Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[FreeKaner]

I have to say this trolling with harry potter is very successful, it is making me irrationally angry.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Never read a single book, and never watched a single movie.

 

[FreeKaner]

I haven't either, but just mention of it as if it would be a good thing to do or include is extremely effective trolling method.

 

[Quillon]

and never watched a single movie.

I haven't either

really? wow. such prestigiousness.

Spoiler

 

[FreeKaner]

That comic is unrelated as fuck.

 

[Quillon]

Second half is related :D

 

[FreeKaner]

How so? It's a crime to not have watched every single piece of popular media garbage now?

 

[AwesomeButton]

I was just sharing it as a curious fact, as it seems everyone has watched some movie or read some book.

 

[Quillon]

Well, you guys must be older than I thought, otherwise being at least a teenager in 2000s and not having watched any HP movie that released throughout the decade must be a rare phenomenon.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I think I missed the hype by a few years. When I heard of Harry Potter it just looked too childish to me. I also reflexively stray away from anything that's the current hype when it comes to reading and movies. For games, well, we are on the codex.

 

[Spectacle]

I think I missed the hype by a few years. When I heard of Harry Potter it just looked too childish to me. I also reflexively stray away from anything that's the current hype when it comes to reading and movies. For games, well, we are on the codex.

So you're a hipster?

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Ok you two need to legit read Harry Potter because they are some of the best fantasy books ever written (and yes I'm including it over Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series and La Belle Sauvage even tho I love those books too sis)! The wizard duels, the school dramas that rival Anne of Green Gables, the Quidditch matches, good vs. evil, sneaking out to Hogsmeade, the mystery at the heart of each book! Sigh, Hogwarts is iconic! (btw when you're done reading them and watching the films you can totally take the House test on Pottermore and see which one you get, I'm in Slytherin!)

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I don’t think Josh actually cares about winning awards himself, but I think he’s probably generally irked that games like Heavy Rain (that is games that deemphasize or lack completely the strengths of the medium) are lauded as the apotheosis of what games can be.

 

[Prime Junta]

I read a few Harry Potters to find out what the fuss was all about.

I never did.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

Don't worry Prime Junta, "Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home." :sparkling heart emoji:

 

[Viata]

At this point I don't know if Sailor Woedica is trolling or not. Part of me really wishes he is.

 

[FreeKaner]

I don’t think Josh actually cares about winning awards himself, but I think he’s probably generally irked that games like Heavy Rain (that is games that deemphasize or lack completely the strengths of the medium) are lauded as the apotheosis of what games can be.

I completely agree that it's retarded some people think video games being more like cinema is better and elevates the medium somehow. However the way he presented this and his argumentation for it is butthurt, and the QTE for sucking dick doesn't prove anything by itself.

 

[2house2fly]

I enjoyed the two Harry Potter books I read because the last quarter or so of each one mainly consisted of plot twists and firing Chekhov's guns. I forget the specifics of what they even were, I just like narrative elements clicking into place and they did a good job at that

 

[santino27]

My wife bought the Harry Potter books, so I read them, but we were already well past the targeted age group at the time. They were ok at best (the first one or two) and tedious (the last few) at worst.

Millennials grew up on them though and many think they're the best thing ever.

At this point I don't know if Sailor Woedica is trolling or not. Part of me really wishes he is.

I'd say almost definitely. Nobody shows up on the Codex that obliviously positive--with a laundry list of likes (Tumblr! POE!) guaranteed to annoy many Codexians--without being an intentional troll.

Basically Sherry-lite. It's entertaining though, as opposed to a Safav or a Templar.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I think I missed the hype by a few years. When I heard of Harry Potter it just looked too childish to me. I also reflexively stray away from anything that's the current hype when it comes to reading and movies. For games, well, we are on the codex.

So you're a hipster?

Yes, ironically, it turns out I was an instinctive hipster before I knew the term ("before it was cool").

 

[Big Wrangle]

At this point I don't know if Sailor Woedica is trolling or not. Part of me really wishes he is.

Woedica and Sherry are two opposing deities and all we can do is be their unwitting pawns.

 

[fantadomat]

I read them back when i was teen,they were well written and fun. I don't know if they are good for older people now tho.

 

[Rivmusique]

The third film is good.

 

[Yosharian]

Harry Potter is not very well-written.

 

[Wunderbar]

Harry Potter is OK book for children.