Diseased Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

They’re not even autistically obsessed with fiction as much as they’re autistically obsessed with race and politics. To the point where they can’t even enjoy fiction unless it makes a point of discussing their real-world racial and political pet issues, and explicitly endorses their viewpoint of them.

The story is quite literally about a breakaway civilization and a major conflict being fought over the idea of whether or not people who are part of the outside world should be accepted into it. Stuff not adhering to real-world culture and geopolitics actually makes more sense than if it did.
 
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How exactly is the Earth Kingdom centrist? Is the Earth King centrist? Is it Long Feng or the Dai Li? Or is King Bumi and Omashu centrist?
 
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Someone post that one piece clip with the tranny island!
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It's not the island but behold, positive trans representation.

Also on that One Piece Comparisons List

Harry Potter - character uses invisibility ability to advance the plot by finding out information they otherwise could not
One Piece - character uses invisibility ability to peep on naked women
 
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I'm a big fan of theme parks and like the Harry Potter ride at Universal, so when this popped up in my feed I decided to watch it.


I made it a few minutes in when the host stops to say how despicable and loathsome Rowling is and then turned it off. I'm not some Rowling apologist or defender, but it just gets tiring to listen to. The hosts just needed to let people know what good people they are and how they have the approved opinions. It all seems disingenuous.
 
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I'm a big fan of theme parks and like the Harry Potter ride at Universal, so when this popped up in my feed I decided to watch it.


I made it a few minutes in when the host stops to say how despicable and loathsome Rowling is and then turned it off. I'm not some Rowling apologist or defender, but it just gets tiring to listen to. The hosts just needed to let people know what good people they are and how they have the approved opinions. It all seems disingenuous.
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When was this? I don't want to click on it since the retardation sounds strong from just reading about it, but was this recent? Also, for this to happen at a theme park, wow. A part of me thinks it's partly to sabotage the place.
 
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When was this? I don't want to click on it since the retardation sounds strong from just reading about it, but was this recent? Also, for this to happen at a theme park, wow. A part of me thinks it's partly to sabotage the place.
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It's a video that was released today. The premise of the podcast is supposed to be if the Harry Potter ride at Universal Studios is world class or not, but they had to purge themselves of their sins first for talking about Harry Potter by complaining about Rowling.
 
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Kit Marz said:
It's a video that was released today. The premise of the podcast is supposed to be if the Harry Potter ride at Universal Studios is world class or not, but they had to purge themselves of their sins first for talking about Harry Potter by complaining about Rowling.
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Oh, okay. Thank God that it wasn't in the actual park. In front of an actual audience.
 
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I made it a few minutes in when the host stops to say how despicable and loathsome Rowling is and then turned it off. I'm not some Rowling apologist or defender, but it just gets tiring to listen to. The hosts just needed to let people know what good people they are and how they have the approved opinions. It all seems disingenuous.
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You're right, it's lazy virtue signaling. JK Rowling is just so heckin' ghoulish, right guys?!


Ryan: But we're not here to talk about the Polynesian, we're here to talk about Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. And look, before we get into this episode, kind of goes without saying, J.K. Rowling, a despicable lady.

Carlye: Seconded, publicly seconded.

Ryan: It's unfortunate that she's associated with the property that this ride is based on. And I just wanna say, we are aware of that, but that at the same time, it doesn't really discount the amazing work that other artists have put in to making this ride and to making these beautifully rendered lands. So in the spirit of that, we're here to celebrate that work.

Byron: Yeah.

Ryan: That's just to say, let's not let one ghoulish lady ruin that. But anyways, all that aside, and that's a huge aside, what about this ride captured your imagination and why did you wanna talk about it?
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She's mentioned again later in the show when the hosts discuss the question: How likely is [the ride] to be replaced with something new?


Ryan: How likely is this to be replaced with something new? Oh, here we, now, I... Here's where it gets a little dicey, given the climate around the creator of this franchise, you could make the argument that perhaps it should be replaced, but you know, it will never be replaced just from the capital that it brings this company.

Carlye: Yeah, they can't. I'm sure there's a lot of people who would like to distance themselves from the franchise, but, you can't. The parks would shut down if the Harry Potter experiences were gone.

Ryan: And it's also just tough because the franchise and the ride, in that, and the lands that are realized from this franchise have brought so much joy to people, and still bring joy to people. It is just this weird scenario where you don't wanna let a ghoulish lady ruin that for everybody, even though she kind of has.

Byron: Meanwhile, George Lucas with the four bill. He, like that's a very different situation, right? Cause...

Ryan: He's just chilling somewhere.

Byron: He took his four billion and walked away. Although there are, he does occasionally, I guess he does, he has brought up that he regrets it, but.

Carlye: Oh, I thought he did something and I was like...

Byron: No, no, no, no, no. I was trying to think of an example of like a creator that has, that basically has like, you know, a grip on their like work, where like George Lucas, he kind of took, you know.

Ryan: The only thing he did was the prequel.

Byron: Where in this situation with Universal and Warner where they're like, oh, I wish she went the way of George Lucas back when it happened. And I mean, I guess there's a world where they could, that's the thing is like, what's the reality is like, they either have to pay an insane amount of money.

Ryan: To get her out.

Byron: Which I'm sure will be like a tough pill to swallow, right? Or that just, you know, ends up being like.

Ryan: It's just a horrible situation.

Carlye: Horrible.

Ryan: Cause I was thinking maybe as time goes on, the property ages and then perhaps people don't care anymore, but I would have to imagine Warner would reboot this.

Byron: They are already rebooting it.

Carlye: Yeah, they are.

Byron: They're already rebooting it. They're doubling down because they're doing it to Epic Universe. I mean, like look at like the stats of this is basically doubled their attendance since coming out.

Carlye: It's like, it's so ... it just sucks.

Byron: It's here to stay. And it's, the thing is, it's an incredible experience for what you're...

Ryan: It's going nowhere for better or worse.

Byron: It's kind of like you've mentioned, it's like, there's a lot of talent at play here, and it goes, you know, from someone bringing coffee to someone, you know, setting the stages. There's a lot of work that shouldn't be discredited.

Ryan: Well, if I spent, if I was the person who devised the Kuka arm system, or if I was the person who came up with the carousel and made it so that you could have your own simulator while being on a moving attraction that actually physically moves through space. And then this crazy lady starts saying stuff. And now all anyone thinks when they see my work is of this crazy lady, I'd be so fucking pissed.

Carlye: Oh my God. Or even if you work at the parks and you make these places a living place to be, and you're pouring butter beer like make people enjoy their vacations more. And you have this hanging over you. It's terrible!

Ryan: Yes. It's just a bad situation, but yeah, it's it doesn't take away from the fact that it's an incredible attraction and that it probably won't be replaced. So I think that's a pass. Let's move that on...
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A. G. Peak said:
You're right, it's lazy virtue signaling. JK Rowling is just so heckin' ghoulish, right guys?!
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I'm glad I turned it off at the beginning. That last part about if it can be replaced or not is absolute lunacy. They're acting like she goes around murdering people with her bare hands. I'm glad that Harry Potter is still popular, just to spite people like this. It also shows that the majority of people do not care or necessarily know anything about the people who create things
 
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@A. G. Peak It's kind of incredible how they're trying to pretend that Rowling has some kind of tangential, mysterious, maybe even unknown, but also unfortunately concrete connection to some kind of vague intellectual property. Not like she's the author of Harry Potter, but rather has played some much smaller, far less important role in the creation of this money printing machine. And that her beliefs are unspeakably abhorrent, to the point where they cannot even be described lest they do deep psychological harm, rather than holding the actual normal beliefs that sex is real and immutable. That literary works, even children's and young adult fiction, are interchangeable, like the cultural equivalent of batteries or springs, while seething about how neither Rowling nor her books are going away is like a chef's kiss.

ggguuuuuuyyyyysssssssss.... the old hag who wrote the wizard books won't affirm my fantasy and refuses to just die!
 
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Kit Marz said:
I'm glad I turned it off at the beginning. That last part about if it can be replaced or not is absolute lunacy. They're acting like she goes around murdering people with her bare hands. I'm glad that Harry Potter is still popular, just to spite people like this. It also shows that the majority of people do not care or necessarily know anything about the people who create things
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They all continue to nurture this idea that JKR is going to sell the rights to Harry Potter, which will give them all permission to openly enjoy it again. It is absolutely never going to happen. There is no amount of money that could be offered to her to give up her rights to her own creative works, because it’s about more than money to her. She is one of those few, deeply principled people who cannot be bought.

Additionally, Universal will never close or replace their Harry Potter attractions. Harry Potter prints money. It’s bigger than ever. Their useless boycotts have not worked. The franchise has allowed Universal, which was a distant second to Disney twenty years ago, to renovate all their park properties, build multiple resort hotels, and build additional parks all over the world. I’m pretty confident one of the only reasons why Universal Parks survived was because of Harry Potter.
 
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