Maco taco, or eco taco?

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.

A building where sick people go, but that’s not important now.

Which would make moving or travelling between time zones confusing. Exactly the problem op wishes to solve. Have they considered when the day moves from Monday to Tuesday? Is that at midnight still?

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.

When they are old enough to make their own decisions they can. I’m able to seperate the art from the artist, without introducing them to hateful commentary that they aren’t able to properly process yet.

Not showing them Harry Potter does not mean they won’t be exposed to the media or the merchandise through friends and shops.

Yes, but they also thought he was a crazy psychopath, on top of blowing people up. So, still not the kid friendly environment that would be suitable, if logic is used.

But they are kids books, so it’s not a big deal. However, she’s not a genius author. She struck it lucky. Like many, she thinks it’s merit based, now that she’s a billionaire. And she uses that big brain to trample on the rights of others. If she wasn’t a billionaire, she’d be the crazy psychopath she wrote about (who in this case turned out to be a good guy in the books; she wouldn’t ).

Yes, as there was a killer on the loose, suspected to be super crazy and in the area. In which case, would it be safe for the other kids?

It’s not logical whichever way you look at it.

More than fun. It’s whimsical.

She’s a terrible person. I read the books to my kids but they are puarated so she doesn’t get a penny. Same for the movies.

Nope, that’s the point of layers. Adjustable.

What’s also forgotten for those that say how genocide is hard to prove and debatable, is that under the Geneva convention, countries are obliged to intervene if there is a risk of genocide. Intervene doesn’t mean give more weapons.

Speak up Sonny.

Disabled bathrooms are also spacious, to allow wheelchair users easy access.

Sometimes the reason there is no use for it is because the data was unavailable. With larger data throughput, more and better services may become available.

Even when you consider common stuff like gaming, it often takes a while to fully download or update games.