• @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    3126 days ago

    If I’m going to spend several hours staring at the backside of a character, I want it to be a cute girl, thank you.

  • Scrubbles
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    6826 days ago

    Why would I want to look at a dudes ass in third person for 120 hours?

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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    2126 days ago

    Playing the opposite gender would knock me out of immersion much less than installing that many anime-ish mods.

      • @gamer@lemm.ee
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        125 days ago

        I was going to comment that this looks more like ffxiv than skyrim, and expose the boomer who made this meme that can’t tell the difference between two extremely popular games.

        Although I’ve never played ffxiv so I don’t actually know if that’s what this is, and I didn’t play enough skyrim to be able to identify those wall/ground textures.

  • Owl
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    1026 days ago

    Reddit comment section on lemmy

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    If a person plays as an opposite-gender character, it’s because they secretly wish to be that gender and are therefore trans.

    If a person plays as a same-gender character, it’s because they like looking at same-gender ass and are therefore gay.

    There are no other options.

    Trollface

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    If they somehow find a third option anyway, that just mean’s they’re a furry.

    • On the one hand, this is funny. On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of humor that led to me repressing my gender identity. I feel so conflicted.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        525 days ago

        That’s the neat part: you can’t repress your gender identity because ‘straight’ wasn’t an option!

        (Unless you actually are straight, but whatever – it won’t kill us to be the ones who have to just fuckin’ deal with it, for once!)

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        (Seriously though, my intent was to be funny in an inclusive way, not a repressive way. Apologies if I missed the mark!)

  • Chozo
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    I’m a big, fat, hairy, cishet dude, and I always play as a woman when it’s an option. Female characters generally get more attention from the developers (for obvious reasons), so they usually have better designs and animations, resulting in an objectively higher-quality product. It’s also fun in multiplayer games because toxic dweebs hate it when they think they lost to a girl.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      2126 days ago

      The same toxic dweebs might also go weird towards you sometimes, it’s definitely an experience getting to know why a lot of women carry pepper spray in public.

      • @Cloaca@mtgzone.com
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        426 days ago

        100%

        I was playing Monster Hunter World and made a character based on the Hub Lass.

        It took less than two hours online to get someone asking if I have a boyfriend.

        • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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          My little sister had to change her PSN username because men would keep messaging her out of the blue sending her their numbers and asking for nudes/snapchat.

    • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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      funnily enough that’s exactly (but opposite) what i told myself before i realised i was a trans man

      “oh i play exclusively male characters because they have better armour models and the animations look more immersive, and i prefer to hear a dude talk/groan when i’m in dialogue or get hit. no other reason haha”

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1126 days ago

    I’m hardcore hetero on the Kinsey Scale, but I’ve always played females. Fuck it, I’ve been a male every day of my life and games are there to escape reality (for me anyway).

      • @MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee
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        You can keep saying it, but that doesn’t make it true. Trying to force someone to be trans is just as bad as trying to force someone to be straight shame on you.

        • I’m not forcing anyone to be trans. I’m encouraging them to see their signs for what they are. The whole forcing people to be trans is TERF bullshit based on the idea that we’re transing the kids.

    • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      I make em look like me as much as possible because I want to be the badass lol.

      Except final fantasy, I went with the exploding ponytail with the emo bangs because it reminds me of my first paladin on wow.

  • @gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    I tend to play female characters. Only because of the smaller hitbox tho, definitely not for other reasons.

    :3

  • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    926 days ago

    I played as the opposite gender one (1) time in 2010, to hear the novelty of the female VA for the protagonist in a fully voiced game after two runs as the male protagonist, and I haven’t stopped since. RIP me 😔

  • "no" banana
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    I’ve just come to the conclusion that my digital persona is a woman. I’m a cis hetero man in real life though. Not really any questions about it. But even in VR, I just exist as a lady.

    • @Goretantath@lemm.ee
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      125 days ago

      No nutshots either. No really, Combat Arms from Nexon had a feature called “Nutshots” which acted the exact same way as a headshot, instant kill. Just a more hilarious death animation. Then they sold a russian female spy in latex as a paid skin with stat boosts and special weapons like a minigun and since they were a woman they couldn’t be nutshot. People complained and they got rid of nutshots…

  • @Pondis@lemmy.world
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    I usually play a female character, because if im going to stare at an ass for 120 hours, it might as well be a nice ass.

    • @CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      825 days ago

      Exactly my philosophy. Also the whole “escape reality” bit. I also like RPGs where I can be an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince (ok, both of those examples were actually just Divinity: Original Sin 2).

      • @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
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        525 days ago

        if you find yourself playing games as an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince, you may not be entirely human. join my community and see if you relate to being a skeleton or lizard 😃

  • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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    My wife plays as a male and I play as a female. When we were playing wow, random male characters would drop me 100gold at a time. This is when we were very early into wow and we just started getting silvers.

    • Suite404
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      1526 days ago

      Star Wars Galaxies I would leave my character dancing in a cantina and come back to thousands of tips in credits.

      • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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        326 days ago

        I did the same. I normally wearing skimpy clothes. Unfortunately in WoW you have to be there to accept.

  • Krik
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    Most guys are playing female characters. Even most female player chose them and women hate women the most. :D