Then you haven't been paying attention.
JKR is not just some writer who happens to be transphobic. There are plenty of distasteful writers I still enjoy - the difference is they didn't turn their bigotries into a project.
She has made transphobia into her whole life. It is her primary political goal. It is what she spends her money and time on.
Elon Musk (who disowned his own daughter after she transitioned) complained that JKR's Twitter contributions were too obsessed with trans people.
I hope so but I doubt the stain will ever fully wash off. I'll always be wondering who is still involved in steering it who was a fellow-traveler of JKR.
If 30 years from now the IP owner makes a Ravenclaw-themed mad-science spin-off series with a trans wizard as the protagonist, then maybe I'll think it's salvageable.
The author is a bigot and supporting HP supports bigotry. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it matters what you're complicit with.
Yes, it's popular. Many evil things are.
I think Tim's hit the nadir in quality around 5-10 years ago. Everything since then has been a dead-cat-bounce - that is, they've gotten better simply because it was mathematically and chemically impossible to get worse. Like their various fried or scrambled egg additions are something approaching normal food, which is a huge improvement.
But "better" and "improvement" does not mean they're anything close to "good".
JKR is actively politically involved in the persecution of trans people and the protection of transphobes. Even if she does not directly profit from an individual piece of HP media, the success of any HP media strengthens her brand and thus her political power.
That's why it matters. Not an abstract question of "death of the author" or the Ship of Theseus of adaptations of adaptations, but the single contemporary living human being who converts Harry Potter's cultural cachet into actualized hatred.
It's crazy how the Saudis oscillate between "we want to be green and modern" and "we want to do oppression and atrocities".
I was just hoping for interesting tactics and a simple plot, which it delivered at first... but as the game develops it's as you said, mostly about learning to optimize your grind through exploiting systems that are basically only documented in wikis (what do all the stats and attributes do? Google it.)
Disgaea. I was trying to unlock all the classes and play with some of the monster classes but it was so tedious and slow that after 100 hours I looked up a power leveling guide and found out the optimal play was just to ignore the whole team strategy part of it and grind the main character into space. Dropped it then.
Madagascar floats
Sideways through the afternoon
Detecting A. I.
Teenagers aren't really known for making great decisions.
Source: was once a teenager, made bad decisions.
You'd have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.
Laws are for poor people.