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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to think my desire to play female characters was a "closeted trans" thing. It's not. I'm definitely a cis gendered male. I've realized, at least for me, it's more of a self worth thing. I don't want to play as something I don't particularly like, such as me, and so I play something as opposite as possible. I'm working on that, tho.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah brother. Never forget the most important step a man can take: the next one.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Hahah. True, that.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

For most 3d games you spend 99% of the time looking at the backside of the character anyway. Lady butts are just better to look at generally.

Additionally in most character creation it seems easier to get a decent looking female character than a decent looking male character. I'm not entirely sure why but most male characters in games look like blocky fuzzy potatoes. When you start getting weird with fashion choices on top of that it just looks like a potato dressed like a goofball. With female characters you can go nuts with crazy hair colors, piercings, and wild fashion choices and it looks more deliberate somehow.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Bisexual woman here, so I agree with you on the butts, but straight girls and gay men do exist.

Okay feminism time. In my opinion, the reason that dude's look like potatoes in video games is most likely because of the gender disparities in the industry. There just isn't anyone that looks at men from the perspective of attraction.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think you're spot on.

Part of the reason I think it's a little easier to render women is that they typically have smoother less textured skin than men (video game women look like they are wearing makeup even if it makes no sense), and we're only just now getting the graphical fidelity to render realistic looking facial hair or fine stubble in realtime.

Not that long ago making stubble on a male character usually just involved putting an irregular brown shadow on their cheeks which can be pretty indistinguishable from dirt.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

While I don't disagree with those points, I just don't think the technical aspects are that much of the issue.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Oh it's definitely a reflection of the makeup of the industry too. No disagreement there.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, right you were explaining additional issues alongside it, sorry that was my bad reading comprehension!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I was wondering that until modern games started changing voicelines to reflect the characters' gender.

The moment Drifter referred to my hunter as "Sister", all those doubts were cured.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Ever since the appearance modding system went in, my Hunter's been pretty genderfluid - I tend to swap from male to female depending on how I feel that day.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I am similarly cis gender, straight male (much to my more fluid spouse's amusement and dismay). I've just found the fem- voice actors to be better. Femshep, the female lead in Ghost Recon Wildlands, etc. Or maybe it's that the brah actors for the male characters sound so consistently dumb. And now it's just a thing I do.

PS. I hope you love yourself.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Working on it. Thanks for the support.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

I like how this meme is crafted to be life-ruiningly specific for maybe 2 people in the whole world, but we all get to blithely enjoy the anti-humour

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Out of the loop. I don’t get it.

[-] [email protected] 127 points 1 month ago

It's a setup for them saying you may identify as Trans, then switching it up by explaining some news for you, as in something said in the news, aka a storm coming

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Oh well. I thought there was a joke about being trans in Florida.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Either option is a good reason to leave that state.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

In the years since this joke first floated out into the tubes of the internet, Florida has gotten specifically worse for trans people, to the point that your thought would be quite plausible.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Trans floridians please evacuate the storm, the rest of em can stay there

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah. I'm slow. Also, "ha ha".

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

It's just a regular anti-joke

I think it's a big meme in the transgender community that if you are assigned male at birth and choose to be a female in videogames etc. it means you may be trans

Instead of "you may be trans", they hit you with a pretty scary weather forecast thank god I don't live there

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I often choose female characters in games because I like variety and male characters are super common. I always make them non-white if given an option, too, although non-human is best of all!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I always choose female characters in games with a third person camera. If I'm gonna be staring at them the whole time I play they better be nice on the eyes!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I've heard that reason a lot, but I'm usually too busy kicking ass to pay attention to hers. And I prefer outfits that look intimidating rather than skimpy.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I play a girl in dark souls because dark souls 2 stole my gender

That coffin changed it all ~~boys~~ gals

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hello fellow dark souls 2 enjoyer. The Internet had made me think there were no others.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

In Defense of Dark Souls 2

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Power stancing

Zweihander parries

Small white soapstone

Covenant of Champions

Bonfire Ascetics

Dark Souls 2 had a lot of cool things that didn't get enough credit.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I loved dark souls 2. It has a lot of really neat things. Just a couple of questionable design paradigms keep it from being a top tier FS game, but the worst of the best is still pretty fuckin good.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If they would have called it something else people would like it more. If they called bloodborne or sekiro dark souls and shoehorned in some lore, people would hate those games.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Not enough playable spider girls...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A close friend of mine is making a playable-spider-girl-based game.

I'm in the process of programming a procedural spider walk for it: https://youtu.be/oeBFCxbtwXM

The spider body is placeholder, it will become a drider. The plan is to make the legs able to seek and grip on arbitrary 3d geometry, including flailing when no good purchase is available, and allow the spider to traverse on any surface.

Edit: I am also chronically ill but slowly finding stability, don't hold your breath for this to come out.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That is awesome.

Can I also not hold my breath for a spider-tank game?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Spider tank game does sound cool. I actually have a scifi concept about cyborg-vehicles that people ride inside of. They're genetically-engineered living tissue with cybernetic components, a cockpit and possibly a neural interface, and they would be walkers.

The walking controller is generic, so it really should accommodate any number of limbs. And you could quite easily make it lumber more slowly like a mech.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Basically Eva spider tanks? Want.

I don't see a lot of games actually make legs look like they're reacting to the ground under them so the concept is cool and really makes things feel ... grounded. The last I remember is MechWarrior 4 from forever ago.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Huh, I never made the connection with Eva, but I watched that as a kid so the influence would've been there.

And yeah, MW4's feet blew me away when I first saw them. The way they tilted to match the ground and rotated to turn the mech.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I always do non-human if the option is given too. Its just more fun to be a lizard person or an alien, if not, I go for "eh, that looks enough like me"

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a fascination with collars. I want to be a dog. Where is the video game that lets me play as a dog?

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Okami

Parappa the Rapper

Sam and Max

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

That's on me, I set the bar too low.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sleeping Dogs

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Kick

Punch

It's all in the mind

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Tokyo Jungle

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's a PS2 game literally called a dog's life where you play as a dog.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Thanks for letting me know! I left a window open at home and don’t want my precious BLÅHAJ to blow away!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Shoutout to my fort myers and cape coral homies

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

See also Cas confessing to Dean, followed by world events.