EVE General Discussion

Camoflauge fail.



I'm usually looking for "Show me your ****..."

This +1
I mean would you like staring at mine or brooks ugly mug all day :p

You know, for a while, I considered playing as a female character or roleplaying as a female something that wasn't exactly normal. I thought about it for a bit, let a few years pass, and realized that it's actually pretty normal for anybody. If you're a heterosexual male and like girls, you have an interest in girls. And that from that interest, you'd find it enjoyable to play or roleplay female characters. Obviously there's the people who try to pretend to be girls through-and-through online, but they're the vastly minor minority compared to the rest of people who are simply playing female characters. If you want to be psychologically complex about it, you could say that it's either "acting out fantasies" (which I find unlikely), or expressing an interest in a potentially healthy way - trying to understand women, or... whatever. The same could also go for girls playing male characters, though I don't know how often that happens. I've known of a few cases.
I'm not sure how much BS I'm spouting off now.

I used to have a more thorough runthrough of this somewhere in my head, but it's apparently been pushed out in the last few years. It made more sense.

I have a female avatar and I'm a man. I don't really see what the big deal is to be honest (and why everyone automatically assumes something is wrong with you). There's only two choices, and if all your characters look the same it gets boring! I am going to make another character who is male, but I'll keep my primary character female because... why not?

And to all the people who message me in game and act like I'm a chick, remember: Internet rule 30 - No girls on the internet.

Oh my God .... so some of those dudes I shared my stories with might have actually been chicks?

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Though EVE is not an RPG, there does seem to be an element of crafting a persona separate from oneself.

That said, I'm always disappointed when I realize just how many of the women avatars are for male players.

It'd be interesting to know whether this cuts down on the perceived sexual harassment and gender privilege within the game, simply because you can never be sure who's got a penis and who's got a pussy.

ofc, there's the other side of the argument, women being exposed to all these blatant adolescent male fantasies.

Because in most MMOs you run around with a 3rd person, over the shoulder camera view that highlights your toon's butt when running. I, for one, would rather look at something pretty while mindlessly running around grinding quests/missions/whatnot.


Repressing something? Is there a reason why you chose the words "identity", "playing dress up", "trolling ... seamier parts"? Most normal folks would have used the words toon/avatar/character instead of "identity," "outfitting your character" instead of "playing dress up," and "questing" or "mission running" instead of "trolling the seamier parts of town." Your use of first person grammar isn't a good sign either, and the phrase "upbringing in an older and now outdated world" just screams childhood societal issues.

^pretty sure I already answered this thread.

I believe he means to infer that people are easily influenced by concept art they may or may not have seen before.