the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"
I love that they remade this game (Super Mario RPG), and I love the fact that they left this glitch in the game even more, allowing you to one-shot kill a prominent boss toward the end of it. We got our copy today, too!
I’m not quite… sure how to classify Bayonetta (other than to state that it is a whole mood). I love this video.
Now I get what people say when they’re working on a project — the bigger, the better, and the more likely they are to say this! I decided to put more work into Bub’s desk and desktop, which meant that more work would have had to have been placed into my bedroom as well as a side effect. I am completely happy with this, although removing knots from wires has not been as fun as I had anticipated… especially when I’m given little to no help doing so, because I’m not particularly good at this. It all eventually gets done though, the topic of conversation shifts and we begin to e told what “big bad” we’re up against. As much as I still don’t know why visual changes happen in the real lives of so many of these real-life participants, I still hold out the tiniest sliver of hope. There are two old games in particular that I’d love to see brought over here in some way. And I absolutely do love going off on tangents, even if they are mental. Isn’t this part of the purpose of blogging? (But believe you me, for the sake of business writing I can get and stay on aubject!)
I couldn’t begin to get enough screenshots of my… experience lurking in the official Hogwarts Legacy server (and that is how the name of the game is written, correct?), but this one stood out to me the most for what should be obvious reasons. If it wasn’t people stressing themselves out to the point of sickness over hiding their consumption of the game from others — their friends groups perhaps being the most prominent — comments like these were made. This says everything that needs to be said about this game, and I wish everyone an incredibly happy save yourself money refusing to line JK Rowling’s pockets not buying this…
So, yesterday I joined the official Hogwarts Legacy server on Discord.
I have no intention of buying or playing the game because of JK Rowling’s anti-Semitic, transphobic remarks (nor do I have any intention of funding the franchise in any way, shape, or form), but I wanted to see the excuses that people were coming up with to justify playing this game. And let me tell you… I saw a lot of them. I also saw a lot of good people coming onto the server to try to spread awareness about why we should not collectively be lining the pockets of someone who has said these things who will go on to donate proceeds to anti-trans charities like she’s admitted to in the past, even though the majority of those people got banned from the server because people want to continue to keep up whatever flimsy pretenses they have to in order to justify continued consumption of this game. One of the things that I saw that bothered me, and stuck with me, was how guilty a lot of people felt about continuing to consume JK Rowling’s work in light of these comments being public knowledge, how they were desperate for other people not to find out about this, and how it was in many cases literally making them sick. If someone is such a bad person that consuming their media makes you have this kind of reaction, you need to consider… well, not consuming it.
At this point, it’s worthwhile making friends out of the people willing to risk being banned from the server for speaking up, as is it worthwhile to continue to inform people as to why they should not play this game or partake in any more media consumption from JK Rowling. That’s about it, though. The rest is not worth it.