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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Piracy is always ethical. And I will pirate and watch this show.

[–] tmyakal 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And then you'll talk to less tech-savvy people about it, and they'll FOMO themselves into getting HBO.

Congratulations, you're doing marketing for JK!

There's no reason to engage with anything Harry Potter anymore. There's plenty of less problematic fantasy stories.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe I'll kill myself when I'm done /s

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 3 hours ago

Don't but that a good answer for doomers. I share media on USB for friends. No ai surveillance can beat physical sharing

[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm absolutely not into that franchise, but when a game came out that was attached to the franchise it allowed it, based on the franchise alone, to be the best seller of that year. And what ppl did back then ? A website to list every ppl that stream playing the game. What did it bring ? Im always amazed at how insufferable you are and how easy it is to just go against everything you support

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Not really sure who this is even for. Most people who were excited for Harry Potter shit the first time round are in their 40s. The author has fallen into a rabbit-hole of right-wing nut-baggery. The movies did a decent job and weren't really that long ago. It's not like some 70s movie where everyone is clearly flying on strings.

It's the kind of thing I expect two seasons to be shat out on Netflix or Amazon or one of the ad funded services, and then everyone forgets about it and agrees not to do it again.

I just don't know what HBO are doing in this. I normally associate them with high quality shows and a streaming service that isn't available in the UK. It just doesn't feel like something they'd be doing. Maybe they've just fallen that far.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

rowling is throwing money at it. that's why.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I really don't understand who the target demographic is for this? It's not like they are doing anything interesting with the universe, it's just the same story again.

They could have done anything with this but they are doing this. Do a different time period or something.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

There are a LOT of 'central' and 'right-wingers' that love her stuff all the more for her horrible worldview, and they'll spend on it.

To be fair, there are a fuck of a lot of people who despise the current government but are conflicted about the fact that they really love the HP fantasy world.

We have 1/4 of a theme park over here that is absolutely surreal with HP stuff.

[–] remon@ani.social 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Unethical consumption it is then!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 points 7 hours ago

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It may blow some minds, you can sidestep the moral dilemma by not signing any subscription service.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

People act like they would die if they just don't watch it.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 12 hours ago

Do anything but the right thing just to not be told what to do

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 49 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

I'm so glad I have Americans around to lecture me daily on the morality of pop culture whilst they simultaneously accelerate extinction-level events and start new wars that fuck the cost of living for the rest of us.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 12 hours ago

I'm glad there's red Herring fallacies so that people on the internet can retort without rationality.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You are trying to start fights where there is no reason to start one. They are literally agreeing with you here, and still you are being an asshole about it.

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 28 points 16 hours ago (28 children)

You think those that are lecturing about the idiot raging against trans and others are the same ones that are running the country into the ground?

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

you think this view is unique to the US?

something tells me there are intelligent and decent people in every country. and it is a worldwide franchise, hardly unique to the US.

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[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 64 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

jk rowling is a terf and a holocaust denier

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 11 hours ago

she supports nazi, and funds anti-trans laws in the uk.

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

Also Harry Potter suck dicks omg. I liked the book when i was 8 years old. If you're an adult and still into that shit i'm begging you to read literally any other book

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 19 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Joanne Rowling.

Don't use her preferred name. The cunt wants to take that right away from others, don't give her any exemption.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

Her other pseudonym is Robert Galbraith, which is... fascinating?

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 3 points 11 hours ago

yeah but then i have to learn and remember her name and holy shit i do not care you would not believe how much i do not care

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