JKR is not just some writer who happens to be transphobic. There are plenty of distasteful writers I still enjoy - the difference is they didn't turn their bigotries into a project.
She has made transphobia into her whole life. It is her primary political goal. It is what she spends her money and time on.
Elon Musk (who disowned his own daughter after she transitioned) complained that JKR's Twitter contributions were too obsessed with trans people.
I hope so but I doubt the stain will ever fully wash off. I'll always be wondering who is still involved in steering it who was a fellow-traveler of JKR.
If 30 years from now the IP owner makes a Ravenclaw-themed mad-science spin-off series with a trans wizard as the protagonist, then maybe I'll think it's salvageable.
I think Tim's hit the nadir in quality around 5-10 years ago. Everything since then has been a dead-cat-bounce - that is, they've gotten better simply because it was mathematically and chemically impossible to get worse. Like their various fried or scrambled egg additions are something approaching normal food, which is a huge improvement.
But "better" and "improvement" does not mean they're anything close to "good".
JKR is actively politically involved in the persecution of trans people and the protection of transphobes. Even if she does not directly profit from an individual piece of HP media, the success of any HP media strengthens her brand and thus her political power.
That's why it matters. Not an abstract question of "death of the author" or the Ship of Theseus of adaptations of adaptations, but the single contemporary living human being who converts Harry Potter's cultural cachet into actualized hatred.
I was just hoping for interesting tactics and a simple plot, which it delivered at first... but as the game develops it's as you said, mostly about learning to optimize your grind through exploiting systems that are basically only documented in wikis (what do all the stats and attributes do? Google it.)
Disgaea. I was trying to unlock all the classes and play with some of the monster classes but it was so tedious and slow that after 100 hours I looked up a power leveling guide and found out the optimal play was just to ignore the whole team strategy part of it and grind the main character into space. Dropped it then.
You'd have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.
I gave Mint a shot and while its hardware support was the best (least Nvidia pain of any distro) the whole thing just felt so single-threaded. It was just too easy to lock up the UI. Maybe I was playing with bad plug-ins though, but they were official ones.
Then again, I managed to crash KDE Plasma by installing the vertical clock plugin.
If they'd just kept the old Windows 10 taskbar/launcher the could've pushed it out as a forced update and very few people would've complained. Yes there'd be a few tech geeks freaking out, but the majority of users' main complaint is GUI workflow. Leave that as-is and it's an easy win.
IANAL but AFAIK they only need one charge to hold him and they can tack on more charges later. Realistically plea bargaining means that he won't actually get convicted of murder, but they could still use a murder charge to get him to cop to manslaughter.
Happy to see that the article isn't mincing words calling this a "crash" or an "accident" and Texas has him booked for manslaughter. Hopefully when it comes time to take him to court they can up that to murder (and, realistically, plea bargain him back down to manslaughter).
I do wonder if the subjects were reversed - if it were a Latino run over by a white woman - if Texas would take this as seriously.
hit and run
[...]
and multiple driving offenses
People like that should not be driving. I realize that in Texas it's cruel to take somebody's license because that's basically crippling them. That's one of the many costs of car-centric planning: Since everyone must drive, it becomes unthinkable to take that away from someone.
Laws are for poor people.
Then you haven't been paying attention.
JKR is not just some writer who happens to be transphobic. There are plenty of distasteful writers I still enjoy - the difference is they didn't turn their bigotries into a project.
She has made transphobia into her whole life. It is her primary political goal. It is what she spends her money and time on.
Elon Musk (who disowned his own daughter after she transitioned) complained that JKR's Twitter contributions were too obsessed with trans people.
I hope so but I doubt the stain will ever fully wash off. I'll always be wondering who is still involved in steering it who was a fellow-traveler of JKR.
If 30 years from now the IP owner makes a Ravenclaw-themed mad-science spin-off series with a trans wizard as the protagonist, then maybe I'll think it's salvageable.
The author is a bigot and supporting HP supports bigotry. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it matters what you're complicit with.
Yes, it's popular. Many evil things are.
I think Tim's hit the nadir in quality around 5-10 years ago. Everything since then has been a dead-cat-bounce - that is, they've gotten better simply because it was mathematically and chemically impossible to get worse. Like their various fried or scrambled egg additions are something approaching normal food, which is a huge improvement.
But "better" and "improvement" does not mean they're anything close to "good".
JKR is actively politically involved in the persecution of trans people and the protection of transphobes. Even if she does not directly profit from an individual piece of HP media, the success of any HP media strengthens her brand and thus her political power.
That's why it matters. Not an abstract question of "death of the author" or the Ship of Theseus of adaptations of adaptations, but the single contemporary living human being who converts Harry Potter's cultural cachet into actualized hatred.
It's crazy how the Saudis oscillate between "we want to be green and modern" and "we want to do oppression and atrocities".
I was just hoping for interesting tactics and a simple plot, which it delivered at first... but as the game develops it's as you said, mostly about learning to optimize your grind through exploiting systems that are basically only documented in wikis (what do all the stats and attributes do? Google it.)
Disgaea. I was trying to unlock all the classes and play with some of the monster classes but it was so tedious and slow that after 100 hours I looked up a power leveling guide and found out the optimal play was just to ignore the whole team strategy part of it and grind the main character into space. Dropped it then.
Madagascar floats
Sideways through the afternoon
Detecting A. I.
Teenagers aren't really known for making great decisions.
Source: was once a teenager, made bad decisions.
You'd have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.
Trump is a slob about everything, but he's careful about one specific thing:
He will never testify under oath. And that's what Stewart was ultimately busted for - lying under oath.
I already switched my devices to Kubuntu.
There's always gonna be some people who don't want the new version.
https://xkcd.com/1172/
I gave Mint a shot and while its hardware support was the best (least Nvidia pain of any distro) the whole thing just felt so single-threaded. It was just too easy to lock up the UI. Maybe I was playing with bad plug-ins though, but they were official ones.
Then again, I managed to crash KDE Plasma by installing the vertical clock plugin.
If they'd just kept the old Windows 10 taskbar/launcher the could've pushed it out as a forced update and very few people would've complained. Yes there'd be a few tech geeks freaking out, but the majority of users' main complaint is GUI workflow. Leave that as-is and it's an easy win.
If fishing worked like this I would totally start doing that.
IANAL but AFAIK they only need one charge to hold him and they can tack on more charges later. Realistically plea bargaining means that he won't actually get convicted of murder, but they could still use a murder charge to get him to cop to manslaughter.
Happy to see that the article isn't mincing words calling this a "crash" or an "accident" and Texas has him booked for manslaughter. Hopefully when it comes time to take him to court they can up that to murder (and, realistically, plea bargain him back down to manslaughter).
I do wonder if the subjects were reversed - if it were a Latino run over by a white woman - if Texas would take this as seriously.
People like that should not be driving. I realize that in Texas it's cruel to take somebody's license because that's basically crippling them. That's one of the many costs of car-centric planning: Since everyone must drive, it becomes unthinkable to take that away from someone.