Hogwarts Legacy to be Steam Deck Verified at launch

Not sure why we need to crucify people for disagreement, on issues that are far from settled - both politically and scientifically. This shouldn't really be part of the article.

GG, Valve. Free Linux support. No ports needed. Lord Carmack prophesised the truth.

Quoting: officerniceGG, Valve. Free Linux support. No ports needed. Lord Carmack prophesised the truth.

Genuinely interested on this one. Did Carmack prophetize Linux would become a good gaming platform ?

That wouldn't be surprising since ID Software were among the first to support Linux.

Never liked Harry Potter, and even this kind of games, but I will buy it.

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Quoting: KoopacabrasAlthough I was never interested on Harry Potter, I'm split on the issue of boycotting writers that are racists or biggots. Cuz if you follow that rule, that some ppl call it "cancel culture" you have to wipe out the majority of recent and not so recent writers and artists sadly.
I guess that if a new lord of the rings games is released I would personally buy it. I'm my book the first book we should start burning is the bible and other religious books, that's the number one problem causing more wars and injustice more than anything else. Since that won't happen ever.. I will pretend JK Rowling or Tolkien are normal persons and carry on .

It isn't just about not reading a book because the author is or was a bigot. JKR actively campaigns for harmful policies, so giving her money to spend on making your and your pals' life worse is... not great. She also uses the popularity of her works to prop up her platform, regardless of whether the stories on their own are bad. We are talking about someone that had previously won a human rights award for writing beloved children's books, and then had it withdrawn for her bigoted campaigning.

It is quite different from discussing long dead authors, or even living authors that express some bigoted opinions in their private lives or in an interview but don't use the works to advertise a platform of hate and ignorance.

It also doesn't mean everyone's positive feelings and personal experiences with the fiction are invalid and you must hate it or else. Nor that the works must be forgotten and never read again. But knowing these problems is important, so it must be discussed, and it is more than understandable that people whose lives are made meaningfully less safe by the author will have strong negative feelings about it. It doesn't make them book burners or anything like that.

look your comment seems very reasonable and logic, but lets call things how they are. Within the "cancel culture" there is ppl actively calling out to burn books or precious works of art. That's why I said I had split opinions about this because I don't like radical approaches in neither ends. This problem should be handled other way like having proper anti discrimination laws, JK Rowling should not be allowed to say such things. She should be fined. Her books are not the issue. It's a "free peach" issue, free speech is not about targeting and promoting hatred against minorities, here she crossed a line. She should be fined and legally muzzled.


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I'm disappointed as always at the number of people who just don't care about how toxic the HP series is and how willing many are to give it extra publicity. Is it really worth indirectly donating to anti-lgbt hate groups just so that you can play a game where you quell a rebellion that seeks freedom for the goblins, one group of intelligent magical creatures whose oppression is consistently celebrated by the books and series as a whole?

Quoting: MayeulCI really liked the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfic. Not sure I can enjoy vanilla HP (such as this) after reading that.

I've seen the Harry Potter movies in full before, but I was never a big fan of the series. So when I decided to read HPMOR, I wasn't expecting much. I only gave it a shot because of its reputation. It took me two tries, but I recently read it through fully last year and enjoyed it immensely. It was a wild ride.

HPMOR is controversial in the HP fanfiction community apparently, mainly for its interpretations of parts of the world and characters (and distrust of the author's Machine Research Institute organization), but considering I was never particularly attached to the parent series, I have no such issues with it. I like the themes and characters much more than the original series—namely its reinterpretation of one particular theme in HP.

To demonstrate how popular HPMOR is, there was a crowdfunding campaign for printing an unofficial Russian translation of HPMOR that collected over USD$175,000. For comparison, Mother of Learning's first ARC, an extremely successful original work, collected US$126,000. I guess technically it would be legal to sell fanfiction in Russia now or at least very soon...

So, uhh...I'm not going to play the game. I like HPMOR a lot too, though.

Quoting: LanzNot sure why we need to crucify people for disagreement, on issues that are far from settled - both politically and scientifically. This shouldn't really be part of the article.

With respect, what should and shouldn't be in an article is my choice. You can't just ignore the issues surrounding it, they're widely reported and have caused lots of big debates on it.

Quoting: Guestis the game good though

From all they've shown so far, it looks like it will at least not be terrible.
That's already something!

Quoting: ssj17vegetaGenuinely interested on this one. Did Carmack prophetize Linux would become a good gaming platform ?

Sorry if this is a repeat – I haven't read all comments.

What he said is that native version were going to die because wine would kill them.