pic of my cat bcus she’s cute and it’s my post I can do what I want

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    I like to play as a girl because i like to look at girls. I don’t think that makes me trans.

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      Plus, we don’t all want to be the object of our fascination.

      Fascinated with race car drivers? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with criminals? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with doctors? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with hitmen? Have you tried actually being one?

      Fascinated with serial killers? Have you tried actually being one?

      Yeah, not the best ideas.

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    Nah, that’s not my reason for playing as a girl in video games. I just don’t like hearing dudes grunt. And I prefer to look at a pretty girl kick ass.

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      I used to play as female characters because the guys never had good customisation, “Oh I can be buzzcut Shepard or crewcut Shepard. Hmmmm”.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    Problems with IRL:

    1. Trump admin will throw me to el salvador

    2 My family of origin is ethnic Chinese… very anti trans, bigoted af, they’ll call me a “變態” (“pervert”, “sick-minded person”, or something like that)

    I want be BORN as a girl, transitioning is dangerous af.

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      Do it while on vacation in Montreal during pride. You don’t have to transition to have some fun on occasion. 🤗

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      That’s fair, that’s part of the reason I kinda dislike memes like this. I’m sure some people have had an easy transition, but myself and a lot of trans people I know have had very difficult ones. I lost a parent over it, which resulted in some time spent very housing insecure in college. I’ve faced professional and personal discrimination. It’s been hard.

      And all that matters because it provides serious context to the statement that transitioning was the best decision I ever made. After years of struggling it was the necessary first piece to getting my life together, because it made me able to actually be present in my life and made me not too depressed to do things like study, apply for jobs, and form friendships with new people. It gave me a life worth living at a cost that was nebulous and felt insurmountable at the time I agreed to it.

      I much prefer outreach in the form of pointing out that dysphoria doesn’t go away without transitioning and by depicting the reality of happy trans people, even those of us who’ve been disowned.

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    I like playing as a dragon in video games. If only there was a drug that would let me grow wings and breathe fire in the estates of billionaires.

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    Nah I like playing girls in games because they’re cute and feminine but in real life I want to be a boy who is cute and fem. I don’t want to be a girl.

    It’s actually a kind of a bummer most games don’t let you play as a femboy where you look like a girl mostly but people refer to you as a boy in-game.

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      It’s actually a kind of a bummer most games don’t let you play as a femboy where you look like a girl mostly but people refer to you as a boy in-game.

      I felt this. Most games don’t have any options for more slender, fem looking men at all. It’s always hairy or muscly.

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        Link never struck me as a femboy, at least not in the games I played. Newest Zelda game I ever played was Skyward Sword and I didn’t play it very much.

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      absolutely this, we need more femboy options in games! IMO character creators should start with androgynous as a default, and then you can add masc or fem characteristics from there.

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      i know I literally just said that but I found this guy and I think he’s really funny looking

      ANYWAYS definitely going to bed now mhm!!

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    Playing as a girl irl sucks pretty hard though. At least in games being a female character doesn’t often have major implications on how much you can do and how interactions play out… it’s just a full-on 1-1 replacement that has no bearing on anything but aesthetics.

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    Why? The character on the screen is not me. I do not relate to them. I would never play myself.

    I play tropes. Something that is different from what I know in real life. Like I would never pick human if there is an option. Because humans are boring.

    Next playthrough it might be something completely different.

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      I like being a badass warrior chick weilding a huge two handed sword in full plate.

      I do not want to be a woman.

  • Retail4068@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    Counter point: jiggle physics are much more enjoyable to stare at for 120 hours.

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    Yeah I have for Halloween several times, it’s fun but I’m as cis-het as they come. I play girls in games because I like the way they look, and I do mean sexually.

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    I sometimes play as a girl in videogames because if I’m going to be staring at someones ass for several hours it might as well be one I find attractive