#the really queer lawyer game franchise

[matt-patt-engarde]

phoenix wright has bone hair spikes pass it on

#phoenix wright #ace attorney #the really queer lawyer game franchise #phoenix wright ace attorney #this is something from a server im in #dont ask

[dm-clockwork-dragon]

All due respect, but you’re pretty wrong about a few things.

1. That’s not what death of the author means. It’s a common misconception, but death of the author is a literary analysis technique in opposition to “word of god”. An example of death of the author would be “word of god from JRR Tolkien says lord of the rings wasn’t inspired by his time at war, but analysis of events and his life shows a lot of similarities and influences on it, and interpreting the series as about his time in the war is a valid approach despite what he says”. It’s not ignoring things about the author or deciding the author has no involvement or influence.

2. JK Rowling does actually continue to make royalties off of Harry Potter stuff.

3. Buying the game is funding her, and she uses the money to fund transphobic politics that has done real harm to transgender people in at least the UK, and funding efforts to keep Scotland and Ireland colonized.

4. Reclaiming queer and fag and dyke isn’t the same as continuing to fund JK Rowling. You can’t “reclaim” a franchise. Queer, fag, dyke, etc don’t make anyone money. They’re words being weaponized emotionally, and their impact is as strong as we let it be. Harry Potter is a brand and a franchise with PR and accountants and corporations at the helm. It’s not something that can be “reclaimed” and to say so indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of what reclaiming is at all. Harry Potter itself has some cruel caricatures in it, yes, but the real problem is the actual funding of JK Rowling and those she works with that agree with her, or just care about money more than the people she’s hurting.

I understand your intentions here, and why people get defensive about enjoying HP. But I hope you’ll genuinely listen to me and think about what I’ve said, because you really have said a lot of incorrect things here. JK Rowling has and will continue to do genuine, tangible harm to our community.

And this isn’t in the body of your post, but it’s something I’d like to add. This game isn’t the Harry Potter you grew up with. While Harry Potter itself had aspects of antisemitic caricatures, it wasn’t the main focus. This game is made of and about blood libel. I adored the books when I was a kid. This game is nothing like them. If you remove it from the discourse about JKR, you can still recognize that it’s a game using the setting and name of Harry Potter to sell a story about oppressing Jewish-coded slaves, but it’s okay, because they’re EVIL slaves. It has the superficial trappings of Harry Potter, but it will not have what you loved about the books.

Have a good day.

So I do very much appreciate you trying to be civil about this, and I will certainly give some consideration to your points, But could you provide me with some sources for the information here? I don't mean this to come off as dismissive, but I'm not keen to take the word of an anonymous person on the internet over my own education in literature, finance and economics. Or to reverse my views on cancel culture and the spread of undeserved hate towards people who are just trying to enjoy a nostalgic part of their childhood, just because a very opinionated person online has ignored my examples of how other creators have had their IP’s reclaimed by fans. Especially when your argument to the contrary would suggest that the queen community has not battled lawmakers, lawyers, PR and accountants for years in reclaiming much of the language we use today, let alone all of the other times we have fought against systematic abuse and won. I don’t feel like “its hard” makes for a very valid argument for why we should not only avoid trying, but demonize any of our own who do. And again... I actually have no love for the books? I grew out of them, and looking back, very much recognize that they are hot trash, and not something I care about. I'm also not defending this game, and have no intention of buying or supporting it. I just... really don't like seeing communities start wars within themselves when there are real, actively malicious enemies waiting at the doorstep. Witchhunts and the persecution of heretics are something the 15th century catholic church was known for. I’d rather not see the trend continue

#not dnd

[therealdragonnerdagain]

not everyone blindly loves fallout 4: get the fuck over it

All these post about the original Mass Effect on my dash are making me misty-eyed. God, I miss Liara. Anyway . . .

Why is it that straight dudes are the only ones who can't take it when someone has an opinion of a video game? It's my opinion. Not everyone is going to blindly worship your favorite games. Get the fuck over it.

And I can't even say "straight white dudes" because they aren't the only ones acting like frail pissbabies. It's just straight dudes in general, who seem to be the constant source of all the bigotry and insanity in the gaming community.

Why the FUCK do you care that I resent Fallout 4's reduced rpg elements?

Why the FUCK do you care that I'm annoyed my character is predefined and straight in the opening?

Why the FUCK do you care what I think?

Why come to my tumblr and read my posts if they bother you so much? So you have something to bitch about on gamefaqs and nma-fallout with your equally shitty and entitled friends???

I don't complain about video games to be trendy or get adored. If people respond to my posts here, I don't know and I don't care. I actually depise most people here, as most tumblr users are racist white opinionated feminists who are constantly talking down to me and "whitesplaining" my oppression. They've made tumblr a pretty shitty place for me, so I despise them as much as I depise you and the other male gamers who won't stop wetting their nappies everytime a person has the audacity to -- gasp! -- have an honest opinion about a fucking video game.

I complain about today's video games because I'm sincerely pissed the fuck off. I remember a time when I actually enjoyed some video games, despite all the sexist, racist bullshit I had to deal with in them.

I'm old enough to remember a time when game developers cared more about making games than making money. I'm old enough to remember a time when rpgs were actual rpgs. So I'm pissed off about everything. Even the new Zeldas piss me off -- yes, I hated Skyward Sword. It's the game that actually made me give up on Wii.

It's painful to look at Dragon Age Origins and see the MMORPG monstrosity that is Inquisition.

It's painful to look at Mass Effect 1 -- such a wonderful rpg -- and see what it became in Mass Effect 2 and 3. The sequels were arguably good games. But 2 was shallow and campy (and sexist and racist) and lost a lot of the maturity that originally attracted me to the series. And 3's ending . . . don't get me started.

It's painful to compare Fallout 4 to Fallout 3. Fallout 3 wasn't even a great fucking game -- shock! horror! -- but it was still better written than Fallout 4 and with way more effort on Bethesda's part. Now it's like Bethesda isn't even trying. They just don't give a fuck. Until Far Harbor came out, I had almost given up on them.

As a marginalized person who -- gasp! -- has been playing video games all her life, I'm also fucking sick of the way video games treat people like me. I want to be queer in a video game, actually queer -- not a tacked-on after thought. I want to be a woman in a video game, actually part of the original story and not fridged for the male lead -- not a tacked-on after thought.

This is disappointing in a franchise where our background was always UP TO US, and thus, we were allowed to make up whatever the fuck we wanted. That was the beauty of an rpg. That was the POINT. To make up a character and insert them in the lore to your pleasing.

If I'd had my way, my Nora would have been a queer kindergarten teacher who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles, kinda like Mr. Turner on Boy Meets World (lol). Would have been so hilarious to have an ex-kindergarten teacher killing people. Instead, Nora is a lawyer -- and it never really comes into play. Not the way being a soldier does for Nate. You know why? Because Nora was added at the last minute, after the developers realized it would be a dick move to basically ignore their female audience.

But marginalized people have always been ignored in video games. That's part of what being marginalized means. It's nothing new to us. Doesn't mean it doesn't still hurt.

You don't know what it's like to be marginalized, so you need to shut the fuck up telling me what I'm allowed to complain about. As I said in an older post here, if straight male gamers were forced to be gay during the opening of Fallout 4, there would have been an uproar about how us horrible sjws -- aka DECENT HUMANS BEINGS -- were taking over the worlds!!!! But queer gamers are forced to be straight -- in a game franchise that NEVER forced our character be to anything before because Fallout used to be a fucking rpg -- and we're understandably annoyed by that. God forbid!

God forbid we should complain about something that bothers us -- in a place where you don't even fucking have to see. It's not like I'm coming to "your" precious boards and making complaints. I'm on MY BLOG, venting about the shit that annoys me. If people agree with me or remark that they feel the same way, it's comforting, but it's not my goal -- the same way it comforts you to sit on nma-fallout and nexusmods and gamefaqs and bitch and complain about "femnazis" like the racist, sexist, spoilt, entitled, asshole SHITS that you are.

I'm allowed to complain about video games all I fucking want. I will continue to do it all I fucking want. And I don't give a fuck if you agree with anything I have to say or not.

I DON’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK, STRAIGHT BOY.

I know it's hard to believe given that the world has filled you with your shitty sense of entitlement, but my blog is not for YOU.

#fallout 4 #stfu gamefaqs #bethesda critical #bioware critical

[matt-patt-engarde]

phoenix has canonically been called a poopyhead

#ace attorney #the really queer lawyer game franchise #phoenix wright #phoenix wright ace attorney #turnabout big top

[matt-patt-engarde]

reminder that in the third case of the hit game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, Godot said "Don't kinkshame"

#ace attorney #the really queer lawyer game franchise #phoenix wright #what is going on with this franchise #phoenix wright ace attorney

[matt-patt-engarde]

"Cars, motorbikes, they're all the same" - Klavier Gavin, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

#ace attorney #the really queer lawyer game franchise #klavier gavin

[matt-patt-engarde]

if you want to be my friend and/or date me, you'll have to put up with me talking about ace attorney lore in the middle of a conversation and act like a dog that heard its owner say 'park' whenever someone says:

[defense] attorney

prosecutor/prosecution

evidence

trial

fool/foolish

justice

medium

also expect a dumbass who cant complete their projects one at a time

#phoenix wright #ace attorney #the really queer lawyer game franchise #all lawyers are queer

[matt-patt-engarde]

reminder that in the AA-verse, there's a bird called "Did'nae-do-it" (Didn't do it), with siblings called "Lemme-oot" (Let me out) and "Dinnae-kill-me" (Do not kill me)

#ace attorney #the really queer lawyer game franchise #the great ace attorney #the great ace attorney resolve #great ace attorney

[matt-patt-engarde]

Ace Attorney Investigations Case 1 Implied Spoilers

My personal thoughts while playing the first case:

why did they do the thing where they reveal the killer in the INTRO??

his name isn't jim, dumbass

ISTG, HIS NAME ISN'T JIM

omg, they did a '11037'/'Maya' thing whyyyyy

haha, gumshoe stomp stomp

YES, HE'S SO FUCKING PRETENTIOUS

FINALLY, EDGEWORTH CALLS IT OUT! FUCK YES

i wish those guys the best in life, i dont know how this guy has friends

ISTG, JACK[ASS]

YEAH, GET HIS ASS

why does he look like a politician???

either put on your jacket or take it off, you peaked-in-high-school piece of trash

a lady?? ooh, im interested

MAGGEY, MY BELOVED <3 I WANNA KISS HER SO BAAAAD

aww, gumshoe.. you sweet summer child

ill burn that jacket someday

i get making metaphors abt your job/interest but can you please shut up?

this guy doesnt look 29, much less acts like it

you're a waste of time

YEAH, GET HIS ASS x2

even if its his nickname, HIS NAME ISNT JIM

wtf are you saying??

maggey is a nightguard… har har har har-

istg, if you make another sport metaphor..

wow.. seriously, fuck off

breakdown??? (OoO)/

awww.. no breakdown

is is breakdown time???

ARGHH, COME ON

ok, is now breakdown time?

BREAKDOWN!!

awww, maggey..

oooh, secret organization

gasp yatagarasu..

WOOOO! CASE.. CLOSED!!

#ace attorney #ace attorney investigations #aai1 #aa investigations #aai1 spoilers #the really queer lawyer game franchise