@Kyonko802 absolute dumbass aside of games that let you create your own character, i dont think this person is right at all. what happens is a tranny plays mario then? they go back into being a guy (if mtf)???
@Kyonko802 yeah this is also a thing. i dont know why people can't understand sometimes you just wanna create your own piece of meat to marvel at, but not one that you want to be. it's so.... weird. for example in Dragon's Dogma I made my pawn be a hot redhead and my own character is sorta me if my hair was much longer + was slim + could use weaponry
@Kyonko802 People with no sense of self need to see themselves in something in order to affirm their existence. If they dont, they just forget they exist. When I play halo, I dont see myself as master chief, I just see him as an action figure im playing with
@Kyonko802 Woggy had a good poast about cute anime girl pfps being like the buxom mermaid statue at the tip of a pirate ship. It's an idealized symbol of feminity to keep men rooted during chaotic times but trannies are too consumed by chaos to understand that. Alas I'm too lazy and low agency to look for his poast
@mmmfeet That would be the difference. I have Kikuchiyo as my avatar because I love her. These people have anime girls sometimes because they cannot be them, and I've seen a lot of them who aren't even fans of anime but still hijack the aesthetic.
Ala, all of the dumbasses switching to Bridget avatars despite never once having touched a Guilty Gear game after he got canonically groomed.
This is a core tenet of that community. A lot of them will come out as transgender because "I played video game and made character with big ass and thought wow she is literally me". This sounds like satire, until you realize many of them believe this.
It's a common mindset in scenes adjacent to that community. The furry "fandom" has a massive portion (especially of tourists/newfags) who literally see their original characters as LITERALLY ME to the point they will get assblasted if you make fun of their fursona or draw it in the wrong way. This is because they see their fursona as literally them, and now with that knowledge you are now free to fuck with furries online.
@teknomunk@PhenomX6@mmmfeet@Kyonko802 I wish I knew what the insecticide would be. Gatekeeping works but only as a delay. Really it seems like the content itself needs to be objectively against these types of people, but then you run into the problem of having messaging forced into media where normal people would just like to forget about it.
Before the guy who ran the studio for Killing Floor got shoved out/stepped down due to making donations to pro-life groups, he literally put Christian Metal in his games as an example.
Now look at how these groups do propaganda these days and it's as subtle as being beaten with a 2x4 in a USA prison camp; and the same goes with boomercon grifters and shitty "Christian" film makers.
@veff Use a local copy. Maintain your local copy. Protect your local copy. Backup your local copy. Cryptographically sign your local copy. Check the integrity of your local copy. Trust your local copy.
If video game characters are modern mythology, who cares if someone else got the mythos wrong. Just be prepared to fallback to your known-correct copy of the mythos. The only thing you potentially lose is the ability to talk to other fans without a compatibility shim/translation layer.