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  1. Insipid

    Hogwarts Legacy

    In retrospect, Rowling was pretty weak at worldbuilding. The wizarding world had to remain secret but still respected modern muggle sovereignty; i.e. there were witches from France, Germany, etc. She could have made it more interested by including Atlantis or a secret Norse tribe or some shit. She definitely is no Tolkien. I dunno. I definitely see her shortcomings as an author. She is a pretty shitty person too, I know. It's one unfortunate circumstance of separating the art from the artist for me. I think I'll always enjoy Harry Potter though. I only consider the seven books as canon though. Fantastic Beasts series and Rowling's retconning don't mean shit to me.
  2. Insipid

    Hogwarts Legacy

    Am I seriously going to be the first person here to write a more serious review? Fine, so be it. I'm gonna focus more on the creative liberties involved, which Rowling had no part in anyway. Playing it makes you realize no one ever really had a fully fleshed out idea of how Hogwarts interconnects with all the various areas. Moaning Myrtle's bathroom is right next to the Slytherin common room entrance, when it was supposed to be on the second floor. Also, the entrance doesn't feel as deep as it should, as the Slytherin common room is under the lake, and Hogwarts is on a small cliff. The grand staircase doesn't really feel that grand and is much more circular this time around than previous iterations. I could go on and on about many of the "mistakes" but I realized they did what they could to try to incorporate the layout from the movies into this video game. The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom looks just like it does in the movies. With the oldest adaptations of the Harry Potter games, they just freely did whatever to try building a world and relied on loading screens for any shortcomings. Honestly, it may have been more interesting if they just built a new Hogwarts layout from scratch. All in all, it makes me appreciate the field of architecture more. Anyway, so far it seems to be an all right game. I'm only playing it here and there, as I don't have much free time anymore. I have obviously been more interested in the design than the gameplay, and it seems the creators were aware there would be people like me.
  3. People who can't drive would benefit most from decreased dependency on cars, obviously. Also, I sense NIMBYism (not from you).
  4. Not much of a brag, but more my thinking that electric cars aren't the future. The thing sucks a lot more energy in the winter time, even if you have the heater off. Car depedency is bad, mmkay.
  5. Wanna see Hunter Biden porn? It's still quite easy to find. (Have fun, now.)
  6. This disaster made me learn there's a province in Turkey called Batman. No one died in Batman, but there are injured people.
  7. Engaging topic as usual. Well done.
  8. I gave fuggs your phone number, ghostrek.
  9. lol, you two are friends.
  10. Like your return, for instance. People will enjoy taking the potshots at you again. I suppose you must enjoy that too, but you do you.
  11. You were clearly missed, Packard. Actions speak louder than words.
  12. Weren't you sent a care package from a certain place recently? 😱
  13. You know what to do with a pussy that misbehaves.
  14. lol, oh well
  15. The keeper of the hooha still touches herself when she thinks of you.
  16. Bump, I just had palak paneer for the first time today. I think it may be my new favorite Indian food. It's like a spicy cream of spinach curry.
  17. A warning of the inevitable, permanent end you have in mind.
  18. All you people here just made me feel younger, so.
  19. So desperate to be included, as usual. I still remember your hilarious breakdown where you said a certain someone had affected your quality of life. How embarrassing. Say what you will about me, but at least when I'm away from the boards I don't think much about it.
  20. All this from a comment on airports and mocking RACG using a different language to post . . . well I know your game. Not playing. Goodbye.
  21. lol, I got permanently banned on reddit for saying Mindy Kaling's family deserves to be reincarnated as dung beetles in the next cycle (they're Hindus). So much for all that karma. Oh well, new account time. I seem to make a new reddit account every two years anyway, and it's not always because I get banned. None of you really care, but this thread's topic is so trivial anyway.
  22. Yes, there are many English words in Japanese, and they are typically written using katakana. I don't think that's actually a phrase used in Japanese, although maybe shatto za fakku appu is. Google is just translating the words individually here.
  23. It's not. I'm just using katakana to write English words, lol
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