• SkaveRat
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        128 months ago

        I stopped reading after the 4th book at release. Never really had interest in picking up the next couple of books.

        When my interest in “well, might as well give it a go again” started back up, JKR started to go insane and now I don’t want to have anything to do with the series anymore

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          178 months ago

          I remember when all the controversy started I thought wow, this must be exaggerated somehow, and sought out what she had actually said. Oh. My. Fucking. God. When she was challenged she didn’t just double down, she quadrupled down, and then some. Loathsome woman, just awful.

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            118 months ago

            Why couldnt she just fuck off to a tropical island and stay off twitter? Same thing with notch (guy that created minecraft)

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            148 months ago

            For a woman who wrote “it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” She seems awful fucking concerned with what categroies people were born into.

            If only there was an epic saga about the conquering power of love over bigotry that she could read. Maybe one involving a boy who lives or some fantastic magical beasts?

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              8 months ago

              “It matters not what someone is born” is a very unfair sentence, what you are born can set the difficulty level of your life to extra easy or infinite pain regardless of your will and efforts. The anti-suicide nets off the windows of the iphone factories are not there for people born in a rich family.

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      48 months ago

      Eliezer Yudkowsky can be a bit preachy at times, but he did a good job of pulling on threads in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to try to get to a fairly consistent model of magic

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      28 months ago

      The series goes from “magic wands require extreme responsibility and must be used carefully,” to machine gun wands.