EVE General Discussion

You're the one saying you don't have enough imagination to immerse yourself using a female avatar.

Already accepted the fact that eve players are probably married men with beer in 1 hand and cigarette in the other :P

…aside from your argument. You see, you're assuming that your close relationship and close identification to that image (as small as it is) is universal.

No. I'm a dude with a chick image in my character sheet. It's very easy to understand. Why are you failing so miserably?

More to the point, if you want to talk about immersion, do you think for a second that gender will have any meaning whatsoever in a society where you no longer meet persons — you meet kilotonnes of steel, plastic, and advanced composites, bristling with guns that can turn you into thin space vapour in a matter of seconds. I don't play a person; I play an infomorph — a digitized representation of an alter-state consciousness that, on a bad day, needs to inhabit a useless sack of flesh.

…and a guy whose unfortunate sack of flesh happens to take on female forms is somehow immersion-breaking to you? That seems… shortsighted somehow.

Never mind that immersion is what you create. If you're talking about immersion, you're already into role-playing, at which point no role is any more or less immersion-breaking than any other beyond what you can imagine for yourself.

Thanks for all the good humor and a fun thread.

No I don't think people are weird that play as females. Just that it would make me, personally, feel weird to do it. You do what you want.

Peace and Love,

Out

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First MMO i played was WoW, first characters i played were a human male paladin, dorf male hunter and finally I settled on a male night elf warrior. Although i liked the playstyle of the class, the character himself was kinda meh, after about 4 years of playing him character sex changed became available and i got him changed to a female toon.

I dont 'identify' with my avatar, i dont 'RP' and i dont make my characters look like me. I'm one of those that believes, if i'm gonna be spending hours and hours looking at somethings backside it might as well be something nice to look at. Something that i always say about MMOs and how you can tell what kind of person is really playing by the kind of Avatar they have.

-male toon = male IRL under the age of 18 and female any age
-female toon = male IRL over the age of 18



Funny side story about this characters name and avatar. When i rolled Gallente and picked the azn looking race, i changed the facial features around. Unintentionally, i thought she turned out looking like the chick from X-Men 2 (hence the name). Another funny side story my first toon when i started playing which is now in biomass was named "Amanduh Tucker". If you cant guess what i am IRL by looking at my first and last name, then yah be careful who you cyberz.

"Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothing and other accoutrement commonly associated with the opposite sex within a particular society.[1] Cross-dressing has been used for disguise, performance art and as a literary trope in modern times and throughout history"

It's also terribly gay, except for those who made their avatars as convenient masturbation material.Which isn't much better.

Most cross-dressers are straight.

Because we want to and we can.

What a strange person you are.

Mission accomplished for some, no doubt.