabotaging idiotic those people are.
A society is truly decadent and spoiled when this is what we are concerned with in the present day. When the crap really hits the fan, this lunacy will cease to exist as we deal with real problems and issues that concern everyone. Too much time on our hands and a ruling class that watches things burn like ironically Mr.Burns. Great video Chato!
It's hilarious seeing weirdos lose their 💩 over a damn video game.
All from the root of a true statement that 'sex is real', too. They can't have ANYONE or ANYTHING counter their delusions.
Allows a deep view into their disturbed, fraglie psyche.
Seriously, they have bigger issues than a video game.
JK Rowling is quite culturally, politically liberal herself, so her struggles with other leftists is analogous to factions of Stalin, Hitler or Mao fighting among themselves. If I'm overstating the ideology in 2023, then: Today's exaggerations are tomorrow's reality.
I have a blast asking them why they are women phobic / women haters. They are stunned and they don't even dare to answer.
In my own words..."Good job Chato!" Thank you for your time.
My relatives were on lists in Latvia and Lithuania. My family here learned about their fate when reviewing german maps with the word judenfrei
Forgive my weak German, Jeffrey... Jewish "Freedom"? I realize, if my translation is accurate, it is a euphemism.
@@Bear-cm1vl"judenfrei" means "free of jews"
i hope im not in trouble now for typing that
@@Bear-cm1vl Actually, it's "free of jews".
@@Bear-cm1vl I am from Germany. The phrase translates more like "free of Jews"
Most likely the maps mentioned are progress maps of the "final solution" I don't know the correct English term.
So basically evidence of the crimes of that era
Paul, when you mentioned your family's plight, it reminded me of something. The social, cultural and political extremists from either end of the spectrum don't believe that anything can be learned from history. Their view of the past is that it either didn't happen, or was completely wrong on all levels. Sometimes, they hold both opinions simultaneously, of course rhetoric, debate and irony are foreign to them. It makes one long for the old days, when the public's only forum was the letters to the editor page.
well said.
Well, apparently the game devs did learn from history. Sadly, they took the learning too literally and decided to reenact f-ing genocide in the game.
It's also said that the winners get to write the history books, and in modern times, that saying seems to have been inverted so it's those who write the history books who get to decide the winners. Learning from history seems like a perfectly logical way to guide your life, except it implies that the history that you learn hasn't been fabricated or twisted by someone with an agenda [cough] _1619 project_ [cough]
@@whitworth5s248 first the winners write the history books and then the next generation rewrites them in the opposite direction and enough generations on, the books are finally written by people who have no skin in the game anymore and they tend to be pretty good finally.
I am not too worried about the history books.
History is luckily not the only source of learning. As a historian I can actually testify to that it's REALLY boring to learn from history.
got it as a valentines gift for my wife. she loves it
Me and my boyfriend love it! We wanted to play it as the same time, so we bought two copies on Steam haha.
i dont play video games, but I bought it to pissed off men with high heels and wigs
Watching the group I'm part of become the thing we were against is very heartbreaking.
Maybe that is a big red flag you shouldn't be part of that group?
Agreed. The "anti-sjw" mob has become completely brainless and lost any ability to deal with nuance 😬
@@lidu6363 Can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not, but I’m pretty sure they’re talking about the LGBT group.
@@n.d.m.515 It's not like you volunteer for that group, you get shanghai'd based on immutable characteristics (but expelled at a single instance of expressing the wrong opinion)...
@@noral9111 you volunteer for that group. No question that a person volunteers for that group.
Thank you for mentioning your Hungarian family who perished in Europe. A day did not go by, that mine were not in the hearts of my family members who were lucky enough to be living in American 🇺🇸
I’ve never hit LIKE on a video so fast in my life. Thank you and bless you, Chato! Thank you for your kickass rhetoric, your kindness, and your general logic during unbelievable hysteria. My parents grew up during the Cold War, so they told me horror stories about U.S.S.R.’s “lists”. My grandparents told me about the even MORE horrifying Nazi “lists”. So on and so forth. I knew this JKR/Hogwarts Legacy stuff was a crock of cow pies, but for too long, I was terrified by the witch-burning, hysterical mob of our “Brave New World” that has “such people in it”. I’m finally standing up for Harry Potter and JKR, despite what people may think/how they will react. I’ll be damned if I’m going to bow down to hysteria while my friends are (figuratively) being stoned for imaginary sins. Thanks for making me more bold and courageous. More compassionate to normal Trans folks who don’t want to force people to hunt witches. Thanks!
Reminder that it is not only "okay", it is in fact always morally correct and necessary to gatekeep hobbies, interests, and media from outsiders. If a new "fan" doesn't like the thing you like, they are not a fan, they are an infiltrator who seeks to destroy your joy in this life. Root them out and forbid their input
Frankly, I’m enjoying every bit of this. Awful people being exposed for being awful people. People getting hate from the audience they cultivated. It’s just so beautiful to see! I couldn’t be happier, ESPECIALLY with Hogwarts Legacy 😂
I had exactly the same thought you had in your video:
This "list" certain people of a certain group get put on reminds me of certain lists we had in a past not so long ago. Do we have to hail the Pronoun Reich real soon? It's frightening and sickening.
You'd like Lawrence Fox and Harry Miller; they raised this last year and one was arrested and charged for making the comparison, via a flag.
It got a lot of coverage in the UK for the heavy-handed and effectively extrajudicial nature of the policing.
Live and let live. Leave each other alone, and life is better, for everyone.
I wish we could go back to that. Thanks.
exactly how I believe. That is how diverse culturally based neighborhoods use to exist. We pretty much left each other alone.
Superb! Nailed it! Your best video yet! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
Why isn't gender appropriation a bad thing!? Never mind, I know how tribalism works. Anyhow, Potter was a great story ... and she actually finished it! Game of Thrones was half-written, taken over, and finished by budget fiat ruining a hugely great story. We should shame the unfinishers!
I've wanted to read the GoT books, myself. I just can't start something I KNOW isn't finished and suspect it never will be.
The best part: the JKR derangement folks drove Hogwarts: Legacy sales to the number 1 position on Steam.
lolololololololololololololololololololololololol
"If anyone discovered what the universe is for and why its here, it will dissapear and be replaced with an even more bizzare and inexplicable universe." Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Explains why nothing makes sense anymore, someone figured it all out.
I can't help see the irony in Chato trying to use logic, reason and common sense with people who pretend so hard to be something impossible that they could be, they cut their own gonads off. That is funny; sad, and funny.
Exactly, I tell them the same thing. Rational thought is a stranger to these woke lunatics.
"Good Thems..." - I had to stop and laugh for 5 minutes. And write this comment because the algorithm demands feeding.
Me also! Very sensitive and all.
Thank you. It’s so good to hear some form of common sense and sanity. This is getting beyond ridiculous and this group has to be seen as what they are. New sub by the way!
One of the developers who worked on the game refuses to buy it and support his company 😂😂😂😂
Keep preaching! This is one of the many reasons why i decided to delete my social media 3-years ago. Its toxic, negative and full of folks trying to pretend to be something they are not. Myself i look forward to playing this after a long weeks of hard work, it’s purpose is to entertain people. Thats the key word “entertain”.
I am somewhat curious as to how the colleges became such a breeding ground for this fanatical liberalism. Yeah they’ve always been liberal, but it was the generation of students about 13 years ago that came in with exactly no sense of humor, getting professors fired over Halloween costumes and being told to lighten up. Expecting safe spaces and rejecting cis white male history.
My point is they came into the colleges with these attitudes and transformed the colleges from liberal bastions of learning to neo liberal bastions of brainwashing. It didn’t start in the colleges it just incubated there.
My friend likes the term Transvangelicals and I’m sort of rooting for Transfanatics as the term to delineate the special forces of the Wokewaffen.
I have a BA and an MA and it's stupid and a classic example of the Streisand Effect as well as cult mindset.
By throwing their shit fit so virulently on social media, they helped propel this game to the top of the sales charts. JK Rowling is still as lefty as ever, and you are right that they have never forgiven her for that sin.
There are vocal people who are content to harass those who dare enjoy something that only tangentially relates to Rowling. It's in her world but she had no direct hand in this game's production.
This game is more woke than it is based.
These activists are setting back trans acceptance and have no self-awareness.
Sad to see you haven’t got your 100K yet. This channel is just getting better and better, and it was already well worth a few minutes of anybody’s time.
Your point about the kind of people who put other people on lists is excellent. I’m gonna steal it.
Very well said, Paul. The only list people should make is a shopping list.
I too hate chores and absolutely refuse to list them.
If your involved in a cult or a extreme political entity,the way to raise your status or visibility is to take a position that that moves the discourse to a more radical position.All Revolution movements follow this pattern till a tipping point is reached.”The Revolution devours it’s own children”.
Mr. Chato, you are a rare gem on YT. Please continue to share your stories and truths.
Thanks
And continue a tradition that seems to be forgotten in western countries, learn from your elders kiddo because they have more experience than you.
Very insightful and right! Keep going Chato!! Youre great! Keep tell the truth.
I've seen a lot of non Harry Potter folks playing this game. Personally I have no interest with the lore, but I heard it's a good game.
I bought two copies myself and I'm not a fan of Harry Potter either. I just wanted to vote with my wallet on this one. Hope publishers can see where their bread is buttered.
Beautiful too... wow. gaming has sure improved since the Myst days.
@@stephenthomas1492 they won't, but I applaud your effort!
In continental Europe there hasn't been so much chaos surrounding the game, but since we are culturally downstream from America it's just a matter of time
I believe the argument goes something like this. Saying that medically experimenting on children is maybe not a good idea means that someone in another part of the world will be murdered. As far as attitudes changing goes it has been my experience that it's always darkest just before it goes completely black. The last days of a great struggle are always the most difficult. Your opponent always looks invincible right up to the point where they fall apart.
as far as I can see the prevlance of this argument in the media and social discourse is being pushed hard by the media so that people are distracted by that from all the other stuff people who own the media do. just like the case with the chinese baloon. Way too much attention for what it was.
Sobering words about people and lists. It's kind of sad that most people skipped the day the rest of us were covering the topic of critical thinking and independent thought.
Yes, the manufactured outrage engine is such a massive headache anymore. Thank you for laying all of this out in so concise a fashion.
Honestly, it is kind of complicated, but by the same token, She's a billionaire that is punching down and that's never going to be a good luck. TERFs aren't particularly moral people and whether one is accepting of trans people, or just acknowledges that men have value, her views are repulsive. Without those people she wouldn't be ultrawealthy and it's a bad look to be so unappreciative.
That being said, boycotts are basically the only option that's left in many areas to register ones distaste for the actions of the ultrawealthy.
I have 2 BA's and a J.D. (Juris Doctor). I agree with the Real Killer B that "Them bitches be crazy." I also have a trans member of my family, who was trans before trans was cool, and I know she'd agree with me. Not everyone is a prancing pony or an activist. Some folks are just humans who are trying to lead a non-controversial, happy, quiet, loving life.
It's weird how these people all have the exact same bios. Pronouns, flags for the same movements, emojis for the same movements, vote for the same politicians, same profile picture, and they even use similar speech patterns. It's like a hive mind. I hope the people who got bullied realize these people aren't their real friends and find better ones.
That is exactly how the people arguing against them are as well.
I love how neither side can see the similarities and their own hive mind reality.
mass psychosis for minds control. the global elites 🤑 dont need to do effort to comunicate or to debate any of their particular ideas (for example changing 30 centuries of western culture 🤓 into post-apo movie wasteland) 🤬 to sell it to every individual - including average Americans. 🤣They just invent a cult of smt horrible or a fashion of smt horrible (like cancel culture or transgenderism or political correctness) and throw it randomly in internet and ppl pick it up and make it their own and begin selling it to younger generation and so on :)
It's literal cult mentality.
@@christerjakobsen8107 IMO probably the methods of spread of such illogic ideologies were tested in 80s and 90s on all those terrible mad sects in USA, the ones who ended by killing themselves or being killed by police. I think that the creation of such sects was some sort of CIA or FBI or whatever agency testing ground how to spread idiotic believes and illogical thinking or how to make mass psychosis. Now that they got it all tested on small groups they can spread it on many nations. :(
"People putting other people in lists" is pure Sesame Street explanation of Totalitarian Regimes. Really spot on.
Hogwarts Legacy is a GREAT GAME on it’s own merit and does not need backlash against trans-activists to bolster it’s success. It is an incredibly detailed world lovingly hand-crafter by fans for fans. If it does not get nominated, much less awarded GOTY it will finally prove without question that video game “journalism” has little to do with video games.
never thought I would be fighting side by side with a networkexec.
what about side by side with a friend?
aye, I could do that.
That's cringy, or is it 'cringe' these days as yanks seem to hate adverbs.
The chorus is so deafening, its starting to feel manufactured.
Well spoken - the mention of your hungarian relatives moved me. You're right.
“Contretemps”. …. Nicely done, hard to work that one in.
Thank you about list. It been needed to be called out for some time.
Ah, Chato, my favorite chronicler of The End of Western Civilization. You never fail to crack me up. Keep up the good fight!
CHATO, thanks for sharing your key insights. I can't help but wonder what Rowling feels, about this travesty of her franchise. Having written one novel myself, I am fiercely protective of the ideas incorporated into it. GOOD USE of Maslow's hierarchy! Once more, you shed light on a sham of a philosophy.
Thank you very much for the explanation, Mr. Chato. I also really appreciate how you properly explain things without being "fearful" of grammar.
Woke-Waffen. I am plagiarizing that.
I dig your Andey Rooney-esque delivery if by accident or design it brings me back, and it's appreciated. Straightforward and sarcastic, just the way I like it. 👍
I don't think we have reached the apex... unfortunately
It can always get worse , and usually does!
Well said Chato. I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who will not submit to the tyranny of the minority.
I just had this weird thought as to why the game is so popular and best seller, what if these woke idiots are buying multiple digital copies thinking that if they buy enough of them, the company will run out copies to sell! I want to see someone legitimately convince the cultists that this will work.
i saw this on an episode of Millennium. a Scientology expy cult in the show attempted to buy all copies of an offending book, just to keep it from the public consumption. i believe that was the funniest episode of the series. poor Lance Henriksen...
Lol 😂 👍
Weirdest attempt at a Denial-Of-Service attack, ever...
The problem is that the hard working people like you and I have built a world in which all these lunatics have absolutely no real problems. In response, they have far too much time on their hands and feel compelled to cause havoc.
As an avid fan of Harry Potter and active video game player I got the game as I would any other game. I honestly expected it to bomb but that was not the case.
It's freaking awesome and the developers at Avalanche studios deserve high praises.
On top of a highly accurate Hogwarts grounds and castle they've been able to make not just a walking simulator but an excellent RPG game. The surrounding world is free to explore and the puzzles and combat are fun. And something new in gaming as a whole. For fans, it's almost as good as a new movie.
I'm not sure why everyone is so upset. Its a video game and one that after a long drought of content is much appreciated. Everyone should just go play the game and stop letting things hurt their feelings.
As an uneducated working class white man in a service job in a medium size town without any higher learning colleges i'm rarely exposed to the chattering classes and their lunacy, but as i was in London last week and visited a bakers for some rolls the acolyte behind the counter said "Hi, i id as they how can i help you today" to which i replied "yeah, i'm an atheist son, give us 6 white and two brown rolls".
This confused the lad no end, but he gave me my rolls and i left.
I view all this identity/trans stuff as just another religion, i see no difference between some numpty saying their a woman/man and Catholics declaring the bread is now the body of Christ ( transubstantiation) sadly this means these idiots will be with us for decades to come, but i for one will not bend a knee to any religion, which is all most of us can really do.
Just supported Jk's bank account by purchasing the complete book series in a chest set. You're welcome mrs. Rowling!
I've been saying this for years.
They're religious fanatics. And all religions that don't keep a firm hand on their fanatics start to develop purity spirals where there the only people left are the quick psychopaths and the dead victims of the psychopaths.
Whenever I hear about this, I always think about how good society is. If this is the worst problem that some people have to worry about, then we're living in a great time.
Plagues, wars, and famine were the reality most people had to live with. Maybe, we should go back to those times, just so people have something real to worry about.
The elite are doing all they can to bring us back to that time. What do you think the Covid farce was?
@@n.d.m.515 The elite probably are NOT trying to bring us back to that time. If, for nothing else, self preservation.
One of the "hobbies" of the bad old days, was revolution, and chopping off the heads of tyrants. Not exactly something they want to encourage. Instead, they probably want people fat, lazy, and disinterested in changing anything.
@@kidicarus2215 The elites are trying to kill as many people as possible and keep people from breeding. This reduces the number of people able to revolt and increases what the elites can own. Remember, the masses will eat locusts and own nothing, and be happy.
Now....Mr. Chato....your channel is on MY list of things to check out when I log into You Tube.....I would like to think I am one of the good guys...... ("Contretemps: a minor dispute or disagreement" I have never heard that one before today. I SHOULD be keeping a list of all these new words you are bringing to my personal lexicon.)
Great point about lists and totalitarian regimes. Initially, those list start in order to just harass but end up much worse. Eventually totalitarian regimes kill hundreds of thousands to millions of people on those growing lists. Yes, those lists grow because they hold people to account to impossible standards that can never be met 100% and even a 1% disagreement can mean death.
Just upgraded my entire Harry Potted film collection from DVD to 4K Blu Ray. Also bought Hogwarts Legacy. All this to just piss of the trans-activists. Even LGBTQ community is turning against the trans-activists including many trans who just want to be.
When one pisses off the 99% you will lose.
Try to keep some perspective.
Your right-wing hysteria, whilst humourous, is misguided.
@@Gambit771 What is misguided are you extreme leftists. Your leftwing agenda is enforced through bullying and intimidation. The reason for this is you people are wrong on everything. Your leaders lie about everything.
Facts have borne out every charge against President Trump was a lie from Russia Collusion, the Steele Dossier, the two impeachments were all partisan lies. Only Satan would lie so much.
COVID-19 came out and was said to be natural from wet market. When people said it might be from lab they were suspended from Twitter, post blocked on Facebook, and TH-cam demonetized. Then we find out it was a lab leak. Same as when we said it was man. Then we found out it was created through gain-of-function research. Then President Trump touted the benefits of Hydroxychloroquine and when we talked about the benefits we were again cock blocked by the left. Now we find out the drug and others could have been used more widely and saved potentially hundreds of thousands of lives in US alone. Yet we were blocked.
Now we have media, schools and government programming children with gay and trans porn to become trans. And we are attacked for questioning gender affirmation and saying that there is an underlying cause associated with gender dysphoria and these are mental illnesses/conditions such as Autism, ADD, ADHD and DID. And we are harassed, harangued and bullied for it by those pushing the trans agenda.
This isn't hysteria. These are facts. If you think this hysteria, then think of this.
If it is not okay for an adult to inappropriately touch a child because the child is too young to consent then what makes these people think that a child can consent to having their body mutilated?
@@ChuckJansenII I'm not a leftist.
Your very first sentence shows you know nothing about what you are talking about.
It shows how your entire argument against me if wrong.
Congratulations.
Like I keep saying, left or right, you are both the same in how you conduct yourselves.
In your hysterics, in your court minds, in how you both have hive minds and it is either you think like me and agree with me on everything otherwise you are the opposition.
You prove that people that pigeonhole themselves by being right or left are stuck in a cult, lack critical thinking.
Now, I await your apology.
@@Gambit771 You are a leftist. if you talk down about right wing. So live with your new label. Do you think it is okay for these lists about Wizard Game streamers to be made and used for harassment.
I have news for you. my argument and examples are valid and true no matter how you try to demean me. I really don't care what you think of me.
Tell where I am wrong specifically instead of demeaning me. You are making a hasty generalization. I will not apologize to a baiter like you. You must be a master at it.
FYI, I love your thoughts and how simplistic you speak truth.. Fantastic! Well said!
I bought two.
THANK YOU, CHATO!
I grew up in a place and time where fans of SF/F were bullied for liking such things. Sad to see the bullies have returned, and with bigger weapons.
yes, I remember bits of it too. :) Then it was becouse in the bullies opinion SF/F was stupid becouse its not real stories - those bullies usualy were school teachers and writers of surprisingly mediocre real stories :D - and they told us we should read smt real. And now its becouse its not enough political or post-modern, or whatever. Or maybe its becouse its actualy too much NOT political or anti-political ? Becouse AFAIU SF/F is escapism art :) And escapism art is actual opposite toward political art (which also can be valid). IMO its like a spectrum of art - the one extreme of it is political art (telling about what should be done in politics - whatever I think about it), in the middle of the spectrum is realism art (telling about what it is in actual reality, as far as a writer can figure it out) and the other extreme is escapism art (with all the genres of myth, fairytale, fantasy), telling us or remembering us about the highest of high and the lowest of low of humanity's abilities by creating worlds of fantasy in which we can remember who we are. Its like this - the 3 points of the spectrum of stories is about "what can be" (politics), what is (realism), and what should be (myths, sacred story, escapism) :) Becouse IMO the area of politics (its philosophy -> ideology -> narration, done by psy-ops, by mass mind control, by mass psychosis) its the story about spreading power and control over minds of masses. Politics is a story about using a Ring of Power to enslave minds to control minds.
But you know what ? Escapism art is not about this. To speak it clear - escapism art tells of FREEDOM. And thats why the politics areas want it so bad to be erased or used as their tool, or censored or smeared as smt bad. Becouse IMO the more politics the less freedom, the less politics the more freedom (esp of individual person, and of freedom of mind). The politicians and their shills - they hate escapism becouse thats the last fortress of a free mind :)
The "lists" observation was eye-opening and chilling, in spite of the light-hearted delivery. I have a few relatives that were on lists myself, and it ends rather poorly. I'm trying to think of a counter-argument, a list-making scenario that went well. I'm coming up empty.
transplant lists are a more or less positive. There are a bunch of others like that but most of the time the lists are there because there is not enough of something to go around and so people must be on the list to wait for it. But you could argue that having those lists is a negative because that means there is not enough of something and some people might never get it or just can't wait that long for it.
@@KatamuroTheFirst Hrrrm yes, there are plenty of good lists. I was thinking more along the lines of lists of people who are perceived to be negative in some light. I guess a list of wanted criminals is the answer I'm looking for. That's necessary for the good of society, I'd argue. Obviously this is all just a thought exercise.
I bought the Playstation version of this game for my daughters. I unfortunately had people on my "friends" list saw that I bought this game and had achievements pop up on my profile. They had the audacity to message my profile with the usual vitriol of the usual blue-haired checkmark. My daughters sadly saw said messages, and the absolute insanity and inane mental gymnastics over this game is surreal.
Because I will occasionally play with console friends (but I'm predominately on PC), I got to work blocking and deleted these now former friends on PS, bought the Steam copy where I have zero people on my friends list on my second PC, and now my girls can play in peace.
This is just dumb honestly. And it's saddening to see people who you thought you knew, out themselves as part of the logic impaired performative outrage Twitterati.
I really enjoy your turn of phrase and particularly the hearty gut laugh that results. Fine work, my good man, keep it up.
Your closing thoughts align closely with mine, Chato. The people making lists are not the good guys.
Your comment probably put you on an FBI list. WE are the Resistance!
Also be wary of the ones banning books or even promoting book burning....I see a lot of that lately too
@@AlejandroDiazadiaz201 unless you have the power to shut down production or distribution of books, all people have a right to decide what can and cannot be available in public places, or even have private book burning parties. All banning of books discussed every year are not true bans.
I’ve enjoyed multiple videos from you. This one got me to subscribe.
This would have been a much more valuable pyramid to learn in college
Glad to hear you talk about Diversity Inclusion and Equity in the order they belong.
DISCLAIMER: This is not to impugn those of us with poor memories, who may require a list or two in order to accomplish anything.
*Looks down at my list of people to compliment today and cries*
@@williamjenkins4913 My bucket list includes people who should kick it first.