• GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    I think it was Jack on Roster Teeth that said it best…

    Everyone made their online character for GTAOnline as basically themselves, except Jack, he made a female character. They all start ripping on him and he hits them with “if I’m gonna be staring at an ass for the next 500 hours, i want it to be a girl’s ass.” I think Gavin even asked if it was too late to switch.

    ETA: girls run faster in GTA, so it’s the better choice by any metric.

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      8 days ago

      Idk, my friend also said he played Cassandra in AC Odyssey because he’d rather stare at a girl’s ass than a guy’s ass for 50+ hours, but now she flies the ol’ blue-pink-white-pink-blue in her living room so idk what to think.

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          I don’t really need to think harder, she actually said that always choosing female characters in games is just yet another thing that started making sense when she realized she’s trans.

          I just wanted to make a clever comment smoothly transitioning from calling my friend a “he” to calling her a “she”

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      I choose female characters in games all the time, and this is one of the reasons for sure.

      Not online games where you create your avatar though…

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        I’ve seen it said that people create three types of characters in online character creation: first is just themselves. We’ve all done it. Second is a celebrity or character from an IP. Think of all the Shreks, Peter Griffins and Samuel Jackson’s that were being shared when baldurs gate 3 came out. Third is an unholy monstrosity that’s just every slider at the extremes.

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          Yes, I’ve been the third for many years. I’ll be damned if I don’t take off my helmet in any soulsborne-ring game and my nose doesn’t like like a fucking battleaxe.

          Speaking of which, Capcoms new character creator is pretty good.

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          Third is an unholy monstrosity that’s just every slider at the extremes

          This is what I generally do these days. I mentioned it in another comment, but I love hitting random over and over in a From Software game character creator to get the most hideous creations imaginable.

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            8 days ago

            As a nearly decades long veteran of Ark, I’m beyond familiar with characters that look like an amalgamation of Jabba the Hutt and a russet potato.

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              Ahhh, Ark. I didn’t really enjoy the grind, but good god - every dev should take notes from that fucking character creator.

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          While I’ve definitely done #3, my go-to is usually creating a character for a sort of half-hearted roleplay of an OC. They usually don’t look like me, but they’re always a beautiful woman.

          I really enjoy doing it as a creative outlet. I’ve made quite a few “characters” that I don’t even have save files for yet. When I start a game that has a complex character creator, I usually spend like 30 minutes in it.

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      I play whichever gender has the best looking armour when it comes to custom characters.

      I’m not sure people’s arguments about story characters. I don’t put down a book because a chapter is about a female character