How come when games are released in America, their names are often changed and simplified...

its only called skateboarding in pal you retard

it's just a description of what's happening on the cover. tony hawk's skateboarding. the 's is a contraction, not possessive.

>The title of the movie was changed to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" because the book's name was also changed to this. JK Rowling agreed to change the title of the book from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" because the publishers thought that American readers wouldn't pick up a book called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" because they would associate the word Philosopher with some old, boring guy and not with magic. The word Sorcerer brings magis to mind for American children.

I'm not your pal you fucking cu*ks lmao.

this was changed because american children aren't familiar with the philosopher's stone because they live in a first-world country where no one practiced alchemy in their thatch-roofed cottages with no plumbing.

My mom didn't let me read Harry Potter because she though it was about satanic witchcraft
did i miss out?

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Didn’t realize Tony Hawk’s pro skater and Harry Potter were the same

No (You) for you

As someone who's parents were Christian and bought me the books still. No you really didn't miss anything exceot shit writing from an author who has become the embodiment of SJW cuckery.

You must have suffered some concussions from skateboarding if you care to bring up the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

It was the first teenage-wish-fulfillment "fictional universe"
So if you've consumed any media in the last 20 years you've probably gotten a fairly heavy dose of that

Wtf it was called pro skater in the US

why wasn't it called Anthony Hawk's Professional Skateboarder