Trans people ability to predict the future??Possible

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    The thing is the game was written by cis people, and even the best meaning cis libs can’t help but do trans “representation” that’s just like “Hello protagonist, I am [name], but oh, I used to be [deadname] and this is a painful secret past for me, which I am telling you immediately and unprompted on meeting you for the first time. This message repeats.” and that’s it

    The only decent trans character i've come across in a AAA game is Krem in DA:I
    I'm cis so i may not have picked up on some red flags, but he seemed fantastically written to me

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I've heard about that, but I don't think I played long enough to see Krem more than once or so so I don't actually know how his story played out.

      I guess my bigger point was just that I'm extremely cynical about cis writers writing trans characters and that I'm perfectly happy to be sold (well not literally, I don't have $60 to burn on a game and if I did I'd spend it on cheap liquor and still pirate Cyberpunk because I can pirate Cyberpunk, but I can't pirate bottom shelf alcohol) an escapist fantasy where I can play an objectively trans character and no one in-universe makes any sort of deal about that whether big or small.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I guess my bigger point was just that I’m extremely cynical about cis writers writing trans characters

        Considering the absolute train wreck most trans "representation" in AAA games is, i am too lol
        Mass effect andromeda comes to mind
        "I came to another galaxy to escape my deadname... it's Dave btw" (paraphrased)

        an escapist fantasy where I can play an objectively trans character and no one in-universe makes any sort of deal about that whether big or small.

        That's pretty much my opinion when it comes to bi representation, just make it a normal thing and i'm happy

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Mass effect andromeda comes to mind

          Yeah, my "Hello protagonist..." thing was directly written with that one in mind lol.