Just let Dumbledore divide the points between the teams like for the house cup. Totally fair.
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The house points are supposed to be displayed by large hourglasses with rubies, emeralds, etc. falling down or floating up. One billion making their way through the hourglass over the course of months? decades? would be hilarious.
for a few days.
The House Cup was always much dumber than Quidditch imo
I appreciated that after a few years they all stopped caring in the least about the house cup, and it went to other houses as well. It was hacky.
I thought this was exactly the point, they make fun of the muggles but it's their society which is completely bonkers
I think the movies in particular do a poor job showing how hard the snitch is supposed to be to catch. Games literally went on for days according to the books because the seekers weren't pro-level generational talents like Harry.
Doesn't that kinda enforce the point that the rule/function is stupid?
No because they need a way to end the game
Time limit is a solution, but it's not the only one. Time limit would change the game so much.
Do you want basketball on broomsticks or Quidditch?
In Quidditch, you can have a strategy of never scoring a goal but just playing keep away until your team catches the snitch. It's risky but could be a strategy.
Time limit would be the better team scoring a couple goals and playing keepaway.
You could add shot clocks...
I think she was always shooting for 'surreal'. She was pretty successful at it in many WW aspects, but it seems she missed the mark on a few subjects, especially sports and competition.
Wasn't there also at least one famus game that went on for a few years.
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But then how could we show Harry Potter as the chosen one?
If he sealed the goal ring with his massive... wand?
At least "cylinder stuck in ring" would be much easier to solve for Mme Pomfrey.
Just don't let Gilderoy Lockhart fix it.
"Help! I'm stuck in the goal ring!"
Can someone please tell me which spell I need to cast to be able to see these "failed to load media 😢" posts ?!
So, I was on Voyager and decided to try the other open source Lemmy apps. Namely : Eternity, Interstellar, Jerboa, Raccoon, and Thunder.
And it turns out, all of them can show me this post except Voyager !
Wtf ?! Why have I been suffering on the one shitty app that can't handle dank memes ?!
Hi, I’m the voyager dev. Are you on android or iOS, and what version? Also are you browsing with the exact same account on each app? It should be working fine :/
Sorry I called your app shitty, I was just frustrated.
I'm on android, version 2.27.0, using the same account (this one) on all the apps.
Is it something to do with webp?
Interesting, they work for me on Voyager most of the time, on lemm.ee. This post certainly shows. Were you using the native app, pwa, or just website? What operating system?
I'm not the developer of Voyager, but I love it and would love to help the developer fix bugs if we can track down what's happening
Ctrl-Shift-R does it for me on desktop.
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Maybe the more points you have the easier it gets the see and/or catch the snitch.
Just ending the game would have been a good way to implement the snitch, tbh. It would have more strategy, more reasons to block the other seeker when you're behind. If there really had to be extra points, it should have been worth 10 points or something.
Yeah that's the reason quidditch is a dumb fucking sport. You can be wiping the floor with the other team, but if their guy gets lucky and catches the parking lot frog, it's all for nothing. They've won despite having played an objectively much worse game.
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It might be because I was young when I read Harry Potter, but the whole series was magical for me exactly because of stuff like this.
Imagine if they were trying to catch the frog on the court though
A court that was like ten times bigger, everyone's flying, tackling is legal if not encouraged, and there's two people on each team who are there to play dodgeball with bocci balls, not basketball
Yeah, but that's the exciting bit. I don't mind the idea of catching the Snitch as a means of ending the game, even with a marginal point reward. In a close game, this creates an incentive for a behind-but-gaining team to deliberately delay catching the Snitch until they are within range of a win. But - as written - the game is just the "Harry Potter Is The Hero" microcosm. Nothing anyone else does seems to matter.
Incidentally, this is replicated in the worst parts of the series. The early books give the supporting cast a huge role to play in solving the school mystery, thwarting the villains, and improving the school. Latter books - particularly as you get into the Horcruxes (tell me you've played D&D without telling me you've played D&D, Rowling) - make so much of the supporting cast irrelevant bordering on disposable. By the last book, Rowling is just knocking off side characters casually.
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As I recall the story, Rowling designed that feature of the game specifically to annoy her sport-loving husband. It's a feature of a fictional sport designed in spite. So really, it performs it's function admirably...
She does seem to be mainly powered by spite.
Doesnt that diminish the world building? I know it did for me. As an adult, I cant appreciate HP the same way I did as a kid. I can still appreciate Lotr just fine, as an example. She should have put her differences aside for a better story, but shes not better than that anyway.
What world building? Rowling' wizarding world is the epitome of nothing makes sense and can only be explained by "a wizard did it".
Hogwarts was built in the 10th century, but uses far more modern Muggle technology for their sewage and sanitary system rather than some established form of teleportation/relocation.
The economy is a joke as they use fixed exchange rates between gold and silver can be abused for arbitrage trades with the Muggle world. It can only be explained by all wizards and witches stopping their primary education as ten-year-olds but even then it would take only one to figure it out and break the system.
Why on earth use owls to carry letters and packages? The practicality of using owls over other birds aside, why not use established instant transportation methods like the floo network? The only explanation we get is that the floo network and apparition are blocked in Hogwarts but does this one school dictate the rules for the entire world? And even then, wouldn't it be easier to set up a post office in an exempted area or just outside Hogwarts?
I could go on as there are countless other flaws and then just as many again once you consider the implications of the time turner. Having a sport with nonsense rules is one of the lesser issues when the world is inherently broken
For anyone who enjoys this type of deconstruction, check out the old but gold fanfiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Fun read, very high quality.
The economy is a joke as they use fixed exchange rates between gold and silver can be abused for arbitrage trades with the Muggle world. It can only be explained by all wizards and witches stopping their primary education as ten-year-olds but even then it would take only one to figure it out and break the system.
This is almost verbatim a plot point in the fic. It takes the rational 'Harry James Potter Evans-Verres' (the alternate reality protagonist) all of three seconds in Gringotts to devise an infinite money glitch, among other ways to break the system, though he still faces the obstacles of being a child.
The theme explores how Wizards take advantage of clearly superior muggle technology, but magically delude themselves into a false sense of superiority that crushes intellectual curiousity at a young age and isolates and inducts muggleborn wizards into a cult of ignorance.
It's hard to learn and respect newtonian physics and thermodynamics when your brooms operate on Aristotleian physics (point forward = go forward) and you violate thermodynamics by the age of six.
Now imagine trying to learn arbitrage rates when you're taught to fly by age 11, and can instead choose to spend the next 7 years learning how to break reality with your voice and mind. Then graduate wizarding school at age 18, never to pursue education again ~~for some reason.~~ because most teenagers learn how to teleport at will and how much education do you need beyond that?
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"Oh no, I caught the snitch when we were 160 points behind" said no one ever except for that one time in the books and even then it just makes zero fucking sense.
Actually that happened twice, once at the world cup where it made zero sense and once at Hogwarts, where it did make sense, because even though Gryffindor lost catching the snitch kept them in the house cup which is based off point differential
It just leads to such utterly contrived scenarios where the winning team isn't the one who catches the snitch. If it was something like 30 points and didn't end the game and you could catch it multiple times it would be better I think. It would be interesting to see team compositions that vary. Maybe some teams forgo scoring with the quaffle and focus only on scoring with snitch catches.
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