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[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 months ago

just to get items

also some minor mental illnesses but we don't talk about that

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

honestly when i was a kid i always picked male characters (despite being afab) because "the clothes looked better", fast forward a couple of years, i transitioned to male and i realised i used video games as my main escape from worsening gender dysphoria

[-] absentbird@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

I knew a guy who used that exact same reasoning to play female characters. It's funny how the way you want to look in a videogame can sort of tap into subconscious desires sometimes.

"Obviously I couldn't dress like that IRL because of gender rules, but since I can choose my gender in this game..."

It's sort of like The Button thought experiment.

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

same as an amab I always used to play women cause they got better clothes. I am not trans tho, I mean probably not.

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Girls just have better clothes in general. I like clothes shopping with my daughter all the outfits and dresses are so cute and fun, theres so much variety! Clothes shopping for my son is such a bore :/

For reference I am dad, and theyre both in elementary school.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Men's clothing has better pockets tho. We need to normalize big pockets on all clothing. Also normalize pink men's clothing to make it less boring

[-] odium@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To make it less boring, what we need to normalize is men's clothing in more shapes and multi color patterns.

great insight and so fucking true

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 months ago

Hello Dad! I'm [myself]

[-] nikaaa@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

also some minor mental illnesses

I don't like to call it "mental illnesses" because it makes it look like it's a property of the person; however, it is a property of society:

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I often play RPGs as a female character, as a means of stepping outside of myself and actually, you know, role-playing. But I seldom play online games, and do not try to convince anyone that I'm a woman irl.

Still, it's interesting how people assume that because I've chosen to spend my game time watching a female avatar run about, I must be a woman. I've been in some sticky situations, but none thus far involving anyone claiming to be lesbian.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

"If I'm gonna stare at an ass for hours it may as well be a hot one" is a reason I've heard.

The last descendant seems to be leaning hard on that demographic as well. The outfits are... Basically shovelware mobile game coomer shit.

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

That used to be my personal reason, but nowadays, I end up picking female characters even in games like Terraria where there isn't exactly much sex appeal going around. Turns out I like the sounds too, and not just dialog. I prefer hearing a girl grunt instead of some big macho man when I'm jumping or getting shot or whatever.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation!

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Haha. If you wanna jork it then go for it. The gameplay doesn't look bad either but the grind is somehow worse than destiny 2, and optimal builds are more complex than borderlands.

Also unfortunately most of the coomer skins are premium macrotransactions.

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Honestly I'm not really an arse enthusiast so there's not a great deal of that going on in my case. It does make me laugh though when gamerdudes moan about the "gayness" of having to play a female character.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

how sticky are we talking about

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Exactly as sticky as you're imagining, I'm afraid. I was sent photographs.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, when I play an RPG and I create a character, I'm creating a whole character, not just a self-insert one. That character has a name, a backstory, a way of thinking, skills, experiences. When that character decides to join the Stormcloacks, it's not because that's what I would do. It's what the character would do.

Some of those characters are women. Some are nonhuman. It's a character, it's not me.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 2 months ago

There are a few reasons I can think off:

  1. Trick people;
  2. Get items;
  3. ~~egg~~ Experimenting the thought of not being your current gender.

But just like the anon described, it's one of the first two.

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