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renardtrickster · 1 year

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My take on the Wizard Game Discourse is that the Harry Potter Video Game Scene hasn't been good since Prisoner of Azkaban on the PS2 (and also the LEGO games), but furthermore the left dropped the ball on Hog Legacy by A LOT, and on SO MANY LEVELS.

The first thing that should be discussed is the streaming scene, in particular the fact that a lot of streamers got sent hate for playing or wanting to play the game, or outright harassed for it (I don't know how widespread this was but I'm moving forward with the assumption that it was a Notable Phenomenon). In particular, this doesn't do anything useful and actively hurts us. If you're a neutral "apolitical" streamer who just wants to play a mediocre wizard game, then you're more likely than not going to block, ignore, and continue on (while also drawing attention to it on social media), because spite and the Streisand Effect is a very potent motivator, and this goes double if you're an especially big streamer. If you're a leftist streamer, see the next paragraph. And if you're a reactionary streamer, you're just going to spin it as a culture war "the left attacked me for liking Harry Potter" thing. And on this point, leftists already have to struggle with a reputation for being no-fun-allowed wokescolds. If we had said "don't play the game it's shit and so is JKR" and responded to it coming out by clowning on it 24/7 (and also not making it trend on twitter every day leading up to it releasing) then we still would have gotten that, but at that point is becomes Dialogue and you can just tell them that their mom sucks you good and hard through your jorts. The circle of online political discourse turns gently. The imagery of leftists actually actively jumping on people's backs because For God's Sake I Just Wanna Game, however, is much harder to shake off though. That shit scares normies off and gives reactionaries more ammo.

Going from the above, I mentioned there's one group of people who will fold when given backlash for playing Wizard Game, and it's: other leftist streamer! I've seen quite a couple of lefty streamers say something to the effect of "might play it, prolly not buying it though Yar Har Har, and make fun of it/donate the money to a trans charity to stick it to JKR", and they get blowback from it, even from their own audience. One notable instance was Hasan Piker planning to do Exactly This, only for his fanbase to slag on him and not do it, because doing otherwise would be "supporting JKR". I have more to say about "supporting JKR", but let's look at the impact here. Before, JKR was going to make a shitload of money, but also a couple of prominent leftist streamers would have streamed the game, made fun of it, showcased to their audience all the shortcomings of the game's mechanics and writing, potentially done the Really Smart Thing of using a normie opener ("Harry Potter am I right?") to inject leftist commentary in a way that's easily consumable, even by liberals and apoliticals, and then tossed whatever money they made (likely the hundreds of thousands, if not millions in Hasan's case) into a trans charity. Instead, what we get is just JKR making a shitload of money and also we get headlines about how the most prominent leftist streamer got bullied by his own audience for playing bideo james, and also the charity streams don't happen. What is our outcome? What did we accomplish? Was it moral purity? Do we care about moral purity? Will moral purity prevent the rapidly approaching trans genocide from happening? I dunno, but at least I feel slightly better for it.

The final point is my address of a counterargument I've often seen in relation to "just pirate the wizard game" or "play the wizard game to slag on it and make money for charity" or similar, and I imagine it's a point that someone reading this was about to shoot at me. It was a tweet by JK Rowling, where she states that she counts any support of her works, including Harry Potter, as indirect support of her and her ideology. Now, financially speaking this is true, any money you throw at JKR goes to JKR (which is why you should either Not Give Her Money For The Game or at the very least do it and then throw x200 that much towards groups harmed by her), but a lot of people seem to take this further, in that even if you don't financially buffer her, playing/reading her stuff is like an unconscious and/or spiritual "good job on the transphobia, love the way you're the public face of a hate movement!" handshake, and that publicly doing so is just a roundabout means of sending support and fans (and recruits) her way. And to this, I would like to say THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?

Not only is this argument as incoherent as Tom Cruise saying that watching his movies is like an indirect vindication of Scientology, and also insincere because even if Harry Potter and Cormorant Strike or whatever became unpopular and unprofitable overnight she would keep on doing what she's doing, but the real baffling part is the fact that lefties just accepted and agreed with this, letting JKR define the framework and the endgoals. By accepting this, we immediately concede that the only proper response to a 10+ years old sitting on the bookshelf at home is to burn it (please think carefully before commenting "yes I am okay with identifying with the imagery of leftists being book-burners but politically reflected). By accepting this, we concede that someone watching the films or reading the book to MST3K it or negatively review it or critically point out all the things wrong with the writing or JKR's worldview is the same thing as uncritically watching and supporting it and loving JKR. By accepting this, we make a bet with JKR that if her new game sells well, then that means she's right, and the public is on her side when it comes to transphobia. It's not, by the way, people liking Harry Potter doesn't mean people liking transphobia, much less JKR herself, in much the same way that H.P. Lovecraft being a household name doesn't mean that everyone who's ever read Shadow Over Innsmouth actually really secretly supports racism not to mention the fact that the public majority is on the side of trans people, transphobes just so happen to be loud, fucking annoying, and also in positions of power because our power structures really favor the reactionary voice for No Reason In Particular. But the game was destined to make bank, because of reactionary support, and also apoliticals/liberals/normies not being too assed about it, but mainly because JKR is a household name bigger than Lovecraft at this point. It was a bet we didn't need to make, because we let her control the narrative when we didn't need to, and in attempting to "win" the unnecessary bet, we gave her free advertising, embarrassed ourselves, prevented ourselves from doing charity streams for some reason, and accomplished nothing where just saying "game a shit" and clowning on it on twitter would have done infinitely more at none of the cost.

My final note before you go is that this post is a criticism of the online left, but it is from a leftist perspective. This is no place for people whose takeaway is "well the real issue you guys don't realize how BASED JKR is and how trans people are bad" and you will be beaten senseless by every able-bodied patron in the bar bar for such audacious behavior.

#oh no renardie is posting #infoxicated

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jamsin3 · 8 months

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the jrwi riptide experience (no spoilers)

watching riptide on youtube:

*tragedy strikes, emotions are high, I am on the verge of tears. my soul has been ripped from my mortal shell*

the ad interrupting a powerful piece of dialogue: MR CLEAN MAGIC ERASER--

(in other news I am on episode 100 I am thisclose to being caught up and the only thing keeping my heart from being permanently shattered by these silly, tragic characters is that I am meeting Jort Storm soon)

#JRWI #jrwi riptide #jrwi show #just roll with it #youtube

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slogthor · 1 year

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I think people, in general, often, sometimes, see an argument that works well in a specific situation, admire the simplicity and the efficacy, copy and apply it to situations where it’s the worst dialogue branch. This happens with stuff like “cis women are harmed by transphobic policies” and “Jesus would have supported abortion” as well as “your mom suck me good and hard through my jorts” and “reading comprehension here is piss poor”

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taffy-glitch · 3 years

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ok but this bit was funny actually

#the magnus archives #tma spoilers #jonathan sims #helen richardson #helen distortion #tma #at least helen and jon had fun dialogue sfkdjsfddfjkl #jort post

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zviyeri · 2 years

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megatron canonically deadnaming op in idw2 will never not be funny to me

Dialogue transcript:

Panel 1: Optimus: Megatron, after having received the Matrix, I’ve come to a realization regarding my identity as a Cybertronian. I have gotten a frame reformat, and no longer wish to be addressed as Orion Pax. Now, I am Optimus Prime.

Panel 2: Megatron: Of course you have blue paint and pronouns.

Panel 3: Optimus: ...

Panel 4: Optimus: Your Second-In-Command suck me good and hard thru my jorts.

Megatron: WHAT.

#starscream #optimus prime #megatron #starop #starprime #suggestive text #transformers #maccadam #orion pax

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metataxy · 2 years

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Omg, it’s a Noir-inspired Jeans & Jorts fic.

So I was Depressed over world events and one of my friends suggested I read this absolute genius of a fic about Jean and Jorts the cats, and it’s AMAZING. They managed to integrate tropes and dialogue from noir novels into a piece about the cats and Jorts is a himbo. 10/10 recommend, and it has a cute illustration :D

Fun line: ‘The one thing I knew for certain was that, soon, everything would change. I knew it the moment he waddled through that door.You know the type: bright orange stripes, swaggering tail, legs that go on for inches.’

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/chocolatebox2022/works/36556993

#Jean and Jorts #jorts and Jean #cats #fanfiction

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eternal-fractal · 3 years

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what if in the future they decide to crossbred humans with computer ai so npc dialogue in games and mmos is fluid and responsive to anything you ask while preventing the issue that would come with using real people who would tell you to suck their jorts 20 times in a row

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ironmandeficiency · 4 years

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13 x 7 = 28

pairing: no pairing (no reader mentioned)

word count: 1907

summary: naturally is in deep shit. he got in over his head during sabaac with a member of the five-oh-first and now owes the man in blue more credits than he’s ever had at once. luckily, his ori’vod have his back.

a/n: apparently a sequel to “who’s my commander” was something ppl wanted, and i was all too eager to write something with my darling twenty-fifth boys. heads up, this is a dialogue-heavy piece. tagging @boba-thot, & @morganas-pendragons . please ask me abt my oc boys!! i have so many of them, i would love to share them with y’all!!!

“jort! ba! wait up!” the men in question slow down upon hearing their names being frantically shouted. if there was something bad happening that pertained to combat or one of the carnivorous felucian plants, they wouldn’t be the ones sought out. so they realized that it must be something of a personal nature and that allowed their heart rates to slow back down as they turned to identify the vod calling for them.

naturally was in deep shit. he had made the poor decision to join a few members of the five-oh-first in a game of sabaac and now owed them ninety-one credits, which was more than he’s ever had at once. the credits he had now only added up to half of that and knew that if he didn’t think of something, he’d be stuck on sanitation to pay off his debt to the cog-headed man.

jort would not admit that his mood softened a little upon identifying the distressed man as naturally. ba, however, knew that the man beside him was indeed sympathetic (sometimes too much for his own good) and that jort was now planning his evening around the needs of the frantic kih’vod in front of them.

“naturally, what’s wrong?”

“i was playing sabaac with the five-oh-first and got in over my head! i owe jesse more credits than i’ve had since i left kamino and i-“

the rookie was almost trembling and that was it, the older troopers were done for. naturally was now officially under the protection of him and jort, jesse be damned.

a metaphorical lightbulb lit up over jort’s head. ba could see said lightbulb the way he always does when his batchmate has an idea. the lightbulb hasn’t been able to distinguish good ideas from bad ones yet, but there was hope for jort yet.

“ninety-one, you say?”

“yeah, ninety-one credits.”

“well nat’ika, i’ve got just the trick to help you out.”

the youngest was almost too busy preening at the term of endearment to realize that his ori’vod was indeed going to help him. ba helped snap him back to reality as jort found a stick, beginning his lesson in the felucian mud.

ba had to admit that this plan was not only kriffing insane, but extremely world-tilting if executed right. it was jedi-level insanity and he didn’t doubt for a second that his batchmate learned the trick from the general.

after running naturally through the trick two more times, he felt that his training was paying off. ba had made the point of jesse knowing if naturally was lying about the credits he had on him and they both nodded their agreement. the youngest pulled his credits from his pouch and counted out twenty-eight, dropping the rest of them into ba’s hand.

jort takes this as a cue to continue. “now remember, you have to let him work some of it out himself towards the end. if you did it right from the start, he’ll be thinkin’ like you the longer it goes on and he’ll fall right into your trap.” naturally is soaking in the information like a sanitation duty sponge, part of him still reeling from the fact he’s being given such attention by a superior.

“does this trick help you a lot?”

jort smiles at the question. “only when the total i’m weaseling out of is ninety-one.”

ba rolls his eyes and butts in, “you say that as if you don’t try your damndest to make the total ninety-one as much as possible.” jort playfully scoffs at the insinuation as ba turns to naturally and grins like a loth-cat, enjoying the laugh he earns almost a tad too much.

this kid was making him soft.

to be truthful, ba would have taken the rookie under his wing the same as jort was currently doing if given the chance to do so in his own time. they’ve discussed as much with fortune, who led oracle company, about snagging a company transfer for the bright-eyed brother. fortune was on board with the idea because he saw how the newer medic worked, the way vode lost the panic in their eyes while being treated by him. it was a valuable trait to have as a medic and even more valuable to the men who fell under his care.

footsteps were heard around them and jort quickly went to mess up the numbers written in the mud. he didn’t want his information being spread where he didn’t want it, and judging by the look on his vod’ika’s face, the man approaching was indeed jesse.

“you think you can do it?”

“i know i can.”

“good man! find me when you’re done!”

ba and jort departed as jesse neared, and naturally was on his own.

“hey, naturally! you owe me for that game!”

naturally moved a hand to his pouch and made a show of getting every credit out. he let them clink together in the outstretched palm of the man in blue. “here’s twenty-eight credits, i’ll see you later-“

“alright, i- wait just a minute! there were seven rounds, and you bet thirteen each time. that’s way more than a measly twenty-eight!”

“that comes out to twenty-eight, vod.”

jesse’s wondering whether this guy’s tube was cracked. this rookie medic owes him ninety-one credits! on what planet does thirteen times seven equal twenty-eight? “did you get dropped on your head as a cadet?”

naturally suppressed a grin. “not that i can recall.”

“do you mean to tell me that you can prove that thirteen times seven is twenty-eight?”

“it’s gotta be, i owe you twenty-right credits.”

“tell you what: if you can prove it, you can keep the credits. if you can’t, you’ll owe me double.”

naturally stiffens a little at the prospect of having to owe one hundred and eighty-two credits to the cogged man who doesn’t seem to be the type to forget things like this. but he has faith in himself and the trick jort taught him, so he agrees to the deal and grabs the stick from earlier and begins the trick.

“seven into twenty-eight’s gonna come out to thirteen, watch.”

naturally draws a large seven in the dirt, followed by a significantly smaller twenty-eight separated by a slash, then another slash on the other side of the twenty-eight.

“can seven go into two?”

“no it will not.”

“that’s a giant seven to fit into that little bitty two.”

“... yes it is.”

“but we’re not gonna hurt the little two, so i want you to hold onto it for me.”

naturally “grabbed” the two from where he drew it in the dirt and “placed” it into jesse’s outstretched palm. that was simple enough so far, but there was still so much farther he had to go before getting out of this mess.

jesse was going with it only because he wanted his credits. that’s the only reason he was entertaining the bullshit of this rookie medic.

“can seven go into eight?”

“once.”

“right, so i’m gonna put the one over here,” naturally drew a one next to the second slash.

“now we’re gonna carry the seven, because it’s a big seven and it’s getting kinda heavy, and we’re gonna drop it down here below the eight.” as naturally speaks, jesse nods and follows along intently. “and seven from eight is?”

“one.” come on, jesse thought, i’m not that kriffin’ stupid.

“alright, now you’ve had that two long enough, give it here.” naturally holds his hand out for jesse to give him the two, and the older trooper isn’t sure as to why he’s playing into the little game this rookie’s got going but he “drops” the two into his palm nonetheless.

“you see that twenty-one? how many times can seven go into it?”

“three times.”

“so the three goes over here,” naturally continues as he draws a three into the dirt next to the one, “and look at that, thirteen.”

sure enough, there was now a thirteen drawn into the dirt next to the twenty-eight. jesse didn’t completely believe what he was looking at, much less the fact it made sense! he had to get more evidence, surely this wasn’t right.

“nah man, you’ve gotta prove it better than that if you expect me to believe that your math checks out.”

“alright, certainly.”

“you gotta multiply it.”

apparently there was still more to say and write if he wanted to save his head from being mounted on a five-oh-first bunk. thank the maker for jort’s extensive explanation or else naturally would have been screwed.

so he smeared away the numbers with a gloved hand, not bothering to care as to how it dirtied the leather, and continued on.

“let’s see here,” naturally mumbles to himself as he begins to draw in the dirt once again, tongue poking out between his teeth. a thirteen is now in the dirt with a seven below it, with a line under the seven. “okay. so we’ve got thirteen times seven. three times seven is?”

“twenty-one.”

“exactly, so we bring a twenty-one down. now one times seven is…”

“seven.”

naturally hums in agreement as he draws a seven below the one in twenty-one. “now twenty-one plus seven is-“

“twenty-eight.” jesse seems to be contemplating the lesson very hard, putting it side by side with everything he had been taught prior to then. it looked like it made sense, and his brain said it made sense, but to make him feel better he had to check it one more time.

“but now we gotta add it, just to be sure.”

“of course.”

this is where naturally sees if his hard work paid off, if jort’s lessons paid off. if he did his part good enough, then jesse would follow along and this would be easy peasy. most importantly though, he wouldn’t be bucket deep in debt to the trooper next to him.

smearing the mud one last time, he began to give jesse the final piece of the puzzle. “i’m gonna our down seven thirteens and add ‘em from there, alright?”

“alright.”

he puts the numbers down, one above another, and draws a line below the last. taking his stick, he begins to count by threes when the other man cuts him off halfway through. “no no no, let me do it this time!”

jesse starts to count by threes and ends on twenty-one, like he should, but also jort was sure to tell him that if he didn’t take over now that the plan was doomed to fail.

so in an effort to save his plan, naturally began pointing to the ones with his stick as he counted, “twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight!”

he spoke the numbers with confidence as he wrote the twenty-eight into the dirt, turning to give a dignified smirk to the cornflower painted trooper next to him.

jesse looked so lost and had no idea as to why this made a lick of sense, but had to concede that the young medic was right. to answer his earlier question, felucia is a planet where thirteen times seven is twenty-eight.

with a grin naturally collected the credits that had still been clutched in the other’s hand, stepping on the numbers casually enough to not raise suspicion as to why he was stepping on them. he was saved from a terrible fate and got to keep his money; it was a good night for naturally.

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wetalkaboutbooks · 4 years

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The Raven King- Nora Sakavic

So, I’ve finished book two. I am a little bit heartbroken, but a lot more excited to see how this series ends. This review will hopefully be shorter than my last one as I have a lot less to complain about. I’ve decided to split it into two sections again, one fore small things I liked/disliked and another for the more serious things I’d like to talk about. Spoilers for book one and two of All for the Game under the cut, so be warned. Here we go!

The Small Things

The dialogue was far better in this book. It was consistent and you could see that Sakavic has gained a better understanding of her characterization. It was still jilted at times, and by no means have the exposition dumps stopped, but since discovering this is self published I feel that it is necessary to be more lenient with the writing flaws.

Neil wearing jorts that one time, not very notable but it made a lot of sense for some reason.

The Foxes fans are a bit too much like furries for me to be comfortable, seeing as I have a deep seated fear of mascots, so that added both a wonderful dose of realism and fear to the pre-game scenes.

Why did Riko kiss Kathy, also was it implied to be more than a kiss? If so, what the hell dude, that’s weird.

The scene at the first banquet with the ravens was wonderful, they should be so lame but somehow came across as genuinely intimidating and cool.

The game scenes were incredible as always, the way Sakavic over describes everything builds tension so flawlessly. It has you on the edge of your seat, and I truly enjoyed each chapter where they were playing.

Another wonderful scene was with Andrew after one of the games, sitting on the floor with Wymack, surrounded by his pills. It was so well done.

I hope to see more of Renee and Allison, I think they’re quite brilliant

The character interactions worked a lot better in this book, it started off a bit rough but by the end everything just flowed so wonderfully, it’s very nice seeing the characters grow through the authors writing.

Aaron was fantastic this time round.

The Big Things

I think I’m going to start a bit smaller and work my way down, this book has so much to cover that I doubt I’ll be able to hit every point worth talking on, but that being said these are the things I recall as sticking out and that really stuck with me.

Seth. Yes, I know, he’s not really an important point in context to the rest of the book, but I feel the need to address the importance and handling of his death. I felt like the mix between Neil’s apathy and difficulty with acknowledging death as something difficult to confront and how heartbroken Allison was fascinating. Allison was the perfect portrayal of grief, the withdrawn outsider attitude that pushed her away from the team and the pressing weight of her absence as she came to terms with the loss. It gave his death a feeling of fleeting importance, something that affected the people who cared for him but left the world around him almost untouched. I think that it shows that while the entire world doesn’t stop when someone dies, the world of the people who care for them stops as they have to come to terms with what happened. I hope that in the next book we can see a bit more of Allison.

Kevin. Another positive thing that this book did! I will be blunt, as far as book one goes, I did not care about Kevin. He was one sided, boring, and just plain compared to the rest of the cast. This book, however, I find him to be so much more interesting as he provides such a bizarre perspective, namely after Andrew takes leave. I can’t quite explain it, but the way he deals with his anger and pain is just very relatable to me. I love him quite a bit. A bit odd with Wymack being his dad, that was a turn I didn’t really expect.

Neil getting a phone. I feel like his trauma surrounding phone calls was dealt with in a very mixed manner. I think that the forced exposure therapy type treatment Andrew gives is not best to project as an appropriate way of dealing with past issues. This point also applies to his drugging of Matt to get over his drug addiction, because no? That is not how that works. But having Neil come to terms with parts of his past little by little is very nice to see.

Andrew. As of last post, I didn’t exactly like Andrew. He is a lot, to put it simply. And while I still stand by everything I said against him, I think his trauma in this book should be acknowledged. The assault scene was well handled, Sakavic didn’t over exploit the scene, nor did she paint her characters as anything but what they already are. It is a way better way of handling trauma then what we as readers were given in the first book. I think Andrew deserves an entire post of his own to unpack everything I want to say about him, but so summarize it, while I do not think his past actions are excusable or justified, his behavior can be seen as a product of who he is as a character. I see why so many people are attached to him as a character.

The characters are inherently problematic, they will never not be problematic. There is no justifying some of their actions, there is no excusing it, but so long as that is understood the characters can be understood.

Riko. God, I hate him. I hate him so much. What a terrible character. Knowing what he threatened Andrew with, how he killed Seth, what he did to Kevin, What he’s done to Neil, the way his teammates are treated. Makes him easy to hate. However, he is also a poorly written character, and I wish the book had a less comically evil antagonist. It puts a real dimmer on the whole idea that people are not black and white in their actions. Jean is a better example of a good antagonist, he’s serving himself without being the literal incarnation of human sin, I think he makes a wonderful antagonist and hope to see more from him.

The way she deals with trauma is still mixed, but I think I’ll leave the final verdict on that for my review of book three.

Well. That’s that I suppose. Can’t wait to finish book three and then want to read the whole thing again to see what I missed! This series has grown on me, not enough that I would recommend it to others, the trigger warnings should be taken very seriously, but enough that I am glad to have read it. Overall, a solid 6/10, not perfect but years better than the last. Cheers to book two, and down to the final act! I think that I won’t be disappointed.

#aftg #aftg spoilers #the raven king #nora sakavic #neil josten #andrew minyard #high key love jean #the raven king spoilers #kevin day #all for the game #all for the game spoilers #book review #what a ride this book has been #trk #rip seth part two #long

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