Harriet Potter - A game changer?

I don't think the evidence is particularly hard to find, she literally wrote an essay about the issue.

And there are multiple breakdowns about that, going into detailed point-by-point explanations of why the things she said are shitty, why it's irresponsible for someone with her influence to be peddling falsehoods about this kind of thing. To say nothing of the social media stuff, where for a time she would just not let the issue die.

It's fine if none of that convinces you, but imo it's not really obscure.

Really enjoying this so far - feels similar to Insomniac’s Spider-Man to me in that it’s got a solid combat system tied together with a good understanding of what fans want from the franchise.

Read a couple of reviews that suggest the characterisation is a bit lacking.

Might as well just do what I'm doing and watch the films over the next few weeks, then grab the game when it's dropped in price a bit if I still fancy it.

Why wouldn't it be? If you think you'll get entertainment out it, jump in. It will be plenty of people's first experience of the Wizarding World stuff.

There is, it runs at 1800p but commonly 1440p at 30fps with reduced texture quality and draw distance and it's only for ground reflections and shadows not water reflections.

I'm guessing there won't be a DF article on it given that they're pretending this game doesn't exist over at EG Towers.

So, politics aside, please, more opinions on the game?

Suitable for a knowledgeable and mature eleven year old?

Thanks

@emark

Absolutely. The world is incredibly well done. So many lovely touches to the environments. Basically the art direction is spot on. Other than that everything is as you would expect from a aaa open world game. The combat is good, but may be a bit much for an 11 yr old, probably not though.

Zero glitches in the first few hours.

This is an excellent article about JKR that really explains some of the more insidious behaviour and why it’s so damaging.

Of course you still need to be arsed to read it to get the insight.

katymontgomerie.medium.com/addressing-the-claims-in-jk-rowlings-justification-for-transphobia-7b6f761e8f8f

Thanks for posting that. Im not proudly ignorant, but I do tend to stay off social media and don’t go out of my way to find out what celebrities are saying on twitter. I used to be on there a lot but found myself getting progressively angrier and arguing with everyone all the time. Around the same time I noticed Glinner seemed to be getting more and more radicalised!

But that is a good summary. Basically she’s using her platform to demonise an already extremely vulnerable section of society, sigh. Can we just bin Twitter already?

The PC release seems to be in a bad state again performance-wise. Apparently unplayable with Raytracing on, but still not great without it (on a high-end system). Some visual bugs, but seemingly not a real problem in comparison to the performance.

Other than that reviewers are mostly quite positive about it.

Weirdly my brother in law just retweeted something by this person.

I read a fair bit of it (it's fairly lengthy). Some fair points from her. Contextualized well.

Though the biology section was a bit ridiculous imo and she probably could have done without it, not sure it added much to her argument.

The stuff about the paper and disingenuous representation was better. Additionally the stuff about JKR saying she might have decided to be trans if she were young now rather than 30 years ago. In my opinion It's impossible to say she wouldn't have as the writer asserts but I also think it's a ridiculous foundation for an argument from JKR.

Overall, can see she has had quite a few bits of dodgy stuff out there which doesn't help marginalized people.

finally I feel woefully underqualified to tell any woman how they should feel in relation to some of the fringe issues that seem to be hotly debated.

For a while there I though Glinner was shorthand for Gary Lineker.