NEWS: Harry Potter and the Leaked Conundrum

Yep

But what's a tweaker?

In before the lock?

Is there anything I can do to make this thread stupider so that it'll just go away? Trying to think of a tie-in between Harry Potter and Loose Change. Or perhaps I could pull a Godwin...

Both undoubtedly will. People love those books, and are going to buy them for their children. Look, there's any number of flash-in-the-pan phenomena, but this one has outlasted that. And it's not in spite of a shortage of critical favorability, either; the books are very well-received in the press, and Goblet of Fire won a Hugo award. With Harry Potter being a major shared experience of this generation, there is no way it will simply fade into obscurity. One of the key hallmarks of a book or movie that will get lost in the future is being grounded within its time, but one of the reasons Potter has resonated with people, children and fantasy fans or otherwise, is because it's about children going to school. Fifty years from now, kids will still relate to the nerves of going to a new school and dealing with their newfound appreciation of the opposite sex. I'm not sure there will still be Harry Potter Lego and whatever else, but this isn't some Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh type thing.

Pokemon has some pretty serious legs on it too, actually. Though I think the merchandising has died down some. Thankfully.

Kittens in ur thread ruining ur conversation? That might do it. But yeah it's over now.

"entertainment elitist" = "doesn't like the thing that I like"

Face it, we all make choices about the things that we enjoy and those we don't. It's a total cop out to call someone an elitist just because you disagree.

I have obviously been called many things in my day, but elitist was never one of them. I'm actually kinda flattered. It makes it sound like I have high brow taste or something.

From Wikipedia: "Often, accusing someone of being an "elitist" is used as a pejorative remark meant to imply that the person in question does not in fact belong to an elite, but is merely a hanger-on."

I am thinking that he was not flattering you.

In other times they would simply have called you a pretender.

Did you actually have to look up the word, Gramps? Here's another one for you to look up "sarcasm." I suppose when I am 100 I may need a little help with comprehension too. My suggestion is that you return to your Harry Potter books and kiddie porn. That's more your speed.

Nick, you might want to step away from the computer for a couple hours if you think that Rubbersoul's slightly self-deprecating joke needed a trip to wikipedia as a rebuttal.

I never understand why some people choose to get their panties in a twist when someone dislikes something that they enjoy. Those people are the real pretenders.

I don't especially care if other people like the things I like. I do, however, take exception when they need to take that dislike out on people who do enjoy whatever it is.

Yeah? Well I like people who like what I like but not when they don't like the same things as other people who only sometimes like what the first people like and don't like what I don't like. How do you like them apples?

This age thing really has a hook into you doesn't it?

Father beat you when you were a kid?

Good.

Right. This is all people getting snitty about Rubbersoul's tastes, and not the fact that he might as well change his name to TheComicBookGuy and be done with it.

Come on. Rubbersoul strokes his ego all over the boards, and gets off on insulting people's tastes and intelligence. Pretending this little sniping match between him and Nick (who isn't exactly internet Ghandi himself) is about differing tastes is ignoring the big, white elephant in the room.

I just got an image of Rubbersoul as the Comic Book Guy saying "Worst Novel Ever."

It made me giggle.

I havent read any harry potter books, iv only seen one movie, altho now i do plan to go back and watch them all, what i find odd is i guess since im not really a fan, maybe i dont notice whats going on around me, but as of today i still dont know how the deathly hollow ends, and i was kind of curious , i guess i really should wait, but im on the internet alot, i play online games, people i work with ever said anything.... Odd ...

Actually,the thing i was responding to, and what you chose to edit out was about taste. He got called an "entertainment elitist" which is such a lame insult against anyone.

If someone wanted to call him a dick or a jerk for the way he voices his opinions--fine. I wouldn't have a problem with that and I doubt that he would either (which was probably the point of his "i've been called a lot things" line).

edit...not worth it

I think I'll leave it

"Hahahaha Noob! Harry Potter is a fag!"

srlsy lulz

So how did it end?

Ice Cream social... and placenta eating robots.

True story.

dude no way...

Musashi catches fly--end of story.

ohhh yes, talk harry potter to me! thats right.... mmmm.....