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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    As someone who grew up as a girl playing games with male leads and having no trouble relating to them, I have to laugh that these babies can't handle a single game with a female lead that isn't pure horny-bait.

    Like holy shit bro, can you imagine how boring it would be for developers if the only main character they were allowed to make was a 38-58-year-old gruff white guy?

    No more wacky cartoon plumbers, no more purple dragons, no imagination. No more character designers innovating. Just a tough white guy doing a US army commercial. Boring.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      im a trans woman and hate playing games with male leads since i was a kid lmao. so i can understand a degree of the angst. also dislike it when every woman in a game is a extremely horny bimbo. i mean, its relatable content as a bimbo myself, but still pretty annoying how every character looks the same and the only distinguishing features are haircut and outfit

      id make exceptions for games that have female characters you play but also male characters. or monsterish characters and nonhuman/cartoony characters. just didnt like the prospect of being forced into some gruff old army guy's shoes

      however the fact is women as a sole lead is incredibly rare. from my childhood i could count those games all on one hand. so the dudebros are just going stir crazy over the smallest slights

      • Kanna [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        however the fact is women as a sole lead is incredibly rare. from my childhood i could count those games all on one hand. so the dudebros are just going stir crazy over the smallest slights

        Pretty much. Though it's not as bad as it once was, most that have a single protagonist have a male protagonist. It's especially bad in JRPGs. Women/fems getting even the occasional lead character to relate to is really just too much for these losers

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          yeah. there was a reason i was addicted to pokemon as a kid. super non-sexualized and the gender choice really didnt matter at all. and the pokemans were cute

            • kristina [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              honestly lowkey think it was cause Satoshi Tajiri was just channeling his childhood memories and instincts into a game. and kids are surprisingly leftist just from the get-go if you dont constantly prompt them. asking why in the most annoying fashion possible is a leftist past time after all

              • Vncredleader
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                3 years ago

                Just wanna grill but instead its just wanna catch insects but nature keeps being destroyed around him.

            • Vncredleader
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              3 years ago

              It does have a move literally named liquidation.

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        3 years ago

        This comment reminded me of a YouTuber that does drawing tuts and used to work in the games industry. He has videos for drawing male and female forms and the make video is filled with this wide range of body types, broad shouldered barrel chested, slandered, squat, what have you

        And the female video is 5 different women that look exactly like you think except one or two have slightly bigger thighs lol

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I know right? They have like a billion games with a stoic white dude to choose yet they lose their shit over a handful of woman leads.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          it really does feel like their sense of gender identity is more distraught than mine and im really distraught over the fact i have a dick