remember, luddites were not anti progress, they were pro workers rights. They broke infrastructure because factory owners refused to increase pay along with the increase in productivity.

Sometimes, it’s more important that you enjoy the thing than the thing being objectively good. There is merit to objectively analyzing things, and there can be enjoyment found in doing so. There is also merit to just enjoying the thing you like. Both are valid.

anyone who was in for the love of the art already read the books.

it can, but requires strong regulation to do so. We don’t have that these days.

I’d be very ok with this

castle crashers

tmnt shredders revenge

DISTANCE

Risk of Rain (original or returns, fuck 2)

Magicka 1 or 2

Hammerwatch (original only)

Civ 4 or Civ 5 (fuck 6, and 7 doesn’t even have hotseat)

Rivals of Aether (original is good, i haven’t played 2)

Brawlhalla

Killer Queen Black

Full Metal Furries

…

If you allow for emulators, I can make this list even longer.

yeah, i know. Point is that Nintendo can do whatever they want with the flimsyest excuse.

Nintendo was able to sue palworld using a patent that didn’t exist before palworlds release. It’s not right, but they can do whatever they want regardless of what the law says.

fandom doesn’t like that

I stand by my position of the harry potter books being bad, but I will concede on two points:

it’s an opinion not a fact.

it’s not that important to the larger discussion of rowling being a shitty person who’s shittiness shouldn’t be supported.

I would also like to say that my criticism of the quality of the books is NOT an attack on the fans of the work (at least it’s not when I do it, can’t speak for anyone else). It is ok to like bad writing, it would be hypocritical of me to say otherwise as I do enjoy reading a lot of amateur writing from time to time. To further this point, I’d like to say that there are aspects of rowling’s creation that I actually do like. The setting of the wizarding world is quite interesting, and I’d love to dig through lore regarding the characters and the history and just how the setting got to where it is by the timeframe of the books.

Actually, speaking of the wizarding world and of crappy amateur writing, I think imma go read Thinking in Little Green Boxes again.