Hogwarts Legacy - Harry Potter open world RPG (no trannies allowed)

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Gen X'er here - I grew up speaking and reading British English and I always understood "wizard" and "witch" to be male and female, respectively.
Perhaps this is not historically the case but I believe it has been so for at least the last couple of centuries.

If I remember my stupid schoolyard bullshit correctly, "warlock" is the male equivalent of a "witch" being both consorts of Satan, although saying witch for a man ain't that uncommon. Since "warlock" maybe sounds too fucking metal in some contexts, idk.

A wizard meanwhile is a totally other category of inscrutable magic man who ain't necessarily deriving his power from the beez. Since it derives from "wise" obviously there's no feminine equivalent.

I don't remember if I've ever looked the warlock thing up but kids were pretty sure about it
Edit: ok, it's even the Scottix usage:

The most commonly accepted etymology derives warlock from the Old English wǣrloga, which meant "breaker of oaths" or "deceiver"[2] and was given special application to the devil around 1000.[3] In early modern Scots, the word came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (which can be male or female, but has historically been used predominantly for females).[4][5][6] The term may have become associated in Scotland with male witches due to the idea that they had made pacts with Auld Hornie (the devil) and thus had betrayed the Christian faith and broke their baptismal vows or oaths.[7] From this use, the word passed into Romantic literature and ultimately 20th-century popular culture.

 

[Forest Portal Triumph 747]

I suspect they seriously managed to boost sales of a game that contains nonwhites and a literal tranny in 19th Century Scotland, via Internet psy-ops to make people think purchasing it will 'own the trannies.'

Yes, part of the success came from genuine tranny butthurt, but I'm confident multiple right wingers would not have bought this game were it not for the idea, propagated in Internet discussions, that purchasing Hogwarts: Legacy would specifically be an anti-tranny political statement.

Bravo...

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

The action bar really is a big issue. You bascially need 1 bar for your utility spells like lumos, wingardium leviosa etc, then another for the room of requirement spells. And one bar isn't enough once you also unlock the beasts. (why doesn't the room just have its own spell slots it autoswaps to?) Then you have only two bars left for your actual combat spells. Which would be mostly fine to make your own playstyle with but the game constantly demands specific spells for puzzles or combos for combat challenges you most likely don't have slotted.

Wingardium Leviosa autocasts if you hold down Accio btw so you don't need to slot it. Since Accio synergises with Flame Shotgun, I just put Leviosa on the same wheel to cover the other shield flavour and now I don't need a dedicated puzzle wheel.
I did the same with the other combat wheels (two puzzle spells with shield coverage, two murder spells) and just had one misc wheel for things like invisibility/pokeball so I didn't need to juggle em much. As soon as you get like 50 of each beast material you can basically forget about that stuff as well.

But I agree the vivariums shoulda just had a dedicated wheel like the third trial does. Or better yet, don't make grooming/feeding/catching into spells in the first place since that's fucking stupid and would have worked fine just being bound to the interact button.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Gen X'er here - I grew up speaking and reading British English and I always understood "wizard" and "witch" to be male and female, respectively.
Perhaps this is not historically the case but I believe it has been so for at least the last couple of centuries.

If I remember my stupid schoolyard bullshit correctly, "warlock" is the male equivalent of a "witch" being both consorts of Satan, although saying witch for a man ain't that uncommon. Since "warlock" maybe sounds too fucking metal in some contexts, idk.

I never understood witch to be female only, because of the Witch King of Angmar. But also because in historical documents men were hanged and burned explicitly for being witches. That said, Terry Pratchett made the distinction based on that witches 'borrow' power and don't mess with nature, and wizards use power and attempt to dominate nature. Bless Granny Weatherwax.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Yeah Pratchett does some pretty good sendups of it, but witches and witchcraft are traditionally female and wizards male - even if Tolkien dropped back to the older use of witch for the witch king of angmar (eg the witching hour).

Witch always brings to mind the cauldron lady, or someone like McGonnagal, wizard is Merlin or Gandalf, and sourcerer is jafar-like and sourceress is sexy Jafar. The

 

[Dysnomia]

Yeah sounds like a you problem, broski. This fucking guy.

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What a quaint way to say "yeah I knocked over some mandrake pots and stomped on the screaming roots while crying 'IT'S WITCH!". Then I clotheslined one of my dorm mates for complaining that I was walking around naked."

If I remember my stupid schoolyard bullshit correctly, "warlock" is the male equivalent of a "witch" being both consorts of Satan, although saying witch for a man ain't that uncommon. Since "warlock" maybe sounds too fucking metal in some contexts, idk.

A wizard meanwhile is a totally other category of inscrutable magic man who ain't necessarily deriving his power from the beez. Since it derives from "wise" obviously there's no feminine equivalent.

I don't remember if I've ever looked the warlock thing up but kids were pretty sure about it
Edit: ok, it's even the Scottix usage:

Bewitched used "warlock" for male witches. And there was that film series Warlock. But I remember at some point witchy people tried to claim the term warlock was offensive and male witches should be called witches as it was proper. It's just not something that's used as much anymore. But I think it sounds cool.

Wizard just makes me think of guys with long beards and pointed hats. But I guess for younger generations it's more aligned with Harry Potter.

 

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I just finished up the main story of Hogwarts Legacy here. I have a few little sidequests to finish up but I think I'm about done with the game. I've never really cared much for Harry Potter, but I'm genuinely surprised at how fun the game is. I feel like I would have gotten more out of the game had I actually paid attention to the books and films, but the core of the gameplay is just simply fun. It really is a wonderfully charming game that they've managed to craft here out of a licensed title, something you don't really see all that often that I've seen.

I never really got past my gripes about the combat system and it seems a lot of other people here had similar complaints. Crucio has no business being as OP as it is - it busts all three of the enemy shields, gives them a damage-over-time debuff, can be upgraded to spread to multiple targets, and recharges quickly? And none of the NPCs really care you're using forbidden spells? Fuck off Natsai, this is part of my standard arsenal!

Current Year pandering, strangely didn't bother me too much. Sure, is it strange to have Africans, Asians, Indians, and who knows what else running around in 19th Century Scotland? Yeah, but I think this is one of the few games it actually works in - the Hogwarts world itself is so strange and foreign I didn't think it was too weird to have strange and foreign people inhabiting the world to begin with. I never found the lesbian witches, and besides the two main story quests I pretty much ignored Sir Aryan.

I may even buy the inevitable DLC when it comes out which is something I almost never do for games. Might even try and find a box set of the Harry Potter films - now I'm curious about the world. I give it pretty high marks, myself - 7 or 8 out of 10.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Bless Granny Weatherwax.

She aten't dead.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

now I'm curious about the world

You'll probably enjoy the films for the same reason you like the game, it really is the world that gets people so invested. The books are of varying qualities imo. But the world itself is lovingly crafted and like you said, just fun. And they really used it the right way for this game, it's commendable for a developer in Current Year.

And don't let people tell you that wizards shitting on the floor is dumb, it's actually genius and totally canon.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

And don't let people tell you that wizards shitting on the floor is dumb, it's actually genius and totally canon.

I was gonna say. I think she was probably trolling but the Star Trek comic she stole that gag from is basically canon for me.

I'd beam turdage directly out of my colon right now if I could. Think of how much society would improve if shitters (lol) no longer had that excuse to complain about Dark Souls not having a pause button

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Yeah Pratchett does some pretty good sendups of it, but witches and witchcraft are traditionally female and wizards male - even if Tolkien dropped back to the older use of witch for the witch king of angmar (eg the witching hour).

Witch always brings to mind the cauldron lady, or someone like McGonnagal, wizard is Merlin or Gandalf, and sourcerer is jafar-like and sourceress is sexy Jafar. The

Implying Jafar isn't sexy. Disgraceful.

 

[HeyYou]

The only problem with the whole "wizards used to shit and just make it disappear" thing is that it raises the question of why on Earth they'd even start using toilets when they're much more inconvenient.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

The only problem with the whole "wizards used to shit and just make it disappear" thing is that it raises the question of why on Earth they'd even start using toilets when they're much more inconvenient.

Bring Your Troll Day. Mudbutts. First-years. It's a school for magic, you don't arrive knowing all the copromancy on day 1.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

There is a mod that puts Kononowicz, a Polish lolcow, into one of the tapestries in the castle. I am very happy with this development.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Implying Jafar isn't sexy. Disgraceful.

(Just imagine it animated and the pecs bouncing)

 

[D.Angus]

The only problem with the whole "wizards used to shit and just make it disappear" thing is that it raises the question of why on Earth they'd even start using toilets when they're much more inconvenient.

Muggle appropriation.

 

[Maude Snew]

The obvious reason is they need those shitters to hide their basilisks in. It's like you haven't even read the books.

 

[Drifting Panzer]

And there was that film series Warlock.

Funny thing is, in the movie, the word "warlock" is not used. The antagonist, played by Julian Sands (still missing, rip) is called a witch when not by name.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

The obvious reason is they need those shitters to hide their basilisks in. It's like you haven't even read the books.

Also the dorms are shared so students really need a dedicated place to jerk off. Presumably they just converted all the jerking-off rooms to lavatories when the time came.

That prefect bath with the big fucking mermaid on the wall must obviously still feature some of the earlier enchantments though

 

[Polarity]

Over at the Rowling Derangement Syndrome thread, discovered that GDQ has banned the trans lives erasure simulator Hogwarts Legacy. Going to be sad I can't watch a 40 year old mentally ill man in a wig stutter about clipping through walls while some asian sounding fat chick reads comments about parents dying of cancer.

I misjudged the game a bit. They put a lot of thought and love into the world design. It does kind of get stale when you meander outside the castle into the comparatively rather bland world filled with button-mashing combat, but they did a hell of a job making a game out of the source material all things considered. It's an almost perfect mastery of the paint-by-numbers open world collect-a-thon Ubisoft has been shitting out for multiple decades now. Only downside are the groan inducing random trannies/lesbians/every fucking minority in the world shoehorned into a game taking place in the 1800s.