Pretending to be a girl for free handouts in MMOs was peak metagaming.
And then there’s us that pretended to be a girl in MMOs not for handouts, but because it turns out we’re trans
I had a friend get a fucking voice changer just to keep the lies going when he did that in D&Donline. It still irritates me that it actually worked. Dude was rolling in gifts and invites.
Egg in real life? How far did he take it? Did he wear a cat-ear hairband, slather himself in oil, and meow?
What? No. Like a popo man pretending to be a kid, he was only doing it to get the shit he wanted.
I play girls in 3rd person mmos and my wife place huge dudes.
Can someone explain why men do this? It takes me just a few messages to figure it out most of the time. What’s the motivation?
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.
how sticky are we talking about
Exactly as sticky as you’re imagining, I’m afraid. I was sent photographs.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Thanks for the recommendation!
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.
just to get items
also some minor mental illnesses but we don’t talk about that
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:
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
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.
same as an amab I always used to play women cause they got better clothes. I am not trans tho, I mean probably not.
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.
great insight and so fucking true
Hello Dad! I’m [myself]
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
To make it less boring, what we need to normalize is men’s clothing in more shapes and multi color patterns.
There are a few reasons I can think off:
- Trick people;
- Get items;
eggExperimenting the thought of not being your current gender.
But just like the anon described, it’s one of the first two.
🥚
Literally the first episode of Sword Art Online
You watched a very different SAO
No, when the villain switches everyone’s custom avatars to their irl bodies, one girl couple you saw in an earlier scene is revealed to both be dudes to both dude’s surprise. I think there’s another scene a few episodes later showing both dudes still hanging out with each other. Just background stuff.
Nah, one of them was a girl, the other was a dude:
“Oh my god. What’s going on?!?!”
“Don’t worry, baby. I’ll protect you”
Ah, you’re right, I remember those guys.
“I’m okay with this” “Me too” LOVE KNOWS NO GENDER!
Many such cases.
I can remember the Yahoo chat rooms of the 90’s. It’s always been doods cybering lesbian sex with each other.
The ones who kinda knew but kept doing it 🙈🙈💀💀
I can confirm it happened at least once in MSN too 😬
why would you do this to me david
Scissor me xerces
Scissor me timbers
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Welcome to the internet
Have a look around…
anything that brain of yours can think of can be found…
We’ve got mountains of content
Some better, some worse
But none of it is interesting to me
And you’re the first!
Welcome to the internet
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When I first read those lyrics, the energy I expected was not “manic carnival barker.”
Every single part of Inside turned out to hit harder than I expected.
This is the meet cute for a bi rom com, right?
Now kith
There are no girls on the internet
Girl is internet acronym for Guy In Real Life
Expected this to be higher on urban dictionary, it’s on the end of 2nd page.
The Internet: Where men are men, women are men and the children are FBI agents.
On the internet, anyone who claims to be a woman is really a man. Anyone who claims to be a man is really a child. Anyone who claims to be a child is really an FBI agent.
We’ve always been trans-inclusive.
I genuinely wonder whether generation of people who played female avatars in MMOs to get free stuff has put the seed of TERFdom and assorted other anti-trans stereotypes into a generation of people’s brains.
I’ll be your runescape girlfriend if you’ll trim my armor set for free
Nah. transpanic jokes are way older then that. The reveal at the end of the first Ace Ventura movie is an example of that. Good thing the second movie is way better.
If anything, guys playing as girls in MMOs would have softened the idea of trans people to a lot of people who would have never thought much about it.
For whatever reason, I always remembered that being in the second film and not the first; I haven’t seen either since childhood, though, so they both just kind of blend together.
That’s… a good reason why when I watch Ace Ventura, I skip the first one and pretend there’s no third one.
Honestly, even disregarding the reveal at the end of the first one, the second one is still better. It just takes the concept farther and has a better location. I don’t even think most people know there’s a third movie.
That was the conclusion I had even before I came out as trans
A lot of the 4chan-esque toxicity around trans people is some mix of taboo horniness and misogynist commoditization of femininity.
I don’t think either encourage trans-inclusiveness. The very term “Trap” implies trans people are attempting to exploit other people through their presentation.
I’ve always thought of “Trap” as cross dressing with malicious intent. Not term to describe trans people, but it’s not something I consider a hill worth dying on.
My idea is that “cross dressing” MMO players are just seeding the idea gender non-conformity into the player base’s mind. Not that they’re pro-trans activists.
That’s a much more benevolent way to look at it. But I tended not to see the heavily adolescent male MMO community view men playing as women anything but
cross dressing with malicious intent
This, combined with the “No girls on the Internet” stigma tended to drive crassness and hostility towards all women avatars.
It’s funny because you can kind of tell based on the username. I’ll tell you right now, almost no guy is going to pick “Bb2” or “quackypeach” as their name
Small headcanon:
Everyone (that doesn’t has a revealed gender) online is a woman until proven otherwise.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
I like dogs more than cats, but your message reminds me of this comic:
Two dudes cybering lesbian porn at each other describes half the content of Literotica.
How did it end? Did they date then?
yes and they’re lesbians now
As we used to say, “MMORPG means Many Men Online Role-playing Girls”.
Which has went in a couple different directions, looking back.
GIRL is also an acronym for Guy In Real Life.
Ah, the Internet. A place where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
And the moderators have beards. Women too
And the moderators have beards.
Bold of you to assume that moderators are married.
There is a bad bitch inside of all of us lowkey. But at least in RPGs I like to be a chick because I usually like the clothing options.
I’ve always said, if you’re going to stare at someone’s ass for the next 200 hours…
Baldur’s gate made a whole lot of believers; every character in that game is hot as fuck, including the horned demon lady. Especially the horned demon lady.
I love everything about BG3
Proves you can have a gender system that doesn’t feel as forced as “Body Type A/B” and in the process accommodate a larger portion of the gender spectrum.
It also shows you can be Pro-Woman AND Pro-Sexuality, you don’t need to go the route of “Everyone looks like a guy, and boobs don’t exist”, you can just have hot chicks fucking hot chicks, hot guys fucking hot guys, turn into a bear and get your freak on…
I get that media’s trying to change its tune to be more inclusive because we’ve kinda just catered to white guys for too long, and gender’s proving slightly more complicated than initially believe, but… BG3 did it in a way that’s actually fun, inclusive, and awesome, instead of feeling like lazy pandering that doesn’t really help anyone outside of Right Wingers looking to get mad about shit.
and for FPS being a bad bitch means you’ll have a smaller hit box 😅
The tale as old as the internet.
