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Yeah, I'd agree with that. However, they are also creative or adventurous with graphics and art direction.

Yeah, even look at Sony. Recent franchises include a genetically modified clone orphan living in a land of sentient machines with vivid colours.

A father daughter love story told in the time of a zombie apocalypse. (Recent is doing a lot of lifting, lol,)

A samurai warrior, believed dead in a beautiful version of Japan, who sues the wind for direction. Here it's more the art direction.

Older hits, instead of using cars, used floating race pods. Some told stories using forward and back through time to allow a player and their inner soul/ghost explore areas differently. Others has you play as a set of androids staring to become sentient and making decisions for or against their programming, for their or others benefit.

The quirkiness has always been there. There is also lots of generic stuff and copied stuff. Wherever art and business collide, that's always the case.

But they'll have some AI machines instead, so the shareholders will be happy. The shareholders of a different company, but still...

Wear and tear is specifically not allowed to be charged for home rentals in Australia. Damage that is not wear and tear can be I would assume it would also apply for car rentals but I haven't checked.

The alternative, where a government can restrict the actions of companies in other jurisdictions is more scary.

It’s all a house of cards, so it may all come crashing down. A few have tried and failed to harness MAGA support. Ron DeSantis being the biggest crash and burn.

Your implication in the Hitler reference was that we should not appreciate art from horrible people.

I'm glad my points changed your mind so much that we now agree, for the most part. ;)

Neil Gaiman is an alleged rapist. Does that mean the sexual scenes in his books are not valid?

Horrible people is part of the human condition. Erasing them means we don't learn from it.

We can now better recognise the problematic parts of her work to gently help kids to appreciate it. Kids won't get the metaphors with slavery, racism, sexism that all exist with the potterverse. However, showing them these problems even in a fantastical world can help them better understand them in the real world.

Her work doesn't become pointless just by virtue of her being horrible. For some artists, that can even be the point. Look at Joss Whedon, who was lauded for writing powerful female characters. It's now clear he was abusive to the young women in his vicinity. Does that make Buffy less of a heroine or more?

Hitler, again, was an even more awful person. That doesn't make the autobahns that his government started a bad idea. However, we as a world society decided that the data from the nazi experimentation on twins, on people with disabilities and others would be destroyed.

Hitler was an artist, but not a great one from my understanding. It's trivia, rather than who he was. He was a monster that killed millions. It's very different.

JK is an author. It's what she's known for. Her work has not changed based on her views which were not known then. In fact, I think some fans were upset when she retconned some characters to be more woke, prior to becoming transphobia personified.

Book four was great. It was downhill from there as she couldn’t maintain the level. She also couldn’t keep it consistent. However, people were co paring it to literature. It’s kids books.

Because reading the books is a good educational experience for kids. I don’t allow them watch the movies until the books are read. Movies can miss nuance and have less information and world building. There is racism and bigotry and horrible things happening in life. I explain it to my kids at appropriate times.

When I first discussed the holocaust(very broadly), for example, they didn’t understand why someone would hate others for religion only, as religion is not important to us. Nor was it a good reason to not like someone from their understanding. They understand simpler concepts like absolute good and absolute evil. Goodies and baddies. More complex topics like themes in Harry Potter books being problematic is beyond their understanding completely.

Other books with good themes but problematic authors or themes include Enders Game, starship troopers, religious texts. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Dr Seuss, Enid blyton, Shakespeare, Stephanie Meyer, etc etc

That doesn’t make the books useless. Rhoal Dahl has problematic parts. Rhoal Dahl was also racist. That doesn’t mean we skip Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Yes, I liked it too but I'm not under the false impression that's it's a genius work. It's a kids book that kids like and many adults enjoy too.

She's a hateful awful person. Many people are.