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Anonymous No.96335526 >>96335573 >>96335594 >>96335616 >>96335783 >>96335806 >>96337381 >>96337463 >>96337533 >>96337976 >>96337987 >>96339231 >>96339602 >>96342843 >>96344893 >>96345202 >>96345533 >>96347501 >>96354094 >>96355968 >>96357794 >>96366214 >>96367084 >>96370406 >>96381657 >>96382465 >>96385971 >>96390304 >>96390986 >>96400731 >>96402741
Why hasn't WOTC made a Harry Potter themed MTG set?! Do they hate money or something??
Anonymous No.96335573 >>96337533
>>96335526 (OP)
Don't have the rights, already have factions/settings to do the magical school thing, and Harry Potter fucking sucks.
Anonymous No.96335594 >>96335607 >>96335783 >>96337533 >>96339291 >>96347924 >>96354038 >>96406738 >>96408098 >>96414572
>>96335526 (OP)
J.K. Rowling has views that WOTC leadership doesn't agree with.
Anonymous No.96335607
>>96335594

They don't like elf slavery?
Anonymous No.96335616
>>96335526 (OP)
harry potter is fucking garbage
Anonymous No.96335783 >>96336533 >>96337390
>>96335526 (OP)
You got any more room under that rock? >>96335594 has the right of it, and it was a Big Thing.
Anonymous No.96335806 >>96336309 >>96337533
>>96335526 (OP)
They probably haven't done it because they know a bunch of employees would kick up a shit fit about about and threaten to leave, which is just another reason why they should do it. Every WotC employee deserves to be jobless and sent out into the desolate job market to suffer. The one's that don't will forever be blacklisted by their own colleagues and all of them will be miserable. Everybody wins except WotC.

And then normalfags will buy up the sets and make Hasbro a billion dollars, which JKR will use to sponsor more anti-tranny activism.
Anonymous No.96336309 >>96336478 >>96336976 >>96352552 >>96356235
>>96335806
What does any of that have to do with traditional games?
Anonymous No.96336478
>>96336309
Everything
Anonymous No.96336533
>>96335783
Fuck you
Anonymous No.96336976
>>96336309
The only thing more pathetic than a janny is a wannabe jannie.
Anonymous No.96337381
>>96335526 (OP)
Bacause 30-40% of their playerbase is trans and they already have Strixhaven anyway

Also Magic has enough random british dudes running around from the doctor who set. We don't need more of this trash.
Anonymous No.96337390 >>96340116
>>96335783
>You got any more room under that rock?
OP knows exactly why it is, he just wants to screech about trannies on /tg/ for some reason.
Anonymous No.96337463
>>96335526 (OP)
Like we don't have enough people bitching about Rowling around here these days. Go to /pol/ or /lit/ or something.
Anonymous No.96337533 >>96337539 >>96339247 >>96339573
>>96335526 (OP)
>>96335573
>>96335594
>>96335806
I am torn. I am not a fan of Harry Potter and don't think that shit should be in Magic. However, it would kind do some good and maybe purging or at least pissing off trans fags..... Yeah, now I want them to do it just to push the drag queens out of WOTC.
Anonymous No.96337539 >>96337604 >>96337622 >>96337748 >>96339160 >>96346736 >>96370636 >>96370646 >>96371198 >>96400928
>>96337533
Imagine living your life where spite against strangers is a priority. So detached from you that they aren't even having an anonymous image board argument with them. Sad behavior, I honestly feel bad for you.
Anonymous No.96337604 >>96337768
>>96337539
>Imagine living your life where spite against strangers is a priority.
Without said strangers advocating shooting bleach up your arse or electrocuting you; no less!
Anonymous No.96337622 >>96337768 >>96338714
>>96337539
NTA but I hate them because their interest and presence in the hobby takes resources away from content I like to appeal to them.
Like if every set was about cool white hetero hero dudes killing monsters and getting chicks in varied fantasy settings I would not care about others or their lives.
But because their presence in the hobby both by their active attempts and by market pandering takes away from that, I want whatever harm towards them is needed to see their influence erased from the culture.
In other words I'm live and let live till the exact moment where their existence detracts from my enjoyment of media.
Anonymous No.96337748 >>96337768 >>96338714 >>96338941 >>96339705 >>96400949
>>96337539
Well they're a cancer, and they kind of proven that with their cultural rot. Look at any hobby and scene that allow to them to take root in and see how shitty they have become compare to before those things were allowed in freely. They make everything really gay and lame, and people like you are trying to gaslight that it's not happening in front of everyone eyes. I mean look at the biggest IPs as soon as they got the reins they drove off the cliff. Just look at Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, etc. Can you tell me my disgust in those things has no merit after the evidence proves my point. Especially since they made it clear, if they get in. People like me aren't welcome there anymore. Hints why I want them to burn the classics they have control over down, and force what rises up from the ashes to learn the lesson on gatekeeping the fags out.
Anonymous No.96337768 >>96378273
>>96337748
>>96337622
>>96337604
>tourists
Anonymous No.96337900 >>96337950 >>96338675
wanna see a real money printing idea? palworld.
make a palworld UB just to spit on nintendo/tpc face and make billions of shekels at the same time.
Anonymous No.96337950
>>96337900
Palworld is neither big enough, nor on-brand enough.
Anonymous No.96337976 >>96346250 >>96347100
>>96335526 (OP)
The real question is why they didn't do more pastel horse show stuff. Had they struck while the iron was hot they would have made an absolute fuckton of money, and it's made all the more confusing by the fact that it's a Hasbro property so you'd think the barriers and costs associated with making it happen would be fairly light.
Anonymous No.96337987
>>96335526 (OP)
i'm so fucking tired of universes beyond, but at least i don't have to pay attention to this game till january
Anonymous No.96338675
>>96337900
Palworld wouldn't do that well. It would be better of as a secret lair then a UB
Anonymous No.96338714 >>96339098 >>96339254
>>96337622
>>96337748
Extremely correct takes. You can only say things like this on 4chongchangs, which is why I'm here even if this board in particular is a wash with fags and trannys and tr/a/nime fags
Anonymous No.96338941 >>96339088
>>96337748
>People like me aren't welcome there anymore
Good. I want you to know that if this was 2004 retards like you would've been gatekept even harder.
Anonymous No.96339088
>>96338941
I call it out back then. I tried to gatekeep but the cuck open the gate. Hints why I give no quarter to any cuck who open the door and let these fuckers in nor those who "learned too late" and now wants to join the new underground.
Anonymous No.96339098
>>96338714
We got to take it back, even a little at a time. All we need to do is get the NPC to not shield the fags and will kind of win. We don't even need to let the NPC in. Just let them buy some of the good shit replacing the gay ass DND and all
Anonymous No.96339160
>>96337539
Because as we all know, this group of people never act spiteful against strangers and attempt to change IPs or hobbies to enact said spitefulness.
Anonymous No.96339231
>>96335526 (OP)
Wizarding World is too low-fantasy
Anonymous No.96339247
>>96337533
>Yeah, now I want them to do it just to push the drag queens out of WOTC.
I'd just generally love it if all of my hobbies were freed from the drag queen obsessed faggots who think the coolest fucking thing they can do to promote and glorify the hobby is to get an obese man in clown makeup to stand in front of a camera and say some gay shit.
Anonymous No.96339254
>>96338714
>I come to 4chan because I can't hate anime anywhere else!
You are still on the wrong site, benchode.
Anonymous No.96339256
Give it time.
They'll do some Secret Lair Hogwarts shit eventually.
Anonymous No.96339280 >>96339298 >>96344767 >>96371346
>I hate troons so much I'll agree with man-hating, immigrant loving radfems
Stupid faggots
Anonymous No.96339291 >>96361661 >>96384813
>>96335594
>J.K. Rowling has views that WOTC leadership doesn't agree with.
This. Men CAN become pregnant, no matter what Rowling and her chud brigade claim. WotC is right to avoid dealing with such extremists.
Anonymous No.96339298
>>96339280
If a dude agrees that all men are rapists and they are waiting for a chance to sneak into a bathroom to rape someone maybe you should accept he has a reasson to think that way
Anonymous No.96339573 >>96342885 >>96414573
>>96337533
The best players at my table are trans. Do you guys not play games or something?
Anonymous No.96339602 >>96344765
>>96335526 (OP)
After Wuz Aragon, they better make Harry wear the girl's uniform.
Anonymous No.96339705 >>96352577
>>96337748
>Can you tell me my disgust in those things has no merit
Yes, they were all shit to begin with. Get better taste.
Anonymous No.96340116
>>96337390
I don't give two tin fucks about trannies
Anonymous No.96342843
>>96335526 (OP)
WotC is afraid the controversy would not be worth the profit and Blackrock won't bankroll potential loss on it.
Anonymous No.96342885 >>96343825
>>96339573
So you mean you've got a very autistic dude at you table and you think that's a flex? This is /tg/. Every table is full of autistic dudes.
Anonymous No.96343825 >>96343834 >>96343967
>>96342885
Looks like a girl to me!
Anonymous No.96343834
>>96343825
No he doesn't.
Anonymous No.96343967
>>96343825
>Looks like a girl to me
and to you only. even that guy knows it's true every time he looks in the mirror.
Anonymous No.96344765
>>96339602
J K Rowling might actually just fall over dead if they do that.
Anonymous No.96344767
>>96339280
I can't believe the stupid faggot website has stupid faggots on it
Anonymous No.96344893 >>96345091
>>96335526 (OP)
What do you think Strixhaven was?
Anonymous No.96345091 >>96345679 >>96384829
>>96344893
How would op know about Strixhaven? He doesn't even know the game. Don't gatekeep him :(
Anonymous No.96345202
>>96335526 (OP)
I don't know OP. Did you try asking google?
Anonymous No.96345533
>>96335526 (OP)
Where’s my PokΓ©mon mtg set??? I need to catch β€˜em all while I cast overrun for lethal. Also OP brings up a great point why isn’t Fred Durst in more tabletop settings. I want an official Warhammer 40k yugioh Durst block constructed where I can draft durst.
Anonymous No.96345679
>>96345091
I've been playing longer than you've been alive, zoomie
Anonymous No.96346250
>>96337976
Pastel horse stuff is a double-edged sword. While you can use it to milk that audience extremely hard, it is very offputting to people who are not into that.
Anonymous No.96346736
>>96337539
>Imagine living your life where spite against strangers is a priority.
Hasn't that been the underlying argument for femarines for over a decade now?
Anonymous No.96347100
>>96337976
It has never been the right time. When that property was at its hottest, making a bunch of cards that are legal in any real format would have been raged against. Now, we're in an era of Universe Beyonds and all kinds of shit like that, normalizing that we can print loads of cards from an IP, and you should know if you think about it for even one second that making an MLP set, or even a legal MLP Secret Lair, would be way too divisive for a lot of players. It's far safer to pick stuff that appeals to a more general audience, like Marvel capeshit and one of the largest video game franchises that has ever existed.
Anonymous No.96347258 >>96351936 >>96352073
>MTG
Anonymous No.96347501
>>96335526 (OP)
You know why.

It would make a lot of money though, and it would also be really, really funny.
Anonymous No.96347924 >>96348084 >>96357867
>>96335594
WOTC leadership will forget their morals as soon as Rowling says it's OK for them to print more money.
Anonymous No.96348084 >>96348569
>>96347924
As someone else already said, Strixhaven already exists. There's no way we're getting a whole UB set for Harry Potter. Secret Lair, at absolute most, if ever.
Anonymous No.96348569 >>96348576
>>96348084
Never say never
Anonymous No.96348576
>>96348569
I didn't actually use the word "never." I just set caveats and suggested it was all very unlikely.
Anonymous No.96348627 >>96350895
The old Harry Potter had a lot of beautiful traditional art, I actually kind of wish there was a book compilation of it all. I don't really care about the Harry Potter licence, but these just have some gentle, comfortable vibe that I like.
Anonymous No.96350895 >>96351805 >>96356042
>>96348627
Older Harry Potter tie-in's, like the tcg or vidya RPG, were pretty interesting because even though they were made in the wake of the movie, they were made almost solely with the books in mind. So there's some kind of purity to it.
>I don't really care about the Harry Potter licence, but these just have some gentle, comfortable vibe that I like.
It has that whimsy that the latter parts of the franchise lost as the kids got older.
Can't even say it all got lost, there's some illustrative editions of the books and you good some cool stuff like classical looking paintings of the teachers and shit of the school.
Anonymous No.96351805 >>96390331
>>96350895
Yeah, I think you might have put your finger on it.
The whimsical, catoonish aspect, the fact that it's closer to the books... I think I got that too from the games on Gameboy Color where they added tons of silly stuff. It had more of a fantastical, whimsical, childish (but in a good way) aspect, rather than what followed.
It felt different, unlike when they tried to act serious and toned down the charming, colorful nonsensical world of it all.
Well, that and the art, nowadays, it feels good to come back and look at traditional stuff, even if some looks naive by today's standards.
Anonymous No.96351936
>>96347258
Two years later and you mongoloids are still seething over Niggagorn. Wild.
Anonymous No.96352073 >>96352124 >>96371231
>>96347258
I know someone
Anonymous No.96352124 >>96353913
>>96352073
I mean, that's basically the first Panther movie with the whole making the CIA guy the hero thing lol
Anonymous No.96352184 >>96352363
They literally did a Harry Potter set
Anonymous No.96352363 >>96358202
>>96352184
If you switch the playful, silly aspect of sorcery for children with k-pop coded twinks and the usual ugly slop, then yeah.
Anonymous No.96352552 >>96353719
>>96336309
Hobby healing
Anonymous No.96352577
>>96339705
Oh wow, blast from the past. Where's my shill bingo chart
Anonymous No.96353719 >>96354118 >>96354158 >>96358608
>>96352552
I'd rather play with trans people than /pol/tards. I know it's weird hahahaha! But I would lmao!
Anonymous No.96353913 >>96354028
>>96352124
People here selectively forget there's a token best friend white guy in the first movie, and the villain wants to keep wakanda isolationist
DEI in my afro-futurist comic movie, Wakanda has fallen
Anonymous No.96354028
>>96353913
Weird pick to make the white token friend a glowie, since they're villains by default. Not the worst offense in the movie anyway.
Anonymous No.96354038
>>96335594
that's one thing you can say
Anonymous No.96354094 >>96394600
>>96335526 (OP)
If only a school of mages existed in MTG, it would have been so cool!
Can you imagine, having different houses?? Like, different color combinations?! Oh, and a central campus! We can even collaborate with D&D to make an entire module!!!
Anonymous No.96354118
>>96353719
>I'd rather play with trans people
Well yeah having a default 40% win rate is pretty dope. It can only go up.
Anonymous No.96354158
>>96353719
No one's taking your trannies away, anon, you can still play 5e D&D with them no matter where the hobby goes.
Anonymous No.96355968
>>96335526 (OP)
Can't associate with TERFs. That would be heckin' bad and problematic.
Anonymous No.96356042
>>96350895
For example.
Not as whimsical, but still something you could imagine at a school as old as hogwarts
Anonymous No.96356235
>>96336309
ywnbaw
Anonymous No.96356806 >>96358154 >>96358198 >>96361719
Vaguely related but Rowling's worldbuilding outside of the very specific corner of Hogwarts sucks massive ass and I don't see why people don't just make their own not!Harry Potter settings of magic schools. It's the simplest setting idea with the most different possibilities
The only recent thing I think of is Little Witch Academia
Anonymous No.96357794
>>96335526 (OP)
Because they can make Diet Hogwarts aka Strixhaven without having to shell out to an author for a book series that's older than their target audience.
Anonymous No.96357867
>>96347924
>WOTC leadership will forget their morals
This. Since they are very anti gun in real life they have resolved to never have guns in an mtg product and pretend that they never did in Portal. As in goblins with rocket launchers are ok but guns specifically is a bad nono.
Then universes beyond comes along...
Anonymous No.96358154
>>96356806
There was Toil &Trouble, which netflix canned before release.
Anonymous No.96358198 >>96361931
>>96356806
There are some settings even older than HP that has that sort of thing too
Anonymous No.96358202
>>96352363
>k-pop coded twinks
You have my attention.
Anonymous No.96358608
>>96353719
There's a few trans people at my lgs. I really like them, they're all huge mtg nerds.
Anonymous No.96361661 >>96361903 >>96400971
>>96339291
Found the Reddit Tourist, also MEN can't be pregnant dumbfuck and a chick dressing in guy clothes and cutting their tits isn't a man. Same with a dude in a skirt. They aren't a chick. No matter how much lipstick you put on that pig.
Anonymous No.96361719 >>96363559
>>96356806
Even in Hogwarts is pretty ass from what I seen. She just got fucking lucky and the kids thought it was great. I mean let's be honest you have a magical school and they never tell us what magic comes from, nor they go over Magic Theory at all. Also seem to make casters stronger than humans, I mean the whole thing was kind of shit. Though the kids at the time liked "baby's first urban fantasy."
Anonymous No.96361903 >>96365487
>>96361661
Is this post on purpose or is this place really fucking stupid and incapable of detecting sarcasm.
Anonymous No.96361931
>>96358198
The magic school idea is so old that L Ron Hubbard himself wrote pulp stories about before he ever had any idea of starting a cult. And that's just counting fiction and not real world folklore, like Dracula's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholomance
Anonymous No.96363532 >>96364580 >>96365454 >>96382354
I don't view HP as urban fantasy because the wizarding world is technically somewhere else or something right, and most of the books take place there with the real world just being Harry's shitty normal life with his aunt and uncle during the summers
Anonymous No.96363559 >>96363586
>>96361719
>they never tell us what magic comes from, nor they go over Magic Theory at all. Also seem to make casters stronger than humans
But no one really cares about that
Anonymous No.96363586
>>96363559
Yeah that would've fucking put kids to fucking sleep.
Random lore like Merlin being real and being a founder of Hogwarts is cooler than that. There's some weird world magic and folk stuff being referenced in HP, I don't need some "hard magic" wankery
Anonymous No.96364580
>>96363532
HP is in the normal world, just mainly in isolated magic academy, the later books have more bleedthrough.
Anonymous No.96365454 >>96365490
>>96363532
Skulduggery Pleasant did a much better job of the whole 'wizards hiding in plain sight' thing, I liked those much better than Harry Potter when I was younger. Wasn't a fan of how the later ones kept on getting increasingly edgy though.
Anonymous No.96365487 >>96371264
>>96361903
The latter. It's genuinely hard to believe that fa/tg/uys are this fucking retarded. But they really are.
Anonymous No.96365490 >>96370333 >>96370392 >>96414593
>>96365454
I'm surprised Harry Potter got as popular as it did. I read a ton of fantasy as a kid but I couldn't finish Harry Potter. Shit was fucking boring.
Anonymous No.96366214
>>96335526 (OP)
because is a dogshit IP that only fags like
Anonymous No.96367084
>>96335526 (OP)
>Do they hate money or something??
Ironic considering you're talking about Wizards of the Cost
Anonymous No.96370333
>>96365490
The setting resonates extremely strongly with a lot of people for whatever reason, even if the books were a slog towards the end of the series. I remember enjoying reading them but did think they were kind of overrated.
Anonymous No.96370392
>>96365490
It was a lot of people's first fantasy book. A magic school is easier to wrap your head around as a kid than a bunch of lore dumps.
I think it also followed Pokemon's footsteps. Pokemon was casually released in Japan, and got a small following before it became huge and proved it was successful, and they realized they could recreate the same hype in the west ten times more. Just replace Japan with the UK, and Nintendo with Schoolastic in the US, they knew had a success and wanted to cash in on it when bring it from the UK.
Anonymous No.96370406
>>96335526 (OP)
It'll piss off the transexual staffers.
Anonymous No.96370636
>>96337539
Imagine being a reddit faggot tourist kys
Anonymous No.96370646
>>96337539
>why do you live in spite of others?!
>I'm gonna spite the existence of regular people
Anonymous No.96371198
>>96337539
trvke desu
Anonymous No.96371231 >>96371421
>>96352073
I will post the best kneeling reaction I have if there ever is a white black panther be it in the movies or comics.

I’ll also be a little disappointed because it means the rot we all know of now affects everyone.
Anonymous No.96371250 >>96371257 >>96371824 >>96371954 >>96378320
Why does every thread become /pol/?
Anonymous No.96371257 >>96371298 >>96388090
>>96371250
This website is not for you if you find different opinions to be /pol/.
Anonymous No.96371264 >>96371275 >>96393875
>>96365487
Bigotry has a negative correlation with IQ. It's the sign of a small mind that has to rely on binning to try to understand the world.
Anonymous No.96371275 >>96371346
>>96371264
Unbiased source pls?
Anonymous No.96371298 >>96371320
>>96371257
>thread is literally just chimps screaming about JK rowling
Sure is /pol/ in here
Anonymous No.96371320 >>96371963
>>96371298
A lot of that would be poltards pretending to be bad leftists. They were particularly active during the femstodes announcement.
Anonymous No.96371346 >>96371426 >>96371979
>>96339280
It's funny that /pol/tards hate trannies so much they start aligning with radfems. The reason that radfems hate trans women is because they hate men, and they think trans women are men. They are literally the people who said "all men are rapists and that's all they are."

>>96371275
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22222219/
>We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups. In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology.
Anonymous No.96371421 >>96371489 >>96371520 >>96371970
>>96371231
Anon the latest version of the future Black Panther is white
https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/70681/marvel_knights_the_world_to_come_2025_1

Its even funnier than you think since they got Christopher Priest AKA THE Black Panther Writer to come back to mainstream comics to make it.
He left mainstream comics because by being black he became the go-to Black Character Writer and resented getting pigeonholed and denied the chance to write on books with white Heroes, so the new Panther is likely his revenge.
Anonymous No.96371426 >>96378302 >>96390394 >>96391932 >>96391950
>>96371346
>actually provided a source
Thank you. I was expecting radio silence.
Admittedly during my pol phase I’ve seen links alleging to back up that extreme leftists are low iq.
What if both studies are right?
Anonymous No.96371489 >>96371701
>>96371421
I wasn’t expecting this at all.
That explanation is actually pretty good. I was thinking something something representation for White Africans kind of thing.
Anonymous No.96371520 >>96371701
>>96371421
That's actually hilarious, is he even blond-haired and blue-eyed as well?
Anonymous No.96371701 >>96371781
>>96371489
Its pretty great
>>96371520
Yeah, he is also the adopted son of T'challa.
He was adopted after a women who was a friend of his died and his mom was pushing T'challa about not having an heir so he killed two birds with one stone.
Anonymous No.96371781
>>96371701
Forgot pic
Anonymous No.96371824
>>96371250
Pendulum swinging back from what's been made of hobbies.
Anonymous No.96371954
>>96371250
moot stepped down ten years ago and rapeape became defacto leader, reprimanded mods for actually trying to keep /pol/ a containment board instead of letting it fester, then 2016 happened and the corpse of this site continued to rot
Anonymous No.96371963
>>96371320
>A lot of that would be poltards pretending to be bad leftists.
They post like a youtuber's schizophrenic delusions, and fags on here still take the bait with full sincerity.
Anonymous No.96371970
>>96371421
Guess chuds can't use that meme anymore
Anonymous No.96371979
>>96371346
>It's funny that /pol/tards hate trannies so much they start aligning with radfems. The reason that radfems hate trans women is because they hate men, and they think trans women are men. They are literally the people who said "all men are rapists and that's all they are."
It's a death sentence to both sides since radfems side with guys who disagree with them on 99% of everything else.
The highest IQ stance I've seen was some MGTOW guy, who I assumed was a gay guy into femboys, suggest that trannies are allies and every man just said they were trans, all of womankind would be destroyed. Not transition, just say you're a woman. Though I don't think he knew about radfems.
Anonymous No.96378273
>>96337768

Does "tourist" just mean "not gay"?
Anonymous No.96378302
>>96371426

Both studies are right. Political division is primarily personality based, not ability based.
Anonymous No.96378320 >>96380627
>>96371250

Because leftypol people have taken over large amounts of pop culture through getting into positions of influence and power in corporations, which is causing backlash and unrest from people who do not share their politics.

You're seeing steam rise from a pressure cooker. There doesn't seem to be any release from the pressure any time soon - and an explosion is getting more likely.
Anonymous No.96380627
>>96378320
Pretty much, Commies from Bluesky are just tourists most of the time and just push their gay fanfics and gay OCs (don't steal) at people and try to act like they were the one that made the IP big but often don't buy shit and just make shitty tumblr fanart at best.
Anonymous No.96381657
>>96335526 (OP)
It is too transphobic many of the higher ups would rather lose money than adapt it.
Anonymous No.96382354 >>96384776
>>96363532
>I don't view HP as urban fantasy because the wizarding world is technically somewhere else or something right
No, it's intermingled with the rest of the world, they just have shit like muggle-repelling charms and Obliviators to maintain the masquerade.
Anonymous No.96382465
>>96335526 (OP)
>Harry Potter themed MTG set
actually there was one in such flavour, just not explicite named so
Anonymous No.96384776 >>96387157
>>96382354
That's not entirely true. Much of magical living happens in places that non-magical people can't find, and magical people are so unattached to non-magical living that modern technology is extremely baffling to many of them. This is partly because Rowling rigged the two sides of her world to be incompatible with magic interfering with electronic devices. Some wizards do live in towns and cities and know some things, especially if the magical government centers overlap in location with the mundane government centers for no particularly meaningful reason, but many others live entirely isolated from the non-magical world.

As an example, remember that Arthur Weasley thought to ask Harry Potter what a rubber duck is for. Wizards going into the urban part of the world is disadvantageous to them, because they have to learn things that have nothing to do with how they normally live, while concealing the ways that they actually live.
Anonymous No.96384813
>>96339291
found the contrarian bait-fag
Anonymous No.96384829
>>96345091
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuamPeQd8g
fuck off shit-lib
Anonymous No.96385971 >>96391828
>>96335526 (OP)
Why would they want to make an MTG set themed around the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though

"No!"

The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Anonymous No.96387157 >>96389642
>>96384776
>remember that Arthur Weasley thought to ask Harry Potter what a rubber duck is for
Wasn't he one of the Ministry's foremost muggle "experts" as well, if I remember rightly? The chasm between the two must be beyond enormous if his knowledge is that bad while it's his literal job to research and understand the muggle world. Kind of amusing how wizards are portrayed as completely incapable of understanding the non-magical world while two of the three main characters (Harry and Hermione) came from the muggle world into the wizarding world and had no trouble wrapping their heads around everything.
Anonymous No.96388090
>>96371257
>different opinions
Screeching about trannies whenever there's anything vaguely left of center doesn't constitute an opinion anon. We're just trying to get rid of some tourists here.
Anonymous No.96389642
>>96387157
The author is notably not good at worldbuilding. Or writing compelling characters. Surprise, surprise, a lot of the shit that she wrote doesn't actually make sense. Kind of a matter with what she says in general: not thought all the way through, but trying to appeal to the intended audience.
Anonymous No.96390304
>>96335526 (OP)
They will. Eventually.
Yes they have Strixhaven, and that's not going to stop them.
Anonymous No.96390331
>>96351805
>I think I got that too from the games on Gameboy Color where they added tons of silly stuff.
The GBC games were fucking kino, and had no right to be as good as they were.
Anonymous No.96390394
>>96371426
>What if both studies are right?
They are both right. Belief in a simple solution to complex problems is a form of naivete.
Anonymous No.96390986
>>96335526 (OP)
JK Rowling isn't keen on black Aragorn nor the notion that they'll turn Harry into an effeminate sissyboy at only 3/2.
Anonymous No.96391828
>>96385971
>implying WOTC cares about artistic quality
Anonymous No.96391869 >>96391900 >>96391971
>Troons hate Harry Potter
>Troons don't want anything to do with Harry Potter
>Troons won't buy Harry Potter
They totally will and do buy Harry Potter, they even love it, they just make these absurd mental gymnastics about how they can like it and not be bad for liking the work of a TERF because their broken brains refuse to permit author/story separation.
Anonymous No.96391900 >>96392067
>>96391869
If you really think about it, Harry Potter has really been through the metaphorical gauntlet and somehow succeeded despite it.
First it was bible thumpers that crucified Harry Potter.
We know what the group that is crucifying Harry Potter at the moment is.
Makes me wonder what then next group of Harry Potter haters will be.
Gotta respect JK Rowling for sticking to her beliefs and (as far as I know) not bowing down to the mobs of both sides.
Anonymous No.96391932 >>96392436
>>96371426
IQ is a nonsensical meassuring system.
Being an exam is already flawed, exam results vary depending on external factors. You can meassure objective absolute inteligence based on something that can go wrong if you ate poorly, had a discussion before getting there, it was a heat wave, or whatever, and then don't work on second testing because you already know the type of questions and will always get better results.
And if you check the tests they cover some types of intelligence, but not the useful ones. Stuff like pattern recognition could be considered intelligence, but you're not tested for how long you retain information or whether you can deduce/induce new ideas from data which are the types of intelligence that give results.
Even worse, the meassuring criteria has always been fake. 100 is the medium of the results taken at some point. So 100 now is actually much higher than 100 40 years ago, mostly because we now know how the test works going back to the first item of multiple choice tests being a retarded way to check for intelligence. And the initial 100 was based on random information that didn't relate to the tests in any way, they just picked whatever gave them the results they already decided were right.

Believing in IQ should be an example of low IQ. It's unscientific, made up, and clearly flawed with the most basic examination. You just accepted bullshit because at some point it went along with previous shit you accepted without thinking. Absolute caveman vibe based thinking.
Anonymous No.96391950 >>96392021 >>96392095
>>96371426
>Admittedly during my pol phase I’ve seen links alleging to back up that extreme leftists are low iq.
I don't see you posting sources
so between the real study and one you half remember, I'd say the real one seems more real than the one that doesn't exist.
>but I know I saw it
you saw a title in a place with a clear bias. You didn't check the criteria, general results, baseline. I don't see why you'd trust something you know had a bias and you don't recall questioning.
Anonymous No.96391971
>>96391869
the issue isn't liking it as much as giving money to someone who will use it to push laws against them. Still, I'm sure some do because fuck it, whatever, but if someone sees it as retarded self harm it makes sense to avoid it. Just like some people should just avoid some hollywood movies, 5e, reddit, etc and move on. There's too much stuff out already to care about whether new thing goes with you.
Anonymous No.96392021
>>96391950
>I don't see you posting sources
Brother I'd have to go into the archives and make searches going like 6 years back just to prove a point. I'm too lazy for that.
And I don't really want to reopen more old wounds than I already have just from bringing up my old /pol/ phase.
You can have this one.
Anonymous No.96392067 >>96392083 >>96402769
>>96391900
If you actually examine at what she believes, she's a raging hypocrite. An outspoken feminist who builds her anti-trans ideals on a sort of misogynistic ideal about what a woman should be. And I don't just mean "if you were born male, you can't be a woman," I mean "if you read her writing, she constantly describes women you are supposed to dislike as having physical features that are more traditionally associated with being masculine." If you don't look and act feminine enough, you're not upholding womanhood, in her eyes.
Anonymous No.96392083 >>96392166 >>96392297 >>96393068 >>96417831
>>96392067
My dude. My guy. My fella. It's incredibly simple: Men aren't women.
Anonymous No.96392095
>>96391950
NTA, but I remember seeing studies like that too, even if I can't be arsed to dig them up. If it makes you feel better, nothing pisses off /pol/ like evidence of Horseshoe Theory being right.
Anonymous No.96392166
>>96392083
Men have hard biological distinctions from women and that's objective fact, but the cultural associations people have about men and women are subjective and aren't written in stone the way people like to think. In other words, while men objectively aren't and can never be women (and vice versa), the concept of masculinity and femininity are primarily cultural instead of biological and are thus subjective.
Anonymous No.96392297 >>96392396
>>96392083
no, men are rapists.
If you let men near women they will rape them. Everything men do is to find new ways to rape.
That's her stance.
Anonymous No.96392396
>>96392297
It's not, but go ahead and keep repeating nonsense so everyone knows you're a psychopath zealot.
Anonymous No.96392436 >>96392466
>>96391932
IQ is not an exact science, and the variety of tests that exist have and acknowledge their various flaws. However, the reason IQ tests get the most flak is because they consistently show certain kinds of people score lowly. Mind, these test don't just score for how well one fits into the heteronormative, mythologized ideal western culture and they don't strictly measure abstract things like pattern recognition. It is true that someone could game the system and score more highly, but at the same time, people who consistently score lowly are generally stupid. Low IQ score also means low impulse control, low emotional regulation, inability to plan ahead or even an absence of long-term thinking. Infamous "breakfast question" levels of simplified reasoning.

The soft sciences have tried to cushion this observable phenomenon, claiming things like "different ways of knowing" but in cultures where the average IQ is low, like in India where the average IQ is estimated to be around under 80 or lower, you can see the direct results. They are literally polluting and inbreeding themselves to death, not because of some inherent cultural difference where our opinions about indoor plumbing aren't universally true, so therefore we can't judge them for shitting in the streets. It is a scientific fact that being exposed to huge amounts of human excrement, rotting corpses, and garbage in every water source is bad for human health. This is not a cultural disagreement about how we should dress or what foods are good to eat. The things they are doing are bad and harmful to themselves and they refuse to stop because they don't see a point in having to inconvenience themselves, and also they respond poorly to being told to stop shitting everywhere (low impulse control, low emotional regulation, inability to plan ahead or even an absence of long-term thinking)
Anonymous No.96392466 >>96392517
>>96392436
so you know it's made up, but its good because it reafirms things you felt were true before knowing about it?
I told you how it makes no sense as evidence of anything. It's gameable, it clearly doesn't test anything of value, it's based on vibes. If your magic crystals make you feel right about whatever you already though before it doesn't mean they are real magic. Again, you have to have low intelligence to not notice this evident stuff.
Anonymous No.96392517
>>96392466
Not at all what I said and your desperate attempts to say otherwise makes me think you got a bad score on an IQ test.
Anonymous No.96393068 >>96393172 >>96394412
>>96392083
You just gonna skip over the part that's not just anti-trans, but disrespectful to women who are born a little differently? In her pursuit to try to prop women up, she has eliminated all but one particular idea of what a woman is from what she finds acceptable.
Anonymous No.96393172 >>96394384
>>96393068
Women who are "born a little differently" are still women and have nothing to do with trans people. Trying to use medical conditions to shield the absurd actions and beliefs of trannies is just misdirection.
Anonymous No.96393199
My favorite part about this entire debate about transgenders from the past decade is it has only proven the horseshoe theory right. The people most likely to enforce gender norms are 1950s nuclear family wannabies, and the trannies themselves.
It is funnier when the latter do it though because they cannot understand the sheer dissonance of what they're saying. If 2 year old baby Timmy happens to waddle towards the pink blanket instead of the blue one, they will claim with a straight face that that boy is secretly longing to be a girl. Just like the bible thumper would start worrying the kid is gay and surround him with blue. They have the exact same means to a different end. A real progressive outlook would be who gives a shit if Timmy likes pink or Jenny likes to play with firetrucks, because interests shouldn't inherently be tied to sexual identity, but they can't gaslight people into being on their side with that.

Magic: the Gathering.
Anonymous No.96393875 >>96403163
>>96371264
>Bigotry has a negative correlation with IQ.

Must explain why leftists, and their anti-White, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-straight bigotry are so retarded.
Anonymous No.96394384 >>96395504
>>96393172
>Women who are "born a little differently" are still women
It's not misdirecting to point out that her internalized sense of femininity has misogynistic tendencies. The fact that she hates the idea of trans women so much makes tons of sense when you look at how disrespectful her writing generally is of women in general, especially because she intentionally depicts "bad" women as being "ugly" or "having masculine features." Those things aren't unrelated, and she has had clearly these beliefs since at least the 2000s, when she was writing the Harry Potter novels.

She also is generally distrustful of men, which is also super obvious. It's no surprise her take on trans women is what it is, when she neither trusts males, nor does she like the idea of masculine-looking women. She's also always been quite obsessed with the idea that motherhood is an especially important part of womens' lives, and you'll see that her fictional "good" women are loving, and often have multiple children, while "bad" women tend to be distant, uncaring parents, or even just not parents at all.

Again, when I say that her anti-trans position has to do with her frankly misogynistic takes on womanhood, that's very deliberate. Because it's clear that the two things are related. All of her anti-trans arguments fall back onto things that we have seen her display her opinions on in her own writing. She claims to be a feminist, but she only wants to protect a very specific, narrow view of being a woman, and it just so happens that being a trans woman doesn't fit into that either.
Anonymous No.96394412
>>96393068
>You just gonna skip over the part that's not just anti-trans
Anonymous No.96394600
>>96354094
It's not about a school of mages, it's about having a recognizable IP to fleece manchildren with.
Anonymous No.96395504 >>96396440
>>96394384
So at what point do you just admit that you're making stuff up about this woman you've never met and haven't personally taken the time to read anything she's said on any of the topics you're uncontrollably seething about?
Anonymous No.96396440 >>96398657 >>96399460 >>96402592
>>96395504
I'm not making anything up. That stuff is literally right there in the Harry Potter books, among other things. If you actually look at the descriptions and depictions of women characters, and examine her ideology about women against the characters she writes, this stuff is right there.
Anonymous No.96398657
>>96396440
>all the circumstantial evidence is right there, you just need to stop being a skeptic and accept my leaps of logic
Anonymous No.96399460
>>96396440
Sounds like the sort of shit an ugly schizo would say.
Anonymous No.96400731 >>96401758
>>96335526 (OP)
bcs harry potter is a shitty book for dumb babies who shit their diapers and for adult who never grew up past middle school
Anonymous No.96400928
>>96337539
Some of the people here are utterly steeped in misery. It's the basis of everything they do, I feel like every other post is someone talking about how they love X because they imagine it pissing off a group they don't like.
Anonymous No.96400949
>>96337748
>Marvel
Died because mainstream cape comic books are bad, and have been dying for decades. The movies started replicating the worst parts of cape media
>Star Wars
Killed by corporate fuckery, literally nothing to do with LGBT people.

You're scapegoating really hard
Anonymous No.96400971 >>96403172
>>96361661
>calls someone a tourist while taking some of the most obvious bait I've ever seen
What happened to this site, man
Anonymous No.96401758
>>96400731
Just like Magic.
Anonymous No.96402592
>>96396440
Hi fellas im new to this thread I just came to say
Would you PLEASE
SHUT THE FUCKCUP
Anonymous No.96402741
>>96335526 (OP)
It doesn't make sense in-lore. Wizards in Harry Potter don't need mana to cast spells, the magic is an intrinsic part of their biology. They all have an internal "pool" of magic that doesn't ever get exhausted and they all can cast any spells they wish to.
Anonymous No.96402769 >>96403102
>>96392067
This began because she said that women aren't an ethereal shapeless meaningless label that anyone can use when they please. That if assume women aren't actually a thing, then all the people who are discriminated against or who suffer from being women are disrespected.

But westoids coulnd't take their heads off their ass for two seconds. Terminally online right-wingers bitch and moan that women have never suffered or been discriminated against and terminally online left-wingers refuse to acknowledge that their retarded ideology is nonsensical by design.

So JK spiraled down and she was forced to double down and adopt more outlandish ideals as time went on.

tl;dr, social media is the single worst invention of the XXI century.
Anonymous No.96403102 >>96404587
>>96402769
>social media is the single worst invention of the XXI century.
Reminds me of that saying "none of us is as stupid as all of us". Because of social media, people can immediately establish and enforce a consensus based on emotional snap judgements instead of the logical considerations that follow once you get past your impulsive responses.
Anonymous No.96403163 >>96404563
>>96393875
Leftists haven't tried to take away cisgender people's passports, sorry, we all can tell what actual bigotry looks like.
Anonymous No.96403172 >>96404586
>>96400971
/pol/tards are very stupid and unpleasant so they drive away everyone with an IQ higher than, like, 90.
Anonymous No.96404291
>All this arguing over the politics of the platonic Gen X Labor voter
Anonymous No.96404563
>>96403163
>oppression is when you can't play pretend on your passport

The passport paperwork isn't your character sheet, alright? You need to put your actual information on it.
Anonymous No.96404586
>>96403172
>knowing what a woman is makes you a "/pol/tard"
Anonymous No.96404587 >>96404605 >>96405469
>>96403102
Interestingly, 4chan is an example of an online platform that helps foster irrational behavior in online spaces. We can use /pol/ as an example, but it can be applied to basically anywhere on the site. Consider the following:
>We all post anonymously (and even names and trips don't change that, even if trips can more or less link some posts together)
>Because we all post anonymously, there aren't any social consequences for anything that you say that can actually lead back to you
>You can literally decide to post with any opinions or takes you want, and even change up what you say you believe on the fly, and you can't be effectively called out on it
>This decreases the amount of introspection that people do about whether their opinions are are flawed if they get criticism, because they can shirk any attachment to what they said in the moment
>Instead, people feel incentivized to "score points" or "win" discussions rather than engage with them on a personal level, because that's the culture
Anonymous No.96404605 >>96405469
>>96404587
>social consequences

If your argument requires "social consequences" for viability that's a sign that there's no rational basis to believe in it. As it turns out, support for trannyism relies specifically on top-down enforcement of "social consequences" as it's an inherently nonsensical position.
Anonymous No.96405469 >>96417514
>>96404587
>You can literally decide to post with any opinions or takes you want, and even change up what you say you believe on the fly, and you can't be effectively called out on it
Honestly I think it's because of this nonattachment that people are capable of having frank discussions about various unpleasant topics that would be considered verboten in much of society. Anonymity has always been a boon when it comes to honest discussion because it means that irrational consensuses can't be enforced against them; the only way to "defeat" them is with words and arguments instead of punishments for thinking differently. This is why stuff like the Federalist papers were able to exist and flourish in the first place despite utterly contesting the conventional wisdom of the time.

>Instead, people feel incentivized to "score points" or "win" discussions rather than engage with them on a personal level, because that's the culture
This, however, is also very true.
Good faith discussion is increasingly rare because people get emotionally invested and conflate criticism of their arguments and ideals with criticism of themselves. Yet again it comes back to emotional response ruining everything because so many people will argue literally anything rather than admit they were wrong in any capacity to any extent.

>>96404605
>If your argument requires "social consequences" for viability that's a sign that there's no rational basis to believe in it.
This is faulty logic.
There will always be people who contest anything no matter what it is, and will disregard mountains of logical evidence rather than relinquish their views. Like people who insist that allergies aren't real, that it's just a hoax by a bunch of people and the entire medical industry.
Irrationality generally can't be reliably reasoned away, thus social consequences are a primary factor in limiting such influences over society, one that I would argue is an entirely healthy form of self-moderation.
Anonymous No.96406738
>>96335594
The real answer.
Anonymous No.96408098
>>96335594
Nobody in real life actually gives a shit about that though.
Anonymous No.96414572 >>96414584 >>96415738
>>96335594
This Anon is somewhat right.

Obviously WotC doesn't give a shit about politics, they care about money. Harry Potter is in kind of an awkward place for that, you don't get the licence, you lose nothing, because you already have your own magic school settings. You do get the licence, it's 50/50 whether you make money from the now aging Harry Potter fanbase, or you lose money while your company gets dragged through the mud.

Despite what some may think, Hasbro doesn't actually like having their reputation dragged through the mud. Whenever it happens it's actually an accident.

Besides what would they even do? Harry Potter D&D? You couldn't put it into FR, or you'd have to do loads of work for an Earth based game, something WotC doesn't do for D&D. (Though it'd be funny to see them rip off White Wolf or something.) They have no reason to do Harry Potter MtG either, women don't play Magic & the the ones that do are trans, so they wouldn't buy the Harry Potter pack.
Anonymous No.96414573
>>96339573
As my mom would say, "well of course they're good at playing pretend."
Anonymous No.96414584
>>96414572
>Obviously WotC doesn't give a shit about politics
HASBRO doesn't give a shit about politics, but WotC does. I'd hazard a guess that the mass firings, aside from simply trying to save money, were also about demoralizing the remaining employees and making them less mouthy and troublesome.
Anonymous No.96414593
>>96365490
>Shit was fucking boring.
That's why it was popular, normies can't into fantasy. Their brains just don't work that way.

That's how I feel whenever I see Vancian magic in D&D too, it works way better in the books because they emphasise how extremely powerful even a single spell is, but now you sit at a table with three wizards, or sorcerer warlocks or whatever. Ironically the magic is lost by there being too much magic. It doesn't feel like a sparkbolt is this great, fantastic thing. It feels like numbers.
Anonymous No.96415738
>>96414572
>You do get the licence, it's 50/50 whether you make money from the now aging Harry Potter fanbase, or you lose money while your company gets dragged through the mud.
Warner seems to be happy with sales from all the merch in recent years. Toys, sticker albums, licensed gummy candies...
Anonymous No.96417514 >>96417731 >>96419185
>>96405469
>This is faulty logic.

No it isn't. Arguments with logical basis to believe in them do not require "social consequences" for disbelieving in them.
Anonymous No.96417731 >>96417762
>>96417514
There are obvious social consequences to disbelieving in the earth being round (you'll be ostracized and called a retard) but it's still obviously true.
Anonymous No.96417762
>>96417731
Bad example. Believing the Earth is round has logical basis to it. Whatever "social consequences" there might be for believing otherwise, they are not required for the argument that the Earth is round to be viable.

Do... do you understand? This is a serious logical/reading comprehension on your part otherwise.
Anonymous No.96417792
This thread is further proof that there's not a single mod left in this godforsaken board.
Anonymous No.96417831
>>96392083
Look at these replies and tell me this board isn't just another subreddit.
/tg/? More like r/tg.
Anonymous No.96419185
>>96417514
Viability as in its capacity to survive within the free market of ideas, not its inherent logical basis. The point is that irrationality and emotional judgments should be socially stigmatized because they refuse to engage with logical argumentation.