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Am 28.02.23 um 11:35 schrieb Ned Kelly:
> Am 28.02.2023 um 11:25 schrieb Dr. Joachim Neudert:
> 
>> Die politische Diskussion um das Spiel herum ist noch was äusserst 
>> vergnügliches. Habt Ihr das mitbekommen?
> 
> Null. Mir reicht schon der ganze andere
> Zirkus aus dem RL. Wer braucht da eine
> politische Diskussion um ein artifical
> Enviroment.
> Früher gabs die Killer Game Diskussion,
> was ist es denn jetzt schon wieder?
> 
>

The woke war against JK Rowling has utterly failed... and here’s the proof
By Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan
5–6 Minuten

If ever proof were needed that Twitter is not the real world, here it 
is. For months, legions of militant online activists furiously 
campaigned for a boycott of Hogwarts Legacy, the new Harry Potter video 
game, in protest against JK Rowling’s alleged transphobia. News of this 
boycott was widely covered in the media both here and in the US. So how 
well did it go?

Put it like this. The game was finally released two weeks ago. And so 
far, it has sold an astonishing 12 million copies, making it by far the 
biggest game of the year to date.

So, in short: no, the boycott did not work out entirely as planned. In 
fact, it’s hard to imagine how it could have backfired more 
spectacularly. For all their shrill, self-pitying demands, the 
anti-Rowling activists have been trounced. Ordinary people, out in the 
real world, simply didn’t care what they thought. A salutary lesson, you 
might hope, for all those businesses that quake in fear of displeasing 
the social media mob. Come to think of it, I wonder whether I can 
persuade these same activists to announce that they’re boycotting my 
columns. That should send Telegraph subscriptions through the roof.

At any rate, the stupendous failure of the anti-Rowling boycott makes 
the hysteria around the game’s release look all the more bizarre. A 
voice actor who worked on the game felt compelled to make a statement 
saying he’d agreed to do it “before I was aware of JK Rowling’s views”. 
The video games editor of The Guardian complained that covering Hogwarts 
Legacy had been “horrible”. On Radio 4, a gamer accused JK Rowling of 
promoting “a campaign against trans people”; the BBC later apologised 
for the failure of presenter Evan Davis to challenge this absurd claim.

Invariably, the people who accuse JK Rowling of transphobia prove 
mysteriously unable to quote anything transphobic she’s actually said. 
But in any case, it’s hard to understand why they should care quite so 
deeply about the personal opinions of an author they last read when they 
were children. Imagine if previous generations had burst into tears 
because they’d discovered that Enid Blyton didn’t share their views on 
the Suez crisis, or the Rev W Awdry disagreed with them about 
decimalisation. (“Thomas the Tank Engine used to mean everything to me, 
but now I can’t even bear to think about it. I’m really starting to 
regret having my back covered with this tattoo of the Fat Controller.”)

The very idea would have been unthinkable. In the past, no one knew or 
cared what their favourite childhood authors thought about current 
affairs. These former Harry Potter obsessives, however, act as if JK 
Rowling has personally wronged them, just because she has the temerity 
not to share their opinion on radical gender theory.

Perhaps this is the real “Hogwarts legacy”: a generation of spoiled 
babies who seem incapable of growing up.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/02/28/woke-war-against-jk-rowling-has-utterly-failed-proof/

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Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-02-27 16:34 +0100
  Re: Games für PC "Dr. Joachim Neudert" <neudert@5sl.org> - 2023-02-27 16:41 +0100
    Re: Games für PC Dietz Proepper <dietz.usenet@rotfl.franken.de> - 2023-02-27 18:10 +0100
      Re: Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-02-27 18:24 +0100
    Re: Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-02-27 18:21 +0100
    Re: Games für PC Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2023-02-27 19:41 +0100
  Re: Games für PC Mike Grantz <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-27 16:46 +0100
  Re: Games für PC Heiko Rost <heiko.rost@gmx.de> - 2023-02-27 18:05 +0100
    Re: Games für PC Mike Grantz <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-27 18:47 +0100
    Re: Games für PC Heiko Rost <heiko.rost@gmx.de> - 2023-02-27 19:10 +0100
  Re: Games für PC Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2023-02-27 19:41 +0100
    Re: Games für PC Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> - 2023-02-27 19:46 +0100
      Re: Games für PC Mike Grantz <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-27 19:52 +0100
      Re: Games für PC Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2023-02-27 20:00 +0100
        Re: Games für PC Wolfgang Kynast <wky@gmx.de> - 2023-02-27 20:03 +0100
          Re: Games für PC Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2023-02-27 20:10 +0100
            Re: Games für PC Wolfgang Kynast <wky@gmx.de> - 2023-02-28 09:17 +0100
              Re: Games für PC Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2023-02-28 11:50 +0100
                Re: Games für PC Matthias Eißing <meissing@gmx.de> - 2023-02-28 13:14 +0100
                Re: Games für PC Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2023-02-28 13:23 +0100
  Re: Games für PC Frank Hucklenbroich <hucklenbroich@gmx.net> - 2023-02-28 11:16 +0100
    Re: Games für PC "Dr. Joachim Neudert" <neudert@5sl.org> - 2023-02-28 11:25 +0100
      Re: Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-02-28 11:35 +0100
        Re: Games für PC "Dr. Joachim Neudert" <neudert@5sl.org> - 2023-02-28 15:24 +0100
          Re: Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-02-28 20:42 +0100
      Re: Games für PC Dietz Proepper <dietz.usenet@rotfl.franken.de> - 2023-02-28 13:02 +0100
        Re: Games für PC Ulf Kutzner <Ulf.Kutzner@web.de> - 2023-02-28 04:07 -0800
          Re: Games für PC Dietz Proepper <dietz.usenet@rotfl.franken.de> - 2023-02-28 15:48 +0100
      Re: Games für PC Mike Grantz <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-28 18:01 +0100
        Re: Games für PC "Dr. Joachim Neudert" <neudert@5sl.org> - 2023-02-28 19:05 +0100
        Re: Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-02-28 20:15 +0100
          Re: Games für PC Ulf Kutzner <Ulf.Kutzner@web.de> - 2023-02-28 23:55 -0800
            Re: Games für PC Ned Kelly <ned.kelly@nefkom.net> - 2023-03-01 10:12 +0100
        Re: Games für PC Ulf Kutzner <Ulf.Kutzner@web.de> - 2023-03-01 03:11 -0800
      Re: Games für PC Hermann Riemann <nospam.ng@hermann-riemann.de> - 2023-03-01 05:00 +0100

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