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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As we used to say, "MMORPG means Many Men Online Role-playing Girls".

Which has went in a couple different directions, looking back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the Internet. A place where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the moderators have beards. Women too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And the moderators have beards.

Bold of you to assume that moderators are married.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

GIRL is also an acronym for Guy In Real Life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are no girls on the internet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Internet: Where men are men, women are men and the children are FBI agents.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've always been trans-inclusive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely wonder whether generation of people who played female avatars in MMOs to get free stuff has put the seed of TERFdom and assorted other anti-trans stereotypes into a generation of people's brains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nah. transpanic jokes are way older then that. The reveal at the end of the first Ace Ventura movie is an example of that. Good thing the second movie is way better.

If anything, guys playing as girls in MMOs would have softened the idea of trans people to a lot of people who would have never thought much about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's... a good reason why when I watch Ace Ventura, I skip the first one and pretend there's no third one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, even disregarding the reveal at the end of the first one, the second one is still better. It just takes the concept farther and has a better location. I don't even think most people know there's a third movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That was the conclusion I had even before I came out as trans

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can remember the Yahoo chat rooms of the 90's. It's always been doods cybering lesbian sex with each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can confirm it happened at least once in MSN too 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

why would you do this to me david

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Scissor me timbers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There are a few reasons I can think off:

  1. Trick people;
  2. Get items;
  3. ~~egg~~ Experimenting the thought of not being your current gender.

But just like the anon described, it's one of the first two.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pretending to be a girl for free handouts in MMOs was peak metagaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I had a friend get a fucking voice changer just to keep the lies going when he did that in D&Donline. It still irritates me that it actually worked. Dude was rolling in gifts and invites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And then there's us that pretended to be a girl in MMOs not for handouts, but because it turns out we're trans

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