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

[luigismanslave]

I just don't understand why wizard battles always boil down to shooting ineffectual lasers back and forth, may as well just use a gun at that point. why don't wizards do cool shit, like apparate rocks into eachothers lungs, or boil eachothers blood, or shoot electricity to blow up eachothers pacemakers? the good guys could use non-lethal stuff like snaring people in tree branches, creating decoys with magic, building shields of rock. there's a few times cool shit happens, like the fiend fire, but most of it is just like "and then everyone shot lasers for a while" and moves on. I know the answer is "JK Rowling doesn't really care about the action scenes" and that's fair, but it certainly doesn't keep most of them interesting. maybe it'd be too corny to have "every wizard has a specialization" and like the water wizards all fight by putting water blobs on peoples' heads to drown them, but it'd probably still be a bit more dynamic.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

I just don't understand why wizard battles always boil down to shooting ineffectual lasers back and forth, may as well just use a gun at that point. why don't wizards do cool shit, like apparate rocks into eachothers lungs, or boil eachothers blood, or shoot electricity to blow up eachothers pacemakers? the good guys could use non-lethal stuff like snaring people in tree branches, creating decoys with magic, building shields of rock. there's a few times cool shit happens, like the fiend fire, but most of it is just like "and then everyone shot lasers for a while" and moves on. I know the answer is "JK Rowling doesn't really care about the action scenes" and that's fair, but it certainly doesn't keep most of them interesting. maybe it'd be too corny to have "every wizard has a specialization" and like the water wizards all fight by putting water blobs on peoples' heads to drown them, but it'd probably still be a bit more dynamic.

I think a lot of that comes down to the fact the books were written for a young child audience, not adults. You can have death and action in children's media, but it usually has to either be off screen or nothing super violent/gory/horrific to witness in either description of a book or shown in a tv show/movie.
The games have always had more unique interpretations of the spells and such anyway, like you straight up murder enemies in hogwarts legacy with explosions, man-eating plants and so on.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Yeah, the wizard duels and such leave a fair bit to be desired, though Dumbledore and Voldemort have a pretty great one in book 5.

 

[unrealistic expectations]

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They do have some specialisations though, look at the different classes the professors teach. There are all kinds of hexes, potions, herbs, charmed objects, divination, use of creatures, conjuring patronuses, as well as shit like invading dreams. This is going into the depths of my memory but I think all the tri-wizard tournament contestants had their own personal styles of taking on the challenges. There's that voldy v dumbledore battle in the ministry where they throw tidal waves and shards of glass at each other, at least in the film. Yeah there are a lot of laser fights but you've gotta hit your target.

The books aren't faultless but I loved them as a kid.

 

[Mayhem]

I just don't understand why wizard battles always boil down to shooting ineffectual lasers back and forth, may as well just use a gun at that point. why don't wizards do cool shit, like apparate rocks into eachothers lungs, or boil eachothers blood, or shoot electricity to blow up eachothers pacemakers? the good guys could use non-lethal stuff like snaring people in tree branches, creating decoys with magic, building shields of rock. there's a few times cool shit happens, like the fiend fire, but most of it is just like "and then everyone shot lasers for a while" and moves on. I know the answer is "JK Rowling doesn't really care about the action scenes" and that's fair, but it certainly doesn't keep most of them interesting. maybe it'd be too corny to have "every wizard has a specialization" and like the water wizards all fight by putting water blobs on peoples' heads to drown them, but it'd probably still be a bit more dynamic.

We don't get very many big battles between formidable wizards in the series. The best known one, the battle between Dumbledore and Grindlewald in which Dumbledore won the Elder Wand, will likely never be in a book or shown on screen since the Fantastic Beasts series has been abandoned. The only big one we get was, as you mentioned, the creative battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort, which was better described in the book. I do agree with you in the sense that a lot of wizard battles are sort of like gunfights rather than deeply creative and adaptive uses of magic. That is one area where both the books and films are lacking. (There's also a really good scene in The Crimes of Grindlewald where Newt uses magic to track a character's movements through a street in Paris; it's honestly amazing. There is some really interesting magic in those films.)

By the way, this is honestly the most creative mental-magical battle I have ever seen. It's from Legion, the FX TV show, which is definitely an acquired taste but a really groundbreaking show for Marvel. In comics and superhero media, you usually just see mutants who use psy-mental powers putting their fingers on their foreheads or something, but a true magical battle could be really interesting.

Also, in general: The Kiwi Farms is a place for friends and nerds. There's no need to ask AI for a summary of how and why magic works (or doesn't work) in the Harry Potter series. Just ask yr friends.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Oh my god no one cares we just want the fucking quidditch videogame ASAP

 

[luigismanslave]

They do have some specialisations though, look at the different classes the professors teach. There are all kinds of hexes, potions, herbs, charmed objects, divination, use of creatures, conjuring patronuses, as well as shit like invading dreams. This is going into the depths of my memory but I think all the tri-wizard tournament contestants had their own personal styles of taking on the challenges. There's that voldy v dumbledore battle in the ministry where they throw tidal waves and shards of glass at each other, at least in the film. Yeah there are a lot of laser fights but you've gotta hit your target.

The books aren't faultless but I loved them as a kid.

Yeah it wasn't a criticism, it's pretty clear it was just not a focus, but if you're talking about the magic system it's hard to avoid how often it boils down to "lasers", and it's probably where most peoples' criticisms stem from, especially in the latter movies, David Yates is a dreadful director and really just made everything a laser light show. Crazy that once the talented ones left in favor of the WB yes-man the movies tanked in quality.

The best known one, the battle between Dumbledore and Grindlewald in which Dumbledore won the Elder Wand, will likely never be in a book or shown on screen since the Fantastic Beasts series has been abandoned.

I'd like to be optimistic, but the Fantastic Beast movies are all over the place to a degree even Harry Potter is not. The second movie borders on incoherent, and I think Yates would probably fall back on ol reliable (laser pew pew)

 

[Mayhem]

I'd like to be optimistic, but the Fantastic Beast movies are all over the place to a degree even Harry Potter is not. The second movie borders on incoherent, and I think Yates would probably fall back on ol reliable (laser pew pew)

David Yates is a garbage director. So many of his scenes fall flat or lack emotional resonance. He's also utterly banal and has almost zero style. So many of the criticisms of the series have nothing to do with the books and so much to do with his shitty directing (and the terrible acting from the teenaged actors, which is also his fault as well). However, I say almost zero style because he did do a few things decently, and I think the magic we see in the Fantastic Beasts films are some of them. There are many scenes where the wizards, who are all adults, are actually using magic in creative and novel ways. For instance, there's a witch in The Secrets of Dumbledore that makes her spells look like book pages. I really do wish we could have seen more of this, but what drives the series' popularity is the teenaged element of it.

 

[luigismanslave]

However, I say almost zero style because he did do a few things decently, and I think the magic we see in the Fantastic Beasts films are some of them.

Let's be honest, Rowling was way more directly involved with those movies, she wrote them, and some CGI guys made some cool stuff happen. Yates is so dreadfully boring and tasteless that he probably fought against it and insisted on laser fights. Losing Columbus and Cuaron brutalized the movies in the back half

 

[Adjustable Autism]

Are you ready for hottest take on Rowlings comments about the Olympics (especially the boxing fiasco where she and everyone calling Khelif a man got completely vindicated)?

This complete moron geuninely uses the "hurr durr mold" shit that floated around . I am pretty sure, even most Xitter trannies were joking (at least I hope that's the case).

It is seriously retarded and cringe inducing. However the Youtube algorithm is pushing this video like crazy. Even when logged out and watching completely unrelated content, this stupid ass thumbnail keeps popping up.

 

[Squid Bitch]

Rowling was named in the cyberbullying lawsuit brought by the XY female boxer. Prepare for trannies to become even more insufferable than they already are.

( x ; a )

J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win (EXCLUSIVE) ( a )

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[Mayhem]

I can't wait for discovery.

 

[Surfin Terf]

Are you ready for hottest take on Rowlings comments about the Olympics (especially the boxing fiasco where she and everyone calling Khelif a man got completely vindicated)?

This complete moron geuninely uses the "hurr durr mold" shit that floated around . I am pretty sure, even most Xitter trannies were joking (at least I hope that's the case).

It is seriously retarded and cringe inducing. However the Youtube algorithm is pushing this video like crazy. Even when logged out and watching completely unrelated content, this stupid ass thumbnail keeps popping up.

Every single thing that gets uncovered in this case proves Rowling right, and yet they still think they're winning.

 

[Sourceress]

The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensure that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi.

Somehow I don't see this case getting very far, not least because they can't seem to decide whether it's a lawsuit or a criminal case, but also because they seem to want to prosecute every single person on Twitter who ever said a true word about Khelif - not even a mean word, but just a true one, ie, "that's a man".

Good luck pulling millions of randoms into a French court, lmfao.

Honestly, I would love for JKR to pull a reverse on this and sue in French court under their same "cyberbullying" laws against all the troons who regularly call for her rape and murder, say she has black mold on her walls, try to goad her by calling her a man, shit-talk her books and say she's a shit author because she doesn't agree with their politics, say they hope her house burns down, write books where she gets raped and killed (hi, Gretchen!), and so on. Just to see what happens. Obviously she won't, because she's got more class than that, but it would be kind of funny to watch the troons' heads explode as suddenly what they saw as a brave and stunning rightful use of the legal system to punish evil wrongthinkers was used against them - something tells me they wouldn't see it so kindly in that case.

What a lovely precedent this is setting, though. Can you imagine? Being able to take someone to court - being able to put someone in a foreign jail in a foreign country after having them deported there to stand trial in a foreign courtroom - because they said mean words about you on Xitter? Or actually, not even mean words, just true words that they don't want to hear? Absolute fucking insanity.

(This is not to say I don't think cyberbullying laws have a purpose and a use in society, but I think they should only be used for.. you know, actual cyberbullying, and they should not be available for use by people who can be considered public figures and therefore quite literally put themselves out there for the public to see, judge, and form opinions on. If you want to have the same right to privacy and protection against internet gossip that a private person enjoys, you don't get to go to the Olympics and make a spectacle out of yourself and get famous as a man beating the shit out of women half your size.)

 

[Berengar]

I dont think its actually a lawsuit. The headlines are saying lawsuit, but the articles state he/she/Imane filed a criminal complaint. So a french prosecuter would have to decide if a crime actually took place, if France has jurisdiction over mean words someone wrote in different non EU countries, and whether they wanted to try to prosecute two billionaires (among others)

 

[stupid frog]

Hmm... Maybe it is attempt to resolve quickly?

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/criminal-complaint-lawyers.html

Thus, criminal complaints will mainly be used in four situations:

• When the law requires it;
• When there is an option to file one and a prosecutor chooses to do so;
• When a criminal complaint is necessary to make an arrest; and/or
• When a prosecutor needs to file a matter quickly.

 

[Berengar]

Hmm... Maybe it is attempt to resolve quickly?

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/criminal-complaint-lawyers.html

I dont know anything about frog law, but just googling around it looks like Imane and her team filed an online complaint which had no monetary payout. As a result there are stories all over news sites that s/he is suing various billionaires and will win big. I'd call it a pr stunt. Zero cost to file, if the prosecuter drops it for juridiction or because its not a crime then she'll blame the racist french. Undoubtedly, there will be a gofundme. So a win for Iman at zero cost.

 

[Biker]

Rowling is based cause fuck troons, but not that based cause Rowling is ok with paki rape gangs as long as none of the pakis identify as women.

 

[Shotgun Badger]

Are you ready for hottest take on Rowlings comments about the Olympics (especially the boxing fiasco where she and everyone calling Khelif a man got completely vindicated)?

This complete moron geuninely uses the "hurr durr mold" shit that floated around . I am pretty sure, even most Xitter trannies were joking (at least I hope that's the case).

It is seriously retarded and cringe inducing. However the Youtube algorithm is pushing this video like crazy. Even when logged out and watching completely unrelated content, this stupid ass thumbnail keeps popping up.

I've said that I think Rowling made a major error in not having a sense of decorum about this whole controversy but I legit don't understand how people can act like her concerns were ill-founded at this point when even the coach for Khelif essentially admitted that they are biologically male which raises a big concern for the very concept of Women's sports in the Olympics regardless of people trying to treat it purely as a talking point for bigots. I feel like that ought to be seriously grappled with rather than trying to frame the whole thing as just the ramblings of a madwoman since that position gets less tenable every day!

Lol though at resorting to the mold thing yet again, something that stands out about Rowling is that her enemies just bounce between every conceivable frame of attack they can think of no matter how flimsy and retarded it is. It actually reminds me a lot of the Republicans struggling to find dirt on Walz and basically conjuring up a phantom version of him to get mad at.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

Rowling was named in the cyberbullying lawsuit brought by the XY female boxer. Prepare for trannies to become even more insufferable than they already are.

Oh I'm sorry. Did you think you were going to waltz into the Olympics like Rosa Parks walking up to a bus stop, beat the shit out of a bunch of women, and not have people make fun of you for being a violent troon?