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Dr.Retarded

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Seems unreal since in WoW a solid minority of character avatars were female and we knew damn well none of them were chicks.
Were you horde or alliance? Alliance had lots of people playing females on our server from the get go. Actually had real women in our guild since we required ventrilo or team speak for raiding, but there were plenty of dudes that played female characters we'd bust their balls for it.

WOW seemed to be the one MMO where women actually played by a surprising amount.
 

Neranja

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Has Gundam being turned into woke slop by 2025?
Radio Yerevan replies: That depends--If you think having a female lead in a classically male-led franchise, that is also a lesbian on top of that ... then technically no, because Witch from Mercury is from 2022.

So the answer only depends on the fact if you think it is lame, because it is already gay.
 

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Man i played a female in ffxi which kind of predated the popularity of voice chat and they absolutely did. I never said I was a girl, people who knew me definitely knew I was a dude and my character was hilariously named after a pornstar. However the Japanese players were super creepy about it.

I very specifically remember a high level dude helping me with some quest item shit for a few hours and when we shot the shit somehow he found out I was a dude and went wtf and instaleft the party.

Honestly it was the only way to get a group with Japanese players half the time when it first came to the US. FFXI was the first time I ever played a female avatar in a MMO because the mithra (cat people) were gender locked and they had the best agility stats of all the races and the class I wanted to play needed agility.

Otherwise the JP players were like "Americans? fuck these noobs, they don't even know how to combo skills"
 

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Radio Yerevan replies: That depends--If you think having a female lead in a classically male-led franchise, that is also a lesbian on top of that ... then technically no, because Witch from Mercury is from 2022.

So the answer only depends on the fact if you think it is lame, because it is already gay.
Nah I don't think that makes it woke.

Woke is performative virtue signaling.
 

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The phenomenon began to fade as the years, and voice chat, progressed, but yeah… it was definitely a thing. Part of internet gaming cultural naïveté.
Man, even on actual wamens playing female characters, when guys hear the average graceless screeching voice, they're more likely to have their illusions shattered.
 

Dr.Retarded

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Only time I had an avatar named after a pornstar was in DAOC on the Mordred server, full PVP. I was Captain Stabbin from the Reality Kings bullshit. Then the goddamn mods take away the sea from my name, and I was Aptain Stabbin, I was pissed, my buddies laughed.

Doesn't matter though, even without the full captain, a scald is a force to be reckoned with, Pirates Never Die!
 

Neranja

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Woke is performative virtue signaling.
Is it really performative virtue signaling, when they really believe they are making the world a better place, or at least try to convince themselves? Which, I assume, is just people trying to validate and justify their life choices through moral superiority. "If everyone around me is a lying cheating asshole, then I can safely be one, too. And so I don't have to face my previous life choices, because they were moral and just according to my (quite flexible) moral standards."

My theory is that you have to remove the root cause for it. Which is the total perversion of virtues. I have already explained this somewhere else here, but every mortal sin is being paraded around as a new virtue, and every virtue is now some kind of -ism or -phobic.

One example: Gluttony? You're fatphobic.

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gauze

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I can't wait for this. The racism in chat should be fun as well.

The only thing that seems like it might be an issue is while Hell Let Loose had relatively "similar" tech between zeee Germans, Russians, and Allies, it seems like the Vietcong would be massively outclassed.
I think that was probably one of the most interesting things that they said they were focusing on via devs.. was that they wanted to focus on asymmetrical combat.. so I think while the US will outclass them in armament, i'm curious how the vc will have home team//defense advantage. I think the only example they gave was that americans will have hueys and pbr's.. the vc will have advance tunnel networks and traps.
 

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I use to two box SWG my second character was a female, whenever I got a random /tell on that character I responded with "I have a penis."
Then two minutes later for no reason at all you get a /tell from Izo Izo
 
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Honestly it was the only way to get a group with Japanese players half the time when it first came to the US. FFXI was the first time I ever played a female avatar in a MMO because the mithra (cat people) were gender locked and they had the best agility stats of all the races and the class I wanted to play needed agility.

Otherwise the JP players were like "Americans? fuck these noobs, they don't even know how to combo skills"
Yeah I do remember that. Don't want to derail too much with classic mmo stuff but the japs were racist as fuck.