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When I was playing Rayman Legends I loved playing as the viking girl with the battleaxe because hell yea viking battleaxe instead of dislocated hands for weapons. My mother saw me playing and she knew Rayman because she bought me the first Rayman when I was a little kid and her first question was "Why are you playing a girl instead of Rayman". This poo poo runs deep, it's so weird. Plenty of people got the same experience when playing femshep in mass effect.
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Apr 19, 2017 23:12
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Perestroika posted:Remember a few days ago when a white supremacist sucker-punched a woman during an anti-Trump protest? It's the wrong Thousand Oaks, of course. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks,_California https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks,_Berkeley,_California Don't worry, they only missed by 350 miles or so.
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Apr 19, 2017 23:23
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Pretty sure white people not in actual poverty can march against fascism.
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Ularg posted:When I was playing Rayman Legends I loved playing as the viking girl with the battleaxe because hell yea viking battleaxe instead of dislocated hands for weapons. My mother saw me playing and she knew Rayman because she bought me the first Rayman when I was a little kid and her first question was "Why are you playing a girl instead of Rayman". This poo poo runs deep, it's so weird. Plenty of people got the same experience when playing femshep in mass effect. It's obvious you'd empathize better with a little yellow alien thing with no limbs because he's a man (his name is rayMAN after all) instead of a human woman.
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Magna Kaser posted:It's obvious you'd empathize better with a little yellow alien thing with no limbs because he's a man (his name is rayMAN after all) instead of a human woman. Yea but badass viking axe.
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Apr 20, 2017 00:26
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Ularg posted:When I was playing Rayman Legends I loved playing as the viking girl with the battleaxe because hell yea viking battleaxe instead of dislocated hands for weapons. My mother saw me playing and she knew Rayman because she bought me the first Rayman when I was a little kid and her first question was "Why are you playing a girl instead of Rayman". This poo poo runs deep, it's so weird. Plenty of people got the same experience when playing femshep in mass effect. Oh hey, videogames, I know those. Tell me more about this story. Was she totally confused about why you were playing a girl in the first place or just asking why you're not the main character on the box and title of the game ATM?
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Apr 20, 2017 00:46
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Croatoan posted:Stupid neighbor again. Apparently LIBERALS ran the car companies and Texas is now a picturesque cityscape instead of you know, being a mostly racist and huge state. Something tells me this guy isn't smart enough to understand that conservatives only control Texas because of effective and widespread gerrymandering. Houston, Corpus Christi, DFW, El Paso, San Antonio and Austin (which most people may recognize as a collection of cities generally encompassing the only important, good or notable things you've ever heard about Texas) all went pretty strongly Dem in the 2016 election. El Paso especially is super blue.
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Apr 20, 2017 00:55
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Apropos web comic https://thenib.com/if-it-looks-like-a-duck
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Perestroika posted:Remember a few days ago when a white supremacist sucker-punched a woman during an anti-Trump protest? Even if all that is true, she's still a better person than the guy who punched her.
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RareAcumen posted:Oh hey, videogames, I know those. Tell me more about this story. Was she totally confused about why you were playing a girl in the first place or just asking why you're not the main character on the box and title of the game ATM? Wondering why I was playing as a woman. My answer was "Why not?"
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Scratch Monkey posted:Apropos web comic Sometimes a duck is just a duck.
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Ularg posted:People are mad about the new Star Wars game... I'm currently working my through most of the Star Wars books. One of them has a lesbian moff (general/governor) who lives in a mansion on a moon staffed elusively with twi'lek girls, where she spends all day doing spice. The moment I read that I knew that somewhere out there. Someone on reddit is losing his poo poo over this. Likewise Admiral Rae Sloane must be pissing off a lot of people. 
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Apr 20, 2017 05:37
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*puts hands in a triangle shape* Good. Good.
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Field Mousepad posted:*puts hands in a triangle shape* Let your hate of identity politics run through you, young right-alter.
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Apr 20, 2017 06:09
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This would be a great time for my old Thrawntar.
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Catberry posted:I'm currently working my through most of the Star Wars books. One of them has a lesbian moff (general/governor) who lives in a mansion on a moon staffed elusively with twi'lek girls, where she spends all day doing spice. The moment I read that I knew that somewhere out there. Someone on reddit is losing his poo poo over this. Oh she does. The ironic thing about the gay moff lady is that, much as the media was talking up how it was a huge deal for Star Wars to have a gay character, she wasn't even the first. The first gay character who wasn't a result of a glitch in KOTOR (Juhani was supposed to be for males but it got switched by accident) was a big burly stay at home Mandalorian dude and his buff husband who went on adventures with Boba Fett. Imagine the insanity of outrage from these nutters if that was the new Disney canon's big announcement for diversifying the characters.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Oh she does. The ironic thing about the gay moff lady is that, much as the media was talking up how it was a huge deal for Star Wars to have a gay character, she wasn't even the first. The first gay character who wasn't a result of a glitch in KOTOR (Juhani was supposed to be for males but it got switched by accident) was a big burly stay at home Mandalorian dude and his buff husband who went on adventures with Boba Fett. I might actually watch a Star Wars that featured sexy bears running around having adventures.
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Bogan King posted:I might actually watch a Star Wars that featured sexy bears running around having adventures. sounds like the end of Return Of The Jedi to me
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Bogan King posted:I might actually watch a Star Wars that featured sexy bears running around having adventures. But Chewbacca already is in Star Wars 
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El Estrago Bonito posted:But Ewoks are already in Star Wars ftfy
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Ularg posted:When I was playing Rayman Legends I loved playing as the viking girl with the battleaxe because hell yea viking battleaxe instead of dislocated hands for weapons. My mother saw me playing and she knew Rayman because she bought me the first Rayman when I was a little kid and her first question was "Why are you playing a girl instead of Rayman". This poo poo runs deep, it's so weird. Plenty of people got the same experience when playing femshep in mass effect. A couple days later one of my dad's friends – a guy in his mid fifties – did pretty much the exact same thing, grilling me for an explanation and leaving when he didn't get a satisfying answer and all.
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HAT FETISH posted:Recently one of my kid brother's friends (a ~12yo) noticed that one of my Destiny characters is a woman and asked why, and my answers of "no reason" and "because that's what I decided to go with" didn't satisfy him. Like he kept asking "but why?" in increasingly insistent tones until he realised he wasn't getting any closer to figuring it out and wandered off mid conversation. But why?
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"...because I like looking at girls?"
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HAT FETISH posted:Recently one of my kid brother's friends (a ~12yo) noticed that one of my Destiny characters is a woman and asked why, and my answers of "no reason" and "because that's what I decided to go with" didn't satisfy him. Like he kept asking "but why?" in increasingly insistent tones until he realised he wasn't getting any closer to figuring it out and wandered off mid conversation. When my younger cousin was going through his 'ew, girls' phase he used to get mega salty if he got beaten by a female character in a fighting game. Because girls can't fight, apparently. This led to me exclusively playing as Sakura, and him boiling in rage between getting beaten consistently and not being able to stop playing because he wanted to show that boys rule and girls drool.
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When he was in his early teens my step-brother got upset at the song Man Smart (Woman Smarter) by Harry Belafonte because of the lyrics and hated whenever it came on.
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Male ego: one level below talc.
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i almost always choose girls because i never consider the character in the game to be an extension of myself or part of me or whatever. They are just a character in the game and if I think it'd fit to play as a girl instead of Generic Roided Out Soldier Man, i probably do so also because Generic Roided Out Soldier Man is the norm, and the norm eventually got really dull... So picking "Generic supermodel soldier woman" is a nice change of scenery
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Midnight Voyager posted:Programming started out as a job mostly done by. Nobody gave a poo poo about it. Once men started moving in, women were immediately pushed out and now most famous programmers you know about are men. Now women have a hard time getting in the field period. The programming you speak of were basically switchboard operator jobs, and had little to do with programming as people understand it today. It consisted of physically carrying out mechanical instructions to set a machine to perform a set program. The engineers designing those programs and writing instructions always were predominantly men, the field never was friendly to women.
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Zzulu posted:i almost always choose girls because i never consider the character in the game to be an extension of myself or part of me or whatever. They are just a character in the game and if I think it'd fit to play as a girl instead of Generic Roided Out Soldier Man, i probably do so I pick ladies because power is determined by numbers in video games. The fact that Tiny Thinwrists is 100% exactly as strong as Roidee McLargeHuge just makes me grin. Especially since I nearly always play heavy-hitting, damage-absorby facetank builds.
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 Comments taken from the official star trek fanpage about the chance to win a free photo with George Takei.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:"...because I like looking at girls?" Alright so this is a bit of a tangent but about a year ago Feminist Frequency did an episode about female player-character asses and, as they always do, Idiot Gamers got all ornery about it, and I couldn't help but think of every time I've heard some dude use the reasoning that "I play as a girl because if I'm gonna be staring at a character's rear end for hours on end it might as well be a nice rear end"
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I always just thought it was a funny little joke, I didn't realize people said it seriously. Like, how boring of a game are you playing that you're actually looking at your characters rear end?
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Plom Bar posted:Alright so this is a bit of a tangent but about a year ago Feminist Frequency did an episode about female player-character asses and, as they always do, Idiot Gamers got all ornery about it, and I couldn't help but think of every time I've heard some dude use the reasoning that "I play as a girl because if I'm gonna be staring at a character's rear end for hours on end it might as well be a nice rear end" I always saw that answer as a way to avoid an awkward conversation in a toxic masculinity setting. Like my stepfather. He was born in the 40's. So the kind of people he would hang with at work would be a pretty conservative bunch. He was (by his generations standards) Pretty tolerant on the topic of gay rights. In private his attitude was basically "whatever makes people happy. They're not hurting anyone" But if the topic of "the gays" ever came up during a conversation in a crowd in that very masculine environment. Then his response would be in the style of "Well I don't blame them, women can be a real pain in the rear end" Which would lead to grunts of agreement all around. And that statement sounds sexist but it allowed him to express support for gay people without starting an argument or disrupting the mood of the conversation.
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Catberry posted:"Well I don't blame them, women can be a real pain in the rear end" Which would lead to grunts of agreement all around. So can men. 
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Frobbe posted:
Walter Keck could use some new material.
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Garrand posted:I always just thought it was a funny little joke, I didn't realize people said it seriously. Like, how boring of a game are you playing that you're actually looking at your characters rear end? Have you ever played a fallout or elder scrolls game? The actual combat in them is either bad or dull, so the most popular mods are ones to make the game into a real doll building barbie dress up simulator.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Have you ever played a fallout or elder scrolls game? The actual combat in them is either bad or dull, so the most popular mods are ones to make the game into a real doll building barbie dress up simulator. gently caress. I loved fallout and even did some modding and I guess I just kind of blocked out that aspect of the scene. Skyrim is rear end though so that's totally understandable.
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