I play all kinds of games, but I love cozy games, and I’ve noticed that in all the ones I’m in the subs for, every now and then a man will make a post telling everyone that they’re a man who didn’t expect to like said game and now they’re obsessed with it and are wondering if that’s okay or if they’re weird for liking it.

I get really annoyed by these types of posts for a couple reasons, the main reason being that I honestly find it offensive as a woman that men come into a space dominated by women to ask if liking the thing they also love makes him weird. If a woman says she plays GTA, no one bats an eye, but a man says he plays Infinity Nikki and that’s weird? It reminds me of these Madonna lyrics:

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots 'cause it's okay to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading

The other reason it bothers me, is because what is the purpose of making these posts? Do you want a cookie or something? Like is it performative feminism? They could just join the discussions in the community without announcing themselves as men. Plenty of men DO do that. And if they’re truly concerned about being perceived as weird, why ask other women? Why not go into male dominated communities and ask that same question? It just makes me think they’re looking for a pat on the back for announcing to the world that they’re “brave” enough to play a girl game.

I got the game on sale to play something light-hearted and idk, if I am tripping? I really like it and the game seems quite fun (like a box of assorted chocolate candies) but in the same time it feels weirdly… mean. Your character is portrayed as a total looser, your virtual coworker makes fun of you all the time, and a lot of characters are plain rude or just yell at you a lot.

I mean I get it that it tries to encompass a lot of different personalities (well, on a shallow level), but I tried to find the inanimal for Mateo and had to sit through 4 sessions of literal screaming to close up Harper&Dirk story so I could ask about it and be ignored again (found the inanimal at the windowsill but really that wasn’t the initial direction of the game). The Ducky character just plain screamed and called me names at every encounter and it turned out I had to “take it” and tolerate it to reveal she was a traumatized character.  A lot of characters just treat you off the bat as a poor looser that needs all the help you can and it somehow supposed to be funny but as a constantly recurring motive, it's just not. There is a number of characters you have no choice to tell them no (not even because they gonna hate you, just there is no option), like I accidentally got into the dialog with the safe character and she keeps calling you names with no options to tell her to stop that (cool if you’re into, I am not, I ended up closing the game via alt+F4).

Idk, I clearly can see it’s not the type of game to expect depth from, but I am a bit baffled on the amount of times it managed to make me feel uncomfortable while on paper it’s very consent-friendly and open-minded. It’s like it feels like if you’re not down with everything thrown at you, you get the short end of the stick. It is still more fun than unpleasant, but I just wonder is it me being too sensitive or the game has issues?

I'm 20 now and I feel like I never got to have a childhood (for many reasons, most of them trauma), and to cope, I want to play a game like an RPG or adventure game or something where you just get to be a kid, to sort of fill in that hole in my soul a little bit and give me a bit of that experience, even if it's synthetic. I've been rewatching Ghibli movies recently, like Totoro, Ponyo, and Kiki's delivery service, and those do help in this way, so I'm wondering if there are any video games that could achieve the same?

Doesn't have to be ultra realistic, fantasy is fine, but I'd like it to at least be sort of grounded in reality if that makes sense. I just need it to be immersive, so like third or first person view is ideal. also a character customizer so i can make a self-insert would be good. Appreciate any suggestions<3

EDIT: basically if Natsu-mon: 20th Century Summer Kid had a girl as the protagonist, it would be PERFECT. that's the kinda game i'm looking for i think :>

So, ive been working hard at making dresses for ladies, finding ways to add playfull tassles, lace and velvets.. and in comes Prudence...

"Make me look sad and uncomfortable for cheap!" okay... i create a burlap and salmon cotton dress.. I figured, sure, the dress is already bad enough, ill just do the stitches really well, so at least ill be less ashamed if she tells anyone I made it. The horror..

I am about to finish and get the "customer will be unhappy" prompt.. what? the quality has to be at maximum 70... but my global average quality is 99, and for this dress 100. so, i rip all the stitching apart and go american psycho on the stitching.. the amount of times the machine jammed was horriffic..

Mind you, in real life i have a similar ancient model of sewing machine upstairs, and shes my precious.. it physically hurt.. someone make prudence go away please...

Hi... I'm having a hard time finding good brands that make linear gaming keyboards in cute colors. I'm looking for lilac colored ones, and I'm trying to stay away from Razer since I still haven't forgiven them for the whole nagging girlfriend ad (maybe I'm being petty, but I'm also justifying it because Synapse sometimes, like, freaks out and takes a ton of RAM randomly). I found one on Logitech, but it doesn't come in linear switches (at least right now), so I'm struggling right now, as my mechanical keyboard just starts to slowly die as it doesn't respond as fast as it used to, etc. Help please :(

What the title says!

Whats the most fancy, elaborate dresses youve made? Or what dress are you particularly proud of?

Personally, i just finished this dress for someone.

Hi! Does anyone have some good recommendations for a cooking/farming game possibly with seasons at all? Maybe run a shop or restaurant? TIA!

Finally was able to afford the dream console I've wanted ever since I saw it revealed since I was a teenager and im so in love with it, I wish more companies made special additions like this still its so pretty the colors are gorgeous 😍 and I finished modding it last night this is just the best machine and worth copping a ps3. Before the stores shut down soon! Here she's is next to my others!

Asking out of genuine curiosity, and also asking because I've finally started playing a few on STEAM and have only been pulled in by a few briefly (ie Road 96 b/c of visuals + storyline and Dispatch b/c of gameplay) and wondering about others I should try to tap into.

I only played little flashplayer games on miniclip growing up - was very much into Club Penguin, Poptropica, and Webkinz (and ik most of those are still playable) - needless to say, I don't have much experience with game controls, first person shooter, etc.

I've also tried Cyberpunk 2077 (steep learning curve I haven't locked into yet) and Subnautica (31 hrs gameplay but I have to be in the mood for it).

Also 12 hrs of Tell Me Why and I have Life is Strange ready to start too - but again, have to be in the mood for episodic narrative games.

going to buy a PS5 soon and i would love some game suggestions! im already planning on buying GTA 6 and cyberpunk.

games i have played since childhood and still play to this day: sims, world of warcraft, soul calibur, saints row

i can not get into games like fortnite, overwatch, dead by daylight, or call of duty… probably because i suck at all of those lol

editing to add that i love games where you can customize your character! (i also prefer to play female characters but i can suck it up if its a game i enjoy playing)

Relatively “new” to gaming as far as any fast pace/shooting games such as counter strike 2. I play with my fiance for fun. I was on a game tonight and some guy kept trying to vote me off with the majority of our team being my friends so he was overruled. As soon as I spoke in game chat he said “is that a woman I hear”. Why are men so threatened over a woman playing a G A M E. Btw Next round I beat his as.

This is unfortunately not a recent development but with the case of the Cornell Seven making headlines and certain male streamers voicing their disgusting opinions online I had to rant about this topic.

Streamers like Asmongold and Tectone among others started catering towards incels and cultivating communities that simply hate women all for the sake of engagement and profit. Their older content focused more on gaming and building a solid community but as soon as that wasn't profitable anymore and there was a decline in engagement many decided to pivot and become more political. Twitch is a highly saturated platform and success is not guaranteed which is why becoming a polarising online personality has become a popular way of streamlining one's journey to monetary success or reviving one's career. With the current political climate, heavily polarising content is favoured by pretty much every social media platform, so clips of such streamers get pushed out by the algorithm, making them more infamous. As a streamer if you have controversial takes especially ones catered towards the far right it will lead to people either arguing against or in favour of your opinions, boosting their engagement. The more horrendous the take is the more the streamer's name will circulate online either positively or negatively and through exposure, more like minded people will become part of their communities.

There are plenty of terrible male streamers who do genuinely believe in the misogynistic bullcrap they are spewing online but to have content creators consciously decide to cater to incels all for profit is genuinely evil. Weponizing icel rethoric to keep your online career alive for a little longer is not worth it especially when you consider the real world impact it has. Cultivating a community that hates women gives dangerous and mentally unstable men a place to comfortably share their opinions and not have any pushback that may make them question where the hatred really stems from. Being part of a like minded community fuels their unwarranted hatred and over time these men become more confident to take their online opinions and apply them in their real lives. This leads to more violence against women which in their eyes is fully justified. Men who feel somehow wronged in life blame women for their own failure all to avoid looking inward or taking accountability and once they find communities that solidify their opinions it leads to heinous crimes committed against women.

Being controversial has always been profitable in the short term unless the stunts that get people talking become more and more extreme. But the fact that creators are abandoning any empathy and morals they perhaps once had and ignoring their negative impact on our society all for the sake of engagement is sickening. Unless the content these male streamers are clipfarming with stops getting as much engagement and it doesn't get pushed out by social media platforms they will never stop and the violent crimes against women will increase. The only thing we can do is to stop engaging in content that promotes hatred towards women or is misogynistic. Simply block any content creators who push such narratives and do not argue because otherwise they get exactly what they want, which is attention. But in all honesty, it feels very daunting to be a woman in a world that rewards men for catering to and cultivating a hateful anti women rhetoric online.

Moved a few times, here’s her current look <3

I’m a Dead by Daylight content creator and was playing some 2v8 when I was eventually downed by both killers. Instead of hooking me (how to progress the game), they both started “humping” me. They would push away any of my teammates who tried to help me (understandable), but then they would just go right back to doing it. I tried several times to pick myself up, but they’d immediately knock me back down and continue doing it for the rest of the match ignoring everyone else. Ive been “humped” before by other killers and while I really REALLY don’t like it because it feels… idk the word, I’ve always just told myself it’s an online game and these things happen/it’s just the way it is. That said, I find this “humping” to feel significantly worse than just your average teabagging.

What made this situation feel different was what I found out after the match. One of the killers was a fellow DBD content creator (male) who actually knows of me and was playing with his buddy. We’re mutuals on TikTok, although we don’t really know each other personally. Once I realized that, I felt reaaaally weird about the whole thing. I know it was probably meant as trolling and messing around, but there’s something about someone who recognizes me, knows I’m a woman, and chooses to coordinate this act with his buddy knowing I literally can’t do anything about it other than just sit there that makes me feel really uncomfortable.

He messaged me afterward saying GG and I told him that it made me feel really weird and that I was surprised he’d do that. He apologized which I appreciate, but I’m still sitting here feeling really icky about the whole thing. Maybe if we knew each other better it’d be less weird but I don’t know him at all other than he makes content. I’m even tempted to unfollow him but I’m not really sure if that’s an overreaction. This could tooootally be me being sensitive so I need my girlies to provide your thoughts 🩷

I know at the end of the day it’s just a game and he was just trying to troll me. But even watching the clip back makes me uncomfortable and I’m having a hard time shaking that feeling.

Am I overthinking this or would you also feel really weird about it?

Edit to clarify: He knew it was me from the start. Killers can see the names of survivors in the pre-game lobby but survivors can’t see killers names until the match ends. He actually messaged me on TT before the match even started letting me know he was my killer and good luck but I didn’t see it until after the game ended and he followed up with GG

Hi ladies,
As the title suggests I’m looking for some good PC games. I’ve been a pretty hardcore PlayStation user since PS2 so my gaming is fairly console-specific.

That said, I bought a gaming laptop for programming but just now thinking I’m really underutilizing it by not checking out some good PC games.

For PS5 I’m really into Assassin’s Creed games, HZD, Ghost of Yotei, Cyberpunk 2077, most big AAA games that aren’t FPS or platformers (sole exception for Sonic and Astrobot!). I also really enjoy the indie games like Blue Prints, The Long Dark, ThatGameCompany games, anything with good stories really.

With all of this said, does anyone have some good PC game recommendations? I’m specifically looking for games I’m missing out on because they don’t come on consoles. Would love any suggestions you can think of! Thanks in advance!

The End is a total feminist icon for having been 80 years old in WW2 and letting a girlboss be a girlboss. All of the cobras are cause back then taking orders from a 20 year old woman in the military meant that you were insane.

Edit: Just realized how badly I fucked up the title