[GaggiX]

>I remember watching an episode of MKBHD where he played a racing game, and the hands on the wheel were white male hands (he is black).

Is this actually a problem? Should every character you play be the same race and gender as you? Personally, I would not care.

[neverokay]

It depends how far they go. There are games where they insist I must play as a big titted whore even though I don’t identify as a woman and even if I was a woman, I’d opt for more subtle whoreness not the full whoreness some of these games insist I must role play.

[GaggiX]

Some examples of games where you have to play as a "big titted whore"?

[neverokay]

Sure, Black Desert Online.

They insist you play a big titted whore.

With magic and shit, for clarity’s sake.

[GaggiX]

I've never seen this game before, but looking into it, they don't seem to insist on you playing as a "big titted whore", and to be honest, I wouldn't really care to play as a voluptuous woman ahah, I hope you don't call women whores just because of that.

[neverokay]

I mean, they desensitized it to me too. I play the girl class if there’s no option. The arc of justice doesn’t bend toward truth, it bends toward revenge. It’s zero sum.

I guess the bitches were tired of playing bulky men that they don’t identify with and now force the men to play whores we don’t identify with.

I’m just saying

But if I had to get really meta:

I personally don’t believe there are enough women to force that macro change in gaming. It’s self flagellation of hyper aware males.

If I had to get double meta:

It’s self flagellation by guys that don’t even get laid.

Tricky business

[komali2]

I'm pretty sure the girls in skimpy outfits thing in BDO is because that's how Korea and Japan rolls with their character designs, and men want to play skimpy dressed lady characters. I don't think it's a DEI thing for women that want to play big tiddy women lol.

[jack1243star]

That's like arguing that you can't drive a beat-up pickup truck in a F1 racing sim, or a Cessna in a combat flight sim.

The character design is part of the game that you chose to play.

[iseanstevens]

Is it ok that some people do care?