jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months agoWhy we're r(ule)ly seenmessage-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhy we're r(ule)ly seenjawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareRose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoYes, but weirdly, none of us play MMOs.
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoI know at least two who are in my coven / crew who play MMOs. I don’t like MMOs myself, but I’m way neurodivergent and do a lot of single-player and small-group co-op. I think I steered away from pub games around the rise of gamergate and the alt-right. Folks got scary.
minus-squarebabybus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI know a few who play as male characters to avoid attention.
minus-squareRose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoOh, I know. I’ve met a lot of women who do, it was more tongue-in-cheek at the old “Many Men Online Roleplaying Girls”.
minus-squareatomicorange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI would play as male characters and then dye their armor pink and flirt relentlessly with the boys. It was fun, especially when you’d get on teamspeak with them after playing together for weeks and they’d be like “wait you’re a girl?”
Yes, but weirdly, none of us play MMOs.
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I know at least two who are in my coven / crew who play MMOs.
I don’t like MMOs myself, but I’m way neurodivergent and do a lot of single-player and small-group co-op.
I think I steered away from pub games around the rise of gamergate and the alt-right. Folks got scary.
I know a few who play as male characters to avoid attention.
Oh, I know. I’ve met a lot of women who do, it was more tongue-in-cheek at the old “Many Men Online Roleplaying Girls”.
I would play as male characters and then dye their armor pink and flirt relentlessly with the boys. It was fun, especially when you’d get on teamspeak with them after playing together for weeks and they’d be like “wait you’re a girl?”