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TBT-TheBigToe
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It like the forum, as a collective whole, is trying to be more retarded and gay…
…and then I look at the World.
…and then I look at the World.
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They were supposed to have the highest INT of all races, and lived in the darkest fucking place. That sounds like something an american inv..... you know what nevermind.
moonarchia
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RP in a cRPG is about +gooderer stats and +biggerer numbers. I am not the pixels. If I have to stare at an ass for years I would like it to be a good looking one at least.
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You sound like a jock that still hangs on to his glory days. If you don't have that "fuck what other people think, they are all assholes anyway" energy going in your 30s, you probably have some case of arrested development.
In my experience: the guys who are the loudest about this shit are almost always the ones who are in the closet themselves. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
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Jesus, looks like someone can't take a joke. Also, your powers of deduction are astounding, I was Polk High MVP my senior year, four touchdowns in the championship game.
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I would assume a person that goes by "Dr. Retard" and has sent me full frontal nudes with minimal prompting isn't too worried about what people think...
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Cybsled
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I almost forgot, but EQ1 also had racial XP modifiers as a tradeoff for certain racial perks. I think there was class xp mods also? Asslings had bonus XP if I recall, humans were baseline. Erudites didn't have as bad a XP hit as elves did I think, because elves could see better in the dark and some other crap.
As for the whole debate about playing a male or female character, it is easily solved
1) Is there a "power gamer" advantage of one over the other in terms of your playstyle? Or does the game gender lock classes or quests? You pick the one that matches the class/playstyle you want to engage in. This is much more rare now, but games like FF11 and TERA used to do this where you literally had to be a male or female character to gain access to certain stats gains or classes.
2) Is the game Asian or Western? If Asian game, you pick female because the devs and playerbase are thirsty and females get better "slutmogs" and body sliders (chest size max, ass max, thighs max). The male characters also tend to look feminine, probably to cater to the yaoi fans. If western, it is a case by case basis depending on the skill of their art and model/animation department
3) Are you lonely and/or want extra neuron activation? You pick female character. Are you trying to create the "ideal you" even though there is a 99% chance you look/are nothing like your character outside of maybe some facial hair that is kind of similar? You pick male character
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TBT-TheBigToe
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I only played a female character by choice in Saints Row 2+ but I don’t remember why, maybe they just looked better customized.
Outside of that I play a make when possible but I’m not bothered having to play a female, I don’t get too invested in characters I am not customizing the ever loving fuck out of.
Outside of that I play a make when possible but I’m not bothered having to play a female, I don’t get too invested in characters I am not customizing the ever loving fuck out of.
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Kirun
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And what about people who role males and make them look like gremlins? 95% of my characters are that. My Cyberpunk character looked like he'd been awake for six days on street drugs, and my Elden Ring guy was basically "Dumpster Jesus" with a woman's voice. It's funny, it fits the vibe, and it's part of the role-play.
What I don't get are the folks who treat their character like an aspirational sex doll or a digital extension of their personal identity. If you need your avatar to be the person you wish you were (or worse, something you're using for sexual gratification - "I WANT TO STARE AT DIGITAL FEMALE ASS CAUSE I'M SO NOT GAY!!") that's where it gets weird to me. I create male characters because I'm playing a character, not working through a therapy session.
The only time I ever rolled a female avatar was in BDO, and that's because the game literally gender-locks Lahn and Guardian. They were fun as hell to play, so fine, I'll deal with the jiggle physics and hair flips. But choosing a female toon because you want to stare at it for 200 hours? Yeah… maybe sort that out before lecturing anyone else about immersion.
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Cybsled
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Troll/shitpost characters are just that - the gender doesn't matter, just how cursed you are making the character. As for the type of player, usually the 4chan/meme/FOH account alt rickshaw bait poster
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