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I used to think my desire to play female characters was a "closeted trans" thing. It's not. I'm definitely a cis gendered male. I've realized, at least for me, it's more of a self worth thing. I don't want to play as something I don't particularly like, such as me, and so I play something as opposite as possible. I'm working on that, tho.

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Hell yeah brother. Never forget the most important step a man can take: the next one.

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- Hahah. True, that.
  
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For most 3d games you spend 99% of the time looking at the backside of the character anyway. Lady butts are just better to look at generally.

Additionally in most character creation it seems easier to get a decent looking female character than a decent looking male character. I'm not entirely sure why but most male characters in games look like blocky fuzzy potatoes. When you start getting weird with fashion choices on top of that it just looks like a potato dressed like a goofball. With female characters you can go nuts with crazy hair colors, piercings, and wild fashion choices and it looks more deliberate somehow.

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- Bisexual woman here, so I agree with you on the butts, but straight girls and gay men do exist.
  
  Okay feminism time. In my opinion, the reason that dude's look like potatoes in video games is most likely because of the gender disparities in the industry. There just isn't anyone that looks at men from the perspective of attraction.
  
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Yeah, I was wondering that until modern games started changing voicelines to reflect the characters' gender.

The moment Drifter referred to my hunter as "Sister", all those doubts were cured.

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- Ever since the appearance modding system went in, my Hunter's been pretty genderfluid - I tend to swap from male to female depending on how I feel that day.
  
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I am similarly cis gender, straight male (much to my more fluid spouse's amusement and dismay). I've just found the fem- voice actors to be better. Femshep, the female lead in Ghost Recon Wildlands, etc. Or maybe it's that the brah actors for the male characters sound so consistently dumb. And now it's just a thing I do.

PS. I hope you love yourself.

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- Working on it. Thanks for the support.
  
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I like how this meme is crafted to be life-ruiningly specific for maybe 2 people in the whole world, but we all get to blithely enjoy the anti-humour

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Out of the loop. I don’t get it.

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It's a setup for them saying you may identify as Trans, then switching it up by explaining some news for you, as in something said in the news, aka a storm coming

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- Oh well. I thought there was a joke about being trans in Florida.
  
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- Ah. I'm slow. Also, "ha ha".
  
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It's just a regular anti-joke

I think it's a big meme in the transgender community that if you are assigned male at birth and choose to be a female in videogames etc. it means you may be trans

Instead of "you may be trans", they hit you with a pretty scary weather forecast thank god I don't live there

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- Idk I'm not trans and maybe looking too far into the setup but I feel like equating playing girls in video games with being a closet trans is really reductive to what it actually means to be trans
  
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I often choose female characters in games because I like variety and male characters are super common. I always make them non-white if given an option, too, although non-human is best of all!

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I always choose female characters in games with a third person camera. If I'm gonna be staring at them the whole time I play they better be nice on the eyes!

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- I've heard that reason a lot, but I'm usually too busy kicking ass to pay attention to hers. And I prefer outfits that look intimidating rather than skimpy.
  
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I play a girl in dark souls because dark souls 2 stole my gender

That coffin changed it all ~~boys~~ gals

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- Hello fellow dark souls 2 enjoyer. The Internet had made me think there were no others.
  
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Not enough playable spider girls...

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- A close friend of mine is making a playable-spider-girl-based game.
  
  I'm in the process of programming a procedural spider walk for it: https://youtu.be/oeBFCxbtwXM
  
  The spider body is placeholder, it will become a drider. The plan is to make the legs able to seek and grip on arbitrary 3d geometry, including flailing when no good purchase is available, and allow the spider to traverse on any surface.
  
  Edit: I am also chronically ill but slowly finding stability, don't hold your breath for this to come out.
  
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I always do non-human if the option is given too. Its just more fun to be a lizard person or an alien, if not, I go for "eh, that looks enough like me"

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