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I’m trans and I see where you’re coming from. I was boycotting the game ahead of launch because I didn’t want to support J.K. Rowling, who has based her career off of making our lives harder.

But…it’s been two years. We lost the battle. The boycott led to the Streisand effect and the game sold insanely well. Trans people got a ton of negative press converage. We were all made out to be intolerant and cruel because one trans person said something that made the GirlfriendReviews lady cry. It seemed like after that, GamerGate 2 went into effect and so many games with diversity are getting preemptively reviewbombed, like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, leading to layoffs and shuttered development teams, while games like Black Myth Wukong with a known sexist director are insanely popular.

Hogwarts Legacy seems like such a small issue now. Now it’s 2025 and we’re quickly losing all our rights in an ongoing Constitutional crisis. These days, while I’d prefer if cis people buy the game used and add disclaimers to the posts they make about it, I’m too exhausted to care about the Wizard game and who chooses to play it.

Presumably, there would be no dirt, since water cleans dirt off of foxes.

At the time it came out, true CRPG throwbacks were still a pretty rare sight, and the few that did come out after Baldur’s Gate 2 and Fallout had low production values, like Geneforge. Neverwinter Nights and to a greater extent Dragon Age were also big departures from the traditional CRPG mold.

Getting to see a new CRPG with modern graphics and lots of voice acing, but still be isometric, was really exciting. I know it’s why I bought it.

But I never finished it. The intro sequence at the farm with the killer rabbits was so unbalanced, the hardest part of the game, and poorly done. It was cool that you could have different characters do dialogue and be a hardass or a smartass or a kissass, they did all feel like different flavors if the same outcome. And the game was just too long, so after putting 40 hours into it and still not being close to done, I put the game down.

Someday I’ll definitely try Wasteland 3, since HowLongToBeat says it’s shorter.

Best wishes! Everyone starts at this point, and things do get better. Here are my thoughts:

1. First of all, I want to say being a lesbian isn’t about how you look. One of my good friends is a butch cis woman, and she gets mistaken for a man all the time. That being said, I understand exactly how you feel. I identified outwardly as nonbinary for a long time knowing full well I was a woman because I felt like I “didn’t deserve” to be a woman, much less a sapphic woman. Being on estrogen for a few years really helped with that, but the steps you make before that can go a long way too. Pre-HRT was a fantastic time for me to develop my voice, learn makeup, learn how to take care of long hair, and get laser hair removal. You list might be different.

2. I’m not autistic, but I hope you get some more good answers in this post.

3. I never really tried to suppress my femininity around parents while in the closet, but it might be a safety issue for you. I’m sorry if it is. But like JennyLaFae said, sometimes cis people can be really oblivious. Sometimes people would call me out for being too feminine, and I’d just roll with it and it wasn’t a big deal. Otherwise, do you have friends you can be your true self around?

4. I didn’t intentionally mean for things to turn out this way, but when I met my now-long term girlfriend, she was living in a large, queer-friendly city 90 minutes away from where I was living. So when the time was right after a few years, I packed my bags and we moved in together. The bottom line is that I couldn’t have afforded to live comfortably in that city alone, so I found someone to live with. Which could be a partner or a roommate.

5. I don’t know. I’m so sorry. It depends on what you’re diagnosed with. Specifically for gender dysphoria, my therapist told me that I’m my own worst critic, to avoid mirrors unless there’s something I specifically need to do, avoid comparing myself to other women (which for me involved quitting Instagram) and not to project how I perceive my appearance onto others. For instance, if I’m in public and feeling dysphoric, I tend to assume everyone’s looking at me and thinks I look gross. But is that what they really think? Most people are so wrapped up in their own things that they don’t even notice, or maybe they even think I look good.

My first dress ever was a pinafore dress. Would recommend, especially if it’s an A-line that flares out.

That was cheap and from Amazon and I bought it years ago before the fastener broke, so I treated myself earlier this year and finally bought a nice new one from Son de Flor. It’s really well made and beautifull and,hopefully, it’ll outlive me.

I’ll give these a shot. Thank you very much!

I’m not 100% sure, I think mesh? But it seems like the fabric from their tucking underwear varies from pair to pair. (From their FAQ: “When you place an order, the fabrics may not be the same as previous orders.”)

They have some bras and underwear specifically designated as bamboo, which is just as good as merino, but it’s seemingly only for their non-tucking underwear.

Oh, I hike day trips all the time while tucking. I don’t really notice anymore haha. I just don’t want to smell bad on a three-day trip!